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Lemon Curdistan posted:I have 35 hours of game time on my save and I only have two old souls and I am having a blast just getting all the weapons I use to +9. This game is fantastic. I have over 60 with only two old souls, hahah. I got really into Bell Tower PvP for a chunk of it.
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Finally got the pickaxe. That was an exercise in frustration.
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May 1, 2014 10:03
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Jesus Christ, do those ironclad dudes in the Iron Keep even play by the same rules or do they give no fucks about stamina? This is like the first area in a while that actually has hit the extinction limit for me, the other being the Bastille. I don't know if I should hate this area or love it. e: actually I don't, because those drat archers.
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May 1, 2014 10:07
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I upgraded my Tower Shield to +10 because it hits almost as hard as a +10 mace so you can save durability!
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May 1, 2014 10:07
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Cardboard Box posted:I have over 60 with only two old souls, hahah. I got really into Bell Tower PvP for a chunk of it. Yeah, that's what I'm doing right now. Bellbroing is so much fun.  Sober posted:Jesus Christ, do those ironclad dudes in the Iron Keep even play by the same rules or do they give no fucks about stamina? Use a mace or club.
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May 1, 2014 10:08
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I've been using scorpion lady to farm for sun medals and has anybody else noticed that the ambient audio for this area sometimes abruptly stops and starts again?
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May 1, 2014 10:10
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Cardboard Box posted:I've been using scorpion lady to farm for sun medals and has anybody else noticed that the ambient audio for this area sometimes abruptly stops and starts again? Happens everywhere with a lot of stuff. It's weird then you stop hearing it altogether.
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May 1, 2014 10:13
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godddamn decently far into my game (past sinner) I just now realized that you open up illusory walls by pressing A, instead of attacking like in DeS I had started thinking there was some big joke with people upvoting dozens of fake illusory wall messages to get people to ware down their weapon durability. so much poo poo I must have missed.  goddamn.
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May 1, 2014 10:23
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there actually is a bunch of upvoted fake illusory wall messages, however
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May 1, 2014 10:28
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Am I doing this right?
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May 1, 2014 10:29
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 So I fought that spider thing. I think I had more fun with the physics on her head than I did with the rest of the entire area because gently caress that map. Also I found out that the drangelic sword+5 and bastardsword+10 have the same attack power. Then my game crashed.
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May 1, 2014 10:41
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I finally stopped PvPing to finish the chore of beating the game. The Old Iron King is a good, DS1 style boss. Fairly difficult and nothing stupid to attribute as the only thing killing you, just plain old "death by making mistakes". I missed you, Dark Souls 
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May 1, 2014 10:41
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Demon's Great Hammer is the most hilarious weapon for me. Not a whole lot of things can withstand a two-handed R2 smash, much less keep standing from it. It's also the only weapon I can consistently smash crystal geckos with. *WHAM*
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May 1, 2014 10:43
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I just got summoned to fight the scorpion lady by a guy with half his health, presumably he didn't have the ring of binding. he died in one hit.
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May 1, 2014 10:49
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Can't summon for co-op if you're hollow, so the guy was a human with half of his health missing.
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May 1, 2014 11:07
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oh right I forgot about that hahah. I don't know what he was doing then. maybe he used an effigy and didn't refill his health.
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May 1, 2014 11:18
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Getting summoned and clearing the area refills estus and spell charges. I've had failed attempts on coop where I use all my healing and spells thinking I'll get them back, the host dies, and I get kicked back to the boss entrance with no healing. It sucks.
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May 1, 2014 11:24
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What are the best FTH-scaling weapons (when lightning-infused) that aren't greatswords, does anyone know? I am not a fan of greatswords in PvP. e; on another note, for people who hate UGSes, I will recommend the Pursuer's UGS (traded from Straid). The moveset is way better than the normal UGS moveset. Lemon-Lime fucked around with this message at 11:32 on May 1, 2014 |
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May 1, 2014 11:25
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Cardboard Box posted:there actually is a bunch of upvoted fake illusory wall messages, however A bunch? It's roughly 90% of Illusion ahead messages. Because "hurr dats funney!" edit: IT KEEPS HAPPENING
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May 1, 2014 11:29
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Just had a weird experience with what I guess was a hacker? I'm putting my sign down in front of SD because it's funny poisoning him with my powerstanced scorpion stinger and estoc (why you can poison a guy made out of iron and fire but not a lion dude, I'll never know). I get summoned and the host goes in and kills the boss in a single hit which showed 1 damage on the health bar. What the hell?
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May 1, 2014 11:30
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Is PvP hilariously laggy for anyone else? I've basically given up on it, after several instances of either watching my club pass through their body without doing damage, or dodge-rolling a strike only to rubberband into a backstab.
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May 1, 2014 11:46
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I have come to the conclusion that strike weapons > all other weapons for PvE. I'm thinking that if I ever roll a dex character, it should be a Dex-enchanter which uses Magic Weapon and Shield with all the ooze(assuming I don't Power Stance). Also, any kind of mage is terrifying, especially those pyromancers. They sure love to fry me up in Belfry Luna which makes me a sad ratbro.
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May 1, 2014 11:48
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Lemon Curdistan posted:on another note, for people who hate UGSes, I will recommend the Pursuer's UGS (traded from Straid). The moveset is way better than the normal UGS moveset. as a comparison point, it's basically the Great Club's moveset. I like it a lot. Omi no Kami posted:Is PvP hilariously laggy for anyone else? I've basically given up on it, after several instances of either watching my club pass through their body without doing damage, or dodge-rolling a strike only to rubberband into a backstab. I've had mixed results, more good than bad. assuming you're in the US around this time isn't peak hours so you're going to be ending up with a lot of people from overseas, and the lag there can be bad. I recommend setting your region play to restricted. although it lowers your chances of finding frequent match-ups, there's also less a chance of them being unplayably laggy.
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May 1, 2014 12:03
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Cardboard Box posted:as a comparison point, it's basically the Great Club's moveset. I like it a lot. I think it's a little bit different (it has lift attacks) but yeah, the basics are a lot like the great club. On a different note, if I die as a grey phantom in Grave of the Saint, is it like dying as a grey phantom in one of the Belfries, i.e. I don't hollow or lose souls? Or does it still work like a normal death?
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May 1, 2014 12:11
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you don't lose anything and go back to your world right where you were standing. god, those areas would be unbearable if you actually died.
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May 1, 2014 12:13
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Ugh, I used to install some "high definition" mod for Dark Souls 1 from nexus. It was basically an instagram filter over the game and I couldn't see poo poo.
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May 1, 2014 12:13
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So I finished the game as a pure magic user. Decided to make a second character dedicated to only using melee. His name is The Slammer. A friend of mine made The Jammer, and we've been abusing the poo poo out of powerstanced maces. Belfry Luna was especially hilarious as people tried to invade us and had their poise instantly broken and their brains smashed in. Except for one guy who invaded called The Puncher, who looked a lot like me, except he was using caestuses. He fared better than most, but didn't win. The eventual plan is to powerstance Great Demon Hammers.
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May 1, 2014 12:14
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This game gets worse the more I play it. I'm in the Iron Keep and I just got killed by a guillotine trap that hit me from 2 meters away. Nice collision detection. Honestly, between every boss in the game having swings that hit the whole screen + charged superbombs if you stay too close to them and the cheap 3-4 enemies at the same time encounters, it's getting ridiculous. It used to be in the previous DS that you died because you made a mistake, not because the game decided it's ok to spawn 2 enemies behind you as soon as you engage the one you can see. Yes I died but I learned nothing in the process. Then there's the hassle of having to go through certain parts of the game offline otherwise you'll get invaded the second you step in them (which, again, it's quantity over quality, something DS2 seems pretty fond of), the massive bullshit that is weapon deterioration, the game doing a terrible job of telling you where to go, the weapon upgrade system that, for some reason, it's still not available to me after 30+ hours because no one is selling that poo poo (so that I upgraded a broadsword and a firesword, maybe the shittiest weapons in the game, and I'm stuck with them). Also, some bosses will absolutely destroy certain builds in the cheapest possible way, see Smelter Demon. After 13 tries a friend of mine told me I was really dumb to try and kill him with my heavy armor/shield melee str build, and that I' be better served reading a walkthrough to get a fire resist shield somewhere else. Which makes me sad.
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May 1, 2014 12:16
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So what kind of blunt weapons could a dex build use? I'm playing dex and pyromancy but certain blunt vulnerable enemy types are a real headache, like the knights in the iron castle.
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May 1, 2014 12:17
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Lemon Curdistan posted:What are the best FTH-scaling weapons (when lightning-infused) that aren't greatswords, does anyone know? I am not a fan of greatswords in PvP. I hate the Pursuer sword. That class of weapon (Ultra Greatsword, not the normal greatswords) has a really annoying quirk where if you hold say, left while you're locked on and attack, you swing to the left instead of toward the enemy. It's so that you can stay locked on and still do prediction stuff which is neat in theory but it just means I am slamming a wall when a bunch of enemies are gathered in front of me, then I die.
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May 1, 2014 12:18
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Kawabata posted:This game gets worse the more I play it.  Go ahead than, stop playing it. I'll bet you can't.
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May 1, 2014 12:20
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Kawabata posted:After 13 tries a friend of mine told me I was really dumb to try and kill him with my heavy armor/shield melee str build, and that I' be better served reading a walkthrough to get a fire resist shield somewhere else. Which makes me sad. Smelter Demon was the biggest roadblock of a boss for me and I ended up beating him by going as light as possible and two-handing the Great Club. if you know what to look for his attacks are very much dodgable, as long as you have the agility.
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May 1, 2014 12:21
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Kawabata posted:This game gets worse the more I play it. Try getting good, then Hurrah for skeleton!
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May 1, 2014 12:21
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Motherfucker posted:
I obviously can't stop playing it, but it doesn't mean it's not the worst DS single player wise. By far.
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May 1, 2014 12:21
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Nuebot posted:Also I found out that the drangelic sword+5 and bastardsword+10 have the same attack power. If I remember right the scaling is different between the two and they have a different moveset, the bastard sword heavy attack is still a slash while Drangelic is a thrust.
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May 1, 2014 12:22
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Kawabata posted:Yes I died but I learned nothing in the process. You should probably play a different game.
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May 1, 2014 12:22
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Foxhound posted:You should probably play a different game. I'm pretty sure the core of any DS is supposed to be dying and learning from your mistakes, but maybe it's about collecting Pokemons and I'm confused!
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May 1, 2014 12:24
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Kawabata posted:I'm pretty sure the core of any DS is supposed to be dying and learning from your mistakes. Correct, you should try it.
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May 1, 2014 12:24
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Kawabata posted:I'm pretty sure the core of any DS is supposed to be dying and learning from your mistakes, but maybe it's about collecting Pokemons and I'm confused! You learned nothing because you didn't bother looking around you before fighting.
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Kawabata posted:I'm pretty sure the core of any DS is supposed to be dying and learning from your mistakes, but maybe it's about collecting Pokemons and I'm confused! The enemy that 'spawned' behind you is visible in the room prior to that and you walked right in to his trap 
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