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

gonna call it a night. im still only at the 2nd bonfire but i feel like i've done so much. SPOILERS i had a bunch of cool pyro fights with a princess mononoke dark liquid monster on the rooftops in between two dragons. i fought Smough in a really beautiful Castlevania style town square with a classical statue water fountain and full of empty suits of armor set up everywhere to look like they are resting. i threw fireballs from top of some stairs at 3 skeleton dudes with spears that were trying to get me.

http://i.imgur.com/f3ziSHk.jpg
set of screenshots from tonight
http://imgur.com/a/SFV6K

I started this last night also as a pyro guy, I liked the antler thingies he wears. Also at 2nd bonfire, need to take out that pesky knight after the flame run

GIANT ENEMY CRAB

@adam once you get to the legit boss of the area where you currently are, the zone after that is the one im talking about.

i turned HUD to auto in settings, much better for screenshots

think i've killed 4 or 5 bosses now, still not sure how far i've gotten. none of them have been main dudes in the intro. also had a few invasions in the crab area and killed them all. the npc invaders have been much tougher!

i turned brightness all the way down and now it looks perfect. seems like they took cues from dragon's dogma with the natural lighting

not feeling the disconnected world thing i've complaints about either, there are numerous times where i've looked around and realized where i am in relation to where i've been. it does seem to deliver on the whole "if you can see it you can go to it" concept

man, I do not enjoy beg covered in worms D:

torch ;)

that first boss....damn that fight was good!

it was really tough but i totally felt that WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS feeling at the end

found out im nearly able to score the red eye orb, need to invade in a very serious way

this game just got super medieval. i found this fat self-immolating alt dimension spanishi inquisition official who laughed like Tiny Tim and shot some dark magic at me, slowly sneaking through the air, so I was hiding around corners while he cackled in the distance, surrounded by a pitchfork-wielding village mob. so cool.

second boss down. i need more time to sak this in.

Tomorrow morning, I'm finally going in

the evangelist is a weird-for-dark-souls bad guy: near miniboss hitpoints, distance and close up attacks, generally flanked by a few underlings and it TALKS which was very off putting

Swamp covenant is the most fun. seems like many/most fights involve at least three phantoms and summons are so constant i had to take off the item to progress the story

yeah the evangelist! i haven't played through Bloodborne yet but i remember seeing some of these types of enemies in that. i am really glad they did that, Bloodborne was great.

another cool new thing: roll hits? rolling/dodging actually can stun enemies now! i don't think that was ever a thing before, right?

evangelists are super creepy when they start reading from that book.

i love it every time they have crows scattering. this game is pushing all the right buttons.

Swamp covenant is the most fun. seems like many/most fights involve at least three phantoms and summons are so constant i had to take off the item to progress the story

True, but it pisses me off slightly they no longer refill your estus when you win a PvP invasion or successfully kill a boss.

Have they raised the max human players cap for this? I may have miscounted but it seemed at one time there were more than 3 phantoms at once. Though one of them may have been one of the scripted NPC invasions.

I love how chaotic things can get with mad phantoms, swamp covenant, npcs and regular enemies all getting at each others throats.

wow the 2nd boss is incredible. like something out of Shadow of the Colossus. this game may be better than Dark Souls 1.

killed my first Lord of cinder and now I dunno where to go :(

if its the one im thinking of, you can keep going thru the back of the room

i fell for one of the oldest tricks in the dark souls book re: an npc, gg from

evangelist = fat official from demon's if you look close

really? fuck xp

XPS - with that gnarled hand item you buy in firelink you can summon 3 phantoms then at least one can invade or possibly two if you're in the swamp. I want to say the cap is 6 including the host but it might be 5. either way it's totally nuts and chaotic and exactly what i want

i think there's a second area protection covenant but i haven't made it far enough yet

where do i join swamp cov

i had 2 blues invade at once in crab area and i was alone. killed 1 and the other ran off and 'returned home'

ok this is great. i just got through the tree boss.

coolest thing that's happened so far is probably summoning a mad spirit just before that point, to see what they would do. they helped me clear out the whole area, then he finally attacked me once we got to the fog gate (i won).

got the red eye orb and have had some fun invasions so far, although it's too chaotic for me when there are two whites/yellows plus the host. much prefer duels.

there's a big wolf u pray to in the poison swamp farron keep zone. As u advance thru the zone u will find a long ladder going up the side of a bridge support, scale it,pray to the giant sleeping wolf, ask to join the cov and boom - unlimited invasions forever

ok yeah i got there but didnt join

parrying is tricky in this game but seems crucial

every game, i start out promising myself THIS is the one where I'm gonna force myself to learn to parry correctly. never happens.

i parried like a motherfucker all the way through bloodborne but i can't seem to find the rhythm this time around. lotta backstabbing though! seems easier to backstab in dsiii?

parrying is useful in pvp this time around as the counter to R1 spamming enemies. i haven't been able to consistently get it working in regular play

and yeah backstab looks to be back to DS1 levels

http://i.imgur.com/BL9zuJf.jpg

lol smell the halberd

i guess it was too much to hope that dark souls 3 wouldn't feature skeleton wheels

i hate hate hate those bastards

Just installing now. This is my first try at a souls game. Any tips for a noob?

The manual is uncharacteristically sympathetic and helpful this time out

I'd say practice blocking with a shield and dodging in the tutorial bit, and read a wiki mechanics page so you understand the status stuff like resistances, attributes, how weapon upgrades work etc

i played an embarrassing amount of this game over the last 48 hrs but felled 2 lords and am almost to anor Londo (having gone through the capital first). looking to get into the other zone defense covenant and maybe relax and farm my levels for a little bit.

not sure what the ideal pvp lvl is yet but theven build im tentatively working toward is basically good at 80 which should keep open the door for a wide range of coop options

theven isn't a word, phone u should know that

nooo, after looking it up, i apparently missed the trigger for the Mound Makers covenant. :( at least until late game. i was looking forward to that.

otherwise i'm at the obligatory poison swamp area, and i'm messing around with a rapier for pvp. felt like the katana was just a little too slow for a fast weapon, but it's great for pve.

the weapon arts for the rapier are amazing btw.

fuuuuck i killed the onion knight. saw him come down the elevator and got aggro. very sad.

can i resurrect these guys by forgiving my sins as per prior games. This is bothering me more than it should.

The forgiveness npc is actually in the same area you killed the onion knight. Unless perhaps you already found it and are only asking to know if it's worth the cost, in which case I have no idea because apparently I'm not a sinner yet.