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[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;49340798][sp]How did she, a regular human, become a Great One and NOT be the butt end of some twist in the transformation? Despite appearances, she's so into their power that she can hide the BLOOD MOON from people to keep everyone sane. Killing her brings destruction to Yharnam, but gives you the chance to kill Mergo and stop the plague.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]"Ah Kos, or some say Kosm... do you hear our prayers? As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes." Kos brought Rom to enlightenment which turned her into a great one. The whole reason the beast scourge even exists is because the Old Hunters fucked up (or Byrgenwerth)[/sp]

[QUOTE=Dr.C;49340955]So why did the notes tell us to "hunt the great ones"? Aside from the locations where a lesser amygdala grabs you, they don't really do anything. What even is the source of the scourge? I think it was the moon presence since it makes sense that you're collecting blood echoes from scourge victims to feed it but it also seems like it was caused by the church. I don't think the church knew about the moon presence, they just knew about the great ones and had Ebrietas but the moon presence is a workshop secret[/QUOTE] Perhaps the notes are hinting at defeating great ones to be on the same level as them? With each passing great one killed, growing stronger and more able to be on the same plane as gods

[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;49340959][sp]"Ah Kos, or some say Kosm... do you hear our prayers? As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes." Kos brought Rom to enlightenment which turned her into a great one. The whole reason the beast scourge even exists is because the Old Hunters fucked up (or Byrgenwerth)[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]True, but whenever someone like Willem or any of the scholars try anything like that when they get contact with the Great Ones, they become vegetables. Rom, a scholar of the same people who screwed it for everyone, turns out just fine and gets to live in her own pocket dimension under a lake. She's not only transcended thanks to Kos, she has full understanding on what's going on. Maria I get because she wants to cover up the atrocities that transpired at the hamlet and wants to prevent Kos parasites from breaking through, Rom is hiding the "truth" from us. My guess it's like a government cover-up to keep people out and unworthy weak-minded people trying to screw it up for the rest of the world. Does the Blood Moon even affect other parts of the world too?[/sp] [QUOTE=Dr.C;49340955]So why did the notes tell us to "hunt the great ones"? Aside from the locations where a lesser amygdala grabs you, they don't really do anything. What even is the source of the scourge? I think it was the moon presence since it makes sense that you're collecting blood echoes from scourge victims to feed it but it also seems like it was caused by the church. I don't think the church knew about the moon presence, they just knew about the great ones and had Ebrietas but the moon presence is a workshop secret[/QUOTE] [sp]Mergo is the source of the plague, or at least a major part. He's Yharnam's kid, whose blood they use for everything. Kos, a Great One that might have given the Pthumarians power and gave Rom transcendence, was killed by humans and her worshipers abused by the Willem's students for insight. The worshipers and the hamlet, using their knowledge of the blood and arcane from Kos, put a curse on there blood for everyone related to suffer and and succumb to the beast within. These desires for the blood went wild, and ther obsession led to the "stillbirth" of their brains, either by putting them in comas, driving them mad, or turning them into the beast aka the werewolves. It ends when we kill the source of the blood, Yharnam and Mergo respectively. Kos' part in this was that her death by the scholars kick-started this whole thing.[/sp] But that's just speculation from my end.

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;49339546] [editline]17th December 2015[/editline] 8 GB of RAM? That's much higher than I was expecting. I was thinking it was gonna' be like 4 GB or something. Everything else seems pretty low, though. Glad I upgraded all my parts recently. i7-4790k and 980 GTX master race.~[/QUOTE] Get PS4, and be futureproofed for the next 8 years (even though it means playing on potato system) :v: Maybe to enable the large, detailed, continuous environment to be rendered, they need to store a lot of assets in the ram on the fly. Especially souls series, which had extraordinary asset detail

[QUOTE=For No Reason;49339513]Man, fuck off. I like big swords and Ima use big swords. If you don't like it, keep that shit to yourself.[/QUOTE] Do we have to do this every time I post that joke?

[QUOTE=hakimhakim;49341506]Get PS4, and be futureproofed for the next 8 years (even though it means playing on potato system) :v: Maybe to enable the large, detailed, continuous environment to be rendered, they need to store a lot of assets in the ram on the fly. Especially souls series, which had extraordinary asset detail[/QUOTE] I have 12GB of RAM so I'm fine for a while, but I didn't think a game like Dark Souls would require something that high. That's actually more than The Witcher 3's 6GB requirement.

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49342078]Do we have to do this every time I post that joke?[/QUOTE] how about you tell a new one for once, and maybe even make it a good one this time

[QUOTE=Hakita;49342397]how about you tell a new one for once, and maybe even make it a good one this time[/QUOTE] Ladies, calm your titties You're both beautiful.

[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;49341285][sp]True, but whenever someone like Willem or any of the scholars try anything like that when they get contact with the Great Ones, they become vegetables. Rom, a scholar of the same people who screwed it for everyone, turns out just fine and gets to live in her own pocket dimension under a lake. She's not only transcended thanks to Kos, she has full understanding on what's going on. Maria I get because she wants to cover up the atrocities that transpired at the hamlet and wants to prevent Kos parasites from breaking through, Rom is hiding the "truth" from us. My guess it's like a government cover-up to keep people out and unworthy weak-minded people trying to screw it up for the rest of the world. Does the Blood Moon even affect other parts of the world too?[/sp] [/QUOTE] [sp]Uh, Rom got her mind fucked into oblivion too. She is called Rom, the Vacuous Spider for a reason. Her mind is completely empty.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;49342958][sp]Uh, Rom got her mind fucked into oblivion too. She is called Rom, the Vacuous Spider for a reason. Her mind is completely empty.[/sp][/QUOTE] [Sp]This. Anything she does is pretty much by base instinct or was essentially programming by whoever managed to get her Ascended through Kos or by Kosm herself. It's why she only attacks by flailing or throwing random magic at you while hiding behind her Spiderlings. For all intents and purposes, she's just above a vegetable.[/sp]

I kinda want more moments like Rom in DS3 where you just walk up to a boss that is supposed to be pretty important and it does nothing while chill music plays and you draw your own conclusions. And more moments like Memory of the Giants from DS2, not necessarily in the "[B]fuck me[/B] there are literally hundreds of dudes and they're all coming to fuck me up" but just NPCs doing worldbuilding outside of dialogue and fighting other NPCs.

[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;49343182]I kinda want more moments like Rom in DS3 where you just walk up to a boss that is supposed to be pretty important and it does nothing while chill music plays and you draw your own conclusions. And more moments like Memory of the Giants from DS2, not necessarily in the "[B]fuck me[/B] there are literally hundreds of dudes and they're all coming to fuck me up" but just NPCs doing worldbuilding outside of dialogue and fighting other NPCs.[/QUOTE] They had something like this in the Old Hunters DLC where all of the hunters are fighting the wolf beasts, but it's all one-sided and the beasts cower all the time. Hope we get a full-on large-scale battle for DS3 like in the Giant's Memories. [QUOTE=Janus Vesta;49342958][sp]Uh, Rom got her mind fucked into oblivion too. She is called Rom, the Vacuous Spider for a reason. Her mind is completely empty.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Yeah I might have missed that part because I had no clue on what Vacuous meant. Poor literacy on my end. Guess it makes sense that she was empty-headed when she transformed and the Great Ones "programmed" her to hide the Blood Moon from everyone.[/sp]

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;49342078]Do we have to do this every time I post that joke?[/QUOTE] Sarcasm translates very poorly in text; especially without context or embellishment.

[QUOTE=archangel125;49344142]Sarcasm translates very poorly in text; especially without context or embellishment.[/QUOTE] It's just kind of a petty jab of a joke that clearly hasn't succeeded before. Do you guys think they'll stop with Old Hunters or d'you think they'll do more DLC? And if so, what do you think it will be?

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;49344199]It's just kind of a petty jab of a joke that clearly hasn't succeeded before. Do you guys think they'll stop with Old Hunters or d'you think they'll do more DLC? And if so, what do you think it will be?[/QUOTE] Bloodborne 2 - made by team B (every area is disconnected because nightmare) 3 DLCs -King of the Ivory Blood GOTY edition - Scholar of the First Blood

As much as I liked the victorian setting, I want them to explore the eastern area that's supposed to be like China and Japan. I imagine it'll be like the setting for Legend of the Drunken Master only with corpses everywhere, spiderwebs and lanterns hanging everywhere, and you can sometimes see the shadows of enemies cast onto a paper wall

[QUOTE=Dr.C;49344357]As much as I liked the victorian setting, I want them to explore the eastern area that's supposed to be like China and Japan. I imagine it'll be like the setting for Legend of the Drunken Master only with corpses everywhere, spiderwebs and lanterns hanging everywhere, and you can sometimes see the shadows of enemies cast onto a paper wall[/QUOTE] I dunno, I really like how FromSoft does with mostly western themes. They still insert plenty of eastern/japanese stuff into their games if you're into that, particularly in DS with the light/dark yinyang stuff. I hope DS3 actually draws a conclusion on the cycle if it's supposed to be the final game in the series, atleast for a while. It'd be nice to have some closure.

I got the dlc for BB just recently on impulse. How can I access the dlc and is there what is the recommended level to do it, I don't want it to be to easy or infuriating. Thanks in advance.

[QUOTE=junker154;49344915]I got the dlc for BB just recently on impulse. How can I access the dlc and is there what is the recommended level to do it, I don't want it to be to easy or infuriating. Thanks in advance.[/QUOTE] You can access the dlc once you defeat Vicar Amelia and return to the hunter's dream, there'll be an item on the ground near the stairs that you pick up which you then take to Cathedral Ward. If you remember the Tonsil Stone it acts the same way but with the supernatural force that activates when you get near the body that had the hunter's armor on it. Cathedral Ward, take the left exit, make an immediate right and you should see a corpse with 2 candles on it. Stand there. Also I say level 70+ but that's because I did the DLC on NG+ so it was a lot harder. Not sure how much easier it is on the base game.

i started playing darksouls again after a few years and ran past all the dregs in the church, then someone invaded me and i got the upper hand and when they tried to run back the dregs aggro'd to me and then the invader got surrounded and stuck in the doorway :v: i killed them

Speaking of DS1, should we host a Facepunch fight club

These system requirements that were added to the steam page, were added by mistake. Here is what they said at the dark souls Facebook page. [quote]While launching the Dark Souls III Steam page, some PC requirements were posted by mistake. These are not representative of the game's final specifications. We look forward to sharing those PC details in the coming months - But for now, you can add Dark Souls III to your wishlists![/quote] That's why it seemed a bit low...

the new hunter is a bit of a dick if your just on a normal playthrough

[QUOTE=NitronikALT;49345118]Speaking of DS1, should we host a Facepunch fight club[/QUOTE] I'm down with this.

No items. Fists only. Iron keep bridge.

what would a good SL be for you guys? My character is curently sitting at 75

Pretty much all of my PvP builds in DS1 are sitting around SL100 so I wouldn't be able to connect with you. I COULD jump on my SL45 build though I guess.

I like to stay at 40 for sens fortress fun and Anor Londo archer shenanigans.

Is magic supposed to be ludicrously OP in DS1? Admittedly, this is the third alt I've played on, but it feels like I've been blazing through the game with almost no hassle whatsoever. It's actually a bit boring - most battles so far have boiled down to just backpedalling while firing off Soul Arrows every so often. I'm up to Anor Londo, and I think I've only died to two bosses this run - the Capra Demon, because my build needs range and you're practically locked in a broom cupboard with the damned thing, and the Gaping Dragon, because I got cocky and it caught me off-guard with its tail whip. Every other boss has been a piece of cake. No, wait, tell a lie - I also died to Ceaseless Discharge, but that was because I've always used the fog door trick to beat him, so I've never bothered to learn any of his attacks. But yeah, magic - totally awesome, wrecks enemies like nothing else.

[QUOTE=TBot Alpha;49346388]Is magic supposed to be ludicrously OP in DS1?[/QUOTE] Clerics tend to stomp sorcerers.