Dark Souls 3 - April 2016 : You Died, You Died, You Died

Is it just me, or are the bosses a lot easier this time around? I was able to kill nine of them on the first try, including the "final" boss.

good for you! im at Aldrich just getting killed a lot and working the health bar down inch by inch and slowly learning all the attacks. the shower of spears killed me a bunch when i was being super-aggressive so i started backing off and the pillars turn out to make great shields. the bosses in this are at least 2nd hardest. i was able to first-try many of 2's bosses but none of 3's. so far most of 3's bosses have stumped me for an evening or so and then i'll revisit it and figure out some new strategy that unlocks another chunk of the boss health bar.

nameless king has a 3rd boss added to it... the camera

truuue. from watching videos, i was making the first phase harder than it needed to be (in terms of camera + the downward fire attack) by getting under the dragon/behind the head.

btw i'm really starting to hate the Dark Sword in pvp. the other night i fought the same person three times trying to find a counter...the first time i walked into their R1 spam, the second time i tried to parry unsuccessfully, the third time he black crystal-ed out as soon as he came into my world.

anyone up for ilx pvp on saturday during the day?

does the password system work w/ red sign too?

yup

xp Adam - I must have just gotten lucky with my build this time around. DSII was REAL rough for me.

anyone up for ilx pvp on saturday during the day?

i'm hoping to be online saturday afternoon, so this sounds good. if i have time enough to farm chunks for my last slab-worthy weapon i'll respec to luck and start NG+ then try and push to the high wall bonfire so i can host several phantoms for a proper fight club.

high wall it is. password: ilx (if that's not too short?)

sounds good, i'm tentatively suggesting a 2pm cst start if that sounds good. i believe all levels can attend if we use pw as well

I can do that. I'll be available at least 2-3.

i was range attacking Aldrich w pyromancy and my dark shield on to block incoming magic missiles then Aldrich, Devourer of Souls just spammed that strong magic blast at me in double shots killing me quickly. by then all the pillars were smashed so there was no place to hide. i guess dodge roll into them?

seems like staying close is an option u can dodge roll around him to avoid the rain it is cast in a half-circle it seems?

i really want to hit more than twice but he does that raising up the staff to pound the ground/make a purple cloud

his attacks are actually pretty slow and easily telegraphed but i can't seem to not get trapped by him doing multiple attacks at once. rain + heavy magic blasts how am i supposed to doge this?

fuck this rain of arrows

the arrows i think you have to just run around until it stops esp in phase 2 where it follows you around and side roll the 2 magic blasts. he is a pain in the ass, if you see him raise up the bow just start running. i had trouble w/ most bosses but oceiros and champion gundyr were easy for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esOpx7ybPt8

entered ng+ for the first time in the souls series last night. there was a very emotional mass murder of all the NPCs. now i am being constantly invaded at the high wall while ember'd while i follow a walkthrough to cover everything i missed on my blind first pass.

looking forward to dlcs, this game continues to deliver

the linearity bums me out. didn't bother me in bloodborne but every souls game gave you choices of where to go. next playthrough i'm gonna do dancer/lothric castle first, thats about the only change-up it allows

the level design is flatter and less creative than ds1, definitely, but i felt like there were at least a few other opportunities for choice as far as zone selection went (farron vs cathedral, optional zones like ashen lake and second gundyr fight) and i still much prefer the design over ds2 or demon's souls

really? it's not DS1 in terms of being able to skip large parts of the game, but it feels like there are more branching options than Bloodborne. once you hit the first swamp you can go to Road of Sacrifices/Cathedral or to Farron Keep/Catacombs/Smouldering Lake, although i guess you need to do both routes to get to Irithyll. Then you can go to the Dungeon or A*** L****, and there are also the dragon peak/Untended Graves Side areas.

xp

the side areas are little branches but you can't deviate from the main route. the world feels more of a piece in 3 but that one-way funneling hurts the replayibility for me. ds1 you can go straight to the worst parts if you want, turn pve into different challenges. the choices this time feel more illusory

i even liked demons/ds2 hub setup because you could do the spokes in whatever order. just my preference. ds1 went just far beyond, i guess they'll never recapture that.

ok i get that. i like that each area is pretty twisty and intricate, but i suppose it's true that each playthrough is going to look more or less the same. i wonder if the speedrunners will figure out any crazy tricks.

the areas themselves are expansive which helps. the cathedral/castle areas are massive and they did a good job of utilizing the vertical space too, ground to rooftop

i got the shrine rooftop jump down where you run up the tree and jump up before you've bought the tower key. hope they don't patch that or the butt glitch

yeah i get what you are saying wrt world linearity but i wouldn't trade it for smaller areas, which seems like it would be the trade-off they would have had to make. the first couple of areas (High Wall and Undead Settlement) are so great i really don't mind the linearity and the game opens up pretty soon anyways once you get to the Dilapitated bridge/tree boss/that whole area that connects to the also forest and the catacombs.

started a new game yesterday to try the default knight. it was way easier than my pyro build! they give the knight some really good equipment early on.

god, High Wall is so beautifully designed. every time i go back to visit i just love it, the lighting, the weird rooftops, etc. it's up there with Undead Burg from DS1 tho personally i like the DS3 levels far more (both art-wise and monster-wise).

fight Club in high wall pw is ilx come join if u want

Putting my sign down shortly!

I got killed trying to summon, I will turn on and off the code for randoms as needed. What's your char name?

Enomoto

this purple Phantom why do I keep bringing him he doesn't understand what's going on

lol

how do you do this? put down a white soapstone? do u need a covenant? what do i do to get on this

Go to high wall bonfire drop white or red summon sign I'll start using ilx as pw again for the next few mins. What's ur char name? No cover needed but fair warning jordan is killing everyone rn

Adam we're both on ps4 :(

Covenant not cover

ah this is ps4 only? i guess no cross-platform

Stacia

Yeah no cross-platform unfortunately.

Some really good matches here! Also some healing goofballs but that's ok too.

Oh man I really need to get that guy who's having a streak w/the fire twinswords.

Wow people are actually using magic to good effect. With this one guy, it's like fighting a boss.

Yeah this magic is tearing it up v interesting

I can host too if you want some action

it's cool I may head off in a little bit I'll keep it going until then. Ps 136k souls for free

lmao i think that's it for me today

I'll push for pontiff next time, I need to get hollowed for this build

Ok thanks, that was really fun!

Back to figuring out what to do about the Princes I guess

Ok the last boss was hilarious. Kinda cheesy, but pretty fun to fight (so many moves to learn how to read).

I'm sure I'll keep doing pvp for awhile and it would be fun to try some other builds, but finishing the game always breaks the spell for me. Which is probably a good thing, as I've been playing this every spare moment I had.

omg that final fight
maybe on ng+ i will start fighting bosses solo. i doubt it tho.