Bloodborne

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Man0warr

Molten Core Raider
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Anyone ever figure out how to open the door behind the locked chest in Cathedral Ward? The one down the stairs into a room with a bunch of vases that you get to after fighting the giant with the ball & chain.
 

Vaclav

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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877
Anyone ever figure out how to open the door behind the locked chest in Cathedral Ward? The one down the stairs into a room with a bunch of vases that you get to after fighting the giant with the ball & chain.
Nope. At this point I'm assuming it's DLC. Even on NG++ (From what I can tell at ++ nothing changes, not even power levels)
 

HUH_sl

shitlord
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Anyone ever figure out how to open the door behind the locked chest in Cathedral Ward? The one down the stairs into a room with a bunch of vases that you get to after fighting the giant with the ball & chain.
If you angle your camera right you can see through it. There's nothing there, so probably cut content or a future DLC entrance.
 

ronne

Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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That door leads out to the bridge area behind the cleric beast, so it's just a shortcut they never fully added or that got cut.
 

Ritley

Karazhan Raider
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34,986
Finally beat second boss in defiled chalice after like 20 attempts (flame hound). That stupid fucking charge he does is so quick and a 1 hit kill. Even noticing it and trying to dodge didn't always work.

The one that really pissed me off though was his jump, also a 1 hit kill. I'm not convinced it even can be dodged, but luckily he only very rarely used it.

hoping to plat the game this week, depends on how the rest of the chalices go
 

Vaclav

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
12,650
877
Finally beat second boss in defiled chalice after like 20 attempts (flame hound). That stupid fucking charge he does is so quick and a 1 hit kill. Even noticing it and trying to dodge didn't always work.

The one that really pissed me off though was his jump, also a 1 hit kill. I'm not convinced it even can be dodged, but luckily he only very rarely used it.

hoping to plat the game this week, depends on how the rest of the chalices go
Gerhardt's Scythe in 2H mode really I found to be key with all the toughest of the last few bosses (Hound, Amygdala, Queen - especially Queen it was knocking her down every hit, hilariously easy)

Hound was just a matter of sticking close to the front, and dodging left when he snapped at me - and paying attention the rare novas to back off as much as possible + heal.
 

Kuriin

Just a Nurse
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Can you play Co-Op through pretty much the entire game if both players have the specific bells? Or is it a boss only thing?
 

Araxen

Golden Baronet of the Realm
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7,852
Fuck Gehrman right in the ass. I beat him once for the secondary ending and now I'm trying to beat him again for the true ending and almost every time I parry him the visceral doesn't register. Argghhh.. Guess I'll get it tomorrow.
 

Vaclav

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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877
Fuck Gehrman right in the ass. I beat him once for the secondary ending and now I'm trying to beat him again for the true ending and almost every time I parry him the visceral doesn't register. Argghhh.. Guess I'll get it tomorrow.
Yea, I was the same way on him - owned him first time like he was a joke, second time was hard for some reason - dunno if the umbilical ending version is different or what, but I had a much harder time as well.
 

Kreugen

Vyemm Raider
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793
I found it easier to take advantage of the fact that he staggers on light attacks up until he powers up, and then I fished for the viscerals. Also I ran the vatk 20% damage boost and heal. The difference maker though was he was kind enough to go 2H mode at the end for me, which I could parry much easier.
 

Ritley

Karazhan Raider
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Gerhardt's Scythe in 2H mode really I found to be key with all the toughest of the last few bosses (Hound, Amygdala, Queen - especially Queen it was knocking her down every hit, hilariously easy)

Hound was just a matter of sticking close to the front, and dodging left when he snapped at me - and paying attention the rare novas to back off as much as possible + heal.
Didn't matter how close to him I was, he would sometimes do his charge attack when I was right in front of him in melee range
 

Vaclav

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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877
Didn't matter how close to him I was, he would sometimes do his charge attack when I was right in front of him in melee range
You never stay in front of him - it was charge forward, as soon as he even twitches dodge to the left. Dodging around him to the left was always the right answer to any attack besides the nova. (which was slow and obvious)
 

Terial

Trakanon Raider
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585
Finally went back and got to the Hidden workshop....
am i correct in that i should consume the 1/3 umbilical cord?
 

Needless

Toe Sucker
<Silver Donator>
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Finding it hard to get motivated to go back and finish this game.. i just can't get immersed into it like the other souls games for some reason
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Vorph

Silver Baronet of the Realm
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Finally went back and got to the Hidden workshop....
am i correct in that i should consume the 1/3 umbilical cord?
Eventually, yes. I wouldn't bother eating them until you have three though, unless you're going to spend the insight immediately. Insight has no positive effects that I'm aware of, but it is confirmed to make you much more susceptible to Frenzy.

Finding it hard to get motivated to go back and finish this game.. i just can't get immersed into it like the other souls games for some reason
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I'm the opposite. I found both Dark Souls games extremely lacking compared to Demon's Souls, but this one I can't put down.

If chalice dungeons were designed/implemented better I'd even put it above Demon's.
 

Terial

Trakanon Raider
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Eventually, yes. I wouldn't bother eating them until you have three though, unless you're going to spend the insight immediately. Insight has no positive effects that I'm aware of, but it is confirmed to make you much more susceptible to Frenzy.
hmmm that concerns me as my current insight is about 33ish right now, asof last night i killed the witches boss.
 

Ritley

Karazhan Raider
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You never stay in front of him - it was charge forward, as soon as he even twitches dodge to the left. Dodging around him to the left was always the right answer to any attack besides the nova. (which was slow and obvious)
He charge would hit you even if you were next to his hind leg
 

Ritley

Karazhan Raider
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34,986
Finally went back and got to the Hidden workshop....
am i correct in that i should consume the 1/3 umbilical cord?
Don't consume them yet, especially if you are trying to get all the endings in one play through. If you backup your save right at the end before gehrman, you can do all of the endings. If you already consumed 3 of them by that point though you can't get one of them
 

Vaclav

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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877
He charge would hit you even if you were next to his hind leg
Note I said dodge to the left side - not back, nor under - left side is his safe area from basically everything. Although you don't want to be too far ahead on the left, since his common "snap" attack starts there - but most of the left side is safe.
 

Ritley

Karazhan Raider
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I never said his charge wasn't able to be dodged, just that he did it extremely fast and you had to immediately dodge. If you happened to be using a potion or something like that when he did it you were dead, plain and simple.

It's the jump attack that roll dodge wouldn't even work on, but he only did it twice in all of my attempts (he only does it at midrange it looked like).

His snap attack was really easy to dodge and get a counter hit on his head, same for all of his bite attacks. Destroying his helmet made him take like 4x damage to his head for awhile