>/dsg/ Player List
http://pastebin.com/9hG50KHX
>/dsg/ Steam Group
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DarkSoulsGeneral
>Draw
http://doodleordie.com/r/darksouls
http://imgur.com/a/XhBxC (DeS)
http://imgur.com/a/wwtuf (DaS2)
http://flockmod.com/dsg
>KING'S FIELD
http://pastebin.com/G8zw0sc3
>DEMON'S SOULS
http://pastebin.com/RjpF5s7a
>DARK SOULS
http://pastebin.com/h1etMh8E
>Essential PC mods
http://pastebin.com/XwL5KDhB
>DARK SOULS 2
http://pastebin.com/CAx8Yc8v
>BLOODBORNE
http://pastebin.com/WdLBWD8n
>DARK SOULS 3
http://pastebin.com/RDDaqtcP
>System requirements
http://gamegpu.com/images/stories/Test_GPU/MMO/DARK_SOULS_III/test/ds3_1920.jpg
http://gamegpu.com/images/stories/Test_GPU/MMO/DARK_SOULS_III/test/ds3_proz.jpg
>Character planner and science
https://sites.google.com/site/darksouls3stats/home
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_JoBtL4BafHEYXeE0z13gdO7DNCuvzs9aKMgcSHayHY
https://battlecalculator.com/dark-souls-3-class-selector/
Hollowed: >>138282575
Why are 1-hand axes always so fucking SHIT? Fuck From and their sword favoritism, they make longswords deal more damage at twice the attack speed with a better moveset as well. The ONLY decent axe in the entire series is the Butcher's Knife
>>138284010
lol nope
ds2 will always have the best pvp in the series :)
Did you guys buy the deluxe edition or regular on steam? I don't know what to do...
What are the best weapons to plan on using?
so now that the dust has settled... it's worse than ds2, isn't it? :-/
Are there any Amazing Chests Ahead in DaS3?
>>138302216
Yes bloodborne will remain best souls game
Ashen One is the best protagonist
>wakes up to kill the lords and link the fire
>fuckyou.jpg
>turns the First Flame into pure darkness
>rules the world forever while having threesomes with Anri and twin Yurias
>>138302159
>DaS2
>Best anything
>Not a shit-stain on the franchise
How does the Corvian Scythe scale? I'm gonna take Mercenary as my starting then DEX/STR/END 40-40-40 for a scythe/small shield build
>>138302216
DaS2 is the worst in the series. I wasn't really worried after I played BB and knew DaS3 would use its engine. BB feels so damn good to play.
Shitposting reached epic proportions.
>>138302216
>>138302287
this tbqh famlams
what went wrong ? ;^((
>>138302048
What's the point in adding more stuff to the areas if it's just for lighting testing then? But yeah, I guess in the end you're right.
Oh, and they also never bothered to explain pilgrim butterflies or why Pontiff has wings just like them.
>>138302287That's an odd way to spell Dark Souls
>>138302087
Also adding on to this how much new magic did they add?
For Armour sets also are agic users just as fucked over as any other souls game. at least early on.. did they keep cruses from 2.
Why people are saying mage characters got rekt? Magic got nerfed to oblivion or something?
What the fuck happened to the general in a day?
>>138301873
seethe the scaleless
>last dragon ever
kalmeet
>last dragon ever
DS1 dragon covenant dragon
>last dragon ever
when will we actually kill the last dragon and get this shit over with, the least they could do is stop saying that every dragon is the last of the ancient dragons
I wont' be able to play the game 3 days after it's released. How much am I missing? I'm only angry because the waste of organic material that is DSP gets to play it now..
>>138302409
iirc it has like the best focused scaling of any weapon. like any path you put it down turns into S scaling. i dont think it would be good for a quality build. idk why the wiki doesnt have any stats on it yet
>there are people ITT who, RIGHT NOW, chose the Usurpation ending
hahahaha how does it feel to be a Serpent's filthy pawn AGAIN, for the 2nd time??? Fucking over your own people for delusions of power??? Dumb fucking edgelords
>>138302519
Magic users are even more fucked for armor than they have ever been in any previous title.
There is no armor or helmets with special effects. None increase your magic damage, or give you slots, or anything. You are just fucked.
>>138302421
I beat das2 with expansion in 60 hours and it was utterly awful. Also FUCK that lava place with those shitty ass fast samurai knights. That can go to hell. That wasn't even hard or fun, just plain shitty gimping with enemies everywhere and small areas.
>>138302661
There's the dusk crown for sorcery-boosting helmets.
>>138302645
Lol Frampt u mad
Man, Irithyll Dungeon is literally Tower of Latria 2.0. From really outdid themselves with the amount of rehash in this game.
>>138302683
>enemies everywhere and small areas
ie. every game in the series
>>138302645
Humanity can't get more fucked over than it already is. The only truly good ending to Dark Souls would be to go back in time and stop Gwyn from Linking the Fire to begin with and let the natural order of things happen.
>>138302563
i dont think its ever >implied that Seath and Kalameet are the last dragons that exist, they're just some of the last. the everlasting dragon is different because hes one of the primordial dragons that Seath and the Lords supposedly wiped out
I have tons left to do in DaSII, but I no longer want to gather any souls with my character since I perfected my build.
Yet I feel like I am not enjoying the game much anymore now that I am just running around with the agape ring and never level up anything anymore.
Have anyone else ran into this?
Not wanting any more souls anymore due to matchmaking yet not finding much enjoyment out of the game anymore due to no longer gaining any souls?
In the previous Souls games you could always spend souls on other things, like gear or items and just choose not to level up after you've hit your desired sweet spot. I feel like that freedom did a lot for late game play.
But now with DaSII where I am forced to run around with the agape ring, I just feel like my enjoyment took a steep dive.
Fucking Soul Memory. It's worse than I imagined. I thought the ring would solve most of the issues, but it's still real bad.
>>138302809
that would just mean that humanity would be as fucked as it is in DaS3 earlier. that's not a good end, that's just making the bad end come sooner
>>138302645
>your own people
are we talking about youtube followers or...
the cycle has to continue somehow freind, im just wondering how they'll keep their tried and true "king of kingdom seeks power, fucks his kindgom for ultimate power" spiel fresh for more games
>>138302809
Hey, Aldia.
>>138302757
So one of the best areas in the franchise?Cool
>>138302519
>how much new magic did they add?
A decent amount. Shame not all of it is useless.
My favourite addition is farron flashsword, by far. Long have I waited for a viable melee option for casters complete with running and rolling attacks, but alas, it deals fuck all in terms of damage.
>did they keep cruses from 2.
Yes and no.
They went back to dark sorcery/miracle/pyro concept, but some of DaS2 hexes have returned and re-classified.
>>138302739
I sure as fuck wish it was not.
Looks so horrible
>>138302661
Wait fucking really? Are there like 3 fucking magic sets this time? let me guess for the first 30 hours you are using the same shit? then you get one rod and thats it?
fuck that im not going pure mage again like I did in 2, 90% of the content I couldn't even use.
Why does miyazaki hate magic so much if he adds it in. never got that. It cant be that hard to make some cool armour sets for a mage.
Remember when some reddit fag mistranslated prerequisites for being invaded and this general went into maximum autism mode for several hours? Good times.
>>138302563
Seath not actually the dragon
Kalllamet not actually the dragon
Only dragon covenant boss is the dragon
Reminder how DSP destroyed Pontiff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44D6KbzjV8A&t=818
>>138302747
at least I'm not some dumb fucker who's pretending that "Lord of Hollows" means anything more than "Lord of Decay." Have fun ruling over a population of backstabbing murderering Darkwraiths and mindless hollows. Sounds fun. Oh, and btw, you're ALL destined to join the mindless one day. I'm sure that Kaathe will be having fun laughing at your shuffling, drooling remnants as he marvels at how he got you all to volunteer for such a state of being
>>138302927
>dusk crown
>Looks horrible
You a gay or something?
>>138302927
Well thats cool but how many sets for magic users are there? And are most boss soul weapons str/dex only weapons again? Im not doing this pure magic build again, not after 2. It wasn't fun in single player and there was no content.
>>138302938
>like 3
Not even. You get a hat from crystal sages and the dusk set from DS1 again.
>>138302809
Humanity hollowing out in the Darkness IS the natural order of things, stopping Gwyn wouldn't change that
>>138302683
what made it even worse was for PC players. since durability was tied to the fps and also certain enemies moves were as well it was all fucked up.
>>138303089
infinite stamina enemies are dumb
>>138303165
>nekomimi made of feathers
>when there is stuff like crystal sage's hat in the game
You sound like a feeble mahou shoujo tbqh.
>>138303327
>were
Their animations are still tied to fps.
>>138303220
Wait so you don't even get a fucking full set, what out of 100 sets, how many are in the actual game. theres 45 new ones right adding onto what though?
>>138303107
Do we even know if that's how it works? Or is this just more Gwynfag projecting?
>>138303327
Vital mechanics have been tied to framerate in all the games, you just didn't notice in DaS1 because weapons were unbreakable
>>138302757
>arrive at Irithyll Dungeon
>first cell to the left
>pick up item
>heart attack ensues
fuck you from
>>138303452
damn it never got fixed? So those samurai fucks still have those instant start up slices? Sorry
>>138303486
did you learn nothing from New Londo?
>>138303327
>>138303452
Are the naked ratbearthings in the gutter less broken on the console version? Their damage comes out before the animation does on PC for one attack.
>>138303206
As far as I know, only crown of dusk boosts magic.
There are also 3 magic boosting rings, but that's it.
>And are most boss soul weapons str/dex only weapons again?
For the most part, yes.
>>138303615
Yep not playing pure magic, fuck that.
I think I remember there was some crazy thief mage class with magic machine gun bullets though. that a good class?
>>138303539
wait those samurai fucks are in ds3.... fuck.
Where is the stone asylum demon? Thought it was in undead settlement
It baffles me that so many people care about PVP in the Souls games when PVP has always been shit. It was bad in Demon's Souls and it's still bad now.
>>138302645
What choice do we have?
Dark Souls
>Kill yourself to make the shitty awful world be a shitty awful world for a bit longer
>Accept the inevitable and see what happens YOLO humans 4 lyfe
Dark Souls 2
>Think about killing yourself to make the shitty awful world be a shitty awful world for a bit longer
>Think about accepting the inevitable and seeing what happens YOLO humans 4 lyfe
>Fuck off after realising that neither option makes a bit of difference because Dark Souls 2 was written by hack writers
Dark Souls 3
>Try to kill yourself to make the shitty awful world be a shitty awful world for a bit longer and fail at it
>Accept the inevitable anyway even though you know thanks to Dark Souls 2's shit story that it just means that the shit world will continue being shit anyway because cycles
>The same as above but edgier
or
>Doing the one thing that might actually make a fucking bit of difference for once in this shitty dying world.
>>138303539
Yup seems that way!
>>138303476
The numbers from that original leak aren't legit, there's around 70 sets (including individual pieces with no set) in the game, of those around 30 are entirely new. There's still a lot, it's just that a fuckload of them are just from past games.
>>138304005
I enjoy it mostly as a side-thing to do while going through the game (just using whatever cracked reds I come across) and for some themed invasions.
>>138302409
Stop posting the same fucking webm each thread
go fucking kill yourself niggerfaggot
>>138302683
>That wasn't even hard or fun, just plain shitty gimping with enemies everywhere and small areas.
It makes me hard to know that you will hate DaS3. This is fantastic.
OFFICIAL DARK SOULS 3 TIER LIST
>FUCKING INVINCIBLE Tier
Havestoc
>R1 Spamming Tier
Darksword
>High Tier
Straight Swords
>Meh Tier
Katanas
Spears
Ultra Weapons
>Shit Tier
Everything else
>LMAO GET REKT Tier
Sorcery
Pyromancy
Miracles
>>138304126
but all the old ones are remade with the new engine to look better right?
Also is there really 100 new weapons out of 200?
>>138303256
Stopping Gwyn would stop millennia of awfulness from being dragged out and stop the nature of man from becoming perverted and tied to the flame stop undead from existing and let us move on to inherit our birthright and become cool dark creatures.
>>138304032
the world isn't awful when the flame is strong, it's only when it begins dying that everything turns to shit
>>138304268
Isn't pyromancy supposedly okay?
hi firends :)
im new to souls games and i bought ds3 yesterday
i have a question
whats the point of joining a covenant?
i equiped the solaire one i think but it doecnt do anything it seems
>>138304032
In DaS2 you either take the throne or you don't, there's not even implied that linking the fire is an option. Stop making stuff up.
>>138303597
Equally broken on PS3 and PS4
Just bought the torch on my 2nd playthrough.
There are no dynamic shadows when using it.
(DasIII btw)
Even DaS II had that.
>>138304217
Stop me fag
>>138302384
>dat "DaS2 was bad even though I played it 1200 hours" meme tho
Why do UGS do more riposte damage than daggers? That doesnt fucking make any sense, what are daggers good for then?
>>138304301
why don't they just blow air on it?
>>138304461
just get a trip if youre gonna avatarfag with a webm then
cancer incarnate
Are there any areas in Dark Souls II as miserable as Blighttown/Tomb of the Giants/New Londo?
>>138304550
Nope. stay mad
>>138304297
>all of these retarded darkfag lies
AYO HOL UP
*drinks estus*
SO YOU BE SAYIN
*pops humanity*
YOU BE SAYIN THAT
*pops Red Eye Orb*
WE
*invades first-time player in the burg*
WUZ
*munches green blossom*
LORDS
*pulls out ascended flame +5*
AND
*instakills the host with a single cast of black flame*
SHIT
*gestures look skyward*
>>138304408
Did you not play it?
>Proceed to the Thone
>In this ending, the Bearer of the Curse will accept their part in the cycle of the world, and take the throne. Doing so means that they will either sacrifice themselves to link the flame, or allow the flame to continue fading and become the Dark Lord. Which the Bearer of the Curse chooses is known only to them.
>>138304537
>what are daggers good for then?
you can hold them with your weak strenghtless arms
>>138304550
Just filter the webm.
>>138304638
Stretch marks
>>138304537
>why does a powerful as fuck weapon bashing someone's face in do more damage than a fucking pointy stick
gee idk anon
>>138302409
scythes will and always be shit
and look like shit
>MFW the Eleonora is ass but I love the entire idea of the weapon.
>>138304005
>PVP in the Souls games when PVP has always been shit.
That's completely not true. And okay. I will tell you.
PVE in single player game. What do you want to discuss? How to beat boss? All bosses are same on NG+320. All enemies are same on NG+320. You don't need any new tactic/builds etc. This is not MMO. You can beat game naked at any NG+320
I hope I don't buy this and then rage quit and not play it for another 3 months and then rage quit, then beat it a year later.
how bullshit is this game compared to 2, or does it at least not have as much spam enemies everywhere .
>>138303016
>Kalllamet not actually the dragon
So do I just need to get the Dark Sword and then I'm fine for the rest of the game?
>>138304741
but arent daggers supposed to do massive crit damage to make up for their weak range and base damage?
>>138304279
They do look a bit better, yeah, but there's no huge difference. Maybe Xanthous counts, though they made the hood shorter
I can't really give you a great estimate on weapons other than that there's way fewer than 100 new ones. You might get close to it while counting the ones that have the same movesets as existing weapons in the game, but in terms of actually completely new weapons there's something like under 40, with most of them being boss weapons. I found like 10 on my first playthrough and didn't even use any of them. The nips meanwhile counted 26 in total, but that was before people knew about combining the lothric prince swords so it might've gone up a bit from there.
>>138304439
you playing on console or pc?
even with the orange charred ring
do you think I could make this
>>138305060
>combining the lothric prince swords
Wut?
>>138304686
I did and don't quote lines from wiki on me. No one in game said Throne of Want will let you to link the flame.
>>138304816
>Dark souls 2
>Not the easiest in the series
>>138305159
Can't you just pop a humanity or something?
>>138305159
Do you have any humanities?
>>138305159
Flip over it if you have the flippy ring.
>>138304297
Gwyn didn't link the Fire to humanity you stupid fucker, he burned his own soul, not the Dark Soul.
the Flame is linked to whoever's soul is currently burning in it.
>inherit our birthright and become cool dark creatures
yeah sure, I bet you think that turning into a Beast in BB is a sweet deal, too
>>138305258
no I want to see if I could make it, i have lots of humanity on me but I still want to wing it
im sorry guys im gonna wing it
>>138305110
Sorry. Console. Xbone specifically. The game has dynamic shadows though. Just none from the torch in indoor areas where there's no natural light. Are there torch shadows on pc?
>>138305348
madman
>>138305190
you can make the Twin Princes Greatsword on NG+ by making both weapons from the soul and then fusing them like the northern regalia. The main feature of it is having the WAs from both weapons, neither of which are spectacular to begin with.
>>138305348
rip anon
>>138305228
You should probably play the game before trying to talk about it.
https://youtu.be/7Qufor8fqJY?t=3m50s
The take the throne ending is literally "Link the Fire or don't, your choice m8".
Butcher knife enemy in road of sacrifices ran off the cliff, can I drop down and get the weapon?
>>138305439
>>138305406
>>138305286
>>138305258
>>138305219
BOW DOWN TO GREATNESS
just jumped, no flippy ring in my inv.
is there a video comparing sage's ring vs sage's ring +2?
>>138305614
hp check
>>138305583
quit out, the gear will show up where he spawns normally
>>138304301
I don't know that I agree. I mean firstly as a largely middle ages europe based fantasy world standards of living are basically shit, but more importantly as long as the Age of Fire continues man will forever be pawns, slaves, cattle and playthings to Lords, Gods, Demons, Dragons and whatever else rears it's ugly head and decides to ruin our day.
Mankind will NEVER inherit the world while the Age of Fire continues.
is refined 25/25 > heavy 40/12 ?
THERE IS SOMETHING I MUST KNOW
Does the spear in DaS3 have a moveset more similar to the DaS1 moveset, or the DaS2 moveset? Basically I need to know if it has sweeping and spinning attacks like in DaS2, because if it doesn't then I won't be picking Herald as my first class.
>>138305672
Can someone explain staffs to me? How come when I upgrade it nothing changes? Soul arrows do the same damage even when I raise INT
Are the NPC invaders in DaS3 as good as NPC hunters in BB?
BB was far down on the list of good souls games sure, but it had the most human-feeling battles with NPCs
>>138305960
>not 1 hp
GET
OUT
>>138305835
define "inheriting"
in DaS1 and DaS3, the only things that we know about the Age of Dark is that it sucks dick. Everyone hollows out, and the world essentially dies.
>>138305969
mag adjust is fucked on all but one staff in the game, switch to pyromancies if you want to have fun with spells before being in NG+
>>138305916
Whats stops you from quitting if the spear isn't satisfactory?
>>138306042
you didn't have to add that second part to the question dude. And yeah npcs are like fighting humans in DaS3 pretty much. it's awesome.
FUCK
Friendly remindee that pcucks are cancer that need to be removed from /dsg/
http://strawpoll.me/7283428/
http://strawpoll.me/7283428/
>pcucks spam the thread with their shitty specs when theyre too fucking retarded to read the required specs put out by scamco and compare
>pcucks are going to flood /dsg/ on official western launch day posts bitching about not being able to play due to steam's drm and dead servers
>pcucks are going to spam "how do i run?", "how do i attack?" and other baby spoonfeeding shit before they even load the main menu
>spam of ugly as fuck pcuck waifu avatars that proves pcucks have never seen a real woman at all, just their moeblob shits
>spam of pcucks crying about the game constantly crashing and/or ugly as fuck screencaps with jagged edges and textures thinking it looks good
stop it now before its too late
>>138306089
Was this intentional or just a bug?
>>138305960
GET THAT ASS BANNED
>>138305681
thanks, got it
>>138303396
You're pretty fucking bad at being a piece of shit.
Fixed:
http://mmdks.com/8588
>>138304268
Whats so good about Havestoc?
>>138306196
It's really only Hodrick that behaves like a person. Most of the npcs in the game will just heal right in front of you, Hodrick meanwhile is a parry machine.
>>138306257
we really have no fucking clue atm, pyros behaving as normal while spells and miracles being so incredibly different makes it seem like it's a bug
>>138306194
Well yeah, you have a point, but it would be nice to know before so I don't have to waste any time. I was just curious really.
>>138306234
(you)
>>138306042
no BB npcs were much harder to deal with
i think i only died once to a npc and it was the FUGS one that 1 shot me, he's actually the easiest NPC to deal with because you can just lure him into the lava to suicide lel
>>138304957
A moderately good weapon can take you through any game
To anyone who's played the jap version. Which scales the highest with int/faith, chaos infusion or flame arc?
>>138303521
No one noticed because the game is locked at 30 fps by default.
>>138306459
he's not wrong
>>138306234
Dont forget them nuking PS4 posters with their MUH 4K 120 FPS SILKY SMOOTH PLAY
What is "The Dark Lord" specifically? What does he do? Is he just a king who didn't link the fire or something more similar to the Four Kings? Is anything said about is actions once he takes this title?
>>138305232
it was, but i guess to try and make up for it they put a lot of bullshit that's unavoidable unless you knew about it previously in a desperate attempt to kill you
>haha sure got you with that gank squad of mobs hiding behind a wall! i'm such a hard game, right? right?
>>138305159
What HUD mod is this? Looks nice.
Should I play DaS or DaS2 tonight?
Only completed DaS once, my PC save I've just beaten Biggs and Wedge
DaS2 beaten twice but not tried the DLC, Deprived so I could respec and try DEX for the first time
>>138302019
Axes in 2 were insanely good though.
>>138306651
DaS
>>138306086
Not really, in Dark Souls 1 we knew literally nothing about the Age of Dark, not a damn thing.
In Dark Souls 2 we didn't learn anything more about it at all beyond that it's actually impossible because cycles force the Age of Fire to continue regardless.
In Dark Souls 3 I'm mostly working off second hand information so I don't want to speak authoritatively on it but we still haven't really learned much about it as far as I have seen. The main bit of information that's relevant is that humanity can actually thrive in darkness due to the Lord of Hollows ending.
>>138306608
you don't link the fire and just hang out in the Age of Dark, I guess
>>138306348
>11 Att
>Shit poise break, low def armour setup
>Trading with a chaos falchion
>Flip for no reason whatsoever
Jesus Christ
>>138306608
The Lord of Light has the Lord Soul of light
The Graelord has the Lord soul of death
And so on and so forth
What do you think the Dark Lord has?
>>138306196I wanted to trigger people who don't own both ps4 and PC
Is it just my imagination, or has the combat gotten MUCH faster-paced in DaS3 compared to 2?
>>138306392
Greatshields are basically impossible to guard break unless the play using them stands completely still and lets you kick them repeatedly. You can't even inflict bleed or other status effects through them, except for a few buffs like the sudoku weapon art on that one katana. Havel's shield in particular has the best elemental resists, so you take minimal chip damage and a sun princess ring should be enough to heal right through it.
Estoc is very fast, has great range, and minimal recovery. It's fast enough that you cannot setup parry it, you have to blind parry. It's reach helps it punish people at the end of rolls, keep the pressure on from a distance, or stun them as they approach.
Havestoc just combines both these great weapons into a single build. You could use either on it's own and it would still be good, but combined together they're nigh unbeatable.
Yo, anyone have that old ds1 video on the forest with two people wearing the Jeremiah set right next to the little pond thing, they were doing the salute gesture and looking weird
I still can't remember how it was called
>>138306649
just one I made myself by patching together elements I like from other HUD mods and changing em slightly in gimp
it isnt done yet. the main thing I wanted was thinner health bars but the health bars aint perfect just yet.
I want to change the squares on the weapon indicators so the weapon icon isnt suddenly cut off. I think ill make it shorter at the bottom.
>>138307032
It's just you
>>138307029
my bad. carry on
>>138306596
literally no pcuck here can run the game at CONSTANT 60fps 4k, let alone run the game at all. i dont get why they brag about scamco's lies when they cant do it themselves
>>138307157
OUT
FUCKING
SKILLED
>>138307067
>kick
Wait, the dedicated guard-break move we had in 2 is gone? What was so hard about dropping your guard or rolling when you see the wind-up? Now how will we punish bads for being bad turtles?
Are you fucking kidding me?!
>>138307157
>>138306608
We really don't have much context for what the dark lord actually does besides preventing the gods from controlling the world in that particular cycle. DS3 makes it sound like you preside over the chaos in the world until someone that can kill you comes along.
>>138306348
>>138306871
It was a hasty improvement on a shit build.
Fixed again:
http://mmdks.com/8589
>>138306816
In DaS1 we did indeed know about the Age of Dark. The Darkwraiths were explicitly stated as being the group of people who were most "in touch" with their inner humanity than any other. People who embrace their Humanity and all that it represents turn out like them. If you want to know what a society in a Humanity-ruled world would look like, look to them. It's not great.
In DaS3, they call you a Lord of Hollows, but consider everything that we know about hollows in this series. An Undead hollows, and eventually loses his mind -- literally 0 undead are exempt from this, except maybe the DaS2 protag. As all of the games so far insist on mentioning, it is impossible to hold together any semblance of civilization when waves of medieval, immortal zombies start running around. DaS3 doesn't make any attempt to retcon these traits.
Ignoring for the moment the questions that surround whether the Abyss is a "true" preview of the world in the Age of Dark, we can confidently say what the denizens therein would do:
A mad scramble, with everyone wantonly murdering each other for scraps of humanity, like the Darkwraiths in New Londo. Picture a world of STR, but without the bullshit romanticizing that SMTfags associate with it. It lasts for a time, and those who can't keep up hollow out. A grand pyramid scheme of humanity theft, propped up by hollows. Eventually only a few individuals would be left, ala the 4kings, but these two would hollow eventually, just like ALL Undead one day will.
Your Lord of Hollows would be the last man on the pile before succumbing.
>>138307297
IT KEEPS HAPPENING!
>still don't have my key from gmg
>>138305232
I said it was fucking annoying and a dick of a game, not hard or smart.
I hope miyazaki being on this one didnt make it like that.
>>138304638
Shrine of amana is annoying,
>>138307032
Of course it has. DaS2 was the slowest and clunkiest game in the series after all.
DaS3 has gone back to DeS levels of speed.
>Gertrude establishes the angelic faith of Lothric, where the serpents are the angels
So will Gertrude be a boss in the eventual Londor DLC?
DAS3 darkmoon, how the heck do you get the covenant to trigger an "invasion"?
i've been standing in extremely high trafic areas since SL 70 to SL 120 and it's only popped twice, and i'm giving each region a good five or ten minutes to ping me into someone's world
literally why the fuck is there no blue orb reeee
>>138307579
the way he stands up in the air and then falls as he looks down is some Looney Tunes shit haha
>>138307584
You will get it 12-24 hours before release
>>138307070
P-pls respond
My biggest problem with Dark Souls 2's storyline was that it ended being about trying to find a "third way" when we hadn't even really tried the second way. They just said that the Age of Fire continues anyway so we need to do something else to break the cycle.
Basically the reveal in DS2 was that the Age of Dark doesn't really exist because the Age of Fire will continue. Putting the Fire out literally isn't an option so we need to find something else.
So really DS1 only had one ending and the whole "Age of Dark" and "Dark Lord" thing was just nonsense because the Fire would continue because cycles.
>>138305352
It must have a lot more features on pc, the xboxone though.. they might of had to cut a lot out. not to be mean but that things worse than a snes spec wise. snes games had the fx chip at least.
>>138307329
>Now how will we punish bads for being bad turtles?
You may be able to punish bads with specific weapons like shotels or the katana with the bleed buff that I mentioned.
With good players, it's basically impossible though.
>really want to play Bloodborne
>dont want a PS4
>it will never come out on PC
>the balance of DS3 is shit, Havel Estoc is better than everything, unlike Bloodborne where there are ~20 viable weapons
suffering
>>138307584
If you buy through steam so you can preload, can you just back up the preload files and then get a refund?
Then you're all set for when you get a gmg key
>Everyone is jumping on the "Dark Souls 2 was so shit lel" bandwagon
>Most of you have probably been playing it nonstop for the last two years
>>138304545
Linking the flame is exactly that m8.
Haven't been paying much attention to the conversation til now, but why are people saying magic is shit in DS3? Is the scaling bad?
Even so I'm interested in making a spellsword build for this game. What is the best way to do that? What better complements magic in Dark Souls 3, STR or DEX weapons?
>>138307823
dark souls 2 throughout the time I played it (the expansion) made no fucking sense. there was no lore backing it and the whole game had no story or something pushing you forward. dark souls 2 had characters telling you what was going on at certain parts and I hope dark souls 3 is like that and not empty with no actual characters.
>>138307924
nah I went back to DeS and DaS1 occasionally and mainly played Bloodborne or MGSV.
>>138307924
Because the actual sentiment is that it's not a bad game in itself but a bad DS.
Ignore the inevitable edgelord that is gonna reply to this with "nah it was shit".
>>138307849
Right now it's not worth it, I was given a ps4 at launch and BB is the only thing really worth having, and that's not enough to buy a console for, later this year when some exclusives come it might be worth it, but I'd wait
>>138307924
not even 2 hours
>>138308040
fuck I mean just dark souls 1.
>>138307849
I have BB but nice try, nobody is taking it.
>>138307924
>dark souls 2 was shit
>ps4 had glorious Bloodborne to save them from dark souls 2
>pcucks had nothing else and will never ever get bloodborne so they defend dark souls 2
kek
>>138308165
>sotfs
my play time of that is low as well. I put 900 hours into vanilla DS2 though.
>>138307823
It's not nonsense, if someone chooses to become the dark lord they have an age of dark for a time before someone eventually linked the fire again in a cycle further down the line. The whole point is that no matter what your choice was it didn't really matter because there would always be some force opposing your decision that would fuck you over down the line.
>>138308216
You can go back to /v/ now
Is luck actually going to be useful in Dark Souls 3?
Just met Yoel in DS3. He asked me to kill him, so did I...
Seems like I have fucked up.
There is no way to resurrect NPC in DS3 ?
>>138307554
Age of Dark and the Abyss are totally different things.
Hollowing is something that only started happening because of the Undead Curse, and the Undead Curse only started happening because Gwyn Linked the Fire and fucked up humans. If Gwyn hadn't intervened and fucked things up hollowing and the undead wouldn't be a thing.
The Abyss and Hollows are actually completely unrelated to the Age of Dark as it was meant to be. The Age of Dark was just the next state of the world and we'll never known was it was meant to be like beyond a place where humanity thrived.
The only thing we know for sure about the Age of Dark is that Humans thrive in it.
Can anyone give me a hand with the ivory king? I managed to solo the whole game, even beat the 2 cats solo but the ivory gank squad is wrecking my shit and i'm mad about it.
SM 2mil PC Scholar
>>138308006
>why are people saying magic is shit in DS3
magic in DS3 is entirely scaled around item bonuses and ridiculously high int scaling on catalysts
at 66 int with logans catalyst, both sorc boost rings, sorc boost hat and sorc boost offhand, you're soul spearing for 1100 on average and soul lasering (the fucking kamehameha beam) for over 2k on most enemies
earlygame magic is shit
miracle damage is shit on everything but WOG and they have no boosts other than rings, miracle buffs are pretty fucken strong though
>>138308364
I don't have the vanilla game.
>>138308396
hahahaha
>>138308417
nope. no pussy shit like in DaS2 where killing had no real consequence. FUCK DARK SOULS 2!!!!
>>138308396
It's as useful as it was is DeS.
>>138308379
you can go back to >>>/r/eddit now kiddo
>>138308531
R u kidding me?
You have 3 knights, he's literally the easiest dlc boss
It isn't a cycle, it just looks like one and we're just told it is one.
Natural order is darkness, everything was fucking fine then.
Along comes this fire and starts burning away the dark, it didn't just light it up, it burns the darkness, the very stuff of existence.
What's left behind after that burning? Void.
Who is invested in expanding the void? Think.
Every time we are coerced into keeping the flame lit the fire burns more, the void spreads.
There is no cycle, it's a plan. The flame is a tool and we got fucking played hard.
We were never meant to live, we were never meant to be anything more and we'll never rest until the flame is gone for good.
It has never been Dark against Light, the darkness is nothing to fear. The fight is Darkness against Void.
>>138308456
>hollowing is something that only happened because Gwyn fucked up humans by linking the fire
stop spreading this retarded meme. literally nowhere does it EVER say this is true, or even imply it.
>unironically believing Kaathe's lies
fucking epic m8
>>138308531
i feel for you anon. BIK is terrible
>>138308396
On any normal build, absolutely not.
You can make a Luck focused build, but it's only good with a few weapons like the BBS was in DeS.
>>138308456
>this anon again
There were hollows before Gwyn linked the fire, he was still around when New Londo was built.
>going to fight O&S
>finally find a phantom to summon
>he kills those silver knights, backstabs and parries all over the place
>get to the big hall room
>instead of running around to the other side where the archer is, he takes to first staircase down and runs to the fog gate
>im like well fuck, guess i have to go that way too
>he already triggered aggro from the giant knights so when i try to run by they slam me
>die before i even make it to the boss
> he gets vanquished
any other shitter stories?
>>138308531
Give me a few minutes, but sure. Which god? I'll come leave my sign at the bottom of the stairs ~5 minutes from now.
>>138307734
guys
darkmoon invasions
how the fuck do you get that shit it's impossible
>>138307070
The Tribe I think
>>138308704
Darkness is the Void, idiot.
In the absence of anything, including light, there is total darkness.
Darkness, by definition, isn't a thing, it's the absence of another thing.
>>138307341
>buying physical copies of software
>IN THE CURRENT YEAR
Are you kidding me?!
>>138308754
You have to fucking summon AND you died.
You're the shitter.
What kind if moron does a lap just to kill the silver knight when you could leg it to the fog gate?
does anyone have a weapon tier list for ds2? im playing through it again for the first time since it came out, this time playing scholar of the first sin and it feels like the black knight great axe im using is just the absolute worst weapon in the game and doesnt do any fucking damage
>>138308847
No, the darkness and the void are very much so two different things.
how would low level twinking for undead settlement look like? SL 20~25, unupgraded weapons ?
>>138308378
Which totally contradicts the previous game. Bravo B-Team.
>One day the flames will fade, and only darkness will remain...for a time. But then some dude will come along and the flames will come back for a bit. Eventually they might go out again but someone will just come relight it. Basically the flames will never fade and the Age of Fire will continue forever, but at some point this crazy firey tree guy will convince some dude to go party with him and who knows what they'll get up to!
Fuck Dark Souls 2.
>>138308816
had to go buy the ring, nehma i guess. thanks
>>138308994
i was scared, felt like the long way around was safer
covenants broken
magic broken
miracles broken
what else is broken?
>>138309015
r u fukin retarded m8?
How to make dark souls 2 a great game.
> take away the title Dark souls
Y'all stupid fuckin Internet autist are weird
>>138307690
DaS2 was clunky, but not the slowest. DaS was.
DaS3 is way faster than DeS and closer to BB.
Have you even played the games?
>>138309157
Yes and even I, a retard, can see that they are two separate things.
Was it all too subtle for you to understand?
NOTHING exists in the void.
The dark was a world of its own.
So Dark Souls 2 introduced the cycle concept. Why are there cycles? For what reason are they caused other than "they just are"?
>>138309020
>twinking
>unupgraded weapons
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
>twinking
>DaS3
It's basically impossible now that there are restrictions on weapon upgrades.
This would be a great thing if it wasn't for the fact that 99% of invasions are people with 2 or 3 phantoms, so you're just going to get gang-banged anywhere outside of covenant areas.
>>138309058
>Which totally contradicts the previous game.
Cycles are part of the lore now.
Deal with it.
>>138309097
nah m8 your summon the right idea. you can just run past the sentinels every time, most of the time they wont even get close enough to attack you but if they do they have the most telegraphed moveset in the game its an easy dodge
Why does Eleum Loyce have golems? I thought Vendrick created golems.
Currently farming 30 covenant items for the darkmoon blades off of silver k***hts in anal rodeo. Sadly I get never called as a blue bro at SL 105. Doesn't matter which area, so I have to farm them off PVE enemies. Shit's going very fucking slow. Spent two evenings, got to 15/30 items. I'm gonna continue until I get 30 for sure, but I'm contemplating on not cashing them in, but use a friend to mule them over to my future western release character. Is this awesome y/n or should I just cash them in on my nippon character to get the "obtain all miracles" trophy earlier?
>>138309058
That's not contradicting DS1, that's adding an SMT alignment system to the lore and doing a horrible job of implementing it.
>>138309179
Also completely rework the level design, redesign over half of the bosses, completely overhaul the graphics, rewrite the entire thing, fix the awful controls and floaty combat and remove soul memory.
>>138309150
>covenants broken
u wot m8
All the covenants I've joined seem to work fine.
It's a cycle because idiots like us keep it going.
>>138309564
All three of the Blue Covenants are busted.
>>138309375
>So Dark Souls 2 introduced the cycle concept
nah. It's been around since DeS
>>138309426
Vendrick also granted the Ivory King the land to build Eleum Loyce, they were his vassals. He probably gave them as security
>>138309383
I'll be using chaos fireballz and other late game spells aswell as weapons not available by the time one normally arrives in undead settlement. It's very much still twinking and not having an overly OP weapon that one shots noobs is gonna be a nice change
>>138309703
You know what I meant.
>>138309449
If there was one thing that was true and reinforced repeatedly in Dark Souls 1's plot it was that one day the flame would in fact go out. That's among the first things you're told when starting the game and is reiterated on.
Dark Souls 2 pretty plainly contradicts that. Fortunately it sounds like Dark Souls 3 largely ignores everything from Dark Souls 2.
>>138309375
The cycle concept was introduced in DaS1
The fire fades, but can be renewed if a sufficiently powerful being casts themselves into it and links it. This renews the power of the fire and all the souls that come from it, starting the cycle all over again.
The reason for the cycle is just to keep the fire alive for as long as possible so that the civilizations and beings which draw their power and life itself from the flame to continue to exist.
>>138309375
rise/fall of civilizationss and law/chaos social commentary crap
DS3 meanwhile goes full Freudian with the concept, with humanity being a very carnal thing, sort of following from Manus' character in DS1.
>>138309272
I went back and played Das2 for the last couple of nights, it really feels clunky now desu, trying to predict and roll but get stuck rolling for 2 seconds
>>138309375
The fire comes back eventually. That's all there is to it.
>tfw Rapport is quite fun
Does it work if invading and the host has used a Seed of a Giant Tree?
>>138304268
What's so good about the Darksword this time around?
