Was it fucking necessary to have so many of these in the game? Literally 90% of chests in DS3 are mimics.
So the fuck what? You don't even need to fight them to get their items.
>>337277028
>a mimic just killed me
the post
Specifically to stop low level players from suicide running to good gear.
Irithyll Dungeon is not that hard scrub.
yeah because its so hard to just look at the chain.git gud fag
>>337277174
I haven't actually died to one since the first one (and it kicked me to death, I didn't get eaten).
It just gets really fucking old. They are supposed to be an evil surprise, not expected of damn near every chest you see.
>>337277270
you can see them breathing in this one, even easier
>>337277028
Really?
More importantly, why are a few of the chests dead?
>tfw never been tricked by a mimic in DS3
Its really just one area that like that, it doesnt help that Irihyll is smack dab in the middle of the game so you see a boat load of chests suddenly and like 1 of them is the real thing
>>337277028
>not R1 checking every chest you find
This was already a good habit in Dark Souls 1.
There's not that many mimics, it's just that there aren't that many chests to compensate.
>>337277028
>DS3
>oh found the first chest
>surely they wouldn't use a mimic so early
>people still don't know that your camera goes through mimics but not regular chests
They're so cute when you use a hunter's charm on them
>>337277639
It's not just Ithiryll actually, it's just way more noticable there. Almost every time you find a chest anywhere it's a monster.
>>337277674
>still assuming I get tricked by them instead just being fucking bored fighting the same enemy every time I see a chest
>>337277582
How many innocent chests did you lloyds or attack though?
>>337277938
You dont have to do that, jsut look for the mount moving desu
>>337277938
not a single one
>>337278000
Go and teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
>>337277675
Always hit the chest, ALWAYS.
>>337277938
How many breads have you eaten in your life?
>>337277707
>People still bother looking up small details when you can just smack the chest once without thinking.
>>337277776
Two I think.
>>337277028
yeah now you never get eaten by one since your always expecting them
>>337277028
For the amount of mimics you would think they would mix up the signs to tell them apart . The chain has been the same since DaS it wouldnt fool anyone
The only mimic that got me was the one in Smouldering Lake, I saw the giant demon and saw a chest across the room. Im thinking this is 99% sure to be a mimic, what like...what if it isnt..I want to open a chest and not be afraid! And it was a mimic, then the demon aggroed and used fire and killed the mimic
I think FROM just used a 1 or 0 variable to determine if a chest is a mimic and accidentally flipped them all around. There are as many normal chests compared to mimics as you would expect vice versa.
>>337277582
Same. Unless this is your first Souls game, you have literally no excuse.
>>337277938
you know you can distinguish real chest from mimics by looking at the chain, don't you?
>>337278553
>mimic and skeletons gangbang the demon while i just watch
>>337278969
Why are you asking me when there's people suggesting that you attack every chest in the game?
I bet you don't even carry talismans.
>>337279156
Nigga I dont even use the bank
>>337278969
>implying I even remember what the non-mimic chains look like anymore
Just watch if they breathe or just attack any you see anyway.
>>337278553
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7KpkC_YJKI
>>337279462
I remember when me and my fiend had that happen, we were cheering for the mimic so hard.
The Dark souls series has made me wary of all chests, its a good thing they can't break because I always give a few whacks to every chest before opening them. That said yeah I agree with >>337278662 I think about 80% of chests NOT accessed from a hidden wall/secret area are fucking mimics which feels really high
>>337278553
Opposite happened for me, the mimic mauled all the dudes in that room while I was running away from them and then went back into chest mode in the middle of the room.
>People missing the point
If you want a challenge to get to the chest, have it be guarded or hidden. Treasure is not more rewarding because I had to circle-strafe it for a bit.
Dark Souls 2 was actually smart about this. Chests could be destroyed, some chests had traps instead, there were different kinds of chests, etc. Being able to look at the chain and immediately know what kind of chest it is makes for very boring, predictable mimics.
The whole point of a mimic is that it surprises you. The people going ">falling for mimics" or "I never got tricked by a mimic" are just proving the point of how badly DaS3 fucked it up, because they're numerous but add no challenge.
>>337279462
>that ending
>>337279750
I kinda agree, forgot that DS2 had those metal chests and the trapped ones, i dont remember if they had chains or you could tell if they were mimics
>>337279750
Word.
It honestly kind of pisses me off that there are absolutely 0 "trap" chests in dark souls 3.
2 had some good ideas, but everyone hated on it so much, FROM was too afraid to incorporate any of them.
I kept expecting them to put a mimic bonfire somewhere in the game. Would have been pretty funny. Maybe some kind of creature with a flaming horn that looks similar to a bonfire, and it hides underground.
>>337280213
I legitimately expected this when I came to the Grand Archives. Couldn't believe they'd just put a bonfire ten seconds from another bonfire.
>>337277240
That doesn't make any sense. There's isn't much good gear found in mimics anyway, and you can just use a Talisman
>>337277174
I've actually never died to a single Mimic in 3, and they killed me plenty of times in 1 and 2. In 3 all of their attacks are amazingly easy to avoid and they don't do nearly as much damage as they used to. Their only strong point is their health.
>>337280161
Mimic chests had locks on them
There's nothing wrong with mimic, it's just that there was so fucking many in the game it just sorta spoiled the fun of the enemy; being a surprise trap
>>337280602
I bet it was a rather late change to put a Bonfire in every boss room, they did it after they had put all the other bonfires in the game. Totally unnecessary.
I think the reason they put so many mimics is because at this point the player expects it.
>>337277028
People who say "it's just an enemy, kill it and get the item" are completely missing the whole point of a mimic. A mimic is supposed to play on the trust of the player, to put them on edge when they see a chest. It rewards a player who properly takes the time to make sure it's safe and punishes players who rush. If they just wanted to make a tough enemy that drops a good item, they could have just had a Black Knight type encounter, but they fucked up and reversed the mimic to chest ratio.
>>337281118
One faggot told me
>what, you want the game to just hand treasure over to you? lol
>>337277028
>That one mimic who fights on all fours
Fuck that guy.
>>337277157
how?? i dont read guides
>>337281380
The same way you did in the previous 2 games.
>>337281375
Is he supposed to not grab you? And btw, all DaSII mimics were like that. I was kinda disappointed that DaSIII mimics were just copypasted from DaS1.
>Run underneath the Dragon on Highwall
>See chest
>Walk towards it
>See teeth
>"This early? Ok"
>Smack the chest
>Mimic gets up
>Run back to the door
>Mimic follows
>Run out door, bait dragons breath
>Roll off the side onto the stairs
>Almost dead Mimic drops next to me
>Swing
>Collect Axe
I feel they put alot of areas in this game where you could get the mimics killed by other things, or at least distracted/beaten on before you had to.
>>337281475
and how is that? i dont read guides
>>337281518
I love how the mimic can easily kill the fire demon under Carthus
>>337281619
http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Undead+Hunter+Charm
Clearly your're chasing the wrong kind of chests
>>337281619
Just look it up
>>337278553
I just let the Mimic and Demon fight it out... a tiny little skeleton ended up getting the killing blow on both of them and saved my life.
Thank you skelebro that I ended killing anyway.
>>337281518
nigga you dont need to go trough all that hassle, just stay close to his ass and circle around him, they are super easy
>>337281516
I dont know but he has a super fast grab once he gets all his limbs out.
>>337277356
You could always see them breathing. The mimics in DaS3 are literally copy and pasted from DaS1.
>>337281683
>http://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Undead+Hunter+Charm
jesus christ babby mode but thats kinda cool, do they just drop the item after sleeping?
>>337281745
I know that, I just found it interesting to see the mimic either get it's shit kicked in or let it kill a whole bunch of things before coming after me.
>>337277582
Haven't been fooled by one since the first one I ran into in Dark Souls. Since then I've arrowed or attacked every chest. I was sort of hoping they'd have a new mimic in DS3, something to give me that feeling of the very first one I got eaten by.
>>337278229
>risking breaking the chest
Enjoy your rubbish, faggot
>>337281832
Yeah
>>337281896
>playing Dork Souls 2
kek
>>337281896
You only need to hit the chest once, and if anyone is stupid enough to keep hitting it when nothing happens, it's their own damn fault.
>>337281698
>implying there aren't those kinds of chest mimics either
It's like you've never seen a tranny
>>337281832
Yes. Toss the charm at them while they're still closed and they'll simply yawn, curl back up, and the item will appear. Symbols of Avarice can also appear like this, so pop a coin and equip the gold serpent ring / sage rapier if you've got them and the symbol will drop within your first couple mimics.
>>337281896
>he doesn't know chests dont break anymore
Also to my knowledge the damage of your weapon doesn't factor into chest breaking, only how many times you hit it.
>>337281896
>m-muh risk
Well over a thousand hours of doing this across all souls games and not once have I broken a chest. It literally can't happen if you hit once.
Stop being retarded
>>337282097
>Symbols of Avarice can also appear like this
Learn something new every day.
>>337282247
you can "farm" it by repeatedly waking him up, putting him back to sleep, repeat
I want to suck off each and every one of you
>>337282419
No fucking way
>Feeling good after finding out that I can progress through Irithyll Dungeon
>Light bonfire
>Get excited
>enter and take a left into a cell to get an item
> :^)
> nearly shit myself
> run back to the bonfire for some reason and sit down
>exit the game and go to sleep
Why though? Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
>>337282512
that's what the video said (I think Vaatividya or something), but I might be remembering it wrong
I think it's true though, considering every mimic has an item already inside them, and once you clear them, if you reset them and open them again, another item can appear (the Avarice), so it makes sense to me (the first item, however, will always be what should be in the mimic to begin with)
>>337282726
You seriously can't handle a jumpscare in a fucking horror game?
>>337282790
>DaS
>horror game
not that guy, and the only scares I ever got of DaS were those screamsfirst time playing DeS I was shittin myself in Latria when a woman started singing, fuck
>>337282790
I was wearing headphones, volume wasn't even all the way up but
a) I didn't expect there to be a jumpscare because I didn't get one in DaS, or DaS2-- Bloodborne being the exception.
b) Despite the volume being at ~30 my ears were nearly bleeding from the scream. That shit was designed to funnel into my ear. Had to play that entire area with it off because of that.
c) I felt a small sense of betrayal that FROM would do this to me.
>>337282972
It's more like classic horror, which isn't really scary, but just really creepy and disturbing.
>>337277028
Would you rather they be boring ass chests instead of the coolest and funniest ENEMY in the game?
>>337282972
The fucking spider skeleton things freak me out.
>>337282427
I won't fall for it, mimic
>>337283087
ok, but jumpscares are really tasteless
it's like going to a fancy restaurant, ordering some french delicacies, and they bring you Doritos before the meal, fucking really?
Haha, hey guys, check this out!
>>337283301
The entire game is full of ambushes man.
>>337277240
>level
>meaning anything
>>337282726
>have explored every nook and cranny of the dungeon, ready to proceed to profaned capital
>killed all the wardens in that big ass room at the bottom
>only thing left to do is enter that one cell with the item at the back that's obviously a trap
>message reads "fear ahead"
>pick up item
>the most bloodcurdling, bone-chilling scream erupts from the corpse
>heart beating like crazy and legs are tingling for a minute afterwards
>>337283547
>legs are tingling for a minute afterwards
Go see a doctor right this minute holy shit
>>337283547
the trick so nice they do it thrice
really could do without it, it's fucking loud as balls
>>337283168
I think the spider women are cute.
Now the gollum-looking motherfuckers in the dungeon are just everything that doesn't sit right with me combined in one hideous package.
>walk up to the one that doesn't actually attack you
>get a closer look at it
>it turns its head
>R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1
>>337283472
you don't understand, the jumpscare is fucking annoying, and it's not even an ambush, it's just a fucking jumpscare (there are parts of the dungeon in which you get this loud shriek for approaching a chest and such)
>>337283301
Nah, its more like opening a bag of doritos only for them to fly all over the place.
>>337281074
What would've been better is to have no mimics at all, then in NG+ have some extra chests appear that are mimics.
>>337281118
Stop being a faggot especially now chest can't break so there's nothing stopping you from hitting every chest plus the chain thing is too fucking obvious and th bloodstains you have to be blind to actually get hit. Das2 did mimics better imo
>>337283694
Its an ambush for your mind.
>>337283684
those are the worst, alongside those giant fat hand enemies with teeth
>>337283748
the restaurant being DaS3, Miyazaki being the chef, the delicacies being most of the game, the Doritos is the shriek
actually, let's change that, the Doritos is carebears summoning 3 people for a boss fight, those shrieks are like the waiter coming at you and slapping you in the face when you touch the dessert spoon
>>337282771
I actually had a moment with the Mimic in Cathedral of the deep where I dropped my charm on it and it dropped the Symbol of Avarice first, but also the Pyromancy tome with it.
I guess it's mainly luck based (Not the stat, but guessing that would help a bit)
>most obvious ambush of all time
>nothing actually happens
just look at the chains
>circle => OK
>snake letter => bad news
>tfw you died 4 times to the same mimics
Fuck those grab
>>337283547
>that room with all the wardens
>the cell next to the witch npc
>all signs say shit like "pointless ahead"
>open it anyway
>one of those speedy crucifix guys
>"huh, maybe he'll have something special like the maggot monster in that other cell, and those signs were just trying to ruse me"
>mfw nothing
>mfw no one to blame but myself for letting him loose there
>>337283992
I was looking over my shoulder the whole way. The item wasnt even good.
>>337284117
>let him out
>run out of the area
>he starts attacking the jailers
>they fuck him up
>>337284117
Apparently it'll beat the shit out of the wardens, but by that point you've already worked your way past them.
>>337284117
if you open his door and hide he'll kill every jailer in the room. they put like 10 of the fuckers in there so you'd find another way to kill them
Because DS3 is a talentless cop-out game that is nothing more than an interactive book of souls memes.
>remember these archers on rooftops guys? xD
>hey you had a really fun time with these mimics right?
>wow guys anor londo so EPIC
>yeah man look at this iconic gwyn fight a generation later!
>we're bringing back all these weapons and armor because who needs new content anyway
Instead of going for what was the original point of mimics the design process in this game was mimic=memories of old souls=copy paste times 500
It wasn't "necessary", the game is just fucking bad. Some "A team". People who worked on this game should never develop a game in their lives ever again.
>>337284241
I've had times where it attacks the mimic for no reason and it loses instantly.
>>337277582
Me neither, but it still got fucking old by the time I slaughtered my 10th mimic. It got to a point where they were just getting comical, and each mimic placement felt so lazily done.
I can recall all the mimics in DaS1, but in 3 they're so plentiful and scattered in the world the mimic feels less like a trap and more like a joke.
The only one that almost got me was the one in the hallway behind a bunch of rats. There's a normal chest next to it so you almost expect both to be real.
THEN A BUNCH OF BASILISKS SPAWN ON YOUR ASS
>>337278000
Why even do that? Why waste seconds starring at the chest or wasting a talisman when you can just kick the thing?
LOOK
AT
THE
CHAINS
>>337282726
>same part
>see message
>"Listen carefully in short item ahead"
>huh. listen carefully...
>actually turned up the volume because it was generally quiet
fuck you man whoever that was
>>337283469
cute
>>337283673
those undead with that abyss curse thing is loud as hell, I wince every time.
>>337284083
>Fight one of those ones that gets all fours
>It lunges across the room
>This lunge apparently counts as an instakill grab
At least the standing ones make it real obvious that it's a grab
>>337284729
Still, I have to waste a Lloyd's talismen on it.
>>337277028
>Literally 90%
You either don't know what that word means or you literally don't know how percents work.
>>337284658
Fucking this
>first time there
>manage to spot the mimic
>start kicking its ass into next week
>mfw all of a sudden basilisk gank squad
>>337284424
Did Miyazaki rape your grandmother or something?
>>337284905
>put some distance between me and a two legged mimics
>he does a slow ass spinning kick that one shot me
Shit is so slow I didn't even think about reacting
>>337284981
you can use undead hunter charms too i thought? i always just killed them anyway
>>337277028
it's 50%
exactly
>>337285179
No. This is called being disappointed. Because even DS2 put more effort into being a game than this rehash fiesta. They can't even work with already existing material, as everything in DS3 feels like a bootleg version of the stuff it borrows from.
>>337284658
>>337285026
I kept hearing them beforehand but had no idea where they were coming from.
I still don't know where they were, 90% sure I checked the ceilings since there's a lot of enemies (not counting slimes) waiting on the ceiling in DaSIII.
First time i ever got close to being cursed in III.
>>337285432
Did he kill her too?
>>337285527
There's a hole in the ceiling they pop out of when you start opening the chests
>>337285432
I'd rather play a sequel that's more of the same shit, than one that is a drunk retarded version of its predecessor
>>337285639
huh must have overlooked it then
>>337281118
No you fag. A mimic is supposed to be nearly undetectable, a rare encounter that takes the player off guard. It's utterly worthless if the player (1.) expects an absurd proportion of chests to be mimics (2.) has an effortless method to detect mimics, resulting him just mindlessly checking each chest, confirming it's safe, and moving on, over and over again.
>>337282726
>just entered irithyll dungeon
>get to exploring every open space because that's the only way to play
>message just in front of that cell
>be wary of jumping fear ahead
>take the item from the zombie
I can't believe I didn't make the connection between jumping fear and jump scares, but holy fuck did I laugh my ass off afterwards.
Based From.
>>337277028
I didn't buy a single Talisman and opened every single mimic without triggering them. I even missed some talismans and ended up with a few spare so you're just bad or don't explore
>>337284241
I think it's to help clear them out if you're going in reverse.
Also the wardens are easy to de-aggro (at least for me) so I just ran past them, let the guy out, de-aggro'd him and let them wail on each other.
>every chest ISN'T a mimic
>>337277028
>just died in a game
>let's go make a pointless spam thread on 4chans to complain about it
Literally 43% of the chests in the game are mimics kiddo
>>337286250
the fextralife wiki says you can use undead hunter charms to put them to sleep, i haven't tried it but you can buy those with infinite stock
>>337286496
i completely ignored them and killed him in 2 tries
>>337286496
Stand by the fountain thing?
Worked for me, though I did take a few hits.
>>337279750
>that iron mimic
>>337286496
Flynn's Ring
Thrall Hood only
Roll like a motherfucker
>>337281026
they should have put the dragon slayer bonfire near the entrance to the fight
where it is right now is too close to the grand archives but too far away from the sunlight altar, the only point of interest in that floor
>>337284298
I always snuck by them....
seroisly, just walk right behind one of them at the end of the chain and the rest don't care
Don't break anything though, the sounds alerts them
>>337286973
there are plenty of questionable bonfire locations, SPECIALLY the ones in new areas RIGHT FUCKING AFTER A BOSS BONFIRE
>>337283673
Theres a lot of annoying louder than it needs to be noises in this fucking game.
>>337287413
It would make so much more sense if the boss bonfires didn't exist, with the exception of Greatwood, DotD, Yhorm, Aldritch, Twin Princes and maybe Champion Gundyr. All of the dead ends.
Abyss Watchers just needed to be moved to just inside the catacombs.
>>337287758
>roll through crates and shit
>BRKRKKKKRKK
>>337284486
>put down my sign near Yhorm's boss fog
>host has a summon with him already
>he has us follow him to take on the mimics
>we win, naturally
>go to boss
>sunbro dies 5 second dies into the fight and host follows soon after
These are the idiots walking around with fanclubs, fuck 'em.
>>337286108
That's exactly what I said. Did you think I meant that every single mimic should be detected by looking at it's chain? No, I meant checking to see if it's breathing, if it's in a suspicious position and so on. The chain trick is stupid and makes mimics pointless as well since it's so easy to figure out what it is.
From did actually do this in some places, the chain on a chest is hidden by rubble once or twice, but not enough, the chain shouldn't be there.
Please learn to properly read posts before you get so mad, fag.
>Rapport works on mimics
Kind of fun to watch the mimics outside of Yhorm's room duke it out for my amusement.
>>337282726
>tfw brace myself before every item on a corpse after Irithyll
>>337278662
This seems like the most likely case considering the amount of simple code they managed to fuck up. It seems like half the features aren't even implemented. Glad I didn't buy it yet because it doesn't seem likely any patch is going to fix all the shit they broke, if they knew where they made mistakes in the code it wouldn't be a broken game in the first place.
>>337281516
there's two types of mimics, the crab walkers and the up righters. Crabbies are slower at grabbing.
>>337277028
I enjoy them so yes, and their being absent from Bloodborne made me figure there would be an abundance in DS3.
>>337289081
>Crab walkers and the up righters
https://youtu.be/a9GoWGnFzGA?t=42s
>>337277174
Dieing to a mimic is usually pretty funny. especially in co-op
>that sound the mimics make
I'm very immature but it always makes me laugh, I don't even know what sound it's trying to make when I see this lanky fucker chasing me.
>>337277028
>Literally 90%
No, not literally 90%, more like around 10% whereas before it was like 5%.
This was my go to weapon for every mimic. Hit them with the poison cloud skill and then just go kill other enemies or grab a bite from the kitchen while the mimic sleeps there and dies to poison.
>>337280213
Think the only savepoint mimics I've seen in a RPG were in ff12.
I'm fine with it since UHCs are actually reliable for an easy kill
>throw charm
>collect item
>hit mimic with 2 charged attacks
>zero fucks given because doing wake up animation, literally free damage
>mimic goes back to sleep after the animation
>throw another talisman if you have shit damage
>whale on it during the wake up animation
>mimic still goes back to sleep after the animation
>can get even more free damage before it stands up and realizes whats going on, if you haven't killed it yet
>dead mimic
>the fucking mimic bloodstains
>15 seconds of a body floating around
Why are they so funny?
>>337290127
if you have low damage but a fast attack weapon carthus rouge works really good
>>337277028
>this game is so le ebin hard XD
>>337290127
Why kill it at all once you have the item?
>>337277028
Yes
>>337290395
I love bloodstains where the person gets backed into a corner and starts rolling in place constantly before dying.
>>337282419
Unfortunately, From made the genius decision to limit literally all your carry able items in the game. Nothing is as viable as it once was.
>>337277028
What's the point of Mimics when you can hit a non-Mimic without consequences? Fucking retarded game design.
>>337281709
Fuck off, you cancerous piece of shit. People like you are the reason this community has gone to utter shit. When Demon's Souls first released all you would see is threads of people talking about exploration, boss strats, congratulating each other on wins, etc. Now it's all "lmao git gud" spam in every fucking thread, or asinine comments like this saying "just google it" when you could've just said "loyd's talisman" in fewer letters and actually helped an anon out. You're probably one of those kids who would try to one-up all the other kids at school. Like when they got a new toy or something you'd INSTANTLY comeback with how you had a better version. Fuck off, you elitist fucking cunt asshole. Jesus fucking CHRIST people like you make me mad.
>>337287870
>put down sign near any boss door
>host summons me and starts running backwards to clear the level
>crystal out immediately
seriously fuck those faggots, wait for signs by the bonfire if you want help going through the level
>>337282771
>Age of the deep.
>in the room with the dragon peak emote
>two chests in a wide open room
>gotta be a mimic
>one of the bloodstains show someone getting eaten by a mimic
>hit both chests, neither is a mimic
I'm still very confused
WHO WAS BLOODSTAIN
>>337279750
Another little thing das2 got right
Yes it wasnt a great game but there are so many littlebthings theys should have put in das3
>>337291664
"I don't look at guides...
But ill ask people on the Internet for exact clarification on things. Im a hardcore dark souls purist!"
>>337292958
Sense of community is a major part of Souls. Asking anon is not the same as googling, even if the end result is the same. It's about the interaction. Of course I don't expect you to understand that, being that Dark Souls 3 is probably your first Souls game and you watched Let's Plays of it before trying it.
Why is crabfriend in the Catacombs before Wolnir?
>>337293086
>It's about the interaction.
Jesus Christ man, we're not some close knit guild. We're not even a "we're", it's just a game.
>>337295561
>it's just a game.
lmao what a nerd, what are you doing on 4chan? on the videogames board too, no less! what a fucking nerd! get out and go party or go work or get married lol
>>337277240
Make the opening animation take forever
>>337291209
Overflow items go to your stash
>>337297503
I don't think that's the issue, anon
>>337297503
You completely misunderstood while posting your smug anime, congratulations.
>>337277174
I didn't once fall for one and I died 3 or so times to their grab
>>337286496
I cheesed that faggot with a greatshield and kiting him around the fountain.
I died 6 or 7 times trying to our roll and 2 hand him. Literally every time I got him down to one or two hits left and he would pull some bullshit move that would fuck me over.
>>337288093
That was how the mimic in Sen's Funhouse got people. You get to the end of the line of traps and fucking bullshit. You don't notice the chest isn't square with the room, you think this is your reward. Nope, it's another trap. Chomp chomp.
I was disappointed at no KING MIMIC never happening. Could have been a chest that looks larger than normal and it goes full autobot and transforms into some armored monstrosity.
>>337300206
Also it was the first mimic you find in the whole series (at least if you don't do any major sequence breaking), so it sure had the element of surprise against the player. If it weren't for messages or bloodstains, you would be practically guaranteed to die on it.
>>337283694
Pretty sure the shriek alerts other enemies, which would serve a mechanical purpose.
I just wish there was more to them than just LOOK AT THE CHAIN. DaS2 had some decent mimic ideas that were a bit more subtle.
Quite frankly OP is right though, Mimics are great when you don't expect them. All the mimics in DaS3 were pretty blatant.
>>337277028
>The telltale sign for a mimic was the same as DS1
>It doesnt even attack you from the get go and eats 400 attacks before it even stands up
It needed more shit like the feral mimic, Shit that trip you up and keeps your guard up.
>>337282095
underrated post
>>337283694
The shriek alerts the jailers and any within range make a beeline for you when you set one off.
That one in the very bottom room with like 12 jailers will aggro every single one of them. I had to sit beside that doorway smacking fucking jailer dickbags with 1 max hp for like 15 minutes because of that.
>>337285527
>get cursed once in that clusterfuck in smoldering lake
>FUCK
>spawn
>health is unaffected because I put no points into vigor
Thank fuck
>>337301873
Pretty sure that doesn't matter. I've very rarely been cursed and I believe it's just an instant death status effect with no lingering effects.
>>337301873
apparently curse is just an instant kill in this game
>>337277028
They need to change the model so that the chains are the same, and that mimics have super hyper armor and don't reveal they are mimics in one hit. Making them true mimics.
Fill me in, is the OP just a memepost? Because I only remember 3 mimics or so throughout my entire playthrough I got pretty much everything. I was actually surprised that they didn't go full retard with the mimics. Hell, half of em were horrendously obvious like the one in Cathedral of the deep with the tome.
>>337277675
>not seeing the 10 bloodstains around it
>>337277582
That's not something to be happy about though. Being tricked by the mimic was one of the best parts of Dark Souls 1. You're supposed to get a shock and go "Oh fucking hell!", that's the fun of it. Hitting the thing then fighting it is boring as fuck and misses the entire point of mimics.
In short, well done making the game boring and rote for yourself
>>337302085
You just not have looked properly when there's shit like two mimics right next to one another in Profaned Capital, OP is salty but he isnt wrong, There's way too many mimics in the game
>>337302085
Ithryll dungeon has two I think, Profaned capital has 2 right next to each other which was very odd. I can't remember the last time I saw a chest that WASN'T a mimic.
>>337277028
Roll roll attack
>>337302208
yeah, you tell him how to have fun in his own game!
>>337293086
>>337281380
>>337281619
For fuck's sake. Hit it with an Undead Hunter Charm. That's it.
If you up your item discovery you can use multiple to try and get the Symbol of Avarice. After hitting it with the first UHC, punch it to make it go back to sleep, then throw another one, then check to see if it dropped it (it might take a few seconds). Rinse and repeat until you get it. You can get one from every mimic this way.
Otherwise, the last mimic you kill will drop it.
It's probably just there to keep you on your toes.
>there have been so many mimics already, surely THIS one isn't also a mimic!
There's also the fact that this game is supposed to be post-apocalyptic. Maybe adventurers already cleared out most of the non-mimic chests.
>>337302278
I can recall three in the dungeon, I think. Right after you exit the beginning cell area, you go outside briefly and there's three guys there. One has a crossbow, then you go back inside. There's one right there. In the area with the giant shortly after, if you get across the bridge and through the sewer right the rats and basilisks, there's one at the end. If you get knocked off the bridge or jump off the bridge in the room with the giant, if you take the path back up, in the room with the ladder, there's another one. And then Profaned Capital isn't even seperated by a boss and is so damn small it might as well be the same area, and there are two more right next to each other there.
>>337302208
Getting tricked by a mimic is interesting the first time it happens and then aggravating every time after that. We get it, mimics exist. But now I have to do all that shit over again and get my souls back because for some reason this thing gets to kill me from full health.
So yeah, in DS1 I was amazed by the first mimic encounter. But it's been three games now and I've fought so many mimics that it stopped being novel a while back.
Really what they need to do is introduce mimics that are disguised as things other than chests. Bonfire mimic, NPC mimic, you thought that was a staircase, fuck you it's a mimic.
>>337302469
It's all a scheme by the jew serpents to artificially raise the price of non-mimic chests which THEY HAVE A MONOPOLY ON
>>337302439
>otherwise the last mimic you kill will drop it
Stop spreading this rumor, it was true in 1/2 but not in 3. Have gone to every mimic chest there is, saved/reloaded and symbol still hasnlt shown up.
>>337302208
Are you fucking joking? So I'm supposed to just pretend that I don't know that there are mimics in the game, and just open every single chest until one eats me?
After the first mimic, am I THEN allowed to pre-empt them in your retarded ruleset?
>>337287413
To be fair, it's a dangerous trek to the first bonfire after Sully, not counting the one by the Faithful.
>>337302519
I want a ladder mimic. Make it only accessible from the bottom and it just tosses you off when you're close to the top. The top of the ladder is some ledge with nothing on it, of course, because you have to kill the ladder, which drops the real reward.the real reward is the silvercat ring
It kind of defeats any purpose they might have had other than to be generic enemies you have to fight to get loot.
Also, making the first chest in the game one is dumb. The player should be slowly lulled into a false sense of excitement and security before they eventually get consumed.
>>337302761
because the area after the pontiff isn't a new area, it's just a continuation of Irithyll, with Anor Londo being the new area shortly after.
>>337277028
It's actually a 50/50 chance, I'm sure. They are super common in the Profaned Capital, but that's just thematic.
>>337279347
thats a waste of time, just check for the outward chain takes one glance instead of starring at it for a few seconds
>>337302864
They probably had faith that they had lulled their playerbase into that sense of security with the previous two games, not to mention the fromsoft game right before this, Bloodborne, not having mimics, they thought doing it right away would be cheeky enough to trick even experienced players.
There own message system and obvious mimic tells tripped them up in that regard.
>>337303001
There are two kinds of mimics in the game and one of them uses the same chain model as normal chests.
>>337302864
This is the third game in the trilogy. Besides, lulling you would be expected.
>>337302927
It's not a 50/50 chance. Mimics are always mimics and real chests are always chests.
>>337302026
Curse in ds1 halved your hp
>>337283694
The screaming corpse with the xanthous ashes agrooed all the Jailers in that floor.
>>337303138
I know. This is a thread about Dark Souls 3, however, and curse doesn't do anything besides instantly kill you. The anon I replied to thought that he didn't get penalized because he never leveled up vigor, for some reason.
>>337303059
>>337303117
To be fair, yes, I got eaten by the mimic because I expected to be lulled, so maybe they just did it to troll people like me.
GG, From.
>>337302519
bonfire mimic is too much dude....
It's like that one 'hope' left in pandora's box is actually a man-eating snake woman
>>337303121
What I meant is that there's as much normal chests in the game as mimics, of course the encounters are static. DS2 was worse, to be honest, on top of mimics you had all those cunty booby traps in almost all the chests in the game, they even made some of then destructible which cucked you if an enemy rushed at you when approaching the chest.
>>337282726
>Item ahead and then Ahh, It'll happen to you too...
Tried to warn ya'll
>>337303240
Dark souls 3 is basically made for people who've played the first two. A rare thing in a sequel.
>>337277028
Its because Mimics are born from normal treasure chests that gets corrupted by the Abyss. As time passes, more and more Mimics show up.
DS1 had less, DS2 had more, and now in DS3 most of the treasure chests are Mimics.
>Game with player hint mechanic
>Surprised when they use mimics a lot
>>337277028
literally nobody falls for a mimic twice. making 90% of the chests mimics was just stupid design choice.
>>337303635
Player hints aren't even relevant when you learn at the BEGINNING OF THE GAME to test chests before you try to open them.
Nice fake argument though.
>>337303689
People sprinting through the area getting greedy do
>shit shit shit enemies on my ass gotta get this item
>>337303585
>every retarded design flaw can be explained with headcanon lore
>>337303912
>being retarded on purpose
>>337304171
>on purpose
Well by your logic they should have put one mimic in the entire game, because you "only fall for it once"
But it's very clear that people don't only fall for it once.
>>337290686
Like 90% of those are me
>Get trapped on some wooden post in a small room by three enemies and a dog
>Get trapped in a corner by a huge enemy and a dog
>Get trapped on a narrow walkway with two enemies in front and a dog behind
>Trapped in a corner by three fucking dogs
>>337304305
retards are the exception, not the rule. games shouldn't be designed for idiots.
>>337291664
wowzers
>>337305193
No, they should be designed to punish idiots. Which this game does with gusto.
>>337300350
Put it in a hidden room behind yhorms throne and make it a room like the dragon slayer twins in drangleic and it'd be perfect
>>337305193
Sounds like you were one of those idiots who had trouble with the mimics.
>>337303116
I'm mostly sure that's wrong
The only reason I didn't die to the first mimic in DS3 was because I used the ladder to circle him
>>337281896
Chests only broke in DS2 and only if you hit them with something like a greatsword.
Yet another shit feature by B-Team that didn't make the cut into 3.
>>337283992
Is Profaned Capital the most disappointing zone in the entire game?
>Straight path to the boss OR take a detour to another toxic shithole with nothing in it except Siegward
>>337302439
my luck was only 7 and i had no luck or item discovery items equiped and i got it in my 4th mimic on one character and my 5th mimic on all the other characters i played. never raised luck or used items just killed mimics
>>337302667
Then you missed one faggot.
>>337303585
>normal treasure chests that gets corrupted by the Abyss
No it's not you fucking retard, It's because a bunch of avaricious fucks got cursed to slowly turn into mimics over time. Learn to read item descriptions you headcanon fuck.
