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  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    OH GOD IT'S DARK

    PSN: Ubeltanzer Blizzard: Ubel#1258
  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    azith28 wrote:
    Stragint wrote:
    Can I hit the dragons tail with a cross bow?

    i dont see why not. there isnt anything special about the bow
    Assuming you can aim the damn thing properly.

    It is just a bit difficult since I don't seem to be able to zoom in like I assume can be done with the bow.

    PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
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  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    So... I venture into the Depths right.
    I HATE SEWERS... Okay, that's fine.. What's behind this butcher guy. OH! Cool, a stairs. *falls down a hole* Whoops. OMG GIANT RAT. *Rains fiery death from above and kills rat. Explores surroundings, jumps down, then grabs sewer key. Explores more cautiously into the next area.* OH GOD! SLIMEY THINGS ARE DROPPING EVERYWHERE!? *survive and explore more. White Fog* Okay, well, first fog, let's go and see what's inside. *Cutscene to Gaping Dragon* OH GOD! NOOOOOOO! *Dies*

    That was awful and intense all at once.

    PSN: DignifiedPauper
    3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Fog typically is a bad thing.

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  • GMaster7GMaster7 Goggles Paesano Registered User regular
    Are there significantly fewer messages/spirits down below, on the path to the second bell? I'd like to summon some help, as long as I'm human, but I don't know if I can expect people to have put down their stones. Only one way to find out!

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    GMaster7 wrote:
    Are there significantly fewer messages/spirits down below, on the path to the second bell? I'd like to summon some help, as long as I'm human, but I don't know if I can expect people to have put down their stones. Only one way to find out!

    In general I'm just not seeing many summons or messages at all. I got kind of used to seeing the stuff left and right in Demon's Souls

    PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
    What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak

    I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
  • YamiNoSenshiYamiNoSenshi A point called Z In the complex planeRegistered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Stragint wrote:
    GMaster7 wrote:
    Are there significantly fewer messages/spirits down below, on the path to the second bell? I'd like to summon some help, as long as I'm human, but I don't know if I can expect people to have put down their stones. Only one way to find out!

    In general I'm just not seeing many summons or messages at all. I got kind of used to seeing the stuff left and right in Demon's Souls

    Just not a lot of people yet.

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  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    Stragint wrote:
    GMaster7 wrote:
    Are there significantly fewer messages/spirits down below, on the path to the second bell? I'd like to summon some help, as long as I'm human, but I don't know if I can expect people to have put down their stones. Only one way to find out!

    In general I'm just not seeing many summons or messages at all. I got kind of used to seeing the stuff left and right in Demon's Souls

    I tried to summon someone to help me kill the Bell Gargoyles. I waited for about 15 minutes, nobody showed up :(

    Steam: Spawnbroker
  • Alucard6986Alucard6986 xbox: Ubeltanzer swtor: UbelRegistered User regular
    Yeah, I think the tomb of the giants is going to have to wait for another day.
    stumbling around in the dark on ledges fighting giant skeletons with nowhere to run or maneuver?

    FUCK THAT

    PSN: Ubeltanzer Blizzard: Ubel#1258
  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    Okay, FUCK the greatsword black knight in the undead parish. Fuck him in his little whore mouth.\

    An unblockable attack with a quick animation that takes off 3/4 of my health at the same time? FUCK YOU FROM SOFTWARE

    Steam: Spawnbroker
  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited October 2011
    I'm still not seeing many (ok any) summon markings, but messages are *everywhere*, the underworld has a serious graffiti problem.

    edit: i'm pretty sure that's blockable if your a bad enough dude with a big enough shield spawn. But only once..and then when you're staggered he goes to town on your ass and you cry

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  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    I <3 this thread.

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  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    Okay, FUCK the greatsword black knight in the undead parish. Fuck him in his little whore mouth.\

    An unblockable attack with a quick animation that takes off 3/4 of my health at the same time? FUCK YOU FROM SOFTWARE

    Yeah, Parry and Riposte timing is rough, but the easiest way to beat him.

    PSN: DignifiedPauper
    3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Any time I see a summoning sign and try to summon, it fails. Every single time so far.
    Killed the boar and got this bad ass helm that looks like his head. I feel so bad ass now.

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    What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak

    I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
  • CaswynbenCaswynben Registered User regular
    I remember Demon's Souls having a point at which I "got" it, and I rolled through a lot of the game. I wonder how long that takes in Dark Souls..

  • AddaAdda LondonRegistered User regular
    Stragint wrote:
    Any time I see a summoning sign and try to summon, it fails. Every single time so far.

    Are you in human form?

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  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    GameFly recieved Deus Ex, hopefully they get Dark Souls out in the mail today as I just refilled my anti-anxiety medication, so the timing would be perfect!

    Everyone has a price. Throw enough gold around and someone will risk disintegration.
  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    Adda wrote:
    Stragint wrote:
    Any time I see a summoning sign and try to summon, it fails. Every single time so far.

    Are you in human form?

    You can't see the signs if your not in human form i'm pretty sure

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  • Vi MonksVi Monks Registered User regular
    For anyone who's stupid like me and can't figure out backstabs: you can't backstab with your shield up. :oops:

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    I am mortified of white fog. I pretty much refuse to go through it unless I am carrying only a few hundred souls.

  • skyknytskyknyt Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2011
    Kweli wrote:
    Bizazedo wrote:
    So, this game is fun :).

    Playing a Knight on the first playthrough since I need to look cool. Rolling is soooooo slow and I didn't know you could become encumbered before reading this + I'm carrying around like 3 battle axes, a spear, 4 sets of hollowed armor, etc etc....

    Question about the armored boar.
    If you kill him with the fire trick, does he drop the helm?

    Encumberance only counts for items you have equipped. You have a limitless bag, but once you equip stuff it starts to add up.
    I cant remember the calculation but at 25/50% encumbrance your roll speed and movement starts to get noticably slower.

    As for your Boar question
    I dont think this game ever limits your loot based on how you kill something. I started my attack with the fire but ended up killing it with my mace.. That is, as long as you can loot the body

    I killed the boar
    by closing the gate on him, and he didn't drop anything.
    Vi Monks wrote:
    For anyone who's stupid like me and can't figure out backstabs: you can't backstab with your shield up. :oops:

    This explains so much. THANK YOU

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  • Vi MonksVi Monks Registered User regular
    skyknyt wrote:
    Kweli wrote:
    Bizazedo wrote:
    So, this game is fun :).

    Playing a Knight on the first playthrough since I need to look cool. Rolling is soooooo slow and I didn't know you could become encumbered before reading this + I'm carrying around like 3 battle axes, a spear, 4 sets of hollowed armor, etc etc....

    Question about the armored boar.
    If you kill him with the fire trick, does he drop the helm?

    Encumberance only counts for items you have equipped. You have a limitless bag, but once you equip stuff it starts to add up.
    I cant remember the calculation but at 25/50% encumbrance your roll speed and movement starts to get noticably slower.

    As for your Boar question
    I dont think this game ever limits your loot based on how you kill something. I started my attack with the fire but ended up killing it with my mace.. That is, as long as you can loot the body

    I killed the boar
    by closing the gate on him, and he didn't drop anything.

    It's not a guaranteed drop. Some people just get unlucky. You'll find more later though.

  • SpawnbrokerSpawnbroker Registered User regular
    Sweet, killed the greatsword black knight. Time for the depths!

    Steam: Spawnbroker
  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    Wait, what!?
    YOU CAN CLOSE THE GATE ON THE BOAR?!

    PSN: DignifiedPauper
    3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
  • tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    Arghh! So I'm in the undead parish
    And I've killed the boar, and got past the crazed zombies in the basement. I go along, and kill my first knight and I'm feeling good. I lure all the knights out of the big knights room, and get the portcullis open. I kill all the people around the big black knight, and I'm low on health but I want the loot behind him. So, I figure I'll lure him out and kite him around so I can get to the loot. All goes well, and I sprint into the church area with him a long way behind me. Suddenly, there's a fizzing noise behind me and 10 feet from the loot I'm blasted away by a sorcerer up in the rafters leaving my soul stuck right underneath where the boss stands.....

    Arghhh!

    "That is cool" - Abraham Lincoln
  • Minerva_SCMinerva_SC Registered User regular
    finnaly killed the fucker garegoyle twins, feeling like I boss, I waltz over to the black knight that guards the defense ring, fucked him up, got his sword and a shard. High on power, I waltz into the tower leading to the place with the crystal mobs, get to the guy below weilding the shitty mace weapon, back stab him 20 times in the spine for another ring and 3k souls. Completly drunk on my own badassness, I kill 2 crstal mobs for a shitty amount of souls then high tail it back to a bonfire when giant water blasts start coming my way from some harbinger of death off screen. Was a good session.

    "If a cherry pie filled cape is wrong, I don't want to be right.
    I'm dead serious."
  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    tbloxham wrote:
    Arghh! So I'm in the undead parish
    And I've killed the boar, and got past the crazed zombies in the basement. I go along, and kill my first knight and I'm feeling good. I lure all the knights out of the big knights room, and get the portcullis open. I kill all the people around the big black knight, and I'm low on health but I want the loot behind him. So, I figure I'll lure him out and kite him around so I can get to the loot. All goes well, and I sprint into the church area with him a long way behind me. Suddenly, there's a fizzing noise behind me and 10 feet from the loot I'm blasted away by a sorcerer up in the rafters leaving my soul stuck right underneath where the boss stands.....

    Arghhh!
    Go around the Cathedral to the right, don't enter it. You'll come to an area with an archer and few knights and a new path to the right. There is a campfire there. AND, it's pretty much next to a side entrance. Hint: For the sorcerer up top, use a bow.

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    3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
  • tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    Wait, what!?
    YOU CAN CLOSE THE GATE ON THE BOAR?!
    How would this even work? Don't you have to kill the boar to safely get into the basement to get through to behind the door? I just killed the boar from behind the pillars.

    "That is cool" - Abraham Lincoln
  • tbloxhamtbloxham Registered User regular
    tbloxham wrote:
    Arghh! So I'm in the undead parish
    And I've killed the boar, and got past the crazed zombies in the basement. I go along, and kill my first knight and I'm feeling good. I lure all the knights out of the big knights room, and get the portcullis open. I kill all the people around the big black knight, and I'm low on health but I want the loot behind him. So, I figure I'll lure him out and kite him around so I can get to the loot. All goes well, and I sprint into the church area with him a long way behind me. Suddenly, there's a fizzing noise behind me and 10 feet from the loot I'm blasted away by a sorcerer up in the rafters leaving my soul stuck right underneath where the boss stands.....

    Arghhh!
    Go around the Cathedral to the right, don't enter it. You'll come to an area with an archer and few knights and a new path to the right. There is a campfire there. AND, it's pretty much next to a side entrance. Hint: For the sorcerer up top, use a bow.

    Double Arghh, I went over to that part and killed the archer and the skeleton swordsmen, but didn't see any campfires...

    "That is cool" - Abraham Lincoln
  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    And the bell is rung.

    PSN: Reaper_Stragint, Steam: DoublePitstoChesty
    What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak

    I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    Semi spoilerish I guess?
    I don't know how a monster with giant butterfly wings can be so intimidating but fuck, not going through that fog.

  • ShenShen Registered User regular
    cj iwakura wrote:
    Oh my god. Enemies can riposte and parry now?

    ...

    Check please.

    Black phantoms and some humanoid enemies in Demon's Souls could as well - Garl Vinland got me with a parry yesterday >.>

    I need this game aaaaaaa

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  • StragintStragint Do Not Gift Always DeclinesRegistered User regular
    Who is the dude in the bell tower after I ring the bell?

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    I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
  • skyknytskyknyt Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Wait, what!?
    YOU CAN CLOSE THE GATE ON THE BOAR?!

    If you run past the boar
    into the basement, you don't have to fight him - he can't fit through the passage. Then you can go all the way around to where the gate is, open it up, drop a lure on the gate, and then close it while it's attacking the lure. BOOM.

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  • ZuldaneZuldane Registered User regular
    Been trying to join a coop session with my friend for the past 2 hours and no luck. I am in human form, he is hollowed. We both have the stone to join another player (killed 2nd boss) and we can't get the thing to show up to summon one another

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  • SpicyStacy288SpicyStacy288 Registered User regular
    Vi Monks wrote:
    For anyone who's stupid like me and can't figure out backstabs: you can't backstab with your shield up. :oops:

    OMG

  • BadwrongBadwrong TokyoRegistered User regular
    Riale wrote:
    Question, is there a way to tell in the game UI without looking at a guide or info online what stats a given weapon requires to wield effectively, and how well it scales with stats? I'd like my Bandit to have the option of bows, but as I primarily use axes I don't really want to focus on dex. I want to get just enough to use the bows I want to use.

    I found it... when you look at items in your inventory, and push square (or the 360 equivalent) you will see in the bottom right a "ParamBonus" thing with grades. Those show like a strength icon and a grade like C. So of course the higher grade, like an A would mean you get more scaling with that stat. Some have no grade, like the drake sword... which is why its normal damage is so high starting out, but will be useless later without scaling.
    its weird but the strength reqs definitely decrease if you use it in 2 hands. See this page and take note of the asterisk
    * when two handing a weapon, strength requirements are decreased. See individual weapons page for details.

    They could have changed this in darksouls, I dont know

    Right, I know it is less when wielding WITH 2 hands. I'm talking about if a "2 HANDED" sword is wielded with "1 HAND". Like if you have a claymore in one hand and a shield in the other. It requires extra strength.

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  • KweliKweli Registered User regular
    edited October 2011
    I just read on the DS wiki page that the boar helm drops if you "hit him on the head alot"

    Wonder if its similar to mobs with tails dropping weapons if you attack the tail

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  • Xenogear_0001Xenogear_0001 Registered User regular
    This almost seems like a spiritual heir to the King's Quest games. Only, you know, good.

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  • Catastrophe_XXVICatastrophe_XXVI Registered User regular
    edited October 2011
    Is there any reason you wouldn't want to get summoned? You get souls and a chance to gain humanity, what happens if you die as a soul in another persons game?

    EDIT: Do you get souls as a soul in another person's game?

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