I AM A 34 YEAR OLD MAN AND I WANT TO FUCKING SCREAM
>>737735308swallow your pride and use a bow
>>737735363>bow would make this area easierWat
>>737735308Don't run, space your rolls, bait those giant faggot knights back to a safe area and kill them first. Worry about the snipers later.
>>737735363>using things in the game is swallowing your pride
>>737735308I remember the Shrine of Vagina got patched shortly after release to be way easier. It's still not a good area, but it's quicker to get through.
Sing.
IM GOING TO FUCKING DRINK AND DRIVE HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO GFAY
>>737735603Breathe, anon! Don't let those cunts get you! You're the fucking GOD of this world. Just focus on killing the first few people around you. Eventually they stop respawning and you can move up. Rinse and repeat.You got this, I believe in you.
>>737735308I just played through DS2 SotfS again and Shrine of Amana is indeed a big fuck you from the devs.I didn't have much trouble because I already knew about all the "gotcha bitch!" moments in that area but it was fucking tedious still. The fucking ticks that fart on you with equipment breaking gas always deserve get genocided in that fucking tunnel.
>>737735308>struggling after patch nerflolonly at release this area was hell on earth
Have you tried gitting gud, you whiny little bitch?
>>737735424you either kill the enemies by sniping them to death or to attract aggro to you one at a time
>>737735709>The fucking ticks that fart on you with equipment breaking gas always deserve get genocided in that fucking tunnel.Hell yeah. Fuck those things.
>>737735308I loved invading people down there
Zig and zag.The actual difficulty is you can't fucking see the guys because of the draw distance and blur effect.And also since the fucking dodge in Dark Souls 2 sucks dick you can't roll through the homing soul masses.
Pull with a ranged weapon instead of bodypulling like a mongoloid.
>>737736534I run in there like an animal and slay as many as I can before the homing soulmasses claim me.
>>737735308I played this in first person and had a blast.
>>737735308Many such cases
>>737735308Isn't that the dwemer ruin in skyrim? Pretty comfy
>>737737884Clearly thats Starfield
>>737735308Understandable, this area sucks my hemorrhoid inflicted poop covered asshole.
>>737735308Best game im the series.
I still can't believe people get filtered by DS2, it's by far the easiest game in the entire series. I'm guessing it's a mix of memes about the game being bad and unfair so people have no patience for it from the start and coming down from finishing the hardest game ever made so the sequel should be a cake walk.You are showered with bonfire ascetics, upgrade materials and soul vessels throughout the entire game, there's no "b-but my build" excuse anymore.
>>737738324nigger what des and ds1 existds2 is not the easiest
Summon best girl
>>737735308Roll forward to avoid spells.No wonder you people hate DS2. You fucking suck.
>>737735308unc washed up *skull emoji*
>>737735440Yes. games that have difficulty settings, you can choose easy, but then you're just a shitter with no pride, same goes for using bows or summons in these games
>>737735308I used to troll people as an invader there, but people constantly panic disconnected, So eventually I just went to other areas
>>737735363bows make ds1, ds2 and er so much easier to deal with normal enemies it's crazy (never used them in ds3)
>>737735308do a barrel roll
Guys, should I replay Dark Souls 2 or do another Elden Ring run with a new build? I havent played DS2 in around 11 years and Elden Ring in 3. Im fine with either.
>>737738776I replayed DS2 this year to give it another chance. It still sucks.
>>737735363this actually reminds me back when dark souls 1 first came out people were telling new players to use a bow so you could lure enemies out and fight 1 by 1. I never see anyone say to do that in souls anymore but its really important in 2.
>>737735308
>>737738776Replay DS2 with a new build.Try 30 000 soul memory run. :)
>>737738776>should i replay a ~20-30 hour game or a ~120 hour game (dlc not included)is what it boils down to
>>737738813A lot of DS2 feels like an over correction from people sprinting past and circlestrafing everything in 1.
Dark Souls 2 is Type 3 fun.
>>737738881First one sounds fun.>making deals with God.......Wat?
>>737738568I bet you use your baby bottle whenever you get an ouchy, wear armor and use weapons. Let me know when you take the training wheels off and leave the tutorial.
>>737738840All that attention to detail lost, and the last time they bothered was with an incomplete game.
>>737738805>>737738845>>737738863I might do both back to back. In DS2 I would want to try a hex build to finally see what all the hype was about 12 years ago, but for Elden Ring Im not sure what to play. My first and favorite style is pure int with the moonlight greatsword and my second was a paladin build, any fun build I could try for a 3rd? I was thinking either a raw strength colossal weapon build or maybe a Samurai themed build of some kind.
>>737738776DS2. You'll love it.
>>737735424If you hit the enemies from afar, you might knock them into the water or just pull them one at a time.
never understood the seethe this place caused. I'm guessing people don't understand the concept of kiting?
>>737738840Pretty sure DS2 is also on a completely different engine than the rest of the series. It feels so different to play than the others.It might be the worst game in the series but it has some interesting ideas that probably only materialized because they had to stitch a working game together failed attempts.
>>737739108>raw strength colossal weapon buildarguably the best build for bosses. malenia never gets a chance to do waterfowl because you'll be perma staggering her, applies to pretty much every other boss
>>737739108For ER go full faith and use nothing but dragon breaths. Crotch Rot dragonbreath got nerfed a while back but its still king. It hits like a freight train, scarlet rots people and looks really cool.Its hard to manage at first but once you get used to it you can bounce your breath around corners and clear rooms. Timing is everything. I beat the base game & expansion with my dragon incants and haven't had that much fun before or since. Bosses fall before your rotten assmouth so quickly you'll laugh like a maniac as they melt into bubbling piles of shit.
>>737735424Use poison arrows to snipe the homing missile spellcasters from a distance behind cover. Relying on poison proc damage means any build can do this, even if you don't meet the requirements to wield a bow.It is hella slow, but its how a lot of people did it. Especially on 1.0 where the area was even harder cuz the soul arrows tracked you better.
>>737739378>>737735424poison arrows are insane in das2, makes so many encounters less of a hassle
>>737735308Get and upgrade a longbow. Welcome to Vietnam.
>>737739286she breaks the stagger all the timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Vbsr3Ko7M
>>737739182homing spells and the only way to see the pitfalls is with a torch and rolling through the spells puts out the torch
>>737735308Best Souls 2 btw
>>737739286she can waterfowl on wakeup
>>737735363more like swallow your cum because you're unironically playing ds2
>>7377383241. Most zoomies playing it in the modern era are playing SotFS, which has a few areas that are fucked up cuz the devs decided to remix the area into a fucking kaizo romhack with bullshit enemy placements.2. It's also the "easiest" by virtue of being the only Souls game with despawning enemies. So even if you suck ass, you can throw yourself at an area enough times and eventually it'll just have no enemies at all. The reverse is true, where if you don't know about despawning enemies than the first impression is that the game is fucked up with how many gank squad ambushes it throws at you.
>>737739509Hey everyone, this anon wants to swallow that dudes cum because he plays DS2.
>>737739509
I don't even like DS2, but for some reason it feels like the last souls game with "real" levels. Not in the sense that they're realistic, but more like "this is an actual video game level instead of just the shit we put in the way of the boss". Even when DS3 or ER are really trying to do the intricate level design thing something feels hollow about it.
>>737739539>some anon on /v/ is incomprehensibly gayI am not actually all that shocked by this
>>737739298>>737739286Alright, I'll flip a coin to pick one of these and keep the other one on the back burner for whenever I feel like another play through after this.
>>737739620I would say that Bloodborne still had real levels, everything after were trash in that regard
>>737739620I really, really hated SotE's level design. Base ER was a little annoying in places but still made sense, SotE was such a massive unintuitive hastle I cheated and used online maps to navigate. Whoever thought that up should be exiled and never allowed to design another nap again.
>>737735308this was actually easier than a lot of people made it out to be more complicatedyou just needed patience
Why yes I only play ranged weapons. Why yes I'm more civilized than you.
>>737739782Map, not nap. Lol I bet their nap design would be wild.>scale up a storm drain, roll across your roof and jump through a skylight that leads to your basement thats flooded with poison.>rearange several pieces of furniture to unlock the stairs leading upstairs.>roll through your living room until you jump out a windows, jog to the far end of your yard and use your pet to hold down a pressure plate that opens the front door>sprind down the hallway into your bedroom and jump onto your comfy bed.>pray that you picked up your pillow in the basement so you dont need to run the gauntlet again.
I loved this shit and the threads back at launch pre-patch.
>>737739620I think it's not as good as the fans said but I'd still rather play DS2 over a lot of other trash bootleg soulslikes like lords of fallenAlso with the context of how problematic the development was, playing it feels much different, like you can tell some parts of the game are held together by duct tapes and you starts to just roll with how weird it was.
>>737735308Post them.
>>737735363This. Shrine of Amana only troubled those who were autistically following a strict build and set of equipment and unironically beat their head against the wall until they brute forced their way through. Actually using every tool at your disposal has always trivialised every one of these games, they were never that hard.
>>737735308Is this a new meme or something? Holy shit. I laughed for 5 mins straight hahahaah
>>737735308It does hand you the +2 mag defense ring literally in the room right after Looking Glass knight, those spells should not be worrying you that much.
>>737742160>using ringslol
>>737735308DaS2 is such a shit fucking game, I'm disappointed in you DaS2 niggers
>>737742269well the game isnt called dark and souls, so you disappoint me
>>737742269i like the atmospherei like the feeling of a semi-linear grand adventure, unlike elden ring which is too big and sprawlingi like the armor setsi like how it's not too easy and not too hardi like how it's more like kings field than dark souls at times
>>737735308>what if in this area you have to wade through water while being shot by magic missileswhy was 2 like this
>>737742379They drank their own kool aid a little too much when it came to "Dark Souls is about being hard above everything else, including good design." in some ways.
>>737735308The perks of running a sorcery build in DS2
>>737735363This is what I did on the PS3 release version before they nerfed the area into a joke.
I have my own schizo theory why DS2 is so different: the game was building as an MMO, all those weird little details are custom building for class roles but the scope of the idea was too big for the dev team so they scrapped alot of the level designs to rush the product but lets those systems in.
>>737742379Don't forget the bottomless pits hidden in the water and gank squads of lindelt clerics who run at you extremely fast and proceed to stunlock you with their fast hammer swings
>>737735308Just run trough it dumb goy
>>737738324Ds2 is like asshole troll version of ds1
>>737743094>he doesn't know
>>737735308You got 34 years to git gud
>>737738683By DS3, they had changed the enemy AI to be significantly less swarming and gank squad like, so a large reason to use a bow to separate or snipe enemies was removed
>>737742379What if you pulled out a bow shot back like you were supposed to
>>737735308>crossbow>maxed out bolts>don't even bother letting go of aim buttonit was surprisingly fun
>>737744034>don't even bother letting go of aim buttonYou maniac!
>>737735308They should remake a proper DaS 2 II.
Still the best DS boss
>>737739191>It might be the worst game in the seriesnah
ds2 is my "i like the way this sucks" game
>>737738971God is ontologically complete. You can't add anything to it. You can't take anything away.He gets a laugh out of people who think they have to offer something to get something in return, as if the trifle will cost Him something.Needless to say, the result for the deal maker is very much type 3 fun. Which is great, if you're into that kind of thing. Would recommend.
>>737744576So which games map to the rest of the chart?
>>737738562You can't roll through anything if you don't level adaptability.
>>737738971God had a plan for you before you were born, apparently.
>Use silver shield (100% magic resist)>Have no problems at allThis is how you get through areas that present new challenges. You adapt.
>>737745327>use a shieldERM, SORRY, SWEATY, BUT YOU DIDN'T BEAT LE GAME
>>737739530>only Souls game with despawning enemies.>Openly admitting you play on easy modeIt's company of champions or didn't beat the game
>>737745327I HAVETO USEONLY EQUIPMENTTHAT MY BUILDNEEDS!!!
>>737738840>put details on smashing doors and stepping on bags>killin gods summon the janitor to clear rubbleNice details, fag. DS2 still is the worst on the series. Period.
>>737744514That's not Prowling Magus & Congregation, the actual best souls boss
>>737745556people often say that the bosses in dark souls are only good if they test what you've learned throughout the gameprowling magus tests if you're able to switch to a 1h moveset for slash attacks in order to hit the crawling enemiestherefore its good
>>737736478>He didn't level ADP
Any fun build recommendations for SotFS?
Ds2 was the first souls game I played and I finished it before realizing rolling gives you I frames
*INHALES*
>>737745813I rushed the blue and red smelter demon swords in a second playthrough so I could power stance them in PvP. Pancaking enemies with the charged heavy is so fun, one time I unironically one shot the fucker with it.
>>737739191>It might be the worst game in the series>when DaS3 exists>when Elden Ring exist
>>737735308I don't get why people cry about this place. It was a cakewalk compared to the trap-filled poison asshole
>>737745904>average elden ring invasion be like
>>737745904
>>737742568>Using sorceryYou didn't beat the game.
>>737745970black gulch? it's the shortest area in the game
there are no prizes for playing a shit game, nothing better lies beyond this shit area either.
Nobody cares about what DS1 that DS2 and 3 didn't. Bet most can't tell the difference.
>>737739378This is how I did it. In 1.0.
another strange case where viable solutions are numerous, yet some people have an obsession with doing it the "right" way which is to only rely on rolling and nothing else
>>737735308Going through Amana pre-nerf gave you a better experience of what it was like to be an American soldier on D-day than any WW2 game.
>>737739620I want to say this generally started around 2014, everything got very asset-y instead of video gamey, I can just see where they used the tools to place the objects and all the magic is lost, the older games never did that for me.
>DS2SOVL>DS3rollslop>Elden RingSOVL>SotEasset reskin slop
>>737744576No need to apologise.It’s the best.
>>737735758I still have unpatched shrine of amana because I have a release 360 copy and never connected the 360 to the internet. It's honestly not even a big deal.
>>737735308>I AM A 34 YEAR OLD MAN AND I WANT TO FUCKING SCREAMI don't believe you. I am 47 and this is one of my favorite part of Dark Souls 2. Are you sure that you're a real man? Real men don't act like pussy bitches online.
>>737735363That and swallow your pride and turn your brightness way up so that you can actually see where the fuck the chains are without using a torch that instantly extinguishes when you roll. That by far was the biggest factor for making it easier.
>>737747625>I am 47
>>737738840Not in the webm but i like how fire from candles actually move relative to the wind from your running and isnt just a stationary texture.
>>737735308It's amazing how Dolls Nest did a remix of this stage and made it actually fun
>>737739509Does anyone unironically ironically play a video game?
>>737747704>gets called out for being bad at videogames and for acting like a bitch>starts with personal attacks based on a perceived imaginary view of the way a 47 man should look
>>737735308I think I died more to falling down into the water than the mage spam. It really isn't that bad.
>>737747357Elden Ring is also rollslop. DS2 is the only game in the series that has a unique movement system. All the others are just a rehash of DS1.
With whom should I invade ppl today, /v/?
>>737747926Thats not what he's saying. Its a scene from the show Smiling Friends where the main duo, in their 30s, are at a party and the person pictured is asking why they're there and saying that they look old and should leave.
>>737748051are you a fan of Anya Taylor?
>>737735308>he didnt do it pre nerf at launchyou dont know pain
>>737748249literally who
I'm gonna start a new character and play on KB&M. Wish me luck.
>>737748387don't forget to use at least the Lightning Engine mod.
>>737748417I do not care about visuals.The game will be played on a window while I sit in Teams meetings.
>>737748276I did and it was not painful at all because I was not above using a bow.
>>737748242>he Sure thing buddy. Now take your normie meme show and go away
>>737735308I just ground through this with attrition. Guys stop spawning eventually. Probably not how it was meant to be played
I didn't like how they did everything in the power to convince you to finally max out your brightness instead of using a torch.>Dark as shit>Also nearly the entire map is an instant death falls that are hard to see if there's nothing making it brighter>Full of homing missiles and dudes who speed through the water to make you roll>Made it so rolling in water extinguishes torches>Map is full of mobs that are hiding and only aggro if you have a torch out>Makes it so intermittently reigniting the torch pulls a bunch of enemies to catch up to you from the sides and back whenever you fight the other enemies.
>>737749035Damn, you have to kill them like 20 times.
>>737742561It's even dumber than that. It was founded upon the absolutely genius idea: dark souls should be dark. The whole game was modeled after being tomb of the giants but everywhere. They wanted you to always have a torch in your off hand. 80% of the way through dev cooler heads prevailed and told tanimura his game played like absolute ass this way, but there was no time to fix the direction fully. That's why it looks so weird, they just turned up the global lighting everywhere and all the ugliness obscured by dark fog of war was revealed. They kept a few locales true to the vision like the undead crypt and no man's wharf to an extent.Dark souls 2 was the majora's mask attempt. An overly ambitious game with an absurd deadline caused by executive demands. The dark souls 2 slop outcome is the far more likely scenario than the miracle that was MM.
>>737748562I dont watch the show, I was trying to help your retard ass geriatric brain understand what was being said.
>>737749035The lurkers give off effects that make them visible even under the surface, and everything can be attacked at long range. You were intended to invest in a bow.
>>737735308bro, even I got through this, and I fucking suck
>>737739620DS2 was part of the last wave of games that were made on the era of official strategy guides. Games after 2014 stopped getting guides and were made so that anyone could beat them by just walking forward
>>737735363This is DS2 in a nutshell. It's either the easiest game of the franchise or the hardest one. The game is a stupid piece of artificial difficulty shit, so it's up to you to outbullshit the game.
am I the only one here who actually enjoyed dark souls 2 and wished it wasn't downgraded and had like a quarter of its content cut?
>>737735308>this fucking runback from the shitty frog bossI still enjoy DS2 but fucking Shrine of Amana makes me want to blow my head off.Doesn't help that I'm a shitter so I kept dying to the fucking frog so had to go through this shit again and again and again
>>737749857you should unironically get good
>>73774036874thpbpUse throwing knives, a bow, long range spells, the buckler that reflects spells, protective items, swap armor or rings, anything. It's stubborn retards who suffer where the intelligent man thrives.
>>737740368but, you see, the guide said all i have to do is to wear the tseldora set and use a rapier
>>737749797I enjoyed it but the game has plenty of content with the DLCs
>>737749997When DaS1 came out, lots of people beat the Taurus demon the hard way instead of just throwing the firebombs you got earlier at it.
>>737735443Then they made it harder again in scholar. Still easier than launch, but much harder than post patch vanilla.Version 1.00> the mages have infinite agro range, meaning if their models are visibility loaded into game, they are shooting you with homing projectiles, there isn’t too many enemies, but you are being constantly bombarded with homing soul arrows. This was honestly probably a glitch, since no other enemy type functioned like this.> Version 1.03 (or whatever it was)Mages now have reasonable agro range that is comparable to other projectile based enemies in the game. Still annoying, but much more manageable and pretty easy to go from cover to cover taking them out.> Scholar Greatly increased number of enemies and moved them around to be more annoying. Are now put into situations where you are in combat with multiple melee enemies while mages shoot you, and it’s much harder to sprint from section to section.
>>737738840Isn’t this the ONLY breakable wooden door in whole game?
>>737739191>it has some interesting ideasA lot of them even made it into future games in some form or another. I wish powerstancing had made the leap, that was some good shit.
>>737738776Try Lords of the Fallen.
>>737739298Rot sucks for the gargoyles. Others too but those stand out in memory.
>>737740368I shouldn't have to pivot to bow when I'm a caster and I wouldn't have to if the enemies didn't cheat. They can aggro and deal homing full ranged damage from so far away that they render as 3fps jpegs. Meanwhile I can't even lock on until I'm almost in melee range and have to use binoculars in mid range if I want to have a magic duel. Yeah bow solves this but this is lame as fuck.
>wanna try the path tracing mod>first gotta download some lighting mod>then wait 5 hours to get the tranny nexus download of another mod with speed limit>then 3 more hours to get the patch to that mod>lost all will to replay the game and uninstallwhy are modern modders so fucking shitty
>>737750738>autistically following a strict build and set of equipmentThis game does not have classes in the way you assume it does, you have entirely freeform stat and equipment use, so any difficulties that arise from your choices are your own fault.
>>737750762It's not the modders, it's your ADD
>>737739530The toxin dart guys that make blight town infamous don't respawn. Black Knights don't respawn. There are other enemies like the giant arrow guys in 3 that also don't respawn.There is also all the invaders.
>>737750738>every encounter in the game should be adjusted to my specific playstyle because... uh... because uh...>uh these +6 bows in my inventory that I found 15 minutes ago? uh.. lame as shit..>brb gonna die to some forced difficultythank god there's no soulstardism is any other game genre, imagine if people complained about call of duty maps not being made with shotgun mains in minds
The scream? KINO
>>737751187>rollslop>parryslopComplaints are always from tards not using shields. They even have entire games meant to copy souls which don't even have shields. Like bro what the fuck are you even doing.
>>737750762You don't need to download any extra texture packs or presets for the lighting mod to work, just get the mod from discord or wait until the pathtracing version is uploaded to nexus
>>737749797>like a quarter of its content cutThe game was hastily thrown together in less than a year using assets from a build made under a different director, that had to be pretty much completely scrapped. There isn't any cut content, other that the downgraded visuals.
>>737735308LEARN TO ROLL BITCH AHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
>>737751479> there isn’t any cut content except several entire levels?https://youtu.be/pzdYD1LzSdE?si=UAbTqq-bOr0M75B6
>>737735308I never got what the problem with that area is supposed to be
>>737751458this is not an upgrade in any way. You take the soul of the original and crush it beneath your heel. You don't care about graphics. You don't care about game engines, or progress, or how impressive this was on ps3.You fucking faggot.
>>737751670You pine for an additional level that wasn't even halfway finished, with no known content to be placed in it?
>>737750736You can always switch to a diffrent breath but I found crotch rot hits the hardest even against enemys that are immune to scarlet rot. It does bonkers physical dmg and you can stunlock humans by bouncing it off the walls in buildings and hallways. I always like surprising invaders , on the open field or especially in enclosed buildings, with a mighty blast of my morning shit mouth
>>737751782>how impressive this was on ps3DS2 looks worse than DS1There is nothing technically impressive about any of the souls games, they're carried by art direction, though DS2 is easily the worst in that regard as well.
>>737751782oh no, not the artistic vision of dark soulless 2! how dare you trample upon miyazaki's masterpiecethis is the cutting edge of the ps3!!
>>737751728Long range casters. Patching reduced the range, but release version ones would start blasting as soon as they were in render distance. Each area in DaS2 is basically a puzzle game, and the solution to Amana was bows, but most players are retards brute forcing the game with their specific and highly specialised builds. There were similar complaints from big sword users in Iron Keep's narrow passages where they couldn't swing them properly, and again in general with the brief fog zone with the barely visible enemies.
>>737751947>Patching reduced the rangeThe patch reduced the aggro distance of the casters, the damage they do, AND the speed of the projectiles. It got nerfed hard.
I like how DS2 is slowly gaining back it's reputation after streamers, normies, and low IQs endlessly attacked it for the most nitpicky reasons.
>>737751924lol ur so mad they made a band about u
>>737751947I dunno, I just ran through and went unga.
Kinda wish that instead of stitching areas together in nonsensical ways, they would instead have just split them and add arch stones you can use to enter them like areas in DeS.
>>737752018These guys are pretty good as far as generic rock go
>>737751947>again in general with the brief fog zone with the barely visible enemies.The Shrine of Amana is good and the Iron Passage's main issues were bad gate hitboxes, but the Frigid Outskirts really did stink. There was basically nothing to find at all and you'd get ganked by reworks of the Sanctuary Guardian every 15 seconds or so. Moving even a little bit while fighting one would likely make another appear, up to three at a time, and they blatantly just appeared from the snowstorm itself without the decency to have a summoning animation for that. If you bothered to try keeping your eyes peeled during the breaks between each snowstorm, you still wouldn't find any hidden reindeer horse things to avoid because they just teleport in. You also had to run for nearly three minutes to the fog gate, where the boss was a duo that was a rework of another boss introduced in the same DLC.
I replayed it a few months ago, after 8 or so yearsIt wasn't that bad, but a big part of it is knowing what to expect more or less. Only somewhat tricky part is the last section with multiple mages AND knights that immediately rush you
>>737752334Yeah, that part is complete garbage. I added my "Horse" message along with everyone else's in commemoration.
>>737738840>dark souls 2 contrarians legitimately think this makes it the best souls gamelmao
>>737752062Based Master Blaster.
>>737752343Hard areas like that make coop more fun. A white phantom with magic resist gear could bulldoze the level for you.
>>737750104I don't love the challenge Shrine of Amana is trying to provide, but at least hitting guys with your own projectiles turns it back into something more like the rest of the game.
>>737735363No
>>737736393Sicko
>>737738840Peak souls 2
How viable is dual daggers? I always play sir bonklord so looking to do something different.
>>737754176Really good, just pair it with the stone ring to get poise damage. Also put every point into Endurance and Vitality.
>>737738840crowbcat and his videos have been a disaster for video game discussion
>>737755135His video cataloging all of the graphical botches DS Remastered has is valuable. He only started to split hairs after his L4D stuff.
>>737735308I too am a 34 year old manIt wasn't that bad
>>737735363niggers really play these games without a bow? lmao?
>>737735308played through the game a month ago again and I died like 3 times in this area, twice to falling into the waterthe only people having issues with areas like amana or iron keep are low IQ dark souls 3 or ER babies who just want to run past everything
>>737742379Skill issuegit gud
>>737755356won't argue with that. he could've just made a video on demon's souls remake or something and everyone would've loved it, but that re4remake video not only killed his channel, but apparently completely mindbroke him. sad.
>>737738840
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>>737736393i only get invaded at heides and the area just before skeleton kangsother than that its a damn ghost towni wish i could have just once got a player for mirror knight
>>737739191>Remove Myazaki>Get a game with lots of new ideas>People hate it because it's not a "muh git gud" excercise in frustration that punishes you for trying to find exploits like you did in DS1Gee I wonder why it feels different...
>>737756294>>737756545why does DS2 look better than everything that came after? what the fuck are they doing?
>>737749797I played the ps3 version of SotFS which as far as I know had most of the new content with none of the "big" changes, and I thought it was a fine game.
>NOOOOO THE DIRECTOR SUCKS WE NEED MIYAZAKI!!!the ds2 guy is the one who ran ds3s dlc (real new content instead of MEMBER DS1?) and elden ring itself thats why all the good content from 2 like powerstancing came back in full for ER instead of just a few meme weapons like dancer swordsds3 fucking sucks and miyazaki is a hack
>>737750738Thats on you. When I play these games, I never play a "caster". I'm always an adventurer that does things. Sometimes, I make adventurers that are really really good at magic.Why would you insist on using one tool for anything? that is retarded and pure anti-fun.
>>737751918Not true. You have to hold a torch the entire game for it to look good. You know I'm right.
>>737736393this with a bow, orgasmic
>>737748298game doesnt look like that, thats AI
>>737756545what game on the right
>>737735440Welcome to the souls community where your measure of worth is the amount of self inflicted harm you can bring to yourself when playing. >If you didn't beat Dark Souls 1, SL1, no armor, no weapons, and only poopwalking then you are a scrub and should feel bad.
>>737751458>just get the mod from discord
>>737735308you might not be reading anymore OP-kun, but you can just get torch out from bonfire then slowly clear the creatures before dealing with each sorceress.Don't listen to the rollslopping retards. Run left/right to avoid the homing shots to keep torch alight, and selectively put away your torch to prevent the underwater creatures from swarming you at select spots. They have a fuckhuge aggro radius when you have light out (the reason why fireflies collect above them, they follow the light).On an aside, it's always funny reading people fellating original ds2 Amana when the sorceress' all had 4x aggro and firing range, as well as NO SOUND CUE for the homing shots until they were 5 feet away. Scholar did this area so much better even with the extra mobs. The original game was empty as fuck (everywhere except Iron Keep actually).
The invisible boss was such a stupid idea.
>>737751782I like both
>>737759813Meh. Having to remember where the throne niggas are is worse. I tend to skip the DLCs, they're always the worst part of any Souls game.
>>737751782Absolutely fucking seething.
>>737751782Maybe I'm crazy, but I think that the original beta of the mod without path tracing looked better than the path tracing version.Dark Souls 2 is not a good-looking game, but there's at least creative intent behind how bad it looks. FromSoft's art direction is still good, it's just that it's been butchered by Dark Souls 2's technical limitations. The path tracing version just obliterates that creative intent, it doesn't even look like the same game. Heide looks like Earthen Peak. It looks like green-grey, poisonous sludge.
>>737750171there are a few other ones, plus doors that can only be opened/broken by enemies or explosives
>>737761618the issue with Heide and most areas is that LE default settings tend to obscure the skybox and natural colour of the area too much. However I've seen on Elon's social media website that a recent update of the PT version fixed i
>>737761618yeah the path tracing still looks rough around the edges, DS2LE was looking great before
>>737761618And here's a screenshot from the old version of the mod. I assume that path tracing probably broke how a lot of areas were configured to set before, but it just looks like generic UE5 garbage to me. It's like slapping Dark Souls 2's assets into Crimson Desert's engine.
>>737761859this is not the default preset of basic LE however. Or at least not what the first version of the mod looks likealso I don't think this >>737761618 is with PT enabled
>>737761998I'm pretty sure that's one of the two old default presets>also I don't think this is with PT enabledIt's from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqWZbX-qV3w
>>737759813You're supposed to get a key item to turn it visible.
>>737749748How (or why) is artificial exactly?
>>737763345Making level exploration part of the boss instead of pressing the roll button at the right time is stupid
>>737735308>JUST RUN, NIGGUH, RUUUN!
>>737761618>>737761859The default lighting parameters are changed with every update, it's still considered a beta release after allIf you don't like how it looks it's very easy to tweak it
>>737763974Turn Heide into Iron Keep if that's what you fancy
>>737735308>>737735363>>737738683>>737743354Lmao just go mage build. Soul and heavy arrow ftw. Barely got stopped in any game with that build.
>>737748051We all know chicks don't play this game so invade them. They are probably trannies and on the verge of a breakdown. Give em a nudge anon.
>>737738840>i want elden ring to run even slowerAre we forgetting how none of these minor things matter when the game itself has broken shit like hitboxes and soul memory? Missing the forest for the trees.
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>>737735308Man even prepatch it was easy because you could just use the ruins as cover, not to mention the 100% magic shields you could get at this point.Scholar nerfed the area to shit.I wish they didn't five in to the matthosis croud.
>>737765559>v1.000001Play the game
>>737756619Ps3 “scholar” is just post-patch vanilla with DLC included (I think it was just a download code). It’s exact same as someone with a day 1 disk who bought the DLC’s. And the person you replied to wasn’t talking about post launch changes, they were talking about cut content that was never finished.> very different plot involving time travel > very different map that didn’t have nonsensical connections and had a bunch of areas that either got massively scaled down or completly cut in final release.
Game pre-patch>this shit is absolutely cancer what the fuck were the devs thinking dead gameGame post-patch>hahah what fucking babies I beat the game BEFORE the nerf and it was perfectly fine you guys got ez modeWhat causes this level of contrarianism?
>>737765856There were a couple of patches before the scholar version m8.The game was fine by the time the dlcs rolled out.No need to shave away all the Soul like in ER.
WHY DID THEY NERF LIGHTNING DOOD *SNORT* BUGGED PATCHES SHITTY ASS SERIES ACK ACK ACK ACK AAAAAAAAAACK
i like it the most out of three games for how weird its mechanics arestill mad about pic related after over a decade
>>737748051making this many characters is weird as fuck.
>>737769379Is it? Different levels and stat distributions for pvp builds. It's pretty common.
if they just released a fucking patch today to totally remove soul memory so i didnt have to use a ring slot to not worry about it they would have the best souls game full stop
>>73773530837 here and fuck Dark Souls 2. I have no urge to replay that game. Dark Souls 1 however will forever be based.
