Dark Souls 3

Phazael · Apr 27, 2016

Yhorm is easy even solo, if you know about the weapon. He is slow enough to get good distance and use a variety of tactics on. I am having the same issue as Kruegan with the dragon, but I am practicing fast switching to and from 2h with the MLGS to get good damage on that guy. Honestly, the camera bullshit is the thing that makes that fight hard. If I could see the fucking monster and read the tells, I would have dropped him by now.

Noodleface · Apr 27, 2016

Most of my problems with bosses in this game are "I CANT SEE SHIT"

That Old Demon boss I was basically looking at his nutsack the whole time

Vorph · Apr 27, 2016

Phazael_sl said:
Yhorm is easy even solo, if you know about the weapon. He is slow enough to get good distance and use a variety of tactics on. I am having the same issue as Kruegan with the dragon, but I am practicing fast switching to and from 2h with the MLGS to get good damage on that guy. Honestly, the camera bullshit is the thing that makes that fight hard. If I could see the fucking monster and read the tells, I would have dropped him by now.

Yeah, definitely don't lock onto to anything during dragon stage. The hardest part was learning which 'flight' was flame breath and which was just him flying around like an asshole, but the simple solution is to just assume it's death from above every time. I think the roar the dragon makes while taking off is the key to knowing what he's about to do, but I beat him before I was sure about that. The crackle of lightning telegraphs the worst moves NK himself does while on the dragon too.

And I definitely did not know what I was doing with the weapon. I beat Yhorm before I realized you could charge it and let go of L2 to move around freely, so I'm sure that had a lot to do with my dozen or so failures.

Noodlemod_sl said:
That Old Demon boss I was basically looking at his nutsack the whole time

That was another weird area. I died more times to the miniboss on the way to Smoldering Lake than I did to the boss at the end of it. And the fucking worm literally just attacks the air in front of it if you come from the bonfire behind, to the point where it's practically impossible to take damage at all during the fight.

khalid · Apr 27, 2016

Used Dark Souls as an example in one of my classes last week about how difficulty can make things more memorable and interesting. This morning I had 6 students all talking about Dark Souls, with 3 of them being new players and ranting about how impossible and frustrating it was. Love it.

Noodleface · Apr 27, 2016

Vorph_sl said:
Yeah, definitely don't lock onto to anything during dragon stage. The hardest part was learning which 'flight' was flame breath and which was just him flying around like an asshole, but the simple solution is to just assume it's death from above every time. I think the roar the dragon makes while taking off is the key to knowing what he's about to do, but I beat him before I was sure about that. The crackle of lightning telegraphs the worst moves NK himself does while on the dragon too.

And I definitely did not know what I was doing with the weapon. I beat Yhorm before I realized you could charge it and let go of L2 to move around freely, so I'm sure that had a lot to do with my dozen or so failures.

That was another weird area. I died more times to the miniboss on the way to Smoldering Lake than I did to the boss at the end of it. And the fucking worm literally just attacks the air in front of it if you come from the bonfire behind, to the point where it's practically impossible to take damage at all during the fight.

The miniboss I weirdly one-shot, but the demon boss took me like 6 attempts or so. The worm I killed on the way out after fully exploring the smouldering lake caves.. which was very weird. It seems like theyj ust cut off the smouldering lake at the end. Like you get the FUGS, go across the bridge, fight a black knight and then a cave in and that's it. Felt like there was supposed to be more. Maybe DLC will be there.

For the worm I just kept attacking and everytime I heard the woosh of the ballista I just did a few dodges left and right.

khalid_sl said:
Used Dark Souls as an example in one of my classes last week about how difficulty can make things more memorable and interesting. This morning I had 6 students all talking about Dark Souls, with 3 of them being new players and ranting about how impossible and frustrating it was. Love it.

When I first played DS1 I couldn't believe how hard the normal hollow mobs were. I firmly believed the game unbeatable.

What a sweet summer child I was.

Vorph · Apr 27, 2016

Noodlemod_sl said:
The miniboss I weirdly one-shot, but the demon boss took me like 6 attempts or so. The worm I killed on the way out after fully exploring the smouldering lake caves.. which was very weird. It seems like theyj ust cut off the smouldering lake at the end. Like you get the FUGS, go across the bridge, fight a black knight and then a cave in and that's it. Felt like there was supposed to be more. Maybe DLC will be there.

For the worm I just kept attacking and everytime I heard the woosh of the ballista I just did a few dodges left and right.

You never shut off the ballista? That's the point of the area behind the black knight. What pissed me off was that I shut it off, then realized there was a ring hidden behind a wall that only the ballista could break, so I had to go all way back up there, turn it on, go back down to the lake and get it to break the wall, THEN RUN ALL THE WAY BACK AND SHUT IT OFF AGAIN. At least the final run up there was through a cleared zone, but it's still a goddamn hike.

When I first played DS1 I couldn't believe how hard the normal hollow mobs were. I firmly believed the game unbeatable.

Heh, download the Nioh demo if you want to relive that experience. It's basically Ninja Gaiden difficulty in a Souls-esque world. Downside is that the controls are completely different, and I spent most of my time fighting against that more than the enemies. Other than that it looks pretty promising.

Kriptini · Apr 27, 2016

The Corvian Greatknife is really cool. Picked it up on a new character and it puts in serious work. Can't wait to see what it does at higher levels!

Noodleface · Apr 27, 2016

Vorph_sl said:
You never shut off the ballista? That's the point of the area behind the black knight.

Heh, download the Nioh demo if you want to relive that experience. It's basically Ninja Gaiden difficulty in a Souls-esque world. Downside is that the controls are completely different, and I spent most of my time fighting against that more than the enemies.

Huh.. is there a switch or something? At the end of the bridge it was just a cave in and I didn't see anything. I might've overlooked it because I saw no way out. Also at that point the ballista no longer mattered.

Vorph · Apr 27, 2016

Noodlemod_sl said:
Huh.. is there a switch or something? At the end of the bridge it was just a cave in and I didn't see anything. I might've overlooked it because I saw no way out. Also at that point the ballista no longer mattered.

There's a pair of ladders that take you up to the ballista. Not much in the way of loot up there, except between the two ladders there's the best bow in the game.

Vorph · Apr 27, 2016

Kriptini_sl said:
The Corvian Greatknife is really cool. Picked it up on a new character and it puts in serious work. Can't wait to see what it does at higher levels!

Not much sadly, it doesn't look like there's a single infusion that scales better than D even at +10.

Noodleface · Apr 27, 2016

Vorph_sl said:
There's a pair of ladders that take you up to the ballista. Not much in the way of loot up there, except between the two ladders there's the best bow in the game.

Wow completely overlooked that. I'l just run back, thanks.

Phazael · Apr 27, 2016

I actually arrow cheesed the lightning worm (and most of the Demon mini bosses) and cleared the demon boss before I ever even touched the caves under Smoldering Lake. There is a lot of shit in this game that you can make easy with a bow. And Demon Souls basically toughened me up for everything that followed. The flying island area was, for my money, the hardest thing in any of the FROM games until the DLC blizzard area in DS2 came along. The only are in this game that compared to DeS in this game for me was the opening run after the frozen dog boss on the bridge, that others have bitched about here. That area was seriously fucked.

Kedwyn · Apr 27, 2016

Few people have told me the PvP is awesome in this game and I'm just not seeing it. I've been invaded by one competent player since release and the rest have been total scrubs. Invading hasn't been any better really as most of the people suck and the invader tends to have a rather large advantage most times.

I'm starting to think people just enjoy mopping up the PVE players because there hasn't been much of anything else that I've seen. I've heard about summoning rooms and such, that holds a bit more promise but the general PvP in this game is pretty bad.

Hatorade · Apr 27, 2016

Kedwyn_sl said:
Few people have told me the PvP is awesome in this game and I'm just not seeing it. I've been invaded by one competent player since release and the rest have been total scrubs. Invading hasn't been any better really as most of the people suck and the invader tends to have a rather large advantage most times.

I'm starting to think people just enjoy mopping up the PVE players because there hasn't been much of anything else that I've seen. I've heard about summoning rooms and such, that holds a bit more promise but the general PvP in this game is pretty bad.

What PVP/summon level are you?

Kreugen · Apr 27, 2016

Most hid behind NPCs and chugged their estus dry like faggots because greatshield + straight sword is > katanas and stupid hats.

I spent most "PVP" trying to ditch aggro mobs.

Hatorade · Apr 27, 2016

Kreugen_sl said:
Most hid behind NPCs and chugged their estus dry like faggots because greatshield + straight sword is > katanas and stupid hats.

I spent most "PVP" trying to ditch aggro mobs.

I like to use a seed with they do that

Lenas · Apr 27, 2016

More patch notes

? Item collection during multiplayer while accessing NPC and Covenant Alter is now working as intended.
? Conditions for optional events is eased.
? Conditions to get Rosaria?s Finger is eased.
? If they haven?t visited the Untended Grave, players will not be teleported there.
? Kicks cannot be parried.
? The Crystal Sage will appropriately re-appear even after he has warped.
? The Dragonslayer Armour won?t die before the battle.
? Knight Slayer Tsorig will no longer gesture unintendedly.
? Siegward of Catarina will now be able to properly rescue Greirat once conditions are met.
? If the player is equipped with a ring that increases Max HP, stats will now be properly reflected when opening the equipment screen.
? The voice chat icon will now be displayed properly under the covenant panel.
? Items, bonfire and the ?Quit Game? option are now appropriately active even when disconnecting online.
? If the game disconnects during a multiplayer session, it will no longer crash and return to the title screen.
? Other issues causing crashes and returning to the title screen have been fixed.
? Adjustments of the balance of game, improvements of performance and various flaws have been made.

? The range of the matching level of the Blade of the Darkmoon and the Blue Sentinels have been adjusted.
? The efficiency of the following categories has been adjusted: Short Sword, Twinsword and Magic.
? Other game balance improvement and bug fixes.

Hatorade · Apr 27, 2016

The efficiency of the following categories has been adjusted: Short Sword, Twinsword and Magic.

WTF does that mean, god damn they suck at patch notes!

Kreugen · Apr 27, 2016

I assume they mean straight sword nerfs, dual wielded straight sword nerfs, and spell buffs?

EDIT: Oh, dagger buff supposedly. Sunlight SS safe.

Quineloe · Apr 27, 2016

Kreugen_sl said:
So now I'm playing DS1 again.

I tried, but it recognized my Hotas Warthog and I can't figure out how to turn that shit off. And I'm not playing that thing on a HOTAS

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