/dsg/ - Demon's/Dark Souls General

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Why is this not a faith weapon? Why must I be forced to choose between it and muh miracles?

Someone please tell me that at least lightning arrow is good at 40 fth so I don't feel the need to oscillate between 2 builds

>>180522330
>wedding ring

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>>180522038
first for upcoming cut content

>>180522407
it's a faith or dex weapon.

40/40 dex/faith is only ~15% less damage than 22/60 dex/faith and your miracles will do 50% more damage at 60 than 40.

>>180522762
>waifu garbage

>>180522883
>implying this is the the only cut content.

>>180522762
Wow they managed to mod and crack blood b. That's cool and all but when to we get to unused weapons man!

>>180522762
is this the dress the queen of the vilebloods wears?
>NOT NEEDED

>>180522869
>it's a faith or dex weapon
>16/22/60 DSSS gets it's AR raised by a whopping 21 compared to 18 Faith
>meanwhile 40/40/18 gives you 117 extra AR in what is the Swordspear's main damage type already with 26/40 STR/DEX getting you that AR twohanded as well

It's a fucking terrible 'Faith' weapon, the only benefit you get with Faith on it is enough to use the Sacred Chime of Filianore and some healing miracles.

>>180523157
Well the WA at least does crazy dmg at high faith...

>>180523157
If you're making a pure melee build, why are you using swordspear anyway? Go 80 dex.

16/22/60 is so that you can cast while using a weapon that still scales with your stats. You trade optimal damage with swordspear for optimal damage while casting, but you don't lose as much as you would with a lightning infused weapon that has no native faith scaling.

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>>180522762
>NOT NEEDED

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>>180522762
>dress
>"NOT NEEDED"

L-lewd!!

(you)

Will 10 dex + a sage ring 2 cap casting speed?

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>>180523550
Thanks my man, got any more!?

>>180523345
Because Swordspear does decent damage at quality stats while having one of the longest halberd/spear movesets. A build for it is perfect for low Faith requirement miracle shittery.

>16/22/60 is so that you can cast while using a weapon that still scales with your stats.

Except as established Swordspear scales terribly with Faith, it'd be like getting a bare stats to wield the regular Dragonslayer Spaer and saying that's great for Faith just because it has native Faith scaling that's awful.

>but you don't lose as much as you would with a lightning infused weapon that has no native faith scaling.

That is objectively untrue. There are over dozens of other weapons that pair better when casting with Faith especially if you're planning on casting due to the Swordspears slower 1H spear moveset. A Lightning Lothric Knight Sword would cost far less in melee stat investment and would have better natural Faith scaling than Swordspear and would be a better melee option to keep out because it's a Straight Sword among many other better examples.

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>>180523345
>>180523749
To add to this visual representation of what I am talking about. The Lothric Knight Sword would out damage the Swordspear still even at base melee stats to wield.

>>180523157
how do you get the swordspear moveset with 60 faith casting, without using swordspear?

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>>180523157
>>meanwhile 40/40/18 gives you 117 extra AR in what is the Swordspear's main damage type already with 26/40 STR/DEX getting you that AR twohanded as well
Wut? So I can have 26/40/40 AND do optimal damage with it?

40 FTH min is necessary becuz I like miracles. I'd take it to 50 if I did something like pic related

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REMINDER TO WELCOME SALE KIDDIES WITH A PROPER DARK SOULS ASS FUCKING AND A POINT DOWN

>>180523914
What does that mean? The Swordspear moveset is terrible for casting on a 60 Faith build, the 1H moveset is the slower spear one and the 2HR1s need a great amount of poise since Swordspear has weaker 2HR1 poise than every similar glaive-type attack with the WA being very slow and only safe to use in the start of fights. Once the buff is out you're left with a spear/glaive hybrid with mediocre damage that requires armor investment you likely can't get if you have dedicated caster stats. If you're a caster who wants to have minimum stats to use a weapon again something like a Straight Sword would be far better, or the Crucifix of the Mad King which is literally dedicated to pure Faith builds.

>>180524149
Yeah pretty much, that would be an alright build if you want super optimal damage actually. You'd need Chain most likely since your offensive stats would be wildly spread out but as far as gimmick builds work that's not bad.

Gib pyro build

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/214251

Decent spells to replace mercury and hail for invasions?

>>180524281
>Yeah pretty much, that would be an alright build if you want super optimal damage actually. You'd need Chain most likely since your offensive stats would be wildly spread out but as far as gimmick builds work that's not bad.
I was seriously considering it until you dropped that 100+AR when 2h at 26/40 bombshell. Or what that the difference between 26/0 and 16/22?

>>180524298
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/214252

Is what i've been having a great time using.

Can anyone help me with a dex'ish faith build for sl70?

>>180524465
>Or what that the difference between 26/0 and 16/22?

Do you mean 26/40? A base DSSS at 16/22/18 has 403 AR twohanded. Raising STR and DEX to 26 and 40 each raises that up to 500 AR even twohanded. That's considering the majority of the Swordspear's base damage is already pure physical. Optimally if you are ignoring raising Faith you just want that stat spread and using the WA which selfbuffs DSSS' lightning damage after using it for a limited time. Raising STR up to 40 does give it that 500 AR onehanded but it only increases it to 511 twohanded still so it's not that great an investment for 14 points. Now if you really want to raise that Faith putting it up to 40 or slightly lower to get just a little extra lightning damage while getting good heals out of miracles like Med Heal and just to use Lightning Arrow wouldn't be bad. Here's a basic build I cooked up optimized for this, edit it to your liking or desired SL: https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/214253

>>180524281
Your whole argument is basically
>"the faith damage scaling isn't higher than the dex scaling therefore I cannot possibly ever use it on a faith build, no way at all to do that, nope. Have to go pure dex nothing else."

That's like saying there's no reason to ever go refined longsword because you lose damage over an 80 dex sharp longsword. And if you truly believe that, you're a complete fucking idiot and care more about AR than an actual build or strategy.

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where's the new skipintroscreens DLL for 1.35?

>>180525080
But I'm not saying that at all, I'm saying Swordspear genuinely does not synergize well with Faith builds because the scaling is awful. Even in the mugen build I linked above raising Faith from 18 to 40, the weapon softcap, only raised Swordspear's Lightning damage by 18 points. It's more like saying you shouldn't use the Moonlight Greatsword on a STR-build with minimum INT just because it has some physical damage and STR scaling.

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>>180524941
>>180525268
How bout dis for a fun gimmick? Lightning Clutch can go somewhere in there for pve I guess

Just got dank souls e on steam today tho i didnt buy the dlc. Was thinking of getting the season pass but i have no idea how it works since ive never gotten one before. Is it basically just all dlc discounted? The two dlcs are the only ones right, thats it?

>>180525586
Looks fine, END is a little low for my personal use of something as big as a spear/glaive but you got decent Vigor and enough Dex to make it do decent damage.

>>180525672
The one you posted was gud, although I felt like the END was overkill unless I'm using ultras and I like having at least 18 ATT. Also why Med Heal? Is it the hot new healing spell?

>>180525268
30/26 mlgs: 491 damage
16/40 mlgs: 553 damage

MLGS suffers a 13% damage penalty by leveling strength instead of intelligence, even less of a penalty than swordspear.

But instead of saying "swordspear has a damage penalty by using a faith build" you're saying it's completely useless and dismissing the fact that 15% damage might be worth the penalty in exchange for being able to cast by saying "well the moveset isn't good for casting anyway"

>>180525846
Med Heal is really fast and since Projected Heal got nerfed is probably the best speed to healing cost ratio miracle in the game.

>>180525860
It's not just a 'damage penalty with a faith build' it's a severe lack of actual damage scaling given the investment you're putting in for it which is why you need at least decent Dex, otherwise why even use it compared to other things I've mentioned. It's not good damage at all on pure Faith which is why the best suggestion to go along with that one anons wish is some Dex/Faith hybrid.

>>180526054
What did they do to proj heal?

>>180526194
They nerfed its selfheal on casters shortly after the DLC release.

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Going to start my second SotFS character this weekend. Anyone have sliders for a female that I won't want to constantly hide under a mask?

So far I have only seen 1 player summon for demon prince. Maybe it has something to do with me being sl 80. I tried using Gael but he died before I even got 10% of the demon prince's health down. I can already beat the demon in pain and demon from below every time on my own so it's not like it did me any good. I've never been able to get more than half of the demon princes health down.

>>180526054
30/26 mlgs: 491 damage
16/40 mlgs: 553 damage

MLGS suffers a 13% damage penalty by leveling strength instead of intelligence, even less of a penalty than swordspear.

But instead of saying "MLGS has a damage penalty by using a strength" you're saying it's completely useless and dismissing the fact that 13% damage might be worth the penalty in exchange for being able to use greatshields or other offhand strength weapons..

20/40/18 swordspear: 481
16/22/40 swordspear: 421

Swordspear suffers a 15% damage penalty by leveling faith instead of dex.

But instead of saying "swordspear has a damage penalty by using a faith build" you're saying it's completely useless and dismissing the fact that 15% damage might be worth the penalty in exchange for being able to cast by saying "well the moveset isn't good for casting anyway"

>>180526290
Kawaii desune

>just spent 30 minutes gradually chipping down a host's random Sunbro at the beginning of Crucifixion Woods because they were too pussy to progress through the level with a single invader lurking around
>zero Watchdogs come to my aid
Seriously? I thought the whole problem with Watchdogs was that there were too many of them trying to invade into such a small area, where was my help?

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>>180526585
It is useless for STR unless you're dedicating that STR to other things since a base 16/26 MLGS has 479 AR, meaning those 14 points of STR give you 11 AR only. That's perfectly fine if you're using it with other things but the point of my argument is that if you're leveling for damage it's not worth it which you seem to be arguing from a completely different and argumentative front. If you want to use MLGS and Swordspear in those ways nothing is stopping you, I am only pointing out there are more stat efficient weapons that you could use if you want to say cast miracles or use greatshields to go with them instead. That's just my opinion, no need to get angry anon.

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What do I need to level adaptability to so I stop getting hit by damn near everything? First time playing DS2 and this shit (among other things) is absolutely killing any drive to keep playing.

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>>180526290
you like frozen?

>>180526897
>It is useless for STR unless you're dedicating that STR to other things

news flash

you can dedicate those other stats for other things

like dedicating faith for MIRACLES!

And if you assume everyone is leveling purely for min-max damage then you need to stop playing the game because there are other builds out there.

>>180527359
But as said I am pointing out that if you're mainly going to be casting there are better weapons to do it with than the DSSS, and at this point I think this argument is just circling down the drain in repetitiveness.

>>180527041
ADP doesn't save you if you're rolling too early or too late. ADP doesn't save you if you roll into their hitbox.

Some people can get away with <90 adp. Some need 96+.

Lower your equip weight and learn to time your rolls better.

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>>180527232
I'll take whatever I can get.

>>180527427
I'm pointing out your logic in assuming that players can't play a certain way, therefore those ways are pointless.

when you get beat by a swordspear caster, do you think "HE WOULD HAVE BEAT ME EASIER IF HE WAS USING SAINT'S BIDENT"?

If I like the swordspear moveset, regardless of what your /opinion/ of it is, then I think a 15% damage penalty to be able to cast miracles is just fine.

>>180522762
Source

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>>180527837

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>>180527837
I am fully convinced they just accidentally reversed the elevator direction and it was supposed to descend into the middle of the caldera.

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I have a couple questions about DaS2.
First: Does anyone have the most recent tier list for it?
Second: I'm going STR for quite a bit of the playthrough until I inevitably go 40/45, but that'll probably be after a respec after beating the game. Is the Broadsword still a better choice over the Longsword? I have the Estoc for poking but I know the Longsword just has a better moveset than the Broadsword, despite the sweeping 2HR2s roll catching sometimes.

>>180526585
>>180526897
>>180527359
What do you guys think of

16/40/50

vs

27/22/60

Other stats are pretty much the same. The latter sacrifices like 30 AR for however much moar dmg I get from miracles at 60 than from 50

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>>180527359
>because there are other builds out there.

builds that probably blow chunks

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>>180528254
Longsword is still a better choice overall imo.

>>180528260
The latter seems like a better option if you're going to be casting more.

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>>180527769
Maybe I'm too used to all the other games and their rolling but here it just feels so off and I keep finding myself taking hits when I know I shouldn't be.

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/214261

Is that enough poise to at least get through 2h SS?

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>>180528260
60 to 50 faith is 10% damage with miracles.

So you lose ~7% weapon AR to gain 10% miracle damage. It's worth it if you are doing 1.5x more damage with miracles than physical attacks in a normal battle.

>>180528421
Just to confirm, you're not doing anything retarded like rolling AWAY from attacks or starting your dodges while the opponent is still tracking? Enemies rollcatch more than in other games, which is by design.

>>180528371
Thank you. I'll upgrade a Longsword and grab the +7 Broadsword from Brume Tower when I get there.

>>180528421
DS2 rolls are progressive so every change in equip % matters. DS1 and DS3 rolls don't, so you always start off the same with a "familiar" roll.

Once you get used to rolling at, say, 50% equip load you'll be fine. But then try to do the same and roll at 70% and it will feel weird.

>>180528254
> 40/45

why?

Dex doesn't increase cast speed in DS2. There's no reason to go to 45 dex, just go all the way to 50 where the second softcap is.

Estoc has an extremely good moveset.

Broadsword is mediocre.

>>180529235
FUGS and Powerstancing Bone Fists. I'll have 96 agility and be have less health than I'd like, but that's the price of a build like this.

how do i make the brigand twin daggers worth while to use?

they are a lot of fun but my god they are fucking weak.

>>180529073
95 hours into DS2, and I can't tell the difference between 39% and 69% in terms of rolls, just stamina regen. IFrames are the most important factor for dodging most attacks, and they don't care how heavy I am short of fatrolling.

>>180529334
you do realize that SL meta for DS is 150-250 right? Not 80-120?

You can very comfortably fit 50/50 on a 40/40 vig/end build with 32 adp.

>>180528732
I'm rolling into them to get behind them or I'll roll away when I know for sure (or think I know for sure) that they're far enough away to avoid getting hit.

I got DS2 today, anything I should know before I start?

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What's the best FP-damage ratio lightning bolt?

>>180529713
This isn't backstab souls. You're probably getting clipped by the arcs of their swings.

>>180529791
You get stronger by having more and better equipment options, leveling up is how you can equip more things. You are ONLY as strong as your weakest stat.

Use a torch in almost every area, there's some gimmick or mechanic in most areas. Turn brightness down.

Almost every boss is optional, focus on gathering lots of equipment, not rushing bosses.

There's 5 different paths from majula. Areas get harder the further away from majula you go.

It's the easiest game if you play it like a traditional RPG (collect items, explore dungeons, customize a lot) it's the hardest game if you try to play it like a hack and slash (rely on reaction time and min-max one stat)

Agility increases your roll iframes and item use speed, weight % affects your walking, moving, and rolling speed/distance. Level up adaptability and use light armor if you want to feel faster and less restricted.

Use the items the game gives you, don't just let them sit in your inventory.

Gundyr is fucking impossible what the fuck

>kill a blueberry via gravity as a purple
>don't get kill credit for it
Why is this a thing?

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>>180530025
thanks anon

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>>180529653
I was aiming for 150. I know Bandit has one level up on Knight to get the same stats, but I'm just stupid enough to care about my starting class. I haven't done any PvP in forever, so I am probably making a huge mistake in thinking that 39 Vig is low, but I recall 26 End being a "magic number" in my personal experience.

>>180529895
Probably lightning spear. Sunlight spear does twice the dmg, but costs a little more than double the FP. The extra damage for point blank hits might be different though.
Lightning arrow might be better still for efficiency. Not sure how its damage compares, but it's cheaper than all the spears

How did I just invade as a spear when I don't have the covenant equipped?

>>180530383
Argo will pull any players attempting to invade or who have put a sign down (white or red) anywhere within the Ringed City, to become the boss.

>>180530057
Ludex?

Just got dark souls 3 from steam sale, haven't played any souls since dark souls 1 back when lucifer and his claymore's were a thing in these threads.

What does a build look like in DS3? I feel like the introduction of vitality makes it hard for me to understand how to distribute stats.

It was really easy in DS1 since it was just 40 40 40 40

>>180530537
Obviously not Iudex you fucking retard.

>>180530551
Level vigor past fucking 27, maybe stop at 30. VIT is for wearing armor, knight lets you wear most of the stuff in game at base stats. Level up to 20+ and you'll be fine if you want to wear something heavier. Stuff soft caps at 40, but 60 is optimal for FTH and INT builds for maximum damage. STR and DEX are relatively the same since spike 1 with their 40 soft cap. However 66 STR or 80 Dex are the higher level caps.

>>180530551
Level Vigor to at least 35.

Endurance you can get away with around 30 unless you're swinging an ultra.

Attunement is generally not needed on a melee build unless you really like using special moves.

Unless you need hyperarmor, ignore Vitality. Only equip enough to stay under 70% load.

Quality is shit now, either go 66 Str or 80 Dex.

If you're going caster, either get 60 Int for Sorceries, 60 Fai for Miracles or 40/40 for Pyromancies.

Luck is the Resistance of DaS3, don't level it unless you're doing a Luck build.

>>180530551
>What does a build look like in DS3? I feel like the introduction of vitality makes it hard for me to understand how to distribute stats.

You can do a lot of builds in 3 and they are good. The only problems you would have is if you want to make a caster since that requires knowing the locations of damage boosting rings which are really crucial for casting and the locations of the spell tomes and merchants. Otherwise the best general builds you can do are softcapping an offensive stat to its second list, like 60/66 STR or 80 Dex, or softcapping two offensive stats at their first softcap ie 40/40 STR/DEX or INT/FAI. There are lot of weapons you can get for all sorts of builds I can recommend depending on what you want.

>>180530537
>Ludex
>L
you fucking retard

>>180530806
There's a bunch of shitters coming in from the steam sale, what did you expect me to believe faggot? Most of them haven't gotten to dancer and passed Consumed Garden yet. And if youre having a problem with champ learn how to parry, and don't bother trying too hard in his 2nd phase because he roll catches shitters like you instantly.

>>180530551
see: >>180522415


40 endurance in DS1 = 40 endurance +18 vit in DS3 (fast roll on 40 equip load)
40 str/dex/int/fth in DS1 = 60 in DS3

>>180530551

If you mean a 120 build, 40 Vig, 40 End, then stats get a little different depending on what offensive tools you want to use.

>>180530975
>>180530917
>>180530815
Thanks for the help / advice guys. DS3 is a lot of fuckin fun so far.

>>180530924
the dual daggers look pretty fun so i was hoping to make something around them

>>180527837
just use this video

edit shit like hair and eye color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2YfJITuEQ

>>180531058
They're good with a buff build, but that's about it.

>>180531058
>the dual daggers look pretty fun so i was hoping to make something around them

Those aren't the best weapons but if you want to build for them I suggest infusing them with Sharp and going up to 60 to 80 Dex if you can. Or a 40 Dex + 60 INT/FAI buff build, again they are kind of mediocre but they're workable as PvE weapons.

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>ywn own a pet doggo cleric who will spin to you whenever you come back home

>>180531705
what does ywn mean

>>180531848
ywnk

>>180531907
stop with these normie acronyms

>>180531848
>newfag
newfag

What's a good early game weapon for a sorcerer in DS2?

Optimal build for DaS2:SotfS? I want to do magic or fire stuff, but I also want to hit things with a sword (a lance or halberd is fine too)

>>180532116

there's a magic mace somewhere pretty early

maces are good anyway, try that.

estimated time until the death of dsg?

>>180533716
3-4 years

well a lucky sorc build sounds shit and man grabs staff doesn't have any hidden interactions with frozen weapon or snap freeze which would be neat and it also doesn't convert magical damage into blessed(physical) which would also be cool, but i'm going to make a luck/sorc build anyway so what's a good name?

holy shit das 1 is a fucking compatibility bitch

Is there a way to make it run on a 120 hz monitor?

>>180533834

Felix Grubman.

>>180530942
To be fair, i thought it was Ludex too, for like my first 3 chars until i remmeber capitalization exist

>>180527769
casual bitch

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So this is the power of das3 bosses...

>>180532587
60 in INT + Faith for the fire bonus cap, usually it makes more sense to have lower int and higher faith since faith gives you access to self buffs.
Grab the fire longsword in FotFG, the chaos rapier later on from Mr.SitsAndStaresAtWall in the huntsmans copse (or infuse literally any weapon that can be infused with Fire, then slap on Flame Weapon/Charcole pine resin and go to town)

The issue with pyromancy in 2 is that it scales off of your stats the same way Dark/Faith/INT does so it's not a no cost free thing it was in DS1, Flame Weapon needs NG+ or bonfire asthetic burning so your stuck with Pine Resins, but the merchant who sells those is on what is considered the hardest of the 4 lord paths.

The "optimal" build for DS2 is
DEX->Rapier->Espada/Red Iron Twinblade
STR->Mace->Craftsmans hammer->Kings UGS/Smelter Hammer
INT/Dark/Faith/Pyro don't have one since some boss or another is highly resistant to their element, with INT having the concession of an Enchanted MLGS for physical damage INT scaling.

That being said you don't need to be optimal in DS2, you just need to not be pants on head suboptimal, get stats that increase the softcaps on your chose stats, level vigor end and vit then go to town. A fire infused Grand Lance will do slightly more damage to most base game enemies than a normal Grand Lance, but slightly less damage to Reimu than a normal Grand Lance, but at the end of the day it doesn't really matter too much.

>>180533893
Just cap it at 60, screen tearing ahoy but at least it's playable

>>180534281
I can't even change my screen's fucking refresh rate, I have to hook my pc on a different fucking screen

Why is such a compatibility bitch not talked about much in dsg? why didn't you warn me guys?

>>180530806
see
>>180530947

get fucked

>>180534329
Download DSFix, in the .ini change the games framerate cap there.

One the one hand people do tend to go "Yeah DS1 port was a disaster" but on the other hand they often de-emphasize what a colossal disaster it was.

>>180534474
I did that, nothing fixed.

Apparently it only works on 60hz monitors, and my monitor has never been such a compatibility friendly one, with an alien refresh rate of 120hz

Looks like I'm cucked, should I play DAS2 until i fix that shit? I want to understand the whole story. Am I gonna miss anything if I skip 1?

>>180534250
DaS3 has some of the worst bosses. Bort, Greatwood, Crystal Sage AKA Pinwheel2, Deaks, Wolnir. Why even put these shit bosses in the game anyway?

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>>180534620
>I want to understand the whole story. Am I gonna miss anything if I skip 1?
Oh you know, not a whole lot.

cn u gt 2 mlgs's n ds2 n 1 playthorough

>>180533834
adding to this, would I be better off starting deprived instead of sorcerer?

>>180531848
You Will Never

>>180532116
The Dragonrider weapons are pretty fun. The Twinblade weighs a fuckton and eats up a shitload of stamina, but its damage output is pretty gnarly. The Halberd is pretty bog-standard, but I like the halberd movesets in this game.

>>180534250
Hey now, enough of the Greatwood hate. It's presented pretty well, and it's a fair challenge for being the second boss of the game after Judex.

>>180534250
>gigantic tree of doom
>hit its ballsacks to one-shot it

>>180534620
Both the sequels lift from the first game extremely heavily, especially DaS3. You're absolutely fucked if you skip the first game.

>>180534712
Deprived has a bunch of waste Faith. If you're doing a Luck sorcery build you only need 18 Int and just pump Luck to 35. Sorcerer is literally the best class for that.

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>finally make a cumslut
>just beat aldritch
>just realized I forgot to get the "flash ass" gesture
How bad did I fuck up?

>>180534620
>Apparently it only works on 60hz monitors
Can confirm not the case since I have a 144Hz monitor myself.

Make sure you change the line that says unlock FPS to 1 as well as the framerate limit to 60, then ingame hit backspace since that enables/disables the limit.

As for skipping one, you miss probably the best first third of any souls game, anything past that is kind of a mess and the game is limited by technical aspects.
Scholar works fine on just about anything EXCEPT MACHINES THAT CAN'T RUN DX11, with absurdly stable framerates.
As for understanding the story there are 2 approaches, one is to try and connect all 3 games together which results in a convoluted mess.
The other is to either view DS1 as it's own story, or view DS1 + 2 (since 2 has very little impact on 1 and doesn't really retcon that much) and view 3 as its own story that's living in a pocket universe.

If you play 1 then 3 will retcon the shit out of it
If you don't play 1 then a lot of 3 wont make sense because it relies on callbacks to 1's story

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>doing Guts build and reach Soul of Cinder
>Schierke pops up as a phantom

which one of you was it

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This mage build was a lot more fun in my head.

>>180534857
time for ng+ friendo

>>180534250
>finally do the fight on a dex build so I can use a bow
>the arrows go straight through the eggs at the top part of the body
what a load of shite

Man, Cathedral invasions are weird.

>invade a dude with a great scythe phantom
>they kick me around a bit, but I lure them to the rooftop zone and take the jump near the bunch of crossbow hollows and manage to riddle the scythe phantom with bolts, then finish off the lone shield-cowering host with Great Combustion -> riposte -> Lloyd's

>take on a couple of Sunbros in the graveyard and drag them all the way to the birch
>get forced away, so I retreat to the rooftop area
>somehow the host craters while I'm waiting for them to progress

>>180534826
>Deprived has a bunch of waste Faith. If you're doing a Luck sorcery build you only need 18 Int and just pump Luck to 35. Sorcerer is literally the best class for that.
that's true but i'm thinking if I want to invade by rosarias then I want to be low level and the best thing to do at low level is to use the +5 sorc ring for maximum efficiency

What's the best weapon to use as a faith/melee?

>>180535303
Crucifix or Bident.

>>180535287
You can get plenty of activity at SL25+2, and you'll probably catch plenty of people at SL35+4 too since there are newbies who have to backtrack after finding out they can't get into Irithyll.

You can build a serviceable invader with plenty of leeway so long as you equip a PChain. It isn't worth it to sacrifice minmaxing for the sake of early invading.

>>180535303
Sunlight Straight Sword
Saint's Bident with buffs
Crux of the Mad King
Blessed LKGS

What weapons require the least stat investment to be good? Besides Yhorm's and MLGS

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i just beat dragonslayer armor with GCFO and i feel dirty. just needed to confess my sin

Human Pine Resin or Dark Blade?

>>180536431
If you have Faith, Dark Blade, if you don't resin.

>>180536580
I didn't realize DB was locked behind Yoels quest until way too late. Guess it's resin until NG+

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>>180535054
Why are people so infatuated with Karla?

>>180534627
I find the dicks of the deep fun. Crystal sage is way too spammy imo. Pinwheel would be great if he had 2 or 3 times more hp and 4 times bigger arena

>>180536431
dark blade for CotMK or MHS, since their damage actually scales with fai. In other cases, human pine. Just remember, buffs don't get the double scaling from crystal/caitha's chime and sunless talisman, you should just use yorshka's at 60 fai

am i late or early for the revisit all the games event

How is Dark Souls 2 compared to 1? Enjoyed pretty much all about DS1, notably atmosphere and combat (I'm a bit of a third person ARPG scrub though).

Thinking about picking it up on humble.

>Think I am done with builds
>Really like how the crow talons look and the WA
FUCK

Now I want to make a werewolf build.
Help me out of this idea /dsg/

Can you ever get away with fatrolling?

>>180537992
If you got a big shield and A SHITLOAD OF VIG

>>180537532
its shit

>>180537992
never, the instant they know you fatroll they'll just pressure you once your stamina is low

>>180537532
Compared to Souls Games is the worst by far
Compared to other games it's ok

>>180538146
>>180538172
spoken like a true casual

>>180537702
The wa has such a long startup that you will only hit oblivious people. The running attack is also very obvious and has long recovery.

>>180526482
The recommended SL for Demon Prince is 100 for a reason. I did him a little over SL92 solo but he was still pretty tough.

Remember to kill Demon in Pain first so you'll get the easier Demon Prince for second phase.

>>180537532
>notably atmosphere and combat
Both are very different in DS2.
DS2 feels a lot more like a generic high fantasy souls than 'Dark' Souls.

DaS2 is an okay game but if you want something more like 1, skip directly to Dark Souls 3.

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PC MASTER RACE
https://youtu.be/UE6YouZrVIY

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>>180538591
i am absolutely not going to click play on that

>>180525609
Season pass is all the dlcs.

>>180533716
Never. I will keep this shithole up by myself if need be.

How is SotFS on PC? Do I need some kind of community fix like DSFix to run it properly?
And are its default KB+M controls okay? I loved playing DS1 with DSMFix

>>180537532
Better mechanically and customization-wise. worse everywhere else. It's a bigger, longer, slower game than the others with more weapons, items, stats, freedom and gameplay options, but everything else (story, style, visuals, world design, etc.) is generally lower quality.

>>180538834
yea ds2 was a good port already

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>>180535520
>You can build a serviceable invader with plenty of leeway so long as you equip a PChain. It isn't worth it to sacrifice minmaxing for the sake of early invading.
I still think deprived is better unless i'm missing something

>>180527903
Your weaponfu is shit and so is your build.

>>180538834
SOTFS is the best PC port in the series. You can run it on a toaster with high settings.

Don't use KB+M. Souls is terrible with KB+M. DS2 (and SOTFS) at least gave players a lot of KB+M support options out of the box.

The downside is that SOTFS has cheat detection so the few mods there are for it will ban you.

>>180538923
Sounds great
>>180538994
I'm not gonna start an entire debate over which input method is superior in a third person action game(it's clearly KB+M), just know that I prefer KB+M to the extent that I was more comfortable playing DS1 with it. I'm assuming it'll be the same for 2

>>180528023
Yea I guess they also accidentally modelled the entire castle in the sky too, so that their accidentally reversed lift also accidentally transported you to their accidentally floating zone.
Fuck off, this wasn't an accident it was a poorly implemented idea. You can't have a team spend thousands of hours slaving over the creation of a world map to then ship the game and think "whoops we put this entire zone in the wrong place".

>>180528023
and youd be fully wrong too
i dont think you understand how badly ds2 was slashed and moved around
earthen keep was supposed to connect to the undead crypt, thats why there are grave wardens there

>>180531419
In PvE it takes far too long for them to come online as a Dex damage option, because Dex scaling is weaker before +10 and their base damage isn't high enough to overcome flat defence.
To use them early on in PvE you really only want them as a bleed option, and you'll need another weapon to deal with things where bleed isn't appropriate. 2nd half of the game if you've gone caster you can get away with buffing them as Raw. 80 Dex is NG+ stuff for PvE.

>>180533893
You do not want DS1 to be running at 120fps, it has physics tied to framerate and you'll be falling through the floor. Even 60 has some issues, try capping slightly below 60. 55 or something.

>>180534620
This sounds like you're trying to force vsync in gpu controls or something. Of course the game works on a 120hz monitor, you're just not going to get any of the benefits and may have to reduce refresh rate in the worst case.

>invade in archives
>host is alone and still fighting mobs
>host finishes his current mob, turns and runs at me with a warpick, cosplay fashion and a gold duelling badge
Days when you know you're about to get fucked in the ass.

>>180538834
DS2 KB+M is perfectly workable, the default binds are kind of retarded and shit though.
Every time you start the game go to your key binds then switch the setting that says "Disable double clicking" to "Enabled", the game will ask for a confirmation and then your golden, without doing that mouse controls will have around a 0.5 second input delay on every click because it's waiting for you to click againt to trigger a strong attack, the retarded part is that it defaults to on with every reboot, but the option says thats it's off, so you have to toggle it every time you boot, will take around 2-3 seconds once you get used to the menus so it's not a big deal.
Don't download mods for DS2, they can and will get you put into the "cheater" online pool

>>180539237
And Lava castle was supposed to be after FotFG.

can someone link me that reddit thread with the best armour combination per weight?

>>180538994
>On a toatser with high settings
Because it looks like a game from 2005

>>180539823
Thanks for the tip!

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>>180534250
>>180534627
are you forgetting that three also has the majority of the best bosses in the series?

>>180538440
Thanks anon.
I want to do a playthrough with a really agressive dual weapon, but unsure on what.
I wanted to do dank hammers, but without HA anymore, they are pretty slow.
Doors are mid to high level, so maybe later. katanas are edgy as fuck, same with DUALUGS

Are claws/warden viable? What are some fun dual weapons?

>>180540213
Swap ice waifu and Midir around and I'm happy

>>180540213
How weird that all the low tier/bad bosses are ones that can be dps'd down to avoid their actual mechanics and moves

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>>180540213
I kind of wish there were more interesting boss designs in the high tiers than large humanoid, dragon and large quadruped

>>180534627
Vordt and Greatwood are better than entirety of Dark Souls 2

>>180540213
Is this supposed to be a tierlist about difficulty? Cuz Deacons of the Deep and the high lord are aesthetic as fuck.

>>180540608
>world set in medieval times
Like what you do expect

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>>180540446
Most of them would still be shit if they had 5x life. Curse-Rotted Greatwood is pretty good though, manually targetted weak points need to be used more frequently.
Yhorm's head sort of counts, but you can only go for that with a pretty small selection of weapons and options.

why are the funnest builds always the worst for PVP?

In DS2, what's the best weapon or weapon type for quick stabbings with long reach? I loved the Halberd in 1, as well as the Claymore R2
I even pretty much exclusively used the stabbing R2 when I was using the Uchi
Didn't like spears though because they did shit-all damage

>>180541220
Longsword/Fume Sword, Lloyce GS, Estoc, Key to the Embedded, Drakewing Ultra GS, Pate's Spear, Syan's Halberd. Powerstance Thrusting Swords or Spears.

Helix Halberd.

>>180539071
It's not really about which is better for a third person action game. The games were made for controllers and are built around using the controller, not KB+M. The KB+M controls were clearly secondary. You can play with KB+M just fine but the game was not designed for it.

>>180540993
does the camera go high enough so you can greatbow him in the head?

>>180539134
>then ship the game and think "whoops we put this entire zone in the wrong place".
You can when you have 6-12 months to rebuild the entire game from scratch when only a few levels were finished and you have no overworld. That's what happened with DS2 when Tanimura had to take over. DS2 was an extremely understaffed, underbudgeted, rushed production yet they tried to make something twice as big as DS1 and DS2. Obviously there's going to be some oversights.

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>>180537532
>>180527041
>>180529791
>>180532587

Here you go. Made this just for you.

>>180537532
Compared to 1 it's not that good. It gets better 50 hours in though because you'll get used to it and forget ds1. That's when you'll love it.
There's tons and tons of bosses. You can respawn them anytime as well.
Infusions are pretty cool as well.

>>180539823
I didn't use a mouth at all when playing ds2. I guess that was just me. It's comfier not using a mouse because you can play sitting anywhere them.

>>180541467
denying that dark souls 2 is shit should get you the same punishment you get for denying the holocaust like in some countries

>>180541761
Thanks anon

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Was there luck builds in ds1 or ds2?
What's their equivalent?

>>180541879
Dark souls 2 is a good game. 2 cat was a great boss. Sir alonne, fume knight were really hard. the great ivory king was amazing too because you had to get allies from eleum loyce

>be summoned as spear
>it's a faggot that summoned 3 faggots and you have to fight a 4 faggot gank squad
>at least one faggot is able to backstab you at all times
Backstabs were a mistake. Dried fingers were a mistake.

>>180534627
Greatwood, Sages and Bort are all good bossfights.
Bort is easy as fuck though but he's a decent "actual first boss".

>>180540213
Friede is kinda shit imo.

>>180540626
High Lord offers no replay value. Aesthetic or not, the fight is just "break the bracelets" every time.

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>>180541467
>Obviously there's going to be some oversights.
No you tit. Everybody knows the game had to be salvaged mid production, and was scraped together, but this being an "oversight" is nowhere in the realm of possibility.
A team, not a guy, a team of modellers and artists need to build this zone in the sky, create a lift shaft and line everything up with Harvest, create a moving lift for it, then a Q&A team needs to test the zone and the lift and pass it. You can't "oops" this.

It's reasonable to suggest Iron Keep wasn't originally intended to be there, and a decision was made to move it late in development. Although the drawn world map that shipped with the game has it right there. The decision still had to be made though.
I think it's likely that they re-imagined this as a kind of abstract transition, just like all the other abstract transitions in the game, to be hand waved as part of the fading memories / without ever really knowing why theme. It was an idea that was just poorly conveyed.

If all they wanted was for Iron Keep to be the volcano in the mountain directly behind harvest valley, with a literal transition, they would have just recycled the existing nest/eagle cut scene transition and dropped the player onto the bridge from the eagle, then delete the lift shaft. Done.

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Holy Lloyd the fucking tracking on the dark bow, you see this shit?

>>180534281
How much vig and vit do I get if I like to wear heavy armour and want to survive all 2 shots in ds2?

>>180522038
who is the the king of want?

What's the point of the spears covenant when the rewards are only usable as the boss?

>>180534281
Dark cryptsword with dark weapon buff does 900+ damage to even dark resistant enemies like fume knight. I killed him with that. It's okay to go elemental weapons as long as you stack the buffs but yeah the DLC is better off being done physically.

>>180542419
vendrick

Stop discussing Ds2.
It's like discussing the holocaust

>>180542547
But DS2 happened

>>180542238
It's an oversight that the creative team didn't have their shit together and communicate properly to the modeling and design teams, so when the modeling and design teams decided that earthen peak should go up into iron keep the creative teams would create textures and a skybox for those areas that matched. I'm saying the creative team probably imagined iron keep inside a volcano rather than floating in the sky.

However, Earthen peak and and iron keep both had their own separate concept art, neither of which probably contained a transition between them. Creative said "we're going to make the world this way, connect the areas" so modellers threw in an elevator and didn't think twice about it. It probably wasn't until long after textures were applied that they realized that the elevator would make no sense and by then it was too late to change.

>>180542590
Bush did 9/11.

>>180542547
>>180541879
I guess steam sale also makes all the DS2 hate shitters come out of the woodwork too

go back to jerking it to matthewmemetosis

>>180542590
>not even proper communication because nobody fromsoft regarded it as absolute bullshit
cancer so many levels

>>180542765
Who
I'm hating this game since the first gameplay trailer

ProTip: Having trouble with invaders? Make a character named SaveFileCorruptor!

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>>180542769
Blame miyazaki's buddy shibuya, a literal who that had no idea what the fuck he was doing and needed tanimura to bail him out.

DS3 is what happens when you create a game using DS2's team with miyazaki in charge

>>180542891
>Dark Souls 2 is actually 3 if Miyazaki made xD
Imprison this men, for he is losing his sanity

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why is this box so out of place? And does anybody know if flame stoneplate ring reduces firebomb damage?

>>180542828
>I don't like this thing therefore no one should talk about it on an anonymous message board thread dedicated to talking about it

Solution: go create "Dark Souls 1 and 3 General" and have the mods ban anyone talking about DS2 as of-topic.

>>180543046
except DS3 literally has miyazaki in charge and literally uses the majority of the the staff from DS2. There are more DS2 employees who worked on DS3/BB than DS1 employees. It's a fact that you can check yourself, not a meme.

>>180542590
>>180542238

When DS2 had to be rushed out, the transitional areas took the biggest hit and I think that was the case with Earthen Peak to Iron Keep.

>>180541220
2handed rapiers are the godkings of DPS in 2, powerstanced rapiers ironically enough are pretty shit.

Ricards is basically the only bad raiper and even then it has uses with poisoning

what armor will make me look like a chef? thinking of using the four pronged plow and the butcher knife as a knife and fork

who the fuck is ocellotte

>>180542462
>Reimu
>Dark Resistan
U wot?

He is fire resistant and immune to poison, above average magic resistance but he takes pretty normal damage from ligthing and dark

>>180543349
That's MAJOR Ocelotte to you!

>>180543349
Ocieros was supposed to have a baby in his arms that gets killed halfway through the fight. It was considered too gruesome so they removed the baby. Textures, skeleton, and sound models are still in the game files but not used in the boss fight.

>>180543494
No, Anon. Clearly the lore wiki is correct and Yorshka has a secret penis.

if i have an illegitimate copy of sotfs can i transfer my save games over to the steam version?

>>180543494
egs dee GUIS LETS release a boss cradling an invisiblle thing in his hands while talking about some random ocelotte shit BUT HOL UP THIS IS WHERE IT GETS REAL WE DONT ACTUALLY ADD OCELOTTE EGS DEE AAA GAEM LADS

>>180543578
You can criticize something without sounding like a huge fag, y'know ?

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oh right of course, that's why I don't invade organically while playing through the game

How do I make a waifu in das2

>>180543751
EGS DEE AAA+ BUBLISHER EBYN JABAN GAME LAD

>>180543556
>>180543578
Did something happen since the game came out that turned you into meme spouting idiots?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6vCZdcp6hE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNxhgZiDaoo

http://imgur.com/a/asN7Z

This isn't theory, this has been known for over a year. Ocelotte is ocieros's kid and his fight makes no sense since he was removed. Ocieros is going mad, and the mid-fight transition he kills ocelotte which is why he fights you without cradling something in his arms.

>>180543906
Secret-penis Anon, here. I was kidding.

>>180543906
>when you're so much of an ironic brainlet

>>180543906
why was this removed though

>>180543906
>people are criticizing the game for removing content
>"hehe here comes my grand retard entrance moment"

kek'd

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>>180544008
Indeed. Baby murder is a proud Namco tradition.

whats the official endgame pvp sl?

>>180543171
And?
The core, base and how the world is supposed to look comes from the ideas of the creative team.
And nobody of Miyazakis Team worked on Dark Souls 2.
Your shitty arguments don't make sense

>>180543570
Yes. There's a guide on Reddit on how to transfer the save between patches.
I think you have run the game make a new game, then quit to start screen. Then replace the save and load. It might appear.

>>180543992
Who knows? Maybe it has something to do with showing bloody baby killing on screen being a bit too graphic. Could be an ESRB thing, could be Namco not wanting the controversy. Maybe miyazaki got squeamish. Definitely seems to be a case of censorship though since it's not unfinished content. Maybe some european country has laws against showing that in a video game or something, who knows.

>>180544073
see: >>180543349

>>180544008
Probably because it would've lead to a bunch of countries banning the game.

>>180543578
Ds2 haters will defend this even though ds2 was better than ds3.
At least the bosses weren't cradling invisible things.

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>>180528371
>CBS and KUGS are greataxes
holy fug I knew those animations looked familiar

If I have an illegitimate copy of ds3 should I still limit my self to 120 sl?
To keep things hard enough?

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>>180544107
Speaking of Splatterhouse and Dark Souls...

explain the candlewax meme to me, why is it everywhere?

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>>180528421
where do you get this Supernintendo like gifs from?

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>playing dark souls 2
>in tseldora
>see a building on the cliffside that doesn't have an easy way to get to it
>must be something good inside
>get in
>its a large titanite shard
>no way to get out of the building that doesn't drop into the sand pit
>have no homeward bones
>my souls will be there in that stupid building when I die
t-thanks B team

>>180544141
So you're saying that looks are the only thing that make it a "souls" game, therefore DS2 is not a "souls" game because it's too bright?

Even when all the mechanics, design, programming, and software teams are the same?

Your shitty arguments don't make sense. DS2 is a souls game. It's made by the same company, using the same programmers, and the same core gameplay. Not only that, but it's made by a company that is -known- for dramatic shifts in tone and story between sequels. You can live in denial and pretend DS2 doesn't exist and try to tell people to stop talking about it, but all you're going to accomplish is looking like an idiot.

I understand not liking DS2, but trying to tell people to stop talking about it because you don't consider it a "true" souls game is fucking stupid.

Did drang twinhammer lost their HA?
I can't seem to pull the full combo anymore

>tfw wanna play a paladin but miracles suck

>>180544563
They made Ds2 look bad so BB could look good.

>>180544551
>no way to get out of the building that doesn't drop into the sand pit
There's a way out of the building that doesn't drop into the sand pit. I've gone up and down tseldora and completed the whole area without dying or homeward boning. Yes, it's convoluted and might require a skill jump, but there's nowhere that requires dying.

>>180544237
No. nobody is triggered by that.

>kamikaze hollow clerics spinning at enemies
ebin

>>180544563
Lel that's not what I said.
You said
>Ds2=Ds3 if Miyazaki
No because Miyazaki wouldnt even dream of creating garbage like dark souls 2. The whole disgusting concept oder Dark Souls 2 wouldn't exist and he would straight up made something like 3.

>>180544751
Miyazaki made the Ds2 dlc

>>180544606
Why DeS looks good: Studio Japan
Why DS1 looks good: Copied from DeS
Why DS2 looks bad: No studio Japan, new graphics engine
Why BB looks good: Studio Japan, massive budget
Why DS3 looks good: Copied from BB

BB has been shilled too much.
I haven't even seen the gameplay yet. Lmao

>>180544817
DeS doesn't look good though.
The art design is great, but the technical quality of the graphics is all blurry and shitty.

DS2 looks bad because they had to downgrade from PS4 / Xbone gen to PS3 / Xbox360 gen and scrap the lighting engine among other things.

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http://www.strawpoll.me/13264682

>>180545037
By "modifier" do you mean a capitalized descriptor to pretend you're an NPC invasion?

>>180544792
He had to work with shit as base nur made 1 medicore DLC, one rather bad and 1 shit DLC

>>180545186
A title or descriptor tag to better fit in with the NPC naming scheme, yeah. Not necessarily to pretend you're an NPC invader.

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>>180544751
>an acolyte of the church of muh miyazaki

I understand not liking DS2, but trying to tell people to stop talking about it because you don't consider it a "true" souls game is fucking stupid, and no amount of theorycrafting about what miyazaki would/wouldn't do is going to change that.

Also, spoiler alert to ruin your fantasies:
Miyazaki is a SALES manager from Oracle who randomly decided he wanted to create video games one day, so he bought his way in with From Software by taking a massive pay cut. He only got promoted to the role of director because he was able to help get Sega to front the money for a PS3 dev kit, which the company didn't have. He then used that to create armored core 4, which was a massive sales disappointment for sega, is considered one of the worst armored core games. He then repeated the fiasco with armored core for answer, which sold even worse, causing the company to lose both Sega and Ubisoft as backers. He is not a creative director and does not have the entire "lore" in his head, he's a project manager who understands sales and teamwork. It wasn't until AFTER Demon's souls was half finished (without miyazaki) that he took over as a manager for the team. The visual style wasn't Miyazaki's doing, it was[ Makoto, and already established before he joined the project.

Sit down, shut up, and eat your goddamn vegetables before you spout bullshit.

>>180544936
DeS looks pretty good for a mid-tier 2009 game. The textures aren't much worse than something from MGS4 or Uncharted and those had massive budgets. The only real downside to DeS graphics was that it was 720p. 2009 was a long time ago.

>>180545887
Basically, the auteur theory is fucking stupid.

Dark Souls 2 suffered by being a B Team project with less resources and worse management. Not specifically because Miyazaki wasn't involved.

>>180531705
>fidget spinner cleric

>>180546228
Note: That isn't saying the B Team is bad. But the B Team generally has less resources and experience.

Making something and then hearing everyone rip into it like some folks like to do about DaS2 must be fucking depressing. DaS2 was a fine game. Had some issues that could've been patched out in the SotFS edition, and it falls on all of From Software that they weren't. Everyone. All of them.

>>180543349
Six charges. More than enough to kill anything that moves

>deaths in soulsborne are canon
>die to boss in second phase
>boss isn't in second phase when you re enter fight

I could understand for bossed that just get stronger and add a new moveset, but for things like Gael and Ludwig who actually transform in a way, it kinda breaks the idea that your deaths aren't just a reset prompt as far as the story is concerned

>>180545887
>Starts with SHIT SOULS 2 WOULD BE GREAT IF MIYAZAKI DID IT
>BASICALLY IT WOULD BE BEST SOULS 3

Few posts later

>LOL DARK SOULS 3 FANBOY
>Cockriding Miyazaki lol kys

Are you this dumb that you contradict yourself several in a few posts

>>180546754
>story
>soulsborne
You have your answer already anon, it's a videogame meant for entertainment of hitting things with sticks,swords, or pew pew

>>180543578
I hope you realise that if they actually added Ocelotte in the fight, the game would be banned in a fuckton of big countries. They'd basically shoot themselves in the foot

>>180547073
>I have literally never played an RPG and roleplayed

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>>180547124

>>180547216
Yeah but that Kid is black

>>180543906
This is all cool but irrelevant since it was cut. It's like saying Velka led a secret group hunting down Darkmoons. Maybe she did, maybe she didn't. The covenant is cut content and what was going on during development doesn't matter, only what was going on during release. Same with Andre being the Firstborn

>>180547203
>trying to role play in a game with infinite deaths in the first place
>then complains about it
You can role play all you like in a series with a pisspoor lore, but man you have to understand this shit isn't consistent at all and never will be.

>>180546228
>>180546512
From doesn't have a B-team though, everyone works on every project like an assembly line. For DS2 and BB, that assembly line was split in half.

But while BB got Studio Japan and Sony contributing a massive budget and resources, DS2 got dick all from Bandai, and miyazaki put Shibuya and Suzuki in charge of DS2 (who had no experience with any games other than Another century's episode). It's not a "B-team" if it's just one or two guys being swapped.

Most of the people who came in halfway (Tanimura, Naotoshi Jin) are people that worked on games prior to souls and were mostly Miyazaki and Shibuya's superiors that were in passive managerial roles, rather than active game developers. A lot of them came back for DS3 also. They're definitately not a "B team" given that they were involved in every other successful From project (and more of them than Miyazaki and his relatively new group was).

>>180546512
>Making something and then hearing everyone rip into it like some folks like to do about DaS2 must be fucking depressing

From what I've seen this is almost exclusively a north american /European thing and in Japan DS2 is considered just as good at DS1. Part of this is probably because From has a huge cult following in Japan as a company whereas people in the west didn't know about From beforehand. "From Brain" is a thing there, where fans of souls buy anything the company puts out no matter what and praise it. The differences in sales between each title (and between Armored Core vs Dark Souls) are a lot narrower in Japan, which implies that it's more about the franchise/series love than love/hate for each individual game.

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hello i'm here for the bloodborne enemy interview

>>180547364
Does that phone app with the cute firekeeper using a Laptop count as something there followers eat up? (I mean, it'd be nice to have here in the states for the cool pictures alone)

>>180547646
You're not autistically infatuated with blood or some shit. Got a cool looking rapier with some long limbs? Hmm, that's set you're hired! You start first thin in the morning, and I hope you have a great time in Ariandel!

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>>180547646
me too

>>180547646
>Painter girl paints Bloodborne with the pigment of the Dark Soul
>Bloodborne resembles Andariel so strongly because Andariel was the painter's frame of reference

>>180548027
Would work if Blood B was a "very gentle place". Nope that place is fucking alien and HIV hell, no fathers anywhere with all the baby crying and ugly half-breed great one kids. No thanks man, would rather chill on a rotten bed then have her pain that freakshow.

spear are the best weapons prove me wrong.
They can even be used while shields are up.

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>>180547889
>their masks look just like Putin
>they lock up monstrosities to conduct experiments on them inside a jail
>which is located in a frozen landscape in the middle of nowhere
What did Miyazaki mean by this?

>>180548290
He don't like gays ma nigga

>>180548157
Dark Cold and very gentle place is a reference to the Painted World of Ariamis
>cold
>dark
being obvious enough as is
>gentle
being a reference to
>This land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind

Or it's a metaphor for starting again.
And that's it, stop reading too much into things

>>180548345
I'm not, that's why I don't like when anons gush over the silly theory that Blood Borne is the painting. It makes no damn sense at all and it would be better if the ending was left as is. Not to much to read into, but enough to know there will be peace in the godforsaken land of the game.

>>180548338
I don't know, those maggotfaggots were all too keen to kissu me

can someone explain why ocelotte is invisible?
Is he wearing the ring of fog?

>>180548669
>Pricilla is a child of dragons
>can turn invisible during the fight
There's you half-baked answer. NEXT!

>>180548867
Makes sense. Hehehe

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>>180547703
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcXebUTJiU
I dunno, but mobile gimmicks were apparently popular enough to warrant 4 armored core mobile spinoff games. I don't even know how you're supposed to fucking play it on a flip phone.

Model kits and merchandise for AC and Souls are also ridiculously popular over there, way more so than in the US, though souls seems to be more about books/manga/figurines/gimmicks than kits and spinoff games.

https://mobile.twitter.com/fromsoftware_pr
Example: one of the biggest things on their PR twitter is the release of a dark souls 3 sony xperia theme and real life rings based on dark souls.

Also, I should note that the sentiment in Japan is that pandering to westerners are generally the problem with From's games. JP complaints about western internet connections and lag is the reason why armored core became region locked, and a PC port for souls wasn't even considered until westerners petitioned for it.

Funny thing is that looking at their JP site again I noticed that they have the following staff listed (google translated):

>Representative Director and Chairman: Yasumi Yasuda (No idea who he is)
>Representative Director and President Hideaki Miyazaki
>Senior Managing Director: Masanori Takeuchi (lead producer behind their fantasy games)
>A director: Eiichi Nakajima (DS producer)
>A director: Naokihiko Kadokawa (Not sure, probably part of the Kadokawa family that bought out From)
>A director: Tatsuo Sato (mecha director from Kadokawa)
>A director: Yahagi Yoshi (No idea, probably another Kadokawa director)
>Operating officer: Suzuki Teruyuki (No idea. New hire?)
>Operating officer: Kozima Yuzo (Armored Core Director/Manager)
>Auditor: Yasuaki Takayama
>Counselor "God Naoyoshi" (Naotoshi Jin, aka From's founder, creator of Echo Night, Shadow Tower, and King's Field)

So it looks like Kadokawa has replaced most of the company's board. Miyazaki is president but they have a complete takeover of From's board.

>>180548669
>rewarding the player for crushing a baby while it's screaming out and showing the bloody body of it

do you want your game to be banned in europe?

that's how you get your game banned in europe

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>start a new playthrough
>end up losing a bunch of souls early on by being an idiot
>dont want to play anymore
It wasn't even a lot, just a couple thousand.

>>180549306
We've killed plenty of skeleton babies in the tomb of giants.

>>180549353

DaS2?

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>>180549353
>actually have nightmares about losing 80-100k souls to personal fuckups
I should take a break from this series, but I can't put it down.

>tfw beat Yhorm without the stormruler on my first playthrough
Who /retard/ here?

>>180549421
Yeah, died to pursuer and then died trying to get the ironclad to hit a barrel when I could've easily meleed him anyway.

>>180549392
Kid-killing is not okay unless they're already dead/zombies/monsters/etc.

>>180549542
Wasn't ocelotte undead anyway?

>>180549392
skeleton babies don't resemble actual babies that much

>>180522762
It's not really "cut content", that's NPC content. It's like saying Alfred's bloodstained clothes are "cut content".

It was made for exactly the purpose it was used for.

>>180549591
They look like toddlers to me desu.

>>180549587
No.

>>180549534
>not just buying a few firebombs and throwing them instead.

DS2 went too far with the "no hand holding, if you fuck up its your fault"

At least you don't lose souls for being hit or can end up going negative like in AC

>>180549587
Nah, sweet royal bloodline, half Everlasting dragon decedent. Kid would have been fine if ashen one was a good child services worker instead of a slow lazy bum.

>>180522973
The method being used for exploring Bloodborne's content is unfortunately limited. You can only equip items, not change what models are used, and there weren't any item IDs for unused weapons. There may be models that can't be viewed this way, but right now there's no way to see them.

>>180549859
Well that is a shame really. Could zullie and you guys find the face models or has that been done already? What about any enemy files or is it still the modding limitation at the moment?
P.S thanks for cracking the game, all this effort is really great.

>>180549776
That was entirely his fault and it was no different from DS1 / DeS.

>>180549776
>not just buying a few firebombs and throwing them instead.
I swear every playthrough the guy that's supposed to open the shortcut gets worse at throwing bombs there, it's easier to just buy a bomb from the hag and do it yourself, same for the ballista trap

>Gael
Do this cunt's combos ever fucking stop? Jesus fucking Christ, it's enough that he has a trillion hp and takes like 30% damage, but I can never find a window to attack

>>180549815
The ashen one is a shitstain.
I love taking care of kids.

Hypothetical boss time.
>Go to fight dragon
>Dragon is sitting on pile of gold
>lol, what a lame trope
>Walk forward
>Dragon starts... melting?
>Scales are mimics
>Skeleton collapses as the mimics swarm
>The treasure it's laying on are also mimics
>Swarm of mimics and mimics and mimics of mimics
>Portcullis slams down
>Room is also mimic

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>>180549353
>sl1 run in dark souls 1
>save all the souls i get as an additional challenge
>die and lose 800k souls + 20~ humanity to bed of chaos

>>180550080
Basically, the only thing that's being done is save editing, so you can't make "live" changes to the world. That means no changing models, no editing enemies, no crazy stuff. The NPC gear like Annalise's dress or Alfred's bloodied clothes is about the extent of what can be seen this way, outside of some potential unused consumable items, hunter tools, or runes.

It isn't so much Bloodborne that's been cracked as it is just PS4 save encryption.

>>180550227
He has VERY distinct patterns dude.
When he does the ground slam in the first phase that's very safe to punish.

In the second phase when he does the stab, that's also safe to punish for one or two hits.

He definitely has patterns you can learn fairly easily

>>180550112
He's not "supposed" to open the shortcut, he's supposed to show you that the barrels explode and you're supposed to put it together yourself and buy the firebombs from melentia.

The reason he seems to "get worse" is because the better you are at fighting the ironclad soldier, the less time the other guy has throwing bombs at you, so the less chance he actually manages to hit the barrels at the end of the way.

It almost seems like he's programmed to NOT throw at you when you're standing buy the barrels to deliberately give you the chance to blow them up yourself, but he'll easily throw at you when you're by any of the other exploding barrels.

>>180550227
Attack in-between his attacks. He staggers easily and you can chain combo him.

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>>180550379
Ah I see thanks for the info. Maybe one day the game and system is cracked perfectly to find some neat stuff.

Is there any better feeling than getting a full hornet ring guard break on the host in front of his 3 phantoms that are all brainlessly mashing r1 into your iframes?

>>180550319
>beat the boss
>light the bonfire
>bonfire is a mimic

>>180550443
Now tell me about the third phase, because that's the one making me want to bang my head against the wall.
I've got phase 1 own so I can avoid getting hit, phase 2 is only a problem when I roll backwards like a fucktard, but phase 3 is just completely retarded. There is no room for a swing when that stupid cape is constantly swinging around after his endless sword combos REEEEEEEEEE

>>180550319
>>180550561
Upvoted

>>180550741
>Go to read soapstone sign
>Soapstone sign is actually off by one letter
>Is actually an explosive trap

>>180550741
1 (you) = 1 upvote

>>180550319
>first encounter has no fogwall at first (goes up later like sage)
>if you die, there is a fogwall you can cross
>the fogwall is also a mimic
>the mimics are drop a bunch of shit, mostly high tier titanite and soul consumables
>each time you pick up a drop, another mimic spawns
>drops get progressively worse until they are just rubbish
>when no mimics are left, starts the actual bossfight
>fight Zandroe, god of greed
>when you kill him, he drops an item
>if you pick it up, you can hear a laugh, get instacursed and have to fight the boss again

>>180550935
>>180550319
tl;dr: Patches, the Boss

why is carthus beacon so god damn sloooow