>Was summoned 6 times for the fume knight today because I

>>383592361
We talking regular DS2 on PS3 or SOTFS?

It's honestly weird. I was playing Dark Souls 1 yesterday and it almost felt as if it weren't dead. I had no trouble finding summon signs or getting summoned at all. It seems like they're more alive than usual for some reason.

>>383592468
ps4 one

>>383592497
DS1 on PC and PS3 isn't dead. Both are very alive. Xbox on the other hand, is very dead

>>383592553
So, SOTFS? It's not dead on PS. PS for whatever reason has higher player counts than Xbox. PC DS2 and SOTFS are very alive as well.

>>383592497
After DS3 the fanbase scattered and returned to their favorite ones.

>>383592626
Is vanilla DS2 alive on the PC? I should go back then.
Dx9 with proper shaders >>> "no good graphics allowed" Dx11

>>383592361
>Not fighting Fume Knight alone

But anon, it's the best boss in the game :(

>>383593034
Sir Alonne tho

>>383593034
He was summoned, he didnt summon.

>>383592361
I've only played Bloodborne, but Dark Souls II confuses me so far honestly. I feel like I have no idea if I'm fucking up my build or if i'm in the right area.

>>383593034
>>383593135
Ivory King.

>>383592558
>Xbox on the other hand, is very dead
lol no it isnt its backwards compatibility

People still get activity in demons souls as well. I'm surprised das2 is handing on though, the way they fractured the playerbase between both generations of consoles and then had two versions on PC because of direct X. Fucking save files are incompatible because of that.

>>383592361
The only part of online play that is dead is invasions, they are pretty damn rare.

If you wanted to play the whole game right now, you might get invaded three times over the entire game + DLC

(Which is more than you can say for bloodborne)

>>383593257
This

>>383593592
Well yeah, they're all in the arena or iron keep

Those three invasions will be on that bridge, guarantee

>>383593463
SOTFS alone still has more players than Ds1 on Pc.
But yeah, got a shitty deal with all the versions.

>>383593714
>>383593592
I was invaded in the amana shrine 2 times last time I leveled
Both times faggots tried to destroy my armor and weapon
;_;
>>383593463
EU des is dead, last time I replayed was invaded only in the 1-2 and never saw ble signs
>>383593592
Come on, I always turn online off in the frontier because invasions there fast as fuck

>>383593925
>EU des is dead
Joke's on you I have HK copy of DeS.

>>383593253
Any build will do in any souls game as long as you can swing and roll. Later you can respec. Also ds2 is infamous for very high soul levels at the end. You won't have to choose a build when every stat is over 60.

Starting from the hub area, you have to kill 4 specific bosses. If i remember correctly, there are 5 ways out of majula, (2 intersect later), so there is one for each boss.
The boss is a dead end and will teleport you back to majula, do you know when you are done with one path (unless you missed / ignored some optional areas).
Also, 2 of said paths are hard to go early on if you dont know exactly what you are doing. They will "unlock" naturally over the game. So theres only 2 ways really.

Finally, in one of the paths there is also a large locked door. It will open whe you kill all 4 bosses, and the second half of the game is there. Its much more linear than the first half.

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>tfw blue covenant
>nobody spars in the arena with me

Is this my punishment for using the Dragonslayer Spear?

>>383594218
Yeah, just think Dark Souls 1 but backwards

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>>383594125
>mfw I bought it online and got this abortion

>>383594218
Thanks for the advice. The only path I've been able to find leads to the forest of giants so I'm just aimlessly venturing around the bonfire with the breakable wall, near the bomb throwers. Good to know that you can respec though, thats a huge relief.

>>383594125
>EU des is dead

nobody plays online because world tendency you can still pvp with old monk.

>>383594385
You should have bought into the shilling sooner. When I was buying it I was 100% convinced by /v/ this will never see a western release.

>>383594712
Majula paths are a little hidden and easy to miss. Hell, there are people who never found the herald without a guide. (the ds2 equivalent of the doll.)

>>383593135
Just killed him, I actually forgot how much his backward jumps add to the fight
Gael would be better if he copied his moveset instead of artorias

>>383595551
People are fucking retarded and didn't open their goddamn eyes.

>>383592361
Never understood the
>online is dead
meme

Even demon's souls has people online right now.

Must be third world niggers with shitty internet or something.

>>383593257
This.

I was constantly getting summoned for this fight. It's one of the best boss fights in souls games.

>>383599652
well when i think about darksouls online being dead i think people imply that, yeah there are people online, but they think it's just fight club faggots doing high lvl pvp somewhere, not your usual summoning, invading shenanigans

>>383600258
Ds3 has 12k online and I never got summoned with the wolf convenant. Ds3 is the most broken of the onlines.

>>383593034
Agreed.

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>>383592931
>Is vanilla DS2 alive on the PC?
I did a run a couple months ago, got invaded like twice but I was rarely alive tbqh, and I was seeing the ghostly other players all the time

after a certain amount of players playing online, any more than that is just numbers and don't actually matter

>>383601937
>I was rarely alive
You can be invaded even if you're dead in 2.

>>383602245
then I didn't get invaded much (everytime I revived I saw non-NPCs summon signs on every boss though)

inb4 you don't need to be alive to summon allies in DaS2 either

DaS2 is the one I know the least about pls no bully

>>383602245
false

>>383602496
You can get invaded as undead in ds2. Not dead. Well, considering the network, i dont think its impossible to get invaded while dead either.

>>383602496
Nope, he's right
You just go down in the priority list for invasions the more the hollow you are
Great system
Shame so called "a-team" didn't used it in das3
>>383602384
Yes, you need to be human to summon
And yeah, there ebough people for the 4 years old game
Farmed 30sunlight medals in 2 days by helping people with smelter and throne room bosses

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>>383592497
Pretty weird indeed. Today I was watching my brother playing DaS on the PS3 and summon signs were everywhere near bonfires and boss fogs

>>>actually getting summoned for the flame lurker
I was surprised
I placed my sign just for the fun