Dark Souls and Demon's Souls Megathread VI. Katana Gank Squad Edition - Games

I just use an ultra greatsword or curved greatsword against parry-fishers. Don't even give them the opportunity.

[QUOTE=For No Reason;47282464]I just use an ultra greatsword or curved greatsword against parry-fishers. Don't even give them the opportunity.[/QUOTE] I don't even know how it happened though cause the lance r2 hits multiple times. I'd already hit him twice (which should have stunned him) but he parried me [I]while[/I] he was taking damage.

[QUOTE=Nightsure;47282702]I don't even know how it happened though cause the lance r2 hits multiple times. I'd already hit him twice (which should have stunned him) but he parried me [I]while[/I] he was taking damage.[/QUOTE] Agreed, pretty much anything short of Havel's should be staggered by the Lance's R2 so i have no clue how he parried it.

[QUOTE=Nightsure;47282702]I don't even know how it happened though cause the lance r2 hits multiple times. I'd already hit him twice (which should have stunned him) but he parried me [I]while[/I] he was taking damage.[/QUOTE] That's sort of weird, so it's like the Twinblade effect? (You can take damage while you parry since it hits various times) And speaking of being parried, i can't believe i just got parried by Garl Vinland on Demon's Souls.

[QUOTE=Sweater;47282781] And speaking of being parried, i can't believe i just got parried by Garl Vinland on Demon's Souls.[/QUOTE] Fucking Vinland. He killed me so many times the last time I played, with his godlike parries and his Havel-like hits.

I beat him first time

Me too, on my first playthrough.

[QUOTE=For No Reason;47282992]I beat him first time[/QUOTE] Don't be that guy, FNR.

I don't know if it was just a latency issue or something because it does some alright parry damage, and the R2 is monstrous. Might move back to the zweihander considering how much of a grind my lance/estoc combo has been going. Plus I'll be able to punish parry baiters easy.

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;47283009]Don't be that guy, FNR.[/QUOTE] Do you want me to LIE in front of all these people? You trying to make me a LIAR??? Not like I said it was piss easy anyway. Guy can take a hit and dish it back hard though.

[QUOTE=Ray551;47275570]I still don't get how people can get lost in Dark Souls. If you talk to all the NPCs and check out the keys you find, you always know where to go. It's more about exploring and memorizing things, much like in the good old King's Field days. Also, which bosses do you prefer from Dark Souls 2? I found most of them to be pretty lackluster and boring. The environments are also much less interesting and can be as empty as Dark Soul's most barren places. Or even worse. Remember the primal bonfire rooms? They're literally hollowed squares.[/QUOTE]People are just too used to having a mini map with a huge "go here" quest marker on it and text on the side saying "do this, this and this"

Honestly Garl is likely the easiest human enemy to deal if you have a shield, i just didn't want to make it like a Gwyn's parry only fight, that would have been anti climatic.

Looking Glass Knight would have been a much cooler boss fight if it actually fucking summoned players. :T

Pretty sure it only does on NG+ but that barely happens anymore because of the nil playerbase.

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;47284975]Pretty sure it only does on NG+ but that barely happens anymore because of the nil playerbase.[/QUOTE] Are you sure that's actually been confirmed? 'Cuz I have been summoned as a mirror squire on a few of my NG characters. Rarely, of course, but it's happened. Nevertheless, if it truly is for NG+ only, that's fucking stupid.

[QUOTE=DeadCow;47279943]I'm drunk. Dark souls is very difficult to play drunk. pls send help Dark souls 2 isn't any eaiser help[/QUOTE] Drink more so that you can compensate for the lack of drunk [editline]9th March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Nidhogg;47284961]Looking Glass Knight would have been a much cooler boss fight if it actually fucking summoned players. :T[/QUOTE] or if, when summoned, you weren't killed before the loading screen vanishes the boss fight for even new players lasts shorter than the loading screen some times

At what soul memory would most players be by the time they reach the Looking Glass Knight in NG+? Like around 4-5 million?

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;47285157]Are you sure that's actually been confirmed? 'Cuz I have been summoned as a mirror squire on a few of my NG characters. Rarely, of course, but it's happened. Nevertheless, if it truly is for NG+ only, that's fucking stupid.[/QUOTE] I don't know if it has, which is why i said "pretty sure."

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;47285187]At what soul memory would most players be by the time they reach the Looking Glass Knight in NG+? Like around 4-5 million?[/QUOTE] I had a guy come in when I was ~2.5-4 million in NG+ [editline]9th March 2015[/editline] Also, yes it's NG+ only.

The Mirror Squire thing is a sort-of neat gimmick that was unattractive soon after my first time experiencing it. Kind of like the torch, and probably a lot of things in the Dark Souls series.

My experience with being summoned as a mirror squire is a 30 second loading screen and getting spammed with sorcery instantly after gaining vision and i already had 1/4 of my health left

Cosplaying the one character (or deity) that nobody remembers. :v: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7835823/DS2_eygil_cosplay.jpg[/img] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7835823/DS2_eygil_cosplay2.jpg[/img] And funnily enough, I seem to only get reactions to it when I invade in the Iron Keep. Probably because they only remember Eygil when they're actually there. :v:

Iron King DLC, drops from the Smelter guys with the huge hammers.

Someone found a great use for the Faraam Knight figure. :v: [img]https://40.media.tumblr.com/8078e9107f1848c795d1f00071e8404c/tumblr_nkr2jrBn331rj6q3qo1_540.jpg[/img]

This murakumo man holy shit it can do everything

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;47285811]Cosplaying the one character (or deity) that nobody remembers. :v: [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7835823/DS2_eygil_cosplay.jpg[/img] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7835823/DS2_eygil_cosplay2.jpg[/img] And funnily enough, I seem to only get reactions to it when I invade in the Iron Keep. Probably because they only remember Eygil when they're actually there. :v:[/QUOTE] So, it turns out Nidhogg was right. The Mirror Squire IS actually a lot more interesting when it summons real people. [img]http://i.imgur.com/X9AUVSO.jpg[/img] He poked me to death, but I still had fun. Talked him up afterwards. Good times were had.

I spent like the last 4 hours just trying to get summoned for the Looking Glass Knight. I only managed to get like 10 or 11 successful invasions in that entire time. :v: Out of the few I invaded, only like 4 were willing to talk to me so I could find out what their SM and NG difficulty was so I could gauge how the matchmaking works. This is the list I've compiled so far in the last 4 hours: [i]-The character I used was my Eygil cosplay character, who is at around 2.2mil SM (SL148) in regular NG-[/i] [b]*[/b] First guy said he was at 9.5mil SM on NG+. He was SL232 [b]*[/b] Second guy was around 5mil SM on NG+ [b]*[/b] Third guy (turned out to be Raxas :v: ) was about 7.4mil SM on NG+. [b]*[/b] Fourth guy had a phantom with him and they were actually friends co-oping. They were both on NG++ and at 9.5mil and 10mil SM respectively. So right off the bat we can establish that every person I invaded was in NG+ or higher. I guess this isn't anything new since I've already been told that apparently invasions only work in NG+. What I do find interesting, however, is that I myself am using a NG character and not a NG+ character. So I guess this means that it doesn't matter what difficulty you are; you can essentially invade at any difficulty but your target has to at least be in NG+ or higher. Now what I find even more interesting is the surprisingly wide SM range I got. Normally with the Red Sign Soaptstone, I can only invade people up to 2.75mil SM due to my character only being at 2.2mil SM. However, getting summoned as a Mirror Squire seemed to completely throw that matchmaking system out the window as I was invading people from anywhere between 5 and fucking [b]10[/b] million SM. A lot of times I was massively overpowered by my opponents due to them being at a MUCH higher soul level than I was (aka magic/ hex spamming all day erry day :v: ). This confuses me as to whether there really is a matchmaking system at all. If I can invade people at absurdly different SM's, then I wonder if the Looking Glass Knight will literally pick up [i]anyone[/i] regardless of SM and just plop them in whatever available battle it can find? It's hard to say at this point, I need more invasions to make sure. Also, thanks for the help Raxas! (Even though invading you was completely accidental and not intended lol). Also... [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7835823/DS2_waiting_to_get_summoned_as_a_mirror_squire.jpg[/img] :v:

I say this too much, but invading people in the Dark Chasm of Old is the most funnest.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;47292534]I say this too much, but invading people in the Dark Chasm of Old is the most funnest.[/QUOTE] You get better rewards for invading there than anywhere else. Tokens of Spite? Fuck that, give me a free effigy and bonfire ascetic.

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;47292454]Also, thanks for the help Raxas! (Even though invading you was completely accidental and not intended lol).[/QUOTE] Hey, no problem man! [sp]Fite me again 1v1 ill end u m8[/sp]