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KozmoNaut posted:360, here. Okay well I know there's a report button for cheating at least on the 360 version.
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Am I correct in thinking that for PVE, while Great Chaos Fireball might not guarantee some splash damage, it's probably pretty good at distance control? It seems large enough an area to mitigate anything but the timeliest of forward rolls.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 21:32 |
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Zain posted:Okay well I know there's a report button for cheating at least on the 360 version. Yep, I reported him for cheating and submitted a negative review for "unsporting conduct" 
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 21:43 |
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Feenix posted:Am I correct in thinking that for PVE, while Great Chaos Fireball might not guarantee some splash damage, it's probably pretty good at distance control? It seems large enough an area to mitigate anything but the timeliest of forward rolls. Well for PvE enemies are too dumb to actually move out of the lava patch so unless they naturally move around a lot you are guaranteed some extra damage. In PvP anyone who is half awake will dodge a lock-on fireball and it is easy to move around the patch but you can cause some confusion by manually aiming it. An example of Great Chaos Fireball working well in PvE is against the beast skeletons in the Tomb of Giants. You can throw the fireball at them from outside of their aggro range and the fireball plus the lava patch that they won't move out of in time will immediately kill them.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 21:47 |
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waspinator posted:I can beat dark souls in 45 minutes now. I...i...think i'm putting you away for a couple of months, game. Thanks for the wonderful time. Did you ever record any of your speedruns? I was disappointed when you said you beat it in 58 minutes and didn't record it. Are you using the Kiln glitch? I don't think I've seen a 45 minute run before.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 21:48 |
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Yesterday, I came across an aggressive NPC human (not a phantom) in New Londo Ruins before the first bridge and ghost encounter. Any idea what that was? I think it was shortly after I killed Quelaag and Ceaseless Discharge. This is the first game where I find myself quickly breezing through text and I end up agreeing or disagreeing to things when I had no idea what just read so I may have pissed someone off. (Even when I was reading it, I had no idea what Alvina, the forest covenant cat was asking me to agree to.)
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PorkFat posted:Yesterday, I came across an aggressive NPC human (not a phantom) in New Londo Ruins before the first bridge and ghost encounter. Any idea what that was? I think it was shortly after I killed Quelaag and Ceaseless Discharge. That was the sad warrior that you first meet sitting by the Firelink bonfire. After Frampt shows up, if you talk to him a couple times he decides to leave. Then he'll go hollow and attack you by the New Londo bridge.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 21:51 |
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That conversation with Alvina is kind of ambiguous anyway. She asks you if you are looking for the grave of Sir Artorias and tells you that if you are that you should give up because traversing the Abyss is a myth, then the question she actually poses to you is if you are going to take her advice. You are supposed to say yes but it can trip you up if you aren't paying attention to the whole dialogue.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 21:58 |
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Okay, gently caress the crystal cavern. Goddammit. I ran out of the little crystals you drop to make a trail and now I'm stuck.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 22:12 |
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I beat Gwyn sans parrying by kiting him around the little stalagmite formation, getting in stabs when he went for a grab or at the end of his flurry. I guess it might have felt a little bit like cheese, but I was doing a whole lot of dying otherwise. Never parried much during the rest of the game (Eagle shield). Second playthrough is a good time thus far. So much easier to accomplish so much. I'm laughing a bit at the PVP bowing thing. I mostly try to avoid PVP, but I did a few Capra assists at around SL20. More than once our group was invaded right outside the door, and the first hint of the invasion was someone in the group bursting into flames. The phantom would then rise up out the ground with the announcement and all that. I assume the guy is just spamming combustion or something while loading? No idea but it was kind of lame and funny at the same time.
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Mercedes posted:Okay, gently caress the crystal cavern. Goddammit. I ran out of the little crystals you drop to make a trail and now I'm stuck. All of the paths are completely straight except for a long one leading to a corpse with the Blue Slab. To tell where the paths are, go slowly and watch the falling "snowflakes" that burst on hitting the invisible path. Once you've got a general idea of what direction the path is going, just keep heading straight. Eventually you'll just be able to run the whole way.
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Kongming posted:Well for PvE enemies are too dumb to actually move out of the lava patch so unless they naturally move around a lot you are guaranteed some extra damage. In PvP anyone who is half awake will dodge a lock-on fireball and it is easy to move around the patch but you can cause some confusion by manually aiming it. I'm an idiot. I meant PVP mostly. I'm interested in it's viability to keep invaders or what have you on their toes, or moving on my say-so.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 22:23 |
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Schwartzcough posted:All of the paths are completely straight except for a long one leading to a corpse with the Blue Slab. To tell where the paths are, go slowly and watch the falling "snowflakes" that burst on hitting the invisible path. Once you've got a general idea of what direction the path is going, just keep heading straight. Eventually you'll just be able to run the whole way. There's one that does a tetris shape that's to the right of the first butterfly you come across... or perhaps I'm not running straight or something. Arg, this level makes me dizzy.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 22:25 |
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Is anyone else getting some sort of spam about Disasters are gone something something Gravelord Servant. I've gotten it twice now, but I have not rung the lower bell yet.
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NuckmasterJ posted:Is anyone else getting some sort of spam about Disasters are gone something something Gravelord Servant. It's not spam. There's a covenant called Gravelord Servants whose sole purpose is to gently caress with you. The Gravelord uses an item which infects three victims' worlds with extra monsters (the disaster). In the infected world, a victim can find a sign on the ground. Activating it sends the victim to the Gravelord's world in an attempt to assassinate him and end the infection. If the Gravelord dies, the disasters end. Unfortunately it doesn't work very well and sometimes you'll get a notice that the disasters have ended when they never properly started.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 22:40 |
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Do you guys think level 63 is too high to be summoned for O&S? I want to try some of the jolly.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 22:42 |
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DoctaFun posted:Do you guys think level 63 is too high to be summoned for O&S? I want to try some of the jolly. Hell no, thats a perfect level. I just noticed that, the stone guy holding the divine ember, after the crystal butterfly, is a blacksmith. Anyone know anything about him?
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 22:56 |
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oneliquidninja posted:As far as atmosphere though I loved Tower of Latria. Probably the zone I'd rate as the most intense of any between the two games. It just creeped me out and getting my brain eaten by mind flayers was awesome. Oh man, no way - Valley of Defilement genuinely made me loving itch with the number of flies everywhere. It was absolutely perfect.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 23:08 |
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Schwartzcough posted:Did you ever record any of your speedruns? I was disappointed when you said you beat it in 58 minutes and didn't record it. Are you using the Kiln glitch? I don't think I've seen a 45 minute run before. I streamed a lot of my runs but I don't have any completed runs recorded, no. Yes, I am using the Kiln glitch as well.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 23:16 |
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casual poster posted:Hell no, thats a perfect level. When I came across the one you're talking about it was kind if sad, since he'd apparently died clutching the ember. Kind of ruined it for me when I found the others and realised they were all the same.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 23:19 |
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Akuma posted:There's actually a few of those guys, but right now I can only remember the frozen one in the painted world. They all use the same model (Andre) and are in the exact same pose. Andre starts getting a little crazy obsessive about his Embers as you give him more. What do magical Flames consume in Dark Souls? Andre will end up just like them, clutching his favorite ember to his chest as it burns away the last bits of his humanity.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 23:22 |
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Everyone in the depths right now is NG+, as an SL40 invader its scary. One guy had twice my HP but a NG+ slime fell on his head and he died. I laughed. edit: then he called me a coward and told me to stop hiding behind monsters  How does one hide behind a lowly slime?
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Gwyn is a parriable boss. That is essentially his weakness, by design. I'm not sure how this is "cheesy". By that estimation I would imagine fighting O & S by using the pillars to your advantage is also cheesy. Which is ridiculous when you consider pre-patch crystal ring shield, which trivializes the whole game. What I'm trying to say is is that you motherfuckers are ridiculous.
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| # ? Dec 12, 2011 23:38 |
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waspinator posted:I streamed a lot of my runs but I don't have any completed runs recorded, no. Yes, I am using the Kiln glitch as well.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 00:07 |
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How's the stat scaling for Katanas? Like in general is it worth it to go beyond 20 dex?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 00:35 |
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Went to the trouble of getting gravelord at sl9 to infect gargoyles, sword is great but it sucks having no idea if anything is happening. Fog doors go up and down sometimes, but after two eyes both have been red normal phantoms invading, not the gravelord victims. Would be nice to be able to see your victims no matter what, watch them as they deal with your poo poo or something.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 00:37 |
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Gravelord Servant sounds like a profoundly unsatisfying covenant as it boils down to doing a lot of cool stuff you'll never see.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 01:02 |
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Man, I hope I didn't out-level the end-game. Been sitting with a combined time of ~25 minutes with my summon sign up in front of Gwyn, only got summoned once. Said "eh, I'll go finish the game I guess" and waited ~15 minutes to see someone else's sign, but no dice. Got invaded twice...kicked the blue invader's rear end (just kept hitting him even though he had his shield up, because the bleed still built up, heh.) and got killed by the red invader for laggy/explotation BS. Seriously, he swung, missed, I was right behind him, swung...yet it counts as blocked, even though I am staring at his back, I get my shield up, he swings, it hits. The Hell? Faked edit: So is SL 95 too high to reliably get help with Gwyn?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 01:05 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Man, I hope I didn't out-level the end-game. Been sitting with a combined time of ~25 minutes with my summon sign up in front of Gwyn, only got summoned once. Not at all. That's right about perfect if not even a bit low - at least for what I was there.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 01:14 |
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Your level affects summoning stuff? In what way? And what does SL mean?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 01:45 |
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Zain posted:How's the stat scaling for Katanas? Like in general is it worth it to go beyond 20 dex? Uchigatana and Iato are both A scaling at +15 while the Washing Pole is some kinda dorky D/D that graduates to C/C.
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Rollersnake posted:Gravelord Servant sounds like a profoundly unsatisfying covenant as it boils down to doing a lot of cool stuff you'll never see. I saw a lot of gravelord activity in the Kiln last night. Managed to invade one gravelord three times (twice through his sign once through red eye stone) and the other one three times (though only once was through his sign and the other two where me doing my dark wraith poo poo). I saw a lot of activity in both their worlds. The first gravelord invasion was pretty mellow, just him and me. The second time I invaded him he was engaged in a fight so I waited for it to be over before fighting him. The third time I don't remember. The other gravelord though when I showed up through the gravelord sign he was fighting a red phantom that had baited him down to the first black knight. The red phantom backed off for a bit to let him deal with the knight but eventually got greedy and ran up to attack the gravelord (at which point I killed the red phantom). While I fought the gravelord two more invasions took place (though both invaders where polite enough to let us finish). I think for Hosting arena style poo poo the Gravelord Covenant could be really sick. Can you summon while gravelording? Like could I summon two phantoms, drop a gravelord sign, and get some good 3 vs 3 going?
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Gaggins posted:Your level affects summoning stuff? In what way? And what does SL mean? There's a range of levels that you can summon/be summoned to based on your level...it's +/- 10 levels, right? Or is it 10%? A combination? I can't recall. And SL is short for Soul Level, which is just what some of us call 'level' for shorthand. A holdover from Demon Souls, which called 'level' Soul Level. Edit: Does strength effect how fast you swing really heavy poo poo like greatswords? Everyone in PvP swings their Zweihander like twice as fast as me, so I stopped using it and went back to my Lightning Iatio. DrBouvenstein fucked around with this message at Dec 13, 2011 around 02:32 |
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Nope, you either have the "not enough stat" swing which makes you look like an idiot or a normal swing. Also, many weapons have you staggering a little bit if you miss a swing, mostly the bigger ones.
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I vaguely remember something about double the requirements getting you a faster swing. Is that just a myth?
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 02:48 |
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Selious posted:Went to the trouble of getting gravelord at sl9 to infect gargoyles, sword is great but it sucks having no idea if anything is happening. Fog doors go up and down sometimes, but after two eyes both have been red normal phantoms invading, not the gravelord victims. Would be nice to be able to see your victims no matter what, watch them as they deal with your poo poo or something. I desperately want to get cursed by the gravelord covenant! One of my favorite parts of Demon's Souls was going PBWT and seeing how rough it could be.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 02:48 |
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Wow...that ending... I did the "Link the Fire" ending, and Jesus, seriously? That's all we get? Is the other ending any better? I'd like to do a NG+, but I really hosed up my character build with this guy...tried too hard at the start to level up all the stats (yes, even resistance...  I'm sorry, I didn't know!) and screwed the pooch later, since I couldn't get any stat high enough to really be a contender for "str build" or "Dex build" or whatever and not be, like, SL 150.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 02:48 |
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Ball Stink posted:Humanity potting is odd but ok, because I have it too and will do the same thing. However, thing is, if you do this your victory against someone with little to no unused humanity will feel paltry and pathetic... if you play PvP for the rush/skill factor. If your objective is different that's fine though Winning always feels good, I play to win.
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| # ? Dec 13, 2011 02:58 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Wow...that ending... The other ending is just as sparse but I like it better because it at least has some dialogue.
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I think that this game creates the best feeling in the world, when you invade somebody and run towards them, and they just turn tail and run away. The idea of somebody just going "OHHH gently caress RED GUY" and trying to make a break for it with no real plan to deal with the situation is so funny to me. Its even better that with the dark wood grain ring, I can just chase them down and backstab them as they escape. Oh its just delicious.
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