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inthesto posted:For a second, I was worried that geop would lay waste to the boss so quickly we wouldn't get to see phase 2
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I'm completely baffled by how he got surprised by the turtledude but turned around just in time to take on the bumrush on the giant sword.
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Jun 11, 2016 06:12
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That was a really nice fight against the Giant. The Mace tore through his HP much faster than I expected. Apparently I should've been using strike weapons this whole game instead of the Fire Longsword!
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Jun 11, 2016 06:18
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SynthOrange posted:I'm completely baffled by how he got surprised by the turtledude but turned around just in time to take on the bumrush on the giant sword. I don't think he really got surprised by the old ironclad. Their roll back attack is surprisingly hard to dodge because it comes out very fast. In fact, once you get good at rolling, it becomes their most dangerous attack. Generally you just want to circle around to their side or front for that reason, and the one in the elevator faces forward to accommodate this. I have no idea why the one in Geop's game decided to turn around. Maybe it caught a glimpse of him.
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Jun 11, 2016 06:19
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FPzero posted:That was a really nice fight against the Giant. The Mace tore through his HP much faster than I expected. Apparently I should've been using strike weapons this whole game instead of the Fire Longsword! You remember how From forgot to put lightning resistance in Dark Souls 1? It's like that here, except instead of an element you don't get until past the midpoint, it's a damage type you can start with or get relatively early.
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Jun 11, 2016 06:28
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FPzero posted:That was a really nice fight against the Giant. The Mace tore through his HP much faster than I expected. Apparently I should've been using strike weapons this whole game instead of the Fire Longsword! The mace wrecks a whole lot for the first half or third of the game for PVE, but the fire longsword stays pretty consistently solid for PVP for way longer. If you were dealing with other players a bunch, it was a good choice. Eventually the game will catch up to the mace, though it's going to take a while.
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Jun 11, 2016 06:28
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MGlBlaze posted:That's kind of a whole other problem with the game as a whole, really. I mentioned it before but Dark Souls 2's health system is poorly balanced. In Demon's Souls enemies were balanced around your half-health soul form so things would never be too unreasonable. Dark Souls 1 did away with that entirely except for the Curse status effect, which is a really terrible thing to have happen to you and takes #1 priority on curing if you are unfortunate enough to get hit by it. Dark Souls 2 kind of throws the idea out the window so if you end up getting down to minimum health, and you have no Human Effigies, you're kinda up poo poo creek. Outside of some exceptional circumstances or very specific things (Like, say, managing to go into an area FAR beyond where you should be. Though even then I don't think many things will one-shot a new character in Dark Souls 1 if you go right to Blight Town), nothing should one-shot you ever. That's kinda just a symptom of poor/weak/sloppy design. use the gosh dang soapstones incidentally this is also a solution for the "i wanna grind but extinction sucks!" problem
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Jun 11, 2016 07:15
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Looper posted:use the gosh dang soapstones Yeah, things will drop for you even in someone else's world. One thing they definitely got right in this game was making phantoming pretty attractive.
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Jun 11, 2016 07:44
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The small soapstone in particular was really good because it gave you reason to put down a sign to just help someone through a level, rather than being focused entirely on killing a boss. It's a shame that it didn't come back.
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Jun 11, 2016 07:54
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Mighty Dicktron posted:The small soapstone in particular was really good because it gave you reason to put down a sign to just help someone through a level, rather than being focused entirely on killing a boss. It's a shame that it didn't come back. It's really annoying how DS3 pretty much ignored all of the improvements from DS2.
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Jun 11, 2016 08:12
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Did we just see Goonther throw a firebomb into that guy's hole-face like an NBA pro scores a three point shot? Because I think that's exactly what we saw.
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Jun 11, 2016 08:17
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I am pretty sure the game doesn't ever just spawn guys in from nowhere, the surprise elevator turtle is there the whole time chilling on the lower level. What I can't remember, though, is whether he steps off when he gets to the top - I think I remember coming back up after beating the boss and narrowly rolling away from a club to the face. Also it's possible for the ballista facing out the door of the gangbang room to miss that sword hollow and go flying into the courtyard opposite, blowing up all the barrels. Glorious.
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Jun 11, 2016 08:23
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Yeah, Goonther was just looking the wrong way and didnt see the other elevator going up.
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Jun 11, 2016 08:24
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Crazy Achmed posted:I am pretty sure the game doesn't ever just spawn guys in from nowhere, the surprise elevator turtle is there the whole time chilling on the lower level. What I can't remember, though, is whether he steps off when he gets to the top - I think I remember coming back up after beating the boss and narrowly rolling away from a club to the face. Same, minus the rolling away.
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Jun 11, 2016 08:30
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Crazy Achmed posted:I am pretty sure the game doesn't ever just spawn guys in from nowhere, the surprise elevator turtle is there the whole time chilling on the lower level. What I can't remember, though, is whether he steps off when he gets to the top - I think I remember coming back up after beating the boss and narrowly rolling away from a club to the face. If you can figure out which one hits the barrels you can activate it and just waltz right through that courtyard. Also it took me forever to figure out where that turtle guy had come from. A couple times (but not every time) I would come back from killing the boss and he would just suddenly be there at the top. I was so confused.
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Jun 11, 2016 09:28
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I tried starting up DS2 again but almost gave up pretty early in. I'd forgotten how bad the hairstyles were 
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Jun 11, 2016 10:04
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Hairstyles maybe, but it's got the One True Mustache. All it's missing is a size slider for facial hair.
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Jun 11, 2016 10:06
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Lizard Wizard posted:Yeah, things will drop for you even in someone else's world. One thing they definitely got right in this game was making phantoming pretty attractive. The only drops I've ever got while phantoming were life gems. Scholar btw.
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Jun 11, 2016 10:12
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Mighty Dicktron posted:The small soapstone in particular was really good because it gave you reason to put down a sign to just help someone through a level, rather than being focused entirely on killing a boss. It's a shame that it didn't come back. You can allegedly get a mission success in DS3 co-op via timer according to the wiki; it never happened to me when I was playing, though, and I did a lot of co-op. You always either die or get sent home by the host first.
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Jun 11, 2016 11:16
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Laputanmachine posted:The only drops I've ever got while phantoming were life gems. Scholar btw.
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Jun 11, 2016 11:51
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Btw Geop, Gwyndolin was the tsundere ladyboy prince(ss). Gwynevere was the sun princess with Amazing Chest. From being Japanese, there is a non-zero chance of Date Souls. Invade other player's dates and steal their waifu!
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Jun 11, 2016 12:34
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Genocyber posted:This would be the case if not for them including the Cling Ring equivalent (also the small white soapstone but not everyone will be able to take advantage of that, of course). I suppose that is true, really. There are some mitigating factors. Also apparently Human Effigies drop much more frequently in SOTFS according to some other people. I still feel that the fact that it's a possibility is kinda poor design and I maintain that getting one-shot should not be a possibility. But oh well. MGlBlaze fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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Jun 11, 2016 13:09
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I had like 40+ when I finished this game and I didn't coop or grind them out. After a certain point they're handed out like candy. The mace might not last the whole game but Strike damage is still king throughout.
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Jun 11, 2016 13:19
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Even if it does end up being able to last, I would like to see Geop try out stuff after a while. Maybe once upgrade materials can be bought in large quantities for upgrading.
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Jun 11, 2016 13:21
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I mean that more like strike damage still has an advantage over the rest so the mace does fall off but other blunt weapons still have an advantage. I know Geop will play around with different equipment though.
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Jun 11, 2016 13:27
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Laputanmachine posted:Btw Geop, Gwyndolin was the tsundere ladyboy prince(ss). Gwynevere was the sun princess with Amazing Chest. What the gently caress is this post
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Jun 11, 2016 15:45
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Laputanmachine posted:From being Japanese, there is a non-zero chance of Date Souls. Invade other player's dates and steal their waifu! There have been competitive dating games. Get Tiffany, was one, which had a video uploaded way back in the Days of Viddler, where it's all of the players trying to raise their affection with her and you could actively sabotage the others' turns with items.
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Jun 11, 2016 16:06
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Oh, something I felt merited mentioning. Like they said, Melentia will give you an item after you spend enough with her, but she won't just give it to you out of the blue, you have to select 'Talk' from the menu. It's more than just her, too, so be sure to talk with every merchant you spend alot of souls at.
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GeneX posted:What the gently caress is this post I think they made a joke about DS4 having a dating sim in and someone mentioned one of the Gwyns and was obviously talking about the giant lady one. And since Japan is like the only country that's popularly known to have dating sims it's a joke that there's probably a dating sim game like Dark Souls where you invade people's worlds and steal their women like you're Bowser and they're all Princess Peach.
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RareAcumen posted:I think they made a joke about DS4 having a dating sim in and someone mentioned one of the Gwyns and was obviously talking about the giant lady one. What the gently caress is this post
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Jun 11, 2016 17:49
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Can we talk about npc questlines and how to advance them/get their "good" endings? Because that's all kinds of annoying.
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Jun 11, 2016 18:56
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Dote Up a Frampt
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double nine posted:Can we talk about npc questlines and how to advance them/get their "good" endings? Because that's all kinds of annoying. I'd say that's spoilers but you are right them being annoying. The way of advancing questlines is just handled way better in the other souls games.
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Rubberduke posted:I'd say that's spoilers but you are right them being annoying. The way of advancing questlines is just handled way better in the other souls games. DS3 thread is that way ---->
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Jun 11, 2016 19:40
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double nine posted:Can we talk about npc questlines and how to advance them/get their "good" endings? Because that's all kinds of annoying. uh yeah in the games dark souls 2 thread
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Jun 11, 2016 19:47
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Suspicious Dish posted:What the gently caress is this post someone help me
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Jun 11, 2016 20:04
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double nine posted:Can we talk about npc questlines and how to advance them/get their "good" endings? Because that's all kinds of annoying. It's a Dark Souls Tradition! Also no, we're not even close to those sections yet to really chat about it.
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Jun 11, 2016 22:27
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Golden Goat posted:It's a Dark Souls Tradition! C'mon, this LP might not make it if we don't all pull together and spoil it before Geop's panel can. For real though, I didn't even know that giant could plop on the ground like that. He just checked out for a minute.
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Captain Lavender posted:C'mon, this LP might not make it if we don't all pull together and spoil it before Geop's panel can. Yeah I'm so used to sticking behind or under this guy that I barely see attacks that aren't the stomps. He also has an attack with the ripped off arm that sweeps behind him.
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Dark Souls has always been a dating sim. I mean, there's only a single optional romance NPC per game, but in keeping with the franchise theme of expositional minimalism, the two affectionate lines you get out of Solaire would be a full length rom-com blockbuster anywhere else.
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