Dark Souls + Demon's Souls + Bloodborne Megathread VIII. At The End - Games

[QUOTE=Itszutak;49966037]Honestly what I really like about ds2 is how flexible you can be. SM bracketing encourages me to just dump all my souls into levels, and as a result I can do basically whatever I want on the same character, as long as I'm okay with pvp at the iron bridge... Not to defend sm because goddamnit it makes invasions and summoning a pain in the ass[/QUOTE] SM's pretty awful imo, but to each their own.

maybe SM should've been souls spent rather than souls gathered and it would've worked better. that way it would account for souls spent up upgrades and stuff but not punish deaths by moving them up SM tiers.

Yeah, why the fuck does it count souls that I LOST?

[QUOTE=HAKKAR!!!;49962509]Graphics: -No -Yes -Very Yes[/QUOTE] -No -Yes -Yes, indeed

[QUOTE=archangel125;49965757]That said, I don't want every weapon to be equally strong, that'd defeat the purpose of variety. I'd like every (actual) weapon (i.e not broken sword hilts), even more basic ones, to be viable, even if they aren't the best in their class.[/QUOTE] Yeah I was thinking more along the lines of balancing all real weapons/spells to be strong in some way, homewer obscure. Let's say this shortsword is faster than this regular longsword but has shorter range, as opposed to it just being stupid & useless. DS2 kinda pulled this off with, like Itszu said, bss being viable for slapping people to death and poisoning them. This is mostly me wanting to be able to pull off a 70%+ heavy knight build and be able to slam people's shit without strictly turning that playthrough into a challenge run, but yeah.

I'm doing a soul level 1 run in SOTFS. Fuck shrine and iron keep. I'm currently stuck at Velstadt, his annoying overhead swing has broken hotbox and stupid tracking that insta kills me.

[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;49966500]Yeah I was thinking more along the lines of balancing all real weapons/spells to be strong in some way, homewer obscure. Let's say this shortsword is faster than this regular longsword but has shorter range, as opposed to it just being stupid & useless. DS2 kinda pulled this off with, like Itszu said, bss being viable for slapping people to death and poisoning them. This is mostly me wanting to be able to pull off a 70%+ heavy knight build and be able to slam people's shit without strictly turning that playthrough into a challenge run, but yeah.[/QUOTE] Eh... don't know about that. The short sword isn't necessarily useless, it simply doesn't have the same utlity as the longsword, which is superior. It weighs a bit less, as I recall, which is the chief value in it. It doesn't need to have an advantage, especially since it still deals damage.

[QUOTE=MrHeadHopper;49966500]Yeah I was thinking more along the lines of balancing all real weapons/spells to be strong in some way, homewer obscure. Let's say this shortsword is faster than this regular longsword but has shorter range, as opposed to it just being stupid & useless. DS2 kinda pulled this off with, like Itszu said, bss being viable for slapping people to death and poisoning them. This is mostly me wanting to be able to pull off a 70%+ heavy knight build and be able to slam people's shit without strictly turning that playthrough into a challenge run, but yeah.[/QUOTE] The shortsword in DS2 is better than the longsword because they gave the longsword a shitty moveset in comparison. I know that's not the point of what you're getting at, but don't you badmouth my precious shortsword.

I'm probably softbanned as fuck in dark souls 2. I do tons of cheat engine stuff to edit items for joke builds and such, or sm editing to co-op with friends Now that I wanna get back into the pvp game I regret my choices

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;49966658]I'm probably softbanned as fuck in dark souls 2. I do tons of cheat engine stuff to edit items for joke builds and such, or sm editing to co-op with friends Now that I wanna get back into the pvp game I regret my choices[/QUOTE] family share it to yourself

[QUOTE=Niven;49966607]I'm doing a soul level 1 run in SOTFS. Fuck shrine and iron keep. I'm currently stuck at Velstadt, his annoying overhead swing has broken hotbox and stupid tracking that insta kills me.[/QUOTE] How to beat Velstadt, the easy way: Bait just do "im not touching yous" and step into his range a little bit and bait out his swings since he takes so long to recover from them. His overhead is shitty but you should never be in front of him unless you need to back off to get a breather.

[QUOTE=Jaehead;49966697]family share it to yourself[/QUOTE] ???

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;49966747]???[/QUOTE] You have to create an alternate Steam account and family share Dark Souls 2 from your main to that account.

[QUOTE=Hellsing4682;49966772]You have to create an alternate Steam account and family share Dark Souls 2 from your main to that account.[/QUOTE] Doesn't the reinstall trick still work? Where you take your save file out, reinstall the game, make a new save, die once, exit game, put old save back in, and boom no more ban

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[QUOTE=Katatonic717;49966658]I'm probably softbanned as fuck in dark souls 2. I do tons of cheat engine stuff to edit items for joke builds and such, or sm editing to co-op with friends Now that I wanna get back into the pvp game I regret my choices[/QUOTE] Your only mistake was touching soul memory

I honestly don't even know if I'm softbanned. I wish there was a way to tell. I was able to co-op with a friend about a month ago, said friend had just bought the game too. So maybe I'm not? Maybe I'm just trying to invade in areas where nobody is it. My SM on my current character is little over 3mil, what's a good place to try and invade to check

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;49967009]I honestly don't even know if I'm softbanned. I wish there was a way to tell. I was able to co-op with a friend about a month ago, said friend had just bought the game too. So maybe I'm not? Maybe I'm just trying to invade in areas where nobody is it. My SM on my current character is little over 3mil, what's a good place to try and invade to check[/QUOTE] Go to one of the bell towers, see if you get invaded.

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;49967037]Go to one of the bell towers, see if you get invaded.[/QUOTE] that's an odd thing, can you elaborate? can't you still play when soft banned? just with other soft banned players?

[QUOTE=J!NX;49967043]that's an odd thing, can you elaborate? can't you still play when soft banned? just with other soft banned players?[/QUOTE] I don't know, but seeing as he's not getting any play he should start by making sure he isn't hard banned. If you don't get invaded after a few minutes in the bell towers you either have connection problems or you've been banned.

Playing through sotfs yet again to have a good pvp character going. Just fought the looking glass knight while listening to this and it fit extremely well and I don't know why [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXY85fzxzLQ[/media] [editline]19th March 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Janus Vesta;49967072]I don't know, but seeing as he's not getting any play he should start by making sure he isn't hard banned. If you don't get invaded after a few minutes in the bell towers you either have connection problems or you've been banned.[/QUOTE] So I've been sitting in the bell tower for a good while and nothing's happening I already killed the bell gargs, does that make it so I can't get invaded? Should I try the other belltower?

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;49967117]Playing through sotfs yet again to have a good pvp character going. Just fought the looking glass knight while listening to this and it fit extremely well and I don't know why [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXY85fzxzLQ[/media] [editline]19th March 2016[/editline] So I've been sitting in the bell tower for a good while and nothing's happening I already killed the bell gargs, does that make it so I can't get invaded? Should I try the other belltower?[/QUOTE] Make sure that invasions aren't blocked via a Human Effigy. Usually after killing a boss the effigy effect gets applied automatically for 30 minutes. Your HUD should show if it's in effect or not (a greyed-out Cracked Eye Orb icon with a red slash across it).

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;49967218]Make sure that invasions aren't blocked via a Human Effigy. Usually after killing a boss the effigy effect gets applied automatically for 30 minutes. Your HUD should show if it's in effect or not (a greyed-out Cracked Eye Orb icon with a red slash across it).[/QUOTE] Yeah I got rid of that. So standing in the other belltower isn't doing anything. Shit. [editline]19th March 2016[/editline] Yep, pvp bridge looks dead as fuck too. Just bloodstains and messages. I get an instant "unable to find world" message when invading. Yep looks like I'm fucked. Lets hope this ban I probably have doesn't carry over into ds3. I'd be pissed as shit.

it wont, my DS2 ban didnt even carry over to SOTFS

lol what the fuck I was able to INSTANTLY invade someone in regular dark souls 2 even though I've done some serious cheating in that one in the past. Okay sure why not

Wasn't there a stupidly easy way to bypass the softban? I forget. Had something to do with changing your Steam ID number or something.

I was actually about to ask why I have yet to have any online connection, any invasion has been NPC invasions and maybe one mandatory one when you enter the Saints Grave. I'm trying to get the Sun Sword but it's mind numbing trying to farm medallions from Falconers. I'm half tempted to cheat it in.

[QUOTE=Nidhogg;49967285]Wasn't there a stupidly easy way to bypass the softban? I forget. Had something to do with changing your Steam ID number or something.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure your steamID cannot be changed.

When farming loyce souls do I need only 50 or 110 souls for all the rewards ?

[QUOTE=DS_;49967857]When farming loyce souls do I need only 50 souls for all the rewards ?[/QUOTE] "Only 50" I'm pretty sure you need 50 total, you don't lose the souls AFAIK.