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.....dude, that makes me angry. You're way too good at this. Anyway, that Isz Chalice? Far and away the best way to grind echoes in the game. If you get the route down, you can easily make 200k+ echoes a minute. Great for leveling up to really high levels.
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Yeah Ebby was the last boss I killed because I could just NOT get her down. She'd hit me with the magic and instant kill me (like the first attempt here), or destroy me with the charge attack over and over and over again. It really is loving hard to dodge, but Argate is just loving good at it, I guess. I recently had a friend play Bloodborne for the first time on my PS4 and he did her first try. I kinda figured because I know he's better at Souls games than I am, but he also used the BoM and even more ruthlessly just slaughtered her. Didn't even see the magic attack...or the divebomb charge...or much of anything really. My problem is I think to much. I want to understand bosses and dodge their moves well and I see "ah, this is her weakpoint" and aim for the head, try to bait out attacks and such, when really, I should just R1 her flanks until the cows come home. But then I get HIT and I didn't see it COMING and shouldn't I be doing this SMARTER??? But no. I shouldn't. I should just keep hitting. I still am struggling to make myself do that. Argate has mastered it already.
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# ? May 1, 2017 21:19 |
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Simply Simon posted:My problem is I think to much. I want to understand bosses and dodge their moves well and I see "ah, this is her weakpoint" and aim for the head, try to bait out attacks and such, when really, I should just R1 her flanks until the cows come home. But then I get HIT and I didn't see it COMING and shouldn't I be doing this SMARTER??? But no. I shouldn't. I should just keep hitting. I still am struggling to make myself do that. Argate has mastered it already. I think part of the reason why I love the Blade of Mercy is because it's super high rate of attack really lets you do a real number on bosses when you decide you wanna get a little greedy, and with enough finesse, getting greedy is really rewarding with the BoM.
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# ? May 4, 2017 00:16 |
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ChaosArgate posted:I think part of the reason why I love the Blade of Mercy is because it's super high rate of attack really lets you do a real number on bosses when you decide you wanna get a little greedy, and with enough finesse, getting greedy is really rewarding with the BoM. There is also the added tactic of using a Beastblood pellet and maybe a beasthood rune and just turning yourself into the Yahrnam equivalent of a blender. Doing this you can kill The One Reborn and Ebrietas in 10 to 15 seconds without either getting an attack off.
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# ? May 4, 2017 08:57 |
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Hey, Argate told me I could go ahead and put this here since it's tangentially related! https://twitter.com/liquidypoo/status/860247709751660544 In a reply to that, I made a poll: https://twitter.com/liquidypoo/status/860248333088108544 Choose my fate!
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# ? May 5, 2017 00:22 |
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Watching episode 08 right now - is that supposed to happen?
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# ? May 5, 2017 03:12 |
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Pollyanna posted:Watching episode 08 right now - is that supposed to happen? Yes! It'll make sense much, much later, I swear!
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# ? May 5, 2017 03:24 |
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ChaosArgate, how much further into the game are you than what we've seen? Assuming it's not "I've finished it, twice": what do you think is going on in Yarnham?
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# ? May 5, 2017 10:50 |
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ChaosArgate posted:Yes! It'll make sense much, much later, I swear! I really, really like the whole Insight mechanic. I'm a sucker for sanity effects. How crazy does it get, like can I expect some Eternal Darkness-level poo poo coming of it?
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# ? May 5, 2017 21:47 |
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Gonna push today's update over to tomorrow, I'm a bit too busy today to ready thumbnails and all that.Dzhay posted:ChaosArgate, how much further into the game are you than what we've seen? The LP's all recorded and edited, save for one or two bonus videos, so I'm fairly certain I actually know the answer. Pollyanna posted:
I can't really say for certain, since I've never really looked into Eternal Darkness, but I don't think the insight stuff'll get as crazy as ED would.
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# ? May 5, 2017 21:51 |
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# ? May 6, 2017 14:23 |
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I can vouch for kidney stones being horrific fuckers.
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# ? May 6, 2017 15:31 |
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Pollyanna posted:I can vouch for kidney stones being horrific fuckers. I asked myself, 'Can 2016 get in any more hits' back in December. Kidney Stone said yes, yes it can. Do not get kidney stones.
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# ? May 6, 2017 15:36 |
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Which Str/Arc weapon did Artix mean? 'cause there's two. Although... he said it's silly, so I'm pretty sure I know which one now. 'tis quite silly. I like the other one more though. As for Skill weapons, Saif all the way. Weeble fucked around with this message at 06:06 on May 7, 2017 |
# ? May 7, 2017 00:03 |
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The Saif is awesome, but its light combo is also a really good path off cliffs if you aren't careful.
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# ? May 7, 2017 05:07 |
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# ? May 8, 2017 13:33 |
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In which ChaosArgate continues to frustrate everyone who's died many, many more times to this boss. gently caress you, ChaosArgate. Give me your power. EDIT: Also no lie I play Ludwig's OST in the mornings when I want to get an adrenaline rush to wake me up.
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# ? May 8, 2017 18:38 |
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Ludwig was a good fight. I at least am not frustrated by Argate here because I managed to kill Ludwig the first time I phased him. (After many deaths to crazy mutant horsebeast mode)
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# ? May 9, 2017 15:48 |
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I can't wait to show the other DLC bosses because those were a lot of fun to fight.
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# ? May 10, 2017 15:59 |
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The reason alcohol (ethanol, more precisely) works as an antidote to ethylene glycol (antifreeze) poisoning is the same as for methanol poisoning. Each chemical has unpleasant symptoms on its own, but the real problem is that your liver will metabolize them into far more horrible things in the process of catabolizing anything weird it comes across. Normally this sort of thing would be fine, because on average a smaller and less complicated molecule is far less likely to do something weird to you than a large one is. But that's on average - methanol gets broken down into formaldehyde and then formic acid, while ethylene glycol gets broken down into glycolic and oxalic acids. All of these in sufficient concentration will royally gently caress your body up with metabolic acidosis, overloading the existing mechanisms you have for controlling pH levels in the first place. And in addition to that, oxalic acid (along with glycolic acid which is metabolized to it) will bind to calcium ions, which robs them from your nervous system/bones and instead proceeds to precipitate out in your urinary tract as kidney stones. (If the acidosis doesn't kill you, these probably will.) But the helpful thing from a toxicology perspective is that both chemicals, along with ethanol and a number of other things, are all metabolized by one class of enzymes. So because the real dangers come from those metabolic byproducts, slowing their production to a more manageable rate such that your body can purge them is possible by virtue of introducing more things for alcohol dehydrogenase to deal with at once. Ethanol is the obvious choice for this in a pinch, but there remains the issue that it will get you drunk and will only last so long before it in turn is metabolized. (And the ethylene glycol/methanol is competing right back for metabolism, so any given dose is more persistent.) So instead the preferred sort of chemical blocks such enzymes entirely, as with fomepizole. Regardless, the central principle behind antidotes is that "the dose makes the poison". Your liver is pretty good at breaking down and removing nasty stuff, just not perfect. So oftentimes, if an antidote can't just neutralize a poison directly (such as by negating its effects or binding to it), it can instead work to slow that poison's effect to the point where it's non-fatal or otherwise less damaging. All of those toxic metabolites earlier are fine in much smaller doses - glycolic acid and oxalic acid are both found in various edible plants (the latter especially in rhubarb), and formaldehyde is produced in very small amounts by your own body as a normal metabolic byproduct.
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# ? May 11, 2017 06:16 |
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I feel like if you hit somebody in the head with one of your own severed legs that you are holding in your hands, it'd be considered as neither kicking nor punching them, but rather striking them with an improvised weapon.
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# ? May 12, 2017 14:38 |
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There is a way easier way to deal with those 2 hunters. Sword Nun will follow you into the jail basement, while the one shooting Snot Rockets will not go down the stairs.
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# ? May 17, 2017 13:36 |
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Oh man, the next part is going to be great
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# ? May 17, 2017 15:21 |
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Will the next part be the episode where Argate's unique interactions with this game fail to trigger? Gonna have to see what's up on Friday
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# ? May 18, 2017 01:21 |
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So are all the asylum inmates in the process of being transformed into Celestial Emissaries/Living Failures/Dead Failures? And are those really bags that they have over their heads?
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# ? May 18, 2017 05:09 |
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Those are not bags.
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# ? May 18, 2017 07:52 |
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White Coke posted:So are all the asylum inmates in the process of being transformed into Celestial Emissaries/Living Failures/Dead Failures? That was the implication I got. Presumably the Living Failures weren't quite good enough (at doing... whatever it is one wants a Celestial Emissary for). I think it's a shame that this area isn't part of the "real" Yarnham, except by implication.
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# ? May 18, 2017 11:05 |
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I take it as they're in the process of being transformed, but the Healing Church is flat out missing an ingredient to get to the Celestial Emmisary point, all they can produces is failures in this Nightmare.
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# ? May 18, 2017 12:42 |
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I hadn't considered in which direction they might be emissaries. That's pretty cool.
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# ? May 18, 2017 22:04 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiboHWwr12M The music for the Living Failures fuckin' owns. The way they timed it so that it reaches the peak of the second phase of the song when they all do their "gently caress this earth" meteor magic is awesome (1:53, gently caress off magic at 2:20). The music in Bloodborne is truly fantastic. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 00:20 on May 19, 2017 |
# ? May 19, 2017 00:13 |
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I have no idea why the Living Failures of all things have my second-favourite track in BB (after Ludwig I mean come on), but they do. I think it sounds like Star Wars music after the initial buildup, which is...strangely appropriate!
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# ? May 19, 2017 07:25 |
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# ? May 19, 2017 15:32 |
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Started out mad, but got significantly less mad by the end. Hulk gargling water is quite an apt description.
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# ? May 19, 2017 17:33 |
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One of my favorite Soulborne Bosses
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# ? May 19, 2017 18:29 |
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Lady Maria is easily one of my favorite boss fights of all time, and probably my favorite boss fight versus a roughly similar human opponent. But as Argate unwittingly showed off, she is incredibly easy to cheese with parries. And stunlocking for that matter as was mentioned after the fact.
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# ? May 19, 2017 19:06 |
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Is ... Is DS3's Sister Friede a re-take on Lady Maria? Because it sure looks like it.
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# ? May 20, 2017 15:44 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 11:15 |
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Man don't tell me that, I haven't had the chance or the cash to pick up the DS3 DLC yet and now I really want to if there's another Lady Maria fight. For what it's worth, the Abyss Watchers already kinda feels like another take on Lady Maria.
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