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01011001
Dec 26, 2012

i have never been this ready for a gmae to drop in my life

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01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Vulich the Subtle posted:

the frogs face wjhen he gets to the end of his journey and opens the chest to find dark souls 3:


01011001
Dec 26, 2012

HolePisser1982 posted:

oh my god, you mean 6pm tomorrow. hell yeah

yeah

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Fungah! posted:

somene please destroy the two retards that are going caster

this

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

unless melee-range pyromancy is good again...then it's cool

01011001
Dec 26, 2012


well then

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

let's do this

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Average Bear posted:

Steam has been utterly crushed and I can't download the last 1% lol.

this ready to launch timer is like the dark souls of timers

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

maybe ill get to play at all before having to bail. why would you do a 6pm release anyway

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

couldn't get my ds4 working before i had to bail :(

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

mysterious loyall X posted:

alright, the 360 pad works, although the ds4windows will not, although i'd prefer that.

i got the ds4 working, i needed to unplug the thing then messa round with the hide controller checkbox then plug it back in

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Larry Parrish posted:

Umm lol my spear sucks rear end against the first boss, although I killed the huge lizard easily. I was out of estus and almost killed him though so try two will go better I'm sure.

try everything the game gave you. good luck

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

0 estus, 4 ashen estus. let's go

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

beepstreet posted:

Couple of cool new QoL things I noticed:

-If you do a running jump that only moves horizontal (ie you dont fall during it), let go of the control stick before your feet hit the ground and you won't roll

-Under settings -> Sound and display, the HUD is set to On by default. If you set it to Auto, it works pretty intelligently in hiding and showing individual pieces of the HUD, like if you're sprinting and not in combat, only the stamina bar will appear, etc

I got the Lothric Knight chest piece and it looks awesome. Quality cape physics

if you're running and hit R2 it does a leap attack

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

ive died a ton because ive been doing 100% ashen estus

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Dec 26, 2012

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Dec 26, 2012

Pablo Gigante posted:

This is the ultimate game. I played for four and a half hours before making it to the big swamp and deciding to call it a night. I think beating Bloodborne has made me a better Souls player

it almost definitely made you a better souls player

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

apparently i locked myself out of a bunch of stuff by killing the stupid tree. gonna restart and get in on that

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

In Training posted:

Ok I *think* I covered every last inch of this place. I like that the game has minibosses, like the icy dude in the basement and the stuff with siegmeyer

that guy in the basement did NOT gently caress around

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

im glad some people want to be my madman friend :)

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

a Loving Dog posted:

gain trust, help them to the next couple bonfires, betray trust ftw

i don't usually get that far because if they're summoning usually they either want a fight or one of their phantoms does. which is fine by me

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

the ds2 mimic grab hitbox was hilariously bad. it could bite you from behind it. anyway ds3 has really tight hitboxes which feels fantastic

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Harrow posted:

I agree, some bosses like Pontiff and Abyss Watchers need more HP. Maybe I'm just used to the high-HP bosses from Bloodborne.

Pontiff still took me four tries because even though I killed him quickly, he could kill me quickly too.

abyss watchers definitely needs more hp at least. i hit it like twice with a +2 greatsword and the hp bar dropped pretty hard

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

pon alien posted:

I had to restart because I screwed myself out of the armor set I wanted but now I'm got it and I also kept my level low so I can grind out grass and ears on people.

how low level do you have to be to get watchdogs hits? is any level good for getting blue sentinels hits

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

net cafe scandal posted:

At lv.30 with +2 max I was getting hits as soon as I was coming back from another.

im 34 with a +2 and have never gotten a hit...maybe I out leveled it by a bit?

do boss/twinkling weapons that max at +5 count as higher?

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

makes sense

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Doctor Goat posted:

should i ust sell this ring of sacrifice because i've never actually used one

yeah probably

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

net cafe scandal posted:

I've probably invaded 50 times and been invaded 20 times and I haven't seen a single miracle being used except for heal, and then only once or twice.

ive been using replenishment and gentle blessing pre-fight. 11 regen is cool

this is early game though and probably doesn't scale for poo poo

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

jyrque posted:

Rude


Does it get interrupted if not using wolf ring? I don't know

Lot of weapons seem to have poise boost in the form of hyper armor while R2 attacking so not being knocked out of a heavy weapon swing doesn't really prove poise having an effect. There are some (human model enemy) attacks that just can't be interrupted like greatsword R2 swings.

At first I thought higher poise would just give you a higher tolerance for repetitive attacks but as videos prove, walking around in Smough set still has you flinch from undead pin pricks.

i assumed it just added to existing hyper armor instead of being a catch-all don't flinch thing

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

jyrque posted:

I thought the same previously but the video I linked to ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EaoGYbK0fo ) has a hack turned on that apparently turns on poise effect on flinching in general. If poise is supposed to work like that I'd really like to see it happen so heavy armor actually had a point.

it was probably like legacy poise early in dev and then they switched it over. the existence of that doesn't make the other not true unless they tested that as well

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

apropos to nothing posted:

pretty sure everything with lightning damage already is a boss weapon or special weapon that cant be buffed or infused. something with a faith requirement like astoras sword might work good though

astora's is probably great because it has high base damage and crap physical scaling

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

In Training posted:

Le Gentlemanly Scholar: I'll use Heal to support my comrades in battle against the evil hordes of the Lords of Cinder.

Wizardfag: MAGIC MISSILE! MAGIC MISSILE! MAGIC MISSILE!

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

good god abyss watchers owns

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

a Loving Dog posted:

a good way to troll and farm souls is before you beat aldrich you use the "curl up" gesture in the bushes in ithiryll courtyard (with the giants) and pop a dried finger + seed of tree of giants and go do something else for awhile

lol

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Harrow posted:

Throwing that "nearly" in there is perhaps being too kind to RES

it did something, just not anything useful

i think it increased poison resist too or something? i forget

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

sector_corrector posted:

i can't understand, after i play the waiting game, make time for more phantoms to invade, kill one of the host's phantoms, and lure the battle over to one of the crabs that one of the reds would suddenly decide that i'm the best target, instead of the person that they get a loving covenant item for killing, but that's happened once or twice. i guess those people don't know how purples work?

if they're just invading for fun, why would they care

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

so does that insane thing about using family sharing to fix cops/Farron watchers actually work? lmao what the gently caress

apparently. im too lazy to do it though

they probably were trying to prioritize by character lifetime but instead prioritized by account lifetime or something really dumb like that

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

01011001
Dec 26, 2012

just beat pontiff. nearly shouted out loud i was so pumped. gently caress

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01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Leadthumb posted:

I'll try playing with the ring see if that helps, since you're right everything kills me anyways. I was looking at upgrades for lightning weapons, and the dragon slayer axe gets weirdly high AR when you give it another element, but I don't know if that will actually help me in the second phase. I may just try to nuke him down coward style like with the pontiff.

total AR is a little misleading because you're splitting it 3 ways if you do that and defense is at least partially subtractive

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