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I did that fight yesterday and had no idea it was possible. I lucked out and got an NPC summon when I fought him, who I proceeded to poke to death in just a few seconds. ...at least I think it was an NPC summon. Some people are just really bad at this game when it comes to PvP. I'm going to head back and see if I can get sucked in since I haven't progressed all that far and my SM should be fine. I saw all those red soapstone signs outside and I just assumed it was a local hangout place for the PvPers to summon each other.
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A.C. posted:It was originally a bug, but they made it an actual feature in the patch before PC release. No it wasn't, it was people misunderstanding of a mistranslated tweet that made people assume that. The bug was that it happened inconsistently, not that it happened at all.
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May 4, 2014 14:05
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I keep hearing about invincible hackers all the time but I'm pretty sure I haven't faced a single one despite spending a lot of time PvPing. Sometimes my attacks don't deal any damage but I'm 90% sure that's just lag and they actually dodged because afterwards they take damage just fine.
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May 4, 2014 14:10
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Kanfy posted:I keep hearing about invincible hackers all the time but I'm pretty sure I haven't faced a single one despite spending a lot of time PvPing. Sometimes my attacks don't deal any damage but I'm 90% sure that's just lag and they actually dodged because afterwards they take damage just fine. I'd fought a couple of people who might have been a little questionable, but just now was the first absolute definite hacker who was terrible at the game and despite me and another Bellbro absolutely wailing on him and poisoning him he didn't take any damage whatsoever. I don't know why out want to play the game that way.
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May 4, 2014 14:11
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Noxville posted:I'd fought a couple of people who might have been a little questionable, but just now was the first absolute definite hacker who was terrible at the game and despite me and another Bellbro absolutely wailing on him and poisoning him he didn't take any damage whatsoever. I don't know why out want to play the game that way. Yeah, they're no doubt around but they don't seem to be all that common, thankfully. And you realize people literally pay monthly fees for cheating services, gotta feel strong and powerful on the internet by any means necessary you know.
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May 4, 2014 14:12
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Crackbone posted:Dumb question - What consistently opens illusory walls? punked notes don't prevent you from opening anything. I can't think of anything that you can blow up with firebombs but not regular attacks. Only exceptions are the barrel walls that need exploding but that's triggered by a lot of things
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May 4, 2014 14:20
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Noxville posted:I'd fought a couple of people who might have been a little questionable, but just now was the first absolute definite hacker who was terrible at the game and despite me and another Bellbro absolutely wailing on him and poisoning him he didn't take any damage whatsoever. I don't know why out want to play the game that way. I had a dude like that once but I think it was just supreme lag. He took damage but seemed to recover his HP unusually quickly. Eventually he got stuck in some sort of limbo where he stopped moving but wouldn't take damage, where he stayed until the invasion timed out. I'm pretty sure his connection was just hilariously bad, like he was on a 28k modem or something, and he lagged out and disconnected. The health regen was probably him drinking flasks several seconds before I saw it.
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May 4, 2014 14:21
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Kanfy posted:Yeah, they're no doubt around but they don't seem to be all that common, thankfully. They don't, though, most of the time. Cheat Engine is free. A lot of hacking in video games even outside of CE, like aimbotting in FPS games, is based on scripting you can do yourself if you know how. PerfectAimbotHax.co.gov or whatever is probably not as lucrative as you'd think. I've seen zero hackers so far but I don't doubt they exist. It's a multiplayer PC game, there are going to be hackers, VAC be damned.
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May 4, 2014 14:21
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I've seen one person I knew was definitely a hacker. Guy invades me while I'm trying to bell bust, so I fight him. Stab him in the face, makes the sound of weapon contact, no damage. loving lag screwing me over again. No matter, I'll just hit him again and- gently caress no damage you've gotta be kidding me. Now he's just sitting firing at me avelyn because of course he has that dumb bow. Well, now he's completely exposed to a FORBIDDEN SUN! No damage. At that point I realized it wasn't lag, he was just a cheating gently caress. Situations like that are why I sit next to the boss door in Bellfry Sol. I will gladly fight any invader 1v1, but no point in wasting time on a cheater.
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May 4, 2014 14:22
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Renegret posted:I had a dude like that once but I think it was just supreme lag. He took damage but seemed to recover his HP unusually quickly. Eventually he got stuck in some sort of limbo where he stopped moving but wouldn't take damage, where he stayed until the invasion timed out. I did have one guy like that today as well, actually, teleporting all around and not taking damage. This first guy definitely had a good connection though.
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May 4, 2014 14:23
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Gus Hobbleton posted:No, it stays +10. Thank god. Just made Smelter demon my bitch with the raw malformed skull +7.
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May 4, 2014 14:23
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So leave a red sign in the corridor leading up to Looking Glass Knight gives you a chance to be summoned through his mirror during someone's fight? That is incredibly cool sounding, and I gotta do it. I don't care about pwning noobs in PvP, but I do care about giving other players a memorable Dark Souls experience.  BARONS GAMES WHINER posted:Black Iron Tank Steely Tankus
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May 4, 2014 14:25
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So, about 10 pages back folks were talking about VAC bans for using durantes gfx enhancer thing. I've never had a VAC ban, and I don't intend to. If I remove it now, having only used it for a few play sessions, what are the chances I'll get flagged in the ban wave?
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May 4, 2014 14:26
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Annath posted:So, about 10 pages back folks were talking about VAC bans for using durantes gfx enhancer thing. No one has reported being banned for GeDoSaTo and it has been out for almost 2 weeks. It's also advertised in one of the Steam news articles for Dark Souls 2 (lifted from PCGamer). 
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May 4, 2014 14:32
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Annath posted:So, about 10 pages back folks were talking about VAC bans for using durantes gfx enhancer thing. This is assuming they'll even think about banning for it, and honestly if it happens it'll be repealed REAL quick because I suspect way too many people use the tool. But no you wouldn't be safe, if it does happen. It's why I'm not going to download a neat looking thing I found which lets you get any camera angle you want, as long as you can see your character, because it uses CheatEngine.
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May 4, 2014 14:34
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Is there a way to put the game into offline mode while still being online on Steam?
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May 4, 2014 14:35
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I'm in the Shrine of Amana, is this Ash Lake? It looks like it. I think Things Betwixt is more obviously connected to the Ash Lake, what with the Archtrees and the shoreline. This would also sorta tie into the area under the mansion having the shattered Lordvessel, the accumulated ash and the area around it having the remnants of the same sort of architecture as the Kiln of the First Flame.
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May 4, 2014 14:45
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Janac posted:Is there a way to put the game into offline mode while still being online on Steam? Just disable your internet, go through the start screen and start in offline mode, turn your internet back on. Unless you click "Go Online" or whatever on the main menu you'll be in offline mode indefinitely.
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May 4, 2014 14:53
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Domattee posted:He's talking about the metal dudes in Dragon Shrine. The hammer wielding ones are bugged and don't pause between their combos. I loving knew they were bugged! The hammer bros are total bullshit as a melee character, they will just do an infinite combo on you and you're forced to kill them with projectiles from a distance. Hopefully there'll be more balance patches but it IS From.
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May 4, 2014 14:54
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Bobnumerotres posted:I loving knew they were bugged! The hammer bros are total bullshit as a melee character, they will just do an infinite combo on you and you're forced to kill them with projectiles from a distance. For people who haven't seen them in their true form, here is a WebM showing off the full nature of the knights with greathammers. It's a truly frightening sight to behold. Note that the attack being shown off has 100% tracking, so if you rotate, the knight will rotate with you without taking a step. It's kinda horseshit!
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May 4, 2014 14:56
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How am I meant to get Sunbro medals at a reasonable rate when the only two bosses I'm getting summon hits on at my soul memory are OIK and The Rotten, and 80% of hosts die within the first 10 seconds of the fight?
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May 4, 2014 15:00
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CJacobs posted:For people who haven't seen them in their true form, here is a WebM showing off the full nature of the knights with greathammers. It's a truly frightening sight to behold. Oh thank God, I thought I was just a total scrub at dodging these guys. I was wondering why there was such a disparity between the sword knights and those jerks.
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May 4, 2014 15:00
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CJacobs posted:For people who haven't seen them in their true form, here is a WebM showing off the full nature of the knights with greathammers. It's a truly frightening sight to behold. They chain into their other combos as well. As a melee character you have to hope they do one particular attack that has a long vulnerable animation at the end, otherwise they just attack forever and kill you. The greatsword knights right before the ancient dragon also have attacks that go right through your shield, which makes no sense.
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May 4, 2014 15:01
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Arthil posted:This is assuming they'll even think about banning for it, and honestly if it happens it'll be repealed REAL quick because I suspect way too many people use the tool. So basically, since I've already used it, I might as well keep using it?
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May 4, 2014 15:02
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I just maxed out the Sunbros and the Darkbros and I'm thinking of joining the Rat Pack. My question is, do you get the rewards if the monsters score the kill or do you have to land the finishing blow yourself? Edit: El Pollo Blanco posted:How am I meant to get Sunbro medals at a reasonable rate when the only two bosses I'm getting summon hits on at my soul memory are OIK and The Rotten, and 80% of hosts die within the first 10 seconds of the fight? Ever try Sunbroing the Looking Glass Knight? The boss is super easy and I got something like 17 of my medals there with only three host deaths. I was getting hits CONSTANTLY between 1M and 2.1M Soul Memory. Time_pants fucked around with this message at 15:05 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 15:02
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Annath posted:So basically, since I've already used it, I might as well keep using it? If you've already modified your save, and they had a method of tracing this they'll be able to use it anyway, so why not?
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Time_pants posted:I just maxed out the Sunbros and the Darkbros and I'm thinking of joining the Rat Pack. My question is, do you get the rewards if the monsters score the kill or do you have to land the finishing blow yourself? You get the rewards regardless of how the enemy dies, as long as they die.
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Time_pants posted:I just maxed out the Sunbros and the Darkbros and I'm thinking of joining the Rat Pack. My question is, do you get the rewards if the monsters score the kill or do you have to land the finishing blow yourself? You definitely get it from NPC kills. In fact one of my favorite things as a rat was to boost up fully unlocked Doors of Pharros to NG+ and just watch them trying to survive like a cliché RPG villain.  Of course to get to the fog door they'll still have to beat me at the end. I think only one person has ever survived the whole thing and that guy deserved to get through if you ask me.
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May 4, 2014 15:09
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Annath posted:So basically, since I've already used it, I might as well keep using it? Pretty much, yeah. I mean GedoSato doesn't do anything more funny than ENB does, which is also available for Dark Souls 2, yet I don't hear about people using ENB for other games being banned left and right.
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May 4, 2014 15:10
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Kanfy posted:You definitely get it from NPC kills. In fact one of my favorite things as a rat was to boost up fully unlocked Doors of Pharros to NG+ and just watch them trying to survive like a cliché RPG villain. I feel like the ability for your buddies to get genocided completely turns me off from ratbro. After > 10 summons you're going to be forced to upgrade the area at the bonfire or start losing your buddies  Plus every time I try to ratbro, I get very few summons. Eventually I just get bored and leave.
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Renegret posted:I feel like the ability for your buddies to get genocided completely turns me off from ratbro. After > 10 summons you're going to be forced to upgrade the area at the bonfire or start losing your buddies Yeah, that's a bit silly. On the upside you can sometimes loot the tails off of the killed rats to increase your covenant rank.
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So I've beaten the dragon rider and last giant. Not really sure what to do at this point so I went to the warf to try and get the Merchant I can sell all my junk to. Any other ideas where I should go? Also what's a good weapon for a hex build early game? I don't want to waste too much money upgrading a weapon I won't use for a while at least. I'm still using my unupgraded starting mace.
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God, I thought the NG phantoms in the forest were low-effort but the ones around the cathedral are even worse. This poo poo will be a constant throughout NG, will it? 
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-Blackadder- posted:So I've beaten the dragon rider and last giant. Not really sure what to do at this point so I went to the warf to try and get the Merchant I can sell all my junk to. Any other ideas where I should go? You should probably head the other way from the big room with the three Old Knights in Heide's Tower of Flame and fight the boss there and explore Forest of the Giants further by opening the (4?) locked doors with the key you looted from the giant.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I'm in the Shrine of Amana, is this Ash Lake? It looks like it. It's not, no. Ash Lake is much lower and, if Dark Souls 1 is to believed, the entire Dark Souls world more or less rests on the boughs of the Ash Trees. If that is the case you can see how the Shrine of Amana is not nearly low enough or large enough to be that.
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NihilVerumNisiMors posted:God, I thought the NG phantoms in the forest were low-effort but the ones around the cathedral are even worse. This poo poo will be a constant throughout NG, will it? What? You mean NG+? They put in a few interesting encounters that would force new tactics, but for the most part the NG+ phantoms are there for unique armor sets/fashion souls.
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3 out of 4 summons I've done for Skeleton Lords has been me + a 2nd phantom. Doesn't people realise that more than one phantom drastically increases boss HP? I'm burning through dark orb and great soul arrow like you wouldn't believe.
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ulvir posted:3 out of 4 summons I've done for Skeleton Lords has been me + a 2nd phantom. Doesn't people realise that more than one phantom drastically increases boss HP? I'm burning through dark orb and great soul arrow like you wouldn't believe. I've been playing for 60 hours, didn't know that was a thing. Unless you follow a guide or something the majority of systems in the game aren't clear.
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Captain Oblivious posted:It's not, no. Ash Lake is much lower and, if Dark Souls 1 is to believed, the entire Dark Souls world more or less rests on the boughs of the Ash Trees. This morning it was the lowest point I'd been to (wasn't expecting that lift to go down to take me to the Crypt). It is still a giant lake extending in all directions, intertwined with a vast mass of tree roots, accompanied by a haunting wailing. The Tower of Flame looks like a ruined, partially submerged Anor Londo and given how what little plot I've gleaned so far shows the corrupted descendants of the original Great Souls so at least I'd say it's meant to evoke Ash Lake.
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CJacobs posted:For people who haven't seen them in their true form, here is a WebM showing off the full nature of the knights with greathammers. It's a truly frightening sight to behold. I lost a six hour No Death run to that motherfucker; they're probably the best example of how much the cooldown after attacks structures combat in these games by not having any at all and being complete horseshit.
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