EPTDark Souls - Prepare to Die (PC) - Page 23
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NukeD
Croatia1612 Posts
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32278 Posts
On August 25 2012 02:50 architecture wrote: Is there any difference between XBOX and PS3 controller performance on the PC? Or is it just preference. Preference. edit: the PS3 controller requires a compatible bluetooth dongle (for desktops, most notebooks have bundled bluetooth) to work. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
On August 25 2012 02:49 Iyerbeth wrote: I really have no idea what's going on. I'm dying a lot, not sure if I'm even in the right place and constantly have no humanity to select the reverse hollow option, despite collecting some, and I don't even know why I'd want to do it. Didn't really understand what I was doing on the level up option either. I feel like I'd need to watch a 30 minute tutorial just to get the basics, but there doesn't seem to be one.  Will say, the first boss (well, I assume it was a boss) was fun, even if it killed me repeatedly for quite a while. Don't worry about reverse hollowing, you can beat the whole game without even doing it once. It's mainly used for multiplayer things (and to get NPC help and kindle bonfires). The humanities you find as items, you need to use to actually get the humanity. The humanity counter is up to the left of your health, usually a big zero. Basic guide to leveling up: Unless you're doing a specific build, your main goal is to get vitality and endurance to 40, which gives you health and stamina. This is the easiest way to play the game since this gives a lot of margin of error when it comes to getting hit, and with a good upgraded shield, you can tank pretty much anything with high enough endurance. Strength and dexterity are used to improve your damage, BUT, this only helps if your weapon scales with those stats, and it needs to scale pretty good + your stats need to be high to get enough damage output to make it worth it. Your first playthrough, you should probably ignore both stats (only get enough to equip the gear you want) and then go for lightning or fire weapons (those weapons do not scale at all, so they do good damage regardless of str/dex). intelligence can be completely ignored unless you want to use magic. Same with faith (though having heal miracle is not bad to save etus flasks). Attunement is the same, you just want enough to get the spell slots you want, having too many spell slots is not really useful. | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
On August 25 2012 01:47 Xanbatou wrote: So after playing this game for a couple hours, keyboard controls are still awful. I don't know how to do any of the moves because i don't know how the xbox buttons displayed in those "help" things correspond with keys on the keyboard. How do I do that lunge thing they are talking about? Or the parry? Or the drop attack that would have been really useful 5 seconds after reading the note -_-. I think I'm just going to go buy a controller -_-. Jump attack is done by using a normal attack while in the air, the game handles the rest. It's also only useful at like 5 points in the whole game, so it's not a big deal. | ||
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
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EMIYA
United States433 Posts
reverse hollow - lets you talk to certain npcs and buy items from them, and also increases your resistences to curse and some other stuff. allows you to kindle fires while in human form. humanity - fully heals you when used, i usually save a few for that. gives you increased item find (finding armor/weapons off monsters) that caps at 10 used humanity, risk is that if you die and die on the way back to your corpse you will lose it all. | ||
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On August 25 2012 01:48 PassiveAce wrote: Is it actually possible to play this game with keyboard and mouse? Im not willing to pay for a controller just for this game. Mouse movement feels awful, you should buy a controller for this and other games. | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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Fyrewolf
United States1533 Posts
On August 25 2012 04:53 rebuffering wrote: Fuuuuuuck, just lost 4000 souls after walking through a white curtain, and fucking Taurus Demon just shows up and destroys me, i knew i should have took the time to fucking get back to the bonfire, and lvl some shit up. and what the hell does Kindle mean anyways? i used a humanity, reversed hollow or w/e, then tried to kindle but i couldnt? am i doing something wrong? and is kindle even worth it? You need another humanity to kindle the flame, each kindling costs a humanity in addition to having to use one to reverse hollowing. Don'y worry about the soul loss. 4000 is absolutely nothing. Some later single enemies drop that much. You'll get 50,000-300,000 killing a guy in pvp. Don't worry about leveling up too much either. Leveling up doesn't actually do all that much for you, and never level a stat past 50. What you really want to spend your souls on is upgrading your equipment at the blacksmith, it's a hundred times more important than leveling up. | ||
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
On August 25 2012 05:06 PassiveAce wrote: Dont you need to buy some extra wireless adapter on top of an xbox controller to get the controller to work on pc? if its a wireless xbox controller yes | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
I bet the adapter costs as much as the controller. | ||
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dormer
United States1314 Posts
On August 25 2012 05:11 PassiveAce wrote: ^thats some mothafuckin' bullshit. I bet the adapter costs as much as the controller. Someone earlier said they just bought a third-party XBox controller to avoid the "mothafuckin' bullshit." Not sure myself, but look into it if it pisses you off so much. | ||
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SeggsyLori
Germany80 Posts
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
On August 25 2012 05:11 PassiveAce wrote: ^thats some mothafuckin' bullshit. I bet the adapter costs as much as the controller. well it doesn't just magically connect to the computer lol | ||
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Kamikiri
United States1319 Posts
I have done Four Kings already using it and its not hard to get use to, just look at the controls before you play. | ||
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
On August 25 2012 05:07 Fyrewolf wrote: You need another humanity to kindle the flame, each kindling costs a humanity in addition to having to use one to reverse hollowing. Don'y worry about the soul loss. 4000 is absolutely nothing. Some later single enemies drop that much. You'll get 50,000-300,000 killing a guy in pvp. Don't worry about leveling up too much either. Leveling up doesn't actually do all that much for you, and never level a stat past 50. What you really want to spend your souls on is upgrading your equipment at the blacksmith, it's a hundred times more important than leveling up. Dually noted, thank you. Gotta say, loving the mechanics of this game, still, very early in, like 2 or 3 hrs at most, but its a blast so far. The only thing i dont like is how confusing the castle im in is, hard to tell where im going, or supposed to go, but a little exploration never hurt anyone  , well, thats a lie, but you know what i mean. heh. | ||
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Ventil
Sweden414 Posts
Such a shame that the PC port seems to be quite sloppy done. Still, so sweet to see a new breed of Souls players joining the small community :D Enjoy your gameover screens <3 | ||
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anatase
France532 Posts
On August 25 2012 04:53 rebuffering wrote: Fuuuuuuck, just lost 4000 souls after walking through a white curtain, and fucking Taurus Demon just shows up and destroys me, i knew i should have took the time to fucking get back to the bonfire, and lvl some shit up. and what the hell does Kindle mean anyways? i used a humanity, reversed hollow or w/e, then tried to kindle but i couldnt? am i doing something wrong? and is kindle even worth it? Hahah dude it happened to me aswell, I was soooo raged. So I went on and tried to get my souls back while fighting him. When you'll figure out - if you didn't already - how to kill that Taurus Demon you'll feel great if you can retrieve these souls : )) (over this one is really easy to kill tho : d) On August 25 2012 05:47 Ventil wrote: Have roughly 250h spent in the Xbox version. Don't think I'll be getting the PC version but will rather wait for the DLC. Such a shame that the PC port seems to be quite sloppy done. Still, so sweet to see a new breed of Souls players joining the small community :D Enjoy your gameover screens <3 To be fair, the port isn't that bad, I am playing on a quite low spec notebook with a xbox pad and the game is just incredibly awesome, just have a few framerate trouble but that's only because of my notebook, otherwise the resolution fix is a real good thing. I would recommend people to buy this game, they just have to be aware it is not the perfect-for-pc game, just a port. | ||
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