Dark Souls

Vicxas · 30-11-2013 1:31am

OdgeXD wrote: »

Pretty common hack nowadays, hope you have a backup save

Nope. Had to start again

Randall Floyd · 30-11-2013 1:48am

Ordered the prepare to die edition of this today on 360, is it really stupid to go into this totally blind? From some of the posts I've read here it seems like it's far from a cake walk.

Vicxas · 30-11-2013 1:51am

Randall Floyd wrote: »

Ordered the prepare to die edition of this today on 360, is it really stupid to go into this totally blind? From some of the posts I've read here it seems like it's far from a cake walk.

This game is nuts tough. But so so worth it. You won't regret it

Harps · 30-11-2013 2:04am

Randall Floyd wrote: »

Ordered the prepare to die edition of this today on 360, is it really stupid to go into this totally blind? From some of the posts I've read here it seems like it's far from a cake walk.

For me at least its one of the few games where its more rewarding to use guides rather than going in blind, there's so much you'd miss out on and you'd likely build a terrible character without some kind of guide. This thread is great as well, just give an idea of where you are in the game and you'll get plenty of tips and ideas on what you should be doing.

Its not a hard game really, just requires a bit of time to get to grips with, the more you play the more rewarding and deep the gameplay becomes

Mickeroo wrote: »

On my first play through I didn't get why people used to complain about the archers in Anor Londo. I ran up the rampart rushed each of them and they both fell to their deaths when they tried to draw their swords. In NG+ it took me ages to get by them.

Same happened to me, I didn't even know there was a fuss over them first time round and breezed through it first time. Same with the Stray Demon, I fell into the hole, rushed at him and killed him in about 20 seconds without taking a hit, checked the internet and realised he was meant to be one of the harder bosses!

Fighting Lautrec in Anor Londo on the other hand :mad:

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 11:17am

Randall Floyd wrote: »

Ordered the prepare to die edition of this today on 360, is it really stupid to go into this totally blind? From some of the posts I've read here it seems like it's far from a cake walk.

IMO, it's better to play the game blind and figure it out for yourself on your first playthrough. If you need any help or get stuck ask in here and we'll be more than happy to point you in the right direction. There's no doubt you'll want to play it again once you're finished and that's when you really start to figure the game out and get into the lore/better character builds/routes etc

The game is designed to be unforgiving and that's something that everyone needs to experience, rather than being guided through everything

Glebee · 30-11-2013 11:19am

Picked this up on amazon for PC. Is it playable with mouse and keyboard or is too difficult and needs a gamepad.

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 11:21am

It's designed to be played with a game pad, doesn't work at all with kb/mouse

Cravez · 30-11-2013 11:58am

Vicxas wrote: »

Nope. Had to start again

He was a hacker, it's happened to me as well. They drain your stats so it basically ruins your character. If you have DSFix you can enable save game backup so you can have a backup from about 10 mins before it happened.

Vicxas · 30-11-2013 11:58am

Lads on PC.

What did you guys do about the stuttery Framerate sometimes?

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 12:12pm

You need to download and install http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/19//? That'll let you unlock the framerate and make the actually playable

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 30-11-2013 12:12pm

Vicxas wrote: »

Lads on PC.

What did you guys do about the stuttery Framerate sometimes?

cursed FromSoftware

returnNull · 30-11-2013 2:54pm

Glebee wrote: »

Picked this up on amazon for PC. Is it playable with mouse and keyboard or is too difficult and needs a gamepad.

Joypad,its a lazy port to PC.The Joypad controls are bog standard for a 3rd person game.

Mickeroo · 30-11-2013 2:56pm

returnNull wrote: »

Joypad,its a lazy port to PC.The Joypad controls are bog standard for a 3rd person game.

Does it play worse than the console version even with the xbox controller?

returnNull · 30-11-2013 3:01pm

the dsfix linked above also lets you set a decent screen resolution etc.It gets it working decently fairly quickly.

I only had a ps3 joypad and had to download http://www.motioninjoy.com/ to get it working on the pc.If you have an xbox 360 wired controller you're laughing.

returnNull · 30-11-2013 3:04pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Does it play worse than the console version even with the xbox controller?

No it plays fine with the controller and once you have the dsfix running (linked to by Odgexd)I found it ran fine and of course looks alot better than the console.

edit:if you are thinking of getting it,it was available yesterday in the steam sale for 8€ iiirc

krudler · 30-11-2013 3:58pm

Randall Floyd wrote: »

Ordered the prepare to die edition of this today on 360, is it really stupid to go into this totally blind? From some of the posts I've read here it seems like it's far from a cake walk.

A cake walk it is not, but consult the wiki as there's stuff you'd never figure out blind and play it online, the messages other players leave are both helpful and trolling (putting things like "jump off for secret" at the edge of a cliff where jumping does nothing but kill you lol) but that's all part of the DS experience. I only finished it for the first time the other night and I loved every minute of it, well almost every minute, I'm not gonna lie I was cursing at the tv a few times.

returnNull · 30-11-2013 4:05pm

krudler wrote: »

(putting things like "jump off for secret" at the edge of a cliff where jumping does nothing but kill you lol)

lol been there done that:pac:
I just stopped reading them tbh

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 30-11-2013 4:07pm

amazing chest ahead

saidinmilamber · 30-11-2013 4:19pm

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

amazing chest ahead

Try holding with two hands

krudler · 30-11-2013 4:24pm

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

amazing chest ahead

I did that :pac:

some of the messages are helpful alright, wonder will there be more options in DS2 to elaborate a bit more as to what you can write.

ShaneU · 30-11-2013 4:28pm

saidinmilamber wrote: »

Try holding with two hands

Sticky white stuff

saidinmilamber · 30-11-2013 4:46pm

I can't stop laughing at this. Forest PvP can be funny at times alright!!

[CrimsonGhost] · 30-11-2013 5:55pm

tafkapts wrote: »

Has anyone gotten all achievements/trophies? That's what i'm aiming for at the moment. I think I've only four left. Three of them i'll do on my 3rd playthrough, just finishing NG+ now, Gwyn its being a right pain this time round.

It's the only game I've ever gotten ALL the achievements on. Just gold serpent ring, and some humanity, after the first humanity there are quite severe diminishing returns, I usually run with about 2-3 humanity, you can go to 10, personally I don't think it's worth it. Just be patient, they'll drop eventually for you. Or, you can get someone to trade them to you, I believe that works.

BloodBath · 30-11-2013 6:44pm

I'm sure it's been posted already but it's available on steam now for €5.99.

VinLieger · 30-11-2013 7:35pm

Fuck GFWL, fuck it hard in the ass with a rusty spiked pole

Vicxas · 30-11-2013 7:57pm

VinLieger wrote: »

Fuck GFWL, fuck it hard in the ass with a rusty spiked pole

Not that anyone is going to disagree. What has your back up?

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 8:04pm

This game, man. I love it.
Just hanging round Anor Londo waiting to get summoned for O&S, helping bros out. Could play this forever.

VinLieger · 30-11-2013 8:07pm

Vicxas wrote: »

Not that anyone is going to disagree. What has your back up?

Fixed it now but seriously its a ridiculoous piece of software

Vicxas · 30-11-2013 8:31pm

OdgeXD wrote: »

You need to download and install http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/19//? That'll let you unlock the framerate and make the actually playable

Crashes the game when i try to unlock the FPS

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 8:48pm

It crashes, help!
First, make sure that the .ini files are present in the correct location.
Additionally, the "dsfix" folder should be in that same location.
Turn off tools such as MSI Afterburner or other overlays that manipulate D3D.
Then try restoring the default settings in the .ini file
If none of these help then check if the problem still occurs when you remove/rename DINPUT8.dll
Finally, try rebooting
If the issue still persists, then report the problem, otherwise it has nothing to do with DSfix.

From the modsite

Tommy_NDX · 30-11-2013 9:10pm

(Reddit)

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 9:14pm

Chaos Blade>Ascended Pyro +5>Power Within>10 Soft Humanity

Jesus God the power

Kiith · 30-11-2013 11:21pm

I've started a new character again, as i was finding a pure mage to be kind of boring. Also stupidly OP for most of what i was coming up against. Thinking i'll go full strength/endurance this time, and wear the heaviest armour and weapons i can.

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 11:24pm

Mage is incredibly OP in pve indeed, full str/end is pretty op and boring too mind you unless you get the BKGS drop in the burg, then it's gravy

edit: and if you're going for heaviest weapons and armour you may aswell just make a giantdad

Kiith · 30-11-2013 11:35pm

Well, i won't be getting that. Never get good drops from the Black Knights. And by god the heavy roll is slow :P

OdgeXD · 30-11-2013 11:38pm

I live in the hope that I'll be able to turn every character I make into a monster, but it hardly ever drops

Kiith · 01-12-2013 10:44am

Hah, got both greatswords from the Black Knights this time round. 410 item discovery really does help afterall

Scratch that, all the Black Knight weapons and the shield. Good times.

Vicxas · 01-12-2013 1:14pm

OdgeXD wrote: »

From the modsite

Yeah I need to disable DEP. I'll give it a bash later

OdgeXD · 01-12-2013 6:59pm

Doing SL70 invasions/co-op in Township on PS3 if anyone wants to go

Robert ninja · 01-12-2013 7:20pm

Friend of mine gifted me the game on PC. I've spend at least 300 hours on PS3 (probably more) so I guess I could help her out co-op. Was surprised to see GFWL. I thought they got rid of that from Dark Souls?

Tommy_NDX · 01-12-2013 8:55pm

Robert ninja wrote: »

Friend of mine gifted me the game on PC. I've spend at least 300 hours on PS3 (probably more) so I guess I could help her out co-op. Was surprised to see GFWL. I thought they got rid of that from Dark Souls?

Think they're getting rid of GFWL for Dark Souls 2 though I'm not on PC so I'm not too sure.

OdgeXD · 01-12-2013 8:59pm

GFWL is shutting down completely, thankfully. No idea what's gonna happen games like Street Fighter or Dark souls

Cravez · 02-12-2013 9:17am

OdgeXD wrote: »

GFWL is shutting down completely, thankfully. No idea what's gonna happen games like Street Fighter or Dark souls

GFWL has been removed from some games so far such as Bioshock 2. I recently bought it and I think it just runs the servers normally like any game from Steam so Steam patch these games once GFWL is removed.

Vicxas · 02-12-2013 10:26am

Michael Cravez wrote: »

GFWL has been removed from some games so far such as Bioshock 2. I recently bought it and I think it just runs the servers normally like any game from Steam so Steam patch these games once GFWL is removed.

I think they will be migrating over to Steam in the near future, hate GFWL.

OdgeXD · 02-12-2013 11:32am

I thought the Township was decent for PvP, but turns out it's full of twats who use disgusting tactics or heal constantly. No fun at all

tafkapts · 02-12-2013 12:45pm

[CrimsonGhost] wrote: »

It's the only game I've ever gotten ALL the achievements on. Just gold serpent ring, and some humanity, after the first humanity there are quite severe diminishing returns, I usually run with about 2-3 humanity, you can go to 10, personally I don't think it's worth it. Just be patient, they'll drop eventually for you. Or, you can get someone to trade them to you, I believe that works.

I finally got the Great Channeler's Trident & the Stone Greatshield/Stone Greatsword. It took a long long time but finally got them. Now I'm on my third playthrough to just clean up whats left, only two achievements left and one of them is to get all the other achievements in the game, so I've really only one to do. I cannot wait to finally master this game. Over 160hrs into this game now & I'll probably play it through again.

Kiith · 02-12-2013 1:28pm

I have to say, melee classes are far more enjoyable than magic. Magic is fun for a while, but it just seems to easy and you miss the feeling of proper combat and weight. Playing a heavy armour / shield character now, and i've learned how to beat bosses properly rather than just soul arrowing them down. Takes a few tries sometimes, but there's a much better feeling of accomplishment when you do kill them.

Icaras · 02-12-2013 2:08pm

On a day off and stuck on the couch with a bad back. Have started going through the lore and its really great. The Siegmeyer of Catarina one really gets me as on my first play through I went out of my way to finish his quest.

krudler · 02-12-2013 2:11pm

Kiith wrote: »

I have to say, melee classes are far more enjoyable than magic. Magic is fun for a while, but it just seems to easy and you miss the feeling of proper combat and weight. Playing a heavy armour / shield character now, and i've learned how to beat bosses properly rather than just soul arrowing them down. Takes a few tries sometimes, but there's a much better feeling of accomplishment when you do kill them.

Prefer melee too, I started a sorcerer build and meh, I don't like the delay with using magic. I know the casting time comes down with higher levelling but I prefer the rolling/attacking style combat. Trying to find the sweet spot between good defence and being able to roll with some kind of speed is cool. I loved my crimson robe/thief mask/painting guardian leggings armour setup, looked badass too.

2Mad2BeMad · 02-12-2013 9:56pm

for anyone who has not picked this up yet on the 360 or just looking for it again
its only 4.99 on xbox live cyber monday sale
well worth it

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