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In Iron Keep, there's a chest in the upper area of the big room with the lever that lets you dunk everything in lava. I vaguely remembered there being a mimic around, so I smacked it once, and then some dickhead knight shot an arrow and broke it. Does anyone know what was in it? This is in SotFS.
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Apr 19, 2015 03:53
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Cicadalek posted:In Iron Keep, there's a chest in the upper area of the big room with the lever that lets you dunk everything in lava. I vaguely remembered there being a mimic around, so I smacked it once, and then some dickhead knight shot an arrow and broke it. Does anyone know what was in it? This is in SotFS. I remember it being something totally useless. I think it was 15 Fire Greatarrows.
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Apr 19, 2015 03:55
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I've started checking wooden chests by parrying with my shield. It does no damage and costs no durability, but it doesn't actually wake up mimics. You can tell that a chest is real if your shield makes a noise when it hits it; although for some reason there's a ton of false negatives with metal chests. e: vvvvv you can also see the teeth through the crack if you angle the camera right. Bopping it with a shield feels faster than playing with the camera though. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 05:01
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The easiest way to check is to just look at the front. Wooden Mimics have padlocks, while metal Mimics have two distinctive latches.
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Apr 19, 2015 05:06
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There's a regular chest in Black Gulch that has that clasp actually. Made me do a double-take the first time I saw it.
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Apr 19, 2015 05:16
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Chests are safe unless there's a padlock, in which case you should throw a Lloyd's Talisman at it to double-check. Easy peasy rule to remember.
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Apr 19, 2015 05:29
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I immediately ascetic'd sinner's rise for flame weapon. I have never had as much fun summoning white phantoms to their clueless deaths. e: Dark Souls SotFS (Season of the Flexile Sentry)
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Apr 19, 2015 05:41
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Has anyone had trouble getting summon signs to appear? I don't mean one or two in particular, just in general. I'm human, online and unrestricted and I'm seeing no signs anywhere even though I'm summoned nearly immediately to help others. It's annoying because I don't want to solo two pursuers. I had a problem earlier with another goon, now I can't at all. e: I'm at the King's Gate bonfire, which I just ascetic'd. I feel like I should still see summon signs because I ascetic'd...right? fennesz fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 06:59
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Oh goddamnit they brought the wheel guys back in ice porcupine form
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Apr 19, 2015 07:01
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Fellatio del Toro posted:Oh goddamnit they brought the wheel guys back in ice porcupine form
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Apr 19, 2015 07:38
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I got the ashen mist heart and joined the dragon remnants with my low SM minotaur named "The Minotaur". It is amazing how many dragon eye duels I get, even at 2:30 AM, just putting my eye in heide tower. I guess it is hard to resist trying your luck at this.  At 147k SM I am right at the top end of bracket 10, so anybody from 40k SM to 300k SM can see my eye. Granted, most people don't do that well, because a +5 craftsman hammer is a hard thing to fight at this SM. I don't have any magic or other upgraded gear. I did get invaded by another twink, using velstadt's hammer and hexes. He went down to the craftsman hammer as he was trying to cast a hex. A couple of times I also got summoned by people who obviously had no idea what it was, and continued to go on and fight enemies. They ended up with a rude surprise. Filthy Monkey fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 07:55
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Craftsman Hammer is a legit really good weapon. It hits really drat hard for how quickly it strikes and how broad the area is. I can never resist using one for a good portion of all my melee-oriented playthroughs.
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Apr 19, 2015 07:59
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My left hand sickle, right hand craftsman hammer loadout pretty much proved that Lenin was right all along in a roundabout way.
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Apr 19, 2015 08:11
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I've defeated the Big Four (Sinner, Iron King, Freya, Rotten), lit all the primal fires, and picked up all 4 great souls, but I do not get to meet Aldia at the Black Gulch (which I did last of the 4). I did swap the Sinner's soul with Ornifex before killing Rotten and kindling the last Primal Bonfire. Please tell me this doesn't lock you out of all of Aldia's content. Is there any other condition to be met beyond defeating the 4, grabbing their great souls, and lighting all 4 primal fires?
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Apr 19, 2015 08:31
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v1ld posted:I've defeated the Big Four (Sinner, Iron King, Freya, Rotten), lit all the primal fires, and picked up all 4 great souls, but I do not get to meet Aldia at the Black Gulch (which I did last of the 4). He should just show up when you light the last primal bonfire. Try the Black Gulch bonfire again, they made that the just in case place for people who were further in before the patch hit. Even if he doesn't show his content is basically nothing so w/e.
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Apr 19, 2015 08:38
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dis astranagant posted:He should just show up when you light the last primal bonfire. Try the Black Gulch bonfire again, they made that the just in case place for people who were further in before the patch hit. Even if he doesn't show his content is basically nothing so w/e. But my ~* lore *~ I'm liking SotFS a lot so far. I was somewhat disappointed at DS2's initial release because, while the mechanics and engine are mostly way better than the first 2, the world/plot/characters/lore felt flatter. Having played through more than once, all that matters now is the gameplay and encounters and that plays so very, very well in this edition. It's neat to get a blind run through of areas you already know well. Some of them have been reworked to be far better, too - The Gutter in particular feels way better, and I liked the original (and Blighttown!). Noticing and getting to the chest with the Dark Armor/Lightning Winged Spear was fun. Having incentive to use the torch in a bunch of zones now and not just for fighting the darkness is neat. Tseldora/Brightstone Cove really benefit from it. Will go back to Black Gulch, but I suspect turning Lost Sinner's soul, purified through untold ages of suffering as it was, into a sword that I'll probably never use may have locked me out of Aldia.
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Apr 19, 2015 09:26
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The Shortest Path posted:Craftsman Hammer is a legit really good weapon. It hits really drat hard for how quickly it strikes and how broad the area is. I can never resist using one for a good portion of all my melee-oriented playthroughs. I am still probably going to level him. I just wanted to play around in tier 10 for a while. Probably try to get a slightly more minotaur-appropriate weapon on him. Personally, when I think of minotaur, I think big axe. I was thinking about the drakekeeper greataxe. I like the look of it.  He is wearing mastodon gauntlets and leggings, since I like the hoof-like appearence, even if the color doesn't exactly match. The colors get washed out a bit as a phantom anyway. In hindsight I do wish I had darkened his skin a bit more. There needs to be some sort of dark souls 2 character restyle salon. Filthy Monkey fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 09:34
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v1ld posted:But my ~* lore *~ I had consumed all the great souls except for Freja's one and I still got him to appear. I dunno what's wrong.
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Apr 19, 2015 09:38
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Lighting all of the primal bonfires is what makes Aldia appear. He shows up at the last one you light no matter which it is. After that he'll periodically scare the poo poo out of you by exploding out of bonfires elsewhere on the critical path until the end of the game. edit: Note that a couple times he asks you yes/no questions, but they don't actually influence anything, they're just there for flavor.
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Apr 19, 2015 09:50
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He's not showing up for me even on going back to Black Gulch and Brightstone's fires. I'll revisit each of them in the order I did them and see if that fixes it. The Forlorn was kind enough to invade in the spider web room before Freya's even though the boss was long dead so maybe I'll unlock some more of their gear while making the tour.
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Apr 19, 2015 11:55
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I remember Drangleic Castle being kinda cool when I first played this game but man does it seem really boring and bland now.
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Apr 19, 2015 16:30
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Yodzilla posted:I remember Drangleic Castle being kinda cool when I first played this game but man does it seem really boring and bland now. At least they filled it out a little more. Before, it was a bunch of completely disconnected hallways that also had nothing in them.
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Apr 19, 2015 16:40
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I just upgraded to SOTFS. I played through the vanilla months ago, and went back to Dark Souls. With Sins I'm back and want to give it a real go. I would like to dual wield curved swords (so far Scimitars) and focus on Sorcery. Is it even going to be worth doing this, since I need 1.5x the requirements to power stance? I wanted to just infuse Magic to them, and pump my int as high up as I could. I have 24 dex just to accomplish this, so it feels like this might be a waste. Any recommendations on a set of curved swords, maybe something with lower req's and I'll re-do my stats?
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Apr 19, 2015 16:53
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Binge posted:Is it even going to be worth doing this, since I need 1.5x the requirements to power stance? Curved swords don't have very high stat requirements, especially if you stick to scimitars proper (or even falchions). Beyond that, the issue is you're going to want to focus on one of those two things exclusively for a while, otherwise you're going to end up being pretty bad at two things instead of good at one. The only real problem is that you won't be able to use Crystal Magic Weapon on both of your weapons since Blue Flame is a straight sword.
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Apr 19, 2015 17:06
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v1ld posted:He's not showing up for me even on going back to Black Gulch and Brightstone's fires. I'll revisit each of them in the order I did them and see if that fixes it. Turns out I didn't hit the old iron king primal bonfire. I farmed up the medals for the sun sword with the agape ring after beating OIK and I must've forgotten to walk down and light the fire.
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Apr 19, 2015 17:35
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So what exactly would I get if I pay just the 20 bux to upgrade the steam version to scholar of the first sin? Every site I read gives miss information as to what is actually additional from what the patch gave out months back. I know you get dx 11 and the multiplayer cap is now up 5 additional people, but anything else I can't seem to trust. I sadly have not tried out the patched content, but I planned to soon and was weighing the need of the purchase. EDIT: Do the two versions interact at all? I wonder how viable the community is still, especially if there is a split in the community between the two versions, and with the release of bloodborne. BAILOUT MCQUACK! fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 20:05
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New enemy/item placement, DX11, higher co-op cap, DLC included. The two versions do not interact at all as they're allegedly on totally separate engines that can't talk to each other.
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Apr 19, 2015 20:23
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Holy poo poo I can't believe I actually had issues with the Demon of Song at one point.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:40
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Yodzilla posted:Holy poo poo I can't believe I actually had issues with the Demon of Song at one point. The Demon of Song managed to kill me once after I killed it about a dozen times because I never ever saw it's five hit combo until... well. It happened. Most embarrassing experience of my life.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:54
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IGgy IGsen posted:The Demon of Song managed to kill me once after I killed it about a dozen times because I never ever saw it's five hit combo until... well. It happened. Most embarrassing experience of my life. Same here - I blame it entirely on having accidentally brought a summoned NPC in. Like Freja, the fight becomes absolutely trivial once you understand how the AI works.
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Apr 19, 2015 21:56
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Filthy Monkey posted:In hindsight I do wish I had darkened his skin a bit more. There needs to be some sort of dark souls 2 character restyle salon. That's one of the things I've really wished for a couple of times. It's a shame that soul vessels don't let you just do a full "restart".
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Apr 19, 2015 22:04
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So the more I play SotFS the more I feel like this is a sort of apology for the original game, albeit a paid one. Most of the changes I've noticed seem to have been made to correct design mistakes in the original:
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Apr 19, 2015 22:23
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I've been playing SotFS for a few hours and I can't believe they charged money for it. The only change I've noticed that affects the game at all is that you have to progress through each of the paths out of Majula bit by bit and bounce between them. If you've played through the DLC and are on the fence I wouldn't bother picking it up. Can't beeline through the game as easily... a couple annoying encounters removed... enemies that are WAY too hard super early in the game. That was kind of fun actually. I spent a lot of my time in the forest running away.
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Apr 19, 2015 22:51
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Chumpy posted:Speaking of No-Man's Wharf - this zone really impressed on me just how important the torch mechanic is in some of the level design. In the base game with the old lighting engine, I pretty much ignored torches and braziers because it was already easy enough to see the stage. In SotfS I could barely see a few feet in front of me, and I rolled into the water and got shanked a few times because it was so damned dark. It was satisfying to light up the level and watch my completion increase when I scanned the place over after every trek back from the bonfire. And spending that Lockstone on the overhead chandelier/torch/thing felt pretty valuable. When I played the orginal DS2 for the first time I was playing on a really awful TV. The image was so dark that when I first entered No-Man's Wharf I had the same experience, couldn't see more than a few feet infront of me. It was the first area I had to use the torch for and it really is an area designed around the lighting and torch mechanics. It was so much fun and was one of my favorite DS's memories and areas.
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Apr 19, 2015 22:59
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a dog from hell posted:I've been playing SotFS for a few hours and I can't believe they charged money for it. The only change I've noticed that affects the game at all is that you have to progress through each of the paths out of Majula bit by bit and bounce between them. If you've played through the DLC and are on the fence I wouldn't bother picking it up. Yeah, for a starter player, the DX11 version might be a LITTLE too hard at the beginning. But I think it evens out from there - I had no desire to replay anything that wasn't the DLC, SOTFS changed that. Chumpy posted:So the more I play SotFS the more I feel like this is a sort of apology for the original game, albeit a paid one. Most of the changes I've noticed seem to have been made to correct design mistakes in the original: The zone where Creighton's key is used to have an ambush and a cristal lizard. You'd see the lizard, chase after it, and get attacked by the hidden guys. Merciless Roana and a key are a better use of that zone in my opinion. Also, I don't remember so many pirates. Maybe 3 or so.  Azran fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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Apr 19, 2015 22:59
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Azran posted:Yeah, for a starter player, the DX11 version might be a LITTLE too hard at the beginning. But I think it evens out from there - I had no desire to replay anything that wasn't the DLC, SOTFS changed that. A lot. A lot too hard. Great game past that awful hump though.
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Apr 19, 2015 23:00
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Blooming Brilliant posted:When I played the orginal DS2 for the first time I was playing on a really awful TV. The image was so dark that when I first entered No-Man's Wharf I had the same experience, couldn't see more than a few feet infront of me. It was the first area I had to use the torch for and it really is an area designed around the lighting and torch mechanics. It was so much fun and was one of my favorite DS's memories and areas. Yeah I originally played it on a monitor that doesn't do blacks so great so I couldn't see poo poo in dark areas, but it added a lot of atmosphere to the wharf and Drangleic. Playing SotFS on my plasma though I can see just fine without a torch. Not sure that I want to go stumbling through the dark again though so I'm not complaining.
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Apr 19, 2015 23:02
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Am I missing something? In Drangleic castle, after the dragon riders there's this room. None of the stone soldiers activate, but signs say try luring it out, so I pulled in the manikin soldiers from the next room and killed them directly in front of the golem. Nothing happens, the souls go into me. I've tried this a couple of times now, restarting the game, dying, etc etc. No luck. There's no other enemy that can be lured into the room, either they tether or can't fit through the door.
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Apr 19, 2015 23:11
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Cicadalek posted:Am I missing something? In Drangleic castle, after the dragon riders there's this room. None of the stone soldiers activate, but signs say try luring it out, so I pulled in the manikin soldiers from the next room and killed them directly in front of the golem. Nothing happens, the souls go into me. I've tried this a couple of times now, restarting the game, dying, etc etc. No luck. There's no other enemy that can be lured into the room, either they tether or can't fit through the door. You're supposed to kill the manikins in front of the statue, and the souls go into the statue which then wakes up and turns the key like the others do. So you're doing the right thing, it's just not working for some reason. All I can really say is to try rolling away from the manikins while they're dying next to the statue so that their souls don't have a chance to go into you.
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Cicadalek posted:Am I missing something? In Drangleic castle, after the dragon riders there's this room. None of the stone soldiers activate, but signs say try luring it out, so I pulled in the manikin soldiers from the next room and killed them directly in front of the golem. Nothing happens, the souls go into me. I've tried this a couple of times now, restarting the game, dying, etc etc. No luck. There's no other enemy that can be lured into the room, either they tether or can't fit through the door. If thats your screenshot it looks like the golem already turned the thing in front of him which activates that elevator after the bonfire that you start at near there.
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