Dark Souls Catch-All

PlainGreyT wrote:

Anyone have any recommendations for crossing the invisible bridges in the Crystal Cave?

I've gotten so far in the game that I really want to finish it with this character but this section is the most distasteful in the entire game. I know things like this contribute to the game's challenging reputation but wasting an hour falling off a dozen or so times is not my idea of fun.

watch where the snow/crystals are falling

If you want to keep it 'in the game', you could use the pebbles you can buy for 10 souls at the female undead vendor (and possibly other places) too.

Plastefuchs wrote:

If you want to keep it 'in the game', you could use the pebbles you can buy for 10 souls at the female undead vendor (and possibly other places) too.

I liked to write messages on the bridges.

DanB wrote:

watch where the snow/crystals are falling

Neat, thanks!

Plastefuchs wrote:

If you want to keep it 'in the game', you could use the pebbles you can buy for 10 souls at the female undead vendor (and possibly other places) too.

Honestly, I'll do whatever it takes to get past this section.

Some things in Dark Souls I'll deliberately do the 'hard way' such as fighting Lautrec, soloing bosses etc... for others if I think they're unfair I've no problem using exploits ie. killing the Anor Londo Titanite Demon from the doorway and in this case I don't think I'll lose any sleep taking the easy way out for this one

imbiginjapan wrote:

I liked to write messages on the bridges

Sadly I'm playing offline so no such help, though this was one of the first things I noticed when I looked up how to do it on youtube

PlainGreyT wrote:
DanB wrote:

watch where the snow/crystals are falling

Neat, thanks!

Plastefuchs wrote:

If you want to keep it 'in the game', you could use the pebbles you can buy for 10 souls at the female undead vendor (and possibly other places) too.

Honestly, I'll do whatever it takes to get past this section.

Some things in Dark Souls I'll deliberately do the 'hard way' such as fighting Lautrec, soloing bosses etc... for others if I think they're unfair I've no problem using exploits ie. killing the Anor Londo Titanite Demon from the doorway and in this case I don't think I'll lose any sleep taking the easy way out for this one

imbiginjapan wrote:

I liked to write messages on the bridges

Sadly I'm playing offline so no such help, though this was one of the first things I noticed when I looked up how to do it on youtube

You should still be able to write message yourself that will stay, no?
I would drop a message and see where it lands. If I have to go across again the messages stay. I don't see why this wouldn't work offline. I am pretty sure your own messages stay no matter what. Did you not pick up the Orange Soapstone from the merchant?

I was away for two days visiting family, and could not play any Dark Souls, or Demon's Souls. I am starting in on Demon's Souls again because I am going to play with a friend, and want him to play Dark Souls too. When I got home yesterday, I told all the family I had visiting they had to wait while I played some Demon's Souls. That was a lot of fun, I got a bunch of gear upgrades out of the way, a little bit of game research, and the first boss down and good progress beyond that as well. Then I started getting this stupid cold, and went to bed early, where I promptly spent 6 hours in and out of sleep dreaming of playing DeS/DS. Now I'm at work. I WANT TO PLAY!!

Dakuna - Come post me with me in the Demon's Souls thread! http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/45845

PlainGreyT - You can use a bow to shoot the invisible bridge, and the arrows (which are hard to see) stick out of it for a while. Note that to finish the game, you only have to cross two perfectly straight invisible bridges. The blue titanite slab is across a different, twisty invisible bridge.

Gimpy - Last weekend, I got summoned a ton for Capra, and a decent amount for Gargoyles. My method is to drop my sign and then read my iPad for a few minutes until I get summoned.

Yeah I was watching the Castle marathon that happens every Wednesday I think.

Nice! Love both Castle and Dark Souls.

All you folks who don't have the Demon's Souls thread favorited because its activity predates favorites, please consider doing so, because I am once again seeking your counsel over there. Thanks!

Took a while off DS due to a combination of work being too draining, Sen's Fortress, and some weird glitch from the latest patch that stopped the game from booting. Wound up having to delete and reinstall the base game and GFWL, and purge a couple of Steam's blob files. That time off caused a few things to click in the subconscious, though, since I got over my previous roadblock in Sen's, beat the boss on my second attempt (with the first attempt ending after accidentally falling off the edge while dodging his first swing at me), and got through a chunk of Anor Londo before calling it a day at what I have dubbed "The Bat Demons of Bullsh*ttery" and their buddies the archers.

Currently liking the Lightning Spear (now +3) from Sen's, and have a scimitar +10 for making the Furysword as soon as I find the blacksmith. Not wild about the curved sword moveset as opposed to my love of spears, but will see how it goes. Been putting most of my points into endurance and vitality with a little in dex for weapons and attunement for pyromancy. Combined with favoring light armour I've got great mobility and decent survivability, but my damage output is a bit lower than I'd really like. Trying to fight off the urge to go back to a strength-based character who is just past the gargoyles and had less good survivability but was 1-2 hit killing most things.

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A question on stat scaling with weapons: how do the non-scaling elemental weapons (e.g. putting lighting on a sword or whatever) stack up against the scaling ones? I presume the scaling ones must be better at some point otherwise why bother putting the stats into them, but the elemental ones seem heaps better so far.

Am I also right in thinking that defense stats work as a straight subtraction rather than as a %, e.g. against something with 50 physical and 50 lightning resist, you'll do more damage with a nominal 200 physical (for 200-50=150 actual) than 100 physical + 100 lightning (for (100-50)+(100-50)=100 actual)?

Which brings me to my other question: what am I missing with heavier armours? The extra damage mitigation and poise don't nearly seem justify the loss of mobility: the minor reduction in damage per hit seems to be more than made up for by how many more hits you take.

Scaling will win out in the long run, but early on (first game, a bit into 2nd) high damage non-scaling weapons will serve you better.

The main advantage heavier armor gives you is not having your moves interrupted. Running a heavy set, particularly with the Wolf Ring, will ensure that your abilities always go off. In some fights this is more important than preventing damage.

Also, super-heavy armor like Havel's will take a ton less damage than some of the lighter armors. The mitigation is quite noticeable.

You know, I've heard all that about elemental weapons, but I guess it went in one ear and out the other. I never made a Lightning or Fire weapon for my sorceror, and I'm not planning one for my cleric, either. Maybe I should check those options out.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

Omaha - The usual GWJ advice, and mine, is to equip Havel's armor, two-hand your sword, Grass Crest Shield on your back, and hack away as fast as you can. I also circled to the right constantly, which avoided some attacks. This was on my sorceror - using magic seemed to end badly for me, so I eventually stopped trying to do so on this fight. And Four Kings is notoriously difficult, fwiw.

The only thing I ever heard leading up to my playing this game was how hard Smough and Ornstein were. I had never even heard of the Four Kings. So when I breezed right through S&O, I figured I was on cruise control from there on out. Silly me

I've had a friend tell me to equip Havel's armor, iron flesh, and as many combustion spells as you can carry, so I suppose that will be my next attempt. I regularly use the Grass Crest Shield anyways, and I'm pretty sure I have the armor in my inventory. I'll report back later with the results

I haven't had any troubles with S&O, but Four Kings took me a bunch of tries. Granted, I co-oped S&O and soloed Four Kings.

Some NSFW language

I posted this a long time ago, but some people really had a hard time with Ornstein and Smough.

Thanks for the input guys, may have to have a bit of a play around.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I haven't had any troubles with S&O, but Four Kings took me a bunch of tries. Granted, I co-oped S&O and soloed Four Kings.

Co-op generally makes all bosses easier. More targets = more chances for you to safely and easily get hits in. The reason this is particularly true for S&O and 4 Kings is:

Spoiler:

S&O presents you with the greatest challenge either of the Souls games has - 2v1 combat. Changing this around to even 2v2 simplifies things drastically.
4 Kings is a race against the clock, the faster you can kill each one the less chance you have of getting overrun. More players makes taking each one out a lot easier.

Personally I have a harder time with S&O, but both are challenging.

Spoiler:

4 Kings is harder on NG+ and on because losing that one ring slot to be able to fight them at all means a lot more.

ahrezmendi wrote:

Personally I have a harder time with S&O, but both are challenging.

Spoiler:

4 Kings is harder on NG+ and on because losing that one ring slot to be able to fight them at all means a lot more.

Add to that the insane amount of damage you have to deal in order to kill at least one of them... before you know it all four are there and you can't do diddly squat but roll and hack away, hoping you can outlast them.

So... what's the skinny on the 360 wireless controller not working with this game? I can bring up the live menu, but the game isn't picking it up. I did google it and they're saying you have to uninstall or somehow disable all other HID Game Controllers every time you play the game. Is there a better way?

Edit: Nevermind. I had to unplug the bluetooth dongle for my Wiimote to get it working. I have another quick question. When doing graphics mods, I just have to make sure that I run it at 30 FPS to keep from getting banned? Should I just not do any multiplayer to avoid this?

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Edit: Nevermind. I had to unplug the bluetooth dongle for my Wiimote to get it working. I have another quick question. When doing graphics mods, I just have to make sure that I run it at 30 FPS to keep from getting banned? Should I just not do any multiplayer to avoid this?

Don't avoid multiplayer, just leave the FPS at 30. You don't want to miss out on the multiplayer aspects of this game. 30 FPS is perfectly fine.

And yes, as long as the framerate is intact, you won't get banned.

What Dyni said - the multiplayer is far more important than the graphics.

Sweet! I got through the first couple bonfires without dying and can tell it's gonna be fun. I'm going to die a lot. Will play with the mods next to get everything beautified.

I unloaded 55 arrows into the Drake in the Undead Burg area. Wondering how much damage this guy is able to absorb? Since there are no pulsating, glowy weak spots in this game it's hard to tell. The damage numbers were still coming up as I shot him in the wings and chest. I'd like to get him out of the way as I hear there's a fabulous sword up for grabs.

Maclintok wrote:

I hear there's a fabulous sword up for grabs.

This fabulous?

IMAGE(http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4821/fabuloussword.jpg)

Maclintok wrote:

I unloaded 55 arrows into the Drake in the Undead Burg area. Wondering how much damage this guy is able to absorb? Since there are no pulsating, glowy weak spots in this game it's hard to tell. The damage numbers were still coming up as I shot him in the wings and chest. I'd like to get him out of the way as I hear there's a fabulous sword up for grabs.

I haven't heard of anyone killing him with arrows, though I suppose it could be done. If you succeeded, you would actually never get the sword. Wiki Drake Sword if you want to know about it and don't mind hints, etc.

Most people never kill him.

I've killed it with arrows, except this was way back when it came out on PS3.

Gimpy_Butzke wrote:

I've killed it with arrows, except this was way back when it came out on PS3.

Was this the famous exploit?

Fedaykin98 wrote:
CptDomano wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

You've got some serious ground to cover to finish Anor Londo and then beat the game in the next six days! Good luck!

Bah! I've got this! :D

I expect a report on New Year's Day.

And I expect it to be: Mission Not Accomplished. :razz:

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I'm not going to say you win just yet, but I hit a wall traversing New Londo Ruins. And I haven't tried to tackle Four Kings yet.

...damn this game

Don't worry, I had a pretty humbling night of Demon's Souls last night. We're all in this together.