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butterfly body piece also goes great with cat legs too Schmetterling posted:I beat the Rotten!  
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So seriously, how do you limit frames to 30?
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May 20, 2014 16:57
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Fuzz posted:So seriously, how do you limit frames to 30?
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May 20, 2014 17:01
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If I limit myself to 1 FPS will my weapons be indestructible? screenshot souls
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May 20, 2014 17:03
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Fuzz posted:So seriously, how do you limit frames to 30? So that actually makes the PVP fell better or what? What's the deal with this?
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May 20, 2014 17:04
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So the Rotten becomes pretty hard on Intensity 2 when your only damage is dark and you can only fast roll. I was also surprised to find a ton of people leaving their signs down for that fight at the level I'm at, I guess a lot people fight the Rotten again on NG.
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May 20, 2014 17:07
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Fuzz posted:So seriously, how do you limit frames to 30? Jordbo posted:I did some googling and found this guide for Nvidia cards. If you're on ATI I guess you're SOL.
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May 20, 2014 17:10
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delta534 posted:I use GeDoSaTo I downloaded this yesterday. I play the game through an HDMI cable to my 42 inch plasma. The PC version did look slightly better and the load times were WAY better than the PS3 version on the same screen, but the tearing and mouse cursor was driving me crazy. GeDoSaTo makes it a different game. Holy crap. It looks amazing. Sunbro signs actually are blinding, dark areas are much darker, the downsampling makes a much clearer picture, and oh my god throwing a Great Lightning Spear in the dark is AWESOME. Even lighting bonfires is 100x better. Highly recommended.
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Night Blade posted:So that actually makes the PVP fell better or what? What's the deal with this? I just want to use lower durability weapons without them breaking twice as fast. At 60 fps it registers the durability but twice, apparently, so your weapons break twice as fast?
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May 20, 2014 17:10
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I like fighting the Rotten. He's not really hard but he can still be punishing if you get careless. I also find it kidn of refreshing to fight a big lumpy monster that doesn't move at the pace of a snail. Adjudicator and Nito both move like molasses, so you'd expect the Rotten to be just as sluggish as them. He's actually really quick with his cleaver though, which makes him more fun to fight.
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So my reaction to everything in New Game Plus thus far is "OH JEEZ what's happening? what's that doing there? oh god! help!" Does this continue the entire run?
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May 20, 2014 17:11
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I used to see rumblings of graphics mods getting people VAC banned. That doesn't actually happen, right?
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May 20, 2014 17:12
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Fuzz posted:I just want to use lower durability weapons without them breaking twice as fast. At 60 fps it registers the durability but twice, apparently, so your weapons break twice as fast? Weapons take durability damage for each frame they clip with a corpse. On the PC with weapons clipping for the same amount of seconds but double the frames per second durability damage from corpses is effectively doubled. A few other things are also suspected to also be affected (like the guard break timing) but the corpse damage is the only thing confirmed.
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May 20, 2014 17:14
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Jordbo posted:I did some googling and found this guide for Nvidia cards. Hmmm. The executable is in the steamapps/common/darksoulsII/game folder, right? Worth a shot I suppose.
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May 20, 2014 17:18
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Should add a sub-bullet under "Don't waste your Pharros Lockstones" newbie tip in the OP: "buy the lockstone from the old woman and immediately use it under the ballista room in FoFG" A majority of the guys I've talked into playing the game don't buy it or use it there, and the Chloranthy ring you get is arguably one of the most useful early-game rings you can possibly have until you reach the shaded woods and get the +1 version, but that doesn't happen for a long time for most people.
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Assuming I have 42 INT/Faith, am I better off using Affinity or Crystal Homing Soulmass?
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T.G. Xarbala posted:I used to see rumblings of graphics mods getting people VAC banned. That doesn't actually happen, right? I doubt it very, very much.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:I used to see rumblings of graphics mods getting people VAC banned. That doesn't actually happen, right? buzzsaw.gif posted:I doubt it very, very much. Yeah. What you're hearing is people worrying about it, but no bans of any kind have actually happened. Yet  Seriously, though, it's fine. I'm using GeDoSaTo with no problems. If anyone gets banned, ever, which I doubt, it'll be people giving themselves infinite HP and poo poo.
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May 20, 2014 17:30
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sushibandit posted:Should add a sub-bullet under "Don't waste your Pharros Lockstones" newbie tip in the OP: Alternatively save the 4k souls for leveling up or upgrading and use the free pharros stone you get from the manor.
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The most legit way to get extra pharros stones is to willingly be summoned by a Rat King and slay him.
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I managed to get killed on Prowling Magus on my first attempt because I got hit with double lightning before I'd even assessed what I was facing. Haha oops  Then I got killed twice by Pate's exploding treasure chest. I'm seriously considering murdering that guy in revenge. He and his buddy/enemy are both just no good at all. Now I'm in front of a giant fog door that I'm 100% convinced hides a spider boss, but I haven't explored everywhere yet so I think I may put off fighting it for now.
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Regy Rusty posted:I managed to get killed on Prowling Magus on my first attempt because I got hit with double lightning before I'd even assessed what I was facing. Haha oops People say that boss is literally Pinwheel 2.0 (and it is) but I find that if you don't take out the two guys chucking lightning ASAP they can ruin your day. After that the fight is a cakewalk. Also those guys crawling around are assholes and I died at least once because I got hung up on them trying to kill a lightning dude.
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Domattee posted:Weapons take durability damage for each frame they clip with a corpse. On the PC with weapons clipping for the same amount of seconds but double the frames per second durability damage from corpses is effectively doubled. A few other things are also suspected to also be affected (like the guard break timing) but the corpse damage is the only thing confirmed. Yeah, but depending on the weapon (old whip) that can be huge... plus all the poo poo whips and how if the tip isn't what hits it takes extra durability damage and whatnot. Why they tied so much poo poo to frames when they knew from the start they were making a 60 fps PC version is beyond me.
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Color Printer posted:People say that boss is literally Pinwheel 2.0 (and it is) but I find that if you don't take out the two guys chucking lightning ASAP they can ruin your day. After that the fight is a cakewalk. Yeah having multiple enemies makes it into at least something of a threat. Still, a couple pyromancies and they're all gone.
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Regy Rusty posted:Now I'm in front of a giant fog door that I'm 100% convinced hides a spider boss Weakness: arachnophobia
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Regy Rusty posted:Yeah having multiple enemies makes it into at least something of a threat. Still, a couple pyromancies and they're all gone. If you're pure melee that fight sucks rear end. That fight and the rear end in a top hat mages in the next part were what made me abandon my initial pure melee run and start throwing fireballs loving everywhere.
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Fuzz posted:If you're pure melee that fight sucks rear end. That fight and the rear end in a top hat mages in the next part were what made me abandon my initial pure melee run and start throwing fireballs loving everywhere. They died easily to powerstanced bastard swords. 
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Fuzz posted:If you're pure melee that fight sucks rear end. That fight and the rear end in a top hat mages in the next part were what made me abandon my initial pure melee run and start throwing fireballs loving everywhere. What on earth are you talking about Bumrush the lightning casting dudes, kill them in like two or three hits a piece. Bam, done. I have never cast a single spell in that fight, even on my Miracles build. There literally was no point.
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Color Printer posted:People say that boss is literally Pinwheel 2.0 (and it is) but I find that if you don't take out the two guys chucking lightning ASAP they can ruin your day. After that the fight is a cakewalk. They can be, but the pews in the back of the church block their spells. So if you need to heal you can run behind them and be safe, since the spells can't hit you and the zombies shouldn't be quick enough to catch you. The really sad thing about Magus is that he's not even the most dangerous enemy in his own fight. The congregation is more threatening than he is, because you can smash his face in easily. It feels like one of the priests even has more health than him. Fuzz posted:If you're pure melee that fight sucks rear end. That fight and the rear end in a top hat mages in the next part were what made me abandon my initial pure melee run and start throwing fireballs loving everywhere. The only time I had anything near trouble with that fight was as duo caestus, since you have 0 range. Any decent sized melee weapon can cleave apart the crowd with ease.
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Color Printer posted:People say that boss is literally Pinwheel 2.0 (and it is) but I find that if you don't take out the two guys chucking lightning ASAP they can ruin your day. After that the fight is a cakewalk. And Pinwheel can kill you if you just stand there and do nothing. Those mages die in one or two hits, if you die it's very much your fault. The pigs in the beginning of the level are a more challenging boss fight than Prowling Magus.
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Fuzz posted:If you're pure melee that fight sucks rear end. That fight and the rear end in a top hat mages in the next part were what made me abandon my initial pure melee run and start throwing fireballs loving everywhere. Run in with a halberd and spam the spin move. Congratulations, everything is now loving dead.
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Either that or run in with a huge rear end sword. The swing arc on that thing is stupid huge and you'll end up hitting the Magus and one of the priest.
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It's more that the magus himself casts WoG and if you were doing an 8 vigor run like I was, it literally blows you away in one hit and has a pretty big radius. I died to him twice because I cleared everything and then rushed him and got a face full of WoG and died instantly from full health. Second time I tried again and tried to hit and roll but still was caught in the blast. Third time I just said gently caress it and pimped my Pyro hand to +4 and smashed him in the face with fireballs. Edit: For the record, I was around SL 30-35 and was using a Mace +3 or something like that because the game is a douche and starves you for shards early on and I was stupidly putting them into my lovely starting shortswords because I had no idea bladed weapons were rendered completely poo poo in this game. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 18:02 on May 20, 2014 |
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Color Printer posted:Run in with a halberd and spam the spin move. Congratulations, everything is now loving dead. One does not spam the halberd spin. No, seriously. That move is a stamina hog.
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Bring Benhart if you are actually having trouble with this fight for any reason because once you roll past the first pair of lightning bolts he can solo it while you run and hide behind the pews. Or just wait for him to get everyone's attention off you and run around backstabbing dudes. But I mean...it's Congregation so...yeah...
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Can someone explain what Jester's Robe does? I thought it made it so that backstabs simply do not happen.
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Ice Fist posted:One does not spam the halberd spin. I didn't mean it literally but yeah that move drains stamina like nothing else. Also I have no idea how to use Ultra Greatswords effectively without destroying my stamina. They baffle me.
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turtlecrunch posted:Bring Benhart if you are actually having trouble with this fight for any reason because once you roll past the first pair of lightning bolts he can solo it while you run and hide behind the pews. Or just wait for him to get everyone's attention off you and run around backstabbing dudes. Oh, I asceticed and farmed him to complete Benhart's quest, but by the time I was doing that I had respecced from my terribly underwhelming Quality build and just ran in with a spinning GS swing that would clear most of the room before I'd slam the Magus' face in with a 2H R2. I'm just saying, if you went in cold with a small weapon pure melee type like a rapier user or whatever, that fight could totally gently caress you because of the mechanics used against you since every other boss up to that point is alone and not a group, nor has a fast casting PBAE that can kill you in one hit with very little visual effect or animation. Fuzz fucked around with this message at 18:10 on May 20, 2014 |
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So I want a good lightning chime, and the go-to one seems to be the Dragon Chime. But I don't really want to do all the grimdark covenant stuff. Can I just kill Grandahl or is that just a hassle/locks me out of too much good poo poo?
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Fuzz posted:It's more that the magus himself casts WoG and if you were doing an 8 vigor run like I was, it literally blows you away in one hit and has a pretty big radius. I died to him twice because I cleared everything and then rushed him and got a face full of WoG and died instantly from full health. Second time I tried again and tried to hit and roll but still was caught in the blast. Third time I just said gently caress it and pimped my Pyro hand to +4 and smashed him in the face with fireballs. I'm confused how you can get a Fragrant Branch of Yore, get through Shaded Woods, defeat Scorpioness Najka, get past several Gyrm warriors, clear the beginning of Brightcove, all at SL 30-35, and then have any issue at all with Prowling Magus. All of those listed things are more difficult than Prowling Magus. Seriously, he does two things. WoG and the dark orb thing. Bait him into an attack, if it's WoG get out, if it's not punish him.
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