Dark souls: Prepare to Die edition

[Kadeth]

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.

[Gravoth_iii]

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).

[Gravoth_iii]

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[IR_Kuoin]

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).

[Gravoth_iii]

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.

[IR_Kuoin]

Heard they use the weapon matchmaking system in the remastered, do they? If so that's so dumb haha.

[Gravoth_iii]

They do, makes for less twinks but ive still seen dark bead twinks. Also armor upgrades dont count which can make a moderate difference.

[Gravoth_iii]

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.