Official Dark Souls Thread

[InfiniteStates]

Yeah, I still have the volcano place behind the Spider Queen to do, and the ghost area of from Lando Ruins or whatever below Firelink Shrine. There's probably other stuff too, as I haven't exactly been systematic about it, or followed the Wiki or anything.

Oh, and in retrospect - killing Patches probably wasn't a great idea. He sold some good shit in the Nexus in Demon's Souls... Oh well. It felt good.

[theENIGMATRON]

lol

Ok well i took out a few minutes on the Wiki,
From what i can see i need to do the Following

(Maybe Sys can clear up, Am not sure what ones are for these Big Boss Souls and what ones are the levels are before hand)

Darkroot Garden / Darkroot Basin (Same thing i guess, One is just a lead onto the other right........

New Londo Ruins Was that really dark place that leads on from Fireshrink

The Duke's Archives No idea about this one, Not sure how to get there.

The Catacombs This is on my list to do next, so i can get the Darkmoon Seance Ring and head back to Anor Londo


Seems like alot!! I really do wish Co-Op would work Properly,
I had met a few people around, So hopfully getting a bigger numbers on the same Soul level will be an advantage.


That volcano place aint a level, its just a Boss fight, Easy to run too, But Sys touch me a trick!!! If you run Right around the back, and pickup some Armour (You dont have to do that)
And run back to the Fog, The boss falls over and grabs the side, Hit his hand and he falls to the ground and dies,

Sys done this before i had a chance to even have a Flask for health, I was like WTF!!!! thinking i died or something

[Symonator]

@ states

Goto firelink shrine and talk to the serpent near the crow, you give him the lordsvessl (dont worry u can still use it to warp) he then tells u about the story and what u need to do via cutscenes, in the process opening the orange fogs.

After that, warp to the anor londo bonfire and turn left, go towards the big knights, in front of you will be 2 big knights and to the right of them will be 1 big knight, kill him and proceed up the stairs to a tunnel area where u get into the dukes archives.

Also..after u kill lord nito, bed of chaos and seath and u then put there souls into the lordsvessel as mentioned earlier and it opens the final area for the boss, but once ya in the final area, don't fight the boss straight away u can farm the knights for twinkling shards, blue shards etc etc.

Tomb of the giants and new londo ruins are my hated areas of the game, dark and shitty feeling lol.

@ dave the "volcano" place is a level, we just fought that boss, but the other boss is further down in orange fog leading to firesage, centipede demon and bed of chaos (that boss is a puzzle boss, like dragon god).

On my 2nd playthrough that ghost area (new londo ruins) is really difficult, the boss has like 5000hp each and there are 4 of them)

[theENIGMATRON]

Am i in the stage am able to help you?
If so we can give it a whirl doing some Co-Op later if you like,

I could do with a quick hand running through, and I enjoy the Boss fights

[Symonator]

http://darksouls.fromsoftware.jp/online/

[Fix] improved the major cases
- "Shield" magic "magic shield" strong effect, not have become effective by the bug shield
continuous use of magic · magic bug trigger delay
- "Fog Ring "Review of non-locking effect
- "History of gentle peace" review of the effects of the
failure load when switching · Map
• Conditional matching and coordination of
improvement ※ The details of the items will be announced at a later date.



Japanese translate



But basically they are saying...



Fixing the fog ring, so when you get invaded you should be able to lock onto them players.



history of gentle peace which i think means "walk of peace" which is a miracle where u can make players really heavy and they can't roll or move, easy for magic guys to spam magic and is overpowered in pvp.



Not sure about the magic shield i think they are talking about how u only need to have your sheild out and not actually block for the effect to work, might be bugged dunno.



Conditional matching and coordination of
improvement ??



I am assuming somesort of network fix for the servers, yeeha!

[theENIGMATRON]

Bad Translation.

SOxKOOL wrote:
Just thought I should Update for anyone who still does not know. Thanks to this community our problems will be fixed FROM has announced that a patch will be released soon fixing a list of issues. The patch is said to be released first on PS3. An Xbox 360 patch has not been confirmed. (The patch will probably have to work its way through Namco Bandai for int'l players, where it will get released for both consoles.) anyway here is the list!

Fixes to certain spells and effects:
- Magic Shield, Strong Magic Shield
- Tranquil Walk of Peace
- Ring of Fog, etc.
Unlimited uses of magic and items ----------- I believe this may have been a mistranslation?
Regular weapons rebalanced against reinforced weapons
Adjustments to the player matching conditions --------------- What we have all been waiting for!
Loading problems when switching between maps

So A patch is being made now we just have to wait. Oh yea this is patch 1.04.

[Symonator]

So i was coming back from the gardens and noticed all the church area was full of black phantom dreglings and a big giant phantom knight, so of course i knew something was going on.

I looked around after killing the enemies and saw the gravelord sign (first one i've seen in 120 hours).

1st attempt:
How lame the fight was.. i invaded and straight away i was put into the tranquil walk, they just then ran close enough to get the homing crystal soul arrow to annilate me.
Before that though they were using the fog ring so i couldn't lock on.

2nd Attempt:
Next up i tried again, this time changing my magic setup and putting on the fog ring, using tranquil etc..
and this is what happened. (see video)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBV7-k_Ct0[/youtube]

as u can see we both used the tranquil walk and the fog ring, and as you can see.. because i played them at there own game, the outcome was pretty lame lol.
Basically untargetable, walk next to each other and press attack till someone died... LOL.!
I think the player was panicking because i used toxic mist on them.

But for me, that's not how i would usually play but i had no other way to defeat them unless i used the same as her/him.

[InfiniteStates]

How do you slide down ladders like that? Circle?

You not a fan of endurance? LOL

[theENIGMATRON]

Circles yes, but you have to let go of the other controls.

Took me like 10 attempts to figure it out last night.

Endurance, i dont have much more than that.
Its not needed, By 3 / 4 Hits on my endurance, there Dead, Or almost dead, and Stunned,
By the time i can pick my sword back up again endurance is full.

My health is not as much as Sys but my Strength and Dexterity are through he roof

[Symonator]

i'm not a endurance guy, vit, int and attunement.
Mind u i might go up to level 130 max (9 more levels) and pump at least 4 extra points into endurance.

[theENIGMATRON]

I am on Lost Izalith at the moment.
And just in the room with the Massive Demons after the Boss!!

Think this has to be my Pet hate of the game!

I have killed about 5 of them Demon Dinosaur things, and can see Like another 20 in my Path! So its going to be a Long killing session

Do you know if they Respawn back, as am not far from a Camp fire and it would be handy go go and regen me Flasks and so on.

The constant walking on Lava and loosing health is a killer.
Even with that ring on

[Symonator]

Well if u make it to the 2nd platform...
It's like an upper level.

U can anger the dinsosaurs with arrows, they all come at u and jump on each other, killing themselves, u just clean up the remaining ones.

No they don't respawn either, thank fuck lmao!

If u were in the chaos covenant and offer 30 humanity the spider woman, it opens a big shortcut (u might of seen it) big wooden door near roots, which is basically right next to the boss cutting out all that lava shit.

bed of chaos is an easy boss, bit like dragon god, puzzle and enviroment usage.

[Symonator]

lol http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/ ... p/13875793

[Symonator]

for dave's question on psn last night.

Red phantom: evil invaders apart of the darkwraith covenant only, they can invade when they feel like it by using the orb these are called "dark spirits" and work exactly like demons souls.

Blue phantom: Good Invaders apart of the darkmoon covenant or forest hunters (if in the forest) basically the darkmoon invade players who are in the book of the guilty because u have sinned, you can buy the book of the guilty to see if you are in it from the guy at the bell tower after u beat the gargoyles.. blues are called "spirits of vengeance".

White phantoms co-op friendly people who u summon.

Gold: co-op friendly - again must be summoned, they are gold because they belong to the religious covenant, think its sunlight covenant.

hope that helps

[theENIGMATRON]

Yes nice one cheers

A little question, This Sinning thing i dont understand
I paid 29,000 last time to clear my Sins

What is this all about.......... If i have sinned alot what impact does it have on the game

And if i have not sinned at all what does this mean?

And how do you Sin? is it from Killing Friendly people etc?
Or invaders etc etc,

Is it basicly a revamped way of Demon Souls White Tendency and Black Tendency thingy