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Vermain posted:As you might expect, he has gruesomely high magic absorption. I feel like they stuck the Astora Straight Sword where they did and gave it the scaling that they did for a reason. Her clones stay at 1 HP though so at least you can hide behind a rock and tag them with a single soul arrow to get rid of them. It makes the fight feel like some magical cover based shooter. It still feels silly that I've died more to her than any other boss on this run though. Tenzarin posted:That final staircase where there's 3 lothic knights charging you. From has had the problem with multiple targets all the way back to the armored core series. Wow crazy that the last room in the game would have a hard encounter!
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Tenzarin posted:That final staircase where there's 3 lothic knights charging you. From has had the problem with multiple targets all the way back to the armored core series. Wasn't talking about DSIII, was talking about Nioh. DSIII does multiple enemies really well actually imho.
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Apr 27, 2016 06:08
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Internet Kraken posted:Her clones stay at 1 HP though so at least you can hide behind a rock and tag them with a single soul arrow to get rid of them. It makes the fight feel like some magical cover based shooter. Wouldn't call it hard with how the game works. Anything ranged could just spam it down.
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Apr 27, 2016 06:10
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Internet Kraken posted:Wow crazy that the last room in the game would have a hard encounter! It is, in fact, possible to make encounters that are so teeth-grittingly frustrating to do that players, if given the option, will simply avoid them. I'm honestly curious to know the proportion of people who made it all the way to that staircase and actually decided to fight thirty Hollows and three red-eye blue tabard Lothric Knights instead of booking it as fast as their little legs would carry them.
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Vermain posted:It is, in fact, possible to make encounters that are so teeth-grittingly frustrating to do that players, if given the option, will simply avoid them. I'm honestly curious to know the proportion of people who made it all the way to that staircase and actually decided to fight thirty Hollows and three red-eye blue tabard Lothric Knights instead of booking it as fast as their little legs would carry them. You are asking people posting in a dark souls 3 thread on the internet, how swole they are. Get ready. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Apr 27, 2016 |
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Apr 27, 2016 06:12
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I will punch them all with my beautiful fists I will destroy them with punishing elbow drop combinations
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Vermain posted:It is, in fact, possible to make encounters that are so teeth-grittingly frustrating to do that players, if given the option, will simply avoid them. I'm honestly curious to know the proportion of people who made it all the way to that staircase and actually decided to fight thirty Hollows and three red-eye blue tabard Lothric Knights instead of booking it as fast as their little legs would carry them. Backstabbing and I frames son Tenzarin posted:You are asking people posting in a dark souls 3 thread on the internet, how swole they are? Get ready. No shame here
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The stairs right before the archives boss became one of my favorite places to invade if the host hadn't cleared out the enemies yet. It's usually 3 vs. 1 but you have an army of hollows and lothric knights on your side. Even if I fall my goal is to make them waste a lot of time and flasks before reaching the boss. Sometimes they'd use a seed but that would work to my advantage as I could get everything chasing me and pull them down to force the players out of turtling.
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Tenzarin posted:Wouldn't call it hard with how the game works. Anything ranged could just spam it down. This applies to tons of encounters in these games. Ranged spam makes a lot fights easy that would otherwise be rather difficult in melee. Vermain posted:It is, in fact, possible to make encounters that are so teeth-grittingly frustrating to do that players, if given the option, will simply avoid them. I'm honestly curious to know the proportion of people who made it all the way to that staircase and actually decided to fight thirty Hollows and three red-eye blue tabard Lothric Knights instead of booking it as fast as their little legs would carry them. I basically always try to kill everything the first time I see it because I want to be able to loot the area in peace. So yeah, I did cut my way through that army of hollows and knights. It was fun too, since I like those kinds of areas. I used to kill all the black knights in the Kiln and the army of dragon soldiers stationed on the stairs in Dragon Aerie.
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I must be stupid at this game. How exactly do I aim magic? Is there a way to scope it from a distance? Do I get a sight?
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Vermain posted:It is, in fact, possible to make encounters that are so teeth-grittingly frustrating to do that players, if given the option, will simply avoid them. I'm honestly curious to know the proportion of people who made it all the way to that staircase and actually decided to fight thirty Hollows and three red-eye blue tabard Lothric Knights instead of booking it as fast as their little legs would carry them. Like most tough encounters in Souls games, this one is completely trivialized by only aggroing one knight at a time. The others will keep moving forward because that's what they're scripted to do, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they know you're around.
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Fuzz posted:Jesus gently caress Havel is bullshit in this game since everything can magically turn at insane speed and all weapons are auto-seeking. You don't know fear until his stone buff bugs out when it wears off, resulting in him having a permanent 50% movement speed boost.
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Vermain posted:It is, in fact, possible to make encounters that are so teeth-grittingly frustrating to do that players, if given the option, will simply avoid them. I'm honestly curious to know the proportion of people who made it all the way to that staircase and actually decided to fight thirty Hollows and three red-eye blue tabard Lothric Knights instead of booking it as fast as their little legs would carry them. you can cut through most them in 1-2 hits, maybe 3 if they have a shield. you really shouldn't have any more problems with the knights since they had them in the first level and once you make it the first time you have a shortcut. the hardest encounter imo was the room with the 2 buff knights before the consumed king, especially if you don't kill that hard to notice little poo poo on the platform buffing them. with so many bosses being a silly gimmick and buffing the player weapons (movesets more than anything) so much, ds3 overall is probably the easiest iteration in the series
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Philosopher King posted:I must be stupid at this game. How exactly do I aim magic? Is there a way to scope it from a distance? Do I get a sight? You can use binoculars to aim, but by the time you do that you will be eviscerated. I swear bows used to beable to do this.
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What are everyone's thoughts on using upgrade materials on early game weapons? I started knight and am running longsword but figure I'll probably switch it out midgame (some quick research points me to the dark sword being pretty good). Am I safe in thinking the game throws enough titanite shards at you to keep a weapon up to date even if you won't use it forever?
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Philosopher King posted:I must be stupid at this game. How exactly do I aim magic? Is there a way to scope it from a distance? Do I get a sight? So if this is anything like previous games, you can "scope" it using the binoculars (equip the binocs to the tools spot). I haven't tested this myself. If you missed the binoculars, they're in the Undead Settlement on top of the tower where the first dead dragon is, iirc. Manually aim bows by using L1.
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Philosopher King posted:I must be stupid at this game. How exactly do I aim magic? Is there a way to scope it from a distance? Do I get a sight? 
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Target spotted, 30 degrees to the right.
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Tenzarin posted:Target spotted, 30 degrees to the right. 
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Vermain posted:It is, in fact, possible to make encounters that are so teeth-grittingly frustrating to do that players, if given the option, will simply avoid them. I'm honestly curious to know the proportion of people who made it all the way to that staircase and actually decided to fight thirty Hollows and three red-eye blue tabard Lothric Knights instead of booking it as fast as their little legs would carry them. I fought 'em all, although I was really thankful that you could pretty much sneak to the boss behind their backs once you'd gotten past them.
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Eldred posted:What are everyone's thoughts on using upgrade materials on early game weapons? I started knight and am running longsword but figure I'll probably switch it out midgame (some quick research points me to the dark sword being pretty good). You can eventually buy every upgrade material infinitely except titanite slabs. So the only thing you really have to think hard about is bringing a weapon to +10 or +5 for twinkling and boss weapons.
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You guys should try that staircase in reverse, after the knights walk down into the 7 grunts and form a mega deathball.
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So, for people complaining about invaded hosts being big babies: what's your opinion on invaders being big babies? I had an invader sort of barely fight me, run off into the level, White Branch and go afk in that order. I killed two other invaders on my way to finding him (lol Anor Londo). He was maybe the fourth invader total I've had to chase down like it's Monster Hunter, but definitely the worst case of the four. I'm not good at PvP. I swear to god, just fight me, you'll probably win. Save us both the time thanks
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I did it. 30 ears. Zero summons the whole time. 4.5 million souls. (At 3750 souls per, that's approximately 1200 silver knights, or, since I found 2 ears through the course of the game, 1 ear per 42 knights.) This was with greedy goldsnake, suicide box hat, and a coin (usually) active for 311 item discovery. I had to invade people a couple times to drop stacks of 99 titanite for them as I hit the max in item storage. 
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Giant Isopod posted:I did it. 30 ears. Zero summons the whole time. 4.5 million souls. (At 3750 souls per, that's approximately 1200 silver knights, or, since I found 2 ears through the course of the game, 1 ear per 42 knights.) I used cheat engine to spawn them in like 30 seconds.
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Tenzarin posted:I used cheat engine to spawn them in like 30 seconds. Ever get the "invalid game data" warning? I got one for loving around with CE on an alt I kept offline.
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if you hate the common enemies in this game just level your int up to 15 and use both spook and hidden body together (put on a lingering dragoncrest ring as well if you have it). you can ghost through entire levels and unless an enemy is body-blocking a door you won't be stopped at all. it works so well even the cathedral knights guarding the elevators and boss entrance at the Consumed King's Garden will literally not notice you squeezing right past them. It saved me so much time doing the run to that boss 
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Republicans posted:Ever get the "invalid game data" warning? I got one for loving around with CE on an alt I kept offline. I spawned all the items for all the achieves and deleted my save game. Funny how this game that is mainly a console game has anticheat one week after the release and The Division can't even figure it out! If you go offline and put something in your storage box and go back online you trigger the anticheat.
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It was hard fought but getting the MLGS super early is already paying off as people in early areas have no idea how to fight against it. The damage on it may be mediocre, but those beams are a lot of fun in PvP, even if they'll never hit a competent duelist. Great for punishing sipping though. I suppose I should make this character a sorcery caster too since I had to commit so many points to INT to wield this thing, and will likely put in more to improve its primary scaling.
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Holy poo poo the hitstun on the black knight greataxe is crazy. It's super slow but you still can't do anything about the second hit because you recoil from the first one for loving ages. New Poise is garbage
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Republicans posted:Ever get the "invalid game data" warning? I got one for loving around with CE on an alt I kept offline. I used CE to beat a boss in offline mode and have the warning all the time now, but nothing has been done beyond that warning as far as I can tell. I'm almost done with my second playthrough, and the online is still broken for me anyway (only person I can successfully summon is my room mate, even with passwords) so I'm honestly not all that concerned.
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Vince MechMahon posted:I used CE to beat a boss in offline mode and have the warning all the time now, but nothing has been done beyond that warning as far as I can tell. I'm almost done with my second playthrough, and the online is still broken for me anyway (only person I can successfully summon is my room mate, even with passwords) so I'm honestly not all that concerned. which warning is it? There's caution you have invalid data(delete your save game), and then there's Warning you are now in the cheater server(this is permanent for all future characters). I think they are being alittle lax atm but cause they had alot of false positives.
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Branding iron speedrun from the world record holding DS3 runner just starting http://twitch.tv/distortion2
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It's amazing how fast you can get though this game with a +10 dark sword and some foreknowledge. I started last night, now I'm already up to Lothric Castle and thats with a fair bit of loving around to wrap up all the questlines I hosed over last round. Funniest boss run so far has to be Aldritch. We simul-killed each other but it still counted as a win, so I got the boss soul and then Emma teleported my corpse back to the chapel. Thankfully I respawned back at the Anor Londo bonfire so I didn't have to go far to get my souls back
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Branding iron speedrun from the world record holding DS3 runner just starting Why branding iron?
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Republicans posted:Why branding iron? Memes, lad
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Well that was a neat trick he just did. If you exit the game after you fall to your death you'll re-enter alive where you landed.
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Tenzarin posted:You can use binoculars to aim, but by the time you do that you will be eviscerated. bows can still do this if you hald l1 while an arrow is drawn. I have no idea what l1 would be with m/k, but it's lb on an xbox controller
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Tenzarin posted:That final staircase where there's 3 lothic knights charging you. From has had the problem with multiple targets all the way back to the armored core series. You can pull them individually with a bow/crossbow. This applies to almost all of the group encounters in the game. You don't even need to meet the stat requirements for a bow/crossbow.
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