Which one, /v/?
How do blues and blademoons work?
Are the sentinels limited to protect blues while the blades punish the sinners?
Which ones are the murderous reds?
do you even need to ask?
>>332526823
Multiplayer is unneeded and tacked on shit in the Souls games.
>>332527654
I can't imagine the mound makers lasting more than a couple months once people catch on to what they do. I seriously don't understand the point of willingly summoning someone in that covenant unless they're expecting a duel. They can't even enter the boss fog right? Their only objective is kill the player with the added ability to be attacked by mobs? They'll basically be KoS summons.
Unless there's something I'm missing.
>>332527571
Rosaria's Fingers are the Dickwraiths.
>>332527654
Purp Pimps are the worst covenant though
If you join Fingerlings you actually get to try and kill multiple people. With Lean Lords you are out as soon as you kill someone.
>>332526823
Farron of course
>>332527851
Leveling is unneeded and tacked on shit. The game should just be a linear beat em up with shields.
>>332528003
I've seen a webm with a grape jelly phantom in a boss room, so I guess they can enter fog, but if they can seriously only get their covenent item through killing people, then nobody is going to summon them regardless unless they have a gank squad waiting to fuck them in the ass. It doesn't make sense if they can't also get items from killing bosses, to incentivize the unpredictability of 'will they help me with the boss or try and backstab me for a faster item?'
>>332528148
>With shields
Shields are unnecessary, the game should just be Bloodborne.
>>332528243
>the unpredictability of 'will they help me with the boss or try and backstab me for a faster item?'
This was what I was hoping for when I first heard about them. But everything I've seen now indicates they only get their item if the host dies.
>This kills the covenant
I hope I'm wrong though.
>>332528003
From my understanding they can help or kill the host. So if you noticed some scrub barely getting thru you can take pity on him and help him clear the area.
I could see having a lot of fun if there's a catacombs like area in DaS3. Makes me wanna do a patches cosplays and kill people during the boss fight
Grape master race reporting in.
>Sunbros can be summoned to help red phantoms
Why would you choose anything else?
>>332528728
Wait, what?
>watchdogs of farron
forest covenant 2.0?
>>332528861
Unsure exactly how it works since it saw it on a Japanese stream but a sunbro was summoned to pvp on the side of the invader. When they beat the host he got a sunlight medal out of it as well. He even had a reddish tint to the orange glow.
Correct me if I'm wrong
Sunlight: same as DaS and Das2
Blues: same as DaS2
Darkmoon: same as DaS
Rosaria: same as the darkwraiths / covenant of blood
Dogs, Aldrich: same as forest hunters / bell
Mounds: sunlight/rosaria hybrid, can kill everyone
>>332529024
yes, Aldrich Faithful are the same
WoF are for a swamp area
AF are foranal rodeo
dickwraiths.
Always dickwraiths.
>>332529032
I'm pretty sure what you saw was someone who was a sunbro using an invasion item to invade. At least, I know that's a thing. If you invade as a sun bro you look as you described.
>>332526823
Do any of them relate to the Witches of Izalith? If not, probably just Sunlight covenant.
>>332526823
Mound-makers if reds really can summon them.
Forest 2.0 otherwise.
>>332526823
Am I crazy or are there no PVE covenants this time around?
>>332529860
No.
What a shame. I liked the pilgrims of dark.
>>332526823
>Way of the Blue
>Blue Sentinels
>Blades of The Darkmoon
why
>>332530247
Someone has to protect the younglings from edgelords like >>332529507
>>332529351
i am kinda miss the cat... i wonder if he is in the game
>>332526823
>No CE Covenant
lol shit game
>>332530451
>tis my duty to defend the weak so everyone can beat the game!
whatever nigga
>>332530451
but why are they 3 different covenants
>>332526823
>no rat covenant
oh well i ll just go with farron one
>>332530767
Helping people makes people happy.
Mound makers or way of the blue. I wanna get good at pvp and help out people. I figure that's a good way to do it.
>>332531029
shitting on people makes people happy too.We got seperate tastes nigga, you cool by me though. Cause we need each other, you need reds to do the invading, and I like when blues try and defend fags.
Why would I join a covenant?
>tfw ps4
>seriously considering buying nip version
send help
>>332526823
Rosaria fingers or Aldrich Faithful
>all the covenants are pvp based
Great, so the game is forcing you to pvp if you want reward items.
>>332530920
AFAIK the blue sentinels are summoned only when a member of the way of blue is invaded. Meanwhile the blades of the darkmoon invade the worlds of sinners.
They're different on intent and focus.
What's wrong with not having useless covenants ?
>>332528458
>They are only rewarded if Host is killed.
Have we seen anything where a Grape Guy kills a red/blue and gets his reward?
Cause if it's Host only, then it's absolutely fucking awful and nobody except new retards will use it.
>>332526823
I always go Sunlight for multiplayer.
I suck at PvP and just don't find it fun
>>332531386
>sunfags are PvP based now
Fuck, I missed the memo
>>332531386
they might've done something like in ds2 so you can drop spells and shit from covenants on ng+ or higher.
>>332531713
Hope so, I've 100%'d DS1 and DS2 and it would annoy me if I didn't have 100% with DS3
>>332529032
If you use the Red Soapstone as a warrior of sunlight it becomes yellow with a small red tint, so unless you are paying attention you might just be summoning an invader.
Its cool as shit to backstab people like that, although you look golden/red instead of just golden.
>>332529360
Dont they get an ember + refreshed estus if they kill the invader? I know white phantoms do.
>>332531547
It's like a 50/50, maybe less, for killing phantoms, but you always get it if the host dies.
>>332531658
pvp/online interaction
it would be nice if they would have kept a covenant that gets bonus stuff for doing tasks in game instead of forcing people to co-op/pvp
The real issue is that From should've brought Gravelording back. It was such an intriguing feature yet not any people used it.
>>332531950
Then it's fucking useless, Purple fags have no reason NOT to kill the host if they only have a chance at any reward killing a Phantom.
And Hosts who have dealt with even 1 Purple won't ever summon them again.
>>332528559
>From my understanding they can help or kill the host.
Then why do they get absolutely no reward for helping the host defeat the boss, and only a reward for killing him?
>>332532106
pretty much; they need to make it so purples can get a shackle from killing the area boss, so that players have to wonder if the purple guy will help them out or stab them in the back. as it is it's a foregone conclusion, and you even get booted if the host goes into the fog. literally a trick that only works once
>>332532048
because it was NG+ only and rather out of the way to get it anyway.
I don't think people even knew groovelords existed for like a month
Rosaria's Fingers here. Been a red phantom since Dark Souls 1. And besides, being a labeled a sinner is fantastic because then I can kill all the self righteous Dorkmoons that invade me
Anyone know what the obscuring ring does?
>>332532106
Yeah, it's got that "Oh maybe he'll help me kill this red phantom!" element to it, but if that doesn't guarantee the reward like killing the host does, then it's only going to take one instance of that happening to each eggplant before they just start acting like a purple dickwraith. They can also invade normally and fight like that, it's not like they /have/ to be summoned first. Although if they invade normally, then the monsters on the level attack them too, so at that point they may as well just switch to being a regular dickwraith.
What does each covenant do? I hear lean slurpers can attack everything and that's it.
>>332532572
If they're ever "fixed," I'm calling them dankwraiths.
But otherwise, yeah.
>>332532572
They act as normal invaders
Monsters don't attack invading purples
>>332526823
> Blue Sentinels forever cucked again in PvP since no one will sitck to Way of the Blue
It's like they didn't learn jack shit from DaS 2
I don't get the purple covenant.
Why summon someone that might kill you when you could summon sunfags and they're guaranteed to help you?
>>332526823
Darkmoon if I can invade consistently, otherwise rosaria
>>332532368
This. Even though it would inevitably lead to backstabs when the boss is at 1 hp
>>332532515 here
For anyone curious I did some digging and found our the obscuring ring is basically the thief ring from demons souls. People are saying it makes you invisible to other players when you are distant
