Souls Multithread

2014-03-12 09:09:49 am

lol

amazon sent me a shipping confirmation mail today, but that won't necessarily mean that i'll be getting the game tomorrow

yeah i've got the pyromancy flame upgraded to +11. it's pretty damn expensive

ryu

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ryu: 2014-03-12 11:59:28 am

2014-03-12 11:59:15 am

i got 1-shot at full health by a harpy lol. time to switch to havel's ring and heavy armor i guess

apparently i should make sure to purchase iron flesh next time i'm back at firelink shrine. running around in cloth armor doesn't seem to be such a good idea past a certain point in the game lol

Da Dood

2014-03-12 12:12:25 pm

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Hahaha... it happens. In Demon's Souls NG+ I get OHKO'd by the miners all the time. I always forget that they're ridiculously strong... but heavy armor I just can't do anymore. I feel way too limited with no fast rolling. I use the Stone set vs. Four Kings, and only because it's just easy to tank them.

Do you have Power Within? One of the best pyros! Basically Dark Souls' hypermode. Either that or Red Tearstone Ring... too bad you can't have a real hypermode in this game, because you get like 10 seconds of stacked buffs while your health is draining...

ryu

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ryu: 2014-03-12 01:06:04 pm

2014-03-12 01:05:56 pm

when i mentioned heavy armor i was referring to the black iron and elite knight sets, they're still light when compared to other sets and work quite well with havel's ring.

yeah, i used power within once against a titanite demon. it killed me when i was trying to sip estus, and after that i just removed it from my spell set.

ryu

2014-03-12 03:47:59 pm

can invaders kill the other player's world's npcs?

Da Dood

2014-03-12 04:39:17 pm

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Pretty sure NPCs are invisible to invaders.

ryu

2014-03-12 04:53:16 pm

weird, solaire vanished on me in anor londo after i was invaded there

Da Dood

2014-03-13 10:10:42 am

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I got an early copy of Dark Souls 2! \o/ Starting later today!

ryu

2014-03-13 11:58:15 am

nice! let us know what you think of it

ryu

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ryu: 2014-03-13 03:15:01 pm

2014-03-13 03:14:50 pm

meanwhile i failed to save siegmeyer again

Idkbutlike2

2014-03-13 08:12:00 pm

So I played Demon's Souls for the first time today... The game's pretty hard. It took me hours just to get to Phalanx :|

ryu

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ryu: 2014-03-13 08:23:21 pm

2014-03-13 08:23:01 pm

you'll get the hang of it eventually and be blasting through areas on reruns like it's nothing

ryu

2014-03-13 08:25:08 pm

did you get the thief's ring and the cling ring from the first stage? those rings alone make a huge difference to the game's difficulty for beginners

Idkbutlike2

2014-03-13 09:41:05 pm

I got the latter! Don't know where to find the thief's ring, though. Sorry, I usually don't play games with a GameFAQs page opened on the side. Kind of ruins the immersion for me.

Da Dood

2014-03-13 11:40:26 pm

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You should see the Thief's Ring as you pass above it, it's just not a place that looks like you can fall down to. But yeah, in this game you can jump over small walls and one of them leads to the Thief's Ring. It's right behind Ostrava, the guy who asks you to kill some enemies there for him.

And yes, Thief's Ring is ridiculously helpful. Enemies will take considerably longer to notice you.

So Dark Souls 2 is amazing. It's still pretty damn hard considering how many hours I've put into DeS and Dark 1. I think I entered a mid-game area in the first 30 minutes of gameplay. Got my ass crushed. LOL

ryu

2014-03-14 07:05:19 am

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I got the latter! Don't know where to find the thief's ring, though. Sorry, I usually don't play games with a GameFAQs page opened on the side. Kind of ruins the immersion for me.

nothing to apologize for. you're right playing games with a guide kind of ruins them, and i didn't get both rings by myself as well. i missed the cling ring even though it's so easy to discover lol

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So Dark Souls 2 is amazing. It's still pretty damn hard considering how many hours I've put into DeS and Dark 1. I think I entered a mid-game area in the first 30 minutes of gameplay. Got my ass crushed. LOL

sounds good. hopefully my copy will be delivered today

Da Dood

2014-03-14 11:09:18 am

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It only took me 6 hours to figure out how to level up/get an Estus Flask in Dark Souls 2. LOL. I love how this game doesn't spoon feed you anything. :)

Bosses defeated:

1. Dragonrider
2. The Last Giant
3. The Pursuer

About enemy spawns: I noticed that some enemies disappear permanently after you kill a number of spawns. Maybe it's just the game playing me in Soviet Russia, but if this is a real thing, it'll make farming items a big pain.

3 or 4 areas that I haven't explored yet. One of them reminds me a bit too much of Blighttown...

Da Dood

2014-03-14 11:09:48 am

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Also, if I said something that looks too spoilerish, just say so and I'll be more careful.

ryu

2014-03-14 12:37:07 pm

lol, i'm just starting the game up. guess i'll be careful to see i don't miss out on the leveling and estus flask.

the spawn limitation sounds intriguing, farming's pretty dumb by default anyways.

saying the game doesn't have a blighttown area would probably have been more of a spoiler than stating that it's in the game. don't tell me you weren't expecting that after valley of defilement and blighttown :D

Da Dood

2014-03-14 01:16:50 pm

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Have fun!

Yeah I was expecting some kind of swamp, I guess I'm just not quite excited about it. Haha.

ryu

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2014-03-14 01:55:15 pm

oh man. i can already see what people mean when they complain about the hitboxes in this game. i can't even beat the first enemy lol

obviously you're kind of supposed to just run past him, but he'd still be super easy with the old game's mechanics

Da Dood

2014-03-14 02:12:11 pm

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True, it does feel different. I upgraded agility a lot and now I feel like I can circle around enemies just as easily. But I dunno, maybe it's just practice.

ryu

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ryu: 2014-03-14 04:05:35 pm

2014-03-14 03:38:06 pm

maybe, but i was also thinking leveling adaptability might help.

finding the estus flask didn't take me that long, although i can see how it's easily missed.
did you get to leave the smooth and silky stone at the nest? i had already consumed mine by the time i got there. : /

and lol at all those blood stains

ryu

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ryu: 2014-03-14 04:19:06 pm

2014-03-14 04:18:53 pm

oh man, the character creator in this game is fucking shit. i accidentally made a female character and didn't even notice it until i removed my equipment to test if i'll jump farther that way

time to start over

Da Dood

2014-03-14 06:51:49 pm

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I'm stuck on one of the boss fights. Killed a couple more, though.

There's a great item in this game that allows you to reallocate level points. If I screw up my build I'll just start over.