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Goddamit, I can't decide what kind of class I'm going to play. I need everyone's input here to come to some sort of consensus. One thing's for sure, I'm starting as deprived with the locket because I am doing this right.
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| # ¿ Sep 28, 2011 22:24 |
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I'm not wondering what the optimal min-max class is because that's completely the wrong way to play (eg: Ilkar's mirden hammer faith build). I'm just wondering what everyone else is doing. gently caress, chances are I'll probably play all different permutations of dexxer, str-build, magic-surprise sex because in DeS, all of these we're fun for different reasons. I'm just at a personal impasse of how to spec myself initially.
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| # ¿ Sep 28, 2011 22:33 |
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This game will blow you away... a thrilling, visceral experience. 11/10 -IGN.com http://goo.gl/KsHi4 Someone figure out what this does.
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| # ¿ Sep 30, 2011 04:54 |
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doctor 7 posted:Maybe if it was GTA Dark Souls. NITO, My cousin! Let us go find some TEETEES.
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| # ¿ Sep 30, 2011 05:59 |
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If you wanna watch something, the GiantBomb quicklook is the best thing to watch because not only is it hilarious, but you can watch the transformation of a boy to a man. (Brad Shoemaker is going to play Dark Souls now).
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| # ¿ Sep 30, 2011 06:42 |
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Playing this game is a test in my ability to deal with weird targeting right now. I have died more than once to how clumsy the targeting system functions now. Probably my only complaint so far though. ( I guess maybe the weird framerates and motion blur are a lil pain, but they are minor in the end)
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| # ¿ Oct 4, 2011 18:46 |
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coyo7e posted:Are you locking on to your target? I am its just really finnicky about what it targets to and then changing targets has this weird lag on it that causes all kinds of problems for me.
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| # ¿ Oct 4, 2011 19:06 |
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Sumadartson posted:Well, there's Dark Souls for you. You'll only make it through this game if you're able to think beyond your first instincts. Fear is the mind-killer. Also, it's a trident wielding, lightning-shooting rock demon with one leg, unable to walk. And there's a visibly open door behind him. Thank god those loving things are missing a leg. Actually on that note, do these guys have any specific immunity? I've tried lightening and fire, and neither do much to him. Is he just a massive damage sponge?
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| # ¿ Oct 14, 2011 09:24 |
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bewilderment posted:Honestly the way I beat that first one near the smith was equipping my beefiest weapon and smacking the hell out of him with it. I guess so, I've just been wailing on these loving things all game with various weapons and I expected one of them would be more effective than others but I guess these guys are just the kind of assholes that can kill you dead superfast as well as take forever to kill.
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| # ¿ Oct 14, 2011 09:32 |
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RBA Starblade posted:The netcode in this game is rear end. 3 seconds after I dodge away I'm backstabbed and killed. Wait! You mean you connected to someone else! AND INTERACTED WITH THEM. Man count your blessings, you might be... the luckiest man in the world.
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2011 04:20 |
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Rascyc posted:I'd say the majority of my interactions have been as expected. There's just that odd couple that are so lagged that it leaves you annoyed, and it happens juuuust enough to probably make a post or two just to vent. Are you saying you don't get "summoning failed" everytime you try and do something multiplayer? Because I think I've tried to do multiplayer in my human form and summon white phantoms anywhere I see them. I don't think a single one has functioned correctly. I'm certain its not my NAT or any port forwarding issues. I think its 100% an issue with the P2P. It's kind of sullying my replay value I guess.
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2011 04:25 |
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So what the consensus on the furtive pygmy from the intro then is he just the player character
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2011 20:29 |
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Rascyc posted:Join Darkwraiths, you will find out. Ohhhh, now what Frampt says is so much clearer! Man I love a game where the story needs to be sought rather than fed to you in some sort of feed-trough of exposition. Goddamn I love the Souls'
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| # ¿ Oct 19, 2011 22:42 |
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Anyone got any  for getting more multiplayer games going? I'm just wondering because I've heard a lot of junk around like "Place your white stone down every 5 minutes to swap servers" or "Log out of PSN and log back in hurpderp". These things all sound like playground rumors, but I want to know if you guys actually have any real evidence.
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2011 16:29 |
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sentrygun posted:Logging out of and back into PSN will cause the game to have to attempt to connect to a server again, so it's likely that it might pick a new one. This is pretty common with anything connecting to one of a list of servers, shouldn't be any different for Dark Souls. That sounds reasonable, I just always assumed that characters were stored on servers like an MMO but I don't know much about PSN architecture. Anyways thanks for the replies y'all. Leyburn posted:Disclaimer: I love Dark Souls. HAVE FUN HOLDING LEFT TRIGGER TO AIM RIGHT TRIGGER TO SHOOT YOU GODDAMN rear end in a top hat.
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2011 16:35 |
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I think I popped a blood vessel in my eye getting past the Anor Londo 1337 sniping duo. I don't even remember having this much trouble the first time either.
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2011 23:36 |
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Sweet loving lord, I am in full Black Iron Armor, with Iron Flesh on, walking 2 steps a minute and the loving arrows still knock me back. RAAAHHHHGHH
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| # ¿ Oct 21, 2011 23:42 |
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I know that a while back someone mentioned the weird controller glitch where you will hit R1 and it wont initiate until you hit L1 again, well it started happening to me and its terribly frustrating. If anyone knows what's causing this or has a fix please let me know and then put it in the OP, its been an issue for several people I've spoken to.
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| # ¿ Oct 23, 2011 20:58 |
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My interpretation of the New Londo/Kaathe thing is a little different. So the way I saw it was Gwyn was this supposedly magnanimous leader who hosed the dragons and split his power around so that his servants (Four Kings, Seath, Gwyndolin/fake-titty-monster-sister) could benefit from it in some way. He just sort of willy-nilly used his supposedly ill-begotten power from the dragons to build his ideal world; not to mention his supposed betrayal of his 1st son, the one who's statue was broken on the altar of sunlight. Kaathe, being an eternal primordial serpent and all, saw the harm of Gwyn's reckless use of his power such as the people who were affected with the darksign as well as the rampant spread of the weird 'humanity' sprite. So to counter Gwyn's bullshit, Kaathe saw a way to fix things by indoctrinating the Four Kings of New Londo to help dethrone Gwyn. He also gave them a means to gather up the humanity sprite and to get rid of them. Gwyn, being the jealous, spiteful representation of Zeus or the Old Testament Jehovah, flooded the city to "control" the "threat" of the Darkwraiths, the Four Kings' personal army. I just think that's how it went because of the way the game tries to give you a sort of emotional moment when you finally figure out what all that mushy stuff on the floor of Lower New Londo really is (it's people trying to escape the flood Gwyn sent) So the way I see it, Gwyn tried to build his own little happy world and it fell apart because of his hubris. So gently caress Gwyn and gently caress the flame; me, Kaathe and Solaire are going to ride into the sunset on a horse made of Humanity and rule man with a space shield in one hand and a pyromancy flame in the other
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 04:48 |
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I get the feeling Nito was associated with the Primordial beings in someway simply because of his desire to consume. Otherwise he's just a typical Lich with a bunch of Necromancer buddies. I suppose there's something to him being the "First of the Dead" as saying that he was the cause of the Darksign appearing, but there's nothing to support that.Samurai Sanders posted:Yeah, theoretically...in new game plus plus or somewhere around then. That's what I hope the patch fixes. If the patch makes scaling better, then the demon spear might as well be a lightsaber-spear.
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 05:02 |
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qbert posted:But isn't that the whole point? You use Lightning crafted weapons in NG and NG+, until their stats no longer cut it, then you're able to switch to elemental weapons that are actually enhanced by your now-high stats in NG++, etc. Otherwise why make elemental weapons? Theoretically, yes, but I think someone did the math a while ago and it appeared that a normal spear +15 would only outdamage a +5 lightning spear after about 60 dexterity I think. Even then, I don't believe that it would be that much more due to the diminishing returns on stats in the long run. e: Also many more things have high physical defense than lightning defense, so probably lightning weapons will be more effective until god knows what level. Its stupid, and From should feel stupid for doing it. <  >
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 05:07 |
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qbert posted:I think you may have missed something. We're talking about Demon's Spear, which actually DOES lightning damage AND it adds a parameter bonus based on your stats. So I'm guessing the threshhold for it surpassing the Lightning Spear isn't nearly as high. The parameter bonus isn't that high so my point still stands that scaling needs to be fixed and the Demon Spear should be better.
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 05:20 |
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lohli posted:Solaire is the first son of Gwyn. Is.. is this... true?
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 06:12 |
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lohli posted:It seems to be implied, the name Solaire for starters, but also that he is a warrior of sunlight, invites you to be a part of that covenant. That covenant also allows you to trade in Gwyn's soul for the sunlight spear attack(I forget the actual name). I feel like such a bastard for not saving him. I'm a terrible friend.
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 06:25 |
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DarkArchimedes posted:humanity It's my own personal interpretation but I think the humanity item is like a little gross parasite that you squish to get the life-juices out of.
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2011 06:29 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:You mean this stuff? THANK loving GOD
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| # ¿ Nov 2, 2011 07:58 |
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Wikiman posted:So anyway, is the story going to be a bit retconned? Eh, Artorias was never buried, even though his grave was made he didn't die in the Abyss of the Four Kings, he just never came back. Sif was just his bro or something and kept his sword handy. I think the speculation is that Artorias betrayed Gwyn after learning about the real hosed-up way he 'dealt' with New Londo's alliance with Kaathe (by flooding the poo poo out of it and killing literally everyone trying to escape New Londo). So after going into the abyss and chatting with Kaathe (who I'm still convinced is the 'good guy' in the game) he convinced him to work for him. I suppose that this new stuff is going to explore what happened to him after he took up the covenant with Kaathe. I'm more than excited to have a bit more of the lore for this game fleshed out. I've never been as enthralled by a games lore than this, simply because everything we know about the world is hard earned and requires a lot of speculation. e: What I really want to know about, is what is all this poo poo about the "King's Crown" and "Gotta get dat King's Crown and stoke the fire" stuff? I guess it's just a flowery way of saying that you become the boss when you beat Gwyn, but who knows. Rexicon1 fucked around with this message at Apr 12, 2012 around 09:29 |
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Bobnumerotres posted:The dried finger has unlimited uses and it attracts more invaders, much like the eye of death. I don't believe anything anyone tells me regarding the dried finger.
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| # ¿ Apr 15, 2012 03:39 |
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After starting a new game again because I can't take the wait for the PC version, I realized something. The most fun time I have in this game is starting new characters. Even though I know pretty much everything there is to know about the game, starting a new character just feels good. Actually in pretty much every game I play, making a new character is the most fun I have. I wish I could pinpoint what about starting a new character gets me so excited. Is it the novelty? Is it the feeling of potential? Am I literally addicted to video games? Oxxidation posted:I keep rubbing dollars on my computer but it isn't here yet 
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| # ¿ Jul 29, 2012 01:43 |
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Hey, question. How can you make it so that PvP in this game isn't laggy unplayable bullshit? Is this just how people do PvP? I've beaten the game several times over and done a bunch of Co-op but every single PvP experience is literally 3-5 seconds of lag between what I see and then all of a sudden lightning damage. I don't even know. PS3 btw, open NAT and all the jazz. Thanks in advance.
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| # ¿ Aug 4, 2012 02:49 |
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:3-5 seconds is pretty extreme, and if you're not exaggerating, then it might be an actual issue with your connection. No idea how to fix it since I suck at that sort of thing, but it's definitely not normal. It seems to vary between each opponent. Mostly it seems like there is bizarre priority in which attacks take precedent. Like, any defensive action (rolling, ripost, block) all seem to take backseat to any offensive action. For example, one guy who was flipping around everywhere got hit by a random spear and it seemed like he avoided it with the flip. But I actually hit him. After that, it appeared to me that I was blocking something this guy did, but after it appeared like I blocked all of it, my health bar disappeared then the guy did the actions. I don't even know, but this seems like a really poor experience, which is a shame because I really enjoyed demon's souls pvp.
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| # ¿ Aug 4, 2012 02:58 |
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:It sounds like you are getting an above-average amount of lag, though there are other various PvP things that someone might attribute to lag if they don't know about it, like dead angling (a way of hitting someone while they are blocking, based on which direction you are facing). There are some funky priority things in terms of attacking and dodging, and other stuff like rolling through an attack still giving you bleed/poison buildup and playing elemental animations. Along with some of the lag quirks, it's a completely different game from single-player. Fair answer I suppose, it just seems like an opposite experience from the rest of the game, and perhaps not one that for me. e: Anyone think that the PC version pvp will be more true to the rest of the game? I at least have a lil hope that japan learns how the internet works soon. ee: Was standing still and then got invaded. Died before the dude even spawned into my world. That can't be right. Rexicon1 fucked around with this message at Aug 4, 2012 around 03:29 |
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Unbeknowsnt posted:That's all well and good. but this guy is trying to kill my summoner and I through the fog door. Shooting great soul arrows and bow arrows through without difficulty. Unbeknowsnt posted:I'm summoned as a phantom in the forest and me and a darkwraith are owning it up in pvp. Even getting mixes of red and blue phantoms at once. This blue phantom somehow spawned outside the fog gate by the bonfire. How the hell? DiscreteContinuum posted:I've been using dragon stone and came in as a gold phantom before... me and the host just kind of looked at each other for about ten minutes. Shima Honnou posted:The real danger in combat is from machine gun Wrath of the Gods spam from people using the dragon body glitch. The ways this game breaks are some of the most phenomenal things I've ever seen in video games.
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| # ¿ Aug 4, 2012 08:19 |
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EC posted:- New content is accessed via a portal in Ash Lake. I dunno, I am kinda bummed about the whole resolution thing. I guess I shouldn't have expected them to remake their graphics engine completely. Blighttown improvements are A-ok in my book though.
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2012 12:37 |
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Dark Souls - A Game of Bastards.
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2012 13:34 |
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Barudak posted:I take the Witch's Ring because I like talking to Quelaag's Sister. Also, Blight Town is a joke and there are a whopping 4 non-respawning toxic blow dart guys all of whom can be taken out with no other enemies around because the game handily provides dozens of things to block their ability to hit you. It's not so much the toxic bros as much as it is the Framerate Devourer of Blighttown.
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| # ¿ Aug 9, 2012 13:43 |
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MoonwalkInvincible posted:I just made it for my 40 STR gimmick character and oh my god, the shoryuken. Everything is beautiful and new again. They call me Punch-Dragon.
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Mighty Dicktron posted:Edit: Should clarify that no one in here is really acting like that! I'm talking about off-site folks who decry this as the worst thing. Nah, some people here are swearing not to buy this game because it "giving someone money for another lovely awful console port that stains the very fabric of the multiverse."
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