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Pomp posted:Burn my only red eye orb. Game summons me right in the middle of the same room as the three dudes fighting a monster. I get surrounded and stabbed to death the instant I am no longer invincible. You'll have access to more when you find the appropriate covenant, and an NPC sells them on NG+.
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tRIDAV posted:So if you die, the game punishes you by reducing your HP. And eventually it decides to make it easier by permanently despawning enemies. Except if you're having trouble with 1 particular part past the despawned enemies, you're now even worse off than before because you can't get souls. Except if you want to make them even more difficult by making them NG+ level if you have particular items. And none of this is told to the player either. Use your small white soapstone dude. It fixes both your souls and your humanity problems.
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Sex Robot posted:Burn a human effigy in a fire This is wrong. You have to burn an ascetic, but that makes that area NG+. Your title is totally accurate. No you can't make them respawn but you shouldn't. That means you're taking too long, and the game wants you to move forward. Like in a beat em up game if you stand still for too long. "Move On! Move On!"
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Apr 26, 2014 19:09
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vandalism posted:I can't get a ps3 controller to work with this game for poo poo! I tried motioninjoy, few different profiles. It works but not when I'm in the game. Bullshit. Try these drivers instead.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:09
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1. Where do I go after I killed the pursuer? Do I steal his ride to god knows where or try out one of the other "wings" in Majula? 2. Does adaptability provide benefits for armoured brick playstyles that barely use roll or should I put the points in vgr/end/str instead? 3. Does armour resistance come into effect before or after stamina reduction on block is calculated?
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Apr 26, 2014 19:16
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For mouse people, to find out more about things in your menu - right click and it should be "help" click that and hover your cursor over what you wanna know
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Apr 26, 2014 19:16
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tRIDAV posted:So if you die, the game punishes you by reducing your HP. And eventually it decides to make it easier by permanently despawning enemies. Except if you're having trouble with 1 particular part past the despawned enemies, you're now even worse off than before because you can't get souls. Except if you want to make them even more difficult by making them NG+ level if you have particular items. And none of this is told to the player either. This is a mechanic designed to get people going human more often, and jolly coopin' together, not to just annoy you. Basically, you're playing the game wrong. Use (not burn) a human effigy, or even easier use the small signstone (which you can use while hollow!) to help some dudes out and gain your humanity when you succeed. e: Also useful for trying out bosses or particularly difficult areas (cause you dont have to fight a boss to be summoned with it), since you don't lose your souls if you fail Logan 5 fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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Apr 26, 2014 19:16
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What is a really good mid-game strength weapon? I'm swinging around an upgraded ultra greatsword and the fire sword in the other slot still.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:17
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Zaphod42 posted:This is wrong. You have to burn an ascetic, but that makes that area NG+. it takes like four hours to kill the same area fifteen times so really you should move on already
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Apr 26, 2014 19:17
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Cowcaster posted:Use your small white soapstone dude. It fixes both your souls and your humanity problems. Literally besides the point. I wanted to see if there was a better way to do the packs before Ruin Sentinels because I enjoy getting better and I was having fun. I don't like to summon to get past hard parts, I like to practice and get better. I don't care at all about the missing souls because I can always get more through co-op like you said. You know when Devil May Cry asked you if you wanted to go down a difficulty level? It had the courtesy to ask.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:17
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After how much trouble they gave me, I feel kind of bad that I just blew away Old Dragonslayer Ornstein. Sorry dude.  Also I got red invaded! He managed to draw three giant soldiers on me at the same time. It cost me a phantom but I took them all down. 
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Apr 26, 2014 19:18
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Small white soapstone is broken good, use it more. If the dude you're helping stays alive you get unhollowed, an estus refill, a small stone, and your map HP reset.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:18
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I think part of the problem is that originally the small white sign soapstone inconsistently restored humanity due to a bug, which was later patched. So none of the wikis mention it restores humanity, nor does the item description.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:19
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tRIDAV posted:Literally besides the point. I wanted to see if there was a better way to do the packs before Ruin Sentinels because I enjoy getting better and I was having fun. I don't like to summon to get past hard parts, I like to practice and get better. I don't care at all about the missing souls because I can always get more through co-op like you said. It's really easy to get souls and humanity.
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You know I think I completely out levelled NG. SL135 and 2.6 million SM. I guess rushing through the game because I put 200 hours into the ps3 version wasn't the best idea :I
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tRIDAV posted:Literally besides the point. I wanted to see if there was a better way to do the packs before Ruin Sentinels because I enjoy getting better and I was having fun. I don't like to summon to get past hard parts, I like to practice and get better. I don't care at all about the missing souls because I can always get more through co-op like you said. I'm not talking about you summoning help, I'm talking about you BEING SUMMONED. If you get summoned as a shade and fulfill your duty by killing dudes for 5 minutes, you get your humanity restored AND get to keep the souls you farmed. Hey, you even get to get in that practice you were hoping for! There's no reason for you not to be doing this! Cowcaster fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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Apr 26, 2014 19:20
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Hey, where is the map in the cartographers mansion? is there one in the first place? also, I keep seeing messages about 'illusions' how do I dispel them?
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Apr 26, 2014 19:20
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Logan 5 posted:Can somebody tell me what this stat is on weapons? Most of this I can (kind of) figure out, but I'm lost on this one: That stat is the bleed bonus. Poison and Bleed are more or less treated as "elements" now so you can make all weapons "bleed" weapons at the infusion blacksmith, and then pump your stats in such a way to get an even bigger bleed bonus. Finding McDuff the blacksmith's easy, getting him a new ember...not so easy. Totally worth it though as the elemental stuff is loving awesome if you're not a straight STR/DEX character.
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Welp. Anyone heard anything about hackers yet because I just ran into a guy who didn't take damage from a great resonant soul to the chest. He wasn't dodging and there was no lag.
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Al-Saqr posted:Hey, where is the map in the cartographers mansion? is there one in the first place? also, I keep seeing messages about 'illusions' how do I dispel them? You need to press the Use button I believe (the same one you use to read messages on the ground), in front of specific buttons.
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HGH posted:You need to press the Use button I believe (the same one you use to read messages on the ground), in front of specific buttons. It's kind of like it's 1995 and you're playing Doom: mash the use key on walls until you find a secret door!
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Cowcaster posted:I'm not talking about you summoning help, I'm talking about you BEING SUMMONED. If you get summoned as a shade and fulfill your duty by killing dudes for 5 minutes, you get your humanity and get to keep the souls you farmed. You can't honestly believe the game plays the same with 2 people compared to 1. gently caress permanently despawning enemies is all I am trying to get across. If you want to prevent people to farm them, it should also be based on spent souls instead of acquired because that is some straight up retarded logic.
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So on the same line of discussion of being able to switch handedness for weapon and shield, how does parrying behaviour work? Or is it less hitbox meets hitbox and more of an animation timing thing? Because it would seem weird since I'm sure all the enemies in the game are right handed so having a shield in the right hand to parry with wouldn't technically work out.
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Turns out that all you need to activate the pre-order weapons is a text file.  It's in the /DLC/License folder, named license05.bin. If you open it up the contents are just "DLC06 DARK SOULS II Sales gimmick". I get the feeling someone didn't appreciate a marketing department forcing them to have a pre-order.
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tRIDAV posted:You can't honestly believe the game plays the same with 2 people compared to 1. Yeah, it doesn't play the same. In fact, it becomes MORE AWESOME with two people. I do agree the soul memory's a bit dumb though.
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Yep. People already hacking. Just invaded the same guy again in belfry sol who wasn't taking any damage from any attacks and just walked around with an avelyn shooting me and another phantom.
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So, about these soapstones... I have already beat the first major boss of the game and still don't have a way to drop a summoning sign. Did I miss something obvious? I'm about to head out to Heide's but I feel like I'm missing out on part of the Dark Souls experience.
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Apr 26, 2014 19:29
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Soul memory seems like it could be a good idea conceptually, but then its bad because you get punished for losing souls which screws up the dynamic of thinking they're really important when they're really throwaway currency. Now it actually sucks to lose a bunch.
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Alkydere posted:Yeah, it doesn't play the same. In fact, it becomes MORE AWESOME with two people. I do agree the soul memory's a bit dumb though. Yeah, Soul Memory is probably my main complaint. I accidentally got carried away by being summoned as a shade every 5 steps in dead mans warf and now my soul memory is around 400K.
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DrNutt posted:So, about these soapstones... I have already beat the first major boss of the game and still don't have a way to drop a summoning sign. Did I miss something obvious? I'm about to head out to Heide's but I feel like I'm missing out on part of the Dark Souls experience. Small soapstone: above the bonfire with the merchant lady. Normal white soapstone: go into the ambush that the guy giving off a Patches vibe tells you to. Then come back and talk to him after you escape/die.
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DrNutt posted:So, about these soapstones... I have already beat the first major boss of the game and still don't have a way to drop a summoning sign. Did I miss something obvious? I'm about to head out to Heide's but I feel like I'm missing out on part of the Dark Souls experience. Yeah, you've missed them. The small white sign soapstone: There's a staircase in the Cardinal Tower bonfire room. Head up it to find the stone in a chest. Watch out for hollows. The full-size: Talk to that dude sitting on a barrel who warns you about the ambush ahead until he coughs it up.
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I rerolled as a sorceror. What would have the most immediate benefit on my ability to kill dudes? Sticking some titanite on my lovely starter staff? Leveling int?
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BobTheJanitor posted:Turns out that all you need to activate the pre-order weapons is a text file. That's legitimately hilarious. DrNutt posted:So, about these soapstones... I have already beat the first major boss of the game and still don't have a way to drop a summoning sign. Did I miss something obvious? I'm about to head out to Heide's but I feel like I'm missing out on part of the Dark Souls experience. One is upstairs from that main bonfire. For the other, talk to the guy sat beside that portcullis trap.
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Speaking of soapstones where do you get the red soapstone? I want to leave messages on the ground too
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dis astranagant posted:I rerolled as a sorceror. What would have the most immediate benefit on my ability to kill dudes? Sticking some titanite on my lovely starter staff? Leveling int? Level attunement until you get two spell casting slots, then buy another soul arrow scroll off the old hag in FoFG to raise the cast amount to 60, just like sorcerers usually did in the original Dark Souls.
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BobTheJanitor posted:Turns out that all you need to activate the pre-order weapons is a text file. I'm sure people would've gotten mad that some people got a +1 soul advantage anyway keyframe posted:Speaking of soapstones where do you get the red soapstone? I want to leave messages on the ground too
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keyframe posted:Speaking of soapstones where do you get the red soapstone? I want to leave messages on the ground too If you mean the orange soapstone: Pull up the menu bar, bump over to the messages section and hit write message. That's it!
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Tip for certain very poisonous areas: Once you cut the statues, they're cut forever. Try to proceed carefully and destroy them all for a poison-free black gulch! EDIT: OR NOT YOU KNOW WHATEVER WHO CARES THANKS FROM they respawn if you die, but not from resting in the bonfire.
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Going a very Lightning focused Str / Faith build (also infused chime with lighting for extra damage). Are there any heavily lightning resistant bosses I should be aware of? Or is it smooth sailing for me.
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Sober posted:If I had to work on that I would've promoted an exclusive portable soul item pre-order bonus that turns only grants you one single soul when you use it. More like people would have been mad that the 1 soul advantage means they're not getting the true Dark Souls experience.
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