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turtlecrunch posted:I tried fire and it sucked, just make your weapon raw. Yeah, I figured it would, what with the physical damage dropping and having to obviously face enemies who are resistant to fire at some point in the game. Dog Fat Man Chaser posted:You can do both if you want. Fire will change it to a fire sword via infusion, titanite to enhance it to +1 and so on via reinforcement. Is this a good plan? Would this ultimately end up with a stronger weapon, or should I just focus on a single aspect, in this case raw?
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Zaphod42 posted:Its not random. You did something. you took the free level ups didn't you? No, I know what triggers it and I never gave her anything or bought anything from her.
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cram me sideways posted:Is this a good plan? Would this ultimately end up with a stronger weapon, or should I just focus on a single aspect, in this case raw? Raw is probably the best of the non-scaling infusions, really, because it doesn't deal split damage and you don't often have resistances to worry about. Plus, you can buff it with resins and the Magic Weapon spell. You'll need to use titanite to reinforce it either way, though. You use a gem once to give it an infusion then upgrade with titanite from there.
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Elderbean posted:Will this run well enough with a gtx680? I've been hearing mixed reviews about the performance. I have a 570, with some bizarre driver tinkering magic I'm pulling 30-40 fps on medium-high.
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Estraysian posted:No, I know what triggers it and I never gave her anything or bought anything from her. Yeah sorry I was thinking about another NPC, after I read your post again I realized you said 'her guardian' so you mean the miracle lady. Hrm, that sucks.
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cram me sideways posted:Is this a good plan? Would this ultimately end up with a stronger weapon, or should I just focus on a single aspect, in this case raw? There's no single aspect to focus on, the + reinforcement and the infusion are totally separate. You can have a plain old shortsword +4, a raw one +3, fire +2, whatever. Reinforcing is always a straight upgrade, infusion has trade-offs. So yeah, absolutely reinforce your infused gear. If you mean if making that sword in particular to be fire is good, that's a harder question, but my fire longsword has been serving me very well so far, but at some point there's gonna be poo poo it's horrible against, so keeping a few weapons up to par isn't a bad idea.
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Elderbean posted:Will this run well enough with a gtx680? I've been hearing mixed reviews about the performance. My 660TI works and the games beautiful. After I turned lighting to low in the settings stability improved greatly. It'll work but it'll probably crash. We're all holding out for a patch to fix the bullshit. But buy the game and fall I love.
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Zaphod42 posted:When was the last time you dusted your computer's fans? It's not my hardware, every other game including Witcher 3 and XCOM 2 worked flawlessly. I'll try a frame limiter though, thanks; it's definitely not that I can barely run it, I can go at max with a perfect framerate. I'm using a GTX970, can I do that through the nvidia control panel or do I download a third party software?
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I don't get the joke but I saw him too There is no joke, I thought he was an npc placed there by the devs to gently caress with people, hence why you can't summon him and the message nearby. Instead it turns out it's just a dude who wants to gently caress with people who coincidentally needs to get a better internet connection.
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Jose posted:I take it it only becomes available once I'm further in the game? Nobody at firelink has aonther key to sell You have to give her an ash you find in Undead Settlement for her wares to change.
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Dog Fat Man Chaser posted:There's no single aspect to focus on, the + reinforcement and the infusion are totally separate. You can have a plain old shortsword +4, a raw one +3, fire +2, whatever. Reinforcing is always a straight upgrade, infusion has trade-offs. So yeah, absolutely reinforce your infused gear. If you mean if making that sword in particular to be fire is good, that's a harder question, but my fire longsword has been serving me very well so far, but at some point there's gonna be poo poo it's horrible against, so keeping a few weapons up to par isn't a bad idea. Sounds like the best choice so far is to wait until there are situations in which a fire weapon is good, even necessary, before infusing it. Thanks everyone for answering my questions!
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Zaphod42 posted:But there's a doggie covenant Ok. I haven't even booted it up, I have a 970 so I figure I'll be good then.
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Was worried about the PC issues discussed everywhere, but ended up taking the plunge anyway. 980TI with a 5 year old CPU runs everything on max @ 1440p beautifully and no issues a couple of hours in. First time playing one of these games at 60fps and holy moley does it play amazing.
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RBA Starblade posted:It's not my hardware, every other game including Witcher 3 and XCOM 2 worked flawlessly. I'll try a frame limiter though, thanks; it's definitely not that I can barely run it, I can go at max with a perfect framerate. I'm using a GTX970, can I do that through the nvidia control panel or do I download a third party software? 
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Currently I'm confused on which direction to go. I've killed the tree and otherwise grabbed everything that seems to be about in the Undead Settlement. (Up to five bonfires there.) I haven't yet explored beyond the frost knight beyond where some guy with a hammer gave me a warning, since said frost knight's been pushing my poo poo in. Is that the direction I should be going, or is there another potential route? Also, while we're talking about GPUs I should mention that I've managed to get the game running on a GTX 460 (a hand-me-down that hasn't been current for several years)  With all the settings turned down and only at 30 FPS.  I suppose it's not unlike playing Dark Souls 1 in that sense, except that the textures aren't so muddy.
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double nine posted:Man those snakehead fuckers are horrible. They obscure the camera when you get too close and lock-on seems to work against you more times than not, the snakeheads can phase through walls/floors to hit you - and they hit like a motherfucker. Do they drop anything worthwhile? They drop embers sometimes
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CJacobs posted:There is no joke, I thought he was an npc placed there by the devs to gently caress with people, hence why you can't summon him and the message nearby. Instead it turns out it's just a dude who wants to gently caress with people who coincidentally needs to get a better internet connection. In the few minutes I had before I hit the heat limit I had one host whose world was two minutes behind. It was interesting. quote:man I see all these people having trouble with a 970 and it's running absolutely fine on mine. Guess I lucked out, there seems to be something hosed up with the port My last few machines failed because the cooling system took a poo poo and melted a hole (literally) through various parts so I'm super paranoid about it.  I did just boot up XCOM2 which didn't raise things at all so at least that's a relief.
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So...hey...is it just me or is Cleric objectively superior to Herald? Like, the weapon you start with is less clunky, it has a perfectly good shield too, the miracles are better, and it has a hilarious turtle shell, am I missing some reason to go Herald other than a minor boost to defense stats?
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NGDBSS posted:Currently I'm confused on which direction to go. I've killed the tree and otherwise grabbed everything that seems to be about in the Undead Settlement. (Up to five bonfires there.) I haven't yet explored beyond the frost knight beyond where some guy with a hammer gave me a warning, since said frost knight's been pushing my poo poo in. Is that the direction I should be going, or is there another potential route? Yeah, that guys the only way forward unless you wanna fight something optional and about 50x harder.
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Traxis posted:You have to give her an ash you find in Undead Settlement for her wares to change. Guess its time to hunt around undead settlement even more then
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Phoix posted:Yeah, that guys the only way forward unless you wanna fight something optional and about 50x harder. What optional thing are you referring to?
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nachos posted:Is undead settlement a cut section of bloodborne or something You ain't seen nothin yet, man.
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Jose posted:Guess its time to hunt around undead settlement even more then Based on this thread I missed a fuckton of stuff there too.
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How does dual wielding work now? I know powerstance isn't in, but is there anything new to make up for it?
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weekly font posted:Based on this thread I missed a fuckton of stuff there too. I can't tell you how many hours I spent there. I think I got everything... Elman posted:How does dual wielding work now? I know powerstance isn't in, but is there anything new to make up for it? Try starting a mercenary really quickly.
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Finally got the game working, after updating gfx drivers, and it's almost stable too now. Anyways, is DS3 incredibly linear or have I just missed a bunch of stuff? So far I've been running around the first area for an hour or two and it seems to railroad you pretty hard. I'm all the way up to the fat knight and the cathedral or whatever near it
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Elman posted:How does dual wielding work now? I know powerstance isn't in, but is there anything new to make up for it? There are many new weapons that you bring out an off-hand when you 'two hand' them. Dual Swords, Katana + wakasashi, dual scimitars, and more.
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Between my ninja-hood and ice-sword, I've accidentally created Sub-zero.RBA Starblade posted:It's not my hardware, every other game including Witcher 3 and XCOM 2 worked flawlessly. I'll try a frame limiter though, thanks; it's definitely not that I can barely run it, I can go at max with a perfect framerate. I'm using a GTX970, can I do that through the nvidia control panel or do I download a third party software? If you have a 970 then maybe try forcing it to 60fps instead, that could still help even though in theory DS3 is already limited to 60. Or try 30 (half-refresh). Some games have problems with that. Nvidia control panel should be able to do a rough 60 or 30fps cap in the vsync settings somewhere (you have to use vsync), or you can get external software which lets you frame-limit to any arbitrary value, and sometimes limiting to 62 or 59 can help too. Computer gaming is just always kinda tricky. To FROM's credit, I've had TONS of problems lately with other games too, even though most games run flawlessly. I play Battlefront at 100+ fps on my g-sync monitor at 1440 max settings and it looks beautiful. But then some random game will run like crap, and I have to roll back my drivers. Had to do that twice before DS3 (although DS3 runs fine for me  ) Definitely try rolling back your drivers if you haven't yet.Don't know if its NVIDIA or Microsoft or who, but somebody is loving up hardcore lately. Its annoying but some troubleshooting can usually work around it? I'm serious about dust, btw. If you have some canned air, blast that poo poo in there. Its easy to forget about how much dust has accumulated in your machine. Good luck.
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NGDBSS posted:Currently I'm confused on which direction to go. I've killed the tree and otherwise grabbed everything that seems to be about in the Undead Settlement. (Up to five bonfires there.) I haven't yet explored beyond the frost knight beyond where some guy with a hammer gave me a warning, since said frost knight's been pushing my poo poo in. Is that the direction I should be going, or is there another potential route? Check this pro strat for frosty (55:35)
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How to beat the first boss: Remove all your armor, and shield if equipped. Double down on exploiting dodge roll iframes by dodging into the attack swings so that you spend less time in danger of being hit. Depending on the weapon, you can get up to three swings before needing to dodge again to avoid death. When the boss goes  don't panic, just dodge roll whenever the boss model moves at all, paying particular attention to the right and left limbs for animation tells.
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Elman posted:How does dual wielding work now? I know powerstance isn't in, but is there anything new to make up for it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23kV0tnvaO0&t=53s Certain weapons have unique two hand move sets.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:man I see all these people having trouble with a 970 and it's running absolutely fine on mine. Guess I lucked out, there seems to be something hosed up with the port My 970 is doing fine, too, but everyone's performance issues are making me paranoid. This is definitely not a strong port though. Tatum Girlparts posted:So...hey...is it just me or is Cleric objectively superior to Herald? Like, the weapon you start with is less clunky, it has a perfectly good shield too, the miracles are better, and it has a hilarious turtle shell, am I missing some reason to go Herald other than a minor boost to defense stats? Herald armor looks cool, and it's not like your starting class matters much beyond the first couple areas. Does the Cleric start with a mace again? Those are usually good starters.
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Gortarius posted:Finally got the game working, after updating gfx drivers, and it's almost stable too now. There's a ton of side passages and hidden items you may have missed along the way, the levels themselves have tons of winding splintered paths and shortcuts. The actual game progression itself is pretty linear for a long time, although there's some optional bosses and optional zones to break it up. But the zones themselves should have a few different paths to explore so you might have just missed something. Even exploring slowly and trying to be observant as I can (I usually end up finding most secrets in my first run just by going over every nook and cranny) there was still a bonfire in the 2nd real zone that I'd missed that I just stumbled on late last night after clearing the entire zone already. NGDBSS posted:Currently I'm confused on which direction to go. I've killed the tree and otherwise grabbed everything that seems to be about in the Undead Settlement. (Up to five bonfires there.) I haven't yet explored beyond the frost knight beyond where some guy with a hammer gave me a warning, since said frost knight's been pushing my poo poo in. Is that the direction I should be going, or is there another potential route? Frost knight is the right direction. You can always run past him and fight him later. He's like the titanite demon in DS1 at the bottom of andre's that blocks access to darkroot garden. Exactly the same idea.
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Reacean posted:There are many new weapons that you bring out an off-hand when you 'two hand' them. Dual Swords, Katana + wakasashi, dual scimitars, and more. So dual wielding is about using one weapon but two handing it and magically splitting it in two, instead of putting a weapon in your offhand? I tried actually wielding two weapons for a bit but I couldn't really see a point in it. Maybe that's why, I was just doing it wrong.
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Harrow posted:My 970 is doing fine, too, but everyone's performance issues are making me paranoid. Yea mace, a shield that does its job well enough, and a chime along with the proper heal miracle and the hilarious force one that pushes people around
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