/dsg/ - Souls General

We here now baby

Yorshka's fluffy tail.

can anyone help me in anor londo

i really fucking despise thread wars but i hope this one wins

>>152652354
starting up my n64 etc. etc.

>>152652354
which one

>>152652401
the place wit the silver dudes
please nd thanks

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man, I really hope the DLC has some quality levels with good weather effects

im going to cry if it doesnt

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xth for shitposting keeperfu

>BKGA
>hypermode drop attack
>host has sliver of health left
>backstabbed by phantom
FUCK

>>152652468
sorry I don't have dark souls 1 for gameboy color

>>152652535
made for fucking

>ded gaem ded general
DLC
WHEN
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>152653132
tomorrow

>>152653206
>tomorrow
Is the announcement (probably)
Release might have to wait until October or some shit

Maybe I should buy sotfs to pass the time

Silver Knight weapons when?

>>152653132
later than you think

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>use seed
>enemies don't aggro against pale shade
10/10 GOTY

>>152653351
>1231
Are you on NG+50 or something

How to git gud with fume UGS in ds2?

>>152653351
great, I absolutely despise that rape alley, now I can just have him clear the way

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LONDOR IS A SHITHOLE
YURIA IS A WHORE
KAATHE IS A JEW

>>152653396
you take estoc in left hand and use it instead

>>152653518
just fyi, if you kill the pilgrim near anri then proceed without rubbing yuria's face in it, the shade will not spawn and you'll have to do the level twice

>>152653395
ng++
hasn't been bad so far but i'm not looking forward to pontiff and beyond

>>152653709
oh I always kill Yuria after spawning the shade in farron keep for the gesture, then kill the shade at farron keep and then again at irithyll for the armor

>>152653584
CARTHUS STRONK

LOTHRIC WE WAR YOU

SEX
WITH
_____

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So, what if Velka and Gwynevere are the same person?

>>152654389
we'll never know thanks to that book

>>152654347
you

>>152654347
Great Machete

Yanno I heard somewhere that a torch releavs the invisible hags. That is a bold faced lie

>>152654938
>releavs
Reveals**

What are all the good tools for hunting down running hosts?

I was thinking of being a shitcunt and using Black Serpent with minmal reqs, but it's mostly only good against people side-strafing you, though I suppose it can also punish estus. There's also the possibility of using Washing my Pole and spamming the running attack. I'd suggest bows, but they're pretty whatever.

what upgrade should I use for quality in das1

>>152655056
>hunting down running hosts
lothric knight spear running attack

>>152655056
I find halberds running attack has some quite bullshit range when using them to chase down running hosts or invaders

>>152655056
Arbalest with exploding arrows.
~250 damage per hit, fast, immense range, small aoe.
God i love DS3 crossbows.

>>152655056
rapier or katana running attacks

>>152655223
the standard one
ie +15

>>152655056
Fire bombs.

>>152655398
Why not crystal?

>>152655258
I've used that before and not only can it be inaccurate since it must be aimed, it eats your stamina like a whore. Fucking WHY. Normal spear running attacks are damn good though.

>>152655395
Sounds rad. In fact, I might actually basically do an Alva cosplay, using Murakumo and Arbalest for the large-reach anti-ganksquad CGS moveset and chug punishing.

>>152654389
>velka has int based damaging miracles
>gwynevere has fai based healing miracles
Nah, velka is the pygmy

>>152655682
Cant repair Crystal, if it breaks you're done

>>152655682
If you're willing to farm darkwraiths for 10 years or cheat and you have a non once-per-ng weapon, go for it

>>152655682
because you only get like 3 slabs per NG, farming them takes years and crystal stuff can't be repaired

it is better THEORETICALLY though

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>slap on havels +2 ring
>best armor i can equip to stay under 70%
>gives just over 20% reduction

>take off havels+2 and put on steel protection +2
>equip rags that let me stay under 70%
>28% reduction

>Crystal things eventually break permanently

So that's why all the INTfags in the canon always go nuts over time

>>152656070
the only way to use crystal efficiently is to change with CE the durability every time the weapon is about to break and not everyone can be arsed with that

>>152656280
Or you can have a bunch of them in your inventory?

>>152656280
one use is that +4 crystal is better than +15, so it saves you slabs if you just want to try something out without a huge commitment

>>152656212
RoSP is nerfed in PvP though
The armour will probably be more effective outside of PvE

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I hope they bring back my armorfu in the DLC. I love this so much I would level VIT to wear it.

>>152656416
vit needs a buff, the amount of investment is too much for heavy weapons even if you wear light armor

>>152656364
but if you're not gonna cheat or use mule and want multiple of...let's say a kumo which is one per playthrough you're gonna have to spend a lot of time and resources just for some more damage, that's why crystal isn't really worth the fatigue

>>152656416
Yeah. Syan's and throne defender/watcher sets were the best imo. But I also liked Raime's armor with bone skirt.

>>152656452
Not that much though, just make it 1.5 per level instead of 1 and you'll already free up a ton of points

>>152656497
I would rather they buff heavy armor and leave VIT as it is
Make it so that you can choose to sacrifice damage output to be tanky as fuck as opposed to simply slapping more armor on your quality build

GUYS I STILL DON'T GET IT. WHY IS LOTHRIC CONSIDERED A LORD OF CINDER IF HE DIDN'T LINK THE FIRE ???????????????

>>152656474
Yeah but anon was talking about cheating, increasing the durability is cheating you need to do every now and then instead of once all together. Keep in mind that cheating things is as easy as selecting them on the menu with a good table

>>152656416
>rpg looking armor
>ds3
m8 that's like asking for fun in ds3

>>152656540
>buff heavy armor
nah
they would just mean carthus and estoc users now wear havels while ultra weapon users are still in rags, making the game even shitter

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A fucking angel. I am so in love with her.

She's too pure for this world, /dsg/.

>>152656638
a literal babies face
not a young face, a babies
attached to an elongated fridge torso, and gangkly emaciated limbs

she's disgusting

>>152656638
Too ugly for this world too. She looks like an ayy lmao
>>152656627
GIVE
STR
OVER
FORTY
EXTRA
EQUIP
LOAD

I miss DarkSoulsMindsEye

>>152656416
It looked horrible in its own game and hopefully will never appear again, i'd rather see unused heavy sets.

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DLC had better be within a fortnight of the announcement at the very most or I might just throw a tantrum.
Replaying the base game again and it's boring as fucccck.

>>152657023
DS2 broke him.
It broke all good uploaders in general and now we're stuck with memespouting garbage.

>>152656212
But the heavier armor also adds elemental defenses, bleed, curse, poison, and frost resistance. And poise :^)

>>152656410
>nerfed in PvP though
What a concept. Is there anything DaS3 does right?

Tomorrow?

>>152657130
>DS2 broke him.
In what way?

>>152657185
You can press R2 while running to perform a jumping attack.

>>152657185
>Aldrich Ruby/Saphire does not work at all
Epic

>>152657253
Just watch his DS2 videos and see how uninspired they are compared to DS1. He stopped uploading shortly after its release so it's obvious he wasn't that much of a fan.

>>152657258
It makes Crystal Lizard hunting trivial

>>152657185
It has a pretty good OST

>>152657339
Fair enough, I guess. DaS2 isn't to everyone's liking.

>>152656853
>>152656919
FUCK YOU

>>152657359
Abyss Watcher, Princes and SoC/ Gwyn: Redux are pretty great. What else?

>>152657445
Neo-Kirk please go

>>152657130
Uploaders generally have only a short timespan where they are good, soon after they always get lazy or stop uploading in general.

>>152657476
The deacons' theme is super dope yo.

>>152657534
he was uploading ds1 for at least two years and delivered a good amount of content
then ds2 came out

>>152657185
Basically everything if you compare it to both DS1 and DS2 in the same time after release.

>>152657476
I like Vordt's theme a lot

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>Had a dream about a Souls idol game

What the fuck is wrong with me

>invading some chinese on dark souls 2

Better connection than fucking russians how is this possible

>>152658617
These are gonna be the best meme tshirts yet!

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>>152658667
Show me a single thing that could possibly top this one

>>152657594
I wouldn't chalk it up to Dark Souls 2 coming out. There's way more stuff in people's lives going on than being disappointed by a game.

Like I said, uploaders usually have only a short time where they upload regularly and provide good content, 2 years is certainly on the upper end on that scale but my point still stands. It's the usual thing that happens in most communities.

>>152658617
I can't wait for them to announce the official Dark Souls 3 mobile app!

will the DLCs save DS3 or only make things worse?

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>making a protest thread just because Lucifer made the first one
I get that when he makes one early, but this is just childish.

>>152659470
lol get fucked

>>152659470
>Posting in a thread made by a guy 90% of /dsg/ has filtered because they are good citizens

>>152659470
>encouraging unsolicitated tripfaggotry

The DLC is gonna be shit, and deep inside you fucking know it too
It hurts

>>152660220
I don't.
DS2 was garbage and worse than 3 and there was no indicator that the DLCs would be any different, yet they were mostly really good.

>>152660220
There is no way it can be worse than 2's DLCs

I wonder what a restored Storm Ruler would look like
I wonder what a restored Wolnir's Holy Sword would look like
I wonder what a restored Dancer's Twinblades would look like unless they looked like skellingtons from the beginning
Man why the fuck is everything broken and rusted and corroded in this game

>>152660543
Wolnir's sword looks very cool though

>>152660376
What the hell is wrong with you

>>152660376
it probably won't from a lore perspective, but you can never fucking know with the bosses

Can we get some real bosses in the DLC? I mean, you could cheese everything in one or two attempts, summons or no. Nothing was on par with Ornstein and Smough, let alone the original dlc fights. I mean shit, even fume knight was a bigger pain in the dick than anything in 3 thus far.

If they put that much cinematic effort into nameless king, every major fight in the dlc needs to top it in some way. Otherwise, they might as well let Tanimura take the reigns and give us another Duel Souls.

>I just want to rollerskeet and toss niggas in lava.

>>152660761
>O&S
Really? Beat them on my second try

>>152660761

When will people get that O&S are a meme? They are the only slightly difficult boss in the first Dark Souls 1 boss and most people here started with that game, they remember O&S as a tough boss fight when in reality they are just as easily cheesed as anything else. Would your first game be 3 and 1 your last, you wouldn't think much of O&S.

>>152660614
The quality of the DLCs seems to almost always be proportional to the quality of the base game, and 2's DLCs were by far the worse ones.
While I doubt it'll do much good for PvP (unless the huge DLC patch helps), it might fix the actual shit things we have.

>>152660749
Funny, I think the opposite, I'm scared of how much fanservice they'll shove in. I'm not that picky about lore, but don't want them to force stuff too much

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>>152654389
Doubtful because :
Velka and Gwynewere exist in the same timeline i.e there are Velka worshippers and Gwyn worshippers in the same "continuity" of Dark Souls. Gwynewere isn't an unknown entity in the lore, the lore on her says that she went on to marry Flame god Flann and had many children.

Velka is thought to have kept watch over the Painted world (the statues that are in the Painted World can be probably with some certainty said to represent Velka now that we know a bit about her likeness through the statue and they aren't similar to Gwynewere.)

Now, Gwyn's wife is a mystery, but Gwynewere is pretty clear cut not Velka.

>>152660761
>you could cheese everything
The real problem lies with things that let you cheese everything, like raw ASS or GCFO. These two crutches, along with horrible estus system, trivialize every single encounter, with the exception of memeless king
But I agree, none of the bosses are as good as biggie smalls or sir Alonne

>>152660984
Nah, the DLCs of 2 were good. Just don't do the co-op areas alone because they're not even worth the trouble reward-wise

>>152661060
You can also cheese NK or O&S by either using the avelyn strat since NK has the speed of a DaS 1 boss or using the pillars since Ornstein loves bugging on them.
Bugging Ornstein was so common with the first patches I even did it accidentaly

>>152661060
Take those nostalgia goggles off
O/s is a joke compared to newer bosses

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>Invade into a 3v1 as a Rosaria's Finger
>Heysel also invades
>She attacks me instead of the host + phantoms

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>>152661642
>heysel believes in camaraderie between fingers
MIYAZAKI THE LEAST YOU COULD DO WAS BE CONSISTENT

>just found out that you can visceral attack the dancer

Aaaaaand I'm diamonds.

>>152661826
What? How? She never stunned for me.

Is it on the ass?

>>152661926

She stuns for like half a second sometimes but I never thought you could do a visceral on her

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>>152661642
>Heysel has infinite estus if you invade as a watchdog and she locks onto you

>>152661926
You need to do enough damage directly to her head. I randomly found it out while spamming vestiges at her and was quite pumped when I heard the "THWOOMP" sound.

The face is good enough

>>152662129
She has two stagger animations. the normal one applies whenever you do enough poise damage to her.

>>152660984
Dark Souls 2 DLC was amazing you dingus.

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40 magic and fire absorption with dragontooth and speckled stoneplate+1
surely ng++ pontiff will be manageable now

r-right guys?
i don't look forward to this

>>152662264
Better than AotA and TOH? No

>>152661826

>When you stab giants in the head, you cut their brain out and pieces of it fly away
Their brain is pretty tiny

HAPPENING

The first downloadable add-on for Dark Souls III will launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in Japan on October 25 for 1,200 yen, the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals.

A Season Pass including the first and second downloadable add-ons will also be available for 2,000 yen. Buying it will also get you a PlayStation 4 custom theme.

The first add-on includes weapons such as a large sword cloaked in colorless flames, cold storm-like magic, and miracles such as a ring of light that you throw like a boomerang. It will also have a new player-versus-player map called “Immortal Arena.”

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if pontiff sillyvahn was Lothric's teacher and the one who convinced him not to link the fire, why?

if the fire was linked, wouldn't that mean irithyll would continue to exist? what's his problem with that?

>>152662338
AtoA wasn't that good honestly
the areas were all incredibly mediocre
good bosses though

>play 200 hour the first 14 days
>last played 23-05-2016 (251 hours total)
>hasn't touched the game after that
did anything change?

>>152662408
>such as a large sword cloaked in colorless flames, cold storm-like magic, and miracles such as a ring of light that you throw like a boomerang
I'm betting thats like 40% of the content it'll have

>>152662408
legit site?

http://gematsu.com/2016/08/dark-souls-iii-first-dlc-launches-october-25-japan
>2 fucking months away

>arena in DLC
NOOOOOOO
WHYYYY

Jesus sommersaulting Christ, the Watchdogs of Farron's coventant is more dead that the Blades of the Darkmoon.

Is there any kind soul out there with a spare Wolf Ring they're not using?

>>152662408
>It will also have a new player-versus-player map called “Immortal Arena.”
Sounds gay, thankfully it's fake.

>>152662535
>you want honorabru dueru? better pay up, filthy ashen one

>>152662408
>a large sword cloaked in colorless flames
It's going to be a quality weapon I'm calling it right now
>cold storm-like magic
is going to be an AOE as useful as divine pillars
>a ring of light that you throw like a boomerang
will do less damage than a great lightning spear while costing more because it's an AOE like emit force
>Immortal Arena
will be ignored because half the people won't buy the DLC so pontiff will always be the pvp spot

>>152662408
>It will also have a new player-versus-player map called “Immortal Arena.”
fuck noo pleease not again

>>152662514
>famitsu
Just wait for scans or google 2ch if you don't belive

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>>152662452
>play 200 hour the first 14 days
That averages 14 hours in a day.

>>152662612
Arenas should never exist. Here's hoping it has DaS matchmaking

>>152662723
Why the fuck not? Provided they don't have content locked behind them like ds2, it keeps the duelists away from random invaders

>>152662712
yes, yes it is
however the first 5 days i only slept for 4 hours each.
i stopped when i realized i couldn't focus anymore

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>>152662408
If they add an arena they better fix invasions while they're at it

>>152662408
>October 25
Fuck, guess I'll start NG++ then

>>152662336
>trying to tank a ng++ boss
nah, you should just get some bleed weapon

Holy fuck it's not difficult
>allow red soapstone signs (only red, no other kind) to be placed down on boss arenas
>once the boss is defeated, you can summon these red soapstone signs
>the boss arena is already sealed by fog walls so neither opponent can run

PLEASE why can't they do this, it fixes so many issues

>>152662535
I have a terrible feeling that this arena IS the first DLC, if this is literally all that leaked from famitsu

>>152662843
We should never make room for those faggots. Look at what happened in 2-3, most stuff that changed was for duels instead of PvE/invasions and now those faggots are in too big of a number

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>>152662535
>arena instead of blue orb

>>152662918
famitsu scans today so we will see
this part
>The first add-on includes weapons such as a large sword cloaked in colorless flames, cold storm-like magic, and miracles such as a ring of light that you throw like a boomerang
screenshoots

Where's that Souls announcement, fampais?

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Alright, poison build memer from yesterday here to announce HOSTING DS3 FIGHT CLUB
Platform: PC
Location: High wall of lothric (Put signs on the wooden platform)
Rules: Don't be a dick (Attack me or others who aren't dueling for example) and I will add others if there is a demand for them from anons.
I will be streaming as well in order to make webms later (I'll put the stream link in if someone asks but don't want to attention whore otherwise, it should be very easy to find on twitch though)
I'll be hosting for quite some time unless something unexpected pops up and if you have any suggestions or questions please ask since this is the first time I've hosted.
Sorry for boring location

>>152662918
>this arena IS the first DLC
I'm never purchasing another from soft game if they pull this

>>152663006
>being so new
Just read thread

>>152662942
Are you familiar with the concept of a containment board? Same principle

>>152663023
Shit password is dsg

What is your problem with them adding an arena? Just don't use it, it's not like the game will literally force you to use it to advance in a covenant like 2 did it.

>>152663023
Dunno if now is a good time, but good luck anyway

>>152662535
it will free the Pontiffs from duel shitters making it a full dedicated gank arena
i'm fine with it
duel faggots should be contained all in one place

Everytime I see the rolls in DS3 I get fucking cancer jesus christ what was miyahacki thinking the mad fuck

>>152663023
>high wall
fuck that
new location: undead settlement, first bonfire
place signs on the stairway catwalk thing and fights will take place on the flat surface below with the dogs and the hollows

>>152663104
It's can be DS2 arena 2.0
All my fears

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>>152662843
>Why the fuck not?
Different guy but the existence of arenas encouraged etiquettefaggotry which has caused people to act like invasions should follow arenafaggotry rules.

In addition, creating an arena is taking away from the PvE content that I'm playing these games for, not shit that panders to the cancerous Twitchfag streamers and shitters who want to prove they're "gud" in a digital game of rock'em-sock'em robots.

>>152662427
If you think of AotA as essentially another Lord Soul, it has the best areas in the second half of DaS.

Compare Oolacile Township to Duke's Archives, Tomb of the Giants, Lost Izilith and drained New Londo: in my opinion it is by far the best map design.

>>152663132
Why do you have to ruin things anon :(

>>152663164
>creating an arena is taking away from the PvE content
Come on. Arena is jsut arena.

>>152663146
No it can't be, because red eye orb exists and dorkmoons just suck dick with no orbs whatsoever
At least it won't be locking invasions behind the duels

>>152663091
See how well that worked in 2. You give these guys just a little room and they already try taking it over.
How many times an invasion happens and the other guy bows or runs into an arena like area? This happened in 2 too because we wouldn't punish those faggots.
If it were me, even RSS would be gone

>>152663164
Etiquettefaggotry was in 3 since day 1 and was in Dark Souls 1 before the DLC with the arena came. It will always exist. You can just ignore it and kick their asses, unfortunately you can't do it while they are gesturing anymore.

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>>152663146
>inb4 it's actually DS1 arena but fixed, with fun maps and deathmatch mode

>>152653309
Don't.

So arena is unvoidable. All we can do is hope for DS1 tier arena and good balance. Or 3x3 fights

>>152663104
>What is your problem with them adding an arena?
Because all effort to making an arena are wasted effort and an excuse to deprive us of good PvE content because "well there's muh arena, that's your dlc content fuck you!".

The DLCs are the last hope for people to get good PvE content that adds to the replayability and arenas are completely dogshit fodder that will feature shitty pvp in a boring arena but them adding it will detract from the overall good content of the game instead of adding to it.

>Just don't use it, it's not like the game will literally force you to use it to advance in a covenant like 2 did it.
Remind me again how much people used the DS1 arena? If there are no rewards, noone's going to bother with it and they'll just continue ganking at Pontiff's.

>arena level ranges
>1-100
>101-200
>201-400
>400+

Can you imagine how amazing the shitstorm would be?

>>152663417
they better give you fully customizable ranges

>>152663410
>making an arena are wasted effort and an excuse to deprive us of good PvE
Jsut stop. You can make arena in one day. It's not rocket science

>>152663023
Alright I realised I didn't include SL either, I'll try posting again later on today and hopefully not be a retard and when people are actually online.

>>152663164
On the contrary, granted the existence of an arena and confronted with such etiquettefags, you can kindly tell them to fuck off to the arena. It doesn't take away PvE content because people who invade to fuck you up without honorshit still exist

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>faith will get a light chakram miracle as its equivalent of farron dart/fire surge
>it will be highly powerful simply because of hyperarmor WA allowing you to literally spam that thing

GRAVELORD COVENANT HD VERSION PLS FROM

so where is the FC now

>>152663626
Nito is dead, man. Let it go.

>>152663626
This. Gravelording is a fantastic concept that deserves to be done justice.

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>>152663236
>Come on. Arena is jsut arena.
No it's not. To you and me it doesn't seem like that big of a deal, but in actual game development they're going to have to sink production hours into it, it's going to take development time to get working and it's going to occupy space in the game world that could be used for meaningful PvE content instead.

Additionally, if an arena is put in, the devs consider the amount of time people put in that as "content", so the PvE side of the DLC will have less effort put into it.

>>152663626
>implying anyone working on DS3 besides Miyazaki even remembers that gravelords were a thing

>>152663273
There is no way to punish etiquettefaggotry anymore and it's too easily encouraged. See how easily you can find a nice wide open area pratty much almost everywhere, whereas, say, if I was invaded somewhere like Sen's, BT or TotG, no way in hell I'd do anything but run away or kill the guy, because those areas didn't try in the slightest to encourage you and if he actually bowed I just got a free backstab.

>>152663568
>you can kindly tell them to fuck off to the arena

You should know this doesn't really work.

>>152663249
That's because of how shitty the arena in ds2 was

>>152663626
>BB had a covenant in the dlc that was literally nothing
can't wait for more myazaki brilliance

>>152663695
>besides Miyazaki
Seeing how Nito is the only lord not mentioned at all, I think Miyahacki forgot too

>>152663695

Miyazaki remembering it is enough for it to happen
But that would be the first time they add a new covenant with a DLC, I doubt it

>>152663752
>free covenant that gives you the best gesture in the game to stomp make contact memers

>Hidetaka Miyazaki revealed that the downloadable content for "Dark Souls 3" will bring something different to the game

really makes you think...

>Covenant that able to summon white/sun phantoms in your world and kill them
>they can ignore passwords
NO ONE IS SAFE

>>152663785
aldrich uses a spectral ravelord sword

>>152663956
All I have seen him use is a spectral lifehunt scythe

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>>152663519
>You can make arena in one day. It's not rocket science
They're not going to just shit out an arena in one day, it's going to occupy at least the half of the amount of time as making a similar-sized PvE environment would because designing the environment, doing the planning and texturing work for the environment itself, then balancing and testing the mechanics and the gameplay of the arena, all of this takes time and effort a lot more than just "lol, shitting it out in a day!".
And all of this is for naught because it is designed to please Twitchfags who think Dark Souls is an esport.

>>152663568
> It doesn't take away PvE content because people who invade to fuck you up without honorshit still exist
It's misuse of development time.

>>152663946
mound makers should do that by default desu

>>152664002
it's on the tip of his catalyst, permanent until he dies

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>>152664002
therefore it doesn't exist, right?

What if the DLC arena rewarded you for winning with new gestures ?

>>152664034
>>152663946
what a dumb fucking idea

>>152664034
>host can switch to WoB mid invasion
>white phantoms can't switch to MM and kill the host

>>152664151
>it gives you the edgiest mock gestures in series
>can try it on defeated opponents as they are fading away right when you receive them

>>152664151
The DLC arena will reward you with all the new content being added as you rack up wins, there is no single player component this time

>>152664143
No, therefore I haven't seen it
Now I've seen it

>>152664151
what if you could make your own gestures

>>152664151
Or, or, the DLC arena rewarded you with a buttfuck from your opponent so you two can be faggots together?

>>152664187
Why?
>sun/white phantoms can put signs everywhere
>they don't cares if boss dead or not
>THEY DON'T lose souls after death
>gank squad mambo jambo
Fuck you.

>>152664307
but you're already rewarded with that the second you opt to be matched for arena

>>152663542
Goddammit and i just fired up the game

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>pyromancers and hexers will get a magical dark flame weapon
>sorcerers are now aoe cryomancers
>priests get their own fast spammy attack that also returns back to them

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Post fashion
Rate fashion
What weapon should I use with this set, I'm only using the spinsword currently because the color matches

>>152664245
>only arena and a bunch of weapons mentioned
>miyazaki promised something different
I'm already seeing it
They make some edgy shit non-character npc who will give you items for raking up those arena victories
The entire dlc location is the arena and hub area for the npc

>>152664245
>there is no single player component this time
Would make it easier to not buy the DLC. I literally don't care about what weapons they add if it doesn't come with meaningful PvE content as well.

>>152664342
>put RSS
>expect a duel
>get ganked
>use REO
>expect invasion
>host is a duelfag
>put WSS
>expect cooperation
>host wants to kill you

What incentive do you give to whites and golds? No one likes when you use a multiplayer item and don't get what you're after and as it stands now, WSS is the only one that always works unless host wants to gank and you don't

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>>152664432

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>>152664432
shield completely ruins the color palette
headgear clips through the torso

>>152664443
So basically Hercules Cup in Kingdom Hearts
The "final boss" is the NPC

Arena something was in BB trailer
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8KTIeSnzs
>0:50

>>152664342
>lmao let's force the people who just want to help others into pvp ganks lmao haha

fuck off retard, red signs exist for a reason

>>152663785
Nito had the most attention out of all the Lords in DS2, they probably wanted to balance that
still, gaylord servants not returning is homosexual as fuck regardless
aldrich faithful should be gaylords 2.0 instead of another forestfag wannabes in the same game

>>152664618
>gank apologist

>>152664594
That's the room leading to Old Yharnam, anon
That trailer's been dissected so many times

>>152664594
That actually seems to be what they'd make lanterns be

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Are these types of signs just super old or hacked?

>>152664594
And it became a better game for not having it. Heck you can't even duel properly

>>152664618
>lmao let's force the people who just want to help others into pvp ganks lmao haha
Thats literally what happens when I try to coop
I get summoned by some WoB piece of shit who sits around and waits for reds to come

>>152664749
Most likely hacked.

>>152664787
Literally never had that happen in 300 hours but okay. BC out nigga.

>waiting for famitsu scans
Well it's time for NIOH

>>152664494
>expect invasion
>host is a duelfag
tbqh the best thing about invading and being invaded by honorfags is pretending to play along with their autism and then taking advantage of their stupidity at some point
even though I can't see their real faces, the frustration is very easy to sense

>>152664778
and as a direct result of that the online is actually not dead at all, hopefully they learn more from BB than from DS3 when they move to the newer IPs.

>>152665006
>online is actually not dead at all
Don't lie. It's dead compared to DS3 online on PS4. Invasions are rare as fuck

God Tier
Pure FTH, FTH/STR, FTH/DEX

Who cares Tier
The rest

Shit Tier
INTfags in any variations

Meme Babby Tier
INT/FTH Abyss scum

Prove me wrong

Whites and Golds aren't the problem, the problem is hosts with passworded phantoms who gank random invaders either intentionally, or just because of that dumb MM feature that prioritizes them for invasions.

>>152665214
God Tier
Quality

Shit tier
The rest

Prove me wrong

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>>152664924
>tfw beta isn't releasing until 11am EST or later
Fucking nips. I woke up early to play it, and they fucked me.

>>152665191
>compared to DS3 online on PS4
anon please, that wasn't true two months ago, it sure as hell isn't true now.

>>152665218
No the problem is the host can summon new phantoms during an invasion. That's the only thing that needs to be disabled and invasions will be perfectly fine.

Anyone who says otherwise is a complete shitter who only invaded Burg with twinked out Chaos weapons.

>>152665274
It's out in AU/EU/RU stores. Just create acc. EZ

>>152665265
Fuck off, memehacki

>>152665218
Now tell me, who are you supposed to kill? The host who has the need of phantoms to win or the sollo one?

>>152664924
oh is that coming back today? new content or same as earlier beta?

>>152656416
Dark Souls 2's fashion was really strong and varied.

>>152665370
>that wasn't true two months ago,
Again, don't lie. Stream us BB pvp right now. It's easy. And we all can see cruel true

>>152665407
I don't want to bother making a new PSN account just to play a demo.
I know that I'm complaining about an easily fixed problem, but it still frustrates me.

>>152665480
It's long as fuck right now.But they make it casual tho. They remove stamina management

The actual reason people don't like invasions in dark souls 3 is because they are so used to stomping hosts with minimal effort in the other games.

Discuss.

>>152665458
Both. They all deserve to die.

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>>152656416
I hope the DLC has a merchant that just sells shitloads of DaS2 armour.
Armour and weapons were the only redeeming part of that game, and I miss so many of them so much.

>>152665665
>minimal effort in the other games.
This is bait, because gank squads were are deal in all souls games. 2 vs 1 is pretty common

>>152665665
Also, this feels like it is the case for a lot of the popular dark souls pvp streamers.

>>152662408
What is the point?Everyone will keep on using cancerous dex weapons anyway

>>152665714
I just want Ashes for those goddamn infusion gems

>>152665697
But who deserves first? The one with the biggest advantage

>>152665665
I agree.

>>152665665
not true at all
DS3 has core problems with its gameplay that make invasions terrible. The only real solution is to remove all the DS2 or all the BB, and they obviously will never do that.

fucking bullshit adding pvp shit to a dark souls dlc.

>>152665736
Even so it was still WAY easier. My winrate as an invader was above 90 percent in dark souls 2. It got lower in dark souls 3

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>>152665214
I wholeheartedly agree

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help

>>152665943
>terrible

harder*

>>152665665
While I agree, they reall should do stuff like nerf estus and rolls. This would rise the skill an invader needs even more to filter shitters while not making fights last forever

>>152665958
Never done before. Scandal.

>>152666074
>harder*
longer and incredibly fucking boring*

Do spears in ds3 have a sweet spot? I've been using arstor's spear on a playthrough for shits and giggles and the slugs in poison rape swamp take like three times as much damage when I catch them with the very tip. It's not a counter hit either because those do even more

Just wondering because that makes literally zero sense seeing as the spear is being driven straight through the enemy

>>152666248
There are two types of slugs in farron keep, one has about 3 times more health than the other.

>>152666176
>they reall should do stuff like nerf estus and roll

Hard to do without fucking with pve balance.


>>152666225
Meh, only had a few long invasions in my experience.

>>152666074
>harder
No. They're terrible
>60vit + 40end+
>30% roll
>bloodring
>anti backstab ring
>summon 2 60int bros with obscuring ring and one parry baiter/WP/CCS what ever
>never fight, jsut roll roll roll and resummon phantoms

>>152666397
that sounds fun

anyone up for a playthrough like this for the dlc?

>>152666305

I've gotten both hits on the same slug though. I chip away once or twice for 70 damage and then back up and land a 200+

I think I've actually figured it out, they're so fucking small that the spear is going above them and getting some kind of glancing hit, but at the end of the spear it's wider and it connects properly with the hitbox

anyone got the fanart of gwyn hiding behind a baffled NK while the MC spams parry?

>>152666248
They have a sweet spot but it is not as bad as before. The counter damage window is really small it seems.


>>152666397
Kek, glad I haven't experienced that yet.

>>152666460
I was summoned as mage before candle patch in those kind ganks. This is just unfair. Nonstop wins. Nonstop kills. There is no chanse to win.

>>152666378
The PvE is quite easy as it is. The bosses people argue to be hard without the rolls can all be beaten with proper spacing,like pontiff.
Then they could make current rolls be bloodring <25% ones, giving that its own niche.

The fact you can estus whenever and walk from fucking backstabs because of it really needs some work too, but in the end, if those changes got too hard, you could just summon.

>>152666642
I think the main adjustment to bosses should be more hp. Feels like some bosses really only shine when you are severely underleveled, like Ocerios.

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>>152664749
this is what happens if you leave a message in the very first day after release

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>>152664432
Try to use Richard Rapier (forget about it's name)
And Llewellyn Shield

>>152662535
The fucking arena better gonna have a team deathmatch mode.

>>152666176
>nerf estus and rolls
and fuck up pve balance just for your shitty minigame?
fuck off back to fighting games reject

Bold statement inbound:

-Dark Souls: All weapons are viable in one way or the other, some more popular, others less. Clear player variation and choice.

-Dark Souls II: All weapons are viable in one way or the other, some more popular, others less. Clear player variation and choice.

-Dark Souls III: Dark Sword. Dark Sword. Dark Sword. Dark Sword.
Guy with a katana that only sprint thrusts.

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>>152665714
Honestly they could just add that shit to the ashes you give to shrine handmaid
>Mortician's Ashes gives you peasant's set
>Dreamchaser Ashes gives you wanderer set
>Easterner's Ashes gives you Shiva's (easterner's set in game already) Alonne's Set and Cale's set (looks like Chink armor)
>Prisoner Chief's Ashes gives you forlorn set and Penal Set
>Grave Warden's Ashes gives you grave warden set
>Xanthous Ashes gives you Black Witch Set
>Dragon Chaser's Ashes gives you Archdrake Set, Black Dragon Set, Dragonrider set
>Paladin's Ashes gives you Insolent Set, Looking Glass Set and Targray's Set
>Killing Creighton unlocks Benhart's Set from shrine handmaid
>Defeating dragonslayer armor unlocks Drakekeeper set from shrine handmaid

>Cornyx sells lion mage / warrior sets after giving him the great swamp tome and chaos set after giving him Izalith tome
>Karla sells Hexer set after giving her both dark pyromancy tomes
>Irina sells you priestess set by default and Saint's Set and White Priest Set after the Lothric tome

The rest can be scattered through the DLC or some shit

Beware of message!
Good 16 Poor 37
Smouldering lake.

guess where it is

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>>152665665
It's a mix and match.
I like the addition of seeds and shit like that, but it feels like you can't do anything actually fun in DS3 invasions. In 1 you occasionally could dick with the host by resetting shortcuts and in 2 use corrosive jars to break their shit (or pushing them into acid shit, that was fun) but in 3 it's just lmao3phantomsr1spampointdown or if it's a lone shitter you kill them and that's it.

The only fun part in invasions is cucking Darkmoons out of the kill and then casting DMB as they fade.

>>152666248
>Just wondering because that makes literally zero sense seeing as the spear is being driven straight through the enemy

It does make sense from an irl perspective. If you stand right next to a wall and pretend that you have a spear. If you stab at the wall from right next to it, you don't have enough room to efficiently operate it or gather enough force to hurt the wall, but if you stand a little further, you can project much more force into the blow.

>>152665714
I'd rather see new sets than reused garbage from DS2

>>152666964
>pve balance
>fuck off back to fighting games reject
Pure /v/. You can beat any souls game without leveling up. What the point of repeating "pve" if it's just nothing but same shit? This is not mmo with raid bosses. PVP is more alive than pvp

>>152667078
>Dark Souls
>All weapons are viable in one way or the other,

Nope. You have probably even forgotten a lot of weapons. Also half the movesets are useless for some weapons(as in it will only get backstabbed).

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>>152666542
>>152666305

I made a webm because apparently I've got nothing better to do. If it's a sweet spot thing the damage difference is huge.

I can reproduce it every one of the 4-5 different spears I have, hitting the slugs at close range seems to do 33% damage. The strange thing is that I've never, ever noticed it with any other kind of enemy. Maybe bad hits do standard instead of thrust damage? The slugs are weak af to thrust attacks

>>152667078
>Dark Souls: All weapons are viable in one way, backstabbing

fixed

>>152667230
blocking the item that's on the wall where you find horace?

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>>152667256
This one is pretty good though. I just want a sallet ;_;

>>152667402
yeas

>>152667393
>Great club build video
>It's based around backstabs and riposts
>filled with cuts to backstabs and riposts

Dark Souls 1 pvp montages in general I guess. It's like watching a fatality animation montage for mortal kombat. Gets boring after awhile.

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>>152667405
>>152665714

More scans, please

>>152667550
my man, I put one there as well saying "you don't deserve this"

>>152667257
unlike you ponitff degenerate i'm actually invading in virtually all areas of the game plus doing dried finger runs and understand that pve is the core of the game that keeps it alive, not you and your buttbuddies spinning around in circles and creating a super complicated game plan built around extreme passivity and WDR1s

bosses, especially on high ng+ cycles, are explicitly balanced around current rolling and estus system, ng+++++++ SoC will fucking annihilate you if rolls have less i-frames, especially in curved sword mode, less i-frame will lead to some boss attacks being impossible to dodge through which will require a major rebalance that will never happen

even then more punishable rolling will only lead to straight swords and carthus curved becoming even stronger than they are now

sometimes i wish pvp faggots to just fuck off from this unique series into smash or some another low skill ceiling fighting game, will be right up your alley

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>>152667579
I actually really liked this design.

>>152667373
Alright, the more you know I suppose, weird why from would make it only for slugs though.

>>152666964
>implying it's not already fucked

Givi g better rolls than BB or ninia flip for free is not okay. Insta estus that you don't even need to look for windows is not okay.
In the other games if you didn't run the fuck away or made a proper timed roll when something like pontiff raised their arms, champ started his charge or dancer begin the spin, you were punished badly and had to look for an opportunity to even heal.
Now you can panic roll spam and survive those and then estus with no punishment because of the downtime between their combos.
This is not good at all.

>>152667705
Shame about the pauldrons though

>>152667705
literally my favourite armor in the franchise, except I used the ordinary alonne helmet instead of the captain version

>>152664245
>only 1,200 yen
>not a word about anything other than the arena and some new gear from the leak
I'd believe it

>>152667705
too cool to be in souls 3
I'm not even kidding I wish I was, every new armor in game that wasn't in previous games seems to be going for the "SO REALISTIC" route

>>152667705
if only it actually looked like that

>>152667280
The point was that you actually saw players using them, or trying to at one point or the other.

>It was never just people with only straight swords and katanas
>You were never punished for using two handers by hapless light attack spam

>>152667917
>invade
>try using demons fist
>they dont get hit at all
>just parry spam until I win

why does it have to be this way

Dork Souls 3 including all DLC for $40 when

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>>152667802
Makes sense if they based them samurai armor I guess. Samurai basically put their shields on their shoulders to protect them in their archer duels. They dropped that design with the introduction of gunpowder and the professionalisation of Ashigaru though.

>>152668113
May 2017

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>>152668217
fake

>>152668213
Seems reasonable, I still need to play both DS1 and 2.

>>152668217
Fugg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu1NCPMC7D0
It's private right now tho

>invaded
>use the empty ashen estus bottle to play the "no estus" animation
>they drink all their estus thinking this will be an honorable duel
hehehehehe

>>152668217
play.st/2bJQIDq
it's a private YT video

>>152667647
try harder /v/

>>152668324
Love you anon.

>>152668273
no
https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/768085653678460929

>>152668324
top lol
gonna steal this

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What the actual fuck

>>152668456
Either because of slavery or sado-masocism.

Was Ariandel ever mentioned in lore before?

>>152668456
just use Master
>why
because they are retards banning a list of lower case raw text with no whitelist
>jap devs

>>152668526
that's fucking retarded, the word "master" itself is fucking innocent
literally everything can be made sexual if you want it to be

THIS
VIDEO
IS
PRIVATE
R
I
V
A
T
E

>>152668324
You're a fucking asshole and a genius, I am laffin

>>152668324
devilish

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>>152668645
>tfw reloading on a speed of light

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>>152668537
>Was Ariandel ever mentioned in lore before?
No.

>Dark Souls III: Ashes of Ariandel
>Ashes of Ariandel
>Ariandel
>EL

ANGELS CONFIRMED

>>152668324
>have 8 estus
>drink 2 estus
>switch to ashen really quickly and use the animation

even more convincing

>>152668036
Because a bunch of nostalgic shitlords cried butt blood about every single aspect of DSII, rather than praising Tanimura for saving a total disaster and turning it into Duel Souls.

So now they just recycle everything, instead of producing "risky" new content.

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>This video is private

Sony just leaked announce too early

WHO/WHAT THE FUCK IS ARIANDEL?

>Fight some pyro guy
>Sperent spams me to a sliver of Health
>He switches to caestus and bare fist
>Lucky parry, its a fucking caestus of course
>Kills me
>Get summoned back later with Drang Hammers equipped
>He immediatly switches to caestus+fist
>Parry spams, i think he's trying to taunt
>full combo spin bash, cant be parried
>He starts parry spamming again
>Spin bash again
>ded
Idk what he's trying to acomplish here, congrats you won and tried to make me salty; then died in the process.

Yo guys, is the dlc of this game going to be story?

I beat this game on release but i was never able to beat the nameless king. I got the urge to play a souls game again and i want to start over, i was planning on waiting for dlc first tho.

In any case, what kind of character is best to defeat the nameless king? My first one was a murakamo build and i couldnt even get past the dragon many times, the camera fucked me up.

>>152668456
Why would they even ban anything anyway. This is a game about hardcore gorefests and decaying corpses.

>tfw no pvp arena but with mobs on each team.

>>152668942

A N G E L S
N
G
E
L
S

>>152668708
The name of a kingdom certainly sounds angelic.

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>>152668942
>new story introduced for the dlc
>zero expansion on the angels/ kaathe/ frampt themes

TOLD YOU