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Random Hajile posted:You're not wrong. Later on, if you follow a certain NPC's quest line, a grub appears within the chamber. If you kill that grub, it has the same drops as the Rosaria's Finger NPC invader that jumps you in the Road of Sacrifice and Ferron Keep swamps. Reckon to me it seems that it's a mirror of the Fair Lady's covenant, but more perverse. In the pursuit of immortality Rosaria's most faithful try to become like their misshapen mistress.
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Captain Oblivious posted:You seem confused. I'm not saying it's too hard, or unmangeable, I'm saying it's tedious and unfun to deal with and does not interesting fights make. There are a few enemies in the early game that, looking back, I think I agree with you just aren't fun to fight. Like the crucified dudes in the Crucifixion Woods--their combos are just unreasonably long and they stunlock you hard with them. They're just a pain in the rear end to deal with on all levels. Oh, and the jump-and-stomp ghru dude, I hate that rear end in a top hat. Captain Oblivious posted:This is the really unfortunate part. Not only does the sheer linearity make so many builds take so long to actually work, very few of them are worth the effort even then. What helps is that this part, at least, is very fixable, and I think it'll slowly get to a good point. Or we'll see a massive rebalancing patch around the time of the first DLC like DS2, though that one didn't turn out to a lot of people's tastes if I remember correctly. It helps, too, that there's good build variety in PvP, at least. Straight swords are the God-Kings of PvE, but there's plenty of good and cool ways to fight in PvP. And other weapons really aren't bad, either--pretty much all of the axes are good (great and otherwise), as are halberd-type weapons (special mention to the Lucerne). Greatswords and ultra greatswords are better than they were (thanks, patch 1.04) but still not great, with a couple of exceptions. The dual weapons are fun and pretty good, too, once you're scaling them enough to make the L1 combos worth it (special mention here to the Drang Hammers). Sorcery, especially, needs help in the early game, and miracles at least need a good weapon buff available early on. Blessed Weapon is trash and Lightning Weapon is pretty late, so you're kinda just plugging away with non-scaling weapons until then and it's kinda eh.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:32
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Any vaguely human shape enemy is insanely easy to backstab. Probably to easy. Especially the black Knights. How are y'all so bad at this. Also enemies really aren't that fast and the only really bad enemy is the jailer who are kind of bullshit.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:34
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Apr 22, 2016 19:35
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RabidWeasel posted:Sadly probably not happening since it looks like they threw all the DS2 animations into a fire or something. The Hollowslayer Greatsword's two-handed moveset is straight out of DS2, which is cool because I always liked that one.
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Here's an idea: we use spoiler tags for everything past Farron Keep. Like this: Yhorm the Giant is easy mode for co-oping.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:36
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HAHAHA. I somehow managed to invade in that magical time where the host enters a boss battle but it's too late for the game to check if hostile phantoms are supposed to be there, so the host was running toward the curse-rotted greatwood while his two phantom buddies were outside, waiting to be let in. I jog up behind them and start cutting them up, and they both panic Alt-F4 out before they die. Sucks for me because I can't get the vertebra shackle, but the host ended up having to fight a double-buffed boss alone and he Alt-F4ed out too to keep himself from dying. It was still worth it to watch.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:37
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For the "best" ending, is there any indication as to what the Lord of Hollows actually does? I didn't see any context for what it means to usurp the flame.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:40
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Harrow posted:The Hollowslayer Greatsword's two-handed moveset is straight out of DS2, which is cool because I always liked that one. That's a cool moveset, but I've always found it way less user friendly than the other greatsword movesets (on that score, the claymore is superlative in DS3). I really like the Abyss Greatsword's moveset. There's something super novel about catching people dodging backwards with the weapon art R2 in the same way dodging backwards was a bad move when Artorias started flipping in DS1.
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The biggest problem I had with really fast bosses and slow weapons seems to be one of balance. I beat C.G. (who I think is one of the fastest) with the large club, it just took a long long time to figure out when I could strike (Basically, after a dodged kick attack and that's it.) or be willing to trade blows. It works, and I feel like you CAN get it hit in on all bosses with the slowest weapons, the real problem is that why would I do that when I can get a dark sword and poo poo damage all over him and his entire family for three generations.
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Anatolia's Mercenary is the cooler of the two. You're good people ACES CURE PLANES.
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FutonForensic posted:For the "best" ending, is there any indication as to what the Lord of Hollows actually does? I didn't see any context for what it means to usurp the flame. We lack the context to say much of anything with certainty until/if DLC touches on the subject. The Sable Church of Londor promises salvation to Hollows but what does salvation mean in this context? Why/How is Anri still alive in the LoH ending, and only sometimes at that? What does that imply? It's the end of the series and they probably wanted to leave things open ended on purpose so everyone can headcanon their own satisfactory resolution.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:43
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Lester Shy posted:I'm bad at piecing together the lore in these games, but I'm really interested in what's going on with the grubs near Rosaria's Bed Chamber, especially the one that only shows up later and drops Heysel's stuff. That whole place gives me major Iosefka's Clinic vibes. WHEN???? When did this grub show up for you? I am still trying to get the drat Xanthous helm and it is far, far too late to get it from the invader in the Road.
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sandoz posted:WHEN???? When did this grub show up for you? I am still trying to get the drat Xanthous helm and it is far, far too late to get it from the invader in the Road. She showed up for me as soon as I joined the covenant and rested at the bonfire. Then again, I killed her as an invader too.
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Quick question, does anyone know what "protect message" does when you're viewing past messages you've left?
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sandoz posted:WHEN???? When did this grub show up for you? I am still trying to get the drat Xanthous helm and it is far, far too late to get it from the invader in the Road. I found Rosaria way after I'd beaten Aldrich. That grub didn't show up right away but after, I moved on to the dungeons, closed the game, came back the next day, and returned to the chamber and it was there. So... eye dee kay?
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Xenolalia posted:Quick question, does anyone know what "protect message" does when you're viewing past messages you've left? You can only have a max of 10 messages, if you go over that it'll delete the oldest ones unless you protect them
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voltron lion force posted:It also tracked how many online interactions you've had which I thought was pretty cool. DS3 actually does this too. It's right next to the max reinforcement level it uses for matchmaking.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:55
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I've been going back to Rosaria's Bedchamber several times every play session for days in a row now, I've killed at least a half-dozen bosses since kindling that bonfire, and still nothing.
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Apr 22, 2016 19:57
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sandoz posted:WHEN???? When did this grub show up for you? I am still trying to get the drat Xanthous helm and it is far, far too late to get it from the invader in the Road. I have no idea what triggers it. It wasn't there when I first got to Rosaria's area and then it was there after I'd beaten the final boss. I don't think I checked any time in between.
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During post-game I got the covenant to +1 and the grub showed up without fighting the dark spirit earlier.
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Lester Shy posted:I have no idea what triggers it. It wasn't there when I first got to Rosaria's area and then it was there after I'd beaten the final boss. I don't think I checked any time in between. Now that I think of it, I might have not tried to get the hat until I wanted to cosplay a little for Dragonslayer Armor. Maybe it's a post-Dancer thing?
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Tamayachi posted:The only issue I've had with the camera is really just the lock-on. Sometimes I feel like it pops off when it feels like it, especially with those goat demon things. Jumped too high? Lock-on falls off. He's behind you now? Lock-on falls off. Even the ones sitting near the bonfire will break the lock-on while getting up This is something I've been feeling but I wasn't sure if my memory was just bad. Does the lock on feel worse than other Souls games to anyone else? Like, its a lot harder to lock onto something even when its plainly visible. The lock on range seems a lot more sensitive, requiring you to be closer and breaking fairly quickly if you move back. And if there's anything in the way that keeps your view of the enemy from being completely clear, it will never lock on. I remember trying to lock onto a lothric knight once and it was literally impossible because he kept moving in between some pillars that covered parts of his model so the game said "nope, I don't see anyone there". It hasn't kept me from playing the game, obviously, but I don't remember having so much trouble with lock on in the past.
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It's just a minor thing, but it feels like it's more sensitive than in DS2
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FutonForensic posted:For the "best" ending, is there any indication as to what the Lord of Hollows actually does? I didn't see any context for what it means to usurp the flame. The visual and conceptual nature of that ending, which is associated with the serpents via Yuria and has the same "people kneeling" victory walk, suggested to me that it's just a mirror of the Dark Lord ending from Dark Souls 1. You're the biggest, baddest motherfucker in the Abyss and you're taking the throne like the Age of Dark's version of Gwyn. You're the undead king of the new age, long may your face be gross. I figure the idea of "salvation" for hollows simply means allowing them to live forever rather than linking the fire, which we know from Dark Souls temporarily rids the world of the Darksign and by extension presumably lays all the hollows to rest. My real question is what the deal is with the other ending that isn't either of those things. I think maybe it's just a more melancholy, benign version.
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re: enemies attack chat. I just fought the Nameless King and man, phase 2 of that fight just feels completely unfair. He does a quick 2 hit combo which is fine, then he has an incredibly delayed strong attack which I saw him do 3 times in a loving row. I think only 1 of his attacks is actually punishable in that you can hit him more than once without eating half your HP to a spear.
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sandoz posted:WHEN???? When did this grub show up for you? I am still trying to get the drat Xanthous helm and it is far, far too late to get it from the invader in the Road.
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Rulebook Heavily posted:The true torch souls starts here. There's a video of him beating the final boss with it. It's 27 minutes long.
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Atreiden posted:Am I the only one fairly disappointed in DS III? Idiot
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Goddamn, the Drang Hammers are so fresh
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sandoz posted:WHEN???? When did this grub show up for you? I am still trying to get the drat Xanthous helm and it is far, far too late to get it from the invader in the Road. There's nothing in the wikis or anything about this but did you get the Xanthous ashes in Irithyll Dungeon? Maybe that's one of the triggers
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Is there any way at all to play this game in borderless windowed mode? ShiftWindow doesn't work, and I don't want to use a hack that will just get me softbanned. I like being able to tab out to chat with my friends every once in a while but in fullscreen it takes a couple seconds to do so, and I don't want to play in windowed mode now that I have my GTX 970 and can play in silky, smooth 60 FPS.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Goddamn, the Drang Hammers are so fresh This video has me wanting to make a Strength guy just to use those https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_015EKDlY
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Random Hajile posted:It showed up for me after advancing Leonhard's story enough that he murdered Rosaria. Yeah I'm at that point too, she's dead and I have her soul in my inventory, no grub. I wonder if it is Aldrich? Help Im Alive posted:There's nothing in the wikis or anything about this but did you get the Xanthous ashes in Irithyll Dungeon? Maybe that's one of the triggers Yep, I got the Xanthous ashes and I can buy the Xanthous chest. Still no grub.
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Dongicus posted:Idiot LOL
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If I wanted to PvP against other relatively new players (but not just dunk on people with no idea what's coming) what covenant should I join and what level range / area should I be in? Or is there no reasonable way to accomodate this?
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:If I wanted to PvP against other relatively new players (but not just dunk on people with no idea what's coming) what covenant should I join and what level range / area should I be in? Or is there no reasonable way to accomodate this? use a red eye orb in road of sacrifices at level 30
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:If I wanted to PvP against other relatively new players (but not just dunk on people with no idea what's coming) what covenant should I join and what level range / area should I be in? Or is there no reasonable way to accomodate this? My best guess would be to get the red eye orb and invade in any area after undead settlement but before carthus, around level 25-40 with a +2 or 3 weapon.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:If I wanted to PvP against other relatively new players (but not just dunk on people with no idea what's coming) what covenant should I join and what level range / area should I be in? Or is there no reasonable way to accomodate this? The mid-20's through to level 40 has the Halfway Fort in the Crucifixion Woods as the best place for 1v1 pvp. Lots of duels and regular summoning. Higher levels seem to favor the balcony after the Pontiff fight.
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