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Keep many weapons, and use any bombs or throwing knives you've got. The throwing knives two or three hit regular hollows.Orv posted:You need 4 Branches to get everything in there. Torches! Even then, I do suffer from arachnophobia as well, and the entire loving place is FULL with these assholes. The Pardoner has three around him as well, and they just chill out on the walls till you attack them.
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the new release doesn't work on cards that cant do dx11 right? Or is there a way to set it so it runs?
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Apr 4, 2015 01:53
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You can sure get the black knight halberd early now. That's good to know.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:03
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Is the matchmaking table on the wiki still accurate? I've been having a lot of fun helping people with the pursuer but I'm afraid i'll price myself out of the matchmaking market, so to speak, if I do it too much.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:13
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DarthJeebus posted:Is the matchmaking table on the wiki still accurate? I've been having a lot of fun helping people with the pursuer but I'm afraid i'll price myself out of the matchmaking market, so to speak, if I do it too much. If you make your first goal in the game getting to Straid he now sells a ring that stops you from picking up souls, letting you essentially "lock" your soul memory.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:16
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What do I need to do to increase shield damage reduction? I normally play shield-less light armor builds but chose a heavier armor build this run.. but it's not really going so well attrition-wise since even trash enemies can damage through my shield
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Apr 4, 2015 02:59
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ethanol posted:What do I need to do to increase shield damage reduction? I normally play shield-less light armor builds but chose a heavier armor build this run.. but it's not really going so well attrition-wise since even trash enemies can damage through my shield Simply upgrading your shield helps with damage reduction. Not all shields are equal, some are good at blocking physical attacks, others can reduce elemental damage and even allow you to parry spells, and there a couple that increase stamina regeneration when equipped. EDIT: They also have varying levels of stability which determines how much stamina is drained per attack blocked.
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Apr 4, 2015 03:01
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Alkydere posted:I'm assuming you're playing the new version since it's the shiny version? Long story short, no you're not loving up, it's the start of the game being made harder in ways that can really screw over new player. Thanks for the tips. Made some progress and now I'm starting to get a feel for the game. It doesn't feel quite as unforgiving when I view bonfires as a durability reset. Been paying more attention to timing my attacks and I've levelled up a few times (points to ADP so far).
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Apr 4, 2015 03:04
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jfc, seriously?  somebody decided that the Shrine of Amana needed to be even more of a gaping rear end in a top hat? I'm pretty pleased that I managed to get through all that crap without dying once, but those were some really close calls. And actually I'm not even all the way through it yet.
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Apr 4, 2015 03:17
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God drat the beginning of this game is loving brutal. I don't remember dying this much even in Demon's Souls import playing it completely cold. Everywhere I go, swarms of infantry, while I have a poo poo weapon and lifebar.
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Apr 4, 2015 03:33
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Like I said previously, I found the trek to Cardinal Tower not a whole lot different than the original version of the game. If anything, it was easier because half the infantry guys in that open area before the fog are just laying on the ground and don't aggro until you get close. You can take them out before they even launch an attack. Are you guys playing as deprived or something?
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Apr 4, 2015 04:18
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victrix posted:God drat the beginning of this game is loving brutal. I don't remember dying this much even in Demon's Souls import playing it completely cold. Yeah, FoFG took me a ridiculous amount of tries to get through; I kept getting swarmed and just running past enemies (to get to a boss or make a dash to a bonfire) is kind of really hard now with the gigantic aggro and chase range they have. /edit: ^^^^^^ No, but I feel like I have less control on how I engage enemies than I did in the original DS2; approaching carefully to kite just one or two enemies off a group or shooting a few arrows to get someone's attention are really hard to pull off now, I poked my head around a corner in Bastille and 4 dudes came running from 2 rooms away and stunlocked me to oblivion. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Yeah, I dunno. I've cleared FoFG, Bastille, No Man's Wharf and Heide's Tower and don't feel like I'm getting swarmed any more or less than I did before. My deaths haven't come from swarms of enemies but new poo poo that I wasn't prepared for like the Pursuer in different spots and I just face pull pretty much everything. Those guys in the FoFG before the first fog gate I picked off one by one because they just laid on the ground until I approached them.
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Apr 4, 2015 04:42
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I feel like more enemies were removed than added, though there are some killers now. Sinner's rise bonfire is much nicer, no more dudes standing in the opening of the iron keep door, way fewer ohko fire ladies in earthen peak. gently caress armorer dennis though, I feel like dennis the menace's neighbor.
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Apr 4, 2015 05:08
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ethanol posted:What do I need to do to increase shield damage reduction? I normally play shield-less light armor builds but chose a heavier armor build this run.. but it's not really going so well attrition-wise since even trash enemies can damage through my shield Just get a shield that has 100% damage resist to begin with, like the drangleic shield, or most tower shields. Located below where you fight the pursuer with the ballistas, at least that's where it was in DS2, I haven't played much of the remake yet
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Apr 4, 2015 05:21
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Suggestions for best place (i.e gives access to the most useful thing at that point) to use your first fragrant branch of yore?
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Apr 4, 2015 05:43
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Are the guys with beaks that seem to run out of nowhere really fast like bird ninjas a brand new enemy? I don't remember seeing them anywhere before and now I got a neat claw weapon from one.
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What gamepad are you guys using? My Logitech F310 that worked fine for DS2 doesn't seem to work for the remastered edition at all. It doesn't respond to any inputs, but the controller is fine for everything else.
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Apr 4, 2015 05:57
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Reason posted:Are the guys with beaks that seem to run out of nowhere really fast like bird ninjas a brand new enemy? I don't remember seeing them anywhere before and now I got a neat claw weapon from one. They showed up in NG+ in the original. Scared the poo poo out of me when one came out of nowhere at me the first time.
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NeurosisHead posted:What gamepad are you guys using? My Logitech F310 that worked fine for DS2 doesn't seem to work for the remastered edition at all. It doesn't respond to any inputs, but the controller is fine for everything else. I'm using a DS3 emulating a 360 pad. Speaking of, do replacer mods work with the new release? I'm figuring not, but might as well ask.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I feel like more enemies were removed than added, though there are some killers now. Sinner's rise bonfire is much nicer, no more dudes standing in the opening of the iron keep door, way fewer ohko fire ladies in earthen peak. gently caress armorer dennis though, I feel like dennis the menace's neighbor. Nah, I'd say more were added than removed, but for the most part they were added intelligently. Ambushes are set up so that you can usually see them coming, and if you don't you can still see how to defuse them on your second or third time. I've only seen one ambush I couldn't see or defuse (a pair of rear end in a top hat manekin claw wielders). That being said the ones they removed streamline areas pretty well. And some of the added ones are pretty loving funny such as a desert sorceress sitting at the very top of Earthen Peak on a balcony who'll bombard you innefectually. Personally the repeating NPC invader I see the most often (some of their spawns are random) is loving Forlorn. Though in Iron Keep I got Forlorn, Dennis AND some fencer lady, two of them in a single life (though thankfully not at once). Zaphod42 posted:Just get a shield that has 100% damage resist to begin with, like the drangleic shield, or most tower shields. Nah, they're still exactly where you remember them. For the most part items are either exactly where they were before, or are actually moved up so the player can access them earlier. I mean, you can get the Grand Lance as soon as you beat the Last Giant. The only exception is that some of the estus shards were moved back/made harder to find. I'm just glad that the key to Ornifex's cell was on the exact same lion as before, because burning branches to find where it had moved would have sucked balls. Alkydere fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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Djeser posted:I'm using a DS3 emulating a 360 pad. Speaking of, do replacer mods work with the new release? I'm figuring not, but might as well ask. I can't figure out what's missing for me. It's using the xbox360 controller for windows drivers, and on xinput. It works fine in half a dozen other games through Steam, including Dark Souls 2. It's just the remaster of DS2 that doesn't recognize the F310 as there. What the gently caress.
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Alkydere posted:Personally the repeating NPC invader I see the most often (some of their spawns are random) is loving Forlorn. Though in Iron Keep I got Forlorn, Dennis AND some fencer lady, two of them in a single life (though thankfully not at once). I'm pretty sure those other two are fixed at iron keep - dennis took me many tries and always was in the same spot, and there was one before him that I got on the first try.
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Help how do I get good at pvp I'm using the heide knight sword and a rapier but I'm being destroyed in the bob arenas 
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Alkydere posted:Nah, they're still exactly where you remember them. For the most part items are either exactly where they were before, or are actually moved up so the player can access them earlier. I mean, you can get the Grand Lance as soon as you beat the Last Giant. The only exception is that some of the estus shards were moved back/made harder to find. There's also an early washing pole in harvest valley.
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NeurosisHead posted:I can't figure out what's missing for me. It's using the xbox360 controller for windows drivers, and on xinput. It works fine in half a dozen other games through Steam, including Dark Souls 2. It's just the remaster of DS2 that doesn't recognize the F310 as there. What the gently caress. I noticed that there were a whole mess of HID Compliant Device entries that popped up in device manager when I plugged my controller in, so I just started disabling the ones with no drivers loaded and then it recognized the controller. I don't understand it, but if it works I'll take it.
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Is it just me, or can you no longer heal during dark spirit invasions (possibly only as a phantom?) Is this new?
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Apr 4, 2015 07:48
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OwlFancier posted:Is it just me, or can you no longer heal during dark spirit invasions (possibly only as a phantom?) Is this new? That was a patch some time ago.
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Apr 4, 2015 08:29
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The Pursuers cast Pursuers now. Didn't play too far past killing about four of them in the Bastille but I think it's a clear improvement.
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Apr 4, 2015 08:36
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Pursuer always casted Pursuers when he was powered up.
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Apr 4, 2015 08:37
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Lucatiel wasn't in her usual spot in Earthen Peak, did she get moved or did I completely miss her somehow?
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Apr 4, 2015 08:59
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ShadowMar posted:Lucatiel wasn't in her usual spot in Earthen Peak, did she get moved or did I completely miss her somehow? She's been moved. She's now in the room with the Poisonbite Ring
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Ha! If you defeat Pursuer on the walls, he gets his own little vengeance squad of hollow soldiers that wake up as the fight ends! Also, nice touch making some of the hollow soldiers attack the giant trees.
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I read that the whole weapons breaking crazy fast is a carryover bug from DS2 because of the new framerate / graphical enhancements? Is that true?  if it is.
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Finally fought my way through the (first?) forest of giants area, got the fire longsword, killed the giant and Pursuer. Get to the next area. Die to a new Pursuer immediately  That guy is a loving rear end in a top hat. Dodging towards him is easy, but his random triple swing fucks me every time, I don't know if there's a tell I'm missing for it or what, but it makes attacking on any single or double swing a huge risk. If I'm out of stamina when he does the triple -> dead.
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From what I had read FROM heard of the bug on Ds2-PC and they thought it sounded really badass and so they were looking to introduce it into future versions of the game.
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 So uhh Heide's Tower of Flame huh. Jesus Christ the game should be called Dark Souls II: Scholar of Not loving Around Anymore.
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Haruharuharuko posted:
Yep that convinced me that I'll be able to get a real blind playthrough feeling again. I was playing with a summoned dude when I turned that corner and wished for a long moment that I had some kind of bawl my eyes out/piss my pants emotes to convey my surprise and horror. It wasn't even a boss. 
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Yeah this version has had me round so many corners and immediately turn around and leave saying "Nooope gently caress this!" so many more times than the original version. I dunno if I'd enjoy this all half as much if I hadn't have finished the original on PS3 and then on PC so many times. Oh yeah just a little tip in Servant's Quarters look up 
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