Vaclav
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So I cleared out No-Man's Wharf, Bastille, Sinner's Rise, and Belfry Luna, and apparently the Sinner boss was one of the big 4. I had two options since I still had a branch, to either go to whatever zone is behind the statue blocking the switch where the NPC is talking about the statue, or have Licia open the door to what I found out is Huntsman's Copse. I chose Copse, still not sure what's past the statue in the other place. Also I guess there's still a statue in Heide's that I haven't unfrozen, but I only have 1 branch after using two more in Bastille on Straid and the door to Ruin Sentinels.
Is Copse a good place to be at this point? Where did Gavlan and Straid run off to? I can't find either of them where they originally were. I wanted to sell a bunch of trash to Gavlan
Is Copse a good place to be at this point? Where did Gavlan and Straid run off to? I can't find either of them where they originally were. I wanted to sell a bunch of trash to Gavlan
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Hmm as soon as I rested at that bonfire, Straid poofed. Perhaps he moved behind me and I just didn't notice?
Lenas
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Like Vaclav said, he's right outside the cell. You have to kill the exploders every time you visit him or make them extinct.
Vaclav
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LOL I completely fucked my Prayer trophy without a reroll. Dammit didn't notice until the end what I'd done.
Was wanting some extra humanity to knock out Darklurker earlyish, so I buffed the bonfire at Majula a bunch of times to farm the basement skellies (1 humanity on 1, 2 on 2, etc) - neglecting to remember the invasion of Licia, she's pretty bad normally but on Intensity 6, she can go F herself. Not impossible DPS and HP wise, but that damn heal is just too big at that point while dodging all her one shot BS.
Was wanting some extra humanity to knock out Darklurker earlyish, so I buffed the bonfire at Majula a bunch of times to farm the basement skellies (1 humanity on 1, 2 on 2, etc) - neglecting to remember the invasion of Licia, she's pretty bad normally but on Intensity 6, she can go F herself. Not impossible DPS and HP wise, but that damn heal is just too big at that point while dodging all her one shot BS.
Looks like they are patching the durability bug.
http://kotaku.com/long-ignored-dark-...fix-1698512244
http://kotaku.com/long-ignored-dark-...fix-1698512244
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Quineloe
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I like how the article didn't last a single sentence before the author gave away he knows fuck all about the game.
Lenas
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When someone says "here's the gist" they are giving a brief overview. The author didn't need to go into detail that swinging at air doesn't cause degradation but instead hitting mobs, walls or corpses does. The same authorwrote about the durability bug in detailtwo days ago. In fact if you weren't trying to be a cheeky cunt you'd notice that he writes about Dark Souls a lot and even wrote their Bloodborne review.
Vaclav
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For the record, I wasn't meaning to imply it was fine - just that it could be managed.
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I suggested it might be an intended change because you'd have to be fucking blind to not see that it's a huge departure from vanilla DS2 durability mechanics. Apparently From is fucking blind.
The only way I can see this noticeable of a bug getting out of QA is that they either didnt QA this (unlikely) or they only used highly controlled emulators with fixed framerates (the classic, "but it works on my machine!").
As an anecdotal point, my buddy swore there was no change to durability in SotFS. Turns out he's playing on a laptop and getting less than 30 fps.
The only way I can see this noticeable of a bug getting out of QA is that they either didnt QA this (unlikely) or they only used highly controlled emulators with fixed framerates (the classic, "but it works on my machine!").
As an anecdotal point, my buddy swore there was no change to durability in SotFS. Turns out he's playing on a laptop and getting less than 30 fps.
Vorph
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He should still notice it since From inserted a second call to the function that applies durability damage. I'm not sure if that doubles all durability damage or just durability damage from hitting corpses, co-op players, mobs made friendly and immune to damage by a covenant, etc. I assume it's the latter, since the 30/60 fps thing is only with those physics-enabled objects.
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I remember now what made the DLCs so stupid hard - infinite poise on almost all mobs.
God this is silly, jump attack and strong attack with a 50 poise damage Lost Sinners Sword? no problem brah, here take my full combo.
But that shit was well worth it, got enough bones to upgrade my Lost Sinner Sword to +5, one-shotted smelter demon because he only lasted through a dozen hits with this sick sword.
God this is silly, jump attack and strong attack with a 50 poise damage Lost Sinners Sword? no problem brah, here take my full combo.
But that shit was well worth it, got enough bones to upgrade my Lost Sinner Sword to +5, one-shotted smelter demon because he only lasted through a dozen hits with this sick sword.
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Yeah, I'm actually taking a break from the game on account of the DLC difficulty. Story-wise, I'm just past the Looking Glass Knight, so I could easily come back more powerful. But to do that I have to do Shrine of Amana =p
Vaclav
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They just said "within the coming weeks". And yes...Fume Knight is probably the hardest boss I've fought in DS2. Altho once you beat him, you'll be like "really, that wasnt too bad!"