EPTEdit: It did it again even after turning it down. wtf.
Edit2: and after a 2nd restart of ds the framerate is suddenly totally fine. wtf.
Dark Souls - Prepare to Die (PC) - Page 54
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Fyrewolf
United States1533 Posts
Edit: It did it again even after turning it down. wtf. Edit2: and after a 2nd restart of ds the framerate is suddenly totally fine. wtf. | ||
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crms
United States11933 Posts
On September 07 2012 08:47 CrazyF1r3f0x wrote: I heard the PC port isn't so great :/ Other than that the game looks really interesting! i'm playing the PC version and have never played the console versions nor do I generally like single player games. Having said that, i'm pretty addicted the game is hard and a challenge in all of the right ways. You just need a controller and ezpz. I bought a razer onza on the way home from work and haven't looked back. also can someone explain what you can/can't do as coop? im trying to convince a friend to buy the game but im not sure what the coop really entails. | ||
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myopia
United States2928 Posts
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Infernal_dream
United States2359 Posts
On September 07 2012 13:41 crms wrote: i'm playing the PC version and have never played the console versions nor do I generally like single player games. Having said that, i'm pretty addicted the game is hard and a challenge in all of the right ways. You just need a controller and ezpz. I bought a razer onza on the way home from work and haven't looked back. also can someone explain what you can/can't do as coop? im trying to convince a friend to buy the game but im not sure what the coop really entails. Co op is basically you help him kill bosses. You can help him through entire maps as well if you want. But you'd need to resummon him after boss fights. You can literally play the entire game together (just put the summon sign down in weird places so no one else sees it.). You'll also be invaded while playing as co op though so you'll get to fight pcs as well as npcs. | ||
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
On September 07 2012 13:48 myopia wrote: it's taking foreverrrr to get 10 sun medals, I'm averaging maybe 1 summoning per hour sitting next to the boss door. It doesn't help that getting to the iron golem and smoughornstein fires makes your sign dissappear, so I can't even efficiently farm dudes for titanite while waiting. just put your sign right next to the anor londo bonfire that is inside the actual castle, and farm the 4 silver knights there while you wait. works good for me | ||
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Fyrewolf
United States1533 Posts
On September 07 2012 13:41 crms wrote: i'm playing the PC version and have never played the console versions nor do I generally like single player games. Having said that, i'm pretty addicted the game is hard and a challenge in all of the right ways. You just need a controller and ezpz. I bought a razer onza on the way home from work and haven't looked back. also can someone explain what you can/can't do as coop? im trying to convince a friend to buy the game but im not sure what the coop really entails. You can do everything in the game co-op, except maybe the arena(idk). The trick is just getting to summon the right guy. You have to tell your buddy where you dropped your sign, which should be somewhere others won't summon him first, and then also replace it every 2 min or so to cycle it through servers until he sees it. Once you've summoned a phantom, you can go anywhere in the game and do anything, but they dissapear if they help you beat a boss, and get some souls and a soft/loose humanity(and a sunlight medal if you also summon a sunbro, even if it's just solaire). Of course, just going to darkroot or the kiln of the first flame and pvping with him by your side will be very fun on its own. | ||
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Fyrewolf
United States1533 Posts
On September 07 2012 13:48 myopia wrote: it's taking foreverrrr to get 10 sun medals, I'm averaging maybe 1 summoning per hour sitting next to the boss door. It doesn't help that getting to the iron golem and smoughornstein fires makes your sign dissappear, so I can't even efficiently farm dudes for titanite while waiting. There's also an enemy that drops sunlight medals which is usally faster(souveneirs of reprisal and eyes of death are also farmable). + Show Spoiler + The non-attacking bugs in the Demon Ruins->Lost Izalith shortcut, just before the Demon Firesage boss room. The door can only be opened from the other side, unless you are chaos servant +2. There are a couple bugs on both sides, but it's best to open it, as the one respawning titanite demon is shortly after to farm demon titanite, and also past that are chaos eater enemies to farm red titanite slabs from(each slab type only drop rarely from 1 enemy each, regular and red are alright to farm, but white and blue are just a pain). | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
On September 07 2012 14:57 Fyrewolf wrote: You can do everything in the game co-op, except maybe the arena(idk). The trick is just getting to summon the right guy. You have to tell your buddy where you dropped your sign, which should be somewhere others won't summon him first, and then also replace it every 2 min or so to cycle it through servers until he sees it. Once you've summoned a phantom, you can go anywhere in the game and do anything, but they dissapear if they help you beat a boss, and get some souls and a soft/loose humanity(and a sunlight medal if you also summon a sunbro, even if it's just solaire). Of course, just going to darkroot or the kiln of the first flame and pvping with him by your side will be very fun on its own. You can't really go anywhere though, you're locked in by white walls when you're a phantom. For example, I was summoned in the undead burg to help beat the Taurus demon, and when we ran past the shortcut down to the lower undead burg, it had a fog-gate covering it. | ||
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
On September 07 2012 03:37 Duka08 wrote: The only "real" usefulness I find out of them anymore is, as I mentioned, a couple laying in front of hidden areas/fade walls on subsequent playthroughs. I still read almost all I happen to pass over though, out of habit. They can be quite funny. My experience has been rather the opposite funny enough. Some of the messages saved me quite a few times especially a certain "jump off here" message. | ||
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Fyrewolf
United States1533 Posts
On September 07 2012 15:51 Tobberoth wrote: You can't really go anywhere though, you're locked in by white walls when you're a phantom. For example, I was summoned in the undead burg to help beat the Taurus demon, and when we ran past the shortcut down to the lower undead burg, it had a fog-gate covering it. Yeah, I should have clarified for that area, having to resummon all the time is really annoying. I wish they would have let you party with friends to make summoning them easier. | ||
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Teddyman
Finland362 Posts
On September 07 2012 03:37 Duka08 wrote: The only "real" usefulness I find out of them anymore is, as I mentioned, a couple laying in front of hidden areas/fade walls on subsequent playthroughs. I still read almost all I happen to pass over though, out of habit. They can be quite funny. The best one is after the Anor Londo boss encounter but before you enter the next chamber. "Be wary of amazing chest" | ||
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Tobberoth
Sweden6375 Posts
On September 07 2012 17:17 Teddyman wrote: The best one is after the Anor Londo boss encounter but before you enter the next chamber. "Be wary of amazing chest" I also love the "Fatty ahead" in front of Petrus. | ||
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Silidons
United States2813 Posts
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CROrens
Croatia1005 Posts
Its sad actually that im so surprised by this, but at this day and age usually all i get is the cd and nothing more. i can upload a few pics if youre interested | ||
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Fyrewolf
United States1533 Posts
On September 07 2012 17:17 Teddyman wrote: The best one is after the Anor Londo boss encounter but before you enter the next chamber. "Be wary of amazing chest" Followed by: "Try holding with both hands."  | ||
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crms
United States11933 Posts
I only got to play for about 1h30m last night but i made no progress, just souls and levels. I got owned like 4-5 times by the big centaur boss in undead area, and the black knight guy like 4-5 times as well. I'm having a hard time using my special attacks. leap attack kick specifically. I tried to read how to do it online but I'm either awful or it's really difficult. I also just learned you can jump last night after 4 hours playing. ~_~ | ||
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Resilient
United Kingdom1431 Posts
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dormer
United States1314 Posts
On September 08 2012 01:18 crms wrote: I am like atrociously bad at this game. I think it's because I'm using a controller for the first time in 12+ years and i haven't played a console game since PS2. Or, the game is just really hard! I only got to play for about 1h30m last night but i made no progress, just souls and levels. I got owned like 4-5 times by the big centaur boss in undead area, and the black knight guy like 4-5 times as well. I'm having a hard time using my special attacks. leap attack kick specifically. I tried to read how to do it online but I'm either awful or it's really difficult. I also just learned you can jump last night after 4 hours playing. ~_~ Don't worry about it too much, there's definitely a learning curve. And you learn by dying, so it's really more of a dying curve. But after you die enough to figure out what you can and can't get away with, you start to get better. The starting areas are incredibly easy after your first playthrough, but the first time they can be some of the hardest because you're still figuring everything out. In short, you should be bad at first, just keep at it because you can get better and do it. Eventually. | ||
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Rayeth
United States883 Posts
On September 08 2012 01:18 crms wrote: I am like atrociously bad at this game. I think it's because I'm using a controller for the first time in 12+ years and i haven't played a console game since PS2. Or, the game is just really hard! I only got to play for about 1h30m last night but i made no progress, just souls and levels. I got owned like 4-5 times by the big centaur boss in undead area, and the black knight guy like 4-5 times as well. I'm having a hard time using my special attacks. leap attack kick specifically. I tried to read how to do it online but I'm either awful or it's really difficult. I also just learned you can jump last night after 4 hours playing. ~_~ If it makes you feel better there are not many times you are REQUIRED to use those special attacks. You can play a style that doesn't need them at all. The kick is super helpful sometimes though, for enemies who turtle behind shields. I dunno what to tell you about controllers, but learning to do the attack + direction stuff (for kick etc) is pretty standard stuff in console land. | ||
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Infernal_dream
United States2359 Posts
On September 07 2012 16:01 Fyrewolf wrote: Yeah, I should have clarified for that area, having to resummon all the time is really annoying. I wish they would have let you party with friends to make summoning them easier. The guy who summoned you can clear the white walls and you can continue along with him until the final boss of the area. I helped a lot of people clear through anor londo. Specially the two archber area. I know there's a white wall leading to the inside after that but the summoner should be able to open it. | ||
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