Dark Souls III: The Ringed City DLC - We just can't stop talking about DS2

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Stokes: Jun 13, 2003; Maybe Kris can come in, and we can throw M-80s at his asshole.

Man Mound Makers is so fun. I love the tension that comes with finding your ally/opponent and staring each other down before someone makes the first move.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:30

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# ? May 15, 2024 09:00

Genocyber: Jun 4, 2012

Domattee posted:

No we're back to Dark Souls 1 matchmaking were only people who are human can be invaded. Since people generally only go human to summon others that currently means it'll be 3 or even 4 versus you. The Fun Police might join in on the fun too!

Don't worry though in a couple months when the game isn't full of people playing through it and putting their signs down it'll become just as toxic for co-op as DS ended up being. To this day you still can't be human in the Undead Parish without some black flame spamming motherfucker invading you.

"Toxic for co-op" lol

Nevermind that you can't really make twinks in this game so even if that were true that wouldn't be the case here.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:31

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

i just got to the road of sacrifies, how far am I away from being able to join rosaria's fingers?

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:32

GreenBuckanneer: Sep 15, 2007

What's up with the friendly skeleton??

He's got a cute hat.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:32

Sultan Tarquin: Jul 29, 2007; and what kind of world would it be? HUH?!

Eonwe posted:

i just got to the road of sacrifies, how far am I away from being able to join rosaria's fingers?

The area after the one you're in.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:33

Trash Trick: Apr 17, 2014

Hahahahaha I just entered a world as a wolf/swampbro that was utter chaos. There was the host, a white defender, a blue cop, two red invaders, and two wolfbros all just going at it. poo poo gets all wonky when there's so many people too- I as a wolfyswampybro could attack all the NPCs, and all the NPCs reacted to me like I was a "good" player, but killing them netted 0 souls. The red invaders/other wolfbros were in the same boat, and most of them died to the giant enemy crabs. I hunted down the host and died right as I killed them. It was nuts!!

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:34

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Sultan Tarquin posted:

The area after the one you're in.

Cool it's unlimited invasions right?

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:35

Freaking Crumbum: Apr 17, 2003; Too fuck to drunk

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Im trying to make a miracle woman as my first character, when are all these points in faith actually going to start paying dividends? Right now I'm just smacking things with my dark axe, would like to cast something that actually hurts for once.

i don't think you're the right build for that. miracles are mostly healing / buffing. there's some lightning spells, but none of them are before the midpoint of the game (that i know how to get). you probably want to do sorcery or pyro if you want to be a zappy shooty woman.

BlackFrost posted:

So is it just impossible to invade someone if they're by themselves? I don't summon much and haven't been invaded a single time. I just tried to invade five times and each time was against a team of three people, which isn't even remotely fun.

right now it's really unlikely for a lot of reasons. you have to be human (or embered or whatever) to be an invasion target, and right now the only people who are consciously doing that are either doing it on purpose to co-op with friends, or they're doing it because they can't beat something solo and so again they're looking for help. on top of that, the matchmaking is setup to assign invaders to other games with more people before it gives you over to a solo player, so the odds of you getting the drop on someone without at least one buddy is low.

give the game a week or two to die down in popularity? right now almost everyone is low level, so it's trivial to find low level help, and if you're doing low level invasions you're also going to run into a lot of 3v1 scenarios.

i'm still trying to figure out what the non-antagonistic purpose of team pound mound is. you can't help with bosses, and unless the person seeing your summon sign is truly playing the game with no outside info, they either have no reason to summon you, or no reason not to just immediately jump you once you're summoned.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:35

BlackFrost: Feb 6, 2008; Have you figured it out yet?

Domattee posted:

No we're back to Dark Souls 1 matchmaking were only people who are human can be invaded. Since people generally only go human to summon others that currently means it'll be 3 or even 4 versus you. The Fun Police might join in on the fun too!

Don't worry though in a couple months when the game isn't full of people playing through it and putting their signs down it'll become just as toxic for co-op as DS ended up being. To this day you still can't be human in the Undead Parish without some black flame spamming motherfucker invading you.

I did invade someone who had another invader in with a Fun Policeman. That one was actually kinda fun! I ran in just in time to help the fellow red phantom and we all took turns darting at each other to try to get some hits in.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:36

The Rokstar: Aug 19, 2002; by FactsAreUseless

Alright so I just killed the lava boss from Super Metroid and now the game is whining about me not having a doll. Is there somewhere in the game I can talk to that would give me a clue as to what the hell that means? Failing that, can someone spoil me on what to do next?

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:36

Escape_GOAT: May 20, 2004

When I grow up, I want to be an Abyss Watcher. :stare:

Dudes are bad as gently caress.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:37

Fargin Icehole: Feb 19, 2011; Pet me.

This game is loving crazy on the multiplayer.

I got a warrior of sunlight to help me out on the Undead Settlement start. A red guy invades me in the middle of the courtyard, a blue cop shows up and it's three against one. As customary for a red, you let others pull mobs to even the odds. It didn't help though. Just noticed the invader had the Lucatiel armor, so i'm pretty hyped to get that soon.

After all is said and done and we clear the mobs, Sunlight fellow helps me get the actual Sunlight covenant item and I learn about estus soups. A lot of clearing happens and I get invaded just before I reach the Dilapidated bridge. Sunlight fellow gave his life protecting me from the purple phantom with dual caesti. I got parried with my halberd charge by this guy and he does the classic haymaker while i'm on my knees animation. Blue cop invades in the middle of this last fight, and kills the invader just after he finishes the animation on the parry.

While processing what just took place, I look around and see the dilapidated bridge bonfire. I hightail the gently caress out of there after setting the bonfire to cash in my souls.

I've never had that much poo poo take place in any Dark Souls I played.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:38

8-bit Miniboss: May 24, 2005; CORPO COPS CAME FOR MY

Carl Seitan posted:

When I grow up, I want to be an Abyss Watcher.

Dudes are bad as gently caress.

Yo.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:38

Orange DeviI: Nov 9, 2011; by Hand Knit

The Rokstar posted:

Alright so I just killed the lava boss from Super Metroid and now the game is whining about me not having a doll. Is there somewhere in the game I can talk to that would give me a clue as to what the hell that means? Failing that, can someone spoil me on what to do next?

cathedral

8-bit Miniboss posted:

Yo.

tell me where to get that armor :o

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:39

Sultan Tarquin: Jul 29, 2007; and what kind of world would it be? HUH?!

Eonwe posted:

Cool it's unlimited invasions right?

Technically you can get the full red eye orb without ever going to that area.

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:39

aas Bandit: Sep 28, 2001; Oompa Loompa; Nap Ghost

Either something really loving weird just happened, or there's been some major mechanic change around bonfires. I just got killed by a combo of an enemy plus a mound-maker invader (who just instantly attacked me...sigh), and when I respawned, I was at a bonfire that I had never lit or rested at. My last bonfire was the first one in Undead Settlement, and this one is apparently the second, but I've never seen it before. I'll have to load the game back up and see if I can figure out where I am.

I had a Ring of Sacrifice equipped, since I had a shitload of souls--maybe they work differently now? :confused:

Edit: Oh, okay, it's a bonfire right after the gate? Somehow I got distracted and walked right past it without seeing it, but I spawned at it anyway?

Harrow posted:

I feel like I'm handicapping by not using a straight sword or the Uchigatana. Are there any good-for-PvE weapons other than those in the first half of the game? Everything else I've tried (granted I'm more of a Dex build) just doesn't seem to have the moveset to deal with the fast, aggressive, high-poise enemies.

I've been thrashing the poo poo out of things with just the regular dagger. It has a great skill (quick juke/dash), but more importantly it hits super quickly and doesn't use a lot of stamina, so you can just stunlock a lot of enemies to death (and backstabs/crits are brutal). I only have it at +2 and I'm only up to Undead Settlement, but I'm pretty happy with it. I tried the uchi, but it just felt kind of slow and weird after the dagger.

Vikar Jerome posted:

This game is harder than my first time playing ds1 where i spent hours in the graveyard because i was dumb. ds2 has softened me up way too much.

enemy tracking is insane. its loving great.

For some reason DS3 seems slightly easier to me than 2. I'm not sure why (and I played 2 a few hours last week, so I don't think it's just from playing Bloodborne in between the two...?

Internet Kraken posted:

Wonder how all those people that complained about DS2 having too many enemies feel about 3, cause it has way more in the average encounter than either 1 or 2.

It really depends on how you play. I generally go really slow (if people were watching me they'd probably shoot themselves), and I haven't had much trouble kiting a single enemy rather than having to fight an X-on-1. Even places where it's set up for an ambush (like that one spot right before you open up the shortcut on the High Wall) you can just back up or back off a bit and you can usually get the closest dude to continue being aggro while the rest of them wander off in confusion. If you have any kind of ranged ability--even just a lovely unupgraded bow--you can pull single dudes too.

BlackFrost posted:

So is it just impossible to invade someone if they're by themselves? I don't summon much and haven't been invaded a single time. I just tried to invade five times and each time was against a team of three people, which isn't even remotely fun.

Nah. I was just invaded by a mound maker and it was 1-on-1. I even had the loving Blue Covenant thing equipped, and no one showed up.

aas Bandit fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Apr 14, 2016

# ? Apr 14, 2016 03:39

Trash Trick: Apr 17, 2014