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This is my first Souls game, just defeated the first big boss but am getting seriously sick of dying all the time. Guess I just suck too much but the obtuse game mechanics sure aren't helping.. just not my cup of tea.
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Hell yeah I finally took the sentinels down. I had no hp left in my bar when I did. How do I get the item on the second floor in that room though? It's outside jumping distance.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:42
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Doflamingo posted:This is my first Souls game, just defeated the first big boss but am getting seriously sick of dying all the time. Guess I just suck too much but the obtuse game mechanics sure aren't helping.. just not my cup of tea. Have you gone through the tutorial? Are you aware of your surroundings? If you're at the second bonfire of the Forest, look behind you and go upstairs. Break down the door, keep going further until you find a metal Chest. Use the Small White Soapstone to recover humanity Also when you're in any menu, press Select to read what something does. It's the Help button, and it's very useful. VVVV The dudes in the White armor resting have lightning weapons. Also Lightning scales with Faith just so you know.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:42
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How do people already have lightning equipment and poo poo by the lost bastille? I haven't found any special ores and I'm guessing I missed something. Also when do I get access to infinite titanite shards/large titanite?
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Apr 25, 2014 23:43
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neetengie posted:The club is better because of the A scaling. Both have the same STR requirement, but the DEX requirement is lower. The difference in scaling doesn't catch up til you have around 50 str.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:43
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Doflamingo posted:This is my first Souls game, just defeated the first big boss but am getting seriously sick of dying all the time. Guess I just suck too much but the obtuse game mechanics sure aren't helping.. just not my cup of tea. Be slower and more careful. It takes patience, and your biggest enemy is rushing forward to try to get back to where you were before you died. Hard to give advice without knowing what's killing you, though. Which game mechanics in particular are obtuse or giving you a hard time? You can read tooltips on the stats screen that explain a whole lot of things. E: RBA Starblade posted:Hell yeah I finally took the sentinels down. I had no hp left in my bar when I did. How do I get the item on the second floor in that room though? It's outside jumping distance. Check around ground level in the boss room for illusory walls. You have to hit a button (A?) to open them, not attack. There are a couple.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:43
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AParadox posted:Broadsword at risk and I haven't seen a smith yet, and I have no repair consumables as far as I can tell, do I have to indefinitely store it for now? There's a smith in Majula. Buy the key to his shop from the old merchant hag to make him accessible. Otherwise, stuff will auto-repair at bonfires unless it's completely broken (in which case you need the smith).
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Apr 25, 2014 23:47
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Down goes the Pursuer. He was may second boss, and a loving massive step up in difficulty from the Last of the Giants. The windows were way the gently caress smaller than similar enemies in DS1 - like with a lot of humanoid enemies in this game, really. Still, once I started paying closer attention to his patterns and stopped playing angry, it wasn't too bad. Felt really good to beat him primarily with dual swords - though I pulled a leather shield out whenever I took a hit (and by the time I was down to a half-health cap, two hits was enough to kill me) just so getting nicked while I was trying to bait him into something slow enough for me to drink some Estus afterward wouldn't be a guaranteed disaster. Idle curiosity - is the tower way off on the horizon of Majula the Tower of Flame? Because, uh, this game is taking some liberties with its geometry if that's the case.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:47
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Jesus christ, does anyone else feel like this game is vastly harder/less fair than DS1 was? I've been playing for hours and I still haven't even made it to the first boss even though I played all the way through DaS1 last week in preparation. I just can't handle 3-4x at once, like the crossbow room. I also love being mid-backstab animation and getting hit with 4 arrows at once, then dying. My "progress" so far is dying and repeating each section until poo poo just stops spawning. I'm honestly fine other than being mobbed by 3-4 at once while something else chunks fire bombs on my head. Had less trouble against O&S and 4Kings combined than I've had just killing Forest trash. I can't even grind levels because I've lost all the souls and everything stopped spawning 
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Apr 25, 2014 23:47
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RBA Starblade posted:Hell yeah I finally took the sentinels down. I had no hp left in my bar when I did. How do I get the item on the second floor in that room though? It's outside jumping distance. There are a bunch of secret doors in that area. Check for messages or just run along the wall tapping the "open door" key.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:48
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MrTheDevious posted:Jesus christ, does anyone else feel like this game is vastly harder/less fair than DS1 was? I've been playing for hours and I still haven't even made it to the first boss even though I played all the way through DaS1 last week in preparation. I just can't handle 3-4x at once, like the crossbow room. My "progress" so far is dying and repeating each section until poo poo just stops spawning. Someone mentioned way back during console release that the game was a lot more like Demons Souls 2 than Dark Souls 2 and it's truest in that regard. IIRC every single enemy could be pulled 1 by 1 in Dark Souls, but in Both Demons and DS2 there are enemies that you're forced to fight in packs. Once you get used to that, I don't think it's any harder than DS1, but it takes some adjusting.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:50
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Death is a game mechanic. As a punishment, it is not overly harsh (at least if you think of half/a quarter of your health as bonus HP). Don't let 'YOU DIED' get you down, no matter how many times you see it. We all make the same mistakes, too.Internet Kraken posted:EDIT: Oh my god I can worship a Rat King Excuse me, the Rat King does not demand worship. He is a just and compassionate ruler that wishes the best for his subjects and demands only loyalty and vigilance in return. 
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Apr 25, 2014 23:50
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Beat a boss on the first try. Hell yeah  Die 3 times in a row falling in the room immediately after it 
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Apr 25, 2014 23:51
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MrTheDevious posted:Jesus christ, does anyone else feel like this game is vastly harder/less fair than DS1 was? I've been playing for hours and I still haven't even made it to the first boss even though I played all the way through DaS1 last week in preparation. I just can't handle 3-4x at once, like the crossbow room. My "progress" so far is dying and repeating each section until poo poo just stops spawning. I felt like this until I realized I joined the champions covenant that makes the game like 2x as hard, check that. It's a statue in marjula.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:51
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After I beat last giant am I supposed to head straight for The Pursuer?
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Apr 25, 2014 23:52
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A.C. posted:Someone mentioned way back during console release that the game was a lot more like Demons Souls 2 than Dark Souls 2 and it's truest in that regard. IIRC every single enemy could be pulled 1 by 1 in Dark Souls, but in Both Demons and DS2 there are enemies that you're forced to fight in packs. Once you get used to that, I don't think it's any harder than DS1, but it takes some adjusting. So how exactly ARE you supposed to fight packs? There's never even a slight pause in their attacks. Not to mention if you backstab one, the rest just assrape you
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Apr 25, 2014 23:53
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DoctorStrangelove posted:After I beat last giant am I supposed to head straight for The Pursuer? If you want. You can also go back to Majula and go down the stairs near the cat house. There's a pulley down there which is pretty easy to miss.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:54
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DoctorStrangelove posted:After I beat last giant am I supposed to head straight for The Pursuer? You're not supposed to do anything really. This game is really (mostly) nonlinear, gently caress off to another area if you like and do whatever!
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Apr 25, 2014 23:54
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Well, I bought myself a beret and a monocle. What a fearsome battlemage I am! What are the new percentages for fast roll/normal roll/fat roll? I see no difference between 35% and 50%, but I do past 75%.NmareBfly posted:Check around ground level in the boss room for illusory walls. You have to hit a button (A?) to open them, not attack. There are a couple. Ahh, thanks. I thought maybe just come back later in the level. quote:
Either separate them, an aoe attack or item, try and time your heavy attacks in between theirs, or run.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:55
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DoctorStrangelove posted:After I beat last giant am I supposed to head straight for The Pursuer? You don't need to, and there's some good stuff to be found by exploring around the fortress using the key that you got. Beating the Pursuer is actually optional, but it does get you a shortcut to another area, a useful ring, and a very good heavy armor set, including one of the first-available 100%-physical block shields, though a considerable strength investment is needed to use it.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:56
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MrTheDevious posted:So how exactly ARE you supposed to fight packs? There's never even a slight pause in their attacks. Not to mention if you backstab one, the rest just assrape you If you circle them long enough, you'll eventually get an opportunity, it's just a matter of patience at that point. Really the "best" way to deal with most things in DS2 is berserk aggression and killing things quickly but that's much easier said than done on your first playthrough or two 
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Apr 25, 2014 23:56
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Bobnumerotres posted:How do people already have lightning equipment and poo poo by the lost bastille? I haven't found any special ores and I'm guessing I missed something. You can get a lightining swoed by killing the white knight in the Forest. Although I, too, would like to know where I can get infinite titanite, I'd really like to upgrade my shield.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:57
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RBA Starblade posted:Well, I bought myself a beret and a monocle. What a fearsome battlemage I am! What are the new percentages for fast roll/normal roll/fat roll? I see no difference between 35% and 50%, but I do past 75%. Some of that has to do with your equipment, but a lot will relate to how high your adaptability stat is.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:57
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Holy poo poo! A hollow threw a firebomb at me while I was thrusting my sword in his direction and the bomb bounced off my sword and flew at him. Game of the Year.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:57
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A.C. posted:If you circle them long enough, you'll eventually get an opportunity, it's just a matter of patience at that point. Really the "best" way to deal with most things in DS2 is berserk aggression and killing things quickly but that's much easier said than done on your first playthrough or two Hahah that's how I deal with things in DS1 now, but not really remotely good enough at 2 yet 
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Apr 25, 2014 23:58
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MrTheDevious posted:Jesus christ, does anyone else feel like this game is vastly harder/less fair than DS1 was? I've been playing for hours and I still haven't even made it to the first boss even though I played all the way through DaS1 last week in preparation. I just can't handle 3-4x at once, like the crossbow room. I also love being mid-backstab animation and getting hit with 4 arrows at once, then dying. My "progress" so far is dying and repeating each section until poo poo just stops spawning. Honestly, I've been finding it easier than Dark Souls 1, but I've only gotten up to just past the first boss. A huge help is the massive summon attachment rates: Going through an area as a phantom/shade once to learn where the gently caress everything is before assaulting it on your own really helps. Going through it 5 more times just to get the hang of it helps even more! I mean, I don't know how getting mobbed by 3-4 guys while something else chucks fire bombs on your head is even that much different than undead burg? You could make the argument that there's more enemies and they're more aggressive, but even so they're still just bargain-basement hollow trash that can't take more than a few hits and have huge windups to their attacks.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:58
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RBA Starblade posted:Well, I bought myself a beret and a monocle. What a fearsome battlemage I am! What are the new percentages for fast roll/normal roll/fat roll? I see no difference between 35% and 50%, but I do past 75%. 70% is the mid/fat barrier, I don't think hard numbers exist below that other than degrees of how far/fast your roll with lower weight, and more ADP gives you more invulnerable frames in the roll.
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Apr 25, 2014 23:59
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StashAugustine posted:I, too, would like to know where I can get infinite titanite, I'd really like to upgrade my shield. It'll take a while. At some point (clearing Iron Keep) someone in Majula restocks with infinite numbers of smalls, and there's a thing you'll get in the same zone that'll open up another vendor who has larges. Small and large shards are more precious earlier on than they really should be, imo. Chunks you can get easily through the Bellkeepers. Easily as in like 30 in two hours massacring people. NmareBfly fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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Apr 26, 2014 00:00
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What's a good weapon to switch to from the Mace? I'm in Huntsman's Copse and I don't want to gimp myself by over depending on it, like the Drake Sword in DS1. I was using Dex weapons since I rocked the BSS in DS1 and wanted to wheel and deal some hardcore damage, but I respecced into Strength after reading that Dex scaling is awful in this game.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:02
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Archenteron posted:70% is the mid/fat barrier, I don't think hard numbers exist below that other than degrees of how far/fast your roll with lower weight, and more ADP gives you more invulnerable frames in the roll. Cool, I've been a little wary of tossing on the elite knight set but I guess there's no problem then. Just wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything. I've been putting attunement and ADP pretty high for agility. The game is significantly easier than Dark Souls 1 for me so far, but that's probably because I played through and completed Dark Souls 1 twice. I know what to expect. I'm still dying here and there, but I've died probably six or seven times max. Much less than starting fresh in DS1.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:02
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NamePolice posted:What's a good weapon to switch to from the Mace? I'm in Huntsman's Copse and I don't want to gimp myself by over depending on it, like the Drake Sword in DS1. I was using Dex weapons since I rocked the BSS in DS1 and wanted to wheel and deal some hardcore damage, but I respecced into Strength after reading that Dex scaling is awful in this game. Get the LArge Club from the Lost Bastille. In the Servant's Quarter's bonfire, downstairs. It will be your lover forever.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:03
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Cowcaster posted:Honestly, I've been finding it easier than Dark Souls 1, but I've only gotten up to just past the first boss. In Lost Bastille there are a lot of annoying group fights. IMO Lost Bastille has a number of really badly designed gameplay elements but whatever. Also, I agree on the summoning thing but at the same time I'd like to be able to win battles on my own. 4 or 5 years from now if I want to do a play through of DS2 again I don't want to have to rely on summons to make it through certain areas. I'm a few bosses in and haven't relied on summons to win anything yet, but I have been summoned a few times in order to return myself to human form without using an effigy (another gameplay element that I hope doesn't suffer 4 or 5 years from now if I want to replay the game). Yeah it's great now because 60k people are playing but it won't always be that way.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:05
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Cowcaster posted:Honestly, I've been finding it easier than Dark Souls 1, but I've only gotten up to just past the first boss. DaS2 doesn't start out much harder than DaS and doesn't ever really get much harder than DaS' hardest areas, but it ramps up the difficulty much less smoothly - there's about three early game areas, not all of them connected, and then you get dumped into the midgame without so much as a "well, ya done good". It's pretty jarring to get to Bastille as your second area, which may account for some of the salt in this thread.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:05
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Is invading harder in this game or something? I spent 4 hours in human mode in appropriate level zones and didn't get a singular scoundrel to try out my rapier parrying skills with.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:06
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Maxmaps posted:Is invading harder in this game or something? I spent 4 hours in human mode in appropriate level zones and didn't get a singular scoundrel to try out my rapier parrying skills with. There's no Red Eye Orb in this game, and Cracked Red Eye Orbs are a little more limited. Most pvp is either in the Bell Towers, the Ratbros (to a limited definition of pvp) and the Redbro Duel Arena, or NG+. Also you don't need to be human to be invaded anymore.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:08
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Archenteron posted:There's no Red Eye Orb in this game, and Cracked Red Eye Orbs are a little more limited. Most pvp is either in the Bell Towers, the Ratbros (to a limited definition of pvp) and the Redbro Duel Arena, or NG+ I wish I would get invaded at all outside those areas; it's half the fun. Not to mention how I thought the sentinels worked; you got invaded trying to progress somewhere, the sentinels show up and help you with it. Instead it seems like it's just for those few specific areas with covenants.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:09
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The Royal Greatsword and Drangleic Greatsword have this weird animation on the two-handed R1/R2's where they look like they're sinking into a perfect position to stab (in an actual longsword guard, no less) and then just slash instead. It throws me off every time because I'm expecting a slash/stab combination.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:10
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MrTheDevious posted:Jesus christ, does anyone else feel like this game is vastly harder/less fair than DS1 was? I've been playing for hours and I still haven't even made it to the first boss even though I played all the way through DaS1 last week in preparation. I just can't handle 3-4x at once, like the crossbow room. I also love being mid-backstab animation and getting hit with 4 arrows at once, then dying. My "progress" so far is dying and repeating each section until poo poo just stops spawning. It is. You will encounter bosses that have a move that insta-depletes your stamina followed by a 3 hits combo. Most trash mobs, and almost all the bosses have such wide swings for every attack that you will get hit regardless, and rolling is terrible now. Also the rat horde fight is the shittiest, worst designed, clunkiest boss fight I've ever seen. It would be an easy one too, what makes it frustrating is the fact that your weapon keeps hitting those loving small statues all the time. It definitely looks like certain bosses are designed to be only killed in coop (or steamrolled solo when you're hilariously over-leveled), but this creates cheesy moments like 1 phantom getting the boss attention and just blocking all the time, another hitting his butt, and you shooting with your crossbow 20 meters away. If it doesn't sound epic it's because it's really not. So yes, this is definitely the cheapest of the 3 DS in my opinion, and the least fair.
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Apr 26, 2014 00:10
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this thread needs more spoiler tags
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Apr 26, 2014 00:11
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RBA Starblade posted:I wish I would get invaded at all outside those areas; it's half the fun. Not to mention how I thought the sentinels worked; you got invaded trying to progress somewhere, the sentinels show up and help you with it. Instead it seems like it's just for those few specific areas with covenants. The sentinels both are what you said (Though, again, more of a thing in NG+ due to that invasion limitation thing), as well as the Drangleic Police. Let me tell you, murder all your NPCs at the end of a run to rack up the sin, then head to Heide's Tower in NG+ and boy howdy you will have a neverending stream of the po-po.
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