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« Reply #4220 on: July 17, 2014, 11:51:05 AM » |
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I'm terrible at DemSoulsjaboy and I get killed always right before meeting the Tower Knight in the Boletaria Palace. Blue Eyed Knight right after the dragonfire corridors complicates shit for me - current strat is crossbowing the crossbowers and then fight Blue Eyes mano-a-mano only to always fail due to backstepping and getting assroasted by triggered firebreathing (edit: lol i posted exactly the same here and forgot i did: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=18560.msg1038820#msg1038820) yeah thats one of the harder parts in the game. you can really shorten the fight against the blue eye knights if you know how to backstab or parry them. i usually just ignore/block the crossbow guys. |
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« Reply #4221 on: July 17, 2014, 12:15:35 PM » |
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yeah thats one of the harder parts in the game.
Now thats a huge relief. I was afraid some of you would say something like that being one of the easiest parts haha. Admittedly, at least the first sections of the Tower of Latria and the Mountain werent as hard. The trashcan level is kinda annoying tho. |
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« Reply #4222 on: July 17, 2014, 02:07:34 PM » |
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Admittedly, at least the first sections of the Tower of Latria How do you beat the Plague Bitch in 3.1? :c |
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« Reply #4223 on: July 18, 2014, 08:19:16 AM » |
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But how does it compare to king's field?
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« Reply #4224 on: July 22, 2014, 07:56:05 AM » |
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this dee el cee is pretty hard
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« Reply #4225 on: July 22, 2014, 08:09:13 AM » |
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« Reply #4226 on: July 22, 2014, 08:32:37 AM » |
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Damn, I have to wait a few weeks before I can buy it. I'd love to hear people's impressions of its length and quality beforehand, though.
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« Reply #4227 on: July 22, 2014, 08:51:53 AM » |
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i'm not very far yet because its hard as piss. but thankfully not bullshit hard like shrine of yo mama. it's also basically gimmy's dream level because it's a lot like zelda with all those switch puzzles. i personally don't care for it because as i see it the puzzles are already in the combat encounters in d* souls but it's decently done. definitely bring a bow with a good amount of arrows tho.
enemy designs are pretty boring so far (soldiers with hammers, soldiers with swords, soldiers with lances, archers, flying bugs that cause corrosion) but the encounters or setpieces or watever u call em seem well designed.
there are not a lot of bonfires and the level has shortcuts and actual verticality(!!!)
i dont like the art direction, looks a bit gaudy for my taste and some of the "magical" elements (like the switches) have this weird scifi neon glow that looks really out of place.
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« Reply #4228 on: July 22, 2014, 12:27:31 PM » |
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there are not a lot of bonfires and the level has shortcuts and actual verticality(!!!)
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« Reply #4229 on: July 22, 2014, 03:38:48 PM » |
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just finished it on NG+ and I would say it's... the most fun area of dark souls 2. the map is really cleverly laid out, the enemies are hard as hell (especially those phantoms. wow. but revenge is so sweeeet), the invasion is AWESOME and the boss battles are all fantastic. it's basically a lot of what was missing. it's super lame that they obviously had this kind of material available, they just wanted us to pay extra for it  |
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« Reply #4230 on: July 22, 2014, 04:35:15 PM » |
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it's super lame that they obviously had this kind of material available, they just wanted us to pay extra for it 4 months is a long enough time for a team to work on a single level i still think it's atmospherically rather weak btw |
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« Reply #4231 on: July 22, 2014, 04:51:22 PM » |
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btw im getting weird random slowdown issues and generally worse performance since the patch. it's not my graphics card driver and it's not a hardware defect either because every other game runs flawlessly. is anyone else experiencing this?
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« Reply #4232 on: July 22, 2014, 05:21:57 PM » |
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is it the high ledge sniping area before the second bonfire in Shulva? i had a consistent slowdown there.
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« Reply #4233 on: July 22, 2014, 05:26:49 PM » |
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no i'm getting slowdowns everywhere (not just in the dlc area) and they're not tied to anything specific as far i can tell. i was thinking it was a heat issue (i use a laptop) but the fans are working at max capacity and my monitoring software says my cpu and graphics card are cool.
anyway, those square switches in the ground that open various doors and etc, activating switches with a bow, the whole area being a big blue temple maze. there's just no way this isn't a deliberate zelda tribute/ripoff.
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« Reply #4234 on: July 22, 2014, 05:55:24 PM » |
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« Reply #4235 on: July 22, 2014, 07:31:41 PM » |
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I've encountered more hackers in an hour of the DLC than I have with 8 characters across 8 full games.
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« Reply #4236 on: July 23, 2014, 03:02:09 AM » |
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In contrast, I haven't been invaded once at all in the DLC, and I cleared it with two characters so far.
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« Reply #4237 on: July 23, 2014, 03:17:50 AM » |
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In contrast, I haven't been invaded once at all in the DLC
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« Reply #4238 on: July 23, 2014, 05:00:34 AM » |
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Is it very long? I'm onedooring if I should wait for all 3 instead.
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« Reply #4239 on: July 23, 2014, 05:04:16 AM » |
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It's about 2-5 hours. It took me longer because I'm a terrible player.  It's probably the better decision to see how the other DLC turns out. Would the Season Pass be the same price? |
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