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snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.
Without giving any hints as to where I'm supposed to go, could someone answer this for me (near endgame spoilers):

I've just reached the Kiln of the First Flame and have found 16/19 bosses. Aside from the last boss, are the remaining two still ahead or have I skipped them? The optional bosses I've fought so far are Greatwood, Oceiros, ODK and Champion Gundyr.

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Your Computer
Oct 3, 2008




Grimey Drawer
I didn't have any problems with the Dancer on my first playthrough, so I figured I'd try going for her as my first boss on my new character.


The grab. The grab! :gonk: I regret everything.

Under the vegetable
Nov 2, 2004

by Smythe
i dont know but you skipped at least one optional boss

Your Computer
Oct 3, 2008




Grimey Drawer

snoremac posted:

Without giving any hints as to where I'm supposed to go, could someone answer this for me (near endgame spoilers):

I've just reached the Kiln of the First Flame and have found 16/19 bosses. Aside from the last boss, are the remaining two still ahead or have I skipped them? The optional bosses I've fought so far are Greatwood, Oceiros, ODK and Champion Gundyr.

You've missed one optional area, but that's all.

Fair Bear Maiden
Jun 17, 2013

snoremac posted:

Without giving any hints as to where I'm supposed to go, could someone answer this for me (near endgame spoilers):

I've just reached the Kiln of the First Flame and have found 16/19 bosses. Aside from the last boss, are the remaining two still ahead or have I skipped them? The optional bosses I've fought so far are Greatwood, Oceiros, ODK and Champion Gundyr.

The remaining two are in Archdragon Peaks. You already have everything you need to do to reach that area, just read the item descriptions and you'll probably figure out how to reach it by yourself.

Fair Bear Maiden fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Apr 21, 2016

snoremac
Jul 27, 2012

I LOVE SEEING DEAD BABIES ON 𝕏, THE EVERYTHING APP. IT'S WORTH IT FOR THE FOLLOWING TAB.
Thanks.

the panacea
May 10, 2008

:10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux:
So I just crashed and now I get a warning about illegitimate data. How hosed am I?

Turtlicious
Sep 17, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

the panacea posted:

So I just crashed and now I get a warning about illegitimate data. How hosed am I?

On PC? Your save is hosed but you can play on a new steam account via family sharing.

Anywhere else? Fuuuuucked.

Fereydun
May 9, 2008

Subhazard posted:

That and dancers, they over-buffed it

what
i'm using it right now and it does less damage than the uchigatana while also being inferior in literally every other way besides coolness factor
what's the secret here

the panacea
May 10, 2008

:10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux::10bux:

Turtlicious posted:

On PC? Your save is hosed but you can play on a new steam account via family sharing.

Anywhere else? Fuuuuucked.

Yeah on PC. I didn't even use Cheatengine because it's my first playthrough.
So it's either copy the savefile and use family sharing or start fresh?

Ghosts n Gopniks
Nov 2, 2004

Imagine how much more sad and lonely we would be if not for the hard work of lowtax. Here's $12.95 to his aid.

Your Computer posted:

I didn't have any problems with the Dancer on my first playthrough, so I figured I'd try going for her as my first boss on my new character.


The grab. The grab! :gonk: I regret everything.

The grabs of some bosses are what ruin the hitbox-porn of BB and DS3.

Luceid
Jan 20, 2005

Buy some freaking medicine.

Fereydun posted:

what
i'm using it right now and it does less damage than the uchigatana while also being inferior in literally every other way besides coolness factor
what's the secret here

the reach isn't that great but you can swing it for days at a time and it does way more damage than a straight sword ought to. i'm not pro enough to say whether its honestly OP but i sure as hell get some work done with it, thats for sure

MechanicalTomPetty
Oct 30, 2011

Runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Not sure if this has been posted yet, but here's a pro-tip for scumming the Nameless King fight:

The Dragonslayer Greatshield has about 95% lightning absorbtion and makes the second half of the fight a lot easier since you can actually tank most of his hits.

Your Computer
Oct 3, 2008




Grimey Drawer
Man, I can finally put everything on max but my Steam screenshots still look like rear end (jpgs? in 2016? why :()



MAX SETTINGS :krad:

Orv
May 4, 2011

Your Computer posted:

Man, I can finally put everything on max but my Steam screenshots still look like rear end (jpgs? in 2016? why :()

Steam compresses its screenshots like neutronium, if you want crisp you have to use an external program.

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



I don't get the hate for Aldrich. Yeah he's awful, but if you could eat gods you would too.

Also i spent an hour slowly murdering all those archers in the area past Pontiff, and joining the Aldrich Covenent and killing players there is so good.

Also, I'm married now. The ceremony wasn't great, but the honeymoon was amazing.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money
I don't even really blame Aldrich because dude had issues. You know who enabled him every step of the way? The Pontiff.

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



Wheres that lore from?

And Dancer is crushing me.

Einwand
Nov 3, 2012

You idiot.
In this world it's pet or BE pet.

Well I just fought the boss of the Untended Graves, and man that was an intense goddamn fight, also fun. Somehow bumbled my way through it on my first try solo, too.
My lovely lothric long spear continues to be really good against PvE and absolute garbage in PvP.

Fuzz
Jun 2, 2003

Avatar brought to you by the TG Sanity fund

sector_corrector posted:

A great thing about Bloodborne was that even an un-upgraded gun with no BLT investment could punish a person out of vialing if you were good. I'm having problems getting the same thing going with pyro, since the cast is sort of slow.

THROWING. KNIVES.

Seriously, if you don't want to go crazy with invasions, invest in some and keep them ready to go. Bonus if they're Kukris because those actually scale and if they're stupid and keep trying to chug you can usually land the bleed on them, which often kills them.

They're so drat good in this game.

Fereydun
May 9, 2008

Your Computer posted:

Man, I can finally put everything on max but my Steam screenshots still look like rear end (jpgs? in 2016? why :()



MAX SETTINGS :krad:


steam screenshots feature defaults to really awful compression settings. you can change the setting somewhere but i don't know where exactly

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Tequila Sunrise posted:

Wheres that lore from?

And Dancer is crushing me.

Well Anri says Aldrich's true home is Ithryll, the doll is the only thing that lets you past that barrier and it was in Aldrich's grave. The description for it says it was given only to people the pontiff liked so they could return home. An item, I think it's the pontiff's soul? Also specifies that the Pontiff captured a god for Aldrich to consume, presumably either Gwyndolin or what's her face he has locked up in that tower, and she herself says he imprisoned her there to usurp her political power.

Deformed Church
May 12, 2012

5'5", IQ 81


I wish there was at least one guaranteed summon for every boss fight. According to what I've managed to google up, the summons for the twin princes are Orbeck, who I supposedly have to buy everything from for his summon to show up, and sirris who hates me because I respecced. One is impossible for me to get, the other would require silly amounts of soul grinding for spells I'll never ever use.

NPC quests being so tied to getting summon help is really annoying when they're so easy to mess up.

Orv
May 4, 2011

Fereydun posted:

steam screenshots feature defaults to really awful compression settings. you can change the setting somewhere but i don't know where exactly

Just checked, under In-Game in Settings you can select a folder to save an uncompressed copy of screenshots. Steam settings that is.

Your Computer
Oct 3, 2008




Grimey Drawer

Fereydun posted:

steam screenshots feature defaults to really awful compression settings. you can change the setting somewhere but i don't know where exactly

You can make it unceremoniously throw a copy of every screenshot into a single folder in .png format, but at that point I might as well use a different program for screenshots. I wish I could just tell it to start taking uncompressed screenshots instead of the .jpgs, because as a screenshot-aholic I've grown pretty reliant on the way it both 1) lets me take a screenshot with a single keypress and 2) categorizes them into folders by game. I've taken several thousand screenshots and it would be a nightmare to navigate otherwise :negative:

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich
Guys, help me. As an unchigatana user that insists on keeping below 30% equip load - partly for the fast roll, partly because a shredded mask/chest/deserter trousers/fire keeper glove combination looks amazing - while having both carthus rings, I keep getting my rear end kicked in PVP. I'd win SO MUCH if I just put some armour on but it feels wrong to have beaten most of the game like this and chicken out just to get some extra tongues. :negative:

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



Please send help ro dancer. SOS

Your Computer
Oct 3, 2008




Grimey Drawer
Has there been a fix yet to the autosave stutter?

Now that I have a stable 60 fps (GTX 970) it's even more jarring that it hiccups every time the game autosaves (which is a lot). :smith:

Tiler Kiwi
Feb 26, 2011

Fuzz posted:

THROWING. KNIVES.

Seriously, if you don't want to go crazy with invasions, invest in some and keep them ready to go. Bonus if they're Kukris because those actually scale and if they're stupid and keep trying to chug you can usually land the bleed on them, which often kills them.

They're so drat good in this game.

i find that they do not stun people out of the drinking animation at all. I've been using a light crossbow, but even that requires quite a bit of prediction since it cant fire fast enough once the chuggin animation starts.

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich

Tiler Kiwi posted:

i find that they do not stun people out of the drinking animation at all. I've been using a light crossbow, but even that requires quite a bit of prediction since it cant fire fast enough once the chuggin animation starts.

Yeah, unless you're specifically built for throwing knives they do piddly damage and aren't quick enough to stop the estus animation, even if they can cancel it. Doesn't feel like there's enough options to punish mid-combat chugging this time around.

Wildtortilla
Jul 8, 2008
I decided to use some cracked red eye orbs for the first time last night to explore the catacombs as a red rear end in a top hat. Hank squads and rappers as far as the eye can see. Only once did I have a fun invasion in which I snuck up on someone while they were fighting some monsters.

Whix
Oct 2, 2008

IT GOES BOOM!

poptart_fairy posted:

Guys, help me. As an unchigatana user that insists on keeping below 30% equip load - partly for the fast roll, partly because a shredded mask/chest/deserter trousers/fire keeper glove combination looks amazing - while having both carthus rings, I keep getting my rear end kicked in PVP. I'd win SO MUCH if I just put some armour on but it feels wrong to have beaten most of the game like this and chicken out just to get some extra tongues. :negative:

There is no fast rolling now. It's only normal rolling <= 70% load and fat roll > 70%.

New Zealand can eat me
Aug 29, 2008

:matters:


This happened to me with Dancer on my first try, took me about 30 more tries after this to finally get it



:negative:

Was nice to finally have a difficult fight, after what felt like so many pushovers :smug:

poptart_fairy
Apr 8, 2009

by R. Guyovich

Whix posted:

There is no fast rolling now. It's only normal rolling <= 70% load and fat roll > 70%.

Is this actually confirmed? I swear the sub-30 animation is much quicker and goes further than the others.

Iretep
Nov 10, 2009
theres a fast roll at bellow 30% yes.

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


The roll below 30% is better but i'm pretty sure you don't get any extra iframes with it.

Yorkshire Pudding
Nov 24, 2006



I want to thank my savior, the bold knight known as "Raw***ga"

Elman
Oct 26, 2009

Operant posted:

Aldia and Sulyvahn establish a giant evil church over old Anor Londo

What makes you say Aldrich is Aldia? I mean, I could see it being him but I didn't get that impression.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Elman posted:

What makes you say Aldrich is Aldia? I mean, I could see it being him but I didn't get that impression.

I'm sure it was just a typo but there are some people who think a vaguely mentioned character the tutor to the princes, you know the cinder lords who gave the gently caress up on trying to link the fire, were tutored by a scholar who was Aldia because he's mentioned as being a scholar who didn't believe in linking the flames.

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Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

The smoldering lake is an awful, useless place.

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