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>>163669905

>Character Planner
https://www.mugenmonkey.com/

>DARK SOULS 3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u8Mak1goSv4g73g16XsWV4sJelDQUatWkP2kcO6GVAA/pub

>DARK SOULS 2
http://pastebin.com/CAx8Yc8v

>DARK SOULS
http://pastebin.com/eNY3su63

>DEMON'S SOULS
http://pastebin.com/RjpF5s7a

>Community & Fanart
http://pastebin.com/vVWz9pJm
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>>9799445
Not even the Gaping Dragon is free from rule34
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Any suggestions for improving this graphics mod?

I don't know if I want to try to emulate the TGS/E3 demo (strong player glow, everything else is dark, limited field of vision) or go for a more realistic looking style (little/no player glow, dark shadows, bright light sources).

The demo might feel more atmospheric, but be impossible to play due to limited visibility.

Suggestions of areas that would be good to test around at?
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First for kekstralife
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>>163742867
Same approach as before, this time showing bonfire vs sunlight lighting.
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>>163742840
Which Souls characters ARE?
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Anyone got a spare Anri's Straight Sword?
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Nth for the Supreme Goddess
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>ds3 will never be what it could fully be
HOW DOES IT FEEL BROS
HOW DOES IT FEEL
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What other greatswords have sheathes like this? I figured all greatswords would but nope
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>Farron Greatsword, a long, straight sword with a thrusting point, which we first see being used to impale someone, only has one thrusting attack in its entire moveset and it's a fucking rolling attack, while all other swords have a thrust as their R2
This is a travesty
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>>163743378
claymore has the hollowslayer one
executioner and drakeblood have their respective special sheaths
That's all I'm aware of
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bb is shit i dont give a fuck
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>keep getting summoned as blue liek crazy

Did they patch something?
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https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/RT6obNAXlI3QAjIq30boJRqLZbkioF5qsjatxQxCl1
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why we so dead?
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>>163744508
what
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>>163744975
present :>
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>>163744508
Is this dolphin porn?
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Can anyone make a prettier char?
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>>163744508
FUG THANK YOU
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>>163744508

>696 mb

hm...
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>>163745121
t-thanks
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>>163745179
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>>163745443

>le side profile meme

try a frontal pic big boi
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>>163744508
WHAT IS THIS
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>>163744508
>700mb file from a Mongolian basket weaving website
That's scary as fuck
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>>163744508
700mb random download from a stranger online?

Yeah no thank you, someone verify this please
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>>163745553
it's an h-game
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>>163745473
What? It's 3/4ths, and 3/4ths is the standard since you get an idea what they look like from the front and the side. Front or side views are the memes because you can't tell if their faces are scrunched or spaced oddly.
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>liking miyasucky games
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>>163745736
ds2 is artificial fun

it's that easy
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>>163745798
>no ur wrong
>it's that easy
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Oi, I'm going in blind into DaS3, is there anything I should know before starting?
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>>163745736
What, wasn't 4A considered a huge step up and widely loved?

I know people loved DaS1 even after DeS, same with BB. DaS2 was just garbage, and DaS3 was damage control.
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>>163745961
le prepare 2 die XDDD
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>>163745961
don't use elemental infusions unless you plan on going full caster
don't summon for abysswatchers
rolls are free
_________________________________have fun
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>>163746053
I'm disappointed by your ironic shitposting
>>163746062
Thanks a bunch
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>>163745798
>>163745863
>>163745736
I think the point is committing to personal taste as your measure of the games quality is just setting yourself up for disappointment, because there will always be fans who disagree, the games are just too inconsistent and appeal to different people.

So the only way to not be disappointed is to like all of the games, or none.
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>>163746157
Sorry, I'm Australian. It's like a nervous tick
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>>163746162
DaS1 > DeS >= BB > DaS3 > > > > > DaS2

There are people that would swap DeS's and BB's position, and I can respect that. However, this list is pretty much universally agreed upon, except by trolls and retarded DaS2-kiddies.
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>>163745736
You know what's even worse than Miyazaki games, though?
Dark Souls 2.
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>>163745967
Nah, DaS1 was garbage compared to DeS.
I remember you and korba cry git gud whenever people pointed out how broken the mechanics were. BB has some merit, but no replayability.
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>>163746448
Such as?
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Dragonsis here? Please respond, I just need to know you're still here.
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>>163742953
PC?
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>>163746498
poise, undodgable backstabs, no direct hits, estus healing phantoms, no from of respec, super slow movement, no warping till the end, extreme linearity without masterkey, timewasting dead ends with masterkey, mind numbingly boring bosses especially in the second half, >second half, etc
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>>163746723
yup
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>>163742840
>gaping dragon
>almost no dragon girl anal pics
Wasted opportunity.
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>>163745967
AC4 and ACFA share a demon's souls-dark souls relationship.

ACFA removed all the amazing atmosphere, strategy, balance, and cohesive style in AC4, and replaced it with WORSE graphics (looks works and runs worse), dumbed down AI, increased speed that makes hitting people online impossible, and a lot of variance.

But AC4 also had almost no content, extremely bad translations, terrible menu systems, and awful voice acting. ACFA replaced that with longer missions, amazing translation and voice acting jobs, a better menu system, and a generally better story with more memorable characters.

So you can see why ACFA is considered superior to AC4. It got rid of the subtle atmospheric benefits of AC4, in exchange for some hard-hitting value propositions like story and ease of use.

But just like those games, FA is better but only by a SLIM margin. For a lot of the players, FA ruined everything that was good about AC4 by dumbing everything down and trivializing the strategy and positioning of the previous games in favor of pure speed.

I think the only AC game that you couldn't make an argument for being top 5 (out of 15) in the franchise is ACV or Ninebreaker. There are too many pros and cons to each game, too many varying styles and preferences, that it's very hard to say one is 'truly' better than the other.

I think that is true too. I mean, a lot of people understand that ACV was a dumpster fire development hell product (WAY worse than DS2. It was delayed for 2 years and required day 1 patches to stop crashing consoles!) yet there's a large chunk of the fanbase that think it is a better, more replayable, exciting, and better PvP game than ACVD, a game which was widely considered by critics to be the best AC game since the PS2 era.

From isn't consistent. Whatever the game you hate is, you'll eventually find a fan who loves it more than anything else, and they will have damn good reasons why.
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>>163746817
Place/pass?
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>>163746856

oh
Tower on the wall/dsg
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What covenants in DS3 benefit a melee character? It's all fuckin magic related rewards
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>>163746843
Oh also, ACFA's benefits really had little to do with Miyazaki. It was entirely the product of Ubisoft's excellent localization job (compared to Sega, at least). They're also the ones who probably demanded the graphical downgrades so larger, faster maps were possible. It still runs like shit though, even on X360.
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>>163746885
My sign's down
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>>163745736
>>163745798
>>163745967
>>163746407


I think miyazaki makes good games. He's got a good track record and definitely adds atmosphere and creative imagery when he's involved.

But none of their 'best' games are so good that they trivialize their 'worst' games. DS3 will never replace or erase DS2, because it doesn't do what DS2 did best nearly as well. It does other things better, sure, but at the cost of doing some things worse. And some people really like those things.

DS3 can't replace DS2. DS2 couldn't replace DS1. etc. and so on.
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>>163747120
Woo
Thanks dude!
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>>163746808
Poise was amazing and everyone loved it at first. People didn't start hating on it until Havel's shit got popular.

>estus healing phantoms
Annoying, but people thought it was still better than the endless grass spam.

>super slow movement
Not a deal breaker, and no one claimed it was. It wasn't as stark a contrast as with DaS2, which feels like it is in slow motion.

>no warping till the end,
Literally, no one complained about this except when they did stupid shit like getting going through TotG early.

>extreme linearity without masterkey
No one complained about this either because the game was still new to us all, so everything felt new. Once we knew enough to know, we knew there was no reason to chose anything other than the master key anyway. We also knew about the skips that removed linearity.

The only complaints about the second half was that it was too short, especially lost Izalith, and the BoC boss.

>no from of respec
Literally, no one complained about this either.

Your complaints are just shit people that played DaS2 first bitch about. It has nothing to do with the complaints that were actually around during DaS1's launch. The things that people bitched about near the launch of DaS1 were things like the Fog Ring, and that was quickly addressed.

>>163746843
>pure speed.
That's what made it fun though. The online fights were cuhrazey. It's just if you lacked skill then you were going to get boat murdered.

>>163747126
What did DaS2 do best?
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>>163747227
You're welcome
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>>163747126
>DS3 will never replace or erase DS2, because it doesn't do what DS2 did best nearly as well.
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO NEUTER DUAL WIELDING, WEAPON PARRIES AND SWEET SPOTS
I fuckng hate DaS3 for that.
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>>163747309

Cute.
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>>163745736
DS1 was good
BB was good
DS3 was good
DS2 wasn't
Your copypasta is shit.
You're autistic.
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>>163747348
>NEUTER DUAL WIELDING
Actual powerstance movesets in DS2 were garbage compared to paired weapons. They also had no unique running or rolling attacks, their L2s were a single attack without any followups and their L1s were two-hit combos instead of 3-hit combos in DS3.
Nothing of value was lost except for ability for STR fags to keep an estoc or an axe in left hand in addition to their oversized dildo then brag about how good DS2 ultras were when majority of work was done with their left hand weapon.
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>>163747350
Cute!
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>>163747273
>no one
Just because you had no problem with it doesn't mean no one had a problem with it.
In fact the japs had problems with it, that's why they changed it in the later games.
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>>163747523
You know I have been in these threads since Day 1, right?
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>>163747487
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>>163747574

Post pics of yourself irl?
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>>163747597
>pus of man mode never
>you will never transform your arm into a fucklong snake that acts like a combo of fist and whip weapon but has a heavy HA on each attack
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>>163747597
more like PUSSY OF MANHOOD XD
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>>163747486
>dastard doesn't realize that dual wielding refers to full offhand weapons movesets
>dastard doesn't even realize that it wasn't a fault of powerstancing that they implemented boring moves
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>>163747273
>It's just if you lacked skill then you were going to get boat murdered.

It was sort of the opposite. AC4 actually punished you for spamming quickboost or building a perma-flight AC. ACFA didn't, it's like dark souls but with infinite stamina. Sure all the rolling (quick boost) looks cool but it eliminates the need for using cover or strategy and makes fighting in anywhere other than a flat desert completely annoying. FA's indoor stages suffer from sonic-the-hedgehog syndrome (they play awful unless you're always at max speed, which is impossible to maintain indoors) in ways that AC4 didn't.

ACFA lost as much as it gained over AC4, and that's about par for the course. What killed AC4 was mostly the fact that it only had a year of active online vs FA having 3-4, and the single player wasn't long enough to make up for that. But it doesn't make it a -bad- game for what it is, that just weighs fan opinions more favorably toward ACFA because they had more active time playing it.

If they had kept AC4's mechanics and graphics, level design, and atmosphere with ACFA's story, menus, missions and characters, it would be far better than either game was on its own.
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>>163747597
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>>163747348
>WEAPON PARRIES
all weapon parries in ds2 had such a fucklong startup time they could as well not exist at all
katana stance parry in ds3 has excellent frames and gives you damage reduction if you fuck up
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>>163747574
Me too and you're dirty liar for most of the time.
Go heal against a zweihander user while using a spear in a duel or something. You're not wanted here.
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>>163747745
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>>163747348
>>163747746
Not to mention that losing access to parries should be a down side to two-handing, otherwise, there is really no reason not to just two hand constantly.

>>163747713
The strategy was be fast. And yeah, it looked cool as shit.

>>163747815
The content of your posts implies otherwise, plus you are just an anon so there is no way for you to back up your claims. I have been using the same trip since the start.
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>>163747273
>What did DaS2 do best?

>Actually good / useful Duel Wielding
>largest explorable world
>most viable pvp build varieties
>more variations between weapons in stats and scaling, without resorting to one-off gimmicks (there are lots of weapons with the same moveset, but different scaling, so you can use different builds and still have a viable weapon in that class)
>respawnable bosses / easy item farming (bonfire ascetics)
>lots of NG+ content, including improved AI
>torches actually useful

There's a few other things that might be more up to taste, but those are all mechanics a person could legitimately love, and then be highly disappointed that they were removed in DS3. Especially since some of those things had no real reason to be removed (power stance and bonfire ascetics...)

It feels too much like DS3 is a sideways movement to a different set of benefits, but with more gloss on it, rather than a true universal improvement.
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Merry Christmas /dsg/, I've decided to replay DS2, but I am not sure how. How did you do your second playtrough?

I have a high soul level character near the middle of NG+, one whom I have finished all the DLCs with, and painstakingly farmed the Mad Warrior set. Should I go with that one, using an exotic build with an exotic weapon, trying to get Benheart's and Lucatiel's stuff which I missed on my first run, or make a completely new character, and try to make it with another stat-based build? For example, I never finished this game with a sorcerer, or a successful battle-cleric (it always felt like I am wasting points on faith instead of other pure-melee stats)
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>>163747746
Parrying becomes predictable if only a handful of things can do it.
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>>163747820
Very cute, anon!
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>>163747948
I crave more areas like Frozen outskirts. Large, open, explorable, desolate, no walls to follow and no 'level design' holding your hand. Just a pure open world where you could die anywhere and get lost easily. I loved the sheer sense of terror that it filled me with the first time I ended up there.
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>>163747746
>onee-chan

don;t you feel bad
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>>163747957
Make a new character, and this time burn bonfire ascetics when you can. It will make the game hard enough that you will have to actually explore and seek out easier areas instead of just going linearly.

Ideally, burn them at forest of the fallen giant's cardinal tower bonfire, you can get titanite chunks early that way and it respawns both area bosses. Then get to iron keep ASAP, so you can pick up 3 more and burn them for the harder bosses (old iron king, lost sinner).

At the same time, try to keep up with the summon questlines.

Also, turn your brightness all the way down. It makes the torch areas a lot more fun.
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>>163748114
>>163747957
Oh, and you can get 10 more ascetics from Navlaan and Grandahl, so after you clear Drangleic castle, you can basically burn them indefinitely for the rest of the game and go back and get all the bosses at intensity 2.
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Are there swords that shoot lightning in DaS3?
think thorned GS
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>>163748191
There's a spear and a sword/spear hybrid that shoot lightning and summon a bolt from the sky, respectively
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>>163747948
>Actually good / useful Duel Wielding
>>163747486
>largest explorable world
The problem is that DS2's world is pure trash. It has by far the worst level design in all fromsoft games since shadow tower abyss and that's another Tanimura game. Worst detalization, worst encounter design, entire journey feels like an absolute slog compared both to semi-open world of DS1 and enormous individual levels of DS3.
>most viable pvp build varieties
Lies, DS2 has the most retarded and strict meta in series with largest amount of retarded metafaggot gear like jester's top.
Giving all weapons counter modifiers was an enormous mistake. Especially to already gamebreaking shit like warped sword.
>more variations between weapons in stats and scaling, without resorting to one-off gimmicks (there are lots of weapons with the same moveset, but different scaling, so you can use different builds and still have a viable weapon in that class)
DS2 weapon pool was incredibly inflated and with virtually zero unique things in it prior to DLCs and even they did almost nothing to change the situation.
>respawnable bosses / easy item farming (bonfire ascetics)
DS2 has the largest amount of most braindead, MMO-tier farming with literally 1% chance drops. Ascetics is a retarded idea which made NG+ barren as fuck back when ng and ng+ playerbases were still separated.
>lots of NG+ content, including improved AI
A few enemies here and there and changed items in same chests is not a "lots" of content.
Improved AI is just another lie.
>torches actually useful
AHAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Do you understand that the most common complains about release version of DS2 is that it made torches which were advertised into oblivion completely useless because of the gutted lighting system, yes?
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Does anyone have 12 titanite scales they can spare so I can upgrade my FGS before fucking end-game? Is it possible to summon someone who can drop shit in your world for you to pick up?
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>>163748323
You missed the entire point. These are not reasons why DS2 is better than DS3. These are things that a person might really, really like about DS2, and end up disappointed when they are not present in DS3.

All of your responses are opinion vs opinion, it doesn't invalidate someone who legitimately cares about those things from liking DS2.
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Playing DS3, I'm almost ready to go into NG+.

I want to use a different weapon (been using the Black Knight Sword) for my next playthrough, but I'm not sure what. Have 40 dex/str.

I was going to use the Exile Greatsword but it's a little slow for me.
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>>163748114
>turn your brightness all the way down. It makes the torch areas a lot more fun
Ouch, yes. I remember I was too much of a pussy at first, so I kept the lights on normal and the torch was just an aesthetic extra. Will definitely do that.

But what build should I use? Go full melee again? If so, dex or str? My first playtrough was more fore Str
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>>163747948
Dual wielding was as shit as always. Power stance started semi-useful but was nerfed to death.

Quality > Quantity

99 in every stat is not Variety.

Weapons playing the same but being stat upgrades of one another is not variety. BB has the most weapon variety.

Enemy extinction. Single spawning enemies without guaranteed drops.

A few extra enemies tossed around haphazardly and locking items behind NG++ is not a good thing.

>torches actually useful
You're retarded if you believe that. They just had a few gimmicks. The other games did too. The only game that I felt the need to use a torch to see was BB's chalices.
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>>163748479
No, you missed the point. The question was literally, "What did DaS2 do best?" In other words, what does DaS2 do better than the other SoulsBorne games?
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>>163748530
only fashion matters
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>>163748323
>>163748479
>>163748591

A good game = What you get out of it > What you have to put into it

If you care about the things on that list a lot, then you'll get more out of DS2 for your time than DS3. Most people are gonna get more out of DS3 than DS2. But not those things.

Whether or not DS2 is good or bad depends entirely on how much you value things like that over the benefits of DS3: graphics, textures, flashy movesets, lots of lore/fanservice, boss transformations, etc. If you value DS3's benefits (and there are a lot of them) more, then DS3 is going to be worth more of your time than DS2.
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>>163747948
Powerstancing was cool.
The torches would've been interesting if the lighting engine hadn't been gutted.
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>>163748771
Seriously, what was up with lightning in das2? Why is it so hilariously bland compared to even das1?
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>>163748756
>maximum damage control
Another day, another DaS2 babby
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>>163748802
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>>163748802
they were forced to gut the game like a pig to make it run on ps3/360
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>>163742913
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I'm looking for an ultra greatsword / greathammer to carry as a side weapon on my STR / FAI (40/40) character. PvE / PvP

Why is the Cathedral Knight GS considered one of the worst ultras? How good would a Zweihander be instead?
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>>163748802
>>163748854
Too high default brightness setting.
Fun fact, if you follow the instruction to make the dragon disappear it looks fine again and makes torches useful. But most shitposter were too lazy to do that.
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>>163748698
>asks what DS2 did best
>gets a list
>says that he doesn't like those things
>ignores the fact that they are done worse in the other games, which was the point

DS2 has larger explorable areas. Just because you think they are shit areas doesn't change that fact. They are larger. They can be explored more. No amount of rationalization will change that. If you like size more than you care about graphics or miyzaki's level design (which, honestly, can be annoying as fuck at times) then DS2 is going to be better than DS3 for you.

You need to at least try to understand how other people think before you start spouting bullshit about how they should think.

Or in other words:

You're a fucking idiot for thinking your opinion represents the opinion of the entire community. You're a fucking idiot for hating a game for reasons that don't reflect most people's playthrough experience. You're a fucking idiot for going back to the same dumb memes (99 in every stat! lied upon release! DaS2 babby!) instead of defending your actual beliefs with reasonable explanations.

And worst of all, you're a fucking idiot for spreading this shit so much that you end up acting like DS2 molested you as a kid and now you have to go on a personal vendetta against anyone who likes any piece of it.

You're the worst kind of attention whore. Get off the internet, jerk off, go play something other than dark souls.
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>>163749041
and buff with lighting blade when neccesary
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>>163749081
There are a few other little changes. The player glow spreads out a lot wider than in the demo, basically you get a weaker torch around you constantly, so the player will cast light on most of the room they're in. Disable player glow, and most rooms are very dark, even if the default brightness.
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>>163749132
That weight tho. Also lacking the dex for it
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>>163749017
>using yotsuba
>almost 2017
how horrifying
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>>163749097
I asked for a list of what DaS2 did "best." I was given a shit list, and I told you exactly why DaS2 does NOT do the things on that list best.

The areas maybe larger, but that doesn't make the areas better, let alone the best.
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So.. where do miracles come from, and how are they different from sorceries? I mean they say it is from the gods, but they really outlived the gods themselves.
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>>163749227
Player glow was a mistake. It made sense in DeS because you literally had a glowing rock on you, but the other games starting with DaS1 had lanterns/torches making it redundant.
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>>163749367
It's what little magic there's left in the world

Just as there's some fire around
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>>163749269
Only Astora GS is light, I don't know what did you expect from literal slabs of steel. I would recommend Earth Seeker but you seem like a [spoile]pussiboi[/spoiler]
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>>163749367
Which explains why they are so weak in DaS3.
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>>163749097
>community
it was a good post up until this """""word""""".
stopped reading right there.
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>>163742702
What bosses in DS3 are the most in need of jolly help?
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>>163749346
>>163749097

The problem with luci is that he doesn't care about being right or making sense, he just cares about getting (you)s

hating DaS2 is a great way to get attention
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>>163749367
>literally was asked in the last thread

Miracles are just a form of magic, which comes from the power of souls. All the god shit is just a ruse.
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>>163749552
NK, Friede since new boss DLC fun stuff, Space Pope, Final Boss
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>>163749386

See:
>>163742930
>>163742867
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>>163749346
Gutter/Black Gulch, Shaded Woods, No Mans Wharf, Harvest Valley/Earthen Peak, Forest of the Fallen Giants, Huntmans Copse, Shrine of Amana, Tseldora, Shulva and Brume Tower are all pretty good areas.
It doesn't beat DeS were everything but 1-2 was fantstic, but it sure beats DaS1 were everything but Painted World, Catacombs, Sens Fortress and New Londo was pure shit.
Come at me with your dishonest >opinions
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>>163749553
Nah, if I want >(you)s I just post this. Shreking the boss that DaS2 babbies touted as the hardest boss ever always triggers them.

DaS2 is really shit. I would still be able to accept if it did something well. The problem is that it doesn't. Everything that it did well was either nerf, or had a fatal flaw which DaS3 fixed.
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>>163749623
I just recently got into 3 after spending a shitton in 1 and 2. Pope is Pontiff?
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>>163749708
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>>163749470
Zweihander?
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>>163749676
>Shaded Woods
>Harvest Valley/Earthen Peak
>Shrine of Amana
>Tseldora
>pretty good areas
i give no shit about your dispute with that tripfag but please remove yourself from this place immediately
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>>163749802
Trash damage all around.
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>>163749676
>everything but 1-2 was fantastic
I hate Stonefang Tunnel.
>cramped corridors which cause the shit camera to spazz out
>jumping puzzles with floaty DeS controls
>boring as shit enemies like pillbugs
>Dragon God
>eye-searing lava
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Is anyone else experiencing lag and connection issues on PC?
I've run some tests and I don't think it's me. DS use steam servers and they might be overloaded because of the sales, but I don't know for sure.
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Got DaS and DaS2 as stocking fillers for Christmas chaps.

Just killed the Crestfallen Knight after a dozen reloads at the first bonfire after the asylum though. Was that a daft idea?
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>>163750114
He tells you what you're supposed to do in the first half of the game. Don't come here bitching about how shit the game is because you don't know what to do now. You brought it on yourself.
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>>163749702
You ran out of smart things to say about DS2 a year ago. Just stop and leave the rest of this up to the professionals.

anyone can use your same shitty tactics to make an "argument" about why a game is shit.

Let me try:

Dark souls 1 is really shit. If I want (you)s I'll just post a webm of the Low Framerate Wolf. I would still be able to accept it if it did something well, the problem is that it doesn't.

>DS1 poise was fun
except it wasn't, it ruined pvp, hyperarmor makes so much more sense. If you like DS1 poise you're just an invader fag who is playing the game wrong

DS1 had the worst level design, here's an opinion why that you can't argue against because it's just my opinion

DS1 movesets were shit, weapon arts are so much better, even if you don't like weapon arts.

All of DS1's quality doesn't matter when there are too few weapons that are actually worth using

maximum DS1 damage control. Another day, another DS1 babby.

See? I can do it too!

Pull your own dick out of your ass.
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>>163750153

No it was pretty funny, I attacked him out of curiosity but of course dying doesn't reset the game, so I had no choice other than to try to lead him off a cliff.
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>>163750114
You're doing god's work. Taking the initiative to kill crestfallen right away, and being able to pull it off, is a sign you don't need his help to succeed in the game.
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>>163750114
I don't know why you killed him but it wasn't a bad thing either way.
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>>163749846
I think his criteria is "unique or unusual mechanics/gimmics", which would make sense given his picks. Shaded woods had fog and petrified statues, amana had the water, road, and casters, Tseldora had a fucking insane progression path and was deliberately easy to get lost in.

Not sure if that makes those areas good... but they were clearly planned out and interesting.
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>>163750114
He is fairly unimportant, but you should avoid killing NPCs for the most part, else you will screw yourself over. If you want their drops, kill them right before NG+.

>>163750175
>except it wasn't, it ruined pvp, hyperarmor makes so much more sense
This is wrong, because HA only allows for trading hits while poise allows for a whole range of tactics.
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>>163750318
haha holy shit you're still doing it

grow the fuck up.
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>>163750374
>I state a point and actually back it up
>retorts with a shit post and says I am the one that needs to grow up
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God there's so much hostility here. You guys really need to just fuck the shit out of each other and get it over with.
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>>163750307
Tseldora was sure as fuck not planned out in the slightest. That garbage even lacks a way to return to the second bonfire from lowest level, and all actually good vertical locations in fromsoft games like DS1 Catacombs or Great Archives exploit verticality to the fullest.

It's also the only place in franchise where you can get murdered before you reach the vendor unless you cut down myriad of spiders and snipe down obnoxious as shit magic snipers which is extremely irritating.
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Yeah the other knight guy started attacking me for not backing off, and he doesn't seem as keen to jump off a cliff for me. Restart it is.
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>>163750496
>lacks a way to return to the second bonfire from lowest level
warping is part of the game, doofus
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I would kill for a DS1 Remake, DS2 and DS3 are just so bland in comparison
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>>163750496
Getting to her was awful. I pissed away a bunch of souls trying to get to her.

And for the second game in the row, I put so much effort into getting that Dragonhunter Spear I think is so cool looking, just to find my divine claymore was better. So obnoxious.
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>>163750721
Having to warp to travel through an area is shit design. The only ones that are justifiable are the ones after the arc demons, or whatever they were called in DaS2.
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>>163750474
Bend over.
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>people S T I L L reply to tripfags

jesus
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>>163751010
What, no foreplay? Well aren't we eager
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>>163751079
This kills the dsg
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>>163750728
I've love a Demon's Souls remake on the ps4 because you can still play DS1 on pc and buying a ps3 for one game is a huge waste of money given how expensive the console is.
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>>163751193
DeS is unlikely to every happen though. The rights are a fuster cluck.

>>163751179
I have been around longer than /dsg/ and was in the very first one and most of the following ones. Face it, I am a core part of /dsg/.
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>>163751179

Not really.

I unironically think it should be in the OP of every thread on /vg/: ''KEEP IN MIND TO NEVER REPLY TO TRIPFAGS'', since many people seem to forget it.
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>>163750921
>Having to warp to travel through an area is shit design.
You can travel through the area just fine, you just can't see everything in one go (unless you have the resources).
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>>163745179
That is a prime waifu

>>163742867
Does doing this still set you up for a softban?
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>>163751316
RIP.
I'm not buying a dead console for a single game unless I get the whole package under 100$.

>>163750921
Old Ones.

And yes, I agree. Having warp from the start incentivizes shitty level design because devs are like "lol, we can make the player just warp between bonfires". DaS dodges that by not having the warp available at the start and DeS/BB dodge it by making so that you can only warp to and from the Nexus / Hunter's dream and when you're traveling in the game world you want to make use of the shortcuts instead of resting on a bonfire.

In Dark Souls games, resting on the bonfire gives you full flasks and so on so there's no reason to not do it if you can, but in DeS / BB it just basically gives you a loading screen.
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>>163742702
can I change class with CE in DS3?
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How did From fuck up the lighting in DS2 so much?
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>>163752180
it works for me.
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>>163743013
>another AAA title fails to live up to the communitys' expectations when the developer doesnt deliver on all the promises they made

unfortunately this is run of the mill so it doesnt feel like anything. Im a pessimist, so I'm never dissapointed while sometimes being pleasantly surprised
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>>163751521
You can have shitty level design without warping, see Ash Lake. They really missed the opportunity to connect it to Tomb of Giants and Demon Ruins which are shit as well.
I'd rather have a warping system from the getgo, than deal with all this time wasting ever again.
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>>163752374
>see Ash Lake
Intended to be a secret level.

>Tomb of the Giants
Meant to be an "end of the line".

>Demon ruins
Ran out of time. It was a fucking shite level though so I'm not gonna defend it much.
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>almost 2017
>people still upset that some people had fun with DaS2 for some reason
Maybe it's the depression, but I wish I had the energy to get upset about something so asinine.
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>>163743013
DS3 was a good game.
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>>163752536
>putting garbage into the game that ruins the experience is fine as long it is a ''secret'' no matter how obvious
k
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>>163744424
Same. I guess there's less blues running around
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Can someone tell me why I cant see any summon signs at all? Not even being summoed either.
SL65 weapon upgrade at +2.
I've checked 4 different locations and waited there with a summon sign for a good 15 minutes each.
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>>163753243
>SL65 weapon upgrade at +2.
hmm
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>>163752821
Ash Lake isn't really garbage, it's a very atmospheric area and if you haven't tagged the bonfire there it's not like you can't just homeward boner out of there.
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Anyone has that image with a comparison of DS3 healing spells/skills?
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>>163753243
>SL65 weapon upgrade at +2.
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>>163753338
I didn't upgrade much because on my previous character, all summoning stopped after I've upgraded to +10.
So what now? Should I up the SL or the weapon?
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>>163753939
>SL65 +2
>Should I up the SL even more?

I love sales.

By 65 you should probably have a +7 or so weapon. Or said another way, you shouldn't have had a +2 anymore by the time you hit 30.
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Is it worth to keep upgrading this sword I got at the beginning of the game?
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>>163754082
any weapon that obviously isn't terrible is more than capable of carrying you through the game
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>>163754082
No. Longswords in Dark Souls 2 are bad.
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>>163754153
Should I use Richard Rapier?
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>>163754082
If you like the moveset then feel free to do that.
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>>163754076
+2 or +3 is fine if the weapon caps at +5.
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>>163754201
No, rapiers and the Estoc especially are even worse.
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>>163754250
damn it looks really fun to use
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>>163754321
Yep. Them's the breaks.
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>>163754250
What? Craftsman Hammer and Estoc were all I ever needed for DaS2.
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>>163754201
Upgrade any weapon you like swinging with and don't listen to people trying to ruse you.
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>>163753848
What's this? Sounds like something I'd like to see as well.
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>>163754082
I think this >>163754207 is one of the better sets of advice.

I like spears a lot but I simply find that in a lot of scenarios they are an inferior weapon to something with a solid horizontal swing. So I end up with claymores and similar just due to the move set.
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>>163753848
>>163754481
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>>163754818
Many thanks. I'll save it this time.
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>>163754818
That is terrific, thanks!

I'm very new to DS3 what is that "Blessed Weapon" effect in the Regen group? Is it a weapon art or something? I thought the blessed weapons just gave slow regen like in the bottom section listing.
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Gargoyles are literally harder than fume knight.
Multiple bosses will always be harder than singular boss.
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>>163755353
It's a miracle, adds % based physical damage and slow regen.
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>>163755353
It's a miracle that you buff your weapon with.
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>>163755473
>>163755479
Ah ha, thanks!
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>>163755384
nvm just beat them so they're easy now.
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Im being murdered over and over by the demon in iron keep.

Merry frickin christmas.
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>>163756161
Forgot pic
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>>163756161
How? It's one of the easiest fights in the game.
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Why aren't you using a Mace and seeing your enemies driven before you?
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>>163756505
Im terrible at timing the rolls once he flames on, i either delay too much and get hit or roll too soon and get hit, i cant seem to keep up the well timed rolls for long. Just alittle while ago when i almost killed him i waited for him to do something so i could heal and once i used my flask he did some sort of animation cancel and leapt at me and killed me, that was fun :^)
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How does one deal with this shit hole?
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>>163756716
Oh you mean that one . I thought you meant the last boss of the area.
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>>163756840
Run through
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>>163756715
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>>163756840
Fight them one at a time. Just keep looping around the area. Once you are down to one or two left, bait out their attacks near the wood planks to get the loot.
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>>163756840
>run and aggro all fat rapists
>run to the hallway on the right
>pick out the fatties that can't fit through the hallway one by one
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>>163756715
>>163756660

Pt. 2: Blues are still useless edition
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>>163749702
except fume is objectively an overtuned boss

he's not hard mechanically, it's just that you have virtually no room for error when fighting the nigger. the smallest screwup will cost you your life
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>light all the braziers(?)
>go ng+
>none of them are lit
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>>163757293
Not really. He is just a "don't try to block" boss. Nothing more. I only took as much damage as I did because it was time I fought him and I wasn't expecting the bullet hell attack.
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How easy is it to coop with dsg bros in DaS 1? I feel like another playthrough.
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>>163758035
We don't want to play with you
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>>163758035
How much are you willing to pay?
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>>163743378
GSoJ has one and it's really ugly. Almost like it's applied to the wrong sword. Completely ruins my clean cut spellsword build.
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>>163758035

You have to ask and you have to use DSCM if you're on PC.
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>>163758609

What's DSCM?
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>>163757347
>kill all the bosses
>go NG+
>none of them are dead

Wow wtf dark souls, why you gotta do me like that?
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>>163758661
not the same thing kys
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>>163758642

Dark Souls Connection Mod. It makes it easier to connect to other players.
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>>163758715
You're right, having to kill bosses is actually fucking relevant, the entire world got reset and you're crying because it's a bit dark in places.
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>>163756969
Did you vote for Hillary or Donald Trump?
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Finished my firstperson mod run not too long ago and now doing one with tiny mod. Any other mods that make another playthrough worth it?
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Hey, i'm getting destroyed by the twin princes on PC.

Any kind souls out there willing to lend me their hand?

Password: dsg

Bonfire: Grand Archives Bonfire, right after Dragonslayer Armor
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>>163758992
Sent
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what do?
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>>163759084
Learn gesture and agape ring at a reliable sm range.
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>>163759084
Close the game and uninstall it
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>>163759084
Stop playing Dark Souls 2
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>>163759054
i don't see your sign. where is it?
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>>163758872
Kindled bonfires stayed kindled in DS1.
It would be nice to feel like you actually did something by lighting the braziers.
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>>163759084
>playing ds2
fucking piece of shit
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>>163759084
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DORK SOULS 2
LMAO
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>>163759084
Quit playing.
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>>163759084
>he plays ds2
>b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but its incompleteeeee
>bloodborne ruined it!!111!
kys
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Dark Souls II
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>>163759054
REKT. Thanks Nana.
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>fuckboi
DS2 players amirite?
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>>163759795
His face looks like he just ate shit.
Oh wait, he's playing in DS2.
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>>163759243
You did do something, you lit a brazier, it illuminated the area and acted as a guidepost to see where you'd been, optionally you incited the wrath of some faceless invader who gave you neat stuff.
Two of these uses wouldn't work if they stayed lit between cycles.
Kindled bonfires remaining is different since you spent a resource on them, and you still had to reach them again to reap the benefits.
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>>163759743
You're welcome
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>>163754082
Whats the drop rate on the foot soldier sword? looks fucking dope but ive never had it drop
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>>163760369
its 0.00 stop playing this shitty game you loser
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>>163758992
Still struggling? What SL?
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I have linked the flame.
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>>163760516
Im not playing it im talking about it
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>replaying DS1
>that sudden understanding that firedrake actually guards the statue of Firstborn who became their ally
>that subtle connection between New Londo and Painted World
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>all those samefag dasturds
LUL
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>>163760746
Cuck.
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>>163760785
t. headcanon :^)
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>>163760814
>PCuck on damage control
kek
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>>163761042
Fanfic is all there is to Souls ''story''.
>>
is Solaire the best souls husbando?
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>>163761289
No, Seath is
>>
why is this thread filled with /v/edditors all of the sudden?

winter break from high school?
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>>163761434
basically
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>>163761289
No, Tarkus is
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>>163761289
No, Pontiff is
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FINALLY, Now I just need the silver knight armour and the shield.
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>>163761591
Go farm for ears.
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>>163761536
Pontiff is an ugly withered hungry skelly lord
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>>163761712

t. gwyndolin
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>>163761675
I'm so glad I don't need the miracles for my silver knight build.
>>
What are the best arrows for the Millwood Greatbow?
Is there really that big of a difference between them?
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who is best non-levelup girl souls waifu?
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>>163761912
Gwyndolin
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>>163761912
Souls is pretty shit for waifus but I'd say maybe Priscilla?
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Drop me my fucking OLD WHIP YOU FUCKING CROWS

REEEEEEE
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>>163760785
>connection between New Londo and Painted World
?????
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>>163756161
>>163756716
I FUGGIN DONE IT, I feel like ive become a better player because of this cunt boss, i gibbed pursuer right after without taking a hit.
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>>163762080
but the CU had Anastacia
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>>163762014
>boy
>waifu
come out of the closet, anon
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>>163762208
Anastacia doesn't even want to talk to the CU lmao.
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>>163762292
How about you come into the closet with me~?
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>>163762168
Same statue of a woman and child can be encountered in DS1 in both New Londo and Painted World and in DS3's Ariandel, albeit ruined.
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>>163762080
Chosen Undead has Snuggly.
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>>163762454
Lmao you don't even see Snuggly.
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>>163762386
that same statue can also be found in the Undead Parish and in Anor Londo, what's your point? it's a common religious icon for the WoW
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>>163762512
What's your point?
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PLEASE
HELP ME
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>>163762336
CU has Quelana, who is the best teacher waifu in the series
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>>163762604
FREE ME FROM THIS PLACE... BEFORE I GO MAD...

PLEASE... HELP ME... I KNOW I'M GUILTY, BUT I WON'T DO IT AGAIN, I PROMISE! THE DARKNESS, IT FRIGHTENS ME... AND WHAT RISES FROM ITS' VERY DEPTHS!
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>tfw you worry about the future of the Souls series.
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BORN TO FARM
DMB IS A FUCK
Stab Em All 2016
I am mimic man
469351395368 dead silver knights
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>>163762515
>that same statue can also be found in the Undead Parish and in Anor Londo
Nope.
> it's a common religious icon
A common religious icon ain't getting smashed all over the painted world and all paintings of her ain't confiscated and stored in Friede's room.
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>>163762515
It's not the same though. Pay closer attention
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>>163762813
>>163763061
you guys are welcome to post pics to prove your point
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>>163762336
Who the fuck draws these
Where can I find more
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>>163762607
>CU has Quelana
Quelana dumps him when he learns all from her then goes to her sister and dies alongside her.

CU is just hopeless. He's a tool in a game of powerful beings, forever alone and always loses no matter what in the end.
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>>163763097
How about you posting pics of parish and al statues first to prove your point.
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Do we already know what determines if Millwood gets to WA-R1?
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>>163763225
the guy making the original claim is the one who has to prove his point, fucker, you wanna show identical statues in the Painted World and in New Londo that are found nowhere else, post pics or shut up
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anyone else has to end the ds3 process multiple times before the game actually opens up? im tired of that shit
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>>163763143
He gets to fuck wrinkly mouldy Moss Merchant pussy
Dusk too, I guess?
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why does no one in these threads like Rhea?
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>>163763097
I'm on mobile and far away from any PC with dark souls. If no one else has by then, I will post pics in 20 hours. However, you are the one who claimed they are the same, technically we are only obligated to show that the new londo and painted world statues are the same.
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So, replaying DeS since forever, and the royalty starting class has me thinking about DaS3:
>Simple ring: spells cost 50% more to cast, cast speed reduced, but regen magic power slowly
Yea? No?
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>>163763143
yeah but they still fucked, right?
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>>163763409
Astraea knockoff and pretentious little cunt. Bitch acts high and mighty because she was born with a certain name. If she didn't sell some good shit, she'd get her face punched all the way in right after Capra every time
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>>163763409
Because she goes hollow
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>>163763598
I just want the circlet head gear back.
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>>163763108

Setz.
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>>163763598
Either becomes mandatory in place of sage or it's useless and everyone just ringswaps it when they are saf to regen
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>>163763225
>>163763329
holy fucking shit you bunch of spergs and autists unable to spend 2 seconds in google
be glad that i was around the same areas
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>>163762192
What sword is that?
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>>163764049
mastodon greatsword
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>all these mad DS3 cucks because DS2 is a better game
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>>163764257
>DS2 is a better game
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>>163762118
>samus build
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>>163742702
Struggling with 4 kangz as a warrior. How am I supposed to avoid that magic attack that follows you? ad I supposed to run until it goes because that takes forever, do people use shields on it? ( I never use shields)

I know he's doable but it seems to depend on what moves they feel like doing. Him and nito have been the only bosses I've struggled with so far, though I could have went to nito after doing other areas first making him much easier.
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>>163764257
/dsg/ noob here to tell you that both are great but 3 is slightly better.
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>>163764257
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>>163764257
>DaS2fags this delusional
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>>163764407
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>>163764340

I just wish I could match other helmets with the alonne captain armor but I can't because it's fucking purple

Good thing Samus is purple too
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>>163764041
isn't that Velka or something?
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>>163764493
>/dsg/ noob
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>>163764595
Just tried it and it barely helped, exactly the same as when someone recommended it against nit. I don't get the recommendation.

To be fair I haven't upgraded my flask once on this game because I don't know how to. That obviously isn't helping at this stage.
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>>163764257
>DS2/3
>Good
Neither of them should exist
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>>163764802
Yes, most likely.
And if Velka is really connected to New Londo, girl with her is probably Painter as she's a crossbreed with eyes of primordial serpents.

This would also explain how Friede learned about painted world in first place and why she is so jealous of her, to a point of confiscating all paintings of her and stacking them all in this room and destroying all statues of her.
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what is DLC 2 going to be about?
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Why do the dogs teleport
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>>163765187
Angels and Dark Soul of Man probably.
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>>163765096
Talk to the firekeeper below the Firelink Shrine bonfire, using fire keeper souls, and if you've Killed pinwheel, you can kindle bonfires with humanity, giving you 5 estus per kindlement
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>invade crux woods and cathedral at low level
>using a raw build with END gouging
>no one is prepared for when I swing on them like 6 times with a GS

never gets old :^)
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>>163765109
If DaS2 had another name it would be great.
DaS3 is shit no matter what.
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is it possible to do anything with the extra kindle item you get in ds1? i never figured it out
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>>163765176
who keeps popping out all these damn crossbreeds?

also, why would Velka take an interest in Hollows/New Londo/Londor?
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most bosses in ds3 should have had more health. like at least twice as much.
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>>163765461
Maybe she likes them because Hollows, having no mind cannot consciously sin
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Is it easy to find your friends in dark souls 2 and 3 PC? Can you use some sort of program like in DS1 or isn't it needed?
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>>163765310
There's only a cage and it says 'dead' so that means I can't even upgrade it now?

I killed that boss. Are you talking about the boost from 5 flasks to 10 because I've already been doing that. God this game is good but fucking retarded compared to the others.
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>>163765660
it's not needed, in ds3 you can just use a pass, in ds2 you can use a ring i think but it's optional. no mods needed
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>>163765461
>who keeps popping out all these damn crossbreeds?
Powerful beings who live too long and develop kinky fetishes.
>also, why would Velka take an interest in Hollows/New Londo/Londor?
Because she governs all sin which is a domain of humans and Londo/Londor's ideology is aimed at preserving humans above all else, even if they go hollows.
She also seems to be into occult shit in general given that her corvians drop sinner's ears in DS1 and Ariamis has a shitload of occult items like occult ember.
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>>163765709
Did you find a black eye orb on it?
if so it's time to take another visit to anor londo
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>>163765754
>sin is a domain of humans and so she likes Londor because they aim to Make Humanity Great Again
back up and explain your reasoning here

>she's into Occult shit
well yeah that part makes sense, since the Gods have sinned a ton and they all deserve punishment
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>>163765709
if you want to be spoilered, for four kings equip armor with highest poise, your most damaging weapon and 2 hand it and buff it with something, and just tank through all of their hits, you should be able to kill each one before next appears easily. if you didn't absolutely mess up your stat build, you should be able to do this
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>>163765709
Oh, and the second part of your post, you can boost bonfires up to 20 estus now
also
>played ds2/3 before ds1
ishygddt
>>
tfw have some questions to ask /dsg/ but waiting until later in the day so most of the /v/edditors hit their bed time
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what was the Firstborn's name?
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>>163766054
Faraam after Gwyn kicked him out
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>invade someone in Irithyll Dungeon
>open all the cell doors so they get attacked by more monsters
DEVILISH
>>
what's even the point of /dsg/ anymore? why are we even here right now?
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>>163765774
>Did you find a black eye orb on it?
if so it's time to take another visit to anor londo

Please explain

>>163765891
>if you want to be spoilered, for four kings equip armor with highest poise, your most damaging weapon and 2 hand it and buff it with something, and just tank through all of their hits, you should be able to kill each one before next appears easily. if you didn't absolutely mess up your stat build, you should be able to do this

I always level up in a standard health, stamina and strength way, with strength being higher than the other two. I've never had a problem on any of the other souls games doing this but this boss seems ridiculous.

>>163765908
>Oh, and the second part of your post, you can boost bonfires up to 20 estus now
also
>played ds2/3 before ds1
ishygddt

How do I get 20?

Also yeah, It's weird how I ended up playing souls 1 last but it's because I started with bloodborne so I bought souls 2 on the ps4 store straight after and bought ds3 when it was released. I recently bought a ps3 to beat souls 1 and demon souls because I love these games so much. They pretty much the only games I can enjoy anymore. Gaming is dead.
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hey, /Dark Souls General/

rate my Dark Souls 3™ statistics allocation
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>>163766258
i wish there was more monsters in those cells
game desperately needs more stuff for invader to interact with
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>>163766326
>27 vig
>16 end
yeah man it's pretty good
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Does poise actually matter when using a greatsword now? How much poise should I have if it does? I have about 33 on my character now. Is that enough?
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>>163766326

What weapon are you using?
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>>163766313
Go to the huge palace room, right before the O&S boss fight, you should get a message prompting you to use your black eye orb, which you should've found when you examined the cage
And to get 20 estus just kindle the bonfire 3 times
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Did Bandai Namco increase the price of Dark Souls 3 before the Winter Sale? I swear it was $49.99, but now it's $66.49...
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>>163766326
That endurance stat makes me want to vomit. Youre also pretty squishy. You will auto lose to any hyper aggressive opponent who just spams attacks at you unless youre godlike at parries.
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Is there an updated version of this thing YET???
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>>163766326
>60 dexterity
>falling for the 66 strength meme
dear god why
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>>163766518
pretty much anything that isn't a ultra

broadsword has 522 AR, dark sword has 508 AR, LKSS has 487 AR, refined LKLS +9 has 474 AR

for meme purposes, DSGA has 777 AR
AGS has 645 AR
BKUGS has 692 AR
WKGS has 589
RHH has 559 AR
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>>163742702
Is there a good save editor for Ds2 or even better for Ds3, I want this stupid convenant Items but farming is so fucking stupid.
I just want the achievments, I will mostly play offline, but don´t want to get banned.
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Hoooly fuckin shit you guys I managed to get halfway through the old king Allant fight

I'm so happy right now
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>>163767026
>40/40 broadsword has 471 AR
>46 levels for 51 AR
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I'm not convinced
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>>163766542
Ok just done used the orb and got destroyed, can I go back and if so what's the point? is this to upgrade my flask? I'm going back there with 20 flasks, I've never used more than 10 before. This will make a huge difference.
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>>163767324
I'm a retard, just realized I can't heal myself fighting against these guys. This seems impossible.
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>>163767567
Just attack them, they die quickly.
Or use humanities.
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>>163767567
>get poison arrows
>poison both of his comrades then him
>win

also need help for >>163767029
>>
>how to fix this game
melee
make DEX and LCK a single stat
make STR and VIT a single stat
make 60/20 and 20/60 better than 40/40

magic
remove ATT
INT gives slots and FP
FTH gives slots and FP
Make pyro scale with INT or FTH (the highest)
Make pyro cap at 30
Make miracles cap at 50
Make sorceries cap at 50
Remove spell rings and buff damage accordingly
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>>163766326
>lvl 120

who even still keeps this going
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>>163767668
They aren't dying quickly for me at all and they deal good damage. What do I get for beating them?

I'm going to try and beat 4 kangz now that I have 20 flasks. Like I said though I haven't upgraded my flask once and I don't have a fire keeper soul or anything, did I fuck up? Can't be too bad, I'm guessing the games not far from over now anyway. I still have the dlc to do though.
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>>163767864
Most of my runs are lvl120. Sorry they trigger you mate.
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>>163767929
>I haven't upgraded my flask once and I don't have a fire keeper soul or anything, did I fuck up?

yes, you fucked up playing a dark souls game without even being interested in exploring entire areas. just doing that up until 4kings would have you +3 (3 firekeeper souls)
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>>163767929
What weapon are you using?
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>>163767929
You get
A. The firelink shrine bonfire back
B. The ring of Favor
C. Being able to revive the firekeeper
D. Armor of Favor set, go up the elevator in the O&S boss room and go to the end of the balcony
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>>163767190

Sometimes they are convincing, though.
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Why is poison so bad? It can't even be inflicted to a large majority of enemies/bosses. It has probably been my worst playthrough yet.
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>>163767787
>40 dex
>lmao2kat with rouge 100-0 people on sl80
what could go wrong?
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>>163767787
I just wish they would have gone with magic like this:
>pyro and fire
scalaes with faith
>cryogenesis and ice
scales with int

also more ice weapons and ice magic.
>>
>New patch announced
>*Fixed an issue with hosts being able to summon phantoms to their world indefinitely. Now if a phantom dies, the same phantom cannot be resummoned again for 5 minutes or until the host dies.

There, I fixed the invasion system.
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>>163768218
Because poison in DS2 put the Holocaust to shame, they overnerfed it. Such is from's way
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>>163768287
pyromancy is just broken and there's no way around it

only dark souls 2 did it right, but even that barely
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>>163767929
>>163768047
also how the fuck did you miss the undead parish firekeeper soul next to the big black knight?
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>>163767787
>carthus curved now reaches hollow quality territory at SL60-80
>casters are now strictly better than melee builds because they don't need to sacrifice rings slots in exchange for ranged options anymore
glad you're not a game designer
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>>163768329
>5 minutes
Hosts can dodge you for 5 minutes easily if they are half decent and do nothing but dodge.

Just make so when you are trying to summon someone you enter a stance that leaves you vulnerable for a while (for a riposte, for example).
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>>163768515
>5 minutes
jesus christ at that point just crystal home and send an invite to whoever you invaded to some stupid steam group
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>>163768618
I've chased a host down for way more than that.
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>>163768169
You should take some fashion lessons from him.
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>>163768047
>>163768081
>>163768139

I play these games whilst drinking as that's the only time I can be bothered to play games anymore. That said I've completed them all (bar ds1 and demon souls) multiple times with no problems, Souls 1 just isn't as straight forward as the others. I fucking love these games but I've never really felt the need to look into the stats of items etc because my reactions,timing and judgment have always carried me through these games. I'm all for the lore and small details but I've just never needed to look into them that closely in order to have fun and complete them.

All that said on my first and current ds1 run i'm using the (wait for it) long sword lmao, It's been +10 for a while and nothing else has taken my fancy, I always like to use 'normal' sword looking weapons over the huge meme ones. I never used a weapon this basic on the other games before but it's so late in the game now I don't care about changing it.
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>>163768515
>Hosts can dodge you for 5 minutes easily
are you some sort of a fucking shitter (or dedicated ugs user which is the same)?
you can catch literally anyone in this game with any light or medium weapon
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>>163768231
if they get hit by onislayer they deserve it

stomp should also oneshot people

>>163768495
better watch out for all those viable and dangerous spells oh wait
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>>163768360
There's nothing wrong with the way it scales in 3.
A combination of this system while adding physical scaling to all dark spells would be best.
After that, there'd be only some numbers of spells to balance
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>>163768710

The running L1 of the crow quills has HA so I was trying to stack poise for that on that build, lol. Plus I love PvP'ing with the ugliest fashion possible.
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>>163768723
Go explore the bottom part of New Londo and get the Very Large Ember so you can upgrade your weapon to +15.
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>>163768723
tl;dr

My weapon is shit and I fucked up strengthening my flasks and now the 4 kingz are hard. Everything else has been pretty smooth though.
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>>163768723
you should easily be able to kill each king with a couple of swings with a +10 sword without even being hit much, i don't get how you're messing it up. just run up to them with big armor and start spamming r1 with buff and 2handing
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Guys I'm having fun playing DS2
Give me some (You)'s
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>>163768805
>better watch out for all those viable and dangerous spells oh wait
oh hello duelfaggot
guess what, spells work great in random invasions where host is constantly pressed with pve shit trying to facerape him and can't look at you alone
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>>163768910
keep having fun and do not skip the dlc you will be having a blast. best bosses and boss music in the series
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>>163768754
With someone not wanting to attack, there's only 3, maybe 2 rollcatches that you can reliably get them, running r1s from Kats, spears or CS. Everything else is easily dodgable.
Even easier with bloodring, which any host willing to wait 5 minutes will equip.
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>>163768872
You didn't fuck up strengthening your flasks, you just gotta kill lautrec first.
Unless you popped your fire keeper souls, then yes you fucked up
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>>163769028
>there's only 3, maybe 2 rollcatches that you can reliably get them
in other words, you're fucking garbage at the game
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>>163768826
>not cosplaying as Vaati
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>>163768980
>invading in this shitheap of a game

what's wrong with you?
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>>163769085
Those are the good offensive rollcatches. Try showing ones that get people you're chasing that easily.
There are many good roll catches if they want to fight you, but that's not the case here
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>>163768842
Oh shit I got that last time and didn't do anything with it. That should be enough to solve all of my current problems. Cheers.
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>>163769097
Not only i'm invading constantly, i'm having a shitload of fun with it.
What's you gonna do with it, faggot?
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>>163768980

>I-it's actually good in this particular situation!

DS3 fags
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>>163769059
I'm pretty sure I did.

Souls+drink= a blessing and a curse
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>>163769235
>I-it's actually good in this particular situation!

DS2 fags
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>>163769225
you must be having so much fun given your defensive aggression
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>>163769028

I mean hey if you want to go that far we can just make it so phantoms can't be resummoned until the host dies or rests at a bonfire.

Fuck me for trying to be nice/reasonable with gankers I guess.
>>
fuck those fat bitches in the undead settlement
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>>163769180
>Try showing ones that get people you're chasing that easily.
literally anything starting with axes and maces (third 2hr1 is particularly godly for it) and ending with heavier classes like curved gs running attacks
if you can't catch enemies with any non-ultra weapon class you're shit at the game, plain and simple
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>>163769407
I'LL CLEANSE THE BASTARD'S CURSE
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>>163768842
I have the very large ember but my sword is not showing. I obviously can't upgrade it past 10+ this way.
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>>163769093

Literally who?

>>163769225

Second. Invasions are DS3's endgame, it's where you go when duels become too easy and boring and handicapping yourself with shitty weapons doesn't do it for you anymore.
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>>163769334
I just have a distaste for shitposting degenerates.
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>>163769554
did you really not even try to just click the modify equipment button, because you had to do exactly that to upgrade your weapon to +6 and above
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>>163769440
>rolls twice

Nice "rollcatches" lmao
>>
>>163769515
What did she mean by this?
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>>163769372
The vulnerable state solution is much better really. 1-2 minutes where you get a free riposite on a host which likely results in a one hit kill while just forcing coop buddies to stand still for a while(maybe make the animation be interrupted if they got invaded midway through it) is perfect since it hurts gankers a lot and reliably.

>>163769440
>third r1

Again, those are good rollcatches if they are fighting you. Take a host who's only running away and nothing else, you won't hit the 2 first r1s for sure and they'll be so far from you when you start the third swing they won't even need to roll.
Nearly every rollcatch gets nulled when a player is trying to buy time and not engage
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>>163769725
She just wants some love.
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>>163769801
>Nearly every rollcatch gets nulled when a player is trying to buy time and not engage
only if you're shit at the game
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>>163769884
Show webms of you catching someone who's just running away and not panic rolling with them.
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>>163769601
>stalk dung pie at corpse
lmao
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>>163769635
I've honestly never done that, I always just went to reinforce weapon, I also rarely reinforce armor.

Anyway clicking the modify button asks me if I want to undo ascension and that materials to ascension will be lost. I have no idea if I should be clicking ok or not. This probably makes me look like a retard but like I said, I've never needed to get that in depth with these games in order to beat them.
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>>163769993
do you think i waste time on webms, retard?
if you can't rollcatch people even with something as glaives or axes you have no right to talk about anything
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>>163770117
you go to undead parish and give the smith the ember you drunk fuck. then you do exactly the same thing you did to get your weapon to +6 and above. if you forgot how you did that not my fault!
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What the fuck is happening with my archdragon peak.
Pretty sure this is not natural.
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>>163769440

The mace (and I assume other hammer weapons with similar attack animations like the warpick) is fucking insane at rollcatching people, even on the running attacks. The hitbox on the attacks is actually deceptively larger than the weapon's model would have you believe since the patch, and the timing of the attack really fucks with people trying to panic roll away.

I feel like the reason why a lot of people have difficulty with roll catching is they're too predictable and just do the same running attack over and over in the same way. You have to get up close to them first before even attacking a lot of the time if they're just running away constantly.
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>>163770282
DARK AGE

That's a glitch, it'll come back to normal once NK is dead
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>>163770141
Your only argument is saying it's possible and that if you can't you're bad, but everyone agrees there's nearly no rollcatches in 3 and the good ones are very specific.
You can waste people's time endlessly and that's how you have gankers getting endless help or those people timing out arena non stop with rolling + regen if they feel like it
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>>163770282
did you ring the bell
>>
Anyone up for the watchdog's of farron?
Sorta in NG+4 right now, and I need help
Pass is: dsg
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>>163770383
after dlc patch maces became one of my favorite weapon classes, really want dlc 2 to add a pure STR one
godly roll catching thanks to their delayed attacks that propel you forward, godly poise damage, good HA for trading with light weapons, good WAs, they are just such a reliable weapon class
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>>163770383
>not rolling twice
Irrelevant webm.
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>>163770212
I'm here now and I gave him the ember, it wont let me upgrade my sword as it's not showing on the list. I always upgrade my weapons by selecting reinforce weapon. I'm not drunk yet buddy. Is my shit straight sword limited to +10? if not what DA FOK IS GOING ON MAYNE
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>>163770383
>panic rolls

See, that's the exact issue I'm talking about, he rolls when you're not even mid animation when atraffing backwards and only hitting circle when you started an attack would leave him perfectly safe

Also, the worst part is that your catches would've failed if he had bloodring, it's just that strong
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>>163770580

Perseverance on the Mace is fucking insane dude, I just run around popping that all day against gankers and swinging for the fences. High END is a must, I can swing like 5 times after perseverance'ing it's so goddamn good against ganks because it boosts your damage absorption a ton too, not just preventing stagger. Makes me feel like superman.
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>>163770676
click modify and you will find it
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>>163770698

I invade at SL35 and 55, I really don't run into these sorts of problems pretty much ever. There's a reason why I don't invade at meta shitter levels, and it's because the higher up you go the more people you're going to run into who are just straight-up abusing the host advantages to the most cancerous maximum they can. At low-mid levels you get co-opers legit trying to just go through the level most of the time, it's a lot more fun.

I used to do aldrich SL130 invasions too but after a while of running into a ton of hackers and "pro" gank squads you just get to the point where you either have to quit or install CE and start cursing everyone who's being a dick.
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>>163770771
I already did and like I said it asks "undo ascension"

I don't want to click ok because i'm not sure what it even means.
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>>163770557
what do you mean
>watchdogs of farron
the 2 goons before the ladder or abyss watchers?
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>>163770958
switch between the tabs and you should find +11
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>>163770991
All the other tabs are completely blank. All my items are on the far right tab only.
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>>163770698
>>163770954

I mean I guess what I'm saying is yeah, if a host turns into the summoner classes and uses every trick in the book to do nothing but survive and get away while his phantoms fight for him, there isn't a whole lot you can do. But that only happens in high level invasions where people aren't playing the game anymore, they've already beaten everything and got all the shit and have hundreds of hours into the game and they know all of the abuses you can do as a host, and somehow that's fun for them to, let's be real here, basically cheat. Cheating in a way that Miyazaki allowed them to, but cheating nevertheless.

If all invasions were like that I'd agree with you and I'd never invade. But they aren't so I still love it. In fact especially at the levels I invade at those things are incredibly rare, especially seed which is the thing I hate the most in this game (I like to feel like I'm one of the bad guys and seed just completely breaks that immersion for me). They happen so infrequently that I can easily just crystal out when I run into them and invade someone else, no big deal, and if the area is dead during that time of day and I keep invading the same guy I just move to another area for awhile.
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>>163771318
n-nice
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>>163771318
who cares if you can't even trade because lmao no health?
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>>163770954
The problem is that the player skill is lower at those SLs, I legit kill many players by R1 spamming as they don't get that they should simply roll away after two hits and try to R1 against a fast weapon. Lower SL people don't know how to abuse anything in the game, period.
The reason higher SL sucks for fighting aren't ganks, but legit more experiemced players who prolong fights for longer than they should and the difference from the other games is that you can't equally improve your skill to kill them even faster.

This is why people get mad at 3's PvP, the better your opponents get at it, the more boring it becomes, a complete opposite of it in the others.
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>>163771464
I don't trade though,

I never go for truecombos, just R2 pokes and the like, and besides, I don't even have enough poise to trade with anything meaningful anyways
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>>163771318
>prisoner's chain on arena
hahahaha
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>>163770580
the forward lunge on the third R1 is just amazing

two hit combo some shitter and rollcatch them with a followup R1
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>>163770580
>pure str mace
No, the pure stat weapons from ashes of ariandel are unbalanced. With crow quills and millwood battleaxe you're easily surpassing a refined battleaxe or rapier at 40/40 while only investing in half of the points.
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>>163771587
>only poking
>greatsword
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>>163771587
Why don't you be even more of fag and slap on a leo ring you cocksucker?
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I have never used the Moonlight Greatsword in an Souls game, want to try it out. Is going 60 Int, and not using any spells viable at all. Thinking of rolling a Knight, getting the sword then just dropping a Pale tongue and upping my Int.
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>>163770991
It's not there. So now what? someone give me an answer, either you're talking shit or this game is fucking retarded.
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>>163772110
why bother, you might as well use spells if your going for 60 int
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>>163772071
no room desu
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>>163772147
Didn't read all of your conversation, but you select "modify equipment" from Andre's interaction list. Then the first tab should let you upgrade the weapon. You need to give him large ember (allows to upgrade to +10, found in depths) and very large ember (allows +15, found in new londo ruins) After upgrading it through modify equipment you should upgrade it further by reinforce weapon option.
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>>163771480

I generally feel like the numbers thing makes up for it. I'm one skilled guy and they are 3-4 shitters. I put the time into creating my build to maximize it's potential and understand the level layout and mobs involved, I have roughly as much or a bit less healing than a host, seems reasonable to me since I'm usually by myself.

Mainly though the problem is that people try to think of souls PvP like a fighting game similar to tekken or street fighter when it isn't. That's why duels are so fucking boring. Invasions are asymmetrical PvP with a bunch of variables that can change at any given time, with the invader put at a large disadvantage he must overcome, which is what makes it so exciting and makes every invasion different. Invasions aren't a "No Items, Fox Only, Final Destination" sort of thing, they aren't so artificial and instead you ideally have a group of players trying to progress through a level with an invader trying to stop them from progressing. They might outnumber me and be downscaled and shit but I can use the obscuring ring and ambush them when they are in the middle of a big fight, maybe they're on a ledge I can greatbow them off of, who knows, it all depends on the situation at the time. You generally have to improvise. "Pro" gank squads are few and far between and I can just crystal out of those no problem.

I think the main thing I'd like to stress is that most invasions don't involve pro gank squads who are abusing the system to the absolute maximum while also being very high skill players on top of that. It's easy to see how that can become boring pretty quick, so it makes sense they are rare. Most people it's enough to have a spear or WP or straight sword or whatever for catching people trying to run away constantly and it's no problem really. Don't let a few bad apples spoil the bunch, it's unfair to act like ALL invasions are super cancer.
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rate my darkmoon girl
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>>163772110
if you're not going to use any spells its better to stop at 40 int and invest in vit for some more defense and armor. you'll also have some spare points for endurance and with a high level of vit you can wear some poise heavy armor and make some better trades.
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>>163772645
not enough poise/10
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what op weapon can i get to carry me through all of dark souls 3
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I can lvl something 9 times

what should I lvl up?
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>>163772645
>darkmoon
>magic weapon
>crystal catalyst made with heretic sorcery of Seath
>almost full set of the channelers
absolutely pig disgusting
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>>163772495
My sword is already +10 and I gave him the very large ember. Absolutely nowhere is it saying I can upgrade it further. I've already left to fight the 4 kingz again. What the fuck is this boss about? just when i think I'll have a decent chance he spams that gay lock on magic attack and constantly grabs me or does the area blast whilst absolutely refusing to swing his sword. And i'm talking about the first one I encounter. This is up there with my first run at the blood starved beast as far as hardest bosses go. I know I've fucked up in terms of upgrading my flask but fucking hell.
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>>163772901
ATN
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>>163772849
longsword and crest shield
hollowslayer greatsword and grass crest shield
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>>163772901
STR x9
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>>163772901
Vigor
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>>163772927
seath is friends with gwyn tho
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>>163772663
This what I threw together
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>>163773227
only because he helped with dragon extermination
everything that Seath did inside archives is heresy of highest caliber
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>>163773335
yes thats why gwyn gwynevere and gwyndolin allowed him to do it uncontested for ages literally right next to their home
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>>163772936
You either haven't actually given him the very large ember or you're talking to a different blacksmith.
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>>163773242
Looks alright, personally I'd invest some more in endurance but thats me. Ring of steel protection and magic clutch don't really work in pvp though, its pretty strange. Also try scrolling through different classes to see which is most stat efficient.
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>>163772901
VIG and then VIT somewhere further
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>even salt and sanctuary made more interesting magic system that actually forces you to combo different types of magic if you don't want to get fried by backlash
Literally no excuse, Miyazaki.
Improve on BB casting formula for fuck's sake.
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Karla>Fire Keeper>Female Anri>Friede>Irina>Sirris>Rosaria>Painting Gril>Dancer>Yorshka>>>>>>>>>Yuria

Yuria a literal shit.
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>>163772936
Second window in modify equipment after giving him VERY large ember.
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>>163773841
>Sirris
>Anri
>Either of them better than Yuria
Please.
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>>163773776
>bb
>casting

????
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>>163774016
???? yourself, anon.
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>>163773841
>ranking literal copy pasta of Yuria first
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>>163773776
>some shitty indie 2d game gets shoved into every dark souls conversation ever

how much do you get paid
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>>163773531
Yes, Gwyn made him a fucking duke and gave him his own territory.
Given that crystals are connected to curse which is connected to dark and humanity, he sure as fuck would be against ongoing Seath research.
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>>163774162
Just because Miyazaki's faggot ass switched the names around doesnt mean anything. Des Yuria is 10/10 GOAT just like Karla. DS3 Yuria is a shit.
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>>163774181
>gets shoved into every dark souls conversation ever

????
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Why does DaS3 feel so short compared to the other 2?
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>>163774368
because it is literally smaller
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>>163774368
Because they show you where to go.
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>>163774336
DeS Yuria is 11/10, Karla is a shitty copy-pasted character trying to cash in on nostalgia.
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>>163774368
Its got fast gameplay.
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>level up str and vigor pretty equally
>dealing shit damage and being one shot instantly
>find out im level 30 in an area where most people were level 50
how
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>>163774368
its easier and more linear to appeal to redditors

that's why ds1 >ds2 >ds3
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>>163774485
wat gaem
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>>163774553
ds3
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>>163774485

Try firekeeper.
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>>163774485
You reached Pontiff on SL30?
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>>163773885
Nothing shows on any window but the last for me. Fuck it. I'll bulldoze my way through somehow just to get this game over with. I genuinely don't like this game compared to all the others. It just feels like a needlessly annoying version of souls 2 and 3. It's awkward and besides this boss all the others have been easy. Bloodborne is not only better than all of the souls games but it's possibly the best game ever made.

>that design, music, gameplay and lore


Unbeatable.
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>>163773841
Top tier: Firekeeper, Friede, Yuria
High tier: Painter, Rosaria, Daughter of Crystal Kriemhild, Heysel
Mid tier: Sirris, Yorshka, Anri
Low tier: Irina
Literal shit tier: Karla
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>>163772581
I long for 1-2 skilled guys vs 1-2 skilled guys with AI thrown in the mix or big FFAs with skilled people and AI caught in between. Most importantly, where a player being significantly better than the other was frequent even if both were good and it showed when you quickly ended another with combos or chains they didn't know even if they were ehlped by others.

3 has none of that, it's impossible to invade a skilled player and still stand a chance to the point you don't want to, whereas in the other games you went out of your way to invade those guys who you'd want to fight.

The issue with 3 is that there are only 3 people you invade: noobs, pro gankers and duelfags.
The first is boring and easy to kill
The second is nearly impossible to win against if they abuse every single mechanic
The later can be found by going to pontiff's or arena and is boring, win or lose, because they'll show you how little higher skill matters when all players pass a certain threshold
It lacks the element of good player not abusing the system that you invade (and not duel) against, which it was the best sort of invasion and significantly common in the other games.
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>>163763108
they're comfy
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>>163774853
I'm pretty sure you didn't actually pick up very large ember or you're not talking to the right blacksmith, which is Andre in undead parish.
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>>163774853
Did you just say that DaS1 is a "needlessly annoying" version of Souls 2 & 3?
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>>163774858
God tier opinion:Mine
Absolute shit tier opinion: Yours
Please kill yourself.
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>>163774861
Same goes for 1 and 2 though.
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Why is the armor progression so shit in 3? I've been using basically the same shit (Knight/Lothric Knight parts) since High Wall, and I just beat Dancer of the Boreal Valley. Every set I find is shit.
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>>163774861

Me and mobs vs. host and phantoms actually trying to progress through the level is ideal for me famalam, idk what to tell you. And I get that all the time at low to mid levels with a ton of places to invade so I'm pretty damn happy in all honesty.
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>>163742702
Would you guys be down for a PC Fight Club?

I've just cleared the Undead Settlement, I can host at the Halfway Fortress
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>>163774853

This:
>>163775042
>>163773589
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>>163772581
Please stop defending invasions in 3 if you haven't played the other games in the series anon.
You have nothing to compare them to
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I just need the shield and I'll be done farming, woo
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>>163775378
>really like lothric knight armor
>there are literally like 3 helmets in the game that don't leave your neck exposed and fit the color scheme
fuck you miyasucky
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>>163774861
>>163775406

Oh and I really should add: again, this isn't fucking street fighter. I'm not trying to honor duel the host I'm trying to catch groups of people, probably friends, playing the game together and trying to beat it. Then I show up and ambush them and fuck their shit up and they try to defeat me together. Then maybe I run off ahead of the level and they still need to get to the boss so they have to tread lightly since I could be around any corner, but they still have the numbers advantage.

It's not supposed to be fair. The only real problem I have is the resummoning shit, like if I kill your fucking 3-4 phantoms they should stay dead until I'm dead or you're (the host) dead. Most people don't pull that shit though, or switching to a spear is good enough to run them down.
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>>163775506
SL? I should have the Silver Knight shield on one of my alts
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>>163775134
Yes I did, I did play the others before the first and that will probably trigger most people here but it's the truth. I would rather be able to travel from bonfire to bonfire as I please. I would rather click at the fire keeper or bonfire to upgrade simple things like my flask.

The difficulty on the others a perfect. Souls 1 is needlessly hard at times just for the sake of it and non of it comes down to actual gameplay so what's the fucking point and why do people defend it?

I'd rather waste my time retrying a hard boss than running around trying to figure out where to go because I can't even travel using the bonfire properly.

You can't defend that.
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>>163775250
The two examples I gae were of 2 and 1 though.
Gank forest and chasm of the abyss don't have similar fun equivalents in 3.

And there's a biggger gap to be more skilled in those games. Souls PvP isn't deep by any means, but in 3, as long as you can roll and know the very basics of stunlocks, you will lose versus a better player, but you'll last enough time to annoy.

If you're bad in 1 or 2, you get chainsstabbed or caught in a huge combo and die in less than a minute, the end.

>>163775506
Did you manage to get the spear? I'm still farming for mine.
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>>163775628
I wanted to farm it myself, but thanks anyway.
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>>163775483

I'm not comparing them to anything, I'm just talking about how I feel about this game by itself. I never said anything about "invasions in the other souls games".

People want different things, though. From what I've heard the older games were a twinker's paradise where you were effectively godmode against hosts which doesn't sound that fun to me either, just with the odds flipped in the opposite direction.
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>>163775738
>click
Do you... play with mouse?
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>have to go back to firelink shrine to level up in ds3
fucking why
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Just started playing DS3, I see weapons have base damage and another number. So for instance 129+ 11.

What's the additional number?
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>>163775751
I don't know if it's a joke, but in case you don't know, neither the spear now the sword are drops.
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>>163775910
Scaling, its based off of your damage stats.
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>>163775910
stat bonus

weapons get more damage as you increase the stats they scale with - generally speaking it's Strength and Dexterity for most melee weapons
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>>163775910
Scaling from your strength/dex/int/faith/etc. The letters at the bottom of the weapon requirements show the strength of the scaling.
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>>163775738
try not being drunk on fifteen vodkas while playing and you won't miss everything and fuck shit up
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>>163775910
It's scaling. On a weapon's page you can see a letter grade (C,D,E,etc) next to a bunch of your stats. Depending on how high your stat is, and how high the letter is, you get higher scaling damage.
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>>163775738
The point is that you can't say that 1 is a shittier version of 2 & 3 because 1 came first retard. You can travel between bonfires once you get the Lordvessel. 2 & 3 letting you fast travel from the get go was a terrible decision that From made to cater to the casuals like you.
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>>163775781
Twinks don't exist at high SLs in those games.
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>>163775738
>You can't defend that.

It makes the world feel cohesive and authentic, rather than a bunch of totally separate levels. It also allows for more exploration/freedom.

Once the game gets big enough where it might become an inconvenience, you get the lordvessel.
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>>163775965
>>163775979
>>163775980
>>163776074
Awesome, thanks
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>>163775738
>needlessly hard
You're just bad. What is "needlessly hard" in DaS1?
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>>163776215
>The point is that you can't say that 1 is a shittier version of 2 & 3 because 1 came first retard.
>calls someone a retard while spouting nonsense
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Is it worth it to level up FP just for the weapon art of the greatbow? Idk if it's true but reloading feels so much faster with it.
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>>163776403
What is nonsense? You can't say that the original Dark Souls is a shittier version of 2 & 3. Everything that they did changed with 2 is because of 1, as is 2 to 3. The only person here who isn't making sense is you kiddo.
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>>163776364
Not him, but the first half of Anor Londo is needlessly hard before the pillars got patched in. The bonfire in Sen's Fortress is needlessly hidden, especially considering the shortcut you unlock at the end. That tomb with 10 giant skeletons is needlessly hard.
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>>163776625
Yes I can. RE2 is better than RE1. DMC3 is better than DMC1. Uncharted 2 is better than Uncharted 1.
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>>163776774
No said anything about being better, Dark Souls 1 is not a "version" of 2 or 3, it's the original. I don't understand why you're not getting it. I didn't say anything about Dark Souls 1 being better than 2 or 3, although, it is, imo.
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I really wish for the next game they put more interesting stuff and characters in the hub. Majula had gone in the right direction (somewhat), but in 3 Firelink Shrine is awful, with only three relevant NPCs, and only the tower to explore.

In 1, I think Firelink Shrine worked as a hub because it was connected to everything important, even if it didn't have a lot of important things in it. 3 really dropped the ball by disconnecting it from the rest of the world, has From explained why they did this? It's especially frustrating since you have to go there all the time.
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>Does doing this still set you up for a softban?

From what I can tell, no, but ask me again in 2 weeks... supposedly they can delay it.

If you play offline with these graphics settings then you SHOULD be safe, as long as you turn them off before going into the main game.

VAC/Soft bans supposedly work off the game's stored data, not memory. So if you're not modifying save data (spawning items/modifying stats) it shouldn't detect you. But as soon as you make any 'permanent' change to the game data or memory (like adding/removing files, spawning items, etc.) then it will ban you.

The reason why SweetFX or DS2fix would get people banned is because you have to actually add files / dlls to the game directory. I'm not doing that.
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>>163776978
>No said anything about being better, Dark Souls 1 is not a "version" of 2 or 3, it's the original. I don't understand why you're not getting it.
>The point is that you can't say that 1 is a shittier version of 2 & 3 because 1 came first retard.
Your post was not even talking about versions, it was just about it being first.
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>>163775862
>>click
>Do you... play with mouse?

No on the ps3, what am I supposed to say..press lol?

>>163776017
>try not being drunk on fifteen vodkas while playing and you won't miss everything and fuck shit up

Fair point but it wasn't a problem on the other games

>>163776235

>It makes the world feel cohesive and authentic, rather than a bunch of totally separate levels. It also allows for more exploration/freedom.

Fair point and I see what you mean. It obviously doesn't help that I played all the others before ds1. That said what do you all think of bloodborne? I know nothing of the lore of the souls games but from what I know so far from bloodborne it's pretty interesting. I guess it's a matter of taste but although I love the bleak 'dark' vibe to the souls games they just don't compare to bloodborne at all. I also prefer the faster movement of the enemies. I fucking hate modern games and bloodborne is my favorite game of all time.
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>>163742702

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wCwTdaGyo
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>>163776774
I'm the guy he originally replied to and I have to disagree with you here. You actually used the reference that I always use.

Resident evil 1 is a better game than resident evil 2 but 2 is a bit more accessible and fun. On that note I have to agree with what he was saying to me, although I don't find the actual bosses harder on souls 1 compared to the others, his point still stands.
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Finally gonna play the DLC for ds3. Is there anything I specifically need to do to get that guy to appear in the deep cathedral? Like If I make a new character will it already be an optional area to head to?
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Sister Friede is destroying me on PC.

Bonfire: Ariandel Chapel

Password: dsg

Please, i need a hero...
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>>163778042

I'm coming, Anon.
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>>163777550
There's definitely something different comparing DS1 and DS2 bosses, and it comes down to a few coding things.

DS1 bosses have more tracking attacks (most of their attacks track) and larger hitboxes/splash damage. Their hitboxes also tend to stay out longer. This is partially because their hitboxes are sort of vaguely shaped.

DS2 bosses have tighter hitboxes (especially those with swords) and the hitboxes stay out shorter. Tracking attacks are also a lot less common. It makes sense that they would do this, since agility was added to the game and now smaller/shorter hitboxes could still clip players at low agility.

But the lack of tracking and the smaller hitboxes / less AoE in general made the bosses seem a lot more "dumb" in DS2 because you could sidestep or circle around them and not get hit at all. The pursuer is a notorious example. He has no tracking on his attacks except for the cursed sword stab and the third hit of his spinning sword combo. The lost sinner's sword hitbox is so skinny you can do the same.

The reason the DS2 DLC bosses are so good is because most of their attacks have splash damage, an area of effect, or an aura around their weapons that will hit you also, and MOST of their attacks are tracking instead of just a few.

It seems like a clash of "We want boss hitboxes to be tighter / closer to the weapon they're using" and "We want Agility to be an important stat, so let's make hitboxes last less time".

The Asylum demon seems much smarter than most DS2 bosses because every attack of his has a huge splash damage range, forcing you to roll even when you don't think the attack will directly hit you. In DS2, he would only do damage where the actual hammer of his directly hit, which would mean you could much more easily strafe around him.
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>>163778042
Incredible boss. She took me a while but that might be my favorite boss of all time.
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r8 my new invasion build.
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>>163778617
also i don't have the twink rings plz no bully
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Do we have any idea of what the second DLC will be?

I hope it's something new, the game already has enough callbacks to 1. Though I don't know enough about the lore to speculate.
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>>163777101
Well from your post it's super evident that you didn't play Bloodborne or Demon's Souls.

I think the Firelink Nexus in 3 was actually pretty good in terms of area design but the way Hunter's Dream works in BB/Nexus works in Demon's Souls is perfect :
You use the hub as a staging area where you prepare your raids, level up manage your storage/inventory and so on, but the way warping between levels works is that instead of warping from whereever to whereever, you always warp TO or FROM the Nexus/Dream to levels, and when you're in the levels there's more incentive to use the physical shortcuts within levels instead of warping everywhere instantly.

DeS had too much of a disconnected world but great hub mechanics, DaS1 and BB perfected the hub/world design.
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>>163778740
People still reaching for the Angels/Londor setting. I doubt it.
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>>163778338
I agree. Even though I didn't struggle with most of the bosses I did feel that their attacks had a 'lingering' affect and I didn't understand why at first. I put it down to the game play being 'sluggish' and the fact that I was playing ds1 on the ps3 compared to all the others which had a stable 30fps on the ps4 and ds2 was 60fps.

I can see why you would call me a pleb for my original opinion because I would say the same about someone who says that res 2 is better than res 1 (even though I have replayed 2 more)

Clearly the souls games after 1 are more accessible but when it comes to these games I care about the gameplay first and the design/music/lore second.
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>>163778296
Thank you my nigga
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>>163778857
I haven't played BB, but I've played a decent amount of DeS. The Nexus somehow worked better, I don't know exactly what it is. Firelink Shrine feels more empty, you only need to traverse the main corridor most of the time. In the Nexus you had to go to different tablets for each level, which worked better, as well as having a more itneresting design.
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>>163778740
There's a new dlc coming for souls 3?
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>>163777851
The guy appears whenever you reach the Cleansing Chapel bonfire and reload the area, I think. IIRC you don't even need to kill the Deacons.

>>163775906
Because muh Maiden In Black. Seriously I don't mind it though since it makes the player do more strategic choices like do I go level up or keep going and risk losing the souls.
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Literally how are you supposed to find this?
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>>163779110
Dream works like the Nexus and lets you warp into levels.

But Firelink Nexus of DS3 was imo fantastic from the scenery porn perspective alone and you could actually go outside and explore the area, something I would've killed for if you could do that in the Nexus.

DS3 should've done the overworld / warping the way BB does it and it would've incentivized a more connected world design with more emphasis on shortcuts instead of warping.
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Why am I being invaded after killing all bosses in the DLC? I can see summon signs, too.
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>>163778874
That would be great. I hope it doesn't feel as disconnected as DS2's DLC, and fits in more naturally like 1's and Ariandel.
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>>163779739
There's another secret boss
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>>163779292
By exploring you numbnuts?
As much as I like saying DS2's level design was poor, if you miss her it's 100% your fault.
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Anyone fancy a PC FC? Hosting at the pre deacons area in the CotD (where all the pews are, see picture).
Pass dsg as always.
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>>163779829
I already killed Friede and the Crabs, I thought there were only 2?
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>>163778338
Also, to be fair, DS2 had the right /idea/ in making hitboxes closer to the actual weapon size, and making agility important.

But they should have done one OR the other, but never both. Most attacks they did both on.

If each boss in DS2 had a health mix of wide AoE attacks that had long-lasting hitboxes, and every slash/stab had very, very good tracking, they would be far more difficult and more "smart" than DS1 bosses.

Also, by tracking I mean the hitbox follows you while you roll, so if you come out of the roll while still in range, you still get hit. In DS2 most attacks do not follow you while you roll, but in DS1 there were quite a few. Having a larger hitbox / hitbox that stays out longer accomplishes the same thing.

On the other hand, it makes rolling feel more like an actual dodge in DS2, when in DS1 it was like an invincibility barrier since you often found yourself rolling through large splash damage.

I'd fix DS2 by making counter damage moveset specific instead of weapon specific, increasing the effect of scaling (basically 1.5x all the scaling numbers). Make Dex scaling equal on strength scaling unless the weapon has poison or bleed. Lower the poise destruction of all weapons in half and reduce the 2H bonus too. Darken the whole game with higher contrast shadows, and then make the light circle around the player really weak except when using a torch. Make most of the boss's attacks track through rolling. Get rid of the repeated textures in some of the wider, flatter areas (FFG especially).
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If you R1 spam with curved swords in the dueling arena you are a fucking nigger and don't deserve to have access to modern technology.
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>>163778971
I think most people thought DS2 was sluggish or the bosses were dumb, but it comes down to a few mechanical decisions.

That doesn't make your opinion wrong though, From fucked up. No question about it.

DS2 gameplay doesn't become good until NG+ or against other players, that's the real problem. I'm in the same boat, I remember 1 and love it a lot but I replay DS2 far more.
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>>163779292

Compared to the pants on head retarded missable npc quest things in DkS3, this one is perfectly plausible
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DS2:Sotfs would be an objectively better game without bonfire warping.

Don't even argue this, just read this post and nod to agree
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>>163780554
Base DS2 needed bonfire warping a lot more, but SOTFS has branches and

I agree, but only with the caveat that you can still warp to any bonfire that you have burned an ascetic at, and any primal bonfires. Also, allow leveling up at any bonfire.

The problem is that making all bonfires non warpable clashes with the benefits of ascetics and leveling up mechanics.
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>>163780887
*SOTFS has branches and more ascetics.
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>>163775506
that's one swole silver knight
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>>163780554
Just like in DeS I enjoyed doing areas in whatever order without being stuck for hours.
Each to their own I guess.
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>>163780887
>>163781004
>only able to warp to majula from any bonfire and to bonfires with ascetics burned at

sounds pretty cool
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>that alternative "End of Fire" ending

what the FUCK
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>>163781474
brutal as fuck
darkest shit in the series for sure
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>dude by sotfs, it's much better
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>>163781759
what the fuck are you expecting, the door to start talking to you and tell you what to do?
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I really love first areas. Boletaria is great, Undead Burg is good, Forest of Fallen giants is fun, and High Wall of Lothric is nice, though it could have been better.

Boletaria is still vastly superior, and I wish Dark Souls had something like it.
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>>163781759
Go hollow and hope you didn't needlessly kill or ignore a few pretty NPCs.

If you don't want to go hollow, then don't worry about the door.
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>>163782068
Forgot to mention, Undead Parish is still the best area, followed by Sen's Fortress.
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>>163782068
That's because the first areas are usually the ones they design and have the most effort put in. It's really obvious that From develops souls games from start to finish.
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>>163781591
Stepping on Madien in Black's face is darker.
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>>163782275
that's why forest of the fallen giants look like it's extracted from some tech demo game of ps2.

it looks like absolute fucking shit and plays like shit. the only shitty area in ds2.
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Why does Bloodborne look better than Dark Souls 3?
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>>163782474
microsoft
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>>163780554
>>163780887
>>163781004
Scholar of the first SOTFSOTFSOTFS... for ps4 pro with this implemented when?
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>>163745179
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>>163782428
I think it looks bad until you reach the first bonfire. I hate it before that, but after, it's really good beyond the awful fire.

The grass texture looks indeed horrendous, but in Road of Sacrifices in 3 it looks the same, so it's a design choice. The regular undead soldiers also look awful, that armor is dumb.
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>>163782474
blame the need to optimize it for shitbox 1
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>>163782572
harambe is back?
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>>163782474
Because sub 30 fps offer a nice cinematic experience.
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>>163782275
They've said they design the Tutorial area last, Asylum was the final area completed for DaS.
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>>163782474
Because DELETE THIS
art style
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>>163782532
>>163782627

is it possible to turn off the forced shitbox optimizations on PC? the pop-in and model LOD changes are ridiculous
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How would you feel with a non-post-apocalyptic Souls game? I don't think it could work, but it's a nice thought.
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>>163782474
Because Miyazaki actually gave a fuck about Bloodborne and didn't make it just because he had contractual obligations like DS2/3
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Come to our post christmas FC people. We already have a nice full FC but any new fighters are welcome.

>>163779947
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>>163781759
>muh flynn ring

get good
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>>163782756
no
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>>163782809
>contractual obligations

proof and source?
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>>163758989
Darkest Souls is an option.
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have we got any hint what FROM is working on now that ds3 and bb earned them several hundred millions?
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>>163782428
I wasn't talking graphically, I mean game design wise. Graphics aren't something that is put into design until long after the levels are finished.
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>>163781048
That's what happens when you only use a greatbow.
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>>163783038
Nintendo Switch re-release of Dark Souls 3, most likely with a PTDE/Scholar edition for all platforms
High possibility of the entire Dark Souls series coming to Switch
New Armored Core
Two new IPs, unknown if they're part of the Switch partnership
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>>163783038
Confirmed: They were bought out by Kadokawa, Miyazaki was promoted to company president. DS3 DLC is the first thing they did after his promotion.


They are currently working on the DS3 DLC, and future games.

The next 3 games will be developed simultaneously using the larger staff they have now, and are confirmed to be:
>A "Dark Fantasy" game using the dark souls formula, but in a new franchise.
>An Armored Core "Reboot" that is in early concept phase
>Something "totally different" with no other details given.

They are a confirmed developer for:
>Nintendo Switch
>PSVR

There is an unconfirmed rumor that they are working on:
>Portable Dark Souls 1/2 for Nintendo Switch
>Dark Souls 1 remaster
>VR Armored Core / Steel Batallion spiritual successor

Unconfirmed: They have fired or promoted most of the DS1 and DS2 development staff, keeping only the major players, and DS3 was devleoped with ~100 new employees in the company.
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>>163783385
>switch
how are they going to run even ds1 on that
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>>163783038
>There are several titles that we are currently working on, and those are not just just dark fantasy or mecha games. Some of those are dark fantasy, some could involve mecha… But one new title that we’ve been working on will probably comply with the expectations of the fans in a straightforward manner.

>A last thing is that another title will probably be a little bit weird. When we’ll actually announce that title, probably the fans will react like “oh, what the hell is this game that Miyazaki has created?”

Also

>I asked if they were making a new Armored Core to which he replied, “We are making a new Armored Core. We are still in the early stages of development.” I asked how early, and Miyazaki replied, “I can’t talk about how early it is.”

Also, also

>According to a translation of the interview, one of these titles is a dark fantasy action role-playing game similar to Dark Souls but from a "different angle".

So basically, "Dark Souls 4, but Bamco can go fuck themselves", a new Armored Core, and "something weird". With any luck, Armored Core will finally be coming to PC.
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>>163783627
>A "Dark Fantasy" game using the dark souls formula, but in a new franchise.
They better not rush it this time.
Souls had the potential to be the best hack and slash/rpg ever but they ruined it.
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>>163783385
>>163783627
>>163783751

people actually want/care about armored core still?
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>>163783726
Poorly and at 720p 30fps.

It's very likely the switch is using the Nvidia Shield processor and GPU, maybe turned up a bit with a larger battery.
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>>163783912
Yes.
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>>163783912
Armored Core Verdict day came in out 2013 and was a solid 7/10 game.

Also, Armored Core has no competition in the market right now. The only competition were a few recent gundam games, which stole most of the mechanics from AC, and aren't released outside of Japan. And are also owned by Bamco.

So yeah, Armored Core has been going strong. There's still community tournaments and the online is still active in Japan even 3 years later.

The only reason AC was sidelined was because Dark Souls 1 delayed ACV from 2010 to 2012, giving us a 4 year delay between games. Dark Souls 3 did the same, we were due for a 2016 game.

With the larger staff they have now, they can actually develop both AC and DS games at the same time.
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So I decided to kill Lautrec at Firelink to get the fapping ring early... and Lautrec decided to back up, do a sideways roll and soduko over the cliff.

This is where his corpse is.

Is my fap gone for this playthrough?
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>>163784302
Try reloading and his stuff should be there

You can get a second FaP ring by trading the Xanthous Crown with the Crow
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>>163784164
>Armored Core 2 was my first souls game

ooof, that hit me in the heart.

Armored Core 2 is still one of their best selling games in history. If you adjust for the growth of the gaming industry and inflation, AC2 would have sold ~2m copies today. That's how popular it was.
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>>163784368

Reloading worked, thanks. Not had that happen before so was a bit anxious I might fuck it up.
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>>163783946
who the fuck would actually buy this gimmick shit nintendo sells and play like this
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>>163784302
Whenever that happens you just quit/load and the loot spawns where they were before. Kicking him off the cliff is the quick kill.
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>>163783860
We have Bamco to thank for that. Now that From is owned by Kadokawa, they may hit a second renaissance. Our new rooster overlords are responsible for having published some pretty notable names in manga, including Cowboy Bebop, Haruhi, and Evangelion, so they seem to be a pretty stand up company.

It seems like they're wanting to move in on game publishing, which they've made a few forays into in the past, and pinning From Software as the crown jewel of their video games branch is their major power play. We can only hope that they see it as being in their best interests to give From time to breathe and publish some truly amazing games rather than turning them into a studio mill and churning out yearly titles.
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>>163784525
>My kid wants a gaming laptop, they're $1000+
>Why can't he just settle for a tablet and apple store apps?
>A switch is cheap and portable. I'll get him that instead. Plus look how cute it looks

Nintendo sells games to people who stopped playing games when the PS1 came out, to buy their kids. Otherwise, they're just dickriding Pokemon/Zelda/Mario.
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>>163783726
They showed it running Skyrim, so it should be able to handle DaS1.
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>blighttown
jesus christ
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>>163784626
>We have Bamco to thank for that. Now that From is owned by Kadokawa, they may hit a second renaissance.

HAHAHA.... no.

Bamco never owned From. They *published* the games, which means funding, translation, deadlines, DLC, marketing, packaging, shipping, running servers, customer service, community outreach, and some producing. And honestly, Bamco is a lot better than Sega/Atlus, Ubisoft or Agetec was.

But Sony is far better because they didn't just publish, but also brought in their dev team to work with From on BB.

Kadokawa is not an international games publisher. They do not have a distribution network, they do not have a localization team. From is still going to have to rely on Sony or Bamco for future games, or some other publisher. Kadokawa might help ease the budget constraints by giving them more capital to leverage.
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>>163784945
>Sony
Good budgets, great production, adds dev experience.... PS4 exclusive.

>Bandai
Shit budgets, tight deadlines, memetastic advertising, horrible management, cut content, deceptive marketing, half-assed translations and port jobs. Multiplatform release.

Great, we're fucked.
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>>163784945
>Bamco never owned From. They *published* the games, which means funding, translation, deadlines
>deadlines

See, you'll notice the part where we were talking about the previous games in the series having been rushed. You might recall that Bamco axed several months of development time off DaS1 by pushing up the deadline, so the publishers being in charge of setting the dates is a pretty goshdarn relevant point in the discussion.
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>>163784945
>>163785163
It could very well end up like with DeS, where Sony was the publisher and Bamco/Atlus just distributed it. Kadokawa will be publishing domestically and then having a second studio do the international distribution, but that means it's still Kadokawa getting to control the deadlines.
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>>163782572

Your character and my character should team up and gank people together.
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>>163782474
It barely does.
I love the game but people saying it looks so much better than DS3 need to get their eyes checked.

The only reason BB looks better than DS3 is because a lot of areas in BB are covered by darkness and BB environments are actually dark which makes the torch and so on look fucking cool when you move and cast shadows around.

The "omigowd, BB looks so much better than DS3!" is a gross lie which is only perpetuated by people who haven't actually played DS3 on a non-toaster PC or people who watched a high-res video of someone play BB but not playing it themselves.
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>>163785525
If only we could see Bloodborne at 2560x1440 60fps with chromatic aberration off.
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>>163785501
WE
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>>163785191
Yeah, I definitely agree about that. But being owned by kadokawa doesn't exonerate them from that influence. That's my point. They still have to rely on Bamco or Sony.

Even though they could publish domestically and find some other distributor, I doubt they can survive without the marketing and localization work that Sony/Bamco can bring, it's not profitable to design games for just one region anymore.
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>>163784719
>"Let's buy our 8-10yo son/daughter a switch, and fucking dark souls with it"

yeah brilliant.
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Does anyone know if I can Ascetic my Rat covenant enemies back after they've been killed too many times?
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>>163785652
As much I'd love to laugh at mustards and never ever post because I'm an asshole like that, Bloodborne port on pc a year or two from now would be great because we could get better fps and good resolution without bowing down to Sony jewing us with the PSpro.

Not to mention getting a revitalized online play and a bigger community for the game overall.

It'll never happen because Sony but we can always dream.

>>163784945
>>163785163
Japan Studio guys are 10/10. They were probably the reason why DeS and BB have such an unique atmosphere and feel to them. I would still say DaS is better than DeS by virtue of mechanics alone but DeS had this unexplainable, otherworldly atmosphere. The DaS2 trailers made me think we were getting some of that DeS magic again but nope.
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>>163786324

>BB PC release

I can only imagine the intense shithurricane that would ensue if that were to ever happen.
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>>163786324
>Not to mention getting a revitalized online play

But people just kill the bell maidens ez pz, being on PC wouldn't change that. BB is notorious for being the most hand-holdy game in the soulsborne series.
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>6 million blue balls flying around in fc because everyone and their grandma brought sorc characters
gee sure is fun just spamming rolls
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>>163786398
I would feel bad about BB being torn apart and shat upon by cheaters and hackers but it would be amusing to see /bbg/ tear themselves part in shitfury.

>>163786520
The invasion mechanics are shit but I prefer the PvE being tough because if you take DeS the pvp is dead. The only way to get pvp in DeS pretty much is either to go lmao meta level duels in 4-1 or streamsniping streamers.

People knowing too much about the World Tendency mechanic is something I hate because it drove people into playing offline or in Phantom form because they really need that Dragon Bone Smasher on their DEX/INT character.
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Is it just me or are those teleporting dogs at pontiff too op?

They deal massive damage and aggressively swarm you

Compared to the fucking wolves in the dlc anyways
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>>163787000
I'll never get how people can use magic builds. I have used some pyromancy on a melee character, but it was only fun for luring enemies in the end.
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>>163787000
>not casting gmb
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>>163787164
just use a shield
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Around what part of the game should I do the Dark Souls 3 DLC not to be overleveled? What about the optional areas?
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>>163787292

>shield literally makes them stagger/bounce off for a free hit

Thanks. At this point I don't care anymore
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>>163787164
You mean the Berserk beasts or the man-faced dogs? The former are minibosses and the latter are completely fine as regular enemies.
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>>163787164
Attune fire surge and stop being a shitter
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>>163787450
>being so stupid as to overlook the blocking mechanic in favor of trying to ninja away
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Beat Friede last night, kind of an annoying fight, as cool as it is. It's like Nameless King except you have to fight through 2 dumb phases to get to the real fight. I started with over 400 embers and now I'm down to less than a hundred.
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is it just me or is the hitbox on the mace now just fucking insane?
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>>163787470

I was talking about the latter the small dogs. On ng maxed two hits and I'm done and they attack quickly consistently. 3 came at me at once and I couldn't handle it

>>163787532

I don't like using shields but these things are unfair
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>>163787358
70-85 seems like a decent SL.
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How do you beat the Dancer right after you beat Vordt?
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>>163787278
next time i'll cast vow of silence i'm pretty sure that'll show those magic cunts!!
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>>163787450
>>163787532
Shields are for shitters who can't git gud.
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>>163787667
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>>163787564
>ng maxed
Balance is no longer even a consideration after the first NG+ cycle.
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>>163787734

>Velka's Rapier

I miss it, /dsg/.
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I just put my finger on what felt missing with DS3's bosses. For the most part they feel samey. Most boss fights are humanoid, with most being fast moving and/or infused blade wielders, sometimes having more than one blade. The other bosses feel boring, so they don't stand out.

I like a lot of them, but I miss the variety of the other games.
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>>163787702

artifacts.jpeg
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>>163787642

There's actually a pretty common strategy used by most people to do the "Dancer skip". I don't want to spoil anything about the game so to beat Dancer early you just have to __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________GIT GUD FAGGOT LUL__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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>>163787019
>I would feel bad about BB being torn apart and shat upon by cheaters and hackers but it would be amusing to see /bbg/ tear themselves part in shitfury.

I bet even /bbg/ would be happy to see Zullie get her hands on it.
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I haven't been in the Souls community since I finished the DLC, but was there ANY news or just tidbit on the second DLC?
A simple yes or no suffices.
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>>163787559
Probably, it hits much further now with the patch making players step forward more.
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>>163788171
no
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Why cant the blue flame be in DS3? The heysel pick is gay.
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>>163787642

Abuse bleed. Acquire a Bandit's Knife or something else that hits fast and inflicts bleed. Better practice dodging her hits, though. It'll still take a little bit to kill her that early even with bleed.
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>>163787552
>I started with over 400 embers and now I'm down to less than a hundred.
are you saying it took you over 300 tries to kill the boss
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>>163788178
yeah but besides that it has this weird arc where you hit people that are like, to the back and left or to the back and right of you, and the phantom range is crazy like it hits people that are a foot in front of where the strike lands
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>>163787889
There's nothing wrong with humanoid bosses but I feel like DaS 3 plays it pretty conservatively on the fantasy front especially given it came after Bloodborne.

Humanoid bosses in DaS3 are great but it would be cool see something like the Pontiff Beast as a boss, give me a normal animal or a fantasy animal but corrupted to all hell.

Vordt/Gundyr were great humanoid examples of what would be great to see on part of animal bosses.
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>>163787889
>Samey
I really can't imagine how, ds3 has a lot of different bosses. Especially compared to 1 and 2.
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>>163788370
The pick badly needs a new moveset. *Literally* every single swing is a slow overhead. No combos, no horizontals, nothing. Same attack every time.
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is this the next DLC or just a graphical artifact?
although i have a hard time believing it's a graphical artifact from just making a completely black skybox. it's not hard to do it right. seems intentional
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>>163788521
>enb streams the ds3 dlc
>holy fuck 11 hours
>4 / 5 hours stuck on Friede
>doesn't even clear it
>takes another 2 hour stream to clear it
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>>163788521
Yeah, it took a long, long time. I've been working on it on and off for the past 3 weeks
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>>163787000
are you salty, boy?
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>>163788853
That's the moon you nigga
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>>163787000
Is that Ciaran cosplayer lagging pretty badly for me or everyone?
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>>163787552

Dude that's too much time investment. The first stage is like a preview. The last stage is literally waiting the phase since you just run away until you get a clean hit.

Then again what do I know. I just made it so that I locked my health but she still staggered me so I knew when I missed a dodge. So I didn't do it for real until I could read her third stage like a book after 30 minutes and loaded up my save which I didn't use CE on and done.

Ain't no one got time to do 2 filler stages to learn a few moves on the third. I was on ng max so I'm not getting one-two shotted for hours either.
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>>163788853
You'll probably warp into the DLC through an NPC like with this DLC.
I guess props to From that they didn't just make it a warp option from the Firelink bonfire lol.
Maybe we'll access the next dlc by getting sucked into the painter girl's painting.
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>>163789082

*second stage
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Thanks for the gifts!
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>>163789073

No.
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>>163789353
No problem. I had them left over from my Christmas FC since nobody bring STR build.
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>enemies just walking away or attacking in the middle of getting stunlocked
>if you get hit once you are in the combo until the ai lets you out or you die
god ds3 feels so shit compared to the other games
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>>163788871
>>163788874
wew i got her on 2nd try, but i might have just gotten lucky

i guess i shouldn't brag though because it took me several dozen tries to get pontiff sulyvahn and now i'm stuck on nameless king, can't even get him past 1/7 health in 2nd phase, and i think i'm overleveled even
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>>163788309
Ok, thanks.
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>>163789483
Maybe you shouldn't overcommit to your combos and retreat occasionally instead of trying to R1mash everything mindlessly.
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>>163789483
It feels like enemies in the DLC can only be staggered twice then they get super armor and will attack you through the next hit. I guess From didn't want everything to be stunlocked to death like in the base game but it feels like a sloppy solution
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>>163789483
>>if you get hit once you are in the combo until the ai lets you out or you die
only example of this i remember is the final boss 2nd (i think) phase combo, i don't think you're ever stunlocked for more than one or two hits?
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>>163789838

I think heavier ultra greatswords/ultra weapons have greater stagger power but they drain stamina like a bitch so you're not getting more than 3 hits usually
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>>163789838
the DLC is bordering on das2 levels of bullshit
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>>163789850
Maybe he got raped by the Corvians?
They have a pretty dangerous facerape combo.
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>>163789124

How would people who didn't buy the first DLC enter then?
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>>163789454
Weird, everyone else is fine for me but Ciaran seems to skip around like Goku or some shit.
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>>163790002
oh right those are super annoying too
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FC still going on?
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>>163790389
yes
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>>163790017
Good point lol.

>>163790152
Overall though I think that the enemies in DS3 are more than fair.
Although the rapier corvian knights are tough as fuck.
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>>163790389
for better or worse yes
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>start playing DS3 after Bloodborn
>dodging is far more unintuitive
>enemies simply don't react as well
>bosses pull bullshit on pad woth Ebrietas' charge attack basically every battle
did I make a mistake in getting this game, or does it suddenly get a lot better in the Undead Settlement like how Central Yharnam is ass
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>yfw the second DLC is the entirety of Lordran
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>>163790952
>sonyggers
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>>163791045
but Lothric is Lordran you doofos
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>>163791045
With Anor Londo being in the game, doesn't this mean that Lothric is just Lordran much further into the future?

I'd also rather they did something new, the new areas in 3 are MUCH better than the recycled ones.
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>>163791302
no Lothric is just polluted with a bunch of new places that got dragged there by "convolution"
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>>163791253
No it isn't. Lothric is where 'the transient lands of the Lords of Cinder converge', meaning parts of Lordran shift in and out
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>>163790952
git gud
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>>163791045
That's funny because DS3 takes place basically in the area that is most of Lordran + some other areas including Thorolund and Drangleic.

These highways look very very much like the highway to Lothric and what we witness in DS3 is a trip through the ruins of old Lordran mixed with locations like Thorolund Cathedral or the DS2 Dragon Shrine because the world is coming together so that Ashen Ones can properly link the fire.
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>>163791432
>>163791415
But what would we even revisit? Anything that could be fun lore-wise is already in the game, or something similar to it.
>>
Reminder to join the Discord for FC updates!
https://discord.gg/WfmuTSq
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>>163791579
You go back in time to stop the chosen undead from linking the fire and starting the cycle
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>>163790952
>like how Central Yharnam is ass
Shit taste, off yourself etc.

And I don't know how you can possible have trouble with Vordt.
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>>163791632
>discord
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>>163791632
Shut up Vincent
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>>163791632
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>>163791632
>discord
I have literally never been to a discord where I didn't immediately quit in disgust.

At least there finally is a containment zone for all the faggotry.
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>>163776142
If youre not using SweetFX, what are you using?
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>>163791841
Think of the musclegirls though
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>>163791958
yes, it's called /dsg/
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>>163791716
That'd be nothing like Dark Souls. We've never been there when important shit happened, that's how the entire story has been presented ever.

It'd feel very similar to the final boss too, so I'd rather they don't do something like that.
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>>163792215
Calling it now we get a Manus 2.0 and Kalameet 2.0 as bosses in the final DLC and the area will be a cross between New Londo Ruins and Townshit.

Btw anyone have the DaS3 world map they could post here?
>>
I just got Dark Souls 3 off the Steam sale but it keeps crashing every 20-30 minutes. I've tinkered with my settings for a bit but nothing seems to work. Googling it turned up nothing, so I'm wondering if anyone here has dealt with it in the past.
>>
If I'm trying to use a PS4 controller for DS1, is DS4Windows good enough or should I be using something else?
>>
>>163792659
Doesn't Steam support DS4 natively now?
>>
>>163791958

desu it's mostly just /dsg/ with names, so still bad but a good resource for FC since most hosts are on their

Nana join already damn you
>>
>>163792651
I meant, my computer keeps crashing. As in, it bluescreens.
>>
FC on 30 minute break
>>
Have to take a break from hosting for 30 mins. Can go on when I'm back if there's still interest
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>>163792857
I had bluescreens happening to me, turned out it was the controller. You could try testing the controller with other games.
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>>163793013
I play using the Mb+K
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>>163792914
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>>163792651

Have you tried setting all graphics to low?
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I wish they'd make a souls game with more classical monsters and mythology

Like a Castlevania bestiary
>>
Newfriend here, how do I summon white helper ghosts?
I've been having a bit of trouble with the dancer of the boreal valley (which I've heard is a late game boss, which I've somehow managed to fight before the settlement) and I was wondering how I could get a bit of assistance for her.
I've heard that you can get the weapons the bosses use in this game, so I'm set on her swords.
>>
>>163793263
I have, which is why this puzzles me so.

I've also downloaded the latest drivers, checked my PC's temperature, everything. My specs are fine, as far as I can tell and based on what I've gathered from different forums, reviews, posts, etc.

I was told you needed a beast of a PC to run this game but this seems like a load of bullshit to me.
>>
>>163793593

Can you post your specs?
>>
>>163793562
You need to be in Ember mode i.e you need to use up an item to regain full health and get a sparkly glowy visual effect on yourself.
>>
Where the FC at Bois
>>
>>163793764
Just before Deacons, but it's on a break for 20 more minutes
>>
>>163793524
I wish they either do sci-fi or full on fantasy next. Medieval stuff is fun, but it's getting a bit stale. They already showed they can do something very original with Bloodborne, so I think they could do basically whatever they wanted to.
>>
>>163793827
>on a break for 20 more minutes
People do this now?
>>
>>163794027
Host had to go for a bit
>>
>>163793562
You shouldn't really do that, just progress normally through the game instead of cheesing through fights with summons.
>>
>>163793593

>I was told you needed a beast of a PC to run this game but this seems like a load of bullshit to me.

You kind of do, the game is not very optimised. I don't think the crashes are caused by underperforming hardware though. I had almost the exact same problem at launch, the game would crash my display driver every 30 minutes or so. I was forced to reboot. I set everything to low and gradually raised the graphics settings to see which ones were safe. I think it's just a compatibility issue.
>>
What are your favorite games or developers that remind you of Souls? I'm not talking about gameplay, but the kind of exploration and care to detail in the games.
>>
>>163794198
I'll try doing this, thanks.
>>
>>163793695
I can run the game at a steady 55-60 FPS for the most part, no problem. But sometimes I get these stutters in certain parts of the game where the game practically freezes for a few seconds before I either get a bluescreen or it resumes.
>>
>>163794315
STALKER.
>>
>>163794527

That's sadly kind of normal for some people, this game is optimized very poorly compared to 2.
>>
>>163793968
I dislike sci fi and faggy highly fantastical shit and love faux-historical settings of soulsborne.
>>
>>163793562

1. Why are you playing DaSIII first? Don't do that. Start with Demon's Souls instead. If that is not possible, at least try DaSI.

2. Don't summon other people for bosses on your first playthrough. Ever. It completely destroys any challenge and any sense of accomplishment.

3. Dancer is indeed a late-game boss. Unless you really know what you're doing it's unadvisable to try to beat her at low level.
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I'm new. Is this a good idea?
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>>163794315
STALKER and dark souls are often compared for whatever reason
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>>163794826
No need to kill him until you feel safe doing so.
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>>163794935
I don't feel safe at all.
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Hmmmm. I bought Scholar of the First Sin yesterday. Does it improve the Vanilla game, and is the DLC worth going through?
>>
>>163795147
Yes to both.
>>
>>163795147
It has its' moments. If you've played though DS2 earlier you should give it a try.
>>
>>163795147
Some people disagree on the new enemy placements, but the DX11, new boss and DLC integration are all worth it
>>
>>163795147

The DLC are literally the best pieces of Souls content that exists
>>
Recently got SOFTS is there any way to get lots of cracked red eye orbs?
>>
>>163795281
Some of the new enemy placements were much better like the Lost Bastille has crossbowmen taking shots at you when you come from the exile holding cells and they can hit the powder keg.
>>
>>163795365
Farming and grindin'. Sorry.
>>
>>163795365
havel helm
jester robes
havel gloves
havel legs
ivory king ugs

you will never lose
>>
>>163794826
The plunging attack is the most reliable move in the game. Do it.
>>
>>163795461

I never understood why people complained about SotFS enemy placement

Must have been retards that aggroed every hollow in the forest of the fallen giants
>>
>>163795147
the dlc has the best areas, bosses and music in all of the series including des and bb
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>>163792914
Okay, any interest into going on with the FC?
Same place, same pass
>>
>>163795638
Yes
>>
>>163754153
Are you a retard? The long sword is one of the best weapons on the game, just like DS3.

Especially because of the moveset though.
>>
>>163795485
well shit the PvP is pretty good but it's a shame that i'm gonna have to kill countless BDSM pillar guys to actually play it
>>
can anyone help with abyss watchers on ps4? i've been in this swamp for an hour and i am going to cry
>>
>>163795934
Sure
code?
i will be placing it in front of the door
>>
>>163795934
I was stuck on that boss for about 3 hours. Then I found out that I could go to Cathedral of the Deep, after I had already beaten them.
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>infinite poise
>infinite stamina
Literally what did they mean by this?
>>
>>163795934

what

If you're at the boss that means you're done with the swamp

????
>>
>>163795767
Become one of those Bell Watchers or whatever they're called.
>>
>>163796095
pass is meme, all lowercase
could you relocate it to the farron keep perimeter bonfire? i'll get raped by darkwraiths if i try to get up there. sorry im just generally bad at this
>>163796098
thats harsh and i feel really bad for you
>>
>mutated disgusting bird men with literal shitclumps hanging out their ass

what the actual fuck
>>
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>>163796356
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>>163796349
Placed at bonfire
>>
I've been watched a commentary on Demon's Souls and holy fuck DS3 has references to it. It's like Miyazaki really wants to move on after this.
>>
New thread when?

>>163796341
Bellends
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>>163796748
Never. It was decided by the Elite High Council of the /dsg/ discord that this thread would be the last one forever.
>>
>>163796480
so what explains these things
>>
>>163796507
jesus christ i didn't know they had a second form
back at the bonfire?
(thanks for the embers by the way)
>>
>>163797039
no problem
is there any item you want while we are at it?
>>
>>163797127
don't accept his items he will put a curse on them that will make you secretly weaker

you have been warned
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>>163797127
im good thanks!
>>163797197
my eyes have been opened..
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Hope you're hungry

>>163797412
>>163797412
>>163797412
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>>163786324
>Japan Studio guys are 10/10. They were probably the reason why DeS and BB have such an unique atmosphere and feel to them.

Ding ding ding we have a winner.

Without Japan Studio we get DS2, DS3, Armored Core For and Armored Core For Answer, all of which have their own litany of coding and design issues.
>>
>>163794315
Armored Core.
>>
>>163794315
Sometimes Dark Souls gives me old Thief (the Dark Project) vibes/nostalgia, though putting my finger on exactly why isn't something I can do.
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