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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #150 on: March 18, 2014, 02:01:10 pm »
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I am replaying DS1 right now, sticking around forest as lvl 35 getting invaded constantly  8-)

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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #151 on: March 18, 2014, 02:08:55 pm »
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Same, only I decided to be a forest invader this time, rather than being the host. One reason is the fucking bonefire glitch that will kick in and forces me to re-enter the IP pool ...
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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #152 on: March 18, 2014, 03:06:48 pm »
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Funniest thing is you can avoid fighting Taurus altogether

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« Reply #153 on: March 18, 2014, 03:15:00 pm »
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Funniest thing is you can avoid fighting Taurus altogether

I actually want to fight (and eventually defeat) bosses, I'm not into rushing/skipping the content, neither am I into all kinds of cheap tactics that exist for some bosses :p

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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #154 on: March 18, 2014, 03:26:19 pm »
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I actually want to fight (and eventually defeat) bosses, I'm not into rushing/skipping the content, neither am I into all kinds of cheap tactics that exist for some bosses :p

If you want to really get into the experience, you'll have to change that attitude. Since Demon's Souls those games have been all about the cheapest tactics.

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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #155 on: March 18, 2014, 04:52:53 pm »
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I actually want to fight (and eventually defeat) bosses, I'm not into rushing/skipping the content, neither am I into all kinds of cheap tactics that exist for some bosses :p

Yeah thats the best way to start out, but after youve finished the game a million times and then discover ways to skip parts its pretty damn kewl.

Cheap tactics though, is part of dark souls. That is how you play the game, with knowledge and abuse, because discovering abusive methods is being clever and its very enjoyable (atleast imo). But thats if you find them yourself, reading guides is something i feel ruins the experience. Unfortunately i had to quickly do that for one boss in dark souls 2 (Ancient dragon, if you guys have fought this yet, i think you understand :( )
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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #156 on: March 18, 2014, 05:33:43 pm »
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Yeah thats the best way to start out, but after youve finished the game a million times and then discover ways to skip parts its pretty damn kewl.

Cheap tactics though, is part of dark souls. That is how you play the game, with knowledge and abuse, because discovering abusive methods is being clever and its very enjoyable (atleast imo). But thats if you find them yourself, reading guides is something i feel ruins the experience. Unfortunately i had to quickly do that for one boss in dark souls 2 (Ancient dragon, if you guys have fought this yet, i think you understand :( )

I see. Yeah like I said, reading guides or how-to's can definitely ruin the difficulty.

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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #157 on: March 18, 2014, 06:52:49 pm »
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I never used any "cheap tactics" to beat anything in Dark Souls. The point of the game was to achieve perfection when fighting the bosses and that's why I purchased the game, to be challenged. Can't wait for 2.

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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #158 on: March 18, 2014, 06:55:26 pm »
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Btw, the cheapest of all tactics is to summon phantoms to help with bosses.

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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #159 on: March 18, 2014, 08:56:47 pm »
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One thing that I really dig and will be great for PC is the vibration of your controller when you are summoned or summon others, so we can safely tab out or open the steam browser while waiting :D
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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #160 on: March 18, 2014, 10:01:24 pm »
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Really digging the soundtrack in this, i felt dark souls 2 lacked a bit on the music part compared to demons souls, but DaS2 nailed it.
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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #161 on: March 18, 2014, 10:07:35 pm »
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One thing that I really dig and will be great for PC is the vibration of your controller when you are summoned or summon others, so we can safely tab out or open the steam browser while waiting :D

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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #162 on: March 21, 2014, 04:52:58 pm »
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The new weapon upgrading system is pretty sweet, basically you have the regular 1-10 upgrade (10 being max now) and while upgrading this you can add another effect such as bleed, poison, magic, dark, lightning etc etc, at the cost of some scaling reduction. Some of the effects scale with skills though so its pretty good, for example bleed and poison scales with dex afaik which, so im going to use that on my dual wielding dex char.
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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #163 on: March 21, 2014, 05:46:51 pm »
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Re: Dark Souls II
« Reply #164 on: March 21, 2014, 06:21:34 pm »
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This soul memory for pvp mechanic seems to be garbage though, i was going to stay at SL60 and do some invasions, but as i gain souls im just going to fight higher leveled people while i stay the same.
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