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Streaming PC if anyone cares http://twitch.tv/alansmitheeplays Godfucking damnit my DS4 isnt working... I got it working last time I played. Now I turn on the xinput mapper thingy and the controller lights up, but nothing Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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Oh Rosebeth ... you wanted clothes, and I ended up giving her the prisoner stuff which happens to be more revealing. Whoops.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:31
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 There, my next Dex, Str, and Int characters are all set up, ready to go. This is the best/dumbest thing I could have done with this character creator.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:36
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Shindragon posted:Look at the ground, you can actually see their black claws popping a bit. I did this but with fire bombs instead. I accidentally hit one while trying to get rid of those traps from afar. Oops, sorry there guys!  Sober posted:I guess you could add "too many armoured enemies" right beside "too many humanoid enemies" on the list of things to blame FromSoftware for in Dark Souls 2 Really I think my problem is just Too Many Enemies. Ambush sandwiches all over the place? Check. Gangbang claymore armed swordmen who recover twice as fast as average dudes? Check. Boss fights where you have three, four, nine assholes all looking for a piece of your rear end? Check! A trio of pigs that are smaller than you yet twice as tanky?? Check!! Honestly it does make victories much more satisfying, I think that anyone who blunders into the Room of Five Bastards with Bastard Swords, or the Room with Not as Many Bastards but With Giant Crossbows Specifically There Just to Shoot You Dead, is going to remember those encounters quite (un)fondly.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:37
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The pigs in Majula are great. They're so pointless but so strong.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:39
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Look Dark Souls, I understand that rapiers might not be the most effective weapon against skeletons, but if my normal hits do around 100 damage then there's no reason for a parry/riposte to do just 39 
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Apr 27, 2014 09:42
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There was a real shift in encounter design between 1 and 2, where they're a lot more fine with throwing lots of enemies at you at once, rather than single or pairs of enemies. You could easily notice it in the DLC content of Dark Souls 1 as well, where the environment design was weird and complicated to make fighting with lots of weaker, but fast and complex enemies more possible and more interesting. I think that was a design theme they tried to keep in 2. The 9 swordsmen fuckers in the Bastille, the tons of stone soldiers, etc. They didn't always succeed though because there's a few areas where you fight tons of enemies but it's just in a big open arena and there's not much you can do.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:42
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nftyw posted:Really I think my problem is just Too Many Enemies. Ambush sandwiches all over the place? Check. Gangbang claymore armed swordmen who recover twice as fast as average dudes? Check. Boss fights where you have three, four, nine assholes all looking for a piece of your rear end? Check! A trio of pigs that are smaller than you yet twice as tanky?? Check!! yeah this has been my experience with the game too. I've died way more to trash in the first bit of this game than I ever did in Demon's or Dark Souls. Sometimes it feels sorta unfair, but c'est la vie.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:43
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Did they change parrying in any significant way? By the time I was done with DS1 I felt like the god-king of parrying, but in this game I can't seem to parry anything reliably.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:44
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Do ultra greatswords lose extra durability if you miss and hit a wall or something? I'll swing my Crypt Blacksword, miss, and then poof half the durability is gone. My mace never went this fast. I'm burning through repair powder.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:48
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Spiritus Nox posted:It's...really not a matter of level, since stats vary tremendously based on what class you choose and what stats you choose to pump when you level up. If you can equip the stuff you want to wear and you think you can manage the rates at which you're taking/dealing damage with your current equipment and stats, then you're levelled enough for your purposes. For one person that point's going to be at level 1, for another it's gonna be level 150. There's other places you can go besides the citadel, though, if you're fed up with the sentinels. Oh, no, it's OK, I did kill them eventually. But yeah, I get your point. I was about Lv43 but like 12 of those levels were just used on getting an attunement slot and 12 Faith, since I wanted to be able to use Heal. That's been a lifesaver.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:49
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Konjuro posted:Did they change parrying in any significant way? By the time I was done with DS1 I felt like the god-king of parrying, but in this game I can't seem to parry anything reliably. Parrying windows seem to be narrower, but more importantly enemies have a broader variety of timings on their own attacks, so you have to be watching REAAAAAL carefully to catch them. Also, a lot of enemy attacks have very small amounts of start-up which makes parrying them on reaction harder. All in all parrying is much more of a gamble unless you've got your nervous system cybernetically enhanced.
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Sexual Aluminum posted:Do ultra greatswords lose extra durability if you miss and hit a wall or something? I'll swing my Crypt Blacksword, miss, and then poof half the durability is gone. Everything does, yeah. It's one of the changes I'm really not a big fan of, anything less than 75 durability feels like it breaks in no time. Keep in mind that sitting at a bonfire refills weapon durability as long as it's not broken.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:53
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Sexual Aluminum posted:Do ultra greatswords lose extra durability if you miss and hit a wall or something? I'll swing my Crypt Blacksword, miss, and then poof half the durability is gone. Weapons lose durability from hitting walls and even corpses. There's a weapon that you have to "unlock" by breaking all 500 durability and hitting a corpse with the R2 burned through 10 durability a hit for me on a large armored enemy. That said you still shouldn't be burning through powder :I
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Apr 27, 2014 09:55
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If anyone has a spare Old Knight Shield, or Old Knight UGS they don't want around 120K SM I'd love you forever.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:56
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My favorite part of the sentinels is their shield throwing attack. Why? Because they can throw their shield, and then they don't have one anymore....but then they can throw another shield from off screen and kill you.
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Apr 27, 2014 09:57
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Black Gulch. Now there's a boss that isn't just a dude in armor. 
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Apr 27, 2014 09:58
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Sinatrapod posted:Parrying windows seem to be narrower, but more importantly enemies have a broader variety of timings on their own attacks, so you have to be watching REAAAAAL carefully to catch them. Also, a lot of enemy attacks have very small amounts of start-up which makes parrying them on reaction harder. Well I have played through MGR:R on Revengeance difficulty.  This character is mainly for me to mess around until they fix the VAC issue, so maybe I'll keep at it a bit longer. I'll either master it or die trying 
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Apr 27, 2014 09:59
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I've gone sorcerer after never using magic in dark souls 1 since I was a pyromancer in that and didn't need to boost a stat for it. How should I be looking to improve my stats as I level other than int for spells? Also will I be using just spells for attacking or will I still need a weapon?
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Apr 27, 2014 10:10
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PCGamingWiki says that Flawless Widescreen should be able to remove the letterboxing from the game, which is incredibly loving obnoxious, but I can't make it work. Image ends up being quite stretched and while some UI looks good most of it is also stretched to hell. Has anyone had any success removing letterboxing from the game? I'm really desperate here.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:10
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Can anyone help me out with this? I think I've encountered a glitch. I believe putting a lockstone there is supposed to open the door, but its kinda stuck. Anything I can do? Just to make sure I put a stone in the slot on the right side as well, just didn't get it in the picture.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:13
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Jack Trades posted:PCGamingWiki says that Flawless Widescreen should be able to remove the letterboxing from the game, which is incredibly loving obnoxious, but I can't make it work. There... is no letterboxing, though? Try changing your resolution to your native one? If you're playing on a 4:3 or 5:4 screen it should just automatically make it that aspect ratio.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:13
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You have no idea how confused I was when I saw this. I almost never did any multiplayer stuff in the first Dark Souls and never did magic so I never saw this before, hahah Cardboard Box fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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Apr 27, 2014 10:13
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Konjuro posted:fix the VAC issue the what 
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Apr 27, 2014 10:16
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Isaacs Alter Ego posted:Can anyone help me out with this? I think I've encountered a glitch. Yeah the floor Contraption opens that bottom section, if it didn't work you may be hosed. Try resting at a bonfire and coming back.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:19
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Voluspa posted:the what People who are VAC banned in a Source engine game for hacking or similar cannot play DS2 in online mode. Apparently this is a bug.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:19
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Ugh, farming the Mad Warrior is so soul crushing even with the better loading times!
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Apr 27, 2014 10:21
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Orv posted:Yeah the floor Contraption opens that bottom section, if it didn't work you may be hosed. Try resting at a bonfire and coming back. Yeah I've tried that, as well as quitting the game completely and starting back up... poo poo. I really wanted what was in there.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:21
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CJacobs posted:There... is no letterboxing, though? Try changing your resolution to your native one? If you're playing on a 4:3 or 5:4 screen it should just automatically make it that aspect ratio. I don't think it does. this was a problem with the first game too. Cardboard Box fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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Apr 27, 2014 10:23
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Cardboard Box posted:I don't think it does. this was a problem with the first game too. Huh. That's a weird oversight.
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Sinatrapod posted:Parrying windows seem to be narrower, but more importantly enemies have a broader variety of timings on their own attacks, so you have to be watching REAAAAAL carefully to catch them. Also, a lot of enemy attacks have very small amounts of start-up which makes parrying them on reaction harder. Why was it changed like this? You could get through the entire game aside from maybe Gwyn having never parried once np in DS1. Not like it was imbalanced or anything.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:34
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Silly question but how the hell do you unequip items? I want to drop something in my box but its not letting me unequip it.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:35
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Operant posted:Silly question but how the hell do you unequip items? I want to drop something in my box but its not letting me unequip it. Hit X (or your 'use item' button if you're not using an xbox controller) with it selected on the equip screen.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:39
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CJacobs posted:
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Konjuro posted:Did they change parrying in any significant way? By the time I was done with DS1 I felt like the god-king of parrying, but in this game I can't seem to parry anything reliably. Things have already been said, but additionally, loving every single implement you can parry with has a slightly (or, in some cases wildly) different parry window. So you have to learn your own first. I still have no clue how to parry with greatswords.
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Apr 27, 2014 10:46
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Beat Darklurker on my first try. This was unexpected, considering how she gave me one hell of a fight on consoles. Then again, I am playing a faith character this time through. I wonder if her debuff in the patch notes was really that drastic?
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Toiwat posted:Look Dark Souls, I understand that rapiers might not be the most effective weapon against skeletons, but if my normal hits do around 100 damage then there's no reason for a parry/riposte to do just 39 Hurrah for skeleton!
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Apr 27, 2014 10:50
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Isaacs Alter Ego posted:Can anyone help me out with this? I think I've encountered a glitch. edit: nm, heh.
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Me and allies beat the Three sentinels bosses in the bastille, good times. also found AMAZING armor/sword/shield combo from right under my nose where I'd least expect it, thank god for messages. hoo boy. Speaking of which, is there anything at all to the boss souls items you get? I mean the 'Or perhaps..' part of the description, which has made me hold off of using any of them, is there anything at all that I should keep them around for? I'd hate to use them now and find out they had more important ramifications later.
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