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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:Luck isn't good for bleeding anymore apparently. I looked into it and everyone just said to do Dex with a blood gem now. Ah, well, I'd like to do something different anyway. Starting fresh.
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Do a Lothric straight sword build. Pump dex, make the sword sharp, maybe add in miracles later for buff/ranged option.
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skasion posted:Do a Lothric straight sword build. Pump dex, make the sword sharp, maybe add in miracles later for buff/ranged option. Any way to rush that weapon besides rushing the dancer? It's been a while since I played.
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Mar 30, 2019 03:33
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Oscar Wild posted:Any way to rush that weapon besides rushing the dancer? It's been a while since I played. The relevant guys drop it right on the High Wall.
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Mar 30, 2019 03:48
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Lothric Straight Sword is incredible all around except it's boring to use.
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Mar 30, 2019 03:51
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Full Caestus run, just punch the crap out of everything.
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Mar 30, 2019 04:20
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:Lothric Straight Sword is incredible all around except it's boring to use. Well, I dont remember using it so naked lothric, here I go. Really wish I could do a fig leaf codpiece.
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And Tyler Too! posted:Full Caestus run, just punch the crap out of everything. this is actually really fun
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Mar 30, 2019 17:45
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I reinstalled and booted the game up just to realize the button prompts reference the Xbox controller, and that it's not possible to change it to M+KB, so that's kinda lovely. Last time I played it I had a controller but it's broken. So now I'm wondering if it'll adjust the interface to a PS4 controller if I buy that. All my previous controllers have been Xbox controllers, but I'm thinking a change might be interesting, though not if I'm gonna have to memorize what PS controls are in Xbox. And in general, is the PS4 controller good for PC play? I seem to remember that the Dual Shock 3 was awful as a PC controller, but that the 4 was better. Is that true?
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Black Griffon posted:I reinstalled and booted the game up just to realize the button prompts reference the Xbox controller, and that it's not possible to change it to M+KB, so that's kinda lovely. Last time I played it I had a controller but it's broken. I can't answer for the interface questions, but I've played through DS3, Bloodborne, and Sekiro with the DS4 and it's a great controller with native support for the games that use it, rather than all the weird third party stuff that you had to do for the DS3
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Anyone here know where to get a decent enemy randomizer for Dark Souls 3? I know one exists, because I've seen videos of people playing it, but I can't find out where to get it. Google is being unhelpful.
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Apr 2, 2019 12:11
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Cardiovorax posted:Anyone here know where to get a decent enemy randomizer for Dark Souls 3? I know one exists, because I've seen videos of people playing it, but I can't find out where to get it. Google is being unhelpful. e: wait uh e2: https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/318 this one’s it
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goblin week posted:e: wait uh
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Apr 2, 2019 13:14
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I, uh, I think I may have overdone it a little.  
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I just beat Dark Souls for the first time (since owning it on launch day). I've been Dark Souls 2, so I'm hoping to finally beat Dark Souls 3. I've played it before, but I forgot how far I was. I couldn't have been that far, I was only slvl 32. I restarted and I'm now currently slvl 20. I started Knight with Fire Gem, and I have a +2 Fire Longsword. I have resisted up/sidegrading to another weapon. I have enough points in Vigor that the HP return per level is bad (like 23 down from 30?), so I put enough points into endurance to have 102 stam which was enough to get me to 6x R1 spams. I'm in the middle of new Undeadburg, and I've explored a lot of it. It'd be kind of pleasant if it wasn't full of burning corpses, murder, and gigantic people shooting bleed bees at me. I have enough souls to level up, and I'm not sure where to go from here. I swapped up my DS1 playthrough with a Claymore/Zweihander depending on how big my stick needed to be. The Fire Longsword is real nice, but I do worry that it'll be bogus when I need a bigger stick and/or I need to start doing real damage. Anyways, uh, pretty stoked to keep going with this. Dark Souls 3 is real cool and stuff. Is parrying different here? I can't parry for poo poo anymore...
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Apr 2, 2019 23:07
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Once you get the chance, upgrade to a Lothric Knight Sword, it's basically the best longsword type weapon for the slot that's available for a long, loooong time. You can switch infusions at will as long as you have the correct coal and gem, so there's no loss of investment if you ever decide to switch. And sorry, but no, parrying works the same it always did, which is to say it's still really annoying.
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Parrying is different from ds1 somewhat, in that in ds1 parry frames are instant, in this game there's a bit of startup frames first, so you parry slightly earlier.
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anothergod posted:I just beat Dark Souls for the first time (since owning it on launch day). I've been Dark Souls 2, so I'm hoping to finally beat Dark Souls 3. I parry ALL THE THINGS in DS1, but for the life of me can NOT get the timing down for DS3. It's apparently earlier than DS1's timing, but knowing that hasn't helped me figure it out. v  v
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I, uh, kind of created a thing that I don't think is supposed to exist. There's two of them and they're kind of freaky.
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HaB posted:I parry ALL THE THINGS in DS1, but for the life of me can NOT get the timing down for DS3. It's apparently earlier than DS1's timing, but knowing that hasn't helped me figure it out. lol, these mirror my feelings pretty exactly. I tried the Uchi and its parry powermove is pretty rad and easy to make happen, but it's loving weird that it costs FP. I also tried a buckler for all of a minute, and it was pretty easy to parry with, too. Is there a good video about Dark Souls 3 parrying? I googled it and found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqy_LzYEf3g And goddamn that's loving sick evil poo poo wow edit: I found this and it's a real actual good video (apparently!?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pscvwXYPcG0
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Cardiovorax posted:I, uh, kind of created a thing that I don't think is supposed to exist. You managed to port Bloodborne into DS3, good job.
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Cardiovorax posted:I, uh, kind of created a thing that I don't think is supposed to exist. What in the actual gently caress
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WaltherFeng posted:What in the actual gently caress I'm not entirely sure where the fire is coming from. It was just kind of there.
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Looks like a pilgrim butterfly to me. Just it's sitting on the ground and you can't see its wings.
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Yes, it's obviously a pilgrim butterfly. Dunno why it's *there* though.
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Oh, that's just because I'm using an enemy randomizer. I had never seen those things before, so I thought it was a weird geometry bug resulting from trying to shove a dragon into a little cubby hole it's really not made for. Thanks for clearing that up, by the way. Guess the Bloodborne is native.
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Just killed Sulyvhan, I'm on my first (blind) run of the game. After getting the plat in BB I can safely say he doesn't belong in DS3 and is probably one of the worst boss ever designed in the soulsborne series. It didn't take me as many tries as Orphan of Kos in BB, only 15 or 20 or something along those lines but he kind of represents everything that's wrong with the franchise and why I'm happy they moved on with Sekiro. First off he's basically a BB boss in a souls game: he can string long combos together, never gives you any respite and punishes all your healing attempts. This is already loving stupid in a game where the roll is crap compared to what we had in BB and parry has a weird af timing (fun stuff: a vid called "ultimate parry guide" features a dude facing Sulyvhan that actually misses a couple of parries after what I suppose was a monstrous amount of time to film the perfect fight and look good on youtube). But hey it's not all, boss also has all the worst features of a trash DS boss: most of his moves inexplicably can loving hit you in a 360° angle, he has a couple of no windup, no tell instant moves and hits like an absolute goddamn truck. A missed parry/roll will often cut your life in half. Even with all that, at first I was like "I did a no hit Gascoigne+Maria+Gehrman" just two weeks ago in my fourth BB run, how hard can he be? Well not that hard it turns out, it's just a dumpster fire of a fight. Once I got his time down I wasn't hit by anything at all (except the occasional no windup 180° thrust because hey why not) but rolling didn't get me far. Boss is so active that I simply didn't have enough stamina to hit him after his 24 hit bullshit street fighter combo and then be prepared to dodge again. Shield was a bit sketchy and parrying was very hit and miss. I don't like the timing, I don't like that he has moves with no tells I can't even parry, in short gently caress parrying in DS3. Luckily while being underleveled and with a relatively low hp pool (playing an assassin type build) I have massive damage for this point of the game, so once I found out he was vulnerable to fire I just pine resined my Estoc, didn't respect his first phase at all, respected the second even less and killed him immediately. Oh and his second phase is weird and def easier if you don't... kill the shadow? Someone better than me at this will probably know. Was that satisfying? No. I learned everything I needed about him in my first 5-6 tries, he didn't teach me anything about the game except reinforcing the fact that DS3 is unoriginal and uninspired compared to BB, he just wasted some of my time. tl;dr: Sulyvhan is a bizarre boss that shouldn't be in DS3, should I ever want to plat this game because maybe (hopefully) it gets good later I'll cheese the hell out of him forever EDIT: oh and right after killing him I thought "someone will surely have found a way to pulverize him in 3 seconds" but the first results I got after googling were something like "insanely difficult ds3 boss was supposed to be the final boss in an earlier version of the game". "Supposed to be", but I like to think that the guy suggesting that got slapped in a room full of people and shut up about his dumb idea forever. Sorry for the long and pretty whiny post, hope the game does get better soon. Kawabata fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Apr 5, 2019 |
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This game hates you because you hated its favorite child, Vigor. Get more vigor. “But my build!” No, vigor is your build now. This game wants you to have 27 vigor for the entire second half and the sooner you get it the more fun you’ll have. Glass cannon type builds just don’t work. It’s too difficult to avoid all damage in this game compared to 1. similar to 2, they wanted to increase the challenge from 1 and at times it gets bullshittier in pursuit of that.
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He's a parry boss and also melts to pyromancies
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skasion posted:This game hates you because you hated its favorite child, Vigor. Get more vigor. “But my build!” No, vigor is your build now. This game wants you to have 27 vigor for the entire second half and the sooner you get it the more fun you’ll have. Glass cannon type builds just don’t work. It’s too difficult to avoid all damage in this game compared to 1. similar to 2, they wanted to increase the challenge from 1 and at times it gets bullshittier in pursuit of that. Yeah skasion I noticed that, but right after BB I thought they learned something from it. Well, they didn't, my build would've been ok in DS1, maybe not in DS2 but lol that game was pure trash, and I expected much less bullshit than I found. So far the only difficulty I've been having are the occasional big armored knights (again the game insists on forcing you to lose fights even after you got the timing right, by making enemies too active), because bosses are absolute uninspired trash until Sulyvhan which is just gross and stupid.
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HP is the first stat I level in any of these games.
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Kawabata posted:DS2 but lol that game was pure trash Well at least now I know not to listen to your opinions...
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Soul Reaver posted:Well at least now I know not to listen to your opinions... DS2 is widely considered the worst in the series
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:DS2 is widely considered the worst in the series Which is why forums hipsters claim to love it
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feelix posted:Which is why forums hipsters claim to love it Those damned hipsters, liking things I don't. 
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:DS2 is widely considered the worst in the series Not by me
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:DS2 is widely considered the worst in the series One day you'll all see.
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Gumbel2Gumbel posted:DS2 is widely considered the worst in the series Oh, I know that. But while I can see where the sentiment comes from, I find it hard to entirely agree with that assessment. It has some very big and glaring flaws but also some things it does better than any other DS in the series. In all honesty I probably played it more than any other Souls title, including Dark Souls 1, thanks to some great multiplayer mechanics and covenants (and I generally dislike multiplayer games), better equipment 'balance' than DS1 or 3, and a slower pace than DS 3 (which is too fast for me at times to find fun). Even if it's the worst in the series, which is a pretty black and white way of looking at it, calling it 'trash' just seems too reductive to be true. That said, I only played Scholar of the First Sin. Perhaps the original version is a lot crappier.
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pure trash is an exaggeration since ds2 lost goty to dragon age inquisition, a game that is very clearly pure trash
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Yeah all the RPG mechanics in Dark Souls 2 are amazing and the deepest and most interesting in the series. Which is why it's extra unfortunate that the controls feel like complete poo poo, because unfortunately you actually have to move and fight in order to enjoy one of the huge variety of cool builds DS2 offers.
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