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Gully Foyle posted:A lot of their attacks are kind of oddly timed as well, making parrying hazardous if you aren't used to it. Like their one-hand shove attack always takes a few frames longer to start than I expect, so I miss the parry on it constantly. There's your problem, you want to backstab them not parry. They have a ton of recovery time on most of their attacks and pretty bad tracking so it's insanely easy to get behind them after they commit to an attack, then if they survive the first backstab they'll power up to go into their berserk state and you can just give them a second backstab whilst they're charging. Once you're not the routine down they become completely trivial to fight and the easiest source of twin blood shards in the game
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I hate those loving things so much, especially because the meter keeps filling even though you broke line of sight/killed them.
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Mar 28, 2021 16:42
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And Tyler Too! posted:I hate those loving things so much, especially because the meter keeps filling even though you broke line of sight/killed them. If you look closely, there are some fancy ethereal spikes that get stuck in you when you're in their line of sight. How quickly the meter rises depends on how many are on you, and the meter keeps going up until the last one falls off.
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Mar 28, 2021 18:09
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You're supposed to run through that part.
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Mar 28, 2021 18:22
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Doesn't work out so hot in practice. You can get past the first one and the second one, then there's a third one usually bodyblocking the only passage through. Not always but most of the time.
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Mar 28, 2021 18:33
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One of the few segments in the game where changing your gear for max frenzy resist helps a lot
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yep, just throw on the frenzy resist rune and put on that white armor with a lot of resist and it's fine.
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Cash out your insight if you can too, sometimes ignorance is bliss 
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Does Frenzy not effect you without Insight? Or is the effect just lessened a great deal? I don't think I've ever been around Winter Lanterns with low Insight. Also, when you get Snatched I remember you lose your Echoes, do they drop wherever you got kidnapped or are they gone for good? Maybe I'm misremembering but I could have sworn I lost everything and of course I didn't make it back to my capture point before another death so I'm kinda curious if it's the one instance where you can't get your XP back.
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sigher posted:Does Frenzy not effect you without Insight? Or is the effect just lessened a great deal? I don't think I've ever been around Winter Lanterns with low Insight. The more insight you have the lower your frenzy resist is, stops you hearing that loving baby too
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So Gerhman is annoying. Mainly because it's another fight where the camera doesn't like behaving. If I stay locked on to him (which it seems I want to do for how much he moves around), on his longer combos the camera will whip around in such a way I'm dodging right into him. And he seems to have a super armor/counter in the event of any combo over two hits. Also it seems trying to hit him when he's charging a spell will get me killed from a full health bar. Whoops. DeathChicken fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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And as per my usual, complaining about it got me past him, albeit using 20 vials. Moon Presence meanwhile I killed on the second try. Game beaten.
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DeathChicken posted:And as per my usual, complaining about it got me past him, albeit using 20 vials. Moon Presence meanwhile I killed on the second try. Game beaten. DLC?
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Mar 29, 2021 00:30
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PSNow version, doesn't seem it came with it
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DeathChicken posted:PSNow version, doesn't seem it came with it oh yeah it definitely doesnt, i got the psnow version too but had to spring for the DLC so i could cross orphan of kos off my bucket list. 100% worth it IMO but...probably not recommended to take your first spin through it on NG+
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multijoe posted:There's your problem, you want to backstab them not parry. They have a ton of recovery time on most of their attacks and pretty bad tracking so it's insanely easy to get behind them after they commit to an attack, then if they survive the first backstab they'll power up to go into their berserk state and you can just give them a second backstab whilst they're charging. Once you're not the routine down they become completely trivial to fight and the easiest source of twin blood shards in the game I feel like the Kidnapper's punch is very parryable, they have a very predictable timing, you fire a brief moment after the apogee of their arm drawing back. Early game, you often need at least two viscerals to kill them, so you use the opportunity of them getting back on their feet, charging up, to run around them and backstab them with a charged R2.
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Just had some really fun fights with the Amygdalan Arm in PvP. And the thing isn't even maxed out, only +8. It doesn't have the burst DPS potential of Beasthunter Saif, or Rakuyo, or Chikage, but it's weird and wobbly and unpredictable and I can feel the enemy panicking as I pancake them with transformation attacks. Best of all I named the character Colonel Sanders and gave him the look.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUbA4jp2dj8 wow thats old lol
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I’m really glad the last Bloodborne boss is a frenetic duel against an elderly baby the size of Bloodstarved Beast and not some looming juggernaut the size of Rom. I’m sure he’ll (she’ll?) make the final chalice dungeon boss and the main story very underwhelming but c’est la vie.
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Mar 29, 2021 12:10
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Wow the Living Failures are total chumps Badass effect when they cast the Astral Meteor though that was fuxking awesome
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Lady Maria, not a chump 3rd try just pizza cutter two hand stun lock her wow i wish i could do that over again that kick in when the song REALLY HITS woo boyo verbal enema fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Mar 30, 2021 |
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Mar 30, 2021 04:54
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Lady Maria was such a good fight that I savescummed the cloud save just to do it again.
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tentacle, one step forward, tentacle, one step forward, tentacle, one step forward.... I'm sure it's more fun with a dex build of your own.
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well yeah but if u do let her fight she brings it
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There’s a breakpoint in Bloodborne progression at which Maria becomes a legitimately easier fight than Gascoigne. I have never once needed more attempts for Maria than I needed for the failures.
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thats just cos there are X amount of failures at any one time and u cant corral them all, its not cos they are programmed to fight u like maria. yes u may simply stun lock her to death but i think, at least for the first time u meet her, its usually the first human boss in quite a while and most players open up cautiously with her and we all know where that goes
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Also not to pat myself on the back too hard but Phase 1 Maria is just a very aggressive hunter, her P2 blood fire attacks and Goku moves are probably much harder to time for Parry the first time you fight her
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My first Maria fight was with the Pizza Cutter and while I died a bunch, wasn't that hard at that point. Ludwig phase 1 felt harder for me and Orphan took the most tries compared to any boss.
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Maria>Ludwig>Orphan for me but it may just have been because i had to get gud (or at least less bad)
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Imo swap Maria with Sister Friede.
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While I concede that the Orphan’s arena sets one hell of a mood I dunno it it makes for a good fight. Like, the fight itself is great even if I’m probably gonna have to make another run through the cum dungeon for blood vials after, but getting wiped because you ran into the invisible wall or got caught on rocks on the coast feels bad, man.
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While having no access to DLCs at the moment, I did find it kind of funny the whole game rewards you for being super aggressive when it comes to fights, then Gehrman (yeah, I'm spoiler tagging a six year old game. Hey, it took *me* this long to play through it) actively encourages you to play him as Dark Souls as possible since he'll super armor smack you out of any attempt at a large combo. Then I played it cautiously and most of his attacks could be baited from a mile off. It just took forever to win by attrition. Or maybe I was doing it wrong, I'm not exactly good at videogames
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Pretty much every base game boss gets melted by either parries or R1 spam. Gman is in the former group
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DeathChicken posted:While having no access to DLCs at the moment, I did find it kind of funny the whole game rewards you for being super aggressive when it comes to fights, then Gehrman (yeah, I'm spoiler tagging a six year old game. Hey, it took *me* this long to play through it) actively encourages you to play him as Dark Souls as possible since he'll super armor smack you out of any attempt at a large combo. Then I played it cautiously and most of his attacks could be baited from a mile off. It just took forever to win by attrition. Just parry him
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well i guess it's time to battle Orphan for the next 3 hours also would it be easier to just grab the dlc weapons which im p sure minus killing Oprhan is all i have left in the DLC oh and Laurence of loving boy but should i just do that kill gehrman and then do ng+3 cuz after that all i need to do is the full story chalices and then boom plat e: i forgot to say i love the goddamn Astral Meteor effect that i had a goddamn dream about it that was deffo worth that assy boring fight verbal enema fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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If you're at the Orphan fight, then yeah, just mop up the rest of the weapons (and armor if you wanna do some Fashion Borne) now while you've got all of the weapons you picked up fresh in your mind. And yeah, Living Failure's ain't the best fight but that meteor attack is dope as gently caress. I love the attacks that literally open a gateway to the cosmos and bring forth comets and poo poo to wreck you. Living Failures, Ebrietas, that Centipede thing at Byrgenworth (which I just actually killed for the first time in 6+ playthroughs and came to find it doesn't "die" but rather gets sucked into a cosmic void, holy poo poo), A Call Beyond; I'm sure there's more that I'm missing but it's great.
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Imho Living Failures is a cool boss fight because of the meteor storms and also they’re so weak and pathetic they’re the easiest boss to parry to death and goddamn does it feel good just chaining parry after parry after parry and watching failure after failure just evaporate away.
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Its even fun to just stand in place and Beastblood pellet-spam the first one to death over and over. Doesn't work well after a while though. For me it was definitely Ludwig who gave me the most nightmares. But Maria was the coolest. I also did the cloudsave thing for her. DeafNote fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Mar 31, 2021 |
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My favourite boss to Parry to death is Orphan. Super fun and risky. Also I am not sure how to beat Orphan any other way.
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