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Section Z posted:I'm not what you would call "Good" at PvP anyways, so my entire confusion is why basically everyone I have run into treat purple invaders as turbo Satan who should be taken down through any means necessary as soon as possible (okay makes sense so far) While a Red phantom is right there, trying to kill you (Aaaand now I'm confused). I like purples. If they allow it I'll even cooperate through the level and get back stabbed at a crucial moment, as God intended.  For the guy who walked me through a chunk of Irithyll I even had him on the ropes and threw the fight.
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actionjackson posted:What's a good level range to be at to get summoned for Aldrich covenant? It hasn't happened for me yet. Around level ~65 with a +6 weapon I was getting summoned so often it was hard to remove the covenant item in time to do anything else.
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May 3, 2016 00:21
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One day, you will post upon those very forums... without really knowing why.
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May 3, 2016 00:21
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Subhazard posted:The ambiguity of the Dark Souls story is both a strength and a weakness. It does a hell of a lot to energize the tone of the game, but it is also rather frustrating. It does a great job setting that tone, too. You don't need to watch hours of vaatividya to know that Lordran is a lonely, empty, dying land. The crumbling buildings and mindless zombies tell all the story you need. Or, like, just calling Anor Londo the city of the gods really tells you all you need to set the mood, without needing to dig into the implications of text snippets on an item description. The fact that the lore depth is there if you want to look for it is what makes it work, but even if you never do any digging, you still get to enjoy the general feeling that it creates. The vague and mysterious nature that lets you fill in your own gaps makes it even better. Like the way a good horror movie never shows you the whole monster.
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May 3, 2016 00:25
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Around level ~65 with a +6 weapon I was getting summoned so often it was hard to remove the covenant item in time to do anything else. I forgot about the weapon stuff. My pyro flame is +10... but my level is only 70-80 I think
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May 3, 2016 00:26
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My dream is that some day when a PVP guy sees me running at him naked swinging my fists randomly he will find it funny and not just immediately kill me
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May 3, 2016 00:26
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I feel like a goofball admitting this but picking up the hints about Aldritch's backstory (and his relationship to Horace, Anri, and Gwyndolin in particular) was the first time in ages I found myself emotionally invested in hating a video game character. In a surprise twist, the cannibal poopmonster is a huge jerk.
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May 3, 2016 00:28
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There isn't really a "story" in the traditional sense in the Souls games, it's more like you're reading a synopsis of a historical myth, and witnessing some of the more personal narratives along the way. I think saying that the devs have a carefully planned narrative is giving them way too much credit, but they're not just throwing crap at a wall, either. At least, not entirely. I would be more impressed and engaged if they managed to link it all together in a remotely satisfying way, but I feel like the best way to enjoy the Souls "story" is to look at the architecture and ignore item descriptions. Because seriously. For a game that is so invested in show-not-tell, some dumb bullshit on the name tag of a sword I picked up is like the least evocative way to convey info about the setting.
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May 3, 2016 00:30
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I feel like a goofball admitting this but picking up the hints about Aldritch's backstory (and his relationship to Horace, Anri, and Gwyndolin in particular) was the first time in ages I found myself emotionally invested in hating a video game character. Piecing together just how utterly vile Aldrich is gave me nightmares, something no other video game except for Bloodborne has ever managed to do. It's not even that he's a flesheating monster. It's just like Hawkwood said, they named him Lord and Saint not for virtue, but for might. That's just the way things are in the world and it's a nauseating prospect.
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May 3, 2016 00:34
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It seems like the dogs guarding the Aldritch covenent have been stealth nerfed to have much smaller aggro radii now, so it's easy to fight one at a time if you just rush the rightmost one and stay out of the other half of the room. It was a little anticlimactic as I was expecting a tough fight  This is probably old news I missed ages ago but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.
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One thing about the Souls approach is that it only works for histories-- narratives in which the major events have already passed. It's not inherently good or bad, but that is the basic limitation. Each time, you're essentially performing a final mop-up of a pantheon that has already lived out all its internal squabbles, has very little fight left, and is settling into decay. It's quite evocative, but sometimes I do wish I understood a little more about what I'm fighting. Not just the usual item backstory stuff like "how did this character become a big weird monster", but also "what are they trying to do now, and what will happen if I fail to defeat them?". The games tend to be short on those types of clear stakes.
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May 3, 2016 00:39
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Pick axe is good. I drag it around on my back for looks and sometimes I bust it out in pvp for a few hits. The stamina buff is great if you are into aggressive play "stamina advantage" stuff. Wouldn't use it exclusively though. It's good when you are using pole arms and some rear end in a top hat keeps rolling in really close, so you give them the pick axe a few times and they back off.
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May 3, 2016 00:42
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Mel Mudkiper posted:My dream is that some day when a PVP guy sees me running at him naked swinging my fists randomly he will find it funny and not just immediately kill me lol if you invade and it's not immediately a 1v4 or even 1v5.
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Supercar Gautier posted:One thing about the Souls approach is that it only works for histories-- narratives in which the major events have already passed. It's not inherently good or bad, but that is the basic limitation. Each time, you're essentially performing a final mop-up of a pantheon that has already lived out all its internal squabbles, has very little fight left, and is settling into decay. There really are no stakes though. You're fighting to delay the heat death of the universe just a little longer (or not). The answer to your question is "nothing, and nothing".
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May 3, 2016 00:44
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So far I am actually really enjoying the bosses in this game, which is not something I expected to say because they are usually one of my least favorite parts of these games. In every game except demon's souls they have felt like gigantic spikes in the difficulty curve that turn your steady progress into beating your head against a brick wall until you get it. So far in this game however, their difficulty has been much more comparable to the area they're in, and they have been spaced out much more, so there's a lot more of the kind of gameplay I enjoy. They have also been very creative, instead of "big dude with big weapon" #26. The pope union was a great high point so far and I hope the game keeps this up, because boy are there a lot of things I have to say that are not compliments.
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JetsGuy posted:lol if you invade and it's not immediately a 1v4 or even 1v5. I do summon signing
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I like purples. If they allow it I'll even cooperate through the level and get back stabbed at a crucial moment, as God intended. I don't know if he knew that would happen. He seemed confused though
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BobTheJanitor posted:Counterpoint, most people probably have no clue what's going on in any of the souls/borne games. "I have no idea what I did or why" was pretty much my reaction on finishing my first Dark Souls 1 playthrough. Playing through and just having fun with dress-up and stabbing zombies is not only viable, but probably normal for the majority of players. But for anyone who really wants to dig into the lore and plot there are literally days worth of youtube videos to watch that would love to tell you about it. Sure, but I'm just talking about the experience of playing the game, like returning to Anor Londo or fighting the second phase of Soul of Cinder.
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Spanish Manlove posted:I really do wonder what's with the pile of them at the bottom of the tower and the dead one on top of the tower. There's a line in some item that they go to die when they can no longer fulfill their purpose. This opens a few more questions though. Maybe this Shrine has been operating for a while. Maybe since the Unkindled first had to start harvesting leftover Lords of Cinder to keep the dying world alive a little longer.
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Nihilarian posted:I helped someone open the first shortcut in Cathedral of the Deep before I backstabbed him. You're the good kind of purple. Well, one of the two - if I'm down to a sliver of health I don't really begrudge my buddy a free shackle, but I figure it's best to help with an advancement step before the murder.
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this is the kind of purple I am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-TwZeQngCk
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Welp I'm now trying to use the Greatlance on my newest run. It's so slow and the charge (both the weapon skill, the R2 and the running attack) take ages to charge up, are prone to miss and deal less damage than an R1. Good poo poo.Dazzling Addar posted:One day, you will post upon those very forums... without really knowing why. Yes, indeed. It is called Something Awful. Where the transitory posts of the Shitlords of the Internet converge.
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For a good time play a pure casting sorcerer at base vigor (9) and all points in ATT/INT, then go fight Aldrich with dusk crown on and try to make Twisted Wall of Light not be a useless piece of poo poo.
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Did anybody else figure that the estus soup everywhere was From teasing us? Like we were a step behind Solaire the entire time? Maybe it's no coincidence that we pick up the Sunlight Covenant item in the first place we see estus soup. He's out there. *X-Files music*
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Pyrus Malus posted:Did anybody else figure that the estus soup everywhere was From teasing us? Like we were a step behind Solaire the entire time? You also get the SUnlight Talisman at the second soup
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Pyrus Malus posted:Did anybody else figure that the estus soup everywhere was From teasing us? Like we were a step behind Solaire the entire time? I was under the assumption that Siegward was making it 
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Pyrus Malus posted:Did anybody else figure that the estus soup everywhere was From teasing us? Like we were a step behind Solaire the entire time? Given that you find the covenant at the first and the talisman at the second, well. It's a shame our paths didn't intersect this time, but maybe it's for the best. Maybe he's already surpassed us anyway.
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Spooky Bear Ghost posted:I was under the assumption that Siegward was making it Yeah the 2nd soup is explicitly him, so the 1st probably is too. He even says "let the sun shine bright" or something so he's probably a sunbro.
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I only found the 2 soups, one in the undead town and one in irithyll. how many are there total? also I just realized that even though there are certain things I think DS2 does better, I could never go back to invasion items being consumable only and having to buy / farm / ascetic / duel my supply of them and then having to keep clicking USE every time the invasion failed to connect or couldn't find a host or whatever. having invasion be the infinite REO and having it basically be a switch you turn on or off is just too good to walk away from. I mean I know ratbro and bellbro as covenants actually worked (compared to wolfbro and bluecop) but still
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I just had a fun invasion: I invade into the Crucifixion woods as a mad dark spirit and the player was at that bonfire, calling some buddies to murder me. I immediately book it to the ladder down to farron keep, climb on and watch both of the host's valiant defenders overstep and plummet to their deaths as they tried to catch me. As soon as that happens, another mad dark spirit bro pops in and we run down the host together (comedically catching each other with our respective wide swings).
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Estus soup is a specialty of his. He says long may the sun shine. Sunlight talisman AND sunlight covenant are near estus soup. Farron Keep is on the way to Irithyll, where you meet him again. Seigward is most likely a sunbro, and the room in the undead settlement is either A. his living space or B. a room of terrible torture and misery he, by complete coincidence, decided to use to hole up for the day before continuing on his unkindled journey.
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homeless poster posted:I only found the 2 soups, one in the undead town and one in irithyll. how many are there total? I only remember 3. One in Undead Settlement, one in Farron Keep, and one in Irithyll.
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actionjackson posted:What's a good level range to be at to get summoned for Aldrich covenant? It hasn't happened for me yet. Anywhere between like, 40 to 80
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actionjackson posted:What's a good level range to be at to get summoned for Aldrich covenant? It hasn't happened for me yet. I'm up at 185 and was getting summoned for it all afternoon just hanging out past the pontiff.
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Babe Magnet posted:this is the kind of purple I am: I've shown people the illusion door a few times by them finding me just dual wielding torches against it  I noticed a lot of people miss the lever for the gate for some reason, I guess it does blend in and you can get distracted by the skeletons. I am so going past/going to be well past the level range for the catacombs. That place is fun and the back end is surprisingly tiny when you get down to it.
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...Is this true? https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4hijpm/beware_bug_the_physical_defense_stat_is_almost/ So not only poise does nothing, but neither does the physical absorption stat? It's basically nothing but "slug melee" resistance, according to the poster.
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I wonder how early you could do this and how far you could play before it fixed itself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N25D3aaM4Rs
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