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Title: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 15, 2012, 05:23:10 pm
About a week left untill this game is released, anyone here going to try it out? I already have it for ps3 but i am still going to get it for pc aswell just to see the changes and the DLC content. Definitely one of the best games i have ever played, and i recommend it to everyone who likes games that focuses a bit more on the atmosphere and gameplay rather than fancy storylines and long conversations. It is difficult aswell, sometimes in a cheap way but most of the time you can see whats coming up ahead by studying the environment ^^. It also has a wonderful combat system, smooth and can be a tad bit hard to master. Also the PvP is pretty good except for all the bullshit involved which i hope is fixed now in the pc version. (It was pretty laggy, and a lot of things were overpowered and never got patched T_T)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 15, 2012, 10:14:29 pm
I'm looking forward to it. I'm a Demon's Souls vet but I passed up on the sequel because I got into cRPG. I've been slowly growing away from cRPG and have been looking forward to the Steam release of the DkS: Prepare to Buy edition for a while now. I've heard the PvP isn't as good as it was in Demon's Souls but that detail isn't too off-putting for me. Definitely going to pick it up.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 16, 2012, 12:42:53 am
Heard it's a complete port which is to be expected since thats what they said it would be. However it's going to be capped at 30 fps, if you're on Windows Live on multiplayer and at any point drop below 15fps you automatically get kicked off. Also it's can't go any higher than 1024×720 internal framebuffer.

Even with all the draw backs it looks good, I never had a PS3 but I've played it at my friends house and I was addicted to it and have always told him "I wish they would release Dark Souls on PC" so I guess my wish came true so I can't complain.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on August 16, 2012, 02:53:32 pm
Been unemployed when PS3 version was released, so i clocked about 150 hours in 2 weeks :)
 
Additional contents is nice to have, but it is not tempting enough for me to buy a PC version... 
 
A word of advice for anyone who never played the console version:
 
Connect your PC to your TV! Immersion is EVERYTHING in this game! Turn off the light, turn off your phone, turn your skype/messenger off, buy food, weed, beer in advance!
 
Play with a gamepad if possible! I expect mouse/keyboard combo to be annoying... Zoomed bow shots will be the only mouse-friendly feature, otherwise controller will work better imo.
 
DON'T read any spoilers! Not until you are FAR in the game! There are many, many, many surprises in this game, and being unprepared for them is a big part of the game imo. If you play for 10-20 hours and you love the game - just keep playing, you will get your achievements later, on second, or 3rd play-through ( with the same char ), just dont read the damn forums or Wiki articles. 
 
My old post from when the game got release:
 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9IbPrk-yuts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9IbPrk-yuts)
 
Here is a mid game boss fight with a cutscene:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7qsKxEg0A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN7qsKxEg0A)
 
One of the best games i have ever played :)

 
And i still think it is ONE OF THE BEST GAMES I HAVE EVER PLAYED since 90's!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on August 16, 2012, 03:28:44 pm
This was a game I had enjoyed more than anything else in the past several years and I'm going to pirate it to see if my computer can actually handle it competently enough before I drop 40 dollars and find out it chugs unbearably.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 16, 2012, 04:08:10 pm
I really hope my pc can handle it aswell, lol. Hopefully i can plug in my ps3 controller and use it since keyboard and mouse will feel weird, should work though as i managed to play cRPG with my ps3 controller a year ago...

Here's some new vids on the new content..... DAMNIT IT I WANT THIS NOW!


Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 18, 2012, 08:15:50 pm
I want it.. But they've done nothing other than a straight port, probably wont work on 50% of people's hardware!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Teeth on August 19, 2012, 11:59:16 am
When?

Connect your PC to your TV! Immersion is EVERYTHING in this game! Turn off the light, turn off your phone, turn your skype/messenger off, buy food, weed, beer in advance!
How does playing on a TV help immersion?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 19, 2012, 03:37:50 pm
I was really really hyped up about this since I loved both Demon's Souls and Dark Souls on PS3. For me Dark Souls is the best game of the PS3. I couldn't wait to play the same game with PC controls. Because, you know, it's really a game that would fit with a keyboard/mouse combo. The locking system would not be needed anymore and we would have a 200% more awesome game.

But no, those assholes said it will be best to play with a gamepad. Now I just say FUCK YOU, what's the point of making a PC port if they won't even use the advantages of it ?

I mad. Big time.

When?
How does playing on a TV help immersion?

Bigger screen. And maybe the image looks bigger, depending on the distance between you and your TV.




Anyway, it will clearly be one of the best PC games of the year for people that don't have a PS3. Otherwise, a big letdown for me but maybe I'll buy it if the added content is good and doesn't show up as DLC for the PS3 version.


What really makes those games awesome :

- Traps are deadly and vicious, but if you are careful you can avoid all of them. All traps have visual and/or sonic elements that let you find them before it's too late. They are also frequent enough to remain dangerous, but not too frequent either, which means you need some effort to keep your guard up when exploring and they do not break the rythm too often.
- The best level design of all time (seriously). Locations are big, varied, always using three dimensions and maze-like, without being mazes either (you have visual/sonic clues to know where you are).
- Additionally in Dark Souls, there's only one enormous world, in one chunk, with no loading times whatsoever. The whole thing is very complicated and regions tend to have ways leading to other regions all over the place.
- Exploration is extremely unlinear. Most of the time you will lack clues as to where you should go next, meaning you will often meet impossible odds and be forced to flee.
- There is leveling and equipment building, which means you will grow stronger if you put more time in the game than strictly necessary. If a boss is too strong for you (although you only rarely need to put up a straight fight), you can spend some time leveling to make things easier.
- The game system in itself is very well tought and works flawlessly in practice.
- Awesome and very original music
- Good replay value since the game changes a lot once you finished your first walkthrough, and there are many mutually exclusive paths to follow (factions in Dark Souls for example).
- Very original online interactions. When you are in human form (small advantages but it consumes a very rare material (humanity) and you lose this status if you die), you can summon people to help you (usually for boss fights), but more interestingly, people can "invade" your world and try to kill you. Iirc you can win/lose humanity with those kinds of PvP fights. The possbility of another player popping out of nowhere to kill you while you play spices things up. A lot.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tyrell on August 19, 2012, 04:01:07 pm
I wanted this at first but after seeing the fact that it will be a direct port and the fact that the game was made to frustrate you, I think I'll pass.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 19, 2012, 04:04:10 pm
I wanted this at first but after seeing the fact that it will be a direct port and the fact that the game was made to frustrate you, I think I'll pass.

Demon's Souls was very frustrating in the first level because you couldn't level up, but it's really fine in Dark Souls. Sure, it's much more frustrating than 99% of the games out there, but in the end a lot of pleasure comes from frustration, especially when you overcome a difficulty.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 20, 2012, 01:25:57 pm
It's a direct port yes, but first they weren't planning to make it for pc at all, atleast pc people get a glimpse of the souls series. Allthough it couldve been made a little better, but all i hope for is a tad bit better online system.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 20, 2012, 02:37:36 pm
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Thanks mr. generous Pig!  :o :shock: :D

Your meadows and fields will forever be safe!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 21, 2012, 11:48:52 pm
Gravoth.. You can invade me as much as you want, it will end in your doom always!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 23, 2012, 11:19:33 pm
Only time will tell!  :twisted:

TOMORROW! Not even sure if im going to be a dark wraith though, hmm..  :?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on August 24, 2012, 01:05:39 am
Welp, downloading it now to see if my computer will run it. This could end badly with another 40 dollars in the hole.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 24, 2012, 01:16:00 am
I'll be .... torrenting the game to make sure I can run it and everything is stable before I purchase it.

I lied, my friend convinced me to buy it so we could play together.

In other news there already a Dark Souls internal res fix - 1920x1080 no blur being released.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=41336203#post41336203

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 24, 2012, 02:13:14 am

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=41336203#post41336203

Wow  :shock:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 24, 2012, 03:38:11 pm
Awesome, thanks for the link! <3
Love this game, glad i got my ps3 controller to work on my pc. Allthough it feels laggier than the ps3 version, maybe it is because it is ported from xbox, but i dont really care that much ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on August 24, 2012, 05:21:08 pm
I had some framerate error which didn't allow me online which kind of pissed me off. I tried dropping the resolution from 32 bit to 16bit to even 800x600 (which actually made it seem worse) but other than that the only option I get is to turn motion-blur and AA off?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 24, 2012, 06:39:38 pm
Awesome, thanks for the link! <3
Love this game, glad i got my ps3 controller to work on my pc. Allthough it feels laggier than the ps3 version, maybe it is because it is ported from xbox, but i dont really care that much ^^

How do you feel about it?

I fucking love this game and I'm surprised how well it turned out. I've had ZERO problems. The fps is capped at 30 but it's not even noticeable unless you dip which only happens for me if I sit at a bonfire temporary. As for the internal resolution it was solved with that above link with the only problem not being able to see signs.

Now the Keyboard and Mouse is shit the dev's clearly stated that it's recommended to use a controller. I use a PS3 controller as well and it works flawlessly.

I'm really happy I bought the game I'm enjoying it a great deal. Level 26 Wanderer at the moment.

P.S - Fuck Capra Demon

Edit - More updates to the Internet Resolution fixing the message sign bug and adding an option to make the mouse disappear!!

http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 24, 2012, 07:15:05 pm
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Ooh i love it, about to enter the new areas AAH CANT WAIT! The game feels kinda framey but its ok, most areas are pretty smooth.

Beat capra first try ;) have yet to die against a boss on this char.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on August 24, 2012, 08:04:06 pm
I played an hour and a half lastnight, got a black knight sword right off the bat and beat the Taurus demon on my deprived. After that I realized I had not seen a single ghost or orange sign and realized I wasn't connected online. I hope someone mods in lower texture qualities or something so I can make the fps par.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Ujin on August 24, 2012, 09:33:52 pm
i think i'll buy this soon. Is tehre a way to attach my regular ps3 controller to pc ? :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 24, 2012, 09:34:15 pm
Love the new content so far, allthough im seriously stuck on artorias the awesome bastard  :evil: Probably need a better knife, Estoc just doesnt pump out the damage i need, pfft.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 24, 2012, 10:36:01 pm
i think i'll buy this soon. Is tehre a way to attach my regular ps3 controller to pc ? :D

Yes there is, http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_244831&feature=iv&src_vid=-mGA3gcNia0&v=4T-g3uoBHIg pretty simple guide, im playing with my ps3 controller and everything works exactly like on the actual ps3 :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 24, 2012, 10:52:32 pm
Loving it, works great with my PS3 controller!

I look like a twat ingame

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 24, 2012, 11:58:01 pm
You should see me, i got the Gold hemmed set with a mask of the mother, looks real gay, and Mask of the mother is so hated amongst the community because its op.. luckily i dont pvp.. yet..

We should do some pvp sometime, theres a new arena thingy where you can do 1v1's and 2v2's.. im no good but i still enjoy pvp, except for those GOD DAMN BACKSTAB FISHERS HEAJOEEJEAGJAEOJGM&#¤&#¤&
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 25, 2012, 12:32:11 am
I just got that Mask of the Mother but I completely forgot about it.....never even looked at it.

Capra Demon is a bitch (Spoiler)
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 25, 2012, 12:36:43 am
Just took capra demon on first try, I had the LAST line of hp left, and no flasks. You are right, dogs were a bitch, took them out on stairs then danced with the demon. Also rang first bell earlier, kinda confussled where I am supposed to go now  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 25, 2012, 12:39:36 am
Just took capra demon on first try, I had the LAST line of hp left, and no flasks. You are right, dogs were a bitch, took them out on stairs then danced with the demon. Also rang first bell earlier, kinda confussled where I am supposed to go now  :rolleyes:

If you want to know, I also had trouble.

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Heres my character

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 25, 2012, 12:56:33 am

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I totally passed that, thx for the tip!  :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 25, 2012, 02:11:59 am
I should never have listened to you Sequel..

The things that happened to me deep down there is worthy of a movie. The kind of movie where the hero dies in horrible ways  :shock:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 25, 2012, 03:33:32 am
Dear god, i just got to a new part of the new content. I am seriously amazed that they managed to just keep popping out epic areas, daaamn. This dlc is kickass, incredible, amazing and so on. I am in doubt that i will be able to stop playing, sleep will have to wait.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 25, 2012, 03:44:23 am
I'm stuck at a boss....

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 25, 2012, 03:52:52 am
I'm stuck at a boss....

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Get the rusty ring (dont know if its called that) at the asylum, and get a partner to figth you on Quelaag, Im down there myself atm farming, contact me on Windows and I can help you out (in case of lvl cap, im lvl 42)

Zloth Demonsage is my Windows Live.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 25, 2012, 03:54:40 am
And Sequel, only +0 eustus flask down in Quelaag?  :lol:

My flasks are +2 :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 25, 2012, 03:57:58 am
Do you got steam? I'm level 41 I think. My steam is 1acadia1 if you wanna add me.

Also, yah I didn't know where to upgrade my flasks until I was far into this dungeon....and I don't think I can do back. Also whenever I try summoning someone it says "summoning failed".

EDIT - FUCK YOU BOSS GET SHIT ON UGH. I beat her.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 25, 2012, 04:28:28 am
I can tell that from my experience, the first 10 seconds of the Capra Demon fight are one of the hardest of the whole game. The two dogs really are bitches.

Quelaag is hard too. On my walkthrough I killed the boss in the Catacombs, the hydra and Sif before even meeting her for the first time, yet I had some troubles.

It's also quite remarkable the game is so unlinear there are like 3 points where the story converges, but all the things you have to do between these moments are completely free to do in any order.


Since I know the game now, at least getting to Gwenevere shouldn't be that hard.


Havel armor / +5 Tomb lord sword combo ftw. With the right rings and build I could use those without penalty at level 70. Those little light pvp roll-happy my old friends will suffer again.

PS : thumbs up for 600 renown / 200 infamy
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 25, 2012, 04:38:30 am
I'm lost now....can someone add me to steam so I can ask them questions lol.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on August 25, 2012, 05:29:39 am
Most of the bosses were pretty straight forward when I realized I shouldn't lock on to them. "S" key hero was the best for this game for me, bait them into starting their attack animation and then just high-tail it out of there and you can get an idea of how each of their attacks work and what sort of cooldown they have.

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Edit: I was decent at the game but by the end on the console I was just running around in baldur armor, thief mask, black tights and silver knight gauntlets with a black knight greatsword.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 25, 2012, 12:23:45 pm
I think the Quelaag is pretty easy now, allthough i had a really hard time killing her during my first playthroughs. Facehug left of the spiders head, pretty much none of her swings will hit you there. Also pump stat points into vitality, hp is important!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 25, 2012, 01:44:16 pm
My steam is Kuoin (I got two accounts, the one with a squirrel pic is my current), just add me and I can help you with bosses :P

And Windows Live is Zloth Demonsage  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 25, 2012, 01:57:21 pm
my char: 
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Im Blue!
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Anyone Found the PvP arena ? i used to much time farming and helping the new players :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Ujin on August 25, 2012, 02:27:34 pm
Yes there is, http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_244831&feature=iv&src_vid=-mGA3gcNia0&v=4T-g3uoBHIg pretty simple guide, im playing with my ps3 controller and everything works exactly like on the actual ps3 :D
awesome thanks :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 25, 2012, 05:14:53 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Life on August 25, 2012, 05:39:27 pm
just bought it and its downloading right now. :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 25, 2012, 05:54:56 pm
I got it; going to get a cable so I can hook up my PS3 controller because mouse and keyboard is just that bad.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 25, 2012, 06:00:40 pm
I pitty those who play with Mouse & Keyboard :/

If you beat the game with mouse and keyboard, you are my hero.

Also get DS3 / motionjoy and you can use ps3 controller.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 25, 2012, 07:01:45 pm
Hmm, I think I found a somewhat workable control scheme that doesn't require a controller. I might not have to go through the trouble of hooking one up. Going to see how this works out.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 25, 2012, 07:13:59 pm
You're crazy. Keyboard and Mouse blew.

I use Motionjoy with my PS3 controller.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Life on August 25, 2012, 07:51:26 pm
why is ps3 controller so much better..?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 25, 2012, 08:01:45 pm
why is ps3 controller so much better..?

the game was made for ps3/xbox so it works best with a controller
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 25, 2012, 08:27:25 pm
You're crazy. Keyboard and Mouse blew.

I use Motionjoy with my PS3 controller.

I'm not using the mouse. I've re-allocated the right attack and camera control buttons that the mouse was in control of and it works out pretty well.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 25, 2012, 08:31:34 pm
Alas, I don't think I'll be buying it right now... I already need a long overdue SSD for this pc and I might run into financial problems.

Anyway, It seems I only lose the DLC experience, is it that good ? They'll probably release it for consoles later, and/or the pc game will decrease in price.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on August 25, 2012, 08:58:24 pm
How to take screenshots in this game? Printscreen then paste into Paint doesn't work.

When I first started the game, everything was blurry and felt like 5-6 fps.

Then I put DSfix 0.4 and game suddenly changed into decent looking PC game. But fps problems remained.

A bit later I found out that those aren't fps issues. Moving camera with mouse has that choppy effect.

Next thing I did was to download x360ce (I don't have console joypad) and setup it to work with Dark Souls.

Now everything works fine, graphics are good and game runs okay.

Do not try to play this with M&K combo, it simply isn't made for it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 25, 2012, 09:25:16 pm
Alas, I don't think I'll be buying it right now... I already need a long overdue SSD for this pc and I might run into financial problems.

Anyway, It seems I only lose the DLC experience, is it that good ? They'll probably release it for consoles later, and/or the pc game will decrease in price.

it will come to consoles later this year around november
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 25, 2012, 09:30:43 pm
it will come to consoles later this year around november

They said "winter" so it could be as far as december or early 2013.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 25, 2012, 09:33:35 pm
i have 3 Character from lvl 25-50 so if anyone needs help with anything or want to PvP add Knight Magyar ( i am kinda bored now :P)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 25, 2012, 11:08:04 pm
This einstein parody is not half bad actually, lots of accurate references and they even managed to sync when he says stalin. (sorry to whoever understands german that will come across this, I know it's lame for you)

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Teeth on August 25, 2012, 11:11:30 pm
So, M&K is a no go? Don't have a gamepad.  :cry:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Life on August 25, 2012, 11:16:38 pm
Just bought the game today, got on it, made my character. picked up the key at the beginning and exited off. Went out to buy a new ps3 controller (other old 2 are broken) and while i was at it, bought the cord i needed to hook up TV as my monitor. gonna have a very fun night tonight(:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 25, 2012, 11:21:56 pm
M&K feels reaaaally awkward, id say a no go. But the game is so awesome, so maybe it is worth it.

Im on my NG+ now, just beat artorias again ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 25, 2012, 11:41:20 pm
M&K feels reaaaally awkward, id say a no go. But the game is so awesome, so maybe it is worth it.

Im on my NG+ now, just beat artorias again ^^

Artorias is the end boss now ? or is it still Gwyn?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on August 25, 2012, 11:48:59 pm
So, M&K is a no go? Don't have a gamepad.  :cry:


Buy the cheapest one you can get (needs to have analog sticks). Download x360ce and enjoy the game.

Or buy some Logitech/Saitek joypad for 30 euros.

But don't try to play with mouse.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 25, 2012, 11:53:53 pm


Buy the cheapest one you can get (needs to have analog sticks). Download x360ce and enjoy the game.

Or buy some Logitech/Saitek joypad for 30 euros.

But don't try to play with mouse.

Tipse Vennligst ...

Motionjoy / DS3, if you got ps3 or xbow controller, no need to download any program just for xbox, DS3 enables both ps3, ps2, and xbow360. Remember to put the option to xbox360 for DS though.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 25, 2012, 11:56:36 pm
Artorias is the end boss now ? or is it still Gwyn?

Still Gwyn, but artorias is a looot harder to beat. All the new bosses are optional.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on August 26, 2012, 12:24:47 am
Tipse Vennligst ...

Motionjoy / DS3, if you got ps3 or xbow controller, no need to download any program just for xbox, DS3 enables both ps3, ps2, and xbow360. Remember to put the option to xbox360 for DS though.

If he has a console gamepad, yeah.

x360ce turns ANY gamepad into X360 gamepad.

If he's going to buy console gamepad, I would recommend X360 gamepad. DS3 isn't better than those chinese gamepads sold for 5 euro.

Playstation 3 is shitty console. A friend of mine had to replace laser on it three times in two years. He gave up and bought a new PC. Xbox 360 used to have issues like that in the past but currently it's way better choice for many reason.

Hopefully these guys (FROM software) will more than one million copies. That way they'll realise their mistake giving us shitty port and maybe even start developing games mainly for PC.

From what I've heard they haven't sold many copies on consoles (less than one mil copies for each game in the series).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Life on August 26, 2012, 05:09:30 am
i need some help setting up my controller to the PC. if you think you can help, message me.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 26, 2012, 05:14:05 am
i need some help setting up my controller to the PC. if you think you can help, message me.

Download motionjoy, download the drivers on motionjoy, select xbox controller and it will emulate that, hit enable and you're done. You don't have to change any of the buttons.

- Go to Drivers Manager, select all drivers, Install all, install and I think restart?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Life on August 26, 2012, 05:25:04 am
Download motionjoy, download the drivers on motionjoy, select xbox controller and it will emulate that, hit enable and you're done. You don't have to change any of the buttons.

- Go to Drivers Manager, select all drivers, Install all, install and I think restart?
yeah i followed all the instructions in the video and everything and the guide on the site aswell. but when i hit enable, nothing happens.

EDIT: got it workin
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 26, 2012, 07:04:36 am
yeah i followed all the instructions in the video and everything and the guide on the site aswell. but when i hit enable, nothing happens.

EDIT: got it workin

Good, glad yah got it working, if you got questions you can just ask. I've posted my steam up above, I'm not the best at Dark Souls but I've learnt a lot. My Soul Level is 58 at the moment.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 26, 2012, 11:52:45 am
Anyone found the new PvP arena yet? Can't wait to try it  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 26, 2012, 12:26:19 pm
Anyone found the new PvP arena yet? Can't wait to try it  :mrgreen:

Yes, when you defeat artorias you get to it ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 26, 2012, 01:05:12 pm
Yes, when you defeat artorias you get to it ^^

And where is Artorias? :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 26, 2012, 01:24:15 pm
One thing I'd like to know is whether people on different platforms can play invade/coop each other.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 26, 2012, 03:25:48 pm
And where is Artorias? :P

In the new area, you know who Dusk of Oolacile is? In Darkroot basin you can free her after defeating the hydra, she is trapped inside a golden golem if you follow the left wall. Free her then get to the Dukes archives, where a new crystal golem is spawned right after the first elevator. Kill him, and you get a pendant which allows you to get to the new areas. Simply go back to where you freed Dusk and there will be a mysterious cloudy thingy, which is a teleport ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 26, 2012, 04:05:13 pm
Here's my current character looks. I like it, but i think i may change the helmet soon, hmm..

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 26, 2012, 04:27:07 pm
Whats your name in-game? Cuz I invaded a guy looking like that :/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on August 26, 2012, 04:41:54 pm
That feeling when you lose shit ton of souls just because you fell from some random cliff on the way to place where you died...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 26, 2012, 05:27:27 pm
Lost 58k souls and 5 humanity when I fougth the Stone Golem, he threw me off the cliff and the recovery pickup was on the bottom of the ground, where you can't go down  :cry:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 26, 2012, 06:21:35 pm
That feeling when you lose shit ton of souls just because you fell from some random cliff on the way to place where you died...

ye and i lost 99 humaity and 8 mil souls...........the only thing i did was invade a player and he won so when i went back to pick up my souls it restored only to be 0 humaity and 0 souls...........................ye RQ
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 26, 2012, 06:26:52 pm
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PvP Anyone ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 26, 2012, 06:53:23 pm
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PvP Anyone ?

Eek, fat onion knight armor
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 26, 2012, 08:11:22 pm
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PvP Anyone ?

The sun approves

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 26, 2012, 08:11:57 pm
Also +15 zweihander and +5 full black iron armor  8-)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 26, 2012, 08:59:34 pm
+5 gayvrelord sword + full havel, fuck yeah.

Should change wep though
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 26, 2012, 09:10:36 pm
on Ps3 i have + 15 lighting greataxe works realy great for PvP :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 26, 2012, 09:14:28 pm
In the new area, you know who Dusk of Oolacile is? In Darkroot basin you can free her after defeating the hydra, she is trapped inside a golden golem if you follow the left wall. Free her then get to the Dukes archives, where a new crystal golem is spawned right after the first elevator. Kill him, and you get a pendant which allows you to get to the new areas. Simply go back to where you freed Dusk and there will be a mysterious cloudy thingy, which is a teleport ^^

i have killed the "random" placed Golem ( it didnt drop anything?) and there is no cloudy thing there now where its supose to be :/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 26, 2012, 09:28:09 pm
i have killed the "random" placed Golem ( it didnt drop anything?) and there is no cloudy thing there now where its supose to be :/

Duke archives, first after the first bonfire you go up a elevator, there is a crystal golem in the right corner looking towards the wall. He should drop a broken pendant or something, if he didnt you may have to free dusk or something before.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 26, 2012, 09:36:35 pm
Duke archives, first after the first bonfire you go up a elevator, there is a crystal golem in the right corner looking towards the wall. He should drop a broken pendant or something, if he didnt you may have to free dusk or something before.

did it all still nothing :/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 26, 2012, 09:46:04 pm
did it all still nothing :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nzWBhvdbR4&feature=g-user-u Well here's a video that shows how to do it...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 26, 2012, 10:11:01 pm
ah got it now...........did it the wrong "line" good that he respawned :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 26, 2012, 11:50:04 pm
Yesterday I got invaded by a guy, think he was a hacker, I stabbed him in the back, he ran away like a coward, healded himself with humanity and so on. Every time I stabbed him in the back and he fell down (knocked down) He was able to get to his feet in 1 sec. He didnt even do the animation where you get up on your feet. He was a fucking "pussy" always ran away to heal himself and so on, when he was almost dead.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 27, 2012, 01:13:29 am
Why did you not follow him when he ran?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 27, 2012, 01:51:38 pm
Why did you not follow him when he ran?

Well, I was wearing full Havels armor, and he was wearing cloth. And everytime he ran away he ran to the NPC's in darkmoon forest, so it would be dangerous for me to follow. Fucking cunt he  was.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 27, 2012, 01:52:33 pm
Also I made it to the PvP arena today, sadly I met the same opponent 3 times in a row, and that guy was only using magic which almost 1 hit me every fucking time, why is magic so OP?  :cry:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 27, 2012, 02:56:39 pm
Magic is pretty easy to avoid, imo. Also Darkwraiths are suppose to be assholes, seems like your invader did a good job xD And when getting backstabbed you can either get up real fast or you can wait, if you start moving instantly people can chain-backstab you, but if you wait a while you can get away. Argh i hate chain-backstabs..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 27, 2012, 03:03:39 pm
Also I made it to the PvP arena today, sadly I met the same opponent 3 times in a row, and that guy was only using magic which almost 1 hit me every fucking time, why is magic so OP?  :cry:

HAH nooooooooob Magic is so easy to dodge : P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 27, 2012, 05:29:52 pm
HAH nooooooooob Magic is so easy to dodge : P

Not when you got a small space and ten pillars blocking your way, and the magic was lava spell, so the magic could do dmg to me if i walked into it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 27, 2012, 05:30:53 pm
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Get ready to be scared.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 27, 2012, 11:07:31 pm
Finally hit lvl 123, might go up to 125 for another attunement but i have now started to PvP. The new arenas seem very promising, only tried Duels so far though :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 28, 2012, 12:24:17 am
3 hours of invading new players in the "curch" :D i was lvl 10 still i did ton of dmg and they did little on me  +7 katana Great combustion and great fireball :3 sadly i didnt have "Online Leaderboard on" :/ there goes 21 sins
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 28, 2012, 08:20:11 am
3 hours of invading new players in the "curch" :D i was lvl 10 still i did ton of dmg and they did little on me  +7 katana Great combustion and great fireball :3 sadly i didnt have "Online Leaderboard on" :/ there goes 21 sins

Turn off your hacks plz.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 28, 2012, 11:14:20 am
Finally ready for PvP

Some images of my equips :D

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(Damn camera flash made me close my eyes on the last pic!)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 28, 2012, 12:31:52 pm
Finally ready for PvP

Some images of my equips :D

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and Stats ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 28, 2012, 12:36:09 pm
http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/  if some of you didnt know this site already
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 28, 2012, 01:44:18 pm
Healing can't be used in PvP arena duel, suck on that fatheists!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 28, 2012, 02:26:24 pm
Healing can't be used in PvP arena duel, suck on that fatheists!  :mrgreen:

Healing spells can be used, nåb! Kill your opponent and there is enough time to get a heal off! :D

Stats 'n stuff.
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 28, 2012, 07:13:07 pm
Had to restart my game, since games for windows live magically deleted my savegames when I changed my gamertag.  :(

However, I got friends!

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 28, 2012, 07:50:33 pm
Had to restart my game, since games for windows live magically deleted my savegames when I changed my gamertag.  :(

However, I got friends!

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Had the same problem dude, go to C:\Users\BoB\Documents\NBGI\DarkSouls and select the .sl2 in the profile that you were using and copy pasta to new file that was created when you made new profile.

You're welcome.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 28, 2012, 08:12:21 pm
Goddamnit im sitting and waiting in the battle of stoicism and there is no one to fight. Guess people havent gotten to SL 120 yet :/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 28, 2012, 08:32:10 pm
I was lvl 80, had to sit around for ages to meet an opponent, seems like good ol' red eye orb is easiest way to duel, and you don't get any souls from winning duels in stoicism
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 28, 2012, 11:58:53 pm
ye right now its not much point to fight in the arena. lots of ppl are still invading. also around the "PvP" arena
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 29, 2012, 12:20:21 am
Just had to enter ng++ to join the Darkwraith's, might get some action now :D Goddamn im addicted to this game again -_- everytime i quit i immidiately get a new idea once the game is closed and i have to start it up again and i get stuck for hours again.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: okiN on August 29, 2012, 12:24:57 am
Had to restart my game, since games for windows live magically deleted my savegames when I changed my gamertag.  :(

That happened to me with Arkham City when I changed my account from offline to online. I was able to salvage the save files, though, with the help of some guy on the game's forums. Looks like there's some fix for Dark Souls as well.

Fucking GFWL, man. It's the only reason I haven't bought this game yet.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 29, 2012, 01:08:42 am
I also had a problem with GFWS earlier today, I tabbed out of the game, tabbed in again, got the message "fps insufficent to online play (something)" then I had to restart the game, live wouldn't sign me in and you have to be signed into live for any progress to be saved :/

Also the Dark Souls trainer is realy ruining the PvP experience, if you check the leaderboards in invasions, the guy with the best score looks like this:

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 29, 2012, 03:07:50 am
Somebody called for Death?

(just need a scythe now)

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Edit:

Explored some more.. found more armor. Mixed together physical defence and magic as best as I could:

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If you guys think I'm a big noob wearing any of this, I dont use guides, and never played DS before, so it's all new for this noob  :wink:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 29, 2012, 06:26:02 am
What armor is that Tor?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 29, 2012, 09:38:57 am
Just had to enter ng++ to join the Darkwraith's, might get some action now :D Goddamn im addicted to this game again -_- everytime i quit i immidiately get a new idea once the game is closed and i have to start it up again and i get stuck for hours again.

ye same....everytime i start to play DKS i end up playing it non-stop for the next 3 weeks or so (just like c-rpg) i got about 340 hours on PS3. 44 on PC now
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 29, 2012, 11:18:30 am
And one of your ideas was to get red eye orb in lvl 10  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 29, 2012, 02:42:35 pm
What armor is that Tor?

Black armor is Gold Hemmed black armor set, while heavy armor is the elite knight armor set. Weapon is divine winged spear and shield I can't remember, will check later  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 29, 2012, 03:06:28 pm
Grass crest shield FTW!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 29, 2012, 03:10:32 pm
Grass crest shield FTW!

No 100 block  :cry:

Edit: I AM TOR

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 29, 2012, 09:36:51 pm
No 100 block  :cry:

Edit: I AM TOR

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Epic, but you lack one thing, a HAMMER! Go slay a blacksmith for their weapon ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 30, 2012, 12:15:11 am
Uff. PvP is invaded by hackers, like 3 out of the last 10 I've faced had infinite HP & stamina. Y u no protect against hacks, GFWL :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 30, 2012, 12:27:08 am
Uff. PvP is invaded by hackers, like 3 out of the last 10 I've faced had infinite HP & stamina. Y u no protect against hacks, GFWL :(

I expected this :/ Hopefully it will be fixed, ban those assholes, ban their cd-key or w/e.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 30, 2012, 01:41:23 am
Yeh the hack is ruining the PvP, made a new char, got to lvl 17 and started invading at the church (not killing the boss) and two of my opponents had "late game" eq. one guy had full giant armor, and another one was a fucking mage with spells that you dont get after atleast killing the "second" boss. But I guess they used the BB glitch which is also a problem on PS3  :|
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 30, 2012, 04:33:13 am
On the bright side the BB glitch makes making dedicated PvP builds a lot less of a hassle.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on August 30, 2012, 04:35:31 am
I was invaded, so quite certain it was the trainer they had used, not the glitch  :?

One of them I checked out had sl40 with stats equivalent to a sl100+, he was on the leaderbords  :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 30, 2012, 09:28:31 am
I was invaded, so quite certain it was the trainer they had used, not the glitch  :?

One of them I checked out had sl40 with stats equivalent to a sl100+, he was on the leaderbords  :(

The guy on 3rd place is lvl 1 and got 99 of every skill  :|
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 30, 2012, 10:40:47 am
BB glich is almost as bad as the trainer, in a way........like i got to 4 kings with SL 35 and +15 lightning Escote

but makes fun PvP low lvl invasions :3
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 30, 2012, 12:52:19 pm
Will I ever complete this game? :/ Now i feel like making a new char.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 30, 2012, 01:22:14 pm
BB glitch is fixed btw, but they can still finish the first ng and get good eq's without levling and then invade on ng+. It is cheap to invade with good stuff on low level, but it isnt hacking atleast, just being an asshat.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 30, 2012, 05:15:40 pm
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 we all fell for it the first time :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 30, 2012, 05:34:49 pm
Got cursed by the frogs in the Great Hollow, went all the way through with the curse, joined the Dragon Covenant, went all the way back through the Great Hollow, killed Quelaag with 14 Vit while cursed and rang the bell. On my way back to New Londo to tackle with the ghosts. Did I mention I'm playing with the keyboard?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 30, 2012, 06:35:48 pm
Got cursed by the frogs in the Great Hollow, went all the way through with the curse, joined the Dragon Covenant, went all the way back through the Great Hollow, killed Quelaag with 14 Vit while cursed and rang the bell. On my way back to New Londo to tackle with the ghosts. Did I mention I'm playing with the keyboard?

 :shock:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on August 30, 2012, 06:43:01 pm
Got cursed by the frogs in the Great Hollow, went all the way through with the curse, joined the Dragon Covenant, went all the way back through the Great Hollow, killed Quelaag with 14 Vit while cursed and rang the bell. On my way back to New Londo to tackle with the ghosts. Did I mention I'm playing with the keyboard?

Do you use DSfix 0.6? I heard it can help with mouse jerkiness.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on August 30, 2012, 06:53:05 pm
I'm having a lot of troubles with New Lando..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 30, 2012, 07:38:57 pm
Ah yes, I hate those ghosts, luckily I've been there a couple of times, so now I know how to rush through it  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on August 30, 2012, 07:41:55 pm
Do you use DSfix 0.6? I heard it can help with mouse jerkiness.

I don't see why I would, because I don't use the mouse.  8-)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 30, 2012, 07:42:26 pm
New londo takes me about 15 min to do :) + getting the Ember
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 30, 2012, 08:16:38 pm
I wish they made the PvP Arena better, like having a lobby in GFWL so you could team up or against your friends, so hard for me and my brother to get into a duel because its just random if we get to figth  :mad:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 30, 2012, 10:39:44 pm
So i have had around 10 duels just outside the arena, no hackers so so far im happy, but the new spells are nasty.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 30, 2012, 11:33:44 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 30, 2012, 11:56:02 pm
Well it seems like From has fixed most of the issues in PvP, such as the masks have been nerfed, Greatswords have less speed on the second swing so no more stunlocking (atleast not as easily) ninjaflippy ring has been nerfed to only work below 25% weight (love it, finally i can use it and feel fancy because noone else likes it anymore ^^) and hornet ring has been nerfed. Im not sure but i think backstabbing has a tad bit smaller eh hitbox or w/e its called, but like i said not sure.

Good job From, they really seem to be aiming to please their community! :D

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 31, 2012, 12:44:43 am
Oh noes, I am beeing taken!

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 31, 2012, 09:38:09 am
Well it seems like From has fixed most of the issues in PvP, such as the masks have been nerfed, Greatswords have less speed on the second swing so no more stunlocking (atleast not as easily) ninjaflippy ring has been nerfed to only work below 25% weight (love it, finally i can use it and feel fancy because noone else likes it anymore ^^) and hornet ring has been nerfed. Im not sure but i think backstabbing has a tad bit smaller eh hitbox or w/e its called, but like i said not sure.

Good job From, they really seem to be aiming to please their community! :D

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ye he is :) also  moonlight greatsword and claymore have also been nerfed
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 31, 2012, 09:40:38 am
Having fun in school Nuuk? :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on August 31, 2012, 11:35:31 am
Having fun in school Nuuk? :P

ja sitter på pcen i friminuttet
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 31, 2012, 11:35:18 pm
Have had some good duels now, really enjoy this new wooonderful weapon i found!

Here are some screenies of me PvPing (the loss one was because for whatever reason the other guy decided to heal... couple of guys did this and i really dont know why, they seemed like they were good duellers and its not like i was backstabbing or anything either)

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 01, 2012, 01:02:22 am
I hate when hackers turn on their inf. health right before I kill them, also Artorias greatsword is acually pritty good, but the heavy attack on 2h, is realy powerfull, but unaccurate and slow
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on September 01, 2012, 01:39:36 am
Have had some good duels now, really enjoy this new wooonderful weapon i found!

Here are some screenies of me PvPing (the loss one was because for whatever reason the other guy decided to heal... couple of guys did this and i really dont know why, they seemed like they were good duellers and its not like i was backstabbing or anything either)

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I saw WotG and I cried a bit. Hate that miracle  :(
Whats your stats?

This is how Logen decides to greet me:

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Pretty happy with how my character looks now, found an awesome spear in Anor Londo:

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Edit: Any of you able to have AA on? Mine just makes my game 1/4th of the size, instead of all the screen  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 01, 2012, 02:00:04 am
GreatAxe Best PvP wep ))))) visitors can't see pics , please register or login
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 01, 2012, 02:30:01 am

Stats 'n stuff.
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Tor check the 2nd page, there is a link to a fix that makes graphics better with high resolution and stuff, it kinda replaces AA. Also i have wotg because it is one of the only usefull miracles in PvP, i dont minmax my spell damage either and i barely even use them.. I'm no Wotg spammer but i use them when people dont expect them, quick cast and decent damage makes for a good surprice knockdown.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 01, 2012, 03:19:32 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFXK_7Sz2M This.. this is simply epic. Especially at around 3:38, the teammate keeps hitting him even though he is dead, which procs the miracle. I can only imagine their faces, ROFL!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on September 01, 2012, 03:40:38 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VFXK_7Sz2M This.. this is simply epic. Especially at around 3:38, the teammate keeps hitting him even though he is dead, which procs the miracle. I can only imagine their faces, ROFL!

Just wow. Awesome.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on September 02, 2012, 02:07:11 am
Just found that Ash Lake place.. Wow, how did these guys keep shitting out awesome areas?  :shock:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 02, 2012, 02:26:04 am
Just found that Ash Lake place.. Wow, how did these guys keep shitting out awesome areas?  :shock:

offer 30 Dragon Scale and become Dragonborn :D visitors can't see pics , please register or login
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on September 02, 2012, 03:22:25 am
Hit a guy over and over, but he lost no hp. That feeling of backstabbing then kicking a hacker off a ledge.. Irreplaceable  :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: To Kill A Dead Horse on September 02, 2012, 05:04:53 am
GreatAxe Best PvP wep ))))) visitors can't see pics , please register or login


My hat goes off to those who can successfully duel with the greataxe or the demon's greataxe, though I have to say; people tend to die if I hit them with my +15 demon's greataxe.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 02, 2012, 08:07:02 am
Bitches ain't got nothing on my Balder Side Sword + Leo Ring build. The damage is pretty epic if pulled off right.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 02, 2012, 11:20:55 am
You mean Balder Swag Sword, right? right?! :D fought someone with it and he kept healing and buffing it which made it do fucking tons of damage so i had to attack him before he could buff -_-

Also Tor, Ash lake is one of the coolest looking places in the game ^^ Duke's archives is also awesome, and in the new content Chasm of the abyss, oh my..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 02, 2012, 11:41:20 am
You mean Balder Swag Sword, right? right?! :D fought someone with it and he kept healing and buffing it which made it do fucking tons of damage so i had to attack him before he could buff -_-

Baller Swag Sword, all the way. But, yeah. DMB is bad enough, but when thrown in with the 40% damage bonus from the Leo Ring it gets pretty ridiculous. Using a +10 BSS with only the Leo Ring I can easily plant hits doing 550 damage. Using a +15 with a maxed DMB... it's biblical.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 02, 2012, 02:01:07 pm
Baller Swag Sword, all the way. But, yeah. DMB is bad enough, but when thrown in with the 40% damage bonus from the Leo Ring it gets pretty ridiculous. Using a +10 BSS with only the Leo Ring I can easily plant hits doing 550 damage. Using a +15 with a maxed DMB... it's biblical.

Happened to me and i died in 2 hits.. 40 vit. I might get a weapon and start buffing it but i like my Divine Scythe ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 02, 2012, 04:29:05 pm
My hat goes off to those who can successfully duel with the greataxe or the demon's greataxe, though I have to say; people tend to die if I hit them with my +15 demon's greataxe.

!!! good to see someone who also likes Dueling with Greataxes :D i got my Greataxe Lighting + 15 its a beast
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 02, 2012, 04:31:22 pm
when do you get this cutscene ? is it random http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn69tX3H880&feature=g-all-u (new scene) didnt happen to me the last 3 times
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 02, 2012, 04:44:04 pm
In the Chasm of the Abyss you can save Sif behind a fake wall, then use him to fight Manus. After doing that and the going to fight Sif you get a different cutscene ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 02, 2012, 07:38:02 pm
Save Sif? Woot?!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 02, 2012, 08:02:17 pm
You still have to kill him in the Darkroot Garden at some point, though... At least, as far as we know so far.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on September 02, 2012, 09:51:47 pm
where am I supposed to invade people at lvl 78..? My blue eye orb doesnt give me any luck in anor londo or painted world  :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 02, 2012, 10:55:53 pm
where am I supposed to invade people at lvl 78..? My blue eye orb doesnt give me any luck in anor londo or painted world  :(

Try New londo or Duke's archives.


Thinking about making a second character now, capping at lvl 100 probably to PvP in the new arena. Im thinking about either using a greataxe like you guys spoke of, or maybe use the new staff you get from Manus.. I mean that staff looks ridiculously awesome, and i just love the boss too *_* Which should i go for? what do you guys think, or is there any other weapon i should try out? Is the Golem axe any good?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 02, 2012, 11:28:49 pm
Try New londo or Duke's archives.


Thinking about making a second character now, capping at lvl 100 probably to PvP in the new arena. Im thinking about either using a greataxe like you guys spoke of, or maybe use the new staff you get from Manus.. I mean that staff looks ridiculously awesome, and i just love the boss too *_* Which should i go for? what do you guys think, or is there any other weapon i should try out? Is the Golem axe any good?

use GreatAxe ! or go Onion bro !
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 03, 2012, 12:45:35 am
Thinking about making a second character now, capping at lvl 100 probably to PvP in the new arena. Im thinking about either using a greataxe like you guys spoke of, or maybe use the new staff you get from Manus.. I mean that staff looks ridiculously awesome, and i just love the boss too *_* Which should i go for? what do you guys think, or is there any other weapon i should try out? Is the Golem axe any good?

Manus Catalyst? If you do that, I recommend you play through NG+ so you can get the catalyst AND the Pursuers Dark Magic. It's a deadly combo.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 03, 2012, 10:23:16 am
Ornsteint build with the dragonslayer spear  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on September 04, 2012, 12:29:24 am
Finally found that PvP arena.. Nice to get matches every minute instead of every 10  8-)

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Also, dem americans be mad. Got invaded, I bowed and he took over half my hp away while I was doing it. I thought bowing before a fight was the "thing" to do, but..  Kicked his ass with half hp, then he invaded again, and instantly teleported out;

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 04, 2012, 02:04:23 am
Not bowing before a figth in Dark Souls is like not paying tips to a waitress
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on September 04, 2012, 05:35:44 am
Just got my Artorias Armor, anyone got any recommendations on which shield I should start using? I feel as if the Grass Crest Shield isn't cutting it for blocking attacks anymore.

I'm a dex build at the moment with 30 dex and 16 str.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 04, 2012, 07:58:16 am
My current Dex build uses Crest Shield, Dragon Crest Shield and the Heater Shield. I only ever use the Grass Crest if I only intend to have it on my back for the Stamina regen bonus while 2h'ing my Baller Swag Sword.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 04, 2012, 09:01:20 am
Dunno why, but I've used the grass crest shield on all my chars. usally get it up to +10 pretty early, takes mostly titan shards to upgrade + stamina regen  :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 04, 2012, 01:24:08 pm
Finally found that PvP arena.. Nice to get matches every minute instead of every 10  8-)

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Also, dem americans be mad. Got invaded, I bowed and he took over half my hp away while I was doing it. I thought bowing before a fight was the "thing" to do, but..  Kicked his ass with half hp, then he invaded again, and instantly teleported out;

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i want to see him playing this game without a shield
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 04, 2012, 01:38:43 pm
Btw anyone here know if i can change gamertag without losing my saves? Got a random gamertag from the stupid GFWL thingy, this shit is stupid on many levels.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 04, 2012, 01:42:53 pm
Ye, they sort of forces you to use your 1 free gamertag change by giving you a stupid ass random name. Fuck you GFWL!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on September 04, 2012, 01:49:19 pm
Btw anyone here know if i can change gamertag without losing my saves? Got a random gamertag from the stupid GFWL thingy, this shit is stupid on many levels.

Had the same problem dude, go to C:\Users\BoB\Documents\NBGI\DarkSouls and select the .sl2 in the profile that you were using and copy pasta to new file that was created when you made new profile.

You're welcome.

Changed my gamertag as well and lost my saves, started over before I noticed Sequels reply  :(

My random name GFWL gave me was BulkierMicrobe. Like, really..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 04, 2012, 01:52:37 pm
From great TOR the destroyer of man to a microbic name  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 04, 2012, 04:02:40 pm
Thanks a bunch, changed my gamertag from UnweariedHook to Gravoth now, feel free to add me guys :)

Also making my Greataxe char now, 40 str with a buff should pack some punch, aye? (yes unfortunately im going to buff dont feel like making it lightning or chaos, also want some healing miracles...)
http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?b=YmFuZGl0LDQwLDEyLDMyLDQwLDksMTEsOCwzMCwwLDAsNDAsMCw0MCwyLDMxLDE1Myw2MywwLDAsbm9ybWFsLG5vcm1hbCxub3JtYWwsbm9ybWFsLDAsNjEsNDksMCwwLDAsMCwwLDAsMCwwLDAsMCwzLHdvb2Rlbix3b29kZW4sd29vZGVuLHdvb2Rlbg==
^ Is the build i've come up with so far, dunno about armour though might go with something massive such as the golem armour, will probably switch around a lot.
Might use the Golem axe too, its faster but heavier and less damage.. hmm the choices..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on September 04, 2012, 04:57:58 pm
It gave me UnveilingLoki10 before I changed it.

Edit - The annoying thing is that when you go and put your name in for signing up to GFWL it doesn't even tell you if the name you choose is already in use it just forces you into a shitty name and makes you change it lol.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 04, 2012, 05:07:13 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loki

Apparently you are a shape shifter.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 05, 2012, 12:51:44 am
For some reason it takes up to 5 or 6 minutes to get a fight in the Gazebo, or at least, for me. SL93 at the moment.

Also, tried to summon a few phantoms to take out O&S early with my new character so I could access the DLC stuff sooner and maybe try out the SL 1-50 duels in the Gazebo. I tried over a dozen phantoms and the summoning failed for all but one dude. *shrug*
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 05, 2012, 09:22:38 am
For some reason it takes up to 5 or 6 minutes to get a fight in the Gazebo, or at least, for me. SL93 at the moment.

Also, tried to summon a few phantoms to take out O&S early with my new character so I could access the DLC stuff sooner and maybe try out the SL 1-50 duels in the Gazebo. I tried over a dozen phantoms and the summoning failed for all but one dude. *shrug*

ye summoning on PC is so shitty almost summoning failed all the time. Yesterday i tryed for 10 mins summoning 7 different guys......summoning failed
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 05, 2012, 09:28:22 am
Can't beat Smough and Ornstein with my current char. only lvl 43  :|

Maybe now on my 5th car. I can try to get to new game+ without getting a new idea  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 05, 2012, 01:43:49 pm
I havent tried to summon many phantoms yet, but i did succeed in summoning a dark phantom after 2 tries. Have to be quick on the summon signs..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on September 06, 2012, 05:09:02 pm
Things I hate the most in modern games are cutscenes. There's ton of them and they make game look like a bloody movie, and I don't like that. Also, story sucks in most AAA games and I'm always skipping cutscenes.

But I must admit that I would love to see Blizzard style cutscenes and a lot of them in Dark Souls.

NPCs do share some info with you, there are some cutscenes but I had to read wiki for lore.

It's sad that a world like in this game, actually the best since Diablo/Diablo II (Diablo 3 is kiddy crap), isn't explained through high quality cutscenes.

Best depiction of hell ever in video games. With more work put into story and characters, this could be pretty decent movie.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 06, 2012, 07:16:15 pm
Things I hate the most in modern games are cutscenes. There's ton of them and they make game look like a bloody movie, and I don't like that. Also, story sucks in most AAA games and I'm always skipping cutscenes.

But I must admit that I would love to see Blizzard style cutscenes and a lot of them in Dark Souls.

NPCs do share some info with you, there are some cutscenes but I had to read wiki for lore.

It's sad that a world like in this game, actually the best since Diablo/Diablo II (Diablo 3 is kiddy crap), isn't explained through high quality cutscenes.

Best depiction of hell ever in video games. With more work put into story and characters, this could be pretty decent movie.

Yeah, but i also find it very interesting that you have to actually try to find bits and pieces of lore to put stuff together, make for a more rewarding feeling. Cant say i've been doing that though, i watched EpicNameBro's lore videos which makes the game much more awesome when you know more about everything. Dark souls could use a couple of cutscenes maybe, but they have managed to squeeze in a shit load of lore which is found in item descriptions, chit-chats with npc's, exploring areas n stuff like that.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 06, 2012, 07:34:28 pm
A Dark Souls animation would be pritty cool  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 06, 2012, 10:24:41 pm
Woohoo moar screenies but now of my new fatso greataxe char!

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He looks.. fucking Bad-ass!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 07, 2012, 12:17:55 am
I've decided I'm going to stop using shields. Parrying dagger all the way. Such swag.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Arn_Magnusson on September 07, 2012, 12:21:19 am
Well, I've heard different opinions about this game, lastly I'm looking for good RPG which is focused on fighting simple and developing your char, but no like Diablo LMB, LMB x 20, RMB. I don't have enough time to read whole topic so, please, could you tell me about it. Yes, yes I've read some review's and they didn't tell me anything ;_;
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 07, 2012, 12:24:47 am
Well, I've heard different opinions about this game, lastly I'm looking for good RPG which is focused on fighting simple and developing your char, but no like Diablo LMB, LMB x 20, RMB. I don't have enough time to read whole topic so, please, could you tell me about it. Yes, yes I've read some review's and they didn't tell me anything ;_;

OK. Dark Souls is an epic and addcting game, yes its hard and challenging, but thats what just keep sucking me and other players into it, if you are the raging kind of player, this migth not be for you, but if you are a bit more hardcore PC gamer, and you like RPG's, then this is the game for you. Online system is also pritty unique from other games out there, the feeling you get from seeing another players "bloodstain" or the figure of another player dying to a curse freezing into a solid crystal statue and seeing the holograms of other player is just epic. 1 of a kind epic and addicting game.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Mala on September 07, 2012, 04:32:59 am
hmm, currently it is crap. i am still fighting with the controls.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 07, 2012, 09:11:04 am
hmm, currently it is crap. i am still fighting with the controls.

Byatch, saying that Dark Souls is crap is wishing for a Dark Knigth to come visit you in your sleep
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tears of Destiny on September 07, 2012, 10:16:36 am
hmm, currently it is crap. i am still fighting with the controls.

Use a controller if you are not already doing so, the game designers themselves admit that the K&M is not really supported (And honestly, trying to be agil and precise with a crappy 8-direction WASD would be a nightmare).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 07, 2012, 11:18:14 am
Going to try deprived class, wish me good luck
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Mala on September 07, 2012, 12:53:19 pm
i already use one, but it i hard to focus one enemy. i have seen better solutions and not to mention the combat system.
sure to parry and riposte needs timing, but most of the time i wish my char would block when i press block.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 07, 2012, 01:08:22 pm
i already use one, but it i hard to focus one enemy. i have seen better solutions and not to mention the combat system.
sure to parry and riposte needs timing, but most of the time i wish my char would block when i press block.

What?! Dark souls combat is one of the best! The only problem i've had (ever) with the combat is that sometimes it gets buggy and i can spam roll but he doesnt, then when i press attack he rolls. Happens very rarely, but happens. Other than that i think the combat is pretty much perfect as it is, hard to focus one enemy? How is it hard, and why would you want to focus just one and not attack those who are open for attacks instead?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Arn_Magnusson on September 07, 2012, 01:16:53 pm
I set a fire on this thread :D

So you recommend using a controller, but I have only PS 3, so I think I can exlude using pad. Can you give me good video which shows fighting from more technical side? Thanks.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Mala on September 07, 2012, 01:52:32 pm
What?! Dark souls combat is one of the best! The only problem i've had (ever) with the combat is that sometimes it gets buggy and i can spam roll but he doesnt, then when i press attack he rolls. Happens very rarely, but happens. Other than that i think the combat is pretty much perfect as it is, hard to focus one enemy? How is it hard, and why would you want to focus just one and not attack those who are open for attacks instead?

hmm, for the start a "cylce through targets" option would be usefull.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 07, 2012, 02:00:21 pm
hmm, for the start a "cylce through targets" option would be usefull.

You can, camera stick during lock on switches target.

Oh and Arn, you found the right game if you are looking for a good RPG. Dark souls combat is so interesting, finish the game with one weapon then do another playthrough with a different weapon and you will get a completely different experience. So many different animations depending on what kind of weapon you are using, sooo many combinations of armours, rings etc. PvE is real hard the first time around, gets easier everytime you finish it though since you learn how to beat every area in a easier way.

Then there's PvP which can get you sucked in easily aswell, it has moments where i just want to flip a table because of lag/cheap deaths, but then there is the the feeling of coming up with a new build, learning to master a new kind of weapon and good stuff like that. I've never actually invaded to be an asshole dark wraith but im sure it has a nice rewarding feeling when you kill a player struggling through the area's, lol.

Overall the game gets pretty much the same score as cRPG (IMO), something like a 9.5/10. Best games i've ever played, always keep coming back to them.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on September 07, 2012, 04:02:45 pm
hmm, for the start a "cylce through targets" option would be usefull.

Press right stick to lock, move right stick to switch targets.

I hope you're using buckler and short sword :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on September 07, 2012, 04:04:08 pm
Also, the online mode lets you be a total douchebag with the gravelord covenant. It's even worse than dark wraiths IMO
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Mala on September 07, 2012, 04:18:55 pm
Press right stick to lock, move right stick to switch targets.

I hope you're using buckler and short sword :P

 of course i do.
k, the target switch works, even though it is not really reliable in the heat of the fight.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 07, 2012, 04:37:54 pm
of course i do.
k, the target switch works, even though it is not really reliable in the heat of the fight.

At first i had some trouble getting used to it, too, it seemed like it was clunkier than in Demons souls.. but now im used to it and i think it works pretty much as intended, just takes a couple of battles to get used to.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 07, 2012, 07:32:23 pm
Also, the online mode lets you be a total douchebag with the gravelord covenant. It's even worse than dark wraiths IMO

only thing i see is that gravelord servants gets ganked by like 3 ppl at once :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 08, 2012, 06:12:47 pm
Started playing a Claw thief character, havent even finished my Great axe guy >_>
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 08, 2012, 07:38:07 pm
Started playing a Claw thief character, havent even finished my Great axe guy >_>

Don't worry, non of my chars. I have acually finished  :mrgreen:

Got 2 bosses left on my first char. though.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on September 09, 2012, 01:31:49 am
I just wish they would've fixed the backstab mid-roll, unless that's just a lag issue. The game is undoubtedly fun and one of the best games I've played in a while but PVP is definitely screwy a lot of the times.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 09, 2012, 02:11:16 am
Yeah, it's a major problem, all you can do is just avoid becoming open to backstabs >_> No wide swings and such... damn backstab fishers.

Btw loving this claw thing-a-ma-jig, pretty weak in damage but has an epic move-set, i really love the roll attack, and the kick seems to have been replaced with a knee'ing attack instead. Also it is lightning fast.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 09, 2012, 02:32:41 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXAbwAK0cJ8&feature=player_embedded

hes a great PvP player, you will learn a thing or 2 :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on September 10, 2012, 10:02:33 pm
It's just silly mechanic but I guess I'll try that if I ever find myself rolling at an odd angle. I did pretty well invading in the Duke's Archives lastnight. I only lost to one person (although multiple times), they were using some spell from the expansion I didn't recognize that was a fanning purple shot I couldn't seem to dodge. I found out they nerfed the ultra greatswords after narrowly managing to beat some zorro looking balder side sword user.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 11, 2012, 11:07:07 am
It's just silly mechanic but I guess I'll try that if I ever find myself rolling at an odd angle. I did pretty well invading in the Duke's Archives lastnight. I only lost to one person (although multiple times), they were using some spell from the expansion I didn't recognize that was a fanning purple shot I couldn't seem to dodge. I found out they nerfed the ultra greatswords after narrowly managing to beat some zorro looking balder side sword user.

you can pretty much dodge everything its just about timing it :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on September 11, 2012, 04:59:43 pm
I have no issue dodging most attacks but that one was a little strange even when I thought I had dodged properly. Latency also causes some timing problems.

Edit: My character to add to this threads collection:

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 11, 2012, 10:47:41 pm
After pvping for about an hour this is what i found out; people lack originality. Even in a game such as dark souls with a shitload of weapons to chose from people still use either Balder swag sword or katana. Also spam combustion = win. Pyromancy is pretty OP if you ask me, all you need is to put like 10 points into attunement and you got yourself a pyromancer. No one knows how to push the joystick forward either, backpeddaling is apparently the only way to fight.
Yes i know im using a mask of the child, but i kind of like having a masked face in combination with claws.

Screenies of my new claw char:

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I FUCKEN HATE DEM COMBUSTION SPAMMING KATANA WEILDING BACKPEDALLING-...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on September 12, 2012, 03:51:25 am
I have yet to come across another light armor wearing (under 25% load) ultra greatsword wielder and I actually only came across one balder side sword user. Most people I've seen in co-op or invasion have had interesting builds.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 12, 2012, 11:17:24 am
Managed to use Ornsteins armor with ninja flip ring and havels ring + dragonslayer spear +4 ftw  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on September 12, 2012, 12:23:48 pm
Yeah dragonslayer spear is better than swag sword, simply because it's longer and you stab with both most of the time.

Too bad there isn't some lightning glove similar to pyro glove, that would be awesome 8-)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 12, 2012, 12:54:05 pm
Dragonslayer spears shield heavy attack, so epic, POW!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on September 12, 2012, 02:08:13 pm
Dexterity speeds up pyromancy casting time, right?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 12, 2012, 02:31:06 pm
Dexterity speeds up pyromancy casting time, right?

40-45 speeds up all castings, or most casting not sure, but so dex 45 is recommended..
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Post by: TurmoilTom on September 12, 2012, 11:58:50 pm
Dexterity speeds up pyromancy casting time, right?

45 dex vs 14 dex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynX3nOHDhCA

quick edit: and yes dexterity affects all castings. Pyromancy, Sorcery, and Miracles.
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Post by: Angry_Bag on September 13, 2012, 12:35:57 pm
Dex Dex  Dex  Dex  Dex  Dex  Dex  Dex give STR some LOVE!!!!

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Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 13, 2012, 12:50:59 pm
Oh god, epic gifs! Love the men in black one and well.. okay everyone is awesome do send more if you have ^^
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Post by: Kafein on September 14, 2012, 01:10:46 pm
Big boobies covenant
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 14, 2012, 01:19:00 pm
^lol, too bad Brolaire sucks when summoned D:

Tarkus though 
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Post by: Leshma on September 14, 2012, 02:06:43 pm
My Tarkus lost 40% so I killed golem on my own. Would love to see him doing it by himself but no such luck.

It's a good thing Seath is invincible when you first meet him because there's a spot where he can't touch me but I can hit him. I just need fireball big enough :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 14, 2012, 04:14:55 pm
My Tarkus lost 40% so I killed golem on my own. Would love to see him doing it by himself but no such luck.

It's a good thing Seath is invincible when you first meet him because there's a spot where he can't touch me but I can hit him. I just need fireball big enough :D

My Tarkus solo'd the golem, it was epic, he just barely survived with like 1% hp too!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 14, 2012, 08:21:01 pm
I've never used Tarkus to take the Iron Golem, always taken on him by myself, usally at around lvl 20-30  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 14, 2012, 08:59:23 pm
It is way more epic to let Tarkus do the dirty work while watching.

Started a new char now, Onionbro!
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Post by: Falka on September 14, 2012, 09:03:15 pm
Games for windows live sucks  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 14, 2012, 09:23:38 pm
Games for windows live sucks  :rolleyes:

So true, luckily i got through it pretty easily..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Falka on September 14, 2012, 11:10:21 pm
Could you advice me good guide? I don't know what to do :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 15, 2012, 12:41:39 am
Guide on what? Games for windows live or dark souls xD?
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Post by: TurmoilTom on September 15, 2012, 01:38:38 am
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 15, 2012, 03:06:00 am
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LOL! Made my day! Stupid brolaire the sunbro, onionbro is much cooler.

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Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 15, 2012, 04:45:41 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 15, 2012, 09:37:40 pm

No comment.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on September 16, 2012, 12:21:53 am
Try to combine Velka crown, Eastern Torso, Painting Guardian Gloves and Chaneller Leggings. Looks badass imho.

You can switch Velka crown with Boar helmet and change leggings for something without a skirt for almost predatorish look :mrgreen:
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Post by: Leshma on September 16, 2012, 12:29:11 am
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Post by: TurmoilTom on September 16, 2012, 06:36:52 am
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10/10 would read again
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 16, 2012, 11:32:49 pm
couldn't we try to do some PvP ? i guess everyone is 100 -120 by now : P ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 16, 2012, 11:48:05 pm
Im up for it, have 1 lvl 100 char and a 125.. maybe we could try doing some 2v2 in the battle of stoicism or something.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 16, 2012, 11:49:26 pm
couldn't we try to do some PvP ? i guess everyone is 100 -120 by now : P ?

My dex caster is around SL 90 or so. In a few weeks I'll probably be around SL 100. I'd like to fight a few of you guys. :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on September 17, 2012, 06:39:38 pm
http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/09/17/dark-souls-mod-enables-60fps/

so this and the resolution mod mean I may actually be getting this game afterall. but it feels like I should be giving my money to the modders not the developers.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on September 18, 2012, 09:52:28 pm
I'll bet the modder's sites have donation buttons.

I am attempting to make a low level darkwraith. Beating 4 Kings will be tough. Should I go up to level 15-20, or stay below 10 for maximum douchbaggery?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 18, 2012, 10:05:06 pm
I'll bet the modder's sites have donation buttons.

I am attempting to make a low level darkwraith. Beating 4 Kings will be tough. Should I go up to level 15-20, or stay below 10 for maximum douchbaggery?

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also i had a lvl 10 Darkwraith and it sucks. most ppl dont even have the sins book so you wont get any stats. but if you like invading in the Bell tower its fine :P
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Post by: TurmoilTom on September 18, 2012, 10:16:01 pm
I'll bet the modder's sites have donation buttons.

I am attempting to make a low level darkwraith. Beating 4 Kings will be tough. Should I go up to level 15-20, or stay below 10 for maximum douchbaggery?

I'm currently working on a low level wraith, too.

My plan so far is to make a Wanderer. Starting gift, Master Key, of course. Wanderers start with enough stats to use the Uchigatana, so I'm going to kill the Undead Burg merchant for his Uchi. Upgrade it as much as I can over time while working my way to the Depths for the Large Ember in the Butcher's room. Then go to New Londo for the shortcut into Blighttown to kill Quelaag. After Quelaag, I'll kill Ceaseless Discharge and go down to the Demon Ruins for the Large Flame Ember. From there it's a matter of upgrading my Uchi as much as I can down the Fire tree (getting to Vamos is easy) and killing Ingward so I can fight the Four Kings. Only stat change is increasing Attunement to 12 for more pyromancy.

Gonna be awesome. Gonna invade EVERYONE.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on September 18, 2012, 10:59:36 pm
staying at 35 is better. staying at 20 is for Depths, Undead Parish, Sens Fortress and Blighttown  ( you will have a higher chanse of invading at a lvl of 35 + Anor Londo)  visitors can't see pics , please register or login


also i had a lvl 10 Darkwraith and it sucks. most ppl dont even have the sins book so you wont get any stats. but if you like invading in the Bell tower its fine :P

Or go where you killed Artorias for some proper PvP :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 19, 2012, 07:42:23 pm
Or go where you killed Artorias for some proper PvP :P

nah way faster to do it the normal way :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on September 20, 2012, 08:52:29 am
I think that picture is sightly outdated. Didn't 1.05 change things a bit?

I mostly want to be around Parish and Sen's Funhouse. Lando is too high of a level for what I want to do.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 20, 2012, 11:29:09 am
I think that picture is sightly outdated. Didn't 1.05 change things a bit?

I mostly want to be around Parish and Sen's Funhouse. Lando is too high of a level for what I want to do.

on Ps3 i have a SL 35 invader and i can invade in Blighttown, Dhepts, Sens fortress, Anor Londo, Darkwood (and some other places)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 20, 2012, 02:19:31 pm
Invading low levels? Cheap! You should atleast limit yourselves to a like +5 weapon or something to make it interesting.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 20, 2012, 04:13:28 pm
Invading low levels? Cheap! You should atleast limit yourselves to a like +5 weapon or something to make it interesting.

not when every 5:10 have done BB glich :D (ps3 n stuff)
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Post by: Armpit_Sweat on September 21, 2012, 01:57:56 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on September 21, 2012, 04:31:01 pm
I don't understand the satisfaction of twinking out and then invading the burg. I started a new sorcerer character because I've gone straight melee all my other playthroughs and I get invaded by some dude who thinks he's badass walking towards me slowly with the dark hand (in the burg). I hit him about 3-4 times and his health bar is barely knicked, then he gets serious with his offense and can't catch me as I hit him a few more times so I just ran away and quit.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 21, 2012, 11:20:01 pm
I don't understand the satisfaction of twinking out and then invading the burg. I started a new sorcerer character because I've gone straight melee all my other playthroughs and I get invaded by some dude who thinks he's badass walking towards me slowly with the dark hand (in the burg). I hit him about 3-4 times and his health bar is barely knicked, then he gets serious with his offense and can't catch me as I hit him a few more times so I just ran away and quit.

guess he had good upgraded armor or was hacking
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 22, 2012, 05:42:28 pm
OK sick of waiting add Knight Magyar for PvP SL 70 -100 and stuff
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 22, 2012, 06:33:54 pm
Zloth Demonsage here  :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on September 22, 2012, 07:18:21 pm
Add TurmoilTom if you wanna fight me.

Brace yourselves for parries.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 23, 2012, 03:17:26 pm
Added you turmoil  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 26, 2012, 10:41:43 am
Found some binoculars, I know where I am going  :lol:

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on September 26, 2012, 12:21:45 pm
Found some binoculars, I know where I am going  :lol:

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 05, 2012, 04:22:40 pm
Thread is dying, this is not okay.

Had about 10 battles today on my onionbro, won like 7, pretty good.. atleast for me. Died to a WoTG/buff person because normal rolls against wotg is sad face..... Screenies!

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 05, 2012, 07:23:16 pm
Sadly at the bonefire outside the pvp arena I kept getting invaded by the same korean dude. And since he was Korean I had to struggle with terrible lag, and ofc. I got backstabbed when I was 10 meters away.

Also, he was a "wrath of the god" spammer  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on October 06, 2012, 12:41:49 am
One of the GameFAQs forum lurkers started a Dark Souls Fight Club on Steam.

Steam Community Page: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/dksfightclub

GameFAQs Thread: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/667257-dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition/64183079

I haven't fought anyone in the fight club yet, but if you want to give it a go, there it is.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on October 06, 2012, 05:17:06 pm
Sadly at the bonefire outside the pvp arena I kept getting invaded by the same korean dude. And since he was Korean I had to struggle with terrible lag, and ofc. I got backstabbed when I was 10 meters away.

Also, he was a "wrath of the god" spammer  :rolleyes:

later he invaded me 2 times......easy match only you sucked :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 07, 2012, 06:59:28 pm
New lvl 50 dark wraith on its way, going to use warpick and leo ring combo for nasty damage :D

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on October 07, 2012, 07:48:37 pm
WOW.......thats HOT!  :oops:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: karasu on October 08, 2012, 03:39:10 am
Been having some fun on my NG+ SL120 char. Feel free to add me "karasu jigoku" on GFWL.
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Post by: Angry_Bag on October 10, 2012, 10:12:22 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 11, 2012, 02:32:26 am
game isn't as good as I thought it would be, but its still pretty epic. for a start its a horrible port, glad I pirated and have a xbox controller, otherwise I would be extremely pissed. edit also dont have to login to GFWL ;)

the open level design, art, environments, setting etc. are all fucking amazing.

the combat is clunky, but ok once you get used to it. its designed around auto lock which is always a bad thing.

there is a subtle but big difference challenging and hard. dark souls is often the latter but rarely the former. there are never any puzzles (so far) and combat is mostly a battle of numbers, with a bit of timing.

anyway i'm keep playing but I might change class. cleric seems pretty useless when you can heal yourself with the flask, I never seem to need both.

inb4 fanbois give me infamy ;)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 11, 2012, 09:06:46 am
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Good luck beating the bosses as a newbie without summon help, you pirate ...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 11, 2012, 12:55:05 pm



Good luck beating the bosses as a newbie without summon help, you pirate ...

doing ok so far just beat the spider witch lady one. summoned 2 npcs so far both perished, not sure if they are coming back xD .

I couldnt find the bonfire in blightown, died so many times that I decided I was going to have to cheat. so yeah now im backing up my savegames! easy mode is much more fun than grindy repetitive normal mode ;)

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Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 11, 2012, 02:33:31 pm
NOOOOO YOU ARE RUINING THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE! Damn you! Also the combat is great for the game, lock on works perfectly once you get used to it, and lock on is not even necessary, I can fight without it no problem in fact sometimes it is more effective to not lock on. So you are on the sexy spider boss, you havent gotten very far then and your opinion will probably change when you have finished the game :)

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 11, 2012, 02:39:33 pm
Talking about Quelaag:

http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/49

Can't believe someone actually made mod for this -.-
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 11, 2012, 10:03:10 pm
Talking about Quelaag:

http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/49

Can't believe someone actually made mod for this -.-

Dude... awesome. She is already nude so why not go all the way xD im so downloading this!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 13, 2012, 12:25:02 am
game is growing on me hugely. I just don't get why they intentionally make it so much harder for people first playing/not using guides. like hiding the bonfire in sen's fortress, etc.

game is very easy with walkthrough but i'd rather just have an easier setting and have the enjoyment of exploring. thats why game is more fun with save cheat, but I doubt I would need it at all on a 2nd playthrough.

anyway quelaag's sister is hotter, but I killed them both ;p

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 13, 2012, 01:00:52 am
I think the reason why things are hidden is to reward exploration, can be difficult to survive long though to explore everything when on the first playthrough but when you actually find something oh boy is it a great feeling. Especially when you find that bonfire after walking around with 0 estus n stuff, its such a relief.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 13, 2012, 01:40:43 am
Scumbag, why would you kill both spider sisters?!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 13, 2012, 02:58:40 am
don't think you understand me. I too love the reward for exploration, which is why i'd rather not use walkthrough. so hiding additional extras is awesome, but hiding bonfires makes the game super fustrating without walkthrough. its not the only example of them making it much harder on your first playthrough either.

anyway I just found out I got anal'd for killing ornstien first, I could have had a free dragonslayer spear (cause I found a lightning spear) which I think is one of the best.

seems to me hoplite is the easiest class in darksouls.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on October 13, 2012, 03:00:50 am
It's quite true in very few cases the things you are supposed to find by yourself through "exploration" are impossible to find without some kind of help. A bonfire behind a not-so-obvious illusory wall ? One that requires you to jump off a ledge ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 13, 2012, 12:15:49 pm
The only bonfire I think is a bit too hidden is the one in Sens fortress, dont think there are any others that i had trouble finding...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on October 13, 2012, 01:43:10 pm
What, the spot before Sen's bonfire didn't look like this for you?

Bonfire ahead
Hope ahead
Here!
Imminent bonfire
Here!
Here!

Same goes for all hidden walls. There's always at least a "here!" sign.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 13, 2012, 01:49:07 pm
No it didnt, maybe had one message once that lead me to it :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on October 13, 2012, 03:26:35 pm
don't think you understand me. I too love the reward for exploration, which is why i'd rather not use walkthrough. so hiding additional extras is awesome, but hiding bonfires makes the game super fustrating without walkthrough. its not the only example of them making it much harder on your first playthrough either.

anyway I just found out I got anal'd for killing ornstien first, I could have had a free dragonslayer spear (cause I found a lightning spear) which I think is one of the best.

seems to me hoplite is the easiest class in darksouls.


in SP its easyer but not so much in PvP.........and why would you use save states n shit ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on October 13, 2012, 04:06:31 pm
I didn't know or use the bonfire in Sen's until the second time I played. I think that's part of the charm of the game, the exploration of new areas but the need for them to be done cautiously and being slightly on edge while doing so because of the consequences. Although yes, running all the way back to Ornstein and Smough a dozen times did get kind of obnoxious after a while, that and one other boss were two instances that made me take a break for about a month.
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Post by: Angry_Bag on October 13, 2012, 09:15:53 pm
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Duuude, awesome :) I actually thought about making that once, using it on a huscarl shield and using heraldic mail!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
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Post by: Angry_Bag on October 14, 2012, 12:17:27 am
Duuude, awesome :) I actually thought about making that once, using it on a huscarl shield and using heraldic mail!

 i got kicked from GK after so much time on foot. so now i made Knights OF Astora clan :D soon ill have that as my banner!
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 14, 2012, 01:54:06 am
Lol, looks like there already is another sunbro clan :o NA only though!
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Post by: Angry_Bag on October 14, 2012, 06:35:04 am
Lol, looks like there already is another sunbro clan :o NA only though!

 :oops: well we will never meet anyway :D

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 14, 2012, 08:31:08 am
what do you guys think a about a hypothetical mode where:


cause I was thinking about it at work, and reckon it would make the game alot less repetitive/grindy. but the fact that you always perma lose souls on death, and that you cannot power-level from respawning enemies would still keep the game hard (reasonably).

like I died 30 times to sif, then power levelled a respawning mob, came back and it was piss easy. the soul values may have to be readjusted I suppose.

I praise the current system for being different, but I dont like it. Its not the loss, I like that part alot! alot of my fav games are full loot/permadeath. Its just the killing the same monsters, walking through same areas over and over that I can't stand.

oh yeah and I guess this is a PVE mode, whatever couldn't give 2 shits about pvp in a game like this.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on October 14, 2012, 09:04:25 am
what do you guys think a about a hypothetical mode where:

  • nothing respawns when you kill it
  • there is no retrieval of souls

cause I was thinking about it at work, and reckon it would make the game alot less repetitive/grindy. but the fact that you always perma lose souls on death, and that you cannot power-level from respawning enemies would still keep the game hard (reasonably).

like I died 30 times to sif, then power levelled a respawning mob, came back and it was piss easy. the soul values may have to be readjusted I suppose.

I praise the current system for being different, but I dont like it. Its not the loss, I like that part alot! alot of my fav games are full loot/permadeath. Its just the killing the same monsters, walking through same areas over and over that I can't stand.

oh yeah and I guess this is a PVE mode, whatever couldn't give 2 shits about pvp in a game like this.


thats what makes the game good after those 30 death you learn new thing and how to act in the area ( 30 is a bit to much lol :P) and then when you finaly kill that boss your like YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAA! mmm damn
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on October 14, 2012, 09:13:01 am
i got banner now  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 14, 2012, 12:32:59 pm
what do you guys think a about a hypothetical mode where:

  • nothing respawns when you kill it
  • there is no retrieval of souls

cause I was thinking about it at work, and reckon it would make the game alot less repetitive/grindy. but the fact that you always perma lose souls on death, and that you cannot power-level from respawning enemies would still keep the game hard (reasonably).

like I died 30 times to sif, then power levelled a respawning mob, came back and it was piss easy. the soul values may have to be readjusted I suppose.

I praise the current system for being different, but I dont like it. Its not the loss, I like that part alot! alot of my fav games are full loot/permadeath. Its just the killing the same monsters, walking through same areas over and over that I can't stand.

oh yeah and I guess this is a PVE mode, whatever couldn't give 2 shits about pvp in a game like this.


Buy the game and go play PVP, its fun as fuck
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 14, 2012, 02:16:34 pm

thats what makes the game good after those 30 death you learn new thing and how to act in the area ( 30 is a bit to much lol :P) and then when you finaly kill that boss your like YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAA! mmm damn

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so who do you think is the hardest boss? its kind of hard to tell when you are different levels, 'cause they don't scale right?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on October 14, 2012, 02:38:43 pm
what do you guys think a about a hypothetical mode where:

  • nothing respawns when you kill it
  • there is no retrieval of souls

Respawn is there for people who like to grind. Without respawn grind would be impossible and game a lot harder than it is.

If you want a true challenge, try SL1 mode.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on October 14, 2012, 03:21:22 pm
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so who do you think is the hardest boss? its kind of hard to tell when you are different levels, 'cause they don't scale right?


the one i had the most trouble with first time was...........idk realy but lets say Skinny and Fatty is the hardest one to take alone
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 14, 2012, 04:08:11 pm
wierd.

I raped skinny and fatty alone, on maybe 3rd attempt without using any guides/help. I previously killed fatty then skinny seemed to become way too hard, so I went skinny then fatty and wasn't a too much challenge. was one of the easiest for me, can run behind a pillar and heal at any time.

also summoning for bosses seems more like cheating than backing up saves to me  :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on October 14, 2012, 04:24:40 pm
The bosses do scale with your level, to a certain extent, Banok. It's painfully obvious as soon as you attempt a SL 1 run.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 14, 2012, 05:24:57 pm
Migthy tro going for max lvl 20 or 30 play, just for the challenge :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 14, 2012, 06:06:55 pm
summoning someone to help in a fight makes the bosses harder too, more hp and stuffs.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on October 15, 2012, 09:39:12 am
I think gear is more important than soul level. Hardest boss for my SL15 character was 4 Kings. Going from a +0 Lightning to +3 Lightning made all the difference.

Estoc is a fun weapon to PVP with, but I may switch to Shotel just to be a dick to shielders.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 15, 2012, 11:23:13 am
15+ Richards rapier with the sunblade enchantment is also pritty cool to use on pvp
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nehvar on October 15, 2012, 03:31:39 pm
While on the subject of PvP....pursuers are ridiculous.  I don't think I've ever failed to kill someone with a single cast (that wasn't dodged); regardless of whether they had their shield up or not.  Sorcery builds needed something for PvP but these new dark spells, well, pursuers and beads, are a bit over the top.

Has anyone tried deflecting pursuers with wrath of the gods?  Does it work?  I've been playing a faith build lately but the invasions tend to be lightning +5 spamming cheaters with invincibility and infinite stamina.  Typical GFWL shit.  I have not run into a sorcerer to test my suspicion yet.

so who do you think is the hardest boss? its kind of hard to tell when you are different levels, 'cause they don't scale right?

All the bosses are easy to defeat in my opinion.  I've been playing this franchise since the release of Demon's Souls** though.  I may not be the best measuring stick. 

The hardest thing for me to do, however, was to cut the tail off of Kalameet for the first time.  I was playing a straight INT build that had around 10 vitality at the time.  I remember it took more than a few hits to take off the tail while any hit coming my way was sure to be a one-shot if it connected.  I had to make a number of runs at that prick before I could get that crap sword. 

**If you include Demon's Souls then I'm going with the Maneaters.  They're assholes.  Flamelurker would be a close second.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Zanze on October 15, 2012, 04:05:41 pm
Flamelurker is a joke when you apply sticky white stuff.

Also, Ornstein and Smough first run through. Ornstein needs anger management...

"Oh crap a double boss, ok I can hide beh- crap he stabbed me already."
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on October 15, 2012, 05:17:51 pm
Dunno about hardest, but for me easiest was Seath. Slightly harder was Artorias, but that was after I figured out I can tank him 2H mode...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 15, 2012, 10:45:15 pm
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harder to see in screenshot but in the distance looks like MS paint sometimes. I want to know what effect this is called, so I can try and fix it in my dsfix mod settings.

Dunno about hardest, but for me easiest was Seath. Slightly harder was Artorias, but that was after I figured out I can tank him 2H mode...

wtf are you playing a different game to me? you can't tank artorias after he starts buffing up, thats why I had to switch to light to beat him.

and how can you find the bosses like seath hard when you stand next to them and they can't hit you.

seath was only hard in the first encounter LOL (I use my save hacks before bosses to save me time, and I actually spent a while trying to figure out how to beat him on the first encounter ).
 
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 15, 2012, 10:56:00 pm
Banok l2p Dark Souls, also you can tank Artorias, on my first playthough I managed to take his buff attacks without staggering (to much) and taking little damage.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 16, 2012, 03:41:14 am
Banok l2p Dark Souls

you mad bro?

I just completed game, all bosses - SL100. last boss was such a huge anticlimax. maybe its because my shield of artorias is too OP, but I could block 10+ of his attacks before I ran out of stamina. it was like a fighting a black knight with more hp, but still not that much.

prepare to die has all the best/challenging bosses imo, poor console kids.

and yeah I don't get the story in this game AT ALL, I was kind of expecting a long cutscene at the end explaining something. going to go do some reading on it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 16, 2012, 10:04:17 am
The story in Dark Souls is one of the most awesome I've seen, its not about getting the story through fighting the main bosses, you have to see the story for yourself, exploring, talking to other NPCs etc.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 16, 2012, 05:20:19 pm
yeah I know, I LIKE that the story is not force fed, hard to figure out and open to interpretation. Ive read up and kind of get the plot now.

HOWEVER, whats severely absent is a set of motives. my character has no motive for me to kill most the bosses/monsters in the game, other than "its your destiny as chosen undead bla bla" and for EXP. And likewise everything wants to kill you for mostly inexplicable reasons.

the undead attack you because they go insane when hollowed, some other mobs attack to protect thier forest. I guess alot are just animalistic monsters (dragons) but theres still alot of shit that attacks you for fuck all reason. for example silverknights are protecting gywnevere right?
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  but she's on your side...


reminds of malazan book of the fallen which also had epic plots/well written but none of the characters/populations had any real motives for their actions. I think its one of the subtle things that separates good fiction from bad fiction.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on October 16, 2012, 05:36:10 pm
You make me sad Banok : P



also the DLC stuff is comming to console soon
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on October 16, 2012, 07:16:20 pm
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harder to see in screenshot but in the distance looks like MS paint sometimes. I want to know what effect this is called, so I can try and fix it in my dsfix mod settings.

wtf are you playing a different game to me? you can't tank artorias after he starts buffing up, thats why I had to switch to light to beat him.

and how can you find the bosses like seath hard when you stand next to them and they can't hit you.

seath was only hard in the first encounter LOL (I use my save hacks before bosses to save me time, and I actually spent a while trying to figure out how to beat him on the first encounter ).

By tanking, I mean, attacking without evading or blocking his attacks. Had Havel set on me and +5 Black Knight Sword. He took two hits, then went to buff himself, I've hit him once during a buff phase and twice in buffed state.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on November 04, 2012, 10:30:09 pm
Just started playing again on my demons souls character, pretty much a pure bow user. Fun but pretty easy too. Also reviving thread, it must'nt die yet!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on November 04, 2012, 10:54:33 pm
I've been rolling a SL 30 strength build in the Depths. Mid-rolling with a Balder Side Shield, Greatsword and full Steel set.

If you want to know fear and dead-angles, come visit me while I'm invading the Depths.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 08, 2012, 07:10:29 pm
I am thinking about getting it cheap through a keyseller for steam but I am wondering if I actually gonna like it... it looks kinda crappy on screens, mods for proper resolution and gfx settings, wonder if it's actually playable/enjoyable with keyboard/mouse and the high difficulty sounds lame to me cuz I rather try to enjoy the story and gameplay on easy than getting frustrated over unfair enemies...

Any suggestions? :3
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 08, 2012, 10:13:45 pm
I am thinking about getting it cheap through a keyseller for steam but I am wondering if I actually gonna like it... it looks kinda crappy on screens, mods for proper resolution and gfx settings, wonder if it's actually playable/enjoyable with keyboard/mouse and the high difficulty sounds lame to me cuz I rather try to enjoy the story and gameplay on easy than getting frustrated over unfair enemies...

Any suggestions? :3

Its not unfair, and it is worth every penny spent even full price. Mouse and keyboard controls can be made a bit better through mods but i have never tried so cant say much about that. If you enjoy story and easy gameplay go watch a movie instead there you dont even have to press attack button. Dark souls provides a difficult but fair combat system which takes a little bit of time to get used to but once you get the hang of it everything gets a lot more interesting, lots of weaponry with many unique attack moves etc. Story in dark souls is great, but you have to read item descriptions n stuff to understand it (very cryptic but EpicNameBro on youtube has a number of videos where he explains everything in detail) and talk to NPC's. If you do not enjoy games and only want fancy cutscenes then this is not the game for you since it only has intros to bosses and areas as cutscenes.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on December 08, 2012, 11:41:47 pm
Is this still played actively? Have it on PS3 but tbh the main reason I play this game is PVP. Put 1200+ hours into the original Demon's Souls pvp, probably my favorite pvp ever besides c-rpg. Dark Souls wasn't nearly as good, but fun nonetheless. Anyways my question is, is this game still active on PC? Because I'd just be buying it for pvp really.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 08, 2012, 11:51:25 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 08, 2012, 11:52:31 pm




OMG!!!!!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 09, 2012, 01:13:37 am
Is this still played actively? Have it on PS3 but tbh the main reason I play this game is PVP. Put 1200+ hours into the original Demon's Souls pvp, probably my favorite pvp ever besides c-rpg. Dark Souls wasn't nearly as good, but fun nonetheless. Anyways my question is, is this game still active on PC? Because I'd just be buying it for pvp really.

AFAIK PC has slow matchmaking, dunno about playercount but ps3 has faster invasions. Probably still easy to invade people, many are still addicted to the game xD
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on December 09, 2012, 11:11:07 am
Is this still played actively? Have it on PS3 but tbh the main reason I play this game is PVP. Put 1200+ hours into the original Demon's Souls pvp, probably my favorite pvp ever besides c-rpg. Dark Souls wasn't nearly as good, but fun nonetheless. Anyways my question is, is this game still active on PC? Because I'd just be buying it for pvp really.

there are about 1.2 K on pc daily but if you have it on PS3 dont get it for PC
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 09, 2012, 11:30:54 am
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 09, 2012, 08:10:30 pm
[...]If you enjoy story and easy gameplay go watch a movie instead there you dont even have to press attack button. [...]
And the reason you`re an arrogant dick about it is?
A game is entertainment for me - I don't wanna work too in my spare time... so yeah, I play easy difficulties and I cheat in Singleplayer-games. I don't need to play a hard game to enlarge my e-penis with some achievements, instead I achieve things in real life...

Jesus, why is everyone such a dick about everything in this forum? -.-
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 09, 2012, 09:30:44 pm
And the reason you`re an arrogant dick about it is?
A game is entertainment for me - I don't wanna work too in my spare time... so yeah, I play easy difficulties and I cheat in Singleplayer-games. I don't need to play a hard game to enlarge my e-penis with some achievements, instead I achieve things in real life...

Jesus, why is everyone such a dick about everything in this forum? -.-

Why i am a dick about it is because i dont see any point in playing a game if you are going to steamroll through it just to find out the story or whatever. Then there is no point the game, you wont accomplish anything more than watching a movie which can be done in a shorter time aswell. I dont see how it is entertainment to just left click to victory, it should feel like you are accomplishing something when you win. Dark souls is just that, you will have to struggle through the game, sometimes it may be frustrating but it is so satisfying when you finally complete it that it is all worth it.

Ugh, really, you play a game and remove everything that makes it a game so you can finish it faster.. I.. I just dont see the point. And this doesnt seem to be very uncommon either, many popular games are super easy with fancy storylines making up for the lack of gamefeel.

Do not get dark souls, it is a game made for people opposite of your type if that is the right way to put it.. Or if you do get it, dont cheat through it, play it for what it is, a challenging game. It isnt even that hard, there are plenty of ways you can make certain parts easier. You can read up on strategy guides if necessary.


Awesome sig. Looking forward to dark souls 2, lets hope the new director or w/e it was isnt going to mess the game up (which i doubt ^^).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on December 10, 2012, 05:18:13 am
The challenge is more or less an integral part of the game. My first play-through I found myself actually using the ability to walk of my own volition as opposed to some "story-driven/cut scene" games where it gives me a gold-star, touch to commence mission style where I tend to sprint to the next section as quickly as possible or the game rips control away forcing you to saunter as you're given an exposé. Dying and restarting is also somewhat imbedded into the narrative but if you wanted you could probably get a trainer and make it easy, I would just recommend playing offline to curb any hate mail.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 10, 2012, 09:42:25 am
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 10, 2012, 01:19:08 pm
Why i am a dick about it is because i dont see any point in playing a game if you are going to steamroll through it just to find out the story or whatever. Then there is no point the game, you wont accomplish anything more than watching a movie which can be done in a shorter time aswell. I dont see how it is entertainment to just left click to victory, it should feel like you are accomplishing something when you win. Dark souls is just that, you will have to struggle through the game, sometimes it may be frustrating but it is so satisfying when you finally complete it that it is all worth it.

Ugh, really, you play a game and remove everything that makes it a game so you can finish it faster.. I.. I just dont see the point. And this doesnt seem to be very uncommon either, many popular games are super easy with fancy storylines making up for the lack of gamefeel.

Do not get dark souls, it is a game made for people opposite of your type if that is the right way to put it.. Or if you do get it, dont cheat through it, play it for what it is, a challenging game. It isnt even that hard, there are plenty of ways you can make certain parts easier. You can read up on strategy guides if necessary.

Awesome sig. Looking forward to dark souls 2, lets hope the new director or w/e it was isnt going to mess the game up (which i doubt ^^).
I actually bought it and I gonna cheat the shit out of it if I think it's necessary. I'm lvl 30 something now and it's way easier than I expected, just mentioning.
Still, my competitive time in gaming is over - and I had a quite successful one I might add - but I am not willing to invest time above a certain threshold into games. One of the reasons I am prolly one of the worst players in this community. And guess what, I don't give a furry rats ass about it. Neither about what you think I should play or not play or which category of gamer you think I am. MI NO CAREZ  :P
Have fun and enjoy your boner after defeating some pixels on a screen...  8-)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 10, 2012, 01:25:28 pm
I actually bought it and I gonna cheat the shit out of it if I think it's necessary. I'm lvl 30 something now and it's way easier than I expected, just mentioning.
Still, my competitive time in gaming is over - and I had a quite successful one I might add - but I am not willing to invest time above a certain threshold into games. One of the reasons I am prolly one of the worst players in this community. And guess what, I don't give a furry rats ass about it. Neither about what you think I should play or not play or which category of gamer you think I am. MI NO CAREZ  :P
Have fun and enjoy your boner after defeating some pixels on a screen...  8-)

I made a new char. yesterday level 30, were easy to get through the first boss with the help of Soilare, but wait until you get to Zen's fortress, and the two archer "my old friends" in Anor Londo, anyway, good luck!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 10, 2012, 01:34:42 pm
I actually bought it and I gonna cheat the shit out of it if I think it's necessary. I'm lvl 30 something now and it's way easier than I expected, just mentioning.
Still, my competitive time in gaming is over - and I had a quite successful one I might add - but I am not willing to invest time above a certain threshold into games. One of the reasons I am prolly one of the worst players in this community. And guess what, I don't give a furry rats ass about it. Neither about what you think I should play or not play or which category of gamer you think I am. MI NO CAREZ  :P
Have fun and enjoy your boner after defeating some pixels on a screen...  8-)

Enjoy, it is a good game but there is no point in playing it if you are going to cheat because it is made for those who want difficulty. Its like going to a restaurant and ordering fastfood you dont like so you put on some fancy ingredients to make it taste of nothing instead, theres no point. You said you think its better to achieve stuff in real life instead then you should go do that instead of wasting time on a game you cheat through, i seriously doubt you get any satisfaction/enjoyment out of it.

And btw i do enjoy that boner after defeating some pixels, its the reason i play games and im probably not alone on this. Which is also the main reason i play crpg, heart beats increasing massively as you duel a good duelist or when you fight 1v5 and survive, its epic but i would miss out on all that adrenalin if i would be cheating because then i wouldnt have done anything to achieve it :)

Oh and please do not play online, invading a hacker is pretty annoying allthough not impossible, I once killed a hp hacker by knocking him off a cliff, that gave me a boner so maybe its another layer of difficulty hmm..

I made a new char. yesterday level 30, were easy to get through the first boss with the help of Soilare, but wait until you get to Zen's fortress, and the two archer "my old friends" in Anor Londo, anyway, good luck!

Ahahah, hacks wont help much against the anorlondo archer my old friends x)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 10, 2012, 01:38:02 pm
One thing I hate is getting invaded by Japs and Koreans, the ping is just horrible, suddenly hes behind me, getting stabbed when I'm 5 meters away, ugh ...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 10, 2012, 01:43:35 pm
Enjoy, it is a good game but there is no point in playing it if you are going to cheat because it is made for those who want difficulty. Its like going to a restaurant and ordering fastfood you dont like so you put on some fancy ingredients to make it taste of nothing instead, theres no point. You said you think its better to achieve stuff in real life instead then you should go do that instead of wasting time on a game you cheat through, i seriously doubt you get any satisfaction/enjoyment out of it.

And btw i do enjoy that boner after defeating some pixels, its the reason i play games and im probably not alone on this. Which is also the main reason i play crpg, heart beats increasing massively as you duel a good duelist or when you fight 1v5 and survive, its epic but i would miss out on all that adrenalin if i would be cheating because then i wouldnt have done anything to achieve it :)

Oh and please do not play online, invading a hacker is pretty annoying allthough not impossible, I once killed a hp hacker by knocking him off a cliff, that gave me a boner so maybe its another layer of difficulty hmm..

Ahahah, hacks wont help much against the anorlondo archer my old friends x)

I am not going to play anything online with a cheated build. I am always talking about SP only! Multiplayer is a complete different thing...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 10, 2012, 01:44:27 pm
One thing I hate is getting invaded by Japs and Koreans, the ping is just horrible, suddenly hes behind me, getting stabbed when I'm 5 meters away, ugh ...

Well, you can do the same to them its laggy on both parts.. I dont think ive been matched up with many asians though so i havent really had a taste of this yet, luckily  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 10, 2012, 01:45:33 pm
I am not going to play anything online with a cheated build. I am always talking about SP only! Multiplayer is a complete different thing...

Well the multiplayer is a pretty big part of the game, especially on the first playthrough messages can be very helpful, white phantoms can also be a life saver...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 10, 2012, 01:49:04 pm
This is probably the biggest issue of the game:

Fucking nothing is explained anywhere... I have no idea what you're talking about :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 10, 2012, 01:53:27 pm
Personally, I don't even know if I would have put so much time into the game if it wasn't for the multiplayer part (on PC). On all my playthroughs I always decide on a weapon to use for PvP and a fitting build. Now I have a lvl 78 Richards Rapier 15+ build with Sun light blade and some basic magic. Going with the wanderer outfit 10+ on every item, its a good build especially with the sun light blade buff that does a lot of damage, and I don't need Havels ring to have the best dodge :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on December 12, 2012, 08:22:41 pm
Well, you can do the same to them its laggy on both parts.. I dont think ive been matched up with many asians though so i havent really had a taste of this yet, luckily  :rolleyes:

you play on ps3 ? if you do 9/10 you invade is eather jap or korean ( i check the nation after every invasion!)

and its not a problem at all not that much of laggy stuff u get used to it


and yes PvP is only reason i play the game got 1K +  total in the game
I made a new char. yesterday level 30, were easy to get through the first boss with the help of Soilare, but wait until you get to Zen's fortress, and the two archer "my old friends" in Anor Londo, anyway, good luck!

and i have done a SL4 Run!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on December 12, 2012, 10:30:49 pm
Lol played it again for the first time in months last night. Got on my char with maxed stamina and health. Using heaviest armor and a lightning claymore maxed out, pvp is still ridiculously easy, thought they were going to nerf lightning builds! Sat there for about 2 hours and won every fight.  :?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on December 13, 2012, 06:26:59 pm
Lol played it again for the first time in months last night. Got on my char with maxed stamina and health. Using heaviest armor and a lightning claymore maxed out, pvp is still ridiculously easy, thought they were going to nerf lightning builds! Sat there for about 2 hours and won every fight.  :?

maxed stamina and health ? 99 trainer ? lvl ? where did you invade ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on December 13, 2012, 11:08:17 pm
maxed stamina and health ? 99 trainer ? lvl ? where did you invade ?

No I didn't use a trainer if that's what you're asking lol. Not sure, I'll check when I get home, at work atm. I sat in the forest and let people invade me, got invaded by more than one person at a time quite a few times as well, still won. Then I decided to do the invading and equipped that ring that lets you invade people in the forest. Invaded into some asian players games and won, they had some crazy shit going on, asked them after what their SL was and they were all crazy fucking high, the highest I remember being 682 if I recall correctly, still never lost though.  :?
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Post by: Molly on December 13, 2012, 11:53:33 pm
No I didn't use a trainer if that's what you're asking lol. Not sure, I'll check when I get home, at work atm. I sat in the forest and let people invade me, got invaded by more than one person at a time quite a few times as well, still won. Then I decided to do the invading and equipped that ring that lets you invade people in the forest. Invaded into some asian players games and won, they had some crazy shit going on, asked them after what their SL was and they were all crazy fucking high, the highest I remember being 682 if I recall correctly, still never lost though.  :?
682? There is no lvl cap?  :shock:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 14, 2012, 12:30:29 am
682? There is no lvl cap?  :shock:

Max level is 711
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on December 14, 2012, 12:43:12 am
Max level is 711

Depends on class, some classes can achieve level 713!  :shock:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 14, 2012, 10:08:55 am
Over SL 120?

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Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 14, 2012, 10:14:56 am
Also, this is something interesting

http://catarinachristmas.tumblr.com/details


Maybe we can all participate? :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 14, 2012, 10:45:12 am
Also, this is something interesting

http://catarinachristmas.tumblr.com/details


Maybe we can all participate? :P
I can't :( I am nowhere near having this kind of gear :o Get beaten up by some mean shield dude all the time  :cry:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 14, 2012, 01:06:53 pm
Also, this is something interesting

http://catarinachristmas.tumblr.com/details


Maybe we can all participate? :P

Lol, maybe on my pc account yes. Thats where my onion bro is at atleast ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 14, 2012, 01:41:23 pm
Mmh, playing my good old forest hunter char on ps3, shotel + crystal magic weapon oooh the damage it dishes out THROUGH SHIELDS! :D DWGR got nerfed so i got mid rolls in my gear though :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on December 14, 2012, 03:37:25 pm
No I didn't use a trainer if that's what you're asking lol. Not sure, I'll check when I get home, at work atm. I sat in the forest and let people invade me, got invaded by more than one person at a time quite a few times as well, still won. Then I decided to do the invading and equipped that ring that lets you invade people in the forest. Invaded into some asian players games and won, they had some crazy shit going on, asked them after what their SL was and they were all crazy fucking high, the highest I remember being 682 if I recall correctly, still never lost though.  :?


the forest is bugged anyone with blue eye orb can invade anyone i was SL 20 and got invaded by a 120 +
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on December 14, 2012, 04:18:54 pm

dont have it to loud at the start : P

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 14, 2012, 04:20:44 pm
Which armor is the onion look? :O

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Post by: Angry_Bag on December 14, 2012, 04:23:57 pm
Which armor is the onion look? :O

http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Catarina+Set
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 14, 2012, 07:23:05 pm
http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Catarina+Set
Thanks... so you don`t have to use the fat body build at char generation for the look  :mrgreen:
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Post by: Angry_Bag on December 14, 2012, 11:50:54 pm
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and it keeps on comming

(would be a awesome armor mod for Skyrim btw :P)


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Post by: Vexus on December 15, 2012, 01:08:40 am
Thanks... so you don`t have to use the fat body build at char generation for the look  :mrgreen:

If you think that's fat what is this set then?

http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Smough%27s+Set
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 15, 2012, 09:09:29 am
If you think that's fat what is this set then?

http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Smough%27s+Set
lol  :)
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Post by: Angry_Bag on December 18, 2012, 11:46:15 pm
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 19, 2012, 12:04:35 am
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Lol, Ravelord is such a ego. I can understand him though, Pinwheel stole power from him or w/e but he still sucks ass :( Cant handle the powah!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 19, 2012, 12:13:41 am
Finished setting up my level 50 forest invader, using a +5 golem axe and some heavy armors  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 19, 2012, 12:16:20 am
Finished setting up my level 50 forest invader, using a +5 golem axe and some heavy armors  :mrgreen:

On pc? or ps3?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 19, 2012, 12:17:37 am
On pc? or ps3?

PC, only play DS on PC, since my brother owns the Ps3 version.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on December 19, 2012, 12:29:01 am
PC, only play DS on PC, since my brother owns the Ps3 version.

By brother, you mean Nuuk? :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 19, 2012, 12:37:03 am
PC, only play DS on PC, since my brother owns the Ps3 version.

Oh i might try to forest hunt with you sometime then, i also have a around 50 axe-tank ^^ If we are lucky to get matched up together lol, is there even any action left on pc?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 19, 2012, 12:51:51 am
Oh i might try to forest hunt with you sometime then, i also have a around 50 axe-tank ^^ If we are lucky to get matched up together lol, is there even any action left on pc?

When I were playing today, the population went from 1.4k to 2.1k steady all night, never really had a problem doing PvP or finding summons in the normal areas that are / were also popular on Ps3. One downer is that when I played on my level 4 char. invading in burg I got matched up with a guy who was level 100, and similar high level guys. And ofc. the hackers are still active, but not as active as they used to be, I get matched with less cheaters now than before. One funny side note was that I met this russian guy who hadn't beaten the first boss yet and were running around with his cheat on. When I send him a message saying "Hackers ruin the game" he sent me a message back saying that he didn't want me to join him  and that he just wanted to finish the game so he could uninstall it. After some messages back and forth I made him uninstall the hack, one good deed for the day :D



Zloth Demonsage is my GFWL, I'll be playing DS this whole week around 17-22 :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 19, 2012, 12:52:16 am
By brother, you mean Nuuk? :D

And yes, by NuuK I mean brother. He is also my twin.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 19, 2012, 10:02:40 am
Also, is it worth killing Gwynevere in Anor Londo as level 50 to get some more PvP in that area?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 19, 2012, 02:15:14 pm
Do it! It's what she gets for not being nude! Quelaag got it right.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 19, 2012, 06:51:48 pm
Added Gravoth and Benkei. I also killed Gwynevere, come get me darkmoon!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 19, 2012, 07:43:33 pm
Standing around in the forest, kinda cheesy to play with +15 greataxe and golem armour, everyone who invades goes down in 2 hits..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on December 19, 2012, 08:30:53 pm
Standing around in the forest, kinda cheesy to play with +15 greataxe and golem armour, everyone who invades goes down in 2 hits..

thats whats boss about Greataxe :D and not some 7 hitting katana
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 19, 2012, 09:40:10 pm
I was wondering... do the mobs level up with you or are they fixed by area/spawn?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 19, 2012, 10:16:03 pm
I was wondering... do the mobs level up with you or are they fixed by area/spawn?

They are fixed, but when you finish the game and start newgame+ they all increase in levels.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 19, 2012, 11:13:01 pm
Guys, lets agree on a time where we do PvP? Like we go to some underpopulated area and set out red summon signs? So we can PvP each other :D



And stay around level 50  :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 22, 2012, 11:58:20 pm
Dark Soul 2 concept art


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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on December 23, 2012, 12:41:17 pm
Hmm, that horsecart, is that a enemy, or a means for transport?

If it's a enemy, areas must be big.
Can also be a boss, perhaps? But who posts bosses in concept art  :|.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on December 23, 2012, 12:51:49 pm
still wondering is it worth to pirate buy it ? :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 23, 2012, 12:53:20 pm
still wondering is it worth to pirate buy it ? :D

It is 33 % off from steam, I say why not, but only if you have a ps3 or xbow control, if not, leave it be :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: sharker807 on December 23, 2012, 02:38:38 pm
Still trying to get into this, is it realy anygood and can't even do the backstab move, i'm using the xbox controler.I realy wan't to like this game but i just can't get it going
Give me some hope
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on December 23, 2012, 02:41:14 pm
To backstab you need to be perfectly positioned behind the enemy when you execute command.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on December 23, 2012, 03:01:48 pm
It can take some time until you are familiar with how backstabs works, remember to have your shield down, not up, when you are going to do a stab.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on December 23, 2012, 08:35:37 pm
Still trying to get into this, is it realy anygood and can't even do the backstab move, i'm using the xbox controler.I realy wan't to like this game but i just can't get it going
Give me some hope
HERE YOU GO

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on December 24, 2012, 12:38:54 am
Still trying to get into this, is it realy anygood and can't even do the backstab move, i'm using the xbox controler.I realy wan't to like this game but i just can't get it going
Give me some hope

Man you shouldn't play the first game then. The beginning of Demon Souls is like hell compared to Dark Souls.

Btw if this is about MP, you can just ignore it if you don't like it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on December 30, 2012, 04:17:12 am
About to start playing again, what weapons should i use? Suggest some plixzxzx. Prefferably not any heavy armour tank flamberge spam or ninja flip katana. Might go do some voodoo shizz with the new Manus staff and some op dark sorceries... hm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on December 30, 2012, 10:08:55 am
It is 33 % off from steam, I say why not, but only if you have a ps3 or xbow control, if not, leave it be :D
Just ordered the Xbow controller, should arrive tomorrow, even the wireless one :D , cuz my old Logitech Dual Action has the buttons like all over the place... pain in the ass!  :rolleyes:
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Post by: Angry_Bag on January 05, 2013, 11:39:25 pm
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 :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 06, 2013, 01:11:55 pm
1)Equip hornet ring.
2)Go to darkwood.
3)Riposte and backstab human NPCs.
4)Be awesome with every weapon type.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on January 06, 2013, 02:02:15 pm
Fuck been looking at this game all through the sales and really want it. But going to India for 6 months so alas it shall have to wait till the summer sales!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on January 09, 2013, 03:07:49 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 09, 2013, 10:03:30 pm
Gotta love Rosie, lululul.

Making a new char with scimitar in main hand and probably richards rapier in left, woo another dex build!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 09, 2013, 11:31:02 pm
I suggest sunlight blade with 15+ richard, it fucking rocks!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on January 11, 2013, 05:52:30 pm
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=270294285499574334

My current build and I'm itching for more fights. Oolacile Township is the only place that gets any action nowadays and it just isn't doing it for me.

Hit me up on Steam while I'm playing Dark Souls if you want to fight me.


http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198010107047/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 11, 2013, 07:36:19 pm
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=270294285499574334

My current build and I'm itching for more fights. Oolacile Township is the only place that gets any action nowadays and it just isn't doing it for me.

Hit me up on Steam while I'm playing Dark Souls if you want to fight me.


http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198010107047/

Should probably go for lower level builds now-a-days, im going for a level 80 build, i got lots of action on 50 so i guess it should still be alright.. btw thats a crazy build, spamberge and balder swag sword ^^ looots of endurance
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on January 11, 2013, 08:09:40 pm
Should probably go for lower level builds now-a-days, im going for a level 80 build, i got lots of action on 50 so i guess it should still be alright.. btw thats a crazy build, spamberge and balder swag sword ^^ looots of endurance

Yeah, I'm currently working on some lower level builds, but it's hard to make a build you can truly feel comfortable within those ranges. I currently have a SL 30 in the depths but he doesn't get very many customers. Here are the builds I'm working on right now.

SL 50 - Dual Elemental Uchigatanas (https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=311411232335678557)

SL 60 - Chaos Rapier with PTDE sorceries (https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=266052988108268054)

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Dezilagel on January 11, 2013, 08:53:30 pm
Planning to get into this, but is stacking vitality really the only way to pvp effectively?  :|
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on January 11, 2013, 09:23:11 pm
Planning to get into this, but is stacking vitality really the only way to pvp effectively?  :|

Nah, but it is pretty good. As far as pure melee builds go, the game is actually pretty balanced between defense (Vitality and Endurance) and offense (Strength/Dexterity and Intelligence/Faith).

I've seen lots of people running around with low Vitality builds but can push out enough damage to kill my Vitality builds in two or three hits.

My builds only have high Vitality and Endurance because I prioritize survivability over damage in most cases.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 12, 2013, 01:12:46 pm
Got onto my SL 100 in dark Anor londo, got so much pvp that I earned 690k in less than two hours, had a phantom and a red sign dark wraith with me, all communication ofc. I checked my GFWL reputation, it went from 100 & liked to 60% hated :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 12, 2013, 04:52:49 pm
Stacking vit is effective but boring, since chaos/lightning weapons remove all scaling and still pack a punch its pretty much the most effective thing to go for combined with vit. Allthough the counter to this would be dex/str build with a buff which is possibly even more cheesy and crazy good, but also IMO boring, haha...

https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=429485937234585968 Is what im shooting for, i dont mind the low vit, it just feels cheesy to win by out living the opponent instead of outplaying(spamming  :mrgreen:) him.. Had a couple of invasions today at around sl55, great fun, allthough my only loss was to a oneshot parry :( i should watch my spam a bit, especially when the foe has a dagger in the mainhand. Richards Rapier feels great in left hand, it has some great reach combined with fast swings from the scimitar during closerange is pretty neat.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on January 12, 2013, 05:20:24 pm
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=429485937234585968

If you switch out your current armor set for Hollow Soldier Leggings, Havel's Gauntlets, Dingy Robe, and keep the Royal Helmet you can land on a 25% item burden while still keeping your fast roll and also hit 83 poise, meeting the 76 poise breakpoint.

I have to admit, though... Hollow Soldier Leggings / Havel's Gauntlets is about as unfashionable as you can get... But it's just so damn good.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 12, 2013, 05:37:54 pm
If you switch out your current armor set for Hollow Soldier Leggings, Havel's Gauntlets, Dingy Robe, and keep the Royal Helmet you can land on a 25% item burden while still keeping your fast roll and also hit 83 poise, meeting the 76 poise breakpoint.

I have to admit, though... Hollow Soldier Leggings / Havel's Gauntlets is about as unfashionable as you can get... But it's just so damn good.


Ahh, sounds good but... the looks D: atm im just trying to get a decent look while still kind of min maxing, will see if i can maybe find another way to get up to the 76 poise. What does the breakpoint do? does it keep me from being staggered after 1 or 2 heavy hits or?

Might just go with 5 less endurance and put 3 in vit instead, putting me at an even SL 80 with 1.4k health, and skip the 76 poise because whatever i equip i can seem to find anything looking good, so might aswell just stay above the 53 poise mark...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on January 12, 2013, 08:13:11 pm
Ahh, sounds good but... the looks D: atm im just trying to get a decent look while still kind of min maxing, will see if i can maybe find another way to get up to the 76 poise. What does the breakpoint do? does it keep me from being staggered after 1 or 2 heavy hits or?

Might just go with 5 less endurance and put 3 in vit instead, putting me at an even SL 80 with 1.4k health, and skip the 76 poise because whatever i equip i can seem to find anything looking good, so might aswell just stay above the 53 poise mark...

Poise Breakpoints and Other Soul Sciences (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/606312-/61722082)

How about Steel Helmet, Painting Guardian Robe, Knight Gauntlets, and Giant's Leggings? 76 poise, and doesn't look too shabby.

Painting Guardian Robe, Black Iron Leggings and Black Iron Gauntlets works, too.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on January 12, 2013, 08:52:44 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 12, 2013, 09:28:58 pm
GFWL keeps surprising me how bad it is, even the simplest thing as to change some privacy settings so i can chat with people without friending them is made impossible. I try to edit my account and go to privacy settings something something but i get fucking errors on the website, fucking great. It says something like:
Woops, that shouldnt have happened. You seem to have found an error in the system.

date:   2013-01-12 20:27:06
code:   2ACBD6EDA57EB
s:   q7KeB4D+ajX3cUOHdznk/A==
id:   dc281b0c-2530-43eb-928f-4baec8f8066b
req:   49179072-2aaf-45c3-ae0e-875755027f58

IM JUST TRYING TO CHANGE SOME SETTINGS
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 13, 2013, 02:32:25 am
If your going to use a fast roll build, take a light xbow, its really good. Killed a full havels and dragon weapon user in anor londo with it, no need to use my rapier, just my xbow. Funny thing was, he was in the same group chat as I am :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 13, 2013, 03:29:06 am
If your going to use a fast roll build, take a light xbow, its really good. Killed a full havels and dragon weapon user in anor londo with it, no need to use my rapier, just my xbow. Funny thing was, he was in the same group chat as I am :D

Orly, might give that a shot :o Damn this below 76 poise, everyone im matched up against has a 2h ultra greatsword..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vexus on January 13, 2013, 10:53:00 am
If you guys want to lower some weight while still having good overall stats try using a Wanderer Manchette +10 it's really awesome for something you can start with.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 13, 2013, 02:52:22 pm
But then there is the eastern gauntlets with less weight and 2 poise..

This might actually not look too bad..
 (https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=158884331452085270)

Allthough i could actually probably ditch the wolf ring and use havels ring, opens up a LOT of options.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vexus on January 13, 2013, 06:09:42 pm
Well according to darksouls.wikidot.com while the eastern gloves do have 2 poise their stats are horrible.

Eastern Gauntlets:

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/eastern-gauntlets

Wanderer Manchette:

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/wanderer-manchette
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on January 14, 2013, 07:23:09 pm
i dont care about armor stats i go for the looks! giant armor my ass! FUCK POISE!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vexus on January 14, 2013, 10:41:13 pm
Well I go for the looks too but try to gain the max possible stats you know :)

For example I use painting guardian pants because they look awesome with the elite knight armour even tough crimson pants are better in almost everything but they look sooooooo ugly and I hate dresses on males anyway.

Tough I kinda had to force weight so I could use havel's shield and my armour is:

Gargoyle Helm
Elite Knight Armour
Wanderer Manchette
Painting Guardian Pants

While nothing out of the ordinary I kinda like it apart of the gargoyle's helm colour.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 15, 2013, 12:13:55 am
Lost 2.6 million souls today, that I'd gotten from doing PvP in Anor londo and Township :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 15, 2013, 01:46:39 pm
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=218677846512485367


What you think?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Angry_Bag on January 16, 2013, 11:46:50 pm
https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=218677846512485367


What you think?

drop the hornet ring and it should be ok
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Post by: Dalhi on January 20, 2013, 02:37:51 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on February 04, 2013, 02:59:54 am
Got invaded by a hacker who killed the undead burg merchant.

I hate my life.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on February 04, 2013, 08:53:13 am
Got invaded by a hacker who killed the undead burg merchant.

I hate my life.


Haha, thats a funny way to abuse hacks. Well maybe not on the recieving part.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on February 04, 2013, 09:35:18 am
I once had a 20 min long duel with a hacker in Dark Anor Londo once. It was so intense and while we were having our duel he popped some divine blessing. Most annoying was that he could take 3 15+ Richards rapier with hornet ring backstabs. I managed to get 4 hits on him when I ran up to the princess' chamber. And sadly, after that long duel, I only got 13k souls ...

But if you want to have a lot of PvP, kill Gwynevere to get invaded, then stand in the big chamber around 21 - 00:00 O'clock and people will invade you like that. I once got invaded by 2 Darkmoon and 1 dickwraith at the same time playing there. Later on I was invaded by 9 Darkmoons in a row, so intense and fun  :D


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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on February 04, 2013, 02:07:06 pm
I once had a 20 min long duel with a hacker in Dark Anor Londo once. It was so intense and while we were having our duel he popped some divine blessing. Most annoying was that he could take 3 15+ Richards rapier with hornet ring backstabs. I managed to get 4 hits on him when I ran up to the princess' chamber. And sadly, after that long duel, I only got 13k souls ...

But if you want to have a lot of PvP, kill Gwynevere to get invaded, then stand in the big chamber around 21 - 00:00 O'clock and people will invade you like that. I once got invaded by 2 Darkmoon and 1 dickwraith at the same time playing there. Later on I was invaded by 9 Darkmoons in a row, so intense and fun  :D


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Great tip, if ever get myself to actually start doing some more pvp i would probably try that spot out.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on February 04, 2013, 07:30:43 pm
Playing this game slowly, because this is a masterpiece and i want to fully enjoy it.
So far, haven't encountered any hackers at all!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on February 10, 2013, 02:50:46 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on February 12, 2013, 01:06:48 am
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

this, a thousand times
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on February 25, 2013, 11:43:02 pm
"I'd light her bonfire everyday."
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on February 26, 2013, 11:25:18 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 24, 2013, 01:53:52 am
So after Quelaag, we now got Gwynevere

http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/282

http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/305

Tbh. the original looks better  :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on March 24, 2013, 03:13:24 am
I started a 2hander not long ago and I'm having so much fucking trouble.

I'm using the Zhander and I do good damage but I can't for the life of me beat the gargoyles.... I've tried summoning people but phantoms come in and kill me before I get a summmon off since the shit always fails.

Anyone got a good build I can use? I'm thinking about using a halberd later...with the dark hand. Hell even a weapon recommendation would be cool.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 24, 2013, 03:25:32 am
I started a 2hander not long ago and I'm having so much fucking trouble.

I'm using the Zhander and I do good damage but I can't for the life of me beat the gargoyles.... I've tried summoning people but phantoms come in and kill me before I get a summmon off since the shit always fails.

Anyone got a good build I can use? I'm thinking about using a halberd later...with the dark hand. Hell even a weapon recommendation would be cool.

I got a good Zweihander build that I'm using on my main char. I will post it when I get back to my other computer :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on March 24, 2013, 03:26:31 am
So after Quelaag, we now got Gwynevere

http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/282

http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/305

Tbh. the original looks better  :)

Pssshhh, whatever. Do they even have one for Priscilla yet?

I started a 2hander not long ago and I'm having so much fucking trouble.

I'm using the Zhander and I do good damage but I can't for the life of me beat the gargoyles.... I've tried summoning people but phantoms come in and kill me before I get a summmon off since the shit always fails.

Anyone got a good build I can use? I'm thinking about using a halberd later...with the dark hand. Hell even a weapon recommendation would be cool.

There's a chest in the burg with some Pine Resin that adds lightning damage to your weapon for about a minute. Any +5 weapon while buffed with that should make short work of the Gargoyles, mainly because they're weak to lightning damage. If you run out of those you can buy Charcoal Resins (Fire works half decent on the Gargoyles, too) from the Female Undead Merchant. That is, if you can find her.

Another, less classy solution is to get the Large Ember from the Depths and grind the slime monsters there until you can upgrade your Zwei to +10.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on March 24, 2013, 07:09:55 am
Another, less classy solution is to get the Large Ember from the Depths and grind the slime monsters there until you can upgrade your Zwei to +10.[/font][/size][/color]
Never thought of that Depth grind, take the shortcut from the back with the master key. May end up doing that, or using the resin. I think I still have em....I should, don't recall using em.

I don't know if I wanna stick with the Zweihander though, it's meh.

Any other good 2handers? I was thinking the Black Knight Halberd.

Edit - Just realized the BKH isn't guarenteed to drop after I killed it in Dark Root Basin. :( Didn't get it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 24, 2013, 01:03:49 pm
http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?b=d2Fycmlvciw1MCw4LDUwLDUwLDEzLDExLDksOSwwLDE3LDE3LDE3LDE3LDMxLDI1LDE1MywzNCwwLDYzLG5vcm1hbCxsaWdodG5pbmcsbm9ybWFsLGxpZ2h0bmluZywwLDAsMCwwLDAsMCwwLDAsMCwwLDAsMCwwLDAsd29vZGVuLHdvb2Rlbix3b29kZW4sd29vZGVu

This is the build NuuK made for me, its a pre-patch build so don't bother with the ninjaflip.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 24, 2013, 01:05:14 pm


Also, this little quest that was not added.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on March 24, 2013, 03:53:13 pm
I started a 2hander not long ago and I'm having so much fucking trouble.

I'm using the Zhander and I do good damage but I can't for the life of me beat the gargoyles.... I've tried summoning people but phantoms come in and kill me before I get a summmon off since the shit always fails.

Anyone got a good build I can use? I'm thinking about using a halberd later...with the dark hand. Hell even a weapon recommendation would be cool.

What's your SL? Perhaps i can help you.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on March 24, 2013, 04:48:55 pm
Never thought of that Depth grind, take the shortcut from the back with the master key. May end up doing that, or using the resin. I think I still have em....I should, don't recall using em.

I don't know if I wanna stick with the Zweihander though, it's meh.

Any other good 2handers? I was thinking the Black Knight Halberd.

Edit - Just realized the BKH isn't guarenteed to drop after I killed it in Dark Root Basin. :( Didn't get it.

If you're going to use the ultra-greatswords then the zwei-hander and black knight greatsword have great stab attacks after a roll maneuver. Also, doing a certain percentage of damage to bosses causes a lot of them to stagger.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on March 24, 2013, 05:52:38 pm
What's your SL? Perhaps i can help you.

Very low SL 27. Looking for future weapons tho.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on March 24, 2013, 08:47:14 pm
Very low SL 27. Looking for future weapons tho.

That's pretty low yeah :/, can't summon me.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on March 24, 2013, 09:36:17 pm
Very low SL 27. Looking for future weapons tho.

I have a few low level darkwraiths I can help you with. I like being a white phantom every now and again. If you want some help just add me on Steam.

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198010107047/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on March 25, 2013, 12:47:49 am
Appreciate it Tom but I can't even summoning people without failing continuous.

I will add yah anyways if I got any questions ;P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 29, 2013, 04:34:38 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 29, 2013, 07:45:39 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on March 30, 2013, 02:38:03 am

Haha, fucking mushrooms.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 30, 2013, 05:32:09 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on March 31, 2013, 02:57:30 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 31, 2013, 10:21:55 pm
Ok so I just experienced the most "WTF" moment ever. I was in the Painted world waiting for invasions in the middle of the "arena" like building. A get invaded by a Darkwraith, he comes down to me, I bow to him expecting a fair fight, then he suddenly turns into a white phantom, and I mean he just litteraly stops moving for 10 sec, then he suddenly turns into a phantom from a dw invader, he sprints to Priscilla and goes through the boss fog, which should not even be possible, since I was still standing in the place I was when he invaded me. He kills Priscilla and leaves. So now my Painted world PvP is slightly ruined and her tail can't be accedes now. Damn hacker ....
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 31, 2013, 10:59:47 pm
Ok so I just experienced the most "WTF" moment ever. I was in the Painted world waiting for invasions in the middle of the "arena" like building. A get invaded by a Darkwraith, he comes down to me, I bow to him expecting a fair fight, then he suddenly turns into a white phantom, and I mean he just litteraly stops moving for 10 sec, then he suddenly turns into a phantom from a dw invader, he sprints to Priscilla and goes through the boss fog, which should not even be possible, since I was still standing in the place I was when he invaded me. He kills Priscilla and leaves. So now my Painted world PvP is slightly ruined and her tail can't be accedes now. Damn hacker ....


Hahahaha
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 31, 2013, 11:25:00 pm

So. Gay.  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 01, 2013, 01:35:22 am
It also looks like for some reason all my GFWL friends were removed ... so if the guys who had me on their list could re-add me that would be great :P

"Zloth Demonsage"
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on April 01, 2013, 06:55:03 pm
It also looks like for some reason all my GFWL friends were removed ... so if the guys who had me on their list could re-add me that would be great :P

"Zloth Demonsage"

It can get even worse. When you get killed, you can get cursed, or permanently lose stats. It really sucks. Only legit reason to use a trainer IMO.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 01, 2013, 11:24:03 pm
Problem solved, they all were back today, must have disappeared due to that "special" hacker who invaded me.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 02, 2013, 12:58:32 am
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 04, 2013, 12:37:36 am
HolYYYYyyy shit ballls!

I've yet to try this - http://steamcommunity.com/app/211420/discussions/0/828935269278734403/ hear it works tho.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 04, 2013, 09:29:23 am
There was a discussion on the steam group if it was a 1st aprils joke, but many people tested it and it works (sort of). The guy who wrote the readme said he is not even sure if it works 100% :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Lennu on April 04, 2013, 11:42:55 am
Tried summonin a RL friend today. I had just gotten the soapstone, so the dragon was on the bridge, I placed to summoning sign and got invaded by someone with much higher equipment. He came in, trolled around a bit, killed the dragon, gave me a demon spear, then killed me  :lol:

After that I was successfully summoned by my friend, we killed a couple of invaders and then made it to the Bell Gargoyles. Then my friend died after we got the 1st gargoyle killed ('okay, it's dead. What n---HOOLYY SHIIT THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE!!!'). Was awesome.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on April 04, 2013, 12:17:44 pm
Tried summonin a RL friend today. I had just gotten the soapstone, so the dragon was on the bridge, I placed to summoning sign and got invaded by someone with much higher equipment. He came in, trolled around a bit, killed the dragon, gave me a demon spear, then killed me  :lol:

After that I was successfully summoned by my friend, we killed a couple of invaders and then made it to the Bell Gargoyles. Then my friend died after we got the 1st gargoyle killed ('okay, it's dead. What n---HOOLYY SHIIT THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE!!!'). Was awesome.

Wait...

who the hell doesn't know there are two gargoyles
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Lennu on April 05, 2013, 12:30:58 pm
Someone who is fighting against them for the first time :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: [ptx] on April 05, 2013, 12:33:27 pm
Might be getting a gamepad, possibly just for the sake of this. Any recommendations?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 05, 2013, 01:33:58 pm
Might be getting a gamepad, possibly just for the sake of this. Any recommendations?

Ps3

DS3 tool aka motionjoy
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Everkistus on April 05, 2013, 02:12:27 pm
I got the xbox 360 gamepad for windows. Works very nicely.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Lennu on April 05, 2013, 11:05:51 pm
IMO the mouse & keyboard work like a charm with that patch/update/custonthingy.
And the Camera controlling with mouse might even be better than with gamepad. Ofc, can't really tell since I don't have a gamepad...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 06, 2013, 12:59:24 am
Might be getting a gamepad, possibly just for the sake of this. Any recommendations?

Ps3

DS3 tool aka motionjoy


Same as Kuoin, but imo you should get the 360 unless you hate the controller (like me) and prefer the PS3 controller.

The 360 is just overall more recognized by Windows and games in general where with the PS3 controller you gotta use Motionjoy to get it to work which works fine just a minor hassle.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on April 06, 2013, 03:13:44 am
I got the xbox 360 gamepad for windows. Works very nicely.

this, just plug and play. works out the box for alot of games. I play assassin's creed, darksouls, tomb raider etc. with mine can switch between it and keyboard whenever.

I think alot of pc gamers forget/underestimate the power of rumble, and being able to play on a sofa/in bed. also its looking like we might need to use a controller for occulus rift.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on April 06, 2013, 03:29:17 pm
The trend has evolved, showing us another video! Now in 144p!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 09, 2013, 10:38:43 pm
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HOLY FUCK!
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 09, 2013, 11:25:41 pm
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HOLY FUCK!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on April 10, 2013, 12:08:26 am
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HOLY FUCK!

I knew that at that time there would be a reveal, but a gameplay reveal? :(. I don't want to get spoilered but i don't want to miss anything... :/.

Also, i don't recall seeing this area. Oscar confirmed for DS2? Does this mean that DS2 is before or after DS1? Also, who's the statue? Gwynevere?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on April 10, 2013, 12:25:25 am
SICK I only did one ds play through but I crave for ds2.

I just hope they do a proper pc port aswell so I can buy and get into the multiplayer this time.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nehvar on April 10, 2013, 01:14:11 am
They really, really need to get the hell away from GFWL.  Please go with steam for DS2.  Do it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on April 10, 2013, 01:52:13 am
Having trouble summoning on PC? Install this, and your GFWL friend's signs should work like magic. http://goo.gl/fY6SK (It'll only work if you both have it installed, however)

/dsg/ players have a list of players' names you can use to add them for easy coop: http://pastebin.com/BnCxK5Av

I haven't had a chance to install this and see for myself but it seems to be getting pretty good attention thus far.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 10, 2013, 03:10:51 am
Having trouble summoning on PC? Install this, and your GFWL friend's signs should work like magic. http://goo.gl/fY6SK (It'll only work if you both have it installed, however)

/dsg/ players have a list of players' names you can use to add them for easy coop: http://pastebin.com/BnCxK5Av

I haven't had a chance to install this and see for myself but it seems to be getting pretty good attention thus far.


HolYYYYyyy shit ballls!

I've yet to try this - http://steamcommunity.com/app/211420/discussions/0/828935269278734403/ hear it works tho.

 :wink:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 10, 2013, 09:02:10 am
I knew that at that time there would be a reveal, but a gameplay reveal? :(. I don't want to get spoilered but i don't want to miss anything... :/.

Also, i don't recall seeing this area. Oscar confirmed for DS2? Does this mean that DS2 is before or after DS1? Also, who's the statue? Gwynevere?

Well, Dks 2 is most likely to be based on the travel to Lordran. So perhaps we will see some characters from Dks 1. Like Soilare (but I doubt it).

We can only hope for the games lore to become more epic \o/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 10, 2013, 09:06:45 am
Having trouble summoning on PC? Install this, and your GFWL friend's signs should work like magic. http://goo.gl/fY6SK (It'll only work if you both have it installed, however)

/dsg/ players have a list of players' names you can use to add them for easy coop: http://pastebin.com/BnCxK5Av

I haven't had a chance to install this and see for myself but it seems to be getting pretty good attention thus far.


Also, the connection fix works perfectly. Takes me normally less than 1 minute to get a successful summon.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on April 10, 2013, 11:03:40 am
They really, really need to get the hell away from GFWL.  Please go with steam for DS2.  Do it.

Here's some hope for you: On the dark souls 2 website, you see all kinds of logos at the bottom. XBox360, xbox live, from software, bandai games, PSN, ps3, and a PC logo. NO GFWL logo.

Well, Dks 2 is most likely to be based on the travel to Lordran. So perhaps we will see some characters from Dks 1. Like Soilare (but I doubt it).

We can only hope for the games lore to become more epic \o/

I gave it some more thought. Depending on how you played the game, Solaire does have 2 different "endings". However, Oscar on the other hand, simply died. He went Hollow, thus i see no return of him if it is set at a later date then DaS2.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 10, 2013, 08:55:09 pm
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/10/dark-souls-2-gameplay-reveal-coming


http://www.insight-factor.net/gallery/dark-souls-2-prime-immagini-in-game

I suggest you get your asses over to the stream quickly
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 10, 2013, 09:24:03 pm
Looks great, cant wait. But something about it doesnt feel dark soulish.. hmm..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 10, 2013, 09:32:09 pm
Looking at the mark next to the health bar, where the hum. meter usually is it looks like they are going for a day an night cycle, maybe with different enemies (outside) depending on day an night?

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 10, 2013, 09:34:38 pm
Looking at the mark next to the health bar, where the hum. meter usually is it looks like they are going for a day an night cycle, maybe with different enemies (outside) depending on day an night?

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Good eye, could very well be. Would be awesome, but it feels like they wouldve shown it though as it would be a very interesting change...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 11, 2013, 05:19:03 pm

New trailer thing-a-ma-jig.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on April 13, 2013, 12:37:16 pm
Dark Souls PC is the lead platform and it will run at 60 FPS. They will be adding warping much earlier in the game, and perhaps there will be dedicated servers.

http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/xbox-360/news/1026821.20130412.Dark-Souls-II-PC-is-lead-platform-will-run-at-60-FPS/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 13, 2013, 01:03:00 pm
Dark Souls PC is the lead platform and it will run at 60 FPS. They will be adding warping much earlier in the game, and perhaps there will be dedicated servers.

http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/xbox-360/news/1026821.20130412.Dark-Souls-II-PC-is-lead-platform-will-run-at-60-FPS/

Woah thats great, hopefully the first souls game without laggy online combat :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on April 13, 2013, 04:04:16 pm
wow I was hoping for a good pc version this time but lead platform is kind of crazy. plus as if they re made the whole engine because it really doesn't look at all different to me except some new wind effects.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on April 14, 2013, 06:20:03 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on April 14, 2013, 11:47:01 pm
If PC is actually considered lead platform then I'd expect proper control over movement, I want my character to strafe left when I press A, not to turn left and run. Aside from many other ridiculous problems that's one of the reasons I didn't bother with original DS, dumb controls meant for a thumbstick.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 15, 2013, 12:13:59 am
If PC is actually considered lead platform then I'd expect proper control over movement, I want my character to strafe left when I press A, not to turn left and run. Aside from many other ridiculous problems that's one of the reasons I didn't bother with original DS, dumb controls meant for a thumbstick.

The controls on Dark Souls are perfect, nothing wrong with the movement.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on April 15, 2013, 12:47:28 am
You can't strafe. Like I said, movement structure meant for a thumbtstick is unacceptable in the environment where you have 8 possible movement directions and the system is meant for fluid 360 control. That's to begin with. Mouse control is horrible, what does it tell about devs if some random guy on the internet makes a fix for their game that makes mouse even usable.

Dark Souls has probably the worst controls I have ever seen in a PC game.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 15, 2013, 02:36:21 am
You can't strafe. Like I said, movement structure meant for a thumbtstick is unacceptable in the enviroment where you have 8 possible movement directions and the system is meant for fluid 360 control. That's to begin with. Mouse control is horrible, what does it tell about devs if some random guy on the internet makes a fix for their game that makes mouse even usable.

Dark Souls has probably the worst controls I have ever seen in a PC game.

It was a port ONLY made because of a petition that got 1 million signatures. They ONLY did it because of that, it was not even meant to be on the PC. They even admitted it won't be great as it's there first time ever porting to PC and that they only had a limited time frame to do so what can you possibly expect?

Dark Souls 2 is going to be PC as the lead platform so if you still hate the controls then when they're properly implemented then you can hate, otherwise Dark Souls IS meant to be played with a controller but from what I hear the DSMouse and Keyboard fix works fine.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on April 15, 2013, 03:33:05 am
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 15, 2013, 04:21:36 am
I'm interested in getting involved in some PvP, whats the best way to go about this? I don't even know where to start.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on April 15, 2013, 05:48:27 am
I'm interested in getting involved in some PvP, whats the best way to go about this? I don't even know where to start.

Standard PVP level is anywhere from 100 to 120, but that's primarily for duels. If you want invasions instead, like darkwraiths, aim for SL 30 to 60 and invade in the Depths, Sen's Fortress, Anor Londo, etc. If you wanna be a real ass ravager make a SL 12 (Highest level than can still invade all other characters of all levels) and invade the Undead Burg.

PVP builds themselves are a lot different than PVE builds. It's easy to get by in PVE without much health, but base vitality is asking to get rocked on a PVP character (Unless you're a Perma-Power-Within build, in which case whoever gets hit first gets rocked). And that's just one example. Other factors include DPS (you have to have a enough to be able to trade hits with the guy you're fighting unless you're a badass), roll speed (Ninja flips are the best, but midrolls and fatrolls are really good against dark magic) and for those with less time on their hands (like me :P)- how quickly and easily one can make the build. To expand on that point, starting a cleric and getting the Astora's Straight Sword right off the bat as well as the red eyes under the Firelink elevator make for some pretty quick and fun Burg invasions.

The quickest and easiest way to get into some really fast PVP is to join the forest covenant and try not to die. There are lots of level 700s there that are really easy to kill (because they're really bad). Often times some other PVPing dude will show up and kill them for you mid-invasion for an easy 800k+ souls. Probably the best way to level up a character early game, lol.

Here's a half decent SL 30 build I just whipped up that you can start building if you want:
http://mmdks.com/1w09
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Post by: SeQuel on April 15, 2013, 07:31:14 am
How does the Forest Covenant work anyways?
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 15, 2013, 02:31:18 pm

Damn was about to post that one :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 15, 2013, 02:51:09 pm
If you want to host. Go to Anor Londo, kill Gwynevere, and you will get lots of invasions at prime time. One time I got invaded by around 6 guys in less than 10 minutes
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on April 15, 2013, 03:33:10 pm
It was a port ONLY made because of a petition that got 1 million signatures. They ONLY did it because of that

More like they smelled easy monies and decided it's not worth to bother with a proper port. PC players are idiots and will buy anything when there's hype.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 15, 2013, 04:17:33 pm
More like they smelled easy monies and decided it's not worth to bother with a proper port. PC players are idiots and will buy anything when there's hype.

...

the reason for the hype on PC was because of the DLC. If it wasn't for the DLC and they just did a pure port with no extra content, the PC version would no doubt have sold less.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on April 15, 2013, 05:32:11 pm
You can't strafe. Like I said, movement structure meant for a thumbtstick is unacceptable in the environment where you have 8 possible movement directions and the system is meant for fluid 360 control. That's to begin with. Mouse control is horrible, what does it tell about devs if some random guy on the internet makes a fix for their game that makes mouse even usable.

Dark Souls has probably the worst controls I have ever seen in a PC game.

You can strafe if you are locked on a enemy. It is unnecessary to strafe when there are no enemies close by (or you WANT to move sideways, to get a better chance to hit enemies).

The devs indeed did a bad job on the port, but so what? It got fixed by some guy. The fact alone that devs ported it was good enough for me. I played it on PC, had loads of fun and is in my top 5 games ever played. You are really missing an experience here.
If you hate the port, why not just buy it for PS3/Xbox360?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on April 15, 2013, 06:31:59 pm
You can strafe if you are locked on a enemy. It is unnecessary to strafe when there are no enemies close by (or you WANT to move sideways, to get a better chance to hit enemies).

It's about having a control system that relies on PC peripherals (mouse) to reliably control the character, not about ability to strafe in general. You can't reliably control the guy when you have keyboard 0-1 controls taking over a system that was meant for a fluid thumbstick input.

The devs indeed did a bad job on the port, but so what? It got fixed by some guy.

It's not fixed at all. Mouse controls are terribad, still barely usable. Not to mention the rest of the interface and tooltips telling me to "press A" to do something.

The fact alone that devs ported it was good enough for me.

The fact how they ported it and how much of an insult and obvious cashgrab this is is enough for me to never even consider buying anything made by Namco.

I played it on PC, had loads of fun and is in my top 5 games ever played. You are really missing an experience here.

I played it. Got to Undead Parish, died on the way on numerous occasions in combat when I couldn't control my guy properly (stupid target locking system), when didn't metagame to know about scripted bullshit with no way to see it coming beforehand (wyvern), got roflstomped numerous times due to not going where the game wants me to go (giving you free hand in exploration and throwing in stuff that kills you in one hit everywhere but where you're meant to go) and actually fell off a cliff/bridge couple of times because mouse negative acceleration decided to kick in while I tried to turn slightly and did a 720 instead.

If all that wasn't enough there's of course also the checkpoint system which forces you to replay the filler part of the content over and over again by respawning all mobs. No thanks, got better things to do than grinding in a singleplayer game, although the world, atmosphere and story seems to be really interesting, shame gameplay sucks so badly.

Music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tuWvGee4T0) is also quite ear-grabbing.

If you hate the port, why not just buy it for PS3/Xbox360?

You mean to buy a console to play one game? Really?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on April 15, 2013, 06:44:25 pm
Tot, a wired 360 controller is like £25. Just buy one and stop torturing yourself! It'll come in handy for lots of other bad ports as well.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 16, 2013, 05:15:18 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 16, 2013, 05:38:50 pm
New Dsc fix. https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=1105a8f9b697e3cc&id=1105A8F9B697E3CC%21796
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 17, 2013, 03:23:45 am
Can't find PvP anywhere...thinking about making a PvP character, can someone tell me what level range I should aim for and where to invade and which convenant to join if any?
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Post by: Angry_Bag on April 17, 2013, 01:08:50 pm
Can't find PvP anywhere...thinking about making a PvP character, can someone tell me what level range I should aim for and where to invade and which convenant to join if any?

for starter go to the woods and join the Forest Hunter. lvl 60-75 is a good lvl range like anyother rly
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 17, 2013, 01:10:34 pm
Can't find PvP anywhere...thinking about making a PvP character, can someone tell me what level range I should aim for and where to invade and which convenant to join if any?

Since my post got deleted due to unstable internet, I'll try to repeat what I said. If you want to invade other player , join Darkwraith or the forest covenant and stay at around sl 60 - 75 like NuuK said
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Post by: SeQuel on April 18, 2013, 01:58:50 am
Cool, been doing some forest PvP....might make a new character that's lower level though and invade as a dark cov.

Any recommended builds for low lvl PvP?

Edit - Thinking Level 35 - Darkwraith invading Sens Fortress/Depths/Blighttown. Not sure on a weapon though or build.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 18, 2013, 01:47:36 pm
If you want to do some good damage with weapons etc. Go Pyromancer, and take a low stat weapon, that don't req. so much str or dex. Upgrade it with Chaos (most damage if you got around 20 hum.) then you can take your stats in vit. and end. good for low level.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 18, 2013, 03:36:16 pm
If you want to do some good damage with weapons etc. Go Pyromancer, and take a low stat weapon, that don't req. so much str or dex. Upgrade it with Chaos (most damage if you got around 20 hum.) then you can take your stats in vit. and end. good for low level.

I was thinking Lightning how would that be?
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Post by: TurmoilTom on April 18, 2013, 08:32:01 pm
I was thinking Lightning how would that be?

I prefer Lightning to Chaos. With Chaos, you have to have 10 humanity at all times to maximize damage output, and it just barely does more than Lightning. Thing is, it really doesn't help much in practice because nearly every armor setup in the game has more fire defense than lightning defense. A lightning setup would actually do more damage than a chaos setup against most builds.

Most shields have low lightning defense as well, making lightning spears great for inflicting damage on turtlers if you don't have anything to bleed or poison them with.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 18, 2013, 11:22:46 pm
Also, getting a shotel is not so bad if your opponent have low health left, the r2 attack of shotel can go through shield. Have a +15 with sunlight blade buff on my main, did around 340+ dmg to a guy using full Artorias gear, its a good weapon to pull out when the enemy got low health.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 20, 2013, 07:06:56 am
I'm getting annoyed here...anyone got a character level 22-42 that can assist me? I'm trying to get my SL32 to Anor but I can't get past those bow guys...I've died 15+ times.

Tom helped me.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on April 20, 2013, 07:36:08 am
Cool, been doing some forest PvP....might make a new character that's lower level though and invade as a dark cov.

Any recommended builds for low lvl PvP?

Edit - Thinking Level 35 - Darkwraith invading Sens Fortress/Depths/Blighttown. Not sure on a weapon though or build.

35 is way too high for Sens Fortress/Depths/Blighttown as a Darkwraith. A normal player shouldn't be higher than 30 by the time they finish Blighttown, and you need to be under their level to invade them. My Darkwraith was level 15 (4 Kings were not easy!), and I had pretty good luck invading those places along with Undead Parish. I used a Lightning Estoc just for fun, but I wish I had used a Shotel instead. It's fun to mess with shielders.

I'm getting annoyed here...anyone got a character level 22-42 that can assist me? I'm trying to get my SL32 to Anor but I can't get past those bow guys...I've died 15+ times.

I would if I still had it installed. Had to make room for other games. I would usually try to get them to change their positions and get one of them to come at me in melee out of line of sight of the other.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 20, 2013, 08:48:41 am
35 is way too high for Sens Fortress/Depths/Blighttown as a Darkwraith. A normal player shouldn't be higher than 30 by the time they finish Blighttown, and you need to be under their level to invade them. My Darkwraith was level 15 (4 Kings were not easy!), and I had pretty good luck invading those places along with Undead Parish. I used a Lightning Estoc just for fun, but I wish I had used a Shotel instead. It's fun to mess with shielders.

I would if I still had it installed. Had to make room for other games. I would usually try to get them to change their positions and get one of them to come at me in melee out of line of sight of the other.

Dark Wraiths can invade anyone 10 levels lower or infinitely higher than them I do believe.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on April 20, 2013, 08:59:15 am
Dark Wraiths can invade anyone 10 levels lower or infinitely higher than them I do believe.

10% of Soul Level + 10 downward and infinitely upward.

SL 120 can invade down to 98 and infinitely upwards, as an example.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on April 20, 2013, 09:01:18 am
Didn't realize it could go lower. Was there an update since the game went to PC, or did I just always miss that? Even at SL 15, successfully invading at Undeadburg was rare.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on April 20, 2013, 09:17:41 am
Didn't realize it could go lower. Was there an update since the game went to PC, or did I just always miss that? Even at SL 15, successfully invading at Undeadburg was rare.

Can't remember a time when it was different. I think you're pushed towards higher level invasions though and lower level ones are harder to get. Not sure.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 21, 2013, 12:09:08 am
Muwahaha, been invading in Sen's Fortress and Anor.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 21, 2013, 12:21:18 am
Got Demon Souls on Friday, epic game.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 21, 2013, 01:51:58 am
Got Demon Souls on Friday, epic game.

Wait, you hadnt played it before or?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on April 21, 2013, 02:44:27 am
Painted World if where you gotta invade, had a blast there.

Won my first 1v3 which was intense as shit.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 21, 2013, 03:24:43 am
Wait, you hadnt played it before or?

No, sadly, but I've always wanted to play it. only got world 5 left to explore. Did 3 matches of PvP today as well, managed to win them all. Some guy even sent me messages asking how to BS. But gotta get used to the grass heal :/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Dezilagel on April 22, 2013, 09:36:41 am
Just kicked a guy down a ledge who tried to run away and heal in Darkroot, 300 style.

Game doesn't get more awesome than this.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 22, 2013, 09:48:55 am
So after around 17 hrs I'm already over in NG+ trying to do some PvP hosting this time around. Demon Souls seemed easier than Dark Souls, but that might just be that I am actually familiar with the game style. Also because I usually go for PvP builds in Dark Souls which makes me a low level when I do the bosses. Anyway, Demon Souls is a great game, some things are better and some things are not better than Dark Souls. For the PvP part it feels  bit like the same, just have to keep in mind that the 0 poise can fuck you up. Anyway, using the foes ring with my +3 Dragon bone smasher can deal a shit ton of dmg :P
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Post by: Polobow on April 27, 2013, 11:23:06 pm
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 29, 2013, 05:33:06 pm
Dark bead... what a cheesy spell...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on April 29, 2013, 05:43:06 pm
Dark bead... what a cheesy spell...

Roll
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 29, 2013, 05:58:31 pm
Use chameleon, then when the enemy comes close, dark bead them. Never done it myself (cuz I've never used dark magic),  but it can surprise most guys. Because you can't see the wielders weapon if you use chameleon.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 29, 2013, 08:55:42 pm
Roll

IKR!!! but the people i fight dont... And even if they do i can just tank one hit and then oneshot them with it, hilariously op i feel bad for using it. But a gravelords gotta do what a gravelords gotta do.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on April 30, 2013, 01:53:06 am
So few invasions, hopefully there will be better online in DkS2
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on April 30, 2013, 02:49:41 am
THE TRUE DARK SOULS STARTS HERE


Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on April 30, 2013, 09:03:56 am
Reinstalled and did some invading today. I was not prepared for the amount of NG+ players a level 16 Darkwraith can be put against. A whole lot more than a few months ago (which does make perfect sense). I really need to finish farming Chunks and leveling my Pyromancy, but it's a long walk when you don't have the Lordvessel yet.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on April 30, 2013, 09:12:15 am
So few invasions, hopefully there will be better online in DkS2

If you want to do PvP come to the steam group chat, usually have around 14 - 26 members in the chat and almost everyone are willing to do some PvP if asked. Tried to do some Arena DM, got 2 of 3 guys summoned but the last guy was just not paying attention and we ended up waiting for around 1.4 hrs just waiting for him. Turned out he had stayed at the wrong arena for 1 hr. Then when he came to the correct one he kept going on the wrong pad -.-
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Lennu on May 03, 2013, 12:30:43 am
Having some bad problems with co-op and pvp. At least at the Dukes Archives bonfire I can't see any signs, nor invade anyone after an hour of trying. I feel like the multiplay feature has broken somehow. At the Gargoyles I remember spotting dozens of summons sings almost instantly after switching into human form, and getting invaded almost constantly. Now it feels like the who game has gone completely silent.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 03, 2013, 12:51:11 am
Church always have lots of summons and low level DW invaders. I've found some activity in Dukes, but mostly from PVE'ers when invading with my SL 94
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Lennu on May 03, 2013, 01:08:11 am
Well, I was surprised how I couldn't find anyone, when the region is the whole world  :?
Surely someone has to be in human form to invade...  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on May 03, 2013, 09:06:17 am
Blame it on GFWL.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Lennu on May 03, 2013, 11:13:35 am
Yeah, a friend of mine is playing this on xbow. He told that in one day he did over 30 co-op bosses, got summoned within minutes after placing the summon sign. On PC same amount would take weeks if not months lol.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on May 03, 2013, 11:49:25 am
Check if your upnp is open and ports are forwarded (blame GFWL)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on May 03, 2013, 11:59:13 am
The best thing about Dark Souls 2 is that it will not use GFWL. I'm super hyped JUST FOR THAT.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 03, 2013, 02:03:16 pm
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Post by: Gristle on May 03, 2013, 03:05:44 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Muki on May 03, 2013, 11:48:55 pm
Lol nice reskin
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 04, 2013, 12:26:48 am
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 07, 2013, 10:13:33 am
So how the hell do you start this game without it crashing? I started it once, it was in shitty windowed mode half off my screen so I changed the resolution and set it to fullscreen in game. Now when I try to start it the screen flickers over and over and I have to alt+f4 out. Tried a bunch of stuff but can't fix it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 07, 2013, 12:08:53 pm
So how the hell do you start this game without it crashing? I started it once, it was in shitty windowed mode half off my screen so I changed the resolution and set it to fullscreen in game. Now when I try to start it the screen flickers over and over and I have to alt+f4 out. Tried a bunch of stuff but can't fix it.

Are you using any mod like Dsfix?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Molly on May 07, 2013, 12:33:31 pm
If Gfwl is working for you, you already managed 95% of the issues with this baaaadly coded and executed console-port...
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 07, 2013, 01:04:23 pm
One thing you can try, uninstall everything that has to do with Games for windows live, like marketplace etc. Start the game without re-downloading them, if that doesn't work, download the latest client from their website, see if that works.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 07, 2013, 02:08:32 pm
Yeah tried uninstalling and reinstalling those but didn't work. The issue started when I changed the in game options. So I'm going to reinstall the game and then I found that DSfix mod so I'll give that a go maybe and hopefully it'll work!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 07, 2013, 03:11:51 pm
Take off AA, with or without Dsfix.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 07, 2013, 05:14:55 pm
Yeah AA is off. Reinstalled it but this time it wouldn't even start, like the options I previously changed are still there as it's acting the same. Wondering where the in game settings are saved? Because even though I reinstalled it's still acting as if it's trying to get into fullscreen mode and can't.

If I activate the fullscreen mode in DSfix it opens full screen and immediately crashed. So it just cuts out the flickering open and closed part. It's very strange.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 07, 2013, 05:22:29 pm
What other settings did you fix in the DSfix?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 07, 2013, 05:28:40 pm
Ok success. Took me a lot of searching on google, for some reason couldn't find out the location but found the original .ini file that the game made. On there I changed AA to 0 and fullscreen to 0. It's now started but in windowed mode. Will now try using DSfix to actually change it to fullscreen.

Edit:

Put in DSfix, changed to full screen in that and now it's working. Serves me right for trying to change the in game options! :rolleyes:
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 07, 2013, 05:41:21 pm
Hehe, good, now get ready to face twinks burg :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 07, 2013, 05:45:32 pm
Twinks burg?

Xbox-360 controller should arrive tomorrow. Just wanted to set it up so I can play off the bat because been looking forward to this for a while  :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 07, 2013, 07:29:23 pm
Twinks in Undead Burg looking to invade new players. Quite common.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on May 07, 2013, 08:42:38 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on May 08, 2013, 02:55:44 am
Twinks in Undead Burg looking to invade new players. Quite common.

My burg twink doesn't use elemental weapons.

Just 'cause I'm a cool guy.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 10, 2013, 02:09:24 pm
Working on the bell gargoyles. I'm fine until the second one turns up then I get torn apart.

Basically the bloody fire.

Edit:

Been trying for two hours. Problem is whilst one sprays the fire I can't get near the first one and I'm to avoid everything. But if I take the hits on my shield, because both start meleeing my stamina instantly gets pummelled down. Can handle the first one, losing know health. But no idea how to avoid the second on on top of the first.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 10, 2013, 03:42:03 pm
Working on the bell gargoyles. I'm fine until the second one turns up then I get torn apart.

Basically the bloody fire.

Edit:

Been trying for two hours. Problem is whilst one sprays the fire I can't get near the first one and I'm to avoid everything. But if I take the hits on my shield, because both start meleeing my stamina instantly gets pummelled down. Can handle the first one, losing know health. But no idea how to avoid the second on on top of the first.

Tried summoning Lautrec or Solaire?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 10, 2013, 04:07:41 pm
Can't. No humanity to go turn human atm. Didn't even know that was a thing till I looked up a vid on how to do this.

Must have tried like 20 times at least. Individually they are fine but it's pretty much the fire that fucks me up.

May start again with a different char. Knight seems to slow.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 10, 2013, 04:58:33 pm
Try using the gold pine resin, its effective against dragon family enemies. You will do around 30% more damage atleast.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 10, 2013, 05:06:26 pm
Upgrade your weapon at the blacksmith, should be able to get it to +5 if you farm some shards. And also gold pine resin if you have those from earlier in the burg.

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 10, 2013, 05:22:34 pm
Upgraded my weapon already to +4. Where do you get the gold pine resin?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TurmoilTom on May 10, 2013, 05:42:58 pm
To get the gold pine resin you need either the Residence Key from the Undead Burg Merchant or the Master Key from the starting gifts. The pine resin is in a chest behind one of the houses. You have to walk through the house to get there. If you go to the staircase with the burning barrel that gets tossed down the stairs at you and turn to your right just before you go up, you should see the chest to the left of the staircase that leads to the Black Knight and the Blue Tearstone Ring.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 10, 2013, 06:01:16 pm
Ok yeah got it. Went back and managed to get some humanity as well.

Edit:

Ok beat that boss. Basically me being a twat. I had tons of humanity things and didn't realise. I thought when I was picking them up they were automatically going into my humanity, and that I just didn't understand why I was out of humanity so fast. So I actually read what those are, used one, made myself human, summoned Solaire and beat the Gargoyles within a minute. 10x easier than on my own lol.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on May 10, 2013, 11:10:13 pm
I did the first titanite demon, capra, butterfly and even gaping before the gargoyles. Also I had completely explored darkroot (tried sif once). Because I'm such a badass.

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The only bosses I didn't do alone were Seath and Gwyn. You may think that's intentional, in fact it was more because I didn't wanted to lose humanity and cba to wait for white/gold marks.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on May 10, 2013, 11:46:31 pm
I did the first titanite demon, capra, butterfly and even gaping before the gargoyles. Also I had completely explored darkroot (tried sif once). Because I'm such a badass.

(click to show/hide)

The only bosses I didn't do alone were Seath and Gwyn. You may think that's intentional, in fact it was more because I didn't wanted to lose humanity and cba to wait for white/gold marks.

You solo'd smough & co?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 11, 2013, 12:14:12 am
Building a giant dad character, THE LEGEND NEVER DIES! Going to ninja flip so a huge fucking amount of endurance lol.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on May 11, 2013, 02:42:58 am
Now defeated the dragon. Tried the Capra Demon but I literally enter in through the door and almost get 1 hitted even whilst blocking. Tried following the guides suggestion of going right and then up the stairs but always seem to get caught by the demon and then finished by the dogs so will try him later.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nehvar on May 11, 2013, 04:07:50 am
A shield with heavy block should take the edge off the capra fight.  That's any large shield plus the medium "iron round shield".  A heavy block shield will cause any of his single-sword swings to bounce, leaving him open and giving you some breathing room.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on May 11, 2013, 01:44:07 pm
Capra demon is a strange boss. Either you're getting owned by it, or you beat it first try. It's really strange. I got it first try, but when i saw others complaining about the difficulty i looked on YT to see how others dealt with it. Turns out defensive players usually beat it first time, while squishy mages/dex guys get owned.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 11, 2013, 01:58:52 pm
Strength characters with heavy armor usually makes the game quicker. For example, I had an easier time beating the game with my full on str char. rather than with my dex char.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on May 12, 2013, 08:27:52 pm
Ok yeah got it. Went back and managed to get some humanity as well.

Edit:

Ok beat that boss. Basically me being a twat. I had tons of humanity things and didn't realise. I thought when I was picking them up they were automatically going into my humanity, and that I just didn't understand why I was out of humanity so fast. So I actually read what those are, used one, made myself human, summoned Solaire and beat the Gargoyles within a minute. 10x easier than on my own lol.

I don't know if this will help you but sometimes not locking on and being able to sprint around bosses/enemies plus being able to approach at different angles besides moving around the circumference or straight forward or back made using things like sprinting attacks and dodge roll attacks a lot easier.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gristle on May 12, 2013, 09:30:49 pm
May start again with a different char. Knight seems to slow.

Your starting class is not THAT important unless you're really focused on a min/max build. All characters move at the same speed. If you find you're rolling too slow, you either need more stamina or need to wear lighter armor and/or use a lighter weapon.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 02, 2013, 11:40:58 pm
Got invaded in anor londo on my level 30 something character, was trying to summon people but failed. So i was like 'shiiit'. But he didnt attack me, instead he followed me through the castle and then suicided (dunno if it was an accident just saw him fall to his death).. sad to see him go in such a manner but maybe it was for the best... dick wraiths arent always dick wraiths..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 11, 2013, 12:20:26 am
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on June 11, 2013, 12:34:20 am
Epic.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on June 11, 2013, 07:44:43 pm
You solo'd smough & co?

Yes x)

As a result I killed Smough first and didn't get some important armor set
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on June 11, 2013, 08:40:49 pm
Yes x)

As a result I killed Smough first and didn't get some important armor set

That's quite a feat.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 12, 2013, 09:58:30 pm
Accidentaly shut my self down in tomb of giants without the Lordvessel, oh what a pain to get up from there -_- ng+ to make things worse aswell.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on June 12, 2013, 11:15:07 pm
Accidentaly shut my self down in tomb of giants without the Lordvessel, oh what a pain to get up from there -_- ng+ to make things worse aswell.

I remember there's a large ember in a big tomb with a half dozen big skeletons guarding it not very far from where you go when you want to go up to Pinwheel (Pinwheel :lol:) that one is such a bitch to get with all those mobs
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on June 13, 2013, 02:31:54 am
That's quite a feat.

is it? I did it all solo I assumed most people did. think i summon'd some npc dude on gargoyle and spider lady.

thinking about it makes me want to dl and play again but think I will just wait impatiently for ds2.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Mammonist on June 13, 2013, 07:01:01 am
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on June 13, 2013, 09:46:48 am
is it? I did it all solo I assumed most people did. think i summon'd some npc dude on gargoyle and spider lady.

thinking about it makes me want to dl and play again but think I will just wait impatiently for ds2.

Didn't you say earlier in this thread that you used a trainer / save state, on your play through?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on June 13, 2013, 03:25:59 pm
I did all the bosses solo, granted Ornstein and Smough took me about a half dozen tries. Then the DLC bosses were a bitch, especially that Dragon because I wanted his tail, I must've failed on that boss about ~15 times before I got it right.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on June 14, 2013, 01:21:51 am
Didn't you say earlier in this thread that you used a trainer / save state, on your play through?

good point. certainly saved me hours of pointless tedium when I am attempting a boss 10+ times. and yet didnt make the game less challenging ;). was only one area i used save backup to make easier was that one where I kept falling off and was going ot rage quit otherwise.

duno what a trainer is tho, maybe I forgot. doesnt sound like something I used.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 15, 2013, 09:01:40 pm

Dem jap-o-neees players. Pretty epic editing there heh. Also quick items switches :o
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on June 15, 2013, 09:23:21 pm
Filthy backstab lagger
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 15, 2013, 10:24:39 pm
Against gankers its allowed ;)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 15, 2013, 11:57:03 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on June 16, 2013, 03:25:59 am
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Morris on June 16, 2013, 04:40:12 pm
I just invaded some hacker who reset all my stats to 1 but not my soul level and for some reason DSFix backup saves was disabled.


GG
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on June 16, 2013, 04:42:11 pm
I just invaded some hacker who reset all my stats to 1 but not my soul level and for some reason DSFix backup saves was disabled.


GG

Enjoy the REAL dark souls.




To everybody waiting for DkS 2 : if you have a PS3 buy Demon's Souls, it is slightly better than Dark Souls in many ways and also really harder.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 16, 2013, 04:46:29 pm
I just invaded some hacker who reset all my stats to 1 but not my soul level and for some reason DSFix backup saves was disabled.


GG

Damn that sucks, guess i'd better back my shit up or else this could happen to me.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nehvar on June 16, 2013, 05:59:19 pm
I just invaded some hacker who reset all my stats to 1 but not my soul level and for some reason DSFix backup saves was disabled.


GG

And that's why I don't play online anymore.  GFWL is worthless and full of cheaters.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on June 16, 2013, 06:13:57 pm
And that's why I don't play online anymore.  GFWL is worthless and full of cheaters.

Scrubs can't handle the real dark souls experience
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Morris on June 17, 2013, 05:33:59 pm
Alright, I'm gonna make a new character now. I don't wanna remake a bodybuilder strength guy so I think I'll make a wimpy intelligence nerd sorcerer. Is the Moonlight Butterfly Horn worth getting or should I just wait until I get the Moonlight GS?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on June 17, 2013, 05:47:07 pm
To everybody waiting for DkS 2 : if you have a PS3 buy Demon's Souls, it is slightly better than Dark Souls in many ways and also really harder.

THIS. Demon's Souls > Dark Souls. Dark Souls was pretty damned good but provided nowhere near the same amount of fun as the first for me. I think they really fucked up the online component. The PvP in Demon's was soooo much better. I literally have 1500 or so hours logged on that game with about 75% of that time being PvP. It legitimately makes me sad that the online community is dwindling. Played it a month or so back and did a little PvP, the little I could find. Always fun invading people at SL15 with NG+ level gear and showing them the true difficulty that is Demon's Souls!  :twisted:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 17, 2013, 07:50:56 pm
Alright, I'm gonna make a new character now. I don't wanna remake a bodybuilder strength guy so I think I'll make a wimpy intelligence nerd sorcerer. Is the Moonlight Butterfly Horn worth getting or should I just wait until I get the Moonlight GS?

Both are good, but completely different weapons so whatever floats your boat, Greatsword or spear. Consider upgrading a painting guardian sword aswell, it has an S int scaling at +5, which is pretty damn nasty. Also dont forget obligatory Dark bead, one shots everything.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on June 17, 2013, 08:21:21 pm
I played Dark Souls first and then went over to Demon Souls. I managed to complete Demon Souls in around 3 days with my strength based char. PvP in Demon Souls is fun but now only way to get some real action is to get into a fight club, luckily I got invited to a group who did PvP in 4-1 almost every day. Only thing that bugged me was that you lost a soul level when a summoned red killed you, or you died as a summoned red. Unlimited "mana" due to old spice and the second chance sort of just made it a bit more "meh". But non the less it was a fun experience.

Still prefer Dark Souls over Demon Souls in almost every aspect of the game.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on June 17, 2013, 08:56:15 pm
I played Dark Souls first and then went over to Demon Souls. I managed to complete Demon Souls in around 3 days with my strength based char. PvP in Demon Souls is fun but now only way to get some real action is to get into a fight club, luckily I got invited to a group who did PvP in 4-1 almost every day. Only thing that bugged me was that you lost a soul level when a summoned red killed you, or you died as a summoned red. Unlimited "mana" due to old spice and the second chance sort of just made it a bit more "meh". But non the less it was a fun experience.

Still prefer Dark Souls over Demon Souls in almost every aspect of the game.

Meh, I think those fight clubs give you a bad perspective on the PvP aspect of the game, though to be fair it's one of the only ways to get any consistent PvP anymore so I can understand why you got involved in one. Where Demon's Souls PvP truly shined was in the random invades, and being invaded yourself. Playing through a level just to be invaded was literally a nerve-wracking experience, especially when you were new to the game. And there was nothing funner than ruining someone's day by invading them and helplessly slaughtering them when they're only a moment or two before the boss. I'll never forget those experiences.  :twisted:

Unfortunately the fight clubs take a lot of the tension and adrenaline out of it as they're more structured and you know what you're getting into, but like I said before, it's understandable as it's one of the few remaining ways to access consistent PvP.

Also, what SL were you guys fighting at?  :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on June 17, 2013, 09:09:07 pm
We were fighting at SL 100 ~ 120
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on June 17, 2013, 10:50:58 pm
We were fighting at SL 100 ~ 120

Ah fun fun! I remember when the PvP scene was active, had my SL120 faith build with the great axe/mirdan hammer setup, boy that build wrecked. I think I lost maybe twice, I played that game way too much.

I tend to enjoy less structured PvP more though, adds more of a sense of adrenaline, nothing like being SL10 and getting invaded by someone who has a Dragon Mirdan Hammer +5 and a maxed Old King's Armor set, now that is true despair and hopelessness!  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on June 18, 2013, 04:20:00 pm
This one is so brilliant I want to post it again

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on June 18, 2013, 08:38:32 pm
That is seriously hilarious, definitely need to save that.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 25, 2013, 11:18:36 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Working_Class on July 04, 2013, 06:21:14 am
I just got the game like a week ago, and i have like one level 20 pyromancer and a level 15 knight tanky dude, any tips for a noob? cause i have no idea whats happening and i suck ASS :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on July 04, 2013, 12:18:28 pm
I just got the game like a week ago, and i have like one level 20 pyromancer and a level 15 knight tanky dude, any tips for a noob? cause i have no idea whats happening and i suck ASS :P

Play and get better. One of the core aspects of dark souls is exploring. Checking stuff on the wiki spoils that.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on July 15, 2013, 12:47:36 am
why i cant buy this shit on steam now?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on July 15, 2013, 03:16:41 am
Uhm, what?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on July 15, 2013, 11:41:38 am
gimme best place to buy game, i am not educated enough to do it. (need PC version)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tom Cruise on July 15, 2013, 12:13:24 pm
I honestly think this game is kind of bad.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on July 15, 2013, 01:26:26 pm
Buy it on steam ofc. But only if you have a xbox or Ps3 controller. The keyboard and mouse controls sucks and will just give you a disadvantage over other players when doing PvP.


I honestly think this game is kind of bad.

What are you, casual?

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: [ptx] on July 15, 2013, 01:29:35 pm
Buying it on steam?

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Armpit_Sweat on July 15, 2013, 01:31:38 pm
I honestly think this game is kind of bad.

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on July 15, 2013, 02:18:35 pm
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/lv/en/pc/games/action/dark-souls-prepare-die-edition-eu/ is this good place to buy it? (pretty expensive though)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on July 15, 2013, 02:45:58 pm
I honestly think this game is kind of bad.

Why? did you finish it or did you give up half way through?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on July 15, 2013, 02:49:42 pm
bought it, cant wait to try it out  :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on July 15, 2013, 03:21:00 pm
bought it, cant wait to try it out  :)

GL HF, remember to get some mods running such as the DSfix and mouse and keyboard fix if you are playing without controller.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on July 15, 2013, 03:40:46 pm
oh yeah first impressions are that i need better computer and forgetting controller at work sucks.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tom Cruise on July 15, 2013, 07:23:02 pm
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Why? did you finish it or did you give up half way through?

Lol I like things about it and dislike things about it. I dont really like the combat system. Not because its simple or anything. Its just kinda clunky and not well thought out. For example when I was fighting the first boss (Asylum Demon). I would get hit by things when I was well out of range or if I dodged it and something still hit me (unless theres some area of effect thing.) I would also take damage yet nothing would happen to my character like getting staggered or knocked around. He would do a vertical attack up to down, I would dodge, it would miss, I still get hit.

Also I think this game has the worst tutorial/learning curve Ive ever seen. While I was able to pick it up fairly quick, with a little struggle and help I got it. But for everyone Ive talked too about this they have to google or go on the wiki for about 90% of the game (someone mentioned going on the wiki in the thread like a page or two ago, too lazy to look). They only really explain basic stuff on the hints but leave out a lot. This ties in to the difficulty. Not in the way you think it is. You can walk into random enemies and not know how tough they are, yet you have free access to everywhere. Free access to get your ass plowed in by a dude that looks like Sauron or a horde of skeletons. While I dont have a problem with the game having difficult enemies, but they set it up for you to die, having you lose all your hard earned souls. Which isnt fun for me. I dont want to have to keep farming enemies and bosses to keep getting back to what I had before because I dont know if I cant take on a simple looking skeleton my size.

They also dont tell you what and what not to kill. I found this out the hard way killing the sun knight after the taurus demon. They didnt tell me I would be invaded by other people that are massive levels ahead of me. And the only way to get rid of it is to progress through the game to a certain point and give up a certain amount of souls. With the way they set you up to die constantly from random stupidity or from being invaded, that is hard as shit.

Speaking of multiplayer, it is hot dogshit in this game. Have to be within 10% of levels, have to be near area boss, have to be human. Ok kinda weird but I can do it. Then you see the summons signs like 30% of the time its put it. Me and my friend tried for hours to get one summon sign up, could never see it for some reason, for both of us. And even then its not worth it because we will end up dying at some point, its a given. Then you have to re summon someone all over again and go through that dumb process.

TL:DR
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on July 15, 2013, 07:37:32 pm
Lol I like things about it and dislike things about it. I dont really like the combat system. Not because its simple or anything. Its just kinda clunky and not well thought out. For example when I was fighting the first boss (Asylum Demon). I would get hit by things when I was well out of range or if I dodged it and something still hit me (unless theres some area of effect thing.) I would also take damage yet nothing would happen to my character like getting staggered or knocked around. He would do a vertical attack up to down, I would dodge, it would miss, I still get hit.

Also I think this game has the worst tutorial/learning curve Ive ever seen. While I was able to pick it up fairly quick, with a little struggle and help I got it. But for everyone Ive talked too about this they have to google or go on the wiki for about 90% of the game (someone mentioned going on the wiki in the thread like a page or two ago, too lazy to look). They only really explain basic stuff on the hints but leave out a lot. This ties in to the difficulty. Not in the way you think it is. You can walk into random enemies and not know how tough they are, yet you have free access to everywhere. Free access to get your ass plowed in by a dude that looks like Sauron or a horde of skeletons. While I dont have a problem with the game having difficult enemies, but they set it up for you to die, having you lose all your hard earned souls. Which isnt fun for me. I dont want to have to keep farming enemies and bosses to keep getting back to what I had before because I dont know if I cant take on a simple looking skeleton my size.

They also dont tell you what and what not to kill. I found this out the hard way killing the sun knight after the taurus demon. They didnt tell me I would be invaded by other people that are massive levels ahead of me. And the only way to get rid of it is to progress through the game to a certain point and give up a certain amount of souls. With the way they set you up to die constantly from random stupidity or from being invaded, that is hard as shit.

Speaking of multiplayer, it is hot dogshit in this game. Have to be within 10% of levels, have to be near area boss, have to be human. Ok kinda weird but I can do it. Then you see the summons signs like 30% of the time its put it. Me and my friend tried for hours to get one summon sign up, could never see it for some reason, for both of us. And even then its not worth it because we will end up dying at some point, its a given. Then you have to re summon someone all over again and go through that dumb process.

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Yeah your points are mostly valid, the tutorial is shit but most players still make it past it if they are persistent enough and if you give up that early you wouldve given up somewhere mid-through the game anyways.

Summonings are shitty on pc, on console it's a lot better for some reason..

About the dodging, asylum demon has a massive hammer so im pretty sure the top of the hammer usually has a wind aoe which staggers you. Getting hit through dodges must be either bad timed or dodging back in to the swing, because when you get used to the dodging you can basically dodge everything.


Shitty summonings and shitty tutorials will both be fixed in the upcoming Dark souls 2, so expect a better experience there ^^
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on July 15, 2013, 08:28:56 pm
Why? did you finish it or did you give up half way through?

You seriously believe that one must finish a game to form an opinion about it?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on July 15, 2013, 09:26:06 pm
You seriously believe that one must finish a game to form an opinion about it?

No, simply asking to see how far he got as the game gets more fun and interesting the further you get into it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on July 16, 2013, 12:47:43 pm
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You are one of the few people who dislike Dark Souls's difficulty, and actually say so. I applaud you. Usually they are a lot more verbal about it.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on July 16, 2013, 03:51:49 pm
TIL shit design and mechanics is now 'difficulty'.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on July 16, 2013, 03:59:30 pm
TIL shit design and mechanics is now 'difficulty'.

rofl.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tom Cruise on July 16, 2013, 08:17:45 pm
You are one of the few people who dislike Dark Souls's difficulty, and actually say so. I applaud you. Usually they are a lot more verbal about it.

Its not necessarily the difficulty, because Ive played difficult games or games with difficult  bosses, etc etc. But the tutorial is dogshit and so are the mechanics, which makes it more difficult than it should be. I could get used to it and work my way around it, but that would take time I dont want to invest to something I already dont like just so I can get some decent gameplay in.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: zagibu on July 22, 2013, 12:33:22 am
WTF Games for Windows LIVE, RAAAAAARGGH. Why did I buy this crap? I hate all of you who recommended it! DIE IN A TORRENT OF LAVA.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Weren on July 22, 2013, 12:44:24 am
WTF Games for Windows LIVE, RAAAAAARGGH. Why did I buy this crap? I hate all of you who recommended it! DIE IN A TORRENT OF LAVA.
Yeah, No multiplayer for me, since my GFWL account is in Korean for some unknown reason. Had to make an offline account.  :?

I've had so many negative experiences with GFWL that I think I will be seriously boycotting that shit in the future.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Eugen on July 22, 2013, 12:50:06 am
Dark souls is a game meant for PS3. Dont play it on PC.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Havoco on July 22, 2013, 01:20:24 am
I only bought it because I wanted a steam trading card.  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on July 22, 2013, 02:28:22 am
Been playing this again. Last time I raged at capra demon. This time we actually got gfwl working with that mod. Works a treat and can summon friends every single time without fail now. Capra demon just got owned with two of us.

Dark souls is a game meant for PS3. Dont play it on PC.

It has its quirks on pc but as long as you have a controller its no worse than most games.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nehvar on July 22, 2013, 07:29:25 am
Yeah, No multiplayer for me, since my GFWL account is in Korean for some unknown reason. Had to make an offline account.  :?

I've had so many negative experiences with GFWL that I think I will be seriously boycotting that shit in the future.

I hear you on that.  This game was my first experience with GFWL and It will be my last.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on July 23, 2013, 10:50:53 am
Remember pinwheel?
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Someone drawed him, and it looks creepy man.

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: FRANK_THE_TANK on July 26, 2013, 12:26:40 am
Love that drawing.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on July 26, 2013, 12:34:04 am
Got to the shrine at the top of Sen's fortress. Happiest day of my life.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on July 26, 2013, 05:38:47 am
If you enjoyed platforming there as much as I did remember to say hi to the floor in a certain hall in a certain location not far from where you're now. Me and her are good acquaintances by now, thanks to clunky combat animations.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on July 26, 2013, 11:08:38 am
Well got the lightning spear from the mimic so things are much easier there now. Not sure what floor you're talking about  :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on July 26, 2013, 06:04:42 pm
Well got the lightning spear from the mimic so things are much easier there now. Not sure what floor you're talking about  :P

Just a liiiitle bit further.

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on July 26, 2013, 06:08:50 pm
Still confused I'm now past Sen's to the big city place. Forget it's name. What I miss? :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on July 26, 2013, 06:20:58 pm
Anor Londo, and you missed nothing yet. 

Have fun.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on July 26, 2013, 06:23:10 pm
O yay. Well already dealt with the gargoyles and got all the chests behind those giant knights.

Unfortunately I attacked the first blacksmith and had to kill him as he just stayed mad at me. So I'm absolutely dying to get to the next one and repair/upgrade a couple of weapons. I've pretty much used every single weapon in my inventory to break point by now. The ones I can use anyway.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on July 26, 2013, 06:27:19 pm
You killed Andre?

That produces... certain problems.  :lol:

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on July 26, 2013, 08:51:45 pm
Well, you are pretty much unable to craft "good" weapons now, will certainly make the last bosses harder.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: AntiBlitz on July 26, 2013, 09:13:02 pm
he means the giant blacksmith in Anor Londo, not the big ass buff bearded blacksmith.
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Post by: Overdriven on July 26, 2013, 11:46:15 pm
I attacked him by accident as well and couldn't go back :( just pressed a wrong button lol.

And yeah I mean the Blacksmith above that titanite boss before the gardens. The giant blacksmith should be fine to get to. This lightning spear is a god send.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on July 27, 2013, 12:11:19 am
Without Andre you can't upgrade basic weapons to their certain advanced versions. Not a big deal imho (because they're shit anyway compared to some drops and you upgrade those special drops at bonfire), but some people probably would say it's restart-worthy.

BTW. Bloody hell, Sif fight is annoying without a shield. Killed her on something like 7th attempt on NG+, I'm still not 100% sure what are the tells for various attacks to dodge them reliably.
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Post by: Vexus on July 27, 2013, 04:23:38 pm
Try and get the demon spear from the gargoyle like demons it's awesome.

It might make the game a tad easier thanks to it's reach tough.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 04, 2013, 03:08:26 am

This guy is pretty good, 2:00 >-<
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Post by: Tore on August 04, 2013, 09:15:19 am

This guy is pretty good, 2:00 >-<

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Post by: Nightmare798 on August 04, 2013, 11:04:35 am
this port is one of crappiest ive ever seen. it absolutely outclasses gta 4 in shittynes and is on par with saints row 2.

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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 04, 2013, 02:21:48 pm
this port is one of crappiest ive ever seen. it absolutely outclasses gta 4 in shittynes and is on par with saints row 2.

It is crappy, they only made it because people really wanted it on pc. Luckily mods fixes most of the problems.
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Post by: Nehvar on August 04, 2013, 09:49:16 pm
this port is one of crappiest ive ever seen. it absolutely outclasses gta 4 in shittynes and is on par with saints row 2.

Yeah, it's a pretty shitty port.  You really need to use the DSFix mod and a XBOX360 or PS3 (via MotionJoy) controller.  If you can do that then it gets much better.  If you're not willing to do that then, yeah, it's probably unplayable.
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 06, 2013, 07:01:06 pm
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Post by: Polobow on August 06, 2013, 07:47:39 pm
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Fuck that looks epic.
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Post by: Tot. on August 06, 2013, 11:46:55 pm
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 14, 2013, 07:03:05 am

This can be abused, 3:13, i can finally become Gwyn.
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 14, 2013, 01:32:04 pm
Shit, Smogs hammer > scimitar. How can you not lose a PvP match using that ? :|
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 17, 2013, 02:29:18 pm
http://sketchfab.com/show/0f1c3137da3f4872bc786d7a9cb04da0

Looks amazing
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Post by: Eugen on August 17, 2013, 10:25:56 pm
 
I needed to grind to level 35 to beat the Gargoyles and the Carprademon with my hunter  :mad:

Finally I have seen a littel bit of story going on. Still I am in the dark what that Lady at Firelinkshrine is up to...

Really. I like the fighting in Dark Souls, but ... there seems to be something like a story somewhere, but it really is well hidden. I mean, I met some strangers and freed some others. But all the characters I meet are only talking gibberish to me. Does it will make some sense later?

Did I miss something? I only got that I have to make my way up and ring the bell, then go down and ring the bell. Then someone/something will emerge... errr. What???  Will I get some statisfying reason, why I do all that awesome fighting ever?
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Post by: Tot. on August 17, 2013, 10:59:12 pm
Mystery is one of the coolest things about Dark Souls. You're not being forcefully fed with excessive amounts of lore you don't give shit about, instead you need to figure out things on your own from the scraps you find.

Protip: read item descriptions, they're probably the prime source of direct information.





Also, I wouldn't trust snakes.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 17, 2013, 11:35:47 pm

I needed to grind to level 35 to beat the Gargoyles and the Carprademon with my hunter  :mad:

Finally I have seen a littel bit of story going on. Still I am in the dark what that Lady at Firelinkshrine is up to...

Really. I like the fighting in Dark Souls, but ... there seems to be something like a story somewhere, but it really is well hidden. I mean, I met some strangers and freed some others. But all the characters I meet are only talking gibberish to me. Does it will make some sense later?

Did I miss something? I only got that I have to make my way up and ring the bell, then go down and ring the bell. Then someone/something will emerge... errr. What???  Will I get some statisfying reason, why I do all that awesome fighting ever?

When youve finished the game, all the lore is on the youtubes, in depth. But that may spoil the fun in finding the lore yourself.

And like Tot said, read item descriptions. It may not be the most fun way of finding lore, but piecing stuff together and finding out stuff through that is pretty sweet.
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Post by: Kafein on August 18, 2013, 03:37:18 am

I needed to grind to level 35 to beat the Gargoyles and the Carprademon with my hunter  :mad:

Finally I have seen a littel bit of story going on. Still I am in the dark what that Lady at Firelinkshrine is up to...

Really. I like the fighting in Dark Souls, but ... there seems to be something like a story somewhere, but it really is well hidden. I mean, I met some strangers and freed some others. But all the characters I meet are only talking gibberish to me. Does it will make some sense later?

Did I miss something? I only got that I have to make my way up and ring the bell, then go down and ring the bell. Then someone/something will emerge... errr. What???  Will I get some statisfying reason, why I do all that awesome fighting ever?

In Dark Souls (and Demon's Souls), you find tiny bits of lore through talking with people, loading screens and item descriptions, but sometimes even the enemies of a given zone or the place where a specific armor can be found will hint you things that you may or may not understand or link to something else at first. Most if not all of it is utterly useless for completing the game though.

Also, I wouldn't trust snakes.

That one is more subtle than you might think at first.
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Post by: Eugen on August 18, 2013, 05:56:25 am
Ok. Its just that I am used to games where most of the motivation comes through storytelling and questing (like dragon age, divinity, witcher) - but Dark Souls is entirely different, other then most rpgs it has a real challenging fighting system - and thats great.  Thanks all. I am curious what choices I will have to make yet in that game.
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Post by: Tom Cruise on August 18, 2013, 07:13:52 pm
Even though I never really liked Dark Souls, I will say that Dragons Dogma is IMO basically an upgraded version of Dark Souls.
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Post by: Polobow on August 18, 2013, 08:23:40 pm
Even though I never really liked Dark Souls, I will say that Dragons Dogma is IMO basically an upgraded version of Dark Souls.

Couldn't play that, since, you know, it's not on PC :(.
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 18, 2013, 08:52:45 pm
If they added Souls like co-op in Dragons Dogma I would agree with you, sort of.
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on August 21, 2013, 06:38:29 pm
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How cool wouldn't it be to have one of these?
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Post by: Kafein on August 21, 2013, 11:16:01 pm
That would be one of the few figurines I'd actually consider buying. Everywhere I see that kind of stuff in a shop and look at the prices I wonder do they even sell one in a billion years.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 22, 2013, 12:19:03 am
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How cool wouldn't it be to have one of these?

One with Solaire looking skyward wouldve been awesome aswell.
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Post by: Kafein on August 22, 2013, 02:01:43 am
One with a knight doing the "come at me bro" emote would have been even better
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 22, 2013, 01:13:53 pm
One with a knight doing the "come at me bro" emote would have been even better

A knight? nonono, a giant dad! The legend never dies.
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Post by: SeQuel on August 25, 2013, 01:24:31 am
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Hardest part in the game.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 25, 2013, 02:16:28 am
It's so easy now once you've gotten the hang of it though. But i remember the pain of the first playthrough...  :(
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Post by: Kafein on August 25, 2013, 05:16:01 am
The painful part is having to repeat the process of going there just to remain puzzled as to how you are supposed to do it.
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Post by: Polobow on August 25, 2013, 01:34:32 pm
The painful part is having to repeat the process of going there just to remain puzzled as to how you are supposed to do it.

And then once you're on top you're going batshit crazy on what to do now, nervously putting up your shield and randomly walking in a direction to get shot in the back and die.
git gud
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Post by: Latvian on August 25, 2013, 04:02:00 pm
gimme soema advices how to boost performance, cuz my laptop seems to be pretty outdated. I tried differnt things i found on internet but it looks like i made it worse and now have 8 fps :D
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Post by: Dezilagel on August 25, 2013, 11:19:10 pm
gimme soema advices how to boost performance, cuz my laptop seems to be pretty outdated. I tried differnt things i found on internet but it looks like i made it worse and now have 8 fps :D

I seem to have detected your problem.
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Post by: Latvian on August 25, 2013, 11:35:10 pm
I seem to have detected your problem.
buy me pc seems to be good fix of the problem
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Post by: Kafein on August 26, 2013, 12:51:14 am
buy me pc seems to be good fix of the problem

For how much can you buy a x360 or ps3 ? A little bit of lag in twilight town isn't really something to be afraid of.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 28, 2013, 12:39:31 am

Early DKS2 beta on ps3, gotta get me some access :/
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Post by: Nightmare798 on August 28, 2013, 03:12:04 pm
i am still sceptical about dark souls 2 pc release...

namco making a good pc release? who are you kidding here.
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Post by: Armpit_Sweat on August 28, 2013, 03:20:35 pm
Early DKS2 beta on ps3, gotta get me some access :/

Dat framerate...  :shock:

Reminds me of blighttown on game release...
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on August 28, 2013, 06:16:08 pm
Well to be fair i think the gameplay was on ps3, and the game is ported FROM pc, so if you guys are getting it on pc there will probably not be any framerate losses like in dks1.
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Post by: Nightmare798 on August 28, 2013, 07:21:45 pm
Well to be fair i think the gameplay was on ps3, and the game is ported FROM pc, so if you guys are getting it on pc there will probably not be any framerate losses like in dks1.

meh wont be able to play it untill i finally get my first job...
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Post by: Polobow on August 29, 2013, 12:51:20 pm
No matter how good/bad the PC game will be, mods will fix it ;).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nightmare798 on August 30, 2013, 01:18:49 pm
No matter how good/bad the PC game will be, mods will fix it ;).
unless everyone jumps that frostbite bandwagon... the mod scene is not as big as it used to be imo.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 04, 2013, 02:44:46 pm

Watch all 5, i probably only knew like 30 things out of 50.
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Post by: enigmatic_stranger on September 18, 2013, 08:03:49 pm
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Post by: Oberyn on September 18, 2013, 08:28:12 pm
Dark souls lore best lore. Check out that guy's "Prepare to Cry Edition" series on his channel, lays out a lore of the individual story threads in the game. The story and lore is mostly hidden, and you have to dig or make the connections between random items, locations and characters yourself.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on September 18, 2013, 08:33:34 pm
does it matter how fast i level up my guy? will enemy guys also level up or they stay at level they are meant to be from begining of game?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on September 18, 2013, 08:38:54 pm
does it matter how fast i level up my guy? will enemy guys also level up or they stay at level they are meant to be from begining of game?

It's fixed, so they won't change stats. AFAIK, bosses will get a tiny amount of extra health when you have phantoms, but that's totally negated, since 2 is always better then 1.
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Post by: Latvian on September 18, 2013, 10:21:08 pm
i got through those shiny doors in darkroot garden and i met those ghost/phantom  whatever guys and they kill me in 2 or sometimes 1 hit :(  is it worth going there with my low level guy?
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 18, 2013, 11:15:51 pm
i got through those shiny doors in darkroot garden and i met those ghost/phantom  whatever guys and they kill me in 2 or sometimes 1 hit :(  is it worth going there with my low level guy?

Nah, not really, unless you want to farm souls there. Also, go hollow in that area if you just want to farm in piece, or you will get invaded to pieces.
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Post by: Latvian on September 18, 2013, 11:42:26 pm
Nah, not really, unless you want to farm souls there. Also, go hollow in that area if you just want to farm in piece, or you will get invaded to pieces.
i fucked my windows live so i play in offline mode :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nightmare798 on September 19, 2013, 01:45:59 pm
does it matter how fast i level up my guy? will enemy guys also level up or they stay at level they are meant to be from begining of game?
this is a nasty trend in video games that needs to die.
ahh the old gothic games, when you were killed at low level by shadow beast, only to come back with epic fucking gear many levels later, obliterating it and everything in 10 mile radius.

good times.
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Post by: [ptx] on September 19, 2013, 04:42:34 pm
Fighting Shadowbeasts at high level? What.

Real men spend 10 minutes mashing that shadow beast at lvl3, because fuck coming back later.
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Post by: Tot. on September 19, 2013, 05:35:23 pm
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Post by: Latvian on September 19, 2013, 06:29:23 pm
i have never died so much in any other game, EVER!!!!
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Post by: zagibu on September 19, 2013, 07:13:35 pm
i have never died so much in any other game, EVER!!!!

Have you played Hotline Miami?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on September 19, 2013, 08:51:56 pm
Have you played Hotline Miami?
nope
P.S. Great Grey Wolf Sif is one tough boss :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on September 19, 2013, 11:17:52 pm
nope
P.S. Great Grey Wolf Sif is one tough boss :(

He is quite easy, just get a shield and turtle until you can go under him and hit him in the legs
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Post by: Latvian on September 20, 2013, 09:35:30 am
He is quite easy, just get a shield and turtle until you can go under him and hit him in the legs
i am so lame that when he does double attack hits down all my stamina with 1st hit and with second he kills me :(
and i still dont get it, how can i summon someone that could help me with bosses or how to become human or something. :( i am so bad
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Post by: Kafein on September 20, 2013, 11:02:47 am
i am so lame that when he does double attack hits down all my stamina with 1st hit and with second he kills me :(
and i still dont get it, how can i summon someone that could help me with bosses or how to become human or something. :( i am so bad

Take it like a man and do the whole game (almost) without a single white or gold phantom, like me. Sif isn't much trouble if you wait until you really have to kill him.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on September 20, 2013, 02:20:57 pm
i am so lame that when he does double attack hits down all my stamina with 1st hit and with second he kills me :(
and i still dont get it, how can i summon someone that could help me with bosses or how to become human or something. :( i am so bad

The spin does monster damage, its hard to block unless you have high stability on the shield i guess, so if you have a great shield try that, otherwise rolling through it isnt too hard, and effective since you will end up below him.
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Post by: Polobow on September 27, 2013, 06:27:08 pm
Two mods, in case anyone hasn't seen them. I think I'm going to download the second one since it looks awesome.


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Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 14, 2013, 11:45:51 pm
Celebrating my new darksouls related avatar with a bump and a video which shows a bit of dark souls 2 footage (which looks frikken sweet)


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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: AntiBlitz on October 15, 2013, 03:32:01 am
i am so lame that when he does double attack hits down all my stamina with 1st hit and with second he kills me :(
and i still dont get it, how can i summon someone that could help me with bosses or how to become human or something. :( i am so bad

you have to be human, take some humanity and make it to the gate(hardest part sometimes when you have people invading you), there should be a summoning mark to get a helper at every boss fight, for the most part.
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Post by: Latvian on October 15, 2013, 08:23:20 am
you have to be human, take some humanity and make it to the gate(hardest part sometimes when you have people invading you), there should be a summoning mark to get a helper at every boss fight, for the most part.
dont worry about that i already finished game :)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on October 15, 2013, 09:24:42 am
You noobs should all start a new game and do a full hollow playthrough
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Post by: Latvian on October 15, 2013, 09:48:25 am
You noobs should all start a new game and do a full hollow playthrough
i played most of my game as hollow cuz i didnt know how to be human till like middle of game and than i was too scared that someone will invade me.
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Post by: Polobow on October 15, 2013, 10:16:28 am
Dark Souls 2 stat screen info. No lore spoilers, just stats.

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on October 15, 2013, 10:29:25 am
I'm actually replaying sort of as a ninja. This time no shield use, no summoning for bosses, no bug abuse, no save game backup.

My ugichatana is quite awesome, I'm owning bosses I found hard last time (sif/moon was piss), but overall the game is designed to be played with shield and quite alot of other shit that was easy is now insanely hard (I've died more to man serpents than bosses).

anyhow this just ruined my day and I thought it might make yours so I uploaded;

http://imgur.com/wKVm3dw

^what a fucking joke.

My first playthrough I fucking hated blighttown the worst by far, this time I found blight way easier but fucking hate svens fortress. I don't actually remember my way around levels for the most part at all. took me ages to figure out where to go in some places.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 16, 2013, 10:29:53 pm

Damn, looks pretty sweet, a bit cellshady though. I wonder how it will look/play on pc, they were developing it for pc first then porting to consoles right? so should be no frame issues anymore.
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 17, 2013, 09:56:03 am
Yupp, so now Ps3 will have the issues, if any appear. Pc version should be pretty clean.
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Post by: Kafein on October 17, 2013, 10:09:23 am
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Are you saying to me... That you didn't knew about it ? OMG
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on October 17, 2013, 03:32:08 pm
More likely that he killed himself by jumping down there.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 31, 2013, 03:17:10 pm
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Post by: Banok on November 11, 2013, 08:57:52 pm
I don't really like cheesy metal music but that was pretty epic

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Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 09, 2014, 05:19:17 pm
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Post by: Teeth on January 09, 2014, 05:34:04 pm
A parody? That was literally animating key moments from the game with a response. Pretty cool as it is very recognizable, Blighttown ran smooth as silk for me by the way, even though I got a shit pc. Well I pirated it at first and friggin loved it so it deserved a buy. Now that I bought it my mouse doesn't get captured into the game anymore and I can't use my mouse. Yes, I play with mouse and keyboard and I did install the mouse fix and configured it the same way was before. My pirated install has the same problem now somehow. That's what I get for buying games, for fucks sake. Anybody happens to know how to fix it?
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Post by: Latvian on January 09, 2014, 06:03:09 pm
A parody? That was literally animating key moments from the game with a response. Pretty cool as it is very recognizable, Blighttown ran smooth as silk for me by the way, even though I got a shit pc. Well I pirated it at first and friggin loved it so it deserved a buy. Now that I bought it my mouse doesn't get captured into the game anymore and I can't use my mouse. Yes, I play with mouse and keyboard and I did install the mouse fix and configured it the same way was before. My pirated install has the same problem now somehow. That's what I get for buying games, for fucks sake. Anybody happens to know how to fix it?
buy controller, they are cheap.
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Post by: Polobow on January 09, 2014, 06:23:19 pm
A parody? That was literally animating key moments from the game with a response. Pretty cool as it is very recognizable, Blighttown ran smooth as silk for me by the way, even though I got a shit pc. Well I pirated it at first and friggin loved it so it deserved a buy. Now that I bought it my mouse doesn't get captured into the game anymore and I can't use my mouse. Yes, I play with mouse and keyboard and I did install the mouse fix and configured it the same way was before. My pirated install has the same problem now somehow. That's what I get for buying games, for fucks sake. Anybody happens to know how to fix it?

Using DSFix? There was a hotkey there (F9 I think), that disables/enables mouse cursor.   (Also a HUD one, very nice.)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 09, 2014, 07:46:56 pm
What a coincidence that this was bumped today. Re-installed and inserted my old savefile earlier today.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 09, 2014, 08:59:36 pm
:D i think it deserved a ressurection, i was gonna play some today aswell.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on January 09, 2014, 10:53:30 pm
Bought it on the Holiday sale for dirt cheap, already put in tons of hours on the PS3 version, got this one as well hoping to get some fun PvP done. Not many people online though  :cry:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 10, 2014, 12:35:12 am
Bought it on the Holiday sale for dirt cheap, already put in tons of hours on the PS3 version, got this one as well hoping to get some fun PvP done. Not many people online though  :cry:

There was 4.7k people online on steam when I logged on. Sad thing is that GFWL is fucking up the PvP in this game making it harder to find people. And many of the guys playing are mostly doing PvP-ish things. Join the steam group, usually you find 12 - 16 guys there all doing PvP. Ask if anyone wants to fight / where they are at and you can get some PvP.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 10, 2014, 10:58:14 am
I honestly prefer playing offline. Ornstein & Smough for example are a completely different beast when fought solo.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 10, 2014, 11:01:50 am
I honestly prefer playing offline. Ornstein & Smough for example are a completely different beast when fought solo.

True. Summoning sort of feels like a 'cheat'.



Not sure about you guys, but I'm going to try to play Dark Souls 2 'blind'. No wiki, no guides/hints and no summoning. This makes the game much more rage-inducing fun.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 10, 2014, 11:03:47 am
Not sure if I'm going to get Dks2 on PC or Ps3. If the PC version is using steamworks it is pretty much a 100 % buy for me on the PC.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 10, 2014, 11:13:53 am
True. Summoning sort of feels like a 'cheat'.



Not sure about you guys, but I'm going to try to play Dark Souls 2 'blind'. No wiki, no guides/hints and no summoning. This makes the game much more rage-inducing fun.

I actually tried doing this with Demon's then Dark Souls but the problem is that this is a surefire way to "fail" all the mini-stories with the NPCs and regularly miss important loot and lose fucktons of souls. Not using any help just feels like a huge waste of time to me, even though I try to keep it reasonable (i.e. I used it only when the other option was farming).

Not sure if I'm going to get Dks2 on PC or Ps3. If the PC version is using steamworks it is pretty much a 100 % buy for me on the PC.

The guys at FROM seem to be intelligent, I doubt they will allow GFWL anywhere near their baby this time.
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Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 10, 2014, 11:17:27 am
Yeah I also doubt they will be using GFWL, since Microsoft will shut it down soon anyway. Only reason Bandai Namco / From used GFWL was because it was the fastest way to get a multiplayer method into the game. And the devs. over at From had little experience in PC developing and Bandai sort of rushed it. They wanted to release it as fast as possible because people wanted it for the PC.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 10, 2014, 11:29:32 am
I think they'll just stick to steamworks. Gonna miss the option of receiving fanmail though.

I actually tried doing this with Demon's then Dark Souls but the problem is that this is a surefire way to "fail" all the mini-stories with the NPCs and regularly miss important loot and lose fucktons of souls. Not using any help just feels like a huge waste of time to me, even though I try to keep it reasonable (i.e. I used it only when the other option was farming).

That's true. I'll see how it goes (PC by the way).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 10, 2014, 11:53:55 am
Dont you play first playthroughs blind? Thats what i did then i started looking up other stuff like items etc for pvp builds.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on January 10, 2014, 02:38:34 pm
I did but fucked up my build so badly I found myself completely gimped and unable to get past certain points. So I raged and started again following a build.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Nightmare798 on January 10, 2014, 02:44:57 pm
I always wondered why people are using something like pre-defined builds, when they can just sink their points in whatever they deem useful and necessary.

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on January 10, 2014, 04:06:18 pm
Probably because there is no useful in-game documentation whatsoever on what stats do and you can fuck up your build ie. if you decide your warrior needs both to be strong and agile. Another case of bad design which supposedly will be adressed in the sequel.

I did but fucked up my build so badly I found myself completely gimped and unable to get past certain points. So I raged and started again following a build.

Out of curiosity, care to elaborate what build you had and what stopped you?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Overdriven on January 10, 2014, 08:24:09 pm
I can't remember exactly but I spread my points around to much. I went for a dexterity build the second time and focusing on just a couple of areas made me 10x stronger.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 10, 2014, 08:41:57 pm
A minimal "working" build that can take on most enemies in the game given enough patience and skill is fairly cheap. Also maybe it's because I'm a Demon's Souls veteran but understanding how Dark Souls character sheets work and what you need to upgrade to acheive something isn't very complex.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 12, 2014, 01:23:14 pm
I can't remember exactly but I spread my points around to much. I went for a dexterity build the second time and focusing on just a couple of areas made me 10x stronger.

Probally put points into resistance  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SeQuel on January 15, 2014, 03:45:18 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lfNMyo8Lw&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 15, 2014, 07:39:10 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lfNMyo8Lw&feature=youtu.be

Apparently not
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 15, 2014, 09:00:07 am
What did it show? I must know-eth.
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Post by: Tor! on January 15, 2014, 09:07:32 am

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Post by: Latvian on January 15, 2014, 09:29:19 am
aaaw yeaaah i love dark soul so much, and seems that they will release PC version around march as well and it will be better ported to PC than previous dark souls.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 15, 2014, 09:54:50 am
aaaw yeaaah i love dark soul so much, and seems that they will release PC version around march as well and it will be better ported to PC than previous dark souls.

It wont be ported, it is developed ON PC as the main platform. Consoles wll be getting the port now :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 15, 2014, 03:01:29 pm
I think im going to break my trend of always going no shield dex build first playthrough, in dark souls 2 i will be a sorcerer, seems like they improved castings a bit by adding first person aiming like with bows and stuff.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 15, 2014, 04:48:15 pm
I think im going to break my trend of always going no shield dex build first playthrough, in dark souls 2 i will be a sorcerer, seems like they improved castings a bit by adding first person aiming like with bows and stuff.

Yeah. You have a light and strong attack of EACH magic spell, just like each weapon has a light and strong attack. You can also aim in first-person by 2handing the magic weapon.

Magic is still in charges, but there are now items that restore that.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 15, 2014, 06:23:52 pm
I think I'll go for a STR build, dunno if getting agi yet. And get a fast bow as secondary to finish off stranglers. But problem with making a good build on first playtrough, so many good weapons and new things to test, probably why I'm going STR and not dex, since most cool weps tend to be STR
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 16, 2014, 04:57:59 pm
Fuck DkS2 will be released on consoles first and later on PC, goddamn it i may have to buy it on both then... oh well
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on January 16, 2014, 06:12:57 pm
They said same timeframe which means they'll release both version in same month or two. They need more time to perfect PC version.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Patoson on January 16, 2014, 07:13:48 pm
Alright. I've played it for a couple of hours now (mostly to understand the controls and mechanics), and then I get owned by a giant dark knight. I respawn, try to get back there, but a stupid zombie blocks my way in and hits me while another one throws firebombs at my back. I die. GG. GTX.

It's hard to control, even with a gamepad, but, despite that, the game is nice.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 16, 2014, 07:23:37 pm
Alright. I've played it for a couple of hours now (mostly to understand the controls and mechanics), and then I get owned by a giant dark knight. I respawn, try to get back there, but a stupid zombie blocks my way in and hits me while another one throws firebombs at my back. I die. GG. GTX.

It's hard to control, even with a gamepad, but, despite that, the game is nice.

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Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 16, 2014, 08:02:24 pm
Anyone here tried out the Agression mod yet? i did today, and its hilarious how almost the entire area is after you the momen you walk through a fog gate. Makes the game completely different, and a bit harder. Refreshing.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 16, 2014, 09:20:20 pm
Anyone here tried out the Agression mod yet? i did today, and its hilarious how almost the entire area is after you the momen you walk through a fog gate. Makes the game completely different, and a bit harder. Refreshing.

I can only imagine the horror of going through Izalith
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 16, 2014, 09:45:10 pm
I wish i could play this game for the first time again... Once you've done it all one time it becomes easy, most of the difficulty comes from not knowing enemies, aggro spots etc (and controls). Good luck on your first playthrough! Hope you didn't try to fight the ghosts then the skeletons like i did... Black Knight sounds like you're on the right track.

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You want a weird first playthrough ?

I defeated capra, gaping, sif, pinwheel and the gargoyles in that order and offline, bitch
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on January 16, 2014, 11:19:37 pm
Dont you play first playthroughs blind? Thats what i did then i started looking up other stuff like items etc for pvp builds.

I wanted to, thats my only beef with DS is that it hides stuff like bonfires and encourages you to look stuff up instead of find out on your own like I wanted to.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Osiris on January 17, 2014, 12:11:39 am
gotta figure out how to use my xbox cont on my pc cuz i got this on the sale :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 17, 2014, 08:22:48 am
I wanted to, thats my only beef with DS is that it hides stuff like bonfires and encourages you to look stuff up instead of find out on your own like I wanted to.

Yeah, I don't quite understand the logic behind false walls, it's possible to find most just by paying attention, but some are just evil.

Yeah i didn't have internet when i first played DarkSouls so offline all the way. I'm impressed that you beat Capra as one of your first bosses, you didnt use the cheap tactic did you?

Me and my housemate took it in turns to play our characters on the xbox so i always went out of my way to explore in the opposite direction to wherever he went, it took me to all sorts of scary and wrong places early :S Tomb of the Giants hasn't even been so bad in more recent playthroughs, but i'm still traumatised by the memory of my first visit...

Tbh the most ridiculous part of my playthrough was defeating the gargoyles so late, but yeah I pretty much got to Capra immediately after Taurus, and defeated him the cheap way (which is still hard, as the hardest part of this fight is the first couple of seconds). Particularly with Capra, the cheap tactic is really evident and IMO that's the right way of playing Dark Souls if there is one.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 17, 2014, 09:27:04 am
Yeah, I don't quite understand the logic behind false walls, it's possible to find most just by paying attention, but some are just evil.

Tbh the most ridiculous part of my playthrough was defeating the gargoyles so late, but yeah I pretty much got to Capra immediately after Taurus, and defeated him the cheap way (which is still hard, as the hardest part of this fight is the first couple of seconds). Particularly with Capra, the cheap tactic is really evident and IMO that's the right way of playing Dark Souls if there is one.

So you didnt skip Taurus? Hmm but i guess killing capra with an unupgraded weapon would be kind of hard. Unless one has a a pile of dungpies.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 17, 2014, 09:53:54 am
So you didnt skip Taurus? Hmm but i guess killing capra with an unupgraded weapon would be kind of hard. Unless one has a a pile of dungpies.

First playthrough, no I didn't skip Taurus lol
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 17, 2014, 11:04:43 am
Fuck DkS2 will be released on consoles first and later on PC, goddamn it i may have to buy it on both then... oh well

PC version also arrives in March, just a bit later, they said.



Speaking of dark souls 2, what class will everyone choose?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 17, 2014, 11:15:01 am
First playthrough, no I didn't skip Taurus lol

Haha oh missed that part, my bad. I cant really remember how i did the bosses first playthrough, think i did it the regular order, Taurus>Gargoyle>Capra>Gaping>Spider etc. Did the good ol' mistake of trying to go to the catacombs first, think i raged for 30 minutes at the skeletons, then facepalmed when i found the path to the burg.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on January 17, 2014, 05:29:54 pm
I spent about a half hour also when I first played trying to get through the graveyard before I noticed the stairs up towards the burgs. The only thing I looked up on my first play through was wearing the ring to drop down to the abyss to fight the four kings, but that was one of two or three places where I ended up taking a couple weeks break from the game.
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Post by: enigmatic_stranger on January 17, 2014, 06:23:12 pm
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Post by: Falka on January 17, 2014, 08:10:35 pm
I have bought Dark Souls on release day but managed to start this crap only a few days ago. Game doesn't seem so hard as everyone claim, just needs a lot of patience. Dealing with most of normal enemies is like a walk in the park if you're patient and take them one after another, with a walkthrough guides bosses also aren't that hard. Got bored already.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on January 17, 2014, 09:41:23 pm
i fucking hate windows live, i fail to register to it and i as always forgot userame and shit. Is it designed to prevent people from registring?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: zagibu on January 17, 2014, 10:21:18 pm
It's designed to make people go back to their consoles.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on January 17, 2014, 11:29:24 pm
game doesn't seem so hard as everyone claim (...) a walk in the park (...) with a walkthrough

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 17, 2014, 11:53:01 pm
I have bought Dark Souls on release day but managed to start this crap only a few days ago. Game doesn't seem so hard as everyone claim, just needs a lot of patience. Dealing with most of normal enemies is like a walk in the park if you're patient and take them one after another, with a walkthrough guides bosses also aren't that hard. Got bored already.

Patience is hard. And yes with patience the hollow soldiers are easy, how far did you get? The game isnt that easy first playthr-
with a walkthrough guides
Well you might aswell quit if you are using guides first time around, the fun part about the game is learning, adapting, finding secrets and finally figuring out that strategy to beat that one area. Looking up guides the moment things get a little rough removes all of that. Even with guides though the combat is great, boss fights are usually pretty fun and exploring is awesome.




Played some more Aggressive mod today, really fun and sometimes spooky.
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Falka on January 18, 2014, 08:26:50 am
i fucking hate windows live, i fail to register to it and i as always forgot userame and shit. Is it designed to prevent people from registring?

Looks like Dark souls doesn't use windows live any more, I start a game without registration, only thanks to that I can play it. Though the game still crashes when I try to launch it from steam.

Well you might aswell quit if you are using guides first time around, the fun part about the game is learning, adapting, finding secrets and finally figuring out that strategy to beat that one area. Looking up guides the moment things get a little rough removes all of that. Even with guides though the combat is great, boss fights are usually pretty fun and exploring is awesome.

I do realize that without any help it would be much harder, but I always try to read everything about builds, combat tips, hidden places and so on before I even start a game :P That's how I always play,  mostly because I never play for the second time games like this, rarely even finisth first playthrough.

Patience is hard. And yes with patience the hollow soldiers are easy, how far did you get?

Patience is boring :P And cheating is boring, I killed first Black Knight in first attempt using bug with doors, as lvl 10 or sth like that. Felt pretty silly after that, but everyone says that's how you're supposed to play Dark souls... Well then :P

Combat against normal folks is pretty funny, really nice moves with different weapons and so on, the problem is most of the time they're purely optional, simple tactics and patience kill more effective than "anything" else in this game :P

how far did you get?

I've made undead city, now I'm in blighttown.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on January 18, 2014, 09:18:22 am
See that big tree veeery far away when you reach the ground of blighttown ? Go there. Now.

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on January 20, 2014, 05:59:55 am
My Dark Souls was broken for a bit and I tried a number of fixes and gave up after exhausting all options. Tried again today and it magically fixed itself!  :mrgreen:

Only really interested in PvP at this point. Anyone got some recommended areas along with a recommended level for said area?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on January 20, 2014, 10:17:36 am
My Dark Souls was broken for a bit and I tried a number of fixes and gave up after exhausting all options. Tried again today and it magically fixed itself!  :mrgreen:

Only really interested in PvP at this point. Anyone got some recommended areas along with a recommended level for said area?
darkroot garden, in forest, best early PvP area.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 20, 2014, 07:37:16 pm
Gah i want to preorder a special edition for DaS2 for 160€.. but in the end im probably too cheap.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 20, 2014, 09:41:06 pm
Gah i want to preorder a special edition for DaS2 for 160€.. but in the end im probably too cheap.

Somehow I could order a Black Armour edition for PC for 45€, is that normal for a pre-order price?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 20, 2014, 09:41:58 pm
Somehow I could order a Black Armour edition for PC for 45€, is that normal for a pre-order price?

i think thats the regular special edition thingy, but the one i looked at was a unique to the website or something..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on January 20, 2014, 09:49:13 pm
i think thats the regular special edition thingy, but the one i looked at was a unique to the website or something..

yeah you have normal, black armour (which is metal case + soundtrack cd) and sperglord edition with a statue n map n all
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on January 20, 2014, 11:53:43 pm
darkroot garden, in forest, best early PvP area.

Yeah already exhausted that really, was hoping to find some higher level PvP, something at least moderately challenging :/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on January 21, 2014, 12:42:20 am
I had a fun run with the game and beat it twice but the PvP was ridiculous the second time through with twinks sitting in the burg the entire time, little to no invasions outside of Anor Londo and/or just terrible netcode/matchmaking and things like getting stopped mid-roll and stabbed in the back.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 21, 2014, 09:45:18 am
The GFWL is kinda bad bud you can find some invasions after a while. For me the most active time is around 23 - 0:01. Dark Anor Londo and Darkroot garden got plenty. And if you want some more fair PvP fights just hit up the steam group, usually there are around 20 + people doing invasions / PvP.
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Post by: Kafein on January 21, 2014, 12:20:24 pm
Knight Zyzztorias the Saunawalker
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on February 04, 2014, 04:08:04 pm

OMGOMGOMGOGMOMGMGG seriously, i shouldnt hype myself over a game, i know how that tends to end.. in dissapointment.. but holy shit im fucking hyped about this.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on February 04, 2014, 10:57:34 pm

OMGOMGOMGOGMOMGMGG seriously, i shouldnt hype myself over a game, i know how that tends to end.. in dissapointment.. but holy shit im fucking hyped about this.

Too afraid of spoilers to watch it :/.
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Post by: Gravoth_iii on February 11, 2014, 10:02:01 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Eugen on February 18, 2014, 10:44:44 pm
Hi,

So I am playing games as ever, later then eveyone else. But now I am in my first playthrough of Dark Souls, hit Lvl 50 with my agility Hunter Longbow+7 / Iatito +7 / Astoras Straight Sword and I feel fit to fight the spider witch Quelaag and hope to ring the second bell.

I tried not to look into the guids to much, so I am a bit confused becouse of the many options I have now.

Would I miss something important if I went for the bell now?

What I did until now: Taurus Demon, Capra Demon, Gargoyles with first Bell, Gaping Dragon and Moonlight Butterfly.

Should I try the catacombs (and maybe rescue Rhea of Thorlund), or the watchtower basement key I got after Moonlight Butterfly, or should I get cursed once again and try the New Londo Ruins with that Ghosts - or venture further into the Valley of Drakes or could I try the hydra, my last enemy in darkroot????

Also I am not shure if I should make one of my secondary weapons (falchion, partizan) holy weapon (I gave the divine ember to the smith in undead parish). I have 15 faith now, but dont plan to raise it much higher atm.

Pleas help me to decide what to do next. I dont want to read it all in the guides. Just a little hint is all I need.

And another one: I kinda like the gargoyle axe and helmet. Should I waste some of my special junks on raising them, or should I save them for even better stuff to come????

Come on push yourself and help a lost soul  :oops:

Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on February 18, 2014, 11:47:39 pm
hydra and blighttown, after second bell you will know where to go, then keep following that path.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tot. on February 19, 2014, 12:40:37 am
What I did until now: Taurus Demon, Capra Demon, Gargoyles with first Bell, Gaping Dragon and Moonlight Butterfly.

Would I miss something important if I went for the bell now?

You wouldn't.

the watchtower basement key I got after Moonlight Butterfly

You should check out the watchtower basement.

or should I get cursed once again and try the New Londo Ruins with that Ghost

You should. You might find something very useful there since you're playing with a bow.

venture further into the Valley of Drakes

Not yet. 

Should I try the catacombs (and maybe rescue Rhea of Thorlund)

You will get there soon enough, dont bother for now.

could I try the hydra, my last enemy in darkroot?

Not main plot related so you can do it whenever you feel like you're good enough.

Also I am not shure if I should make one of my secondary weapons (falchion, partizan) holy weapon (I gave the divine ember to the smith in undead parish). I have 15 faith now, but dont plan to raise it much higher atm.

Astora's sword is holy dmg so no, no point.

And another one: I kinda like the gargoyle axe and helmet. Should I waste some of my special junks on raising them, or should I save them for even better stuff to come?

I'd keep your 'special junks' for other things.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Eugen on February 19, 2014, 04:21:40 pm
Thank you! This makes my decission a bit less of a pain. I tried to beat the guard in the basement. I think I will have to chew a bit on this one. But thats the game. I will find a way to kill this bastard. I mean he is slow. I just need to study his patterns some more times or try fire and poison... ahhh. and rund in again and die. Did I say I am getting very addicted to this game?  :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on February 19, 2014, 05:28:01 pm
Thank you! This makes my decission a bit less of a pain. I tried to beat the guard in the basement. I think I will have to chew a bit on this one. But thats the game. I will find a way to kill this bastard. I mean he is slow. I just need to study his patterns some more times or try fire and poison... ahhh. and rund in again and die. Did I say I am getting very addicted to this game?  :P

The 'curse' of dark souls ;). Try different tactics. Different weapons, experiment. You got the thinking right. Analyze it, be very defensive while you do that.
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Banok on March 01, 2014, 07:29:22 am
I started watching that impressions video but fuck wish i hadnt clicked it. rather go in blind. sucks the pc version is later for this reason.

as long as its a decent pc port im buying it. actually buying it at launch. big deal for a beggar like me. I think the last game I payed full price for was skyrim back in 2011 ;/

I hope the pvp justifies not piratebaying it. I'm guessing pvp will be best at launch when everyone is on reasonably even playing field, and there aren't so many hacks/cheaters yet.
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 05, 2014, 11:00:49 am
I hate that fur on the armor though.


I think I have KHS, Kuyak Hate Syndrome
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Post by: Latvian on March 10, 2014, 06:44:03 pm
i preordered DS 2... 49.99 euros. In russia its only around 18 euros but game cant be activated in my country :(
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 10, 2014, 07:13:05 pm
Dat music
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 10, 2014, 08:09:46 pm
i preordered DS 2... 49.99 euros. In russia its only around 18 euros but game cant be activated in my country :(

Gameholds.com got it for 50% of steam price :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Latvian on March 10, 2014, 09:59:26 pm
Gameholds.com got it for 50% of steam price :P
i have terrible history with such sites, i dont trust them anymore.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 10, 2014, 10:22:40 pm
i have terrible history with such sites, i dont trust them anymore.

This one is wonderful, got 3 games from them, and you get 1 dollar off on each thing cuz of the points you collect, and you just have to wait around a few hours depending on when you order it to get the item

http://www.gameholds.com/dark-souls-2-pc-game.html
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Rebelyell on March 12, 2014, 04:59:11 pm
anyone know how to meake that shit work on steam

I really want to play but i just cant save
windows live dont let me log in because of some update that i cant download....

anyone know how to fix that?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 12, 2014, 05:55:56 pm
anyone know how to meake that shit work on steam

I really want to play but i just cant save
windows live dont let me log in because of some update that i cant download....

anyone know how to fix that?

Tried downloading it from their website? Delete everything with Windows live / marketplace and re-install
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 14, 2014, 07:32:43 pm
http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/206mvi/pc_countdown_to_dark_souls_2_weekly_gravelord/
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 19, 2014, 11:12:11 pm

Best.. lore video... ever!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 20, 2014, 12:28:32 pm
I love that this video explains Havel being locked in a tower

And that Nito does nothing interesting whatsoever
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 20, 2014, 01:08:25 pm
SO managed to kill Gargoyles first try with just two charges in estus flask (no tricks or summons or anything). Rang the first bell. Now I'm down under getting killed by countless ghosts jumping at me from walls, fun :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 20, 2014, 01:41:36 pm
SO managed to kill Gargoyles first try with just two charges in estus flask (no tricks or summons or anything). Rang the first bell. Now I'm down under getting killed by countless ghosts jumping at me from walls, fun :D

There are much easier zones to do than new londo right after ringing the first bell.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on March 20, 2014, 01:46:16 pm
Just a little hint, you might want to look at the keys you have.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 20, 2014, 02:02:49 pm
There are much easier zones to do than new londo right after ringing the first bell.

There are? I thought that was kind of the progression, ring first bell, ring second bell, go on with the game?

Oh wait does it have to do something with that basement key I got? I think I just figured out where I can use it.

EDIT: Oh crap, I think I have mistaken New Londo Ruins to have the second bell. confuz game
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on March 20, 2014, 02:22:40 pm
Sorry, I hope that hint wasn't unwarranted.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 20, 2014, 02:26:30 pm
Sorry, I hope that hint wasn't unwarranted.

It's ok, I'm not going full hardcore on DS1, I'm using it mostly to prepare for DS2. Without this who knows when I would've figured out where I should be heading.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 21, 2014, 10:09:58 am
Part of the experience is not knowing which one of the bazillion ways you can progress is the "right" one and also missing some of those alternatives, accumulating despair to the point of crying on your controller.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 22, 2014, 08:15:38 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 23, 2014, 01:33:59 pm
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 23, 2014, 01:46:42 pm
He is the chosen undead
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Jarold on March 23, 2014, 09:47:36 pm
Got this game for xbox a week ago and I almost quit completely until I realized that I was trying to go to the wrong area. I kept fighting these damn skeletons who were really hard to beat and I would usually die. So I left the game for awhile and looked up a guide a few days later and saw I was going the wrong way. :D   I'm happy now that the game is fun again!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 23, 2014, 09:51:10 pm
Thats what i did my first time aswell  :cry:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on March 23, 2014, 10:10:54 pm
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 23, 2014, 10:41:05 pm
One does not simply play DKS without dying to the skeleton first.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 24, 2014, 01:23:26 am
I actually went the right way the first time.

Or maybe I just explored both ways until I found enemies and upon seeing those skeletons I had a Shrine of Storms flashback and went with NOPE.

It's probably due the to the order in which I did things but frankly Blighttown was quite easy. Qelaag proved to be one of the bosses I got stuck against for very long though. Sen's Fortress is far harder, even after the first playthrough when the traps (and I believe the first mimic of the game) aren't that much of an issue anymore. The difficulty with Blighttown is that is it large and remote. The two main enemy types have very predictable patterns. The only enemies I really consider to be a pain in the ass down there are the toxic snipers. And iirc those guys don't actually respawn, do they? Environmental hazards are only going to be a problem if you are looking for every single piece of loot in these low framerate areas halfway down.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on March 24, 2014, 03:47:42 am
Most annoying enemies were any of the smaller enemies, especially the dogs, and the four-legged skeleton thing. The hardest and most irritating bosses for me were probably the four kings (before I knew just to tank up) and the Bed of Chaos (for the trial and error, and having to run back to the room every time).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 24, 2014, 05:37:36 am
I actually went the right way the first time.

Or maybe I just explored both ways until I found enemies and upon seeing those skeletons I had a Shrine of Storms flashback and went with NOPE.


This was me 100%


Oh god those black dual wielding skeletons were bastards.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 24, 2014, 08:01:32 am
Well I just killed Queelag, took 4 tries. I basically avoided all her attacks until she stopped to vomit lava. Those butt blasts or whatever that one shot you were the most annoying. Blighttown/swamp wasn't that much of a problem, but I had those anti poison thingies from the forest. I didn't explore it too much though, that wooden construction is a fucking low fps maze. Now I'm gonna go kill that Butterfly boss, then maybe Sen's fortress, or should I try to kill that Hydra boss first?

Tbh the boss I had most troubles with so far was actually that Capra demon, I guess I have troubles fighting in small spaces and that room has so little space to dodge and move around and your camera is all fuked up. Until I figured that the boss doesn't reach me if I go up the stairs and the dogs will follow me, after that it was pretty easy.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Lennu on March 24, 2014, 08:47:51 am
Yeah, Blighttown is extremely annoying place. The game seems to render the whole fucking platform part at once, causing massive fps drops even tho it's sometimes so dark that you can't see shit. And from the darkness come those poison darts :D
Unless there is some item I need, I usually just skip the whole blighttown and use the backdoor with masterkey to get quickly to the swap bonfire. Then just go ninja the fire keeper soul and head to the burning booby-spiderboss.

And yeah. Capra fight without using the stairs is extremely difficult since you'll get so easily overwhelmed by the dogs' fast attacks and demon's insane attack power.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on March 24, 2014, 03:27:35 pm
Well I just killed Queelag, took 4 tries. I basically avoided all her attacks until she stopped to vomit lava. Those butt blasts or whatever that one shot you were the most annoying. Blighttown/swamp wasn't that much of a problem, but I had those anti poison thingies from the forest. I didn't explore it too much though, that wooden construction is a fucking low fps maze. Now I'm gonna go kill that Butterfly boss, then maybe Sen's fortress, or should I try to kill that Hydra boss first?

Tbh the boss I had most troubles with so far was actually that Capra demon, I guess I have troubles fighting in small spaces and that room has so little space to dodge and move around and your camera is all fuked up. Until I figured that the boss doesn't reach me if I go up the stairs and the dogs will follow me, after that it was pretty easy.

Your choice, but I guess both butterfly and hydra before sen's fortress for the souls. What are your equips?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 24, 2014, 04:28:08 pm
Well I just killed Queelag, took 4 tries. I basically avoided all her attacks until she stopped to vomit lava. Those butt blasts or whatever that one shot you were the most annoying. Blighttown/swamp wasn't that much of a problem, but I had those anti poison thingies from the forest. I didn't explore it too much though, that wooden construction is a fucking low fps maze. Now I'm gonna go kill that Butterfly boss, then maybe Sen's fortress, or should I try to kill that Hydra boss first?

Tbh the boss I had most troubles with so far was actually that Capra demon, I guess I have troubles fighting in small spaces and that room has so little space to dodge and move around and your camera is all fuked up. Until I figured that the boss doesn't reach me if I go up the stairs and the dogs will follow me, after that it was pretty easy.

Capra demon is probably one of the hardest bosses in the game, its a horror to fight that thing. Getting past the first 3 seconds is a pain when the dogs sometimes decide to make it impossible.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on March 24, 2014, 07:51:50 pm
I think O&S if you play alone is pretty hard and awesome, im there soon now in my current playthrough  8-)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 24, 2014, 08:06:20 pm
O&S was by (very) far the hardest fight in the game for me. The Kings were kind of a joke compared to those bastards.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Jarold on March 24, 2014, 11:28:25 pm
Just beat the Taurus demon after getting killed by some black knight in one hit down below the same tower you go in to get to the Taurus demon. I pushed on and encountered three annoying as fuck rats who kept poisoning me and I would kill myself because it just ruins that playthrough but I finally got past them and then someother gay knight kills me in a tower. WHAT IS WITH THE KNIGHTS! I guess i'll just ignore him and fight that boar tomorrow.

I think I have a very strong love hate relationship with this game.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 24, 2014, 11:49:18 pm
You are not supposed to take on most knights the first time you see them. Although admittedly it's possible and even rather easy when you know how to play and in some cases cheese the AI pretty bad.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 25, 2014, 08:48:35 am
Killed Moonlight Butterfly, Hydra, Havel, Iron Golem and Priscilla yesterday. Butterfly, Havel and Iron Golem were pretty easy, Priscilla a bit less until I learned I just had to power smach her once with my mighty +10 Zweihander for her to become visible. I tried Sif a couple of times and got killed, couldn't be arsed running back to the Garden from Basin all over again and just went to Anor Londo and gonna finish that place.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 25, 2014, 08:49:50 am
WTF? You killed Priscilla?!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 25, 2014, 08:51:17 am
WTF? You killed Priscilla?!

yolo (or not really in this game)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 25, 2014, 11:34:18 am
Priscillaaaaaa D:

She does drop the best dagger in the game tho
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on March 26, 2014, 01:10:51 am
Just got invaded by some guy in Anor Londo.. He drops a titanite slab for me  :shock:

Then we proceed to have a good albeit laggy fight, and I send him a thnx message on wlive. He was from Brazil  8-)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 26, 2014, 07:58:11 am
I have accidentally hit both the onion and the sun bro and had to kill them ;_;

Tried O&S three times, furthest I got was Smough down to half HP in second stage
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Dezilagel on March 26, 2014, 08:15:09 am
O&S was both the hardest and by far the most fun fight in the game imho.

I did it solo, smough first, and it took me like 10-15 tries :lol:

I think what I really liked about it is that it's one of the few fights that make you go "ohshitohshitohsshitohshit...!" constantly with the amount of pressure they put on you.

It's worth noting that this was my first (and so far only..) playthrough and I was horribly undergeared.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 26, 2014, 09:55:49 am
BTW add me on live if you want some PvP fights at SL 120

Zloth Demonsage. Been doing forest PvP for 2 days now playing as a host, good amount of invaders compared to Oolacile, haven't tried my old main place in a while which was Dark Anor Londo, made 2 mill souls in 1 good night there once.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Surhay on March 26, 2014, 12:02:01 pm
Just got invaded by some guy in Anor Londo.. He drops a titanite slab for me  :shock:

Then we proceed to have a good albeit laggy fight, and I send him a thnx message on wlive. He was from Brazil  8-)

a guy once invaded me in the Forest and dropped a Soul of Manus. I didn't have the DLC that time and was like wtf is this.
Later thanks to Google i found out that Manus is one of the new Bosses.
That was amazing.  :lol:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 26, 2014, 11:51:54 pm

Ofcourse one of the best games ever is inspired by one of the best mangas ever :) i wanna re-read the manga now... for a third time..
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 27, 2014, 12:00:31 am
Not even half these points are specific.

I mean, "friendly hairy blacksmith" ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on March 27, 2014, 12:12:03 am

Ofcourse one of the best games ever is inspired by one of the best mangas ever :) i wanna re-read the manga now... for a third time..

That was pretty cool.. I'm glad they drew inspiration from Berserk and not some other anime atleast  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 27, 2014, 12:23:31 am
wielding a big ass zweihander, slaying demons.. what other reference would it be :D

about the monsters, Berserk has such a crazy high amount of different looking monsters, it's probably hard to find a monster that doesn't look like one of the Berserk's monsters

still, pretty impressive
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on March 27, 2014, 12:30:29 am
Isn't the manga still on going? Or the site I was reading it from a few years ago didn't have all of them maybe.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 27, 2014, 08:05:16 am
Isn't the manga still on going? Or the site I was reading it from a few years ago didn't have all of them maybe.

manga is still on going, I'm not sure if the new chapter is out though, haven't checked in a while

Anyway, killed the buttbuddies Ornstein&Smough. No tricks, no summon, full melee. Quite a few tries before I managed to do it. Man, my hands were shaking after that fight for a couple of minutes, so intense. First part seemed harder than the second (killed Smough last), although that electric butt smash that Smough did scared the crap out of me every time.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 27, 2014, 08:24:03 am
Manga is ongoing but that bastard took a break to make a mini series (think its 6 chapters). So no new chapters for almost a year in berserk, but i think it was april 11 that the next chapter is released.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 27, 2014, 01:23:15 pm
Assylum demon (http://files2.swfchan.com/content/50521324574598691761135735029/28/136555/Assylum%20Demon.swf)  :D
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on March 27, 2014, 01:32:45 pm
Ornstein and Smough took me about a dozen tries to kill solo my first time. That was one spot where I took a couple weeks break and four kings was the other spot where I stopped played for a bit the first time around. The most annoying boss for me was still the Bed of Chaos though and on my second run through Kalameet was a pain the ass to try and take his tail with an ultra greatsword.

I picked the game up again yesterday after a few months on a level 52, balder side sword user and I spent a good half hour just trying to figure out where I had left off in the first place. I went all the way to blightown to talk to the Onion knight to assure he would be in Izalith and then said "fuck it" when I was about to go through the great hollow.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on March 27, 2014, 06:46:02 pm
I did not even enter the great hollow on my first play through, how awesome is that ?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 27, 2014, 08:43:19 pm
I did not even enter the great hollow on my first play through, how awesome is that ?

I kinda did the same, my first playthrough was on PS3 and I stopped at the mushroom gym bros and got there on PC first time, always awesome to "discover" a new area after a couple of hundred hours.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on March 27, 2014, 09:31:46 pm
Stuck around as human in the forest today, got invaded lots by forest hunters! Twice I won 2on1's as well, I needed some souls to upgrade my armor.. So I thought why not farm the forest hunters  :mrgreen:

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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 27, 2014, 09:49:20 pm
You spear abusing again?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on March 27, 2014, 09:50:49 pm
You spear abusing again?

How is it abuse  8-)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 27, 2014, 10:04:32 pm
Spears are pretty nasty in pvp, with fast rolls you can just keep distance and leo ring counter hit for nasty damage. Anything thats dangerous is abuse, like in crpg.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on March 27, 2014, 10:11:37 pm
I use leo ring and medium roll. I absolutely hate playing with huge / slow weapons, and play with a shorter weapon its all about backstab / parry fishing. I can pull of backstabs with probably a 90% success rate, but I dont like playing that way. Spear is my favorite weapon since demon souls, and I will probably use it in DS2 as well  :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 27, 2014, 10:14:42 pm
Backstabbing is pretty cheap, atleast they nerfed it in 2  :P
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Tor! on March 27, 2014, 10:48:40 pm
Having a bit of trouble with my gravelord covenant.. Thought that Painted World would be a good place, but im not getting invaded :/

I thought SL 60 was decent for Painted World pvp?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 27, 2014, 10:50:14 pm
Hate having pvp matches were you get lagbackstab and what not, when I fight new players (inexperienced) players I tend to backstab them when they do the obv. lock on run. What I hate are people who obv. fish for backstabs, ugh. Also I have 30 faith for sunlight blade, but I tend not to use it cuz I don't wanna be a dick :D

I do use it if the enemy buff their weps or if I have met the guy before and I know he is a giant douche.

Having a bit of trouble with my gravelord covenant.. Thought that Painted World would be a good place, but im not getting invaded :/

I thought SL 60 was decent for Painted World pvp?

It usually is, but not on PC, I had some good amount of invasions there. But never met any vets. there, mostly new players. Burg, forest and township is where its active atm. Also some in blight (new players).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 27, 2014, 11:00:04 pm
You can only gravelord NG+ characters iirc, so you may wanna hit level 100. And even then not many will invade you, unfortunately.. Just go dickwraith, its the best for pvp.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on March 27, 2014, 11:12:32 pm
Also suggest following the gravelord event on reddit, lots of PvP that way. Posted it before but if you missed it:

http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/206mvi/pc_countdown_to_dark_souls_2_weekly_gravelord/?sort=new
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 30, 2014, 01:39:15 pm
welp, game completed

No encounter after Anor Londo and buttbuddies O&S was particularly difficult (including bosses). Bed of Chaos took a couple of tries to figure out what to do but that's that really. High defense and good stability shield means I could just tank Gwynn forever.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on March 30, 2014, 01:47:29 pm
The dlc bosses put up quite a nasty fight, if you feel like trying that out.

How many hours did it take to finish?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 30, 2014, 03:10:24 pm
30 hours, but I didn't waste my time trying to loot every dead body, neither did I go to Great Hollow and beyond.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on March 30, 2014, 03:18:03 pm
30 hours, but I didn't waste my time trying to loot every dead body, neither did I go to Great Hollow and beyond.

Did you play the DLC? The bosses there are pretty cool.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on March 30, 2014, 03:46:01 pm
Nope, didn't do the DLC, might give it a shot though.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: SixThumbs on March 30, 2014, 11:45:47 pm
The bosses are probably the best part, especially if you've got a hang of the combat.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on October 21, 2014, 12:53:09 pm
We are very excited to announce that next month it will be possible for players to migrate their Dark Souls: Prepare to Die games, saves and achievements from the Games for Windows Live platform to Steam. (http://bandainamcous.tumblr.com/post/100546461401/we-are-very-excited-to-announce-that-next-month-it)

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Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 21, 2014, 02:25:55 pm
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Dark souls gets a revival patch aswell, time to pay it another visit.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on October 21, 2014, 04:09:27 pm
I read that over someones shoulder, I was jizzing in ma pants.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kaido on October 21, 2014, 07:40:28 pm
We are very excited to announce that next month it will be possible for players to migrate their Dark Souls: Prepare to Die games, saves and achievements from the Games for Windows Live platform to Steam. (http://bandainamcous.tumblr.com/post/100546461401/we-are-very-excited-to-announce-that-next-month-it)

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That's just if you didn't buy your game from steam.If you already have it on steam you don't need to do anything.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on July 14, 2015, 05:58:38 pm
https://youtu.be/4fhc9a9_lI8?list=PLxmuWDL8I2gBl26WqbZQk4RJaw2uT3Yg6

Had a giggle
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: karasu on July 14, 2015, 08:10:43 pm
https://youtu.be/4fhc9a9_lI8?list=PLxmuWDL8I2gBl26WqbZQk4RJaw2uT3Yg6

Had a giggle

Those guides are awesome, the undead burg one specially.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on July 23, 2015, 01:50:34 am

Yeah. I advice taking a fair amount of alcohol or your psychoactive drug of choice before consuming this video.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: karasu on August 10, 2015, 07:37:16 pm
Meanwhile this guy finishes the game with voice commands only.




Just... gettin ridiculous no?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on August 15, 2015, 11:52:04 am
Game is so easy you can play it with donkey kong bongos
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Polobow on August 15, 2015, 12:05:41 pm
It's finally here: Twitch plays dark souls.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplaysdark
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Falka on August 15, 2015, 12:36:25 pm
Meanwhile this guy finishes the game with voice commands only.

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Quote
Dark Souls - Stephen Hawking Edition
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 10, 2016, 02:17:36 pm
Necro cause this https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/4mgpom/100000_subscribers_and_dark_souls_1_global/

If people are interested in playing with potentially a bunch of online action in ds1 its happening today.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gurgumul on June 10, 2016, 02:22:41 pm
They fixed the servers?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 10, 2016, 02:33:53 pm
Whats wrong with the servers?


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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gurgumul on June 10, 2016, 06:36:02 pm
Whats wrong with the servers?


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Couldn't connect to anyone a few weeks ago.
Exactly because so many reddit players are playing, I'm not going to join them :^)
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 18, 2017, 04:51:57 am
Started playing because of this mod:
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/60xu02/dark_souls_item_randomizer_v01_beta_testing/

Almost all items switch locations, you could go to the humanity at the well in firelink and pick up a 20k soul or a moonlight greatsword. Completely vital key items could be literally anywhere (that is accessible, they cant be placed behind a door you would need the same key to get inside) essentially making the game a fresh experience forcing you to explore those areas otherwise skipped. A lot of fun, i happened upon a great club early on and so i stuck with it. Also the return visit to Oscar as a hollow gave me a "I'm sorry carving", poor guy. Just got the lordvessel but have yet to go through the upper blighttown which is going to be a chore since i still dont have the key to get there from the depths so im forced to do it backwards from the swamp.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vexus on June 18, 2017, 09:22:30 am
Started playing because of this mod:
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/60xu02/dark_souls_item_randomizer_v01_beta_testing/

Almost all items switch locations, you could go to the humanity at the well in firelink and pick up a 20k soul or a moonlight greatsword. Completely vital key items could be literally anywhere (that is accessible, they cant be placed behind a door you would need the same key to get inside) essentially making the game a fresh experience forcing you to explore those areas otherwise skipped. A lot of fun, i happened upon a great club early on and so i stuck with it. Also the return visit to Oscar as a hollow gave me a "I'm sorry carving", poor guy. Just got the lordvessel but have yet to go through the upper blighttown which is going to be a chore since i still dont have the key to get there from the depths so im forced to do it backwards from the swamp.

I watched a guy stream this mod several times. I believe boss weapons are the only thing not randomised.

Not sure if there's an option to make it random.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 18, 2017, 04:38:50 pm
I watched a guy stream this mod several times. I believe boss weapons are the only thing not randomised.

Not sure if there's an option to make it random.

I assume you watched lobos then? You can choose to make everything random, but to not even have the estus makes it kind of too hard for me to enjoy it i think.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vexus on June 18, 2017, 05:03:07 pm
I assume you watched lobos then? You can choose to make everything random, but to not even have the estus makes it kind of too hard for me to enjoy it i think.

Yeah, lobos is amazingly good at the game.

Combine the randomiser mod with use what you see it's deadly haha. He always gets stuck in the painted world for hours.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 19, 2017, 10:28:28 pm
Yeah it was fucked up when he got too fat to even roll. I wanted to combine the mod with the new aggression mod, but i couldnt get it to work quickly so i didnt bother. Watching someone on youtube combine the 2 and it seems like fun. The new aggression mod makes enemies see and hear you much farther, basically their vision distance is nearly infinite so they will chase you once youre able to see them. And apparently they dont let up the chase easily either which seems really cool, makes running through areas much harder and different, also makes more sense.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 19, 2017, 10:56:18 pm
Dark souls 2 landed on a funny spot, it had the best pvp but its pve in general was just worse. It had so many good ideas and pulled a lot of them off, its the most fun to dabble with different builds in because everything is really strong and viable. I loved it first time around but contrary to dark souls 1 every playthrough after the first made it less and less enjoyable. I think what may have held it back was that it had to be a sequel, if it was its own thing i think it couldve had more potential.
At least its better than dark souls 3, its a sequel but its not a "Hey! Remember this?! Remember this guy? Hey look, youre in a low tier anor londo, remember that from dark souls 1?", man what a disappointment.

Im really cupping my nuts and praying to lady Velka that the bloodborne 2 rumors are not true.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 20, 2017, 01:36:15 am
Did you play Scholar of the First Sin? Because I'm frankly glad I didnt. Looks like a whole mess, endless NPC invaders with dumb AI and a crap-ton of hp, just the worst possible way to try and make each area interesting. Imagine if your first ever playthrough of the game was with this shit?

Amazed that for all the indulgence of Dark Souls 3 they didnt actually give anything new about Velka.

I did slowly force my way through scholar, it wasnt as bad as i wouldve expectet, some changes i actually thought made lots of sense, but it was much more of a struggle to push through. It feels like they are really trying to make "difficult" games now, rather than designing a game and letting the difficulty come with the game. Makes for roadblocks and slow progressing, not my idea of a souls experience.

Agreed on Velka, kind of odd how if they were going to reference back on ds1 so much they chose to do it by just copy pasting stuff we've already seen. I wouldve loved some sort of areas based on Catarina or Astora etc. So many areas vaguely mentioned that couldve been used to at least expand things.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on June 20, 2017, 01:53:15 am
Dark Souls 2 is objectively the most difficult to do all bosses in NG, even counting Bloodborne (Demon's Souls is piss easy in comparison). I don't dislike what they did with SotFS, it was a clever way to re-do the game and package it neatly. The different progression and new enemy placements make for environments that you essentially have to explore again and navigate differently. It's definitely more content and that's the problem with DS2: a lot of okay content without cohesion.

Also LobosJr is 90% of my time on Twitch, the randomiser UWYS runs were amazing. It's also cool to see Lobro evolve from basically not having object permanence at the start in the asylum to beating Orphan of Kos. This guy really has a no sense of orientation or any spatial memory.

I hope the next thing that FROM Software makes is either completely new or a PC port of Bloodborne or Demon's Souls. Even the formula is getting a bit stale now, they should try to shake things up as people become way too good at these games.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 20, 2017, 05:47:02 pm
The formula does need some changing up, they did it well in bloodborne but they could probably push it further. Im quite sated with how hard, or at least moderately hard the games have been. So long as im at least thinking about every encounter its fine with me, even when there are very simple solutions for many of them.

Just beat the item randomizer playthrough, ended up a strength faith build which bored me (i always seem to end up with something similar) so i didnt do Ariamis or DLC and just went with all the lord souls as soon as i had found the covenant of artorias. Had some fun though, will re-randomize and probably do a greatshield + spear pokey build, hyper mode if Velka allows.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vexus on June 20, 2017, 05:57:48 pm
The formula does need some changing up, they did it well in bloodborne but they could probably push it further. Im quite sated with how hard, or at least moderately hard the games have been. So long as im at least thinking about every encounter its fine with me, even when there are very simple solutions for many of them.

Just beat the item randomizer playthrough, ended up a strength faith build which bored me (i always seem to end up with something similar) so i didnt do Ariamis or DLC and just went with all the lord souls as soon as i had found the covenant of artorias. Had some fun though, will re-randomize and probably do a greatshield + spear pokey build, hyper mode if Velka allows.

Do it like lobos, use what you see c'mon it'll be a challenge.

DS2 has the npc I hated the most in the series... That fucking guy with the heavy lance that runs away to hide between enemies when almost dead. Specially hated him in the cursed tower. Fuck that guy.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 20, 2017, 06:53:27 pm
Do it like lobos, use what you see c'mon it'll be a challenge.

DS2 has the npc I hated the most in the series... That fucking guy with the heavy lance that runs away to hide between enemies when almost dead. Specially hated him in the cursed tower. Fuck that guy.

I'd do the lobos way if it was my job like it is his, i have enough playthroughs to do in order to catch up to his list anyways. I havent even done a SL1 run yet! shame


Managed to get the new aggression mod going with the item randomizer, and holy hell its hard. Apparently the aggression mod also pumps enemies up, feels like playing ng+ with low tier items and as far as i know the fucking ember to get up to +10 could be in the Kiln! I legit struggled killing the moonlight butterfly just now, i had to actually equip a wooden piece of crap shield for the magic block so that i could consistently get through the scatter shots without dying to it in 2 hits. I did pick up a moonlight greatsword which is fitting for my sorcerer starter class, and can be upgraded without having to bother with finding that damn ember.
The true dark souls starts here! It does actually get me as close as i could possibly get to a new playthrough, its way harder than anything ive done previously.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 23, 2017, 06:19:18 pm
Velka's blessings upon me! I found her Rapier before O&S and even before sens fortress. Shit is pretty cash, especially considering i havent found the large ember yet so id be running around with either a fire weapon or a +5 weapon otherwise. Now im only praying for the depths key to drop because i dont want to reverse it down from blighttown.
Aggression mod is so much fun, at times it makes your life a living hell, but it does have its moments where it helps you trick enemies down holes etc to clean a path up quickly, Tomb of the giants for example benefits me at a couple of points where they aggro further away and helps me kill them in a more suitable spot. Also had a double KO with Pinwheel (that bastard is actually pesky when his hp isnt less than your own).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 27, 2017, 10:47:22 am

It keeps baffling me how much people love this game (me included of course), keep hearing about all the cuts and concept changes, time and budget limiting certain areas of it. Yet still it ended up such an imperfect masterpiece.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 02, 2017, 12:42:44 am

Just beat my first SL1 run, and i tried this skip out. Pretty damn convenient, im impressed how there are still stuff being discovered in best souls. Going to do some runs now playing starting classes as they are, only levling STR&DEX so that i dont have to bother with lightning infuse on them. Should be fun.

edit: Just did the skip without having placed the lord vessel, and realised that the yellow fogdoor is still suppose to be blocking me out from the firesage. Went all the way and killed bed of chaos without even having the lord vessel, which is very amusing to me for some reason.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kafein on October 03, 2017, 12:41:24 am
Do you even Sen skip bro.

That one is genuinely hard because of unpredictable AI.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 03, 2017, 05:36:39 am
Do you even Sen skip bro.

That one is genuinely hard because of unpredictable AI.

Sens skip is pretty easy imo. I still struggle with duke skip though, and the royal woods skip is 2hard4me
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on October 04, 2017, 10:09:06 pm
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/743bqe/return_to_lordran_is_tomorrow_full_details/

Praise the sun, our hollows have returned'st.

I'll probably be semi active throughout the event, going to do a bunch of human playthroughs i believe, maybe do some summoning even.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 11, 2018, 09:11:32 pm

Remastered announced, its made in DS3 engine afaik. This could change so much. Im almost more worried than excited. If they decide to make it with ds3 combat i'll probably just not buy it. But i wouldnt mind them finishing lost izalith and tomb of the giants etc, areas that were lacking.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on January 11, 2018, 09:23:41 pm

If they decide to make it with ds3 combat i'll probably just not buy it.

Shit, didn't even think about that. They might actually do it sadly.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on January 11, 2018, 09:28:28 pm
Shit, didn't even think about that. They might actually do it sadly.

6 player online is confirmed, so there are changes already. It'll definitely be something to keep an eye on.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: //saxon on January 11, 2018, 09:54:59 pm
was thinking about installing this again, black knight haldberddddd!!
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 14, 2018, 01:05:17 am
Stick jumping is an option in the remaster, dopeeeeee. Thats like the best thing ever. For whatever reason the old Dark souls prepare to die edition is being removen in favor of the remaster, a bit stupid but i guess they want the dollarydoos. Very stupid actually, in the case of mods not working on the remaster people that join late and are wanting to try some fucked up shit like enemy and items randomization may not have the chance to do so till updated versions drop. Either way, remaster hype. Lagstabs are still in, so pvp is still trash but eh, stick jumps is all i want all i need.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kadeth on May 14, 2018, 03:27:56 am
This will be the first souls game to have dedicated servers though grav, I'd like to think that will make a big difference for PvP, but you never really know with From.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 14, 2018, 04:20:57 am
Oh im hoping all the online components have been improved, but i have my doubts. Its a different company doing the remaster, not From, probably on orders by namco for some extra moolah. I want it to be good, but i have my suspicions that there may be less passion behind it than one could wish for.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Vibe on May 14, 2018, 01:32:18 pm
I was kinda expecting more on the visual part improvements of the game
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 14, 2018, 06:38:23 pm

Should they fix old bugs n shit for remastered? Personally I don't care as I wont play it, looks just like the PC version lol.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Ikarus on May 14, 2018, 09:26:06 pm
I sometimes played pvp in ds because it was fun invading others, but I don't play it to get good in fighting against others because warband just has the overall better combat system
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kadeth on May 15, 2018, 01:59:16 am
I sometimes played pvp in ds because it was fun invading others, but I don't play it to get good in fighting against others because warband just has the overall better combat system

The PvP can be interesting, it certainly doesn't have as much depth as Warband, but they're too different to be comparable really. Reflexes and timing are important, and you need to have a decent understanding of the different meta weapons and their animations to do really well, although it's definitely one of those games where ultra passive/defensiveness is rewarded too much imo.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Leshma on May 15, 2018, 02:14:02 am
Should they fix old bugs n shit for remastered? Personally I don't care as I wont play it, looks just like the PC version lol.

Consoles got the PC version which is obvious improvement over not having any version (current gen) and having piss poor version (previous gen), while PC also got PC version for 30 bucks extra. Who got the better deal?
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 27, 2018, 09:56:14 pm
Man, online activity is through the roof. Im having a great time in remaster, 20€ well worth it for me. Though there are many cheaters softbanning people so anti cheat is still broken, and people are rightfully angry. I dont expect From to really care about it much though. As far as offline experience goes its pretty damn good though, clean 60fps without any gameplay changes is great, new particle effects i actually underestimated greatly, they have a really cool touch on the game, some things look gorgeus with them. QoL changes are great, and stick jumping is sick.

Just wanted to post it here if anyone is pondering the purchase. Theres a lot of negativity, but i dont think it weighs as much as it seems, if you enjoy the game as a solo experience that is.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Kadeth on May 28, 2018, 12:39:12 am
Pretty keen to buy this, have you noticed any difference with PvP now that they've moved from P2P to dedicated servers? I'll be buying it regardless, just curious.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 28, 2018, 01:06:48 am
I have not PvP'd at all, i dont like the pvp of ds1 and on pc apparently theres a lot of hackers so im not so eager on getting softbanned from someone fucking my savefile up lol. The pvp seems to be flourishing though, at least of what ive seen on twitch. It seems less laggy for sure, but its more like a consistent version of what a good connection previously used to be. So no insane lagstabs, but still a couple questionable ones.

Supposedly gravelording works well now, i saw a lot of their signs everywhere when i was online. And people seem to be summoning like crazy, each bonfire is covered in white and yellow. I havent delved into 3 phantom adventures yet that is completely new from ds3, but it seems like gankfests could be happening at a larger scale (but praise be to phantoms using estus, at least balancing it out a tad).
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Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on May 28, 2018, 07:07:41 pm
So pretty much launch day for Dark Souls 1 on PC except you can actually summon people without having to wait 30 - 40 min for the game to actually put you in the player pool (thanks GFWL).
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on May 31, 2018, 04:33:09 pm
Oh and btw, they do not have dedicated servers, they have dedicated matchmaking servers which is different. The game still has a crazy amount of players, peaking at like 17k which is more than prepare to die ever had on pc.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: IR_Kuoin on June 04, 2018, 09:26:30 am
Heard they use the weapon matchmaking system in the remastered, do they? If so that's so dumb haha.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on June 04, 2018, 04:54:40 pm
They do, makes for less twinks but ive still seen dark bead twinks. Also armor upgrades dont count which can make a moderate difference.
Title: Re: Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition
Post by: Gravoth_iii on July 03, 2018, 06:51:11 pm

Tarkus, the knight with no dialogue, only appearing for a single summon, still manages to be one of the most badass characters ever. If only we could have flipped the elevator in anor londo before he found his undoing.