| paleface [sys=PC; cat=Adventure; reg=UC] |
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0:33 - settings
4:32 - intro movie
7:46 - character creation
54:10 - eyebrow freeze!
54:51 - Cemetery of Ash (tutorial)
1:17:59 - Ravenous Crystal Lizard
1:45:29 - Iudex Gundyr
2:16:10 - Sword Master
2:45:16 - oh
2:49:38 - Firelink Shrine
Kept choking against Sword Master ; D--but I could SWEAR he gets more brutal with blocks, parries, and 1-shot counter-attack kills as his health drops. ; )))
The game is stunning so far and I'm so glad I skipped out of Ds2 to start this instead! = D Miyazaki is back, baby!
I wish he hadn't kept one of the added stats from Ds2 but ah well. 'p'
I think I'm gonna try setting the attack charge up button (LT/L2) as a toggle via a Steam Input Action Set Layer, like I did with the bow free aim button (LB/L1) in Ds2. Gotta see what the Uchigatana's charge-up "skill" is; the Longsword's was really effective against Sword Master.
The fextralife wiki says your rolling won't be impaired as long as your Equipment Load is below 30%.
At least the starting/naked gear in this game looks reasonably decent. ^ _^ ANd I love this shiny black skin tone. : D
It hasn't run completely smoothly--there are very occasional momentary hitches when moving through areas--I don't think I had this in the ~1.75 hrs I played of Elden Ring--and the character image just froze as I was selecting eyebrows near the end of face adjustment; couldn't see changes I was making to the character anymore so I just had to go with what I had and move ahead to the tutorial. : P |
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Changing L2/LT to be a toggle button--so I don't have to hold the button down to keep a charge attack ready--by means of a Steam Input Action Set Layer, for Dark Souls III from Steam, on PC! Blood is Off.
2:13 - Steam Input
10:00 - testing
11:43 - possible alternate button presses
14:50 - Steam Input set-up summary
15:55 - seems to be it!
You can change any button to a toggle button in Steam Input by [Gear button] - Settings - Toggle, but in Souls games you can hit other buttons during the toggle that cancel the pose, which could result in the pose kicking back in at an inopportune time, because Steam would consider the button toggle still active.
If you put the toggle on an Action Set Layer though, you can use another command on other buttons to Remove the Action Set Layer, which deactivates the toggle, keeping you from getting in a confusing toggle state later. That's what I show how to set up in this tutorial, specifically for using charge-based Weapon Arts (Skills) with a two-handed weapon--it'd be more complicated with a sword & shield or dual wield, but I don't use those and haven't tried going into that.
For these charge-based Weapon Arts, left/right on the d-pad, or using the art itself with R1/RB or R2/RT needs to cancel the toggle state, and that's done by having the toggle on an Action Set Layer, and assigning a Remove Action Set Layer command to those buttons.
Steam Library - View controller settings - (Steam Input) Edit Layout:
ACTION SETS
- Default
- "Weapon Skill Toggle"
- Always On Command - Left Trigger (Toggle)
Buttons
BUMPERS
R1 Executes 2 Commands
- Command 1 - Right Bumper
- Command 2 - Remove Action Set Layer (Weapon Skill Toggle)
Triggers
RIGHT TRIGGER BEHAVIOR
R2 Executes 2 Commands
- Command 1 - Right Trigger
- Command 2 - Remove Action Set Layer (Weapon Skill Toggle)
LEFT TRIGGER BEHAVIOR
L2 Executes 2 Commands
- Command 1 - Left Trigger (Toggle)
- Command 2 - Add Action Set Layer (Weapon Skill Toggle)
DPad
DIRECTIONAL PAD BEHAVIOR
Left Executes 2 Commands
- Command 1 - DPad Left
- Command 2 - Remove Action Set Layer (Weapon Skill Toggle)
Right Executes 2 Commands
- Command 1 - DPad Right
- Command 2 - Remove Action Set Layer (Weapon Skill Toggle)
I'll probably do something similar for L1/LB when I get a bow, so I don't have to hold that button down to stay in zoom/free-aim--that's what I did in Ds2, anyway. (Prior to Ds2--in DeS & Ds1--bow zoom/free-aim WAS a toggle button, rather than a button you had to hold.) |
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0:30 - exploring Firelink Shrine
18:03 - Firelink Shrine floating texture glitch
35:58 - High Wall of Lothric
57:25 - Pus of Man
59:25 - Crossbow
1:17:15 - Lothric Wyvern
1:20:25 - Lothric Knight
1:40:25 - Longbow vs Pus of Man
2:04:01 - Longbow vs Lothric Wyvern toe
2:13:45 - Claymore
2:23:25 - Mimic
2:25:58 - Longbow & Claymore vs Lothric Knight
The way Pus of Man just hit its leash distance and stopped dead was kinda weird. ; D
Got a Longbow & Claymore! : D (And hm skimming ahead slightly in the fextralife wiki walkthrough, the Zweihander may not be far off!)
Forgot to try the Longbow's Weapon Art. And I gotta set up its free aim zoom (L1) as a toggle through a Steam Input Action Set Layer so I don't gotta keep the button held down while aiming--like I did with L2 for melee Weapon Arts. ^ _^ |
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29:10 - 2nd bonfire
33:45 - roof whoops
59:53 - shortcut
1:18:07 - slow-draw vs knight 'o'
1:20:41 - elevator oops
1:23:32 - picking off knights
Note to self: don't hit L1 when standing on a ledge one-handing your sword. : P
I gave the elevator blooper it's own highlight video: https://youtu.be/fawf9pu8QO4
Had to give up on using Steam Input to have the bow free-fire/zoom button--L1 (LB)--as a toggle button, 'cause Ds3 also needs it for menu navigation. 'p' Also Steam Input was getting weird conflicted inputs when I tried having two Action Set Layer toggle buttons set up 'ppp''--so I'll just keep the one for toggling Weapon Arts, I guess. |
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1:18 - getting pimped by blue Lothric Knight ("red eye knight"-wiki)
48:39 - cheesing blue knight w/ bow ^ _^
54:41 - cathedral
1:04:39 - getting whupped by Vordt of the Boreal Valley
1:49:14 - summoning Sword Master
1:54:14 - 2 summons vs invader & 2 red knights ; D
1:56:10 - summons cream Vordt ; DD
1:59:30 - wrap!
Forgot that I can't really melee the knights 'cause they just go right through my attacks and hit me anyway. = P Fortunately they're super-cheesable with a bow! = DD
Grimylack Grimes was a player. ^ _^ That was fun with two summons vs two knights and an invader--and they turned Vordt into hash in a flash! = ooo
Vordt's second phase double body block was being a real pain. = P Also I was being just generally inept. ; D I did KIND of get his first phase down...occasionally. = oo
The game just letting the camera clip into his body when he crowds you, so you can't see what the heck is happening, is just bad game design. ; PPP
When I went into the boss area, invader Borat "returned home"--I wonder if they just got sick of facing my summons, or if invaders are actually blocked from entering the boss area--seems likely I guess.
Looking at the fextralife wiki walkthrough for High Wall of Lothric, it looks like there might have been another NPC summon sign up at the "top of the stairs" outside the boss area? AND I've apparently missed the "Cell Key" that would have got me into that cell with the NPC, who I think becomes a vendor who sells the Zweihander! So I gotta go back for that! = oo |
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39:10 - Greirat's cell
50:28 - Greirat in Firelink
57:50 - Undead Settlement
1:10:29 - Yoel of Londor
1:35:25 - Loretta
2:13:50 - Greirat
"Petty thief" "Grey Rat," a distant cousin of Fritz Leiber's "The Gray Mouser," maybe. ^ _^
I gotta find that Yoel of Londor guy, he's probably tucked away somewhere in Firelink now too. |
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28:15 - artillery
53:14 - rats
1:02:44 - Eygon of Carim
1:16:01 - beating Eygon
1:21:50 - Siegward of Catarina
1:25:01 - Boreal Outrider Knight
1:29:47 - Giant
1:35:29 - cheesing Boreal Knight
1:39:22 - Irithyll Straight Sword
1:40:20 - Road of Sacrifices
1:45:07 - sending Greirat to pilfer
1:50:41 - Flamberge
The game started to click here for me. The ins and outs of this crazy stage are proper Miyazaki and it's a lot of fun connecting them together.
Oh hm so Eygon would have been friendly and even a summon after I freed the prisoner in the cell he's guarding--but the cell is locked so eh would he have attacked me?
Oh I have to buy the sewer door key--to get into that cell from the other side--from the Shrine Handmaid? OH.
Ah okay the guy in Dark Souls: Remastered was "Siegmeyer," whereas this is "Siegward." Otherwise seems exactly the same. ; D (Same voice actor, says fextralife wiki.)
I was slow-rolling at the start! Didn't realize I'd put on a 1.1 lb/kg/whatever ring that had put me over the weight limit. So, back to the no-pants look!
More neat swords! The cool Irithyll longsword and the big Flamberge wavy-bladed greatsword.
Oh yeah I forgot to look for Yoel of Londor in Firelink! And maybe Greirat will come back with a Zweihander some time. ^ _^
Hm and I gotta drop off the lift to talk to Siegward in the Giant's tower 'cause there's stuff to do there, apparently.
Sounds like I DON'T have to use the Young White Branch in order for the Giant not to shoot at me? |
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Unlocking the sewer door and helping Siegward of Catarina defeat a minor demon lord in Undead Settlement
3:45 - Yoel of Londor
15:00 - Mortician's Ashes
24:39 - Grave Key
26:41 - sewer door
36:27 - Irina of Carim
56:48 - Siegward
58:53 - Fire Demon
59:43 - fired = o
1:01:48 - Fire Demon rnd 2
1:06:02 - Large Club
1:36:54 - Flynn's Ring
1:43:09 - Chloranthy Ring
The Flamberge is kind of dull, with its R2 pretty much the same as its R1; doesn't have the utility of for instance the Claymore's (33.5 R1 range) R2 poke. Fextralife wiki says the Bleed it inflicts (causes additional damage) affects fewer enemies than the Frostbite the Irithyll Straight Sword--jeez and that the Irithyll actually has a longer R1 range (35.5) than the Flamberge (34)!
The Large Club's (42.7 R1 range!) R2 pounce slam staggers even those big saw-wielding soupers--that's something I miss about the Zweihander.
Love the Loincloth, it goes perfectly with my sports bra. ^ _^ But can't wear it now that I finally realized I can equip four rings. = ooo (Rings didn't have weight in Remastered, did they?? Dang. ; D) Oh well hm I COULD with the Irithyll Straight Sword (weight 4; Large Club is weight 10, Flamberge 8.5, Claymore 9 (Zweihander 10)).
HM I'll have to see what kind of outfit I can put together with the Irithyll. : D
Oh hm then again I have Flynn's Ring now which increases attack power (up to 15%, wiki says) at lower equip loads. HM. Maybe I'll just say minimal. = D ... HM the wiki says
"the damage increase will fall very quickly for any weapon, and gives no attack rating at around 30 weight. For the full 15% (or 14.12%) increase, you need to be under 2.4 weight (the ring itself weights 0.9). It has a use for low level builds or very low-weight builds, although don't expect the full 15% AR increase. Most of the semi heavy - heavy weapons put it to the lower damage increase range!
For example: At roughly 10 weight, the damage is down to 7-8%, and at 20 it's down to 3-4%, and it caps at roughly 30 with no gain."
I'm at about 16.9 equip load...eh well that's still a ~5% damage boost, that ain't bad. If I go to Irithyll from Flamberge I'll be down to about 12.4, that might be about 6% damage buff.
Chloranthy Ring raised stamina recover by 7 points per second--dunno what my total STA is right now so dunno how good that is. More STA is good though! : D Interestingly there are buffed versions of the ring in NG-plus and plus-plus...but the max version is just in a later area. |
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Getting my bestie the Zweihander and rampaging around with it obsessively. Also, killing a giant tree by crushing its sacks, finding a bonfire I'd missed/forgotten about in Undead Settlement, failing to read maps, getting firebombed repeatedly, getting into the tower above Firelink Shrine as well as a few hidden areas in its upper reaches, curing a horrible shriveled skin condition, and irresponsibly murdering my buddy Yoel of Londor, whose "free" level-up had apparently given me said condition.
0:00 - Undead Settlement - graveyard
6:02 - Great Machete
13:03 - Curse-rotted Greatwood
33:30 - Holy Knight Hodrick (CPU invader)
1:08:53 - Cliff Underside bonfire
1:10:47 - Cornyx of the Great Swamp
1:30:16 - Curse-rotted Greatwood 2nd phase
2:17:42 - Hollowslayer Greatsword (and Pontiff's Left Eye)
2:20:54 - Zweihander!
2:36:56 - Hollowed! = oo (shriveled)
3:09:30 - grinding knights (High Wall of Lothric)
3:41:13 - Tower Key (Firelink Shrine)
3:46:22 - Estus Ring
3:49:19 - Pickle Pee
3:50:44 - Covetous Silver Serpent Ring
3:51:24 - Lift Chamber Key
4:08:04 - Hollowing Reversed!
4:08:36 - murdering Yoel of Londor
4:44:02 - Lift Chamber (last try) & Red Eye Orb
5:05:37 - Fire Keeper clothes
5:08:57 - Road of Sacrifices
In Undead Settlement, I missed a thing of climbing into the cage on the back of that big sawblade guy on the bluff above where Eygon was--he would have carried me to some place where I could have joined some other cult or something like that, said fextralife wiki. Actually maybe that guy respawns and I could go back and do that, I forget. ... Ah nope well he probably does respawn but he's only non-hostile (another non-hostile in Settlement that I attacked from range, like Eygon 'p''--thanks Miyazaki! ; D) until you've reached the boss' second phase, says the wiki.
The tree boss was actually kind of fun, and a relief 'cause I was worried it was all just gonna be fast hitty bosses from here on out or something.
I was so glad when it didn't seem like they were zombifying your character on death anymore--after having to play as a horrible shriveled-up raisin person through Demon's Souls and Dark Souls: Remastered--then I find OH NO IT HAPPENED TO ME I guess 'cause I let Yoel give me a free level-up, which apparently is part of a whole quest line with him where he'll keep doing it like four more times or something and you have to die a whole lot in between or...I dunno the fextralife wiki is spectacularly good at not explaining it clearly, kind of a knack of theirs really. And if you want to go back to not being shriveled up then well you have to cough up 20K for the Firelink tower key and then 7K something to pay for the unshrivelling. ; PPP Thanks, Miyazaki! = PPP
So note to self yes it is the knights for grinding so far 'cause they tend to drop a lotta equipment you can sell for extra souls. (They're actually lots of fun to fight with the Zweihander, too. ^ _^) (Easy to cheese the blue knight at the doorway into the boss area, where his brain kind of turns off.) Oh and I even have one of the grinding rings now, which I'll probably keep forgetting to use. And I guess the blue whatever ring thing that buffs your resists at low HP hardly ever kicks in actually 'cause I gotta be specifically at like 3% health or less or something and usually it's more like I go straight from 50% to dead but eh oh well, that's fine the game is starting to give out all kinds of stat-manipulating rings like candy now!
The heft of the Zwei does kinda ruin my low-weight Flynn's Ring damage buff near-naked build (can't even be near-naked right now with my beloved miniskirt / loincloth, back to full naked argh) by a few damage percents, oh well there's still a bit of a gain.
Next stage after Settlement is looking kinda gray and blah but it'll probably get better I suppose. But I got my Zweihander so who cares mwahahahaaa whack whack! |
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Playing through the kinda nice wading pool clear water mild swamp--okay except for those giant crabs--of Road of Sacrifices, and sorta accidentally getting my first backstab in in Souls PVP. ; D
17:53 - weird guys at a bonfire
42:00 - oh I summoned a GIANT CRAB
53:18 - Black Knight
1:15:58 - got a GIANT CRAB! & Great Swamp Ring
1:25:42 - those two guys (Watchdogs of Farron)
1:28:49 - Great Club
2:15:45 - Crystal Sage
3:12:55 - Orbeck of Vinheim
3:16:48 - invaded (by "Banana") while I'm off wikiing ; D
3:17:03 - Blue Sentinel comes to protect me! (still wikiing ;=D)
3:19:32 - oh there they are!
3:22:09 - Rosaria's Fingers Yellowfinger Hazel
3:26:44 - past the boss area
3:37:30 - Golden Falcon Shield
I GUESS that invader was distracted from finding me--I was in kind of a hard to reach area, I suppose, up by Orbeck--by Blue Sentinel "nedotroga"--my covenant thingy finally kicked in! Neat. And then they were distracted enough when I found them that I accidentally got to them just as their back was turned, and hey, accidental backstab! We got a couple licks in so they had to run, and then, we just heard a scream from somewhere in that maze of ruined walls, and got the message they'd died--so they either fell off a ledge or got chopped up by NPCs! ^ _^
Oh huh that "Rosaria's Fingers" thing is a covenant whose members can be "reborn" and change their stats/appearance--up to five times per game loop.
You can PRETTY MUCH cheese the Sage from that ledge at upper rear right using a bow. Takes a good number of arrows though! Oh yeah I guess that's a use for the cheap arrows, as 99 backups for the 99 regular arrows, since that's all you can carry at once now--I'd better buy some more of those.
So hm am I gonna keep pumping Vitality to get my Equip Load up enough to speed roll with the Grass shield equipped for that Stamina boost? Gonna take a bit...
My Flynn's Ring is gonna get pretty useless, so I guess I have an opening for whenever a tasty new ring comes along. ^ _^
Decided to cash in all the armor I'm not gonna use instead of keeping it all like I did in Remastered. ; D Still can't bring myself to sell off the weapons though. : P
Didn't find a way to that giant "Ravenous Crystal Lizard" behind the one-way door in a corner of the swamp; fextralife wiki walkthrough doesn't mention it (just "grated door that can be unlocked from the other side"...so uh hello??) so eh um I guess maybe I'll be accessible from one of the TWO (DS3 finally going non-linear??) next areas? (Video walkthroughs I checked just say you'll get back around there "later." 'p') |
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Making a circuit of the Farron Keep swamp perimeter!
4:55 - basilisks
11:12 - Antiquated Set anti-poison outfit
13:33 - Elder Ghru!
39:26 - Giant Crab!
1:15:38 - Leaper Ghru 'p'
1:25:17 - Darkwraith
Oh haha the start of the fextralife wiki walkthrough for Farron Keep says you should do Cathedral of the Deep first because you get an anti-poison ring and a curse-resisting shield. Oh well! ; D And it says you can equip a dagger and use its "Quickstep" or something Weapon Art to run quickly through the swamp water, huh. (Don't think I'd bother with that though.)
The walkthrough also says the Giant from Undead Settlement, whom I've befriended, would fire at the giant crab for me...which I don't think happened. : P |
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Clearing the Farron Keep swamp interior, including climbing up to fight Stray Demon, aka--in THIS Souls game--Gatekeeper of Lothric.
21:35 - Old Wolf of Farron
33:11 - top of tower
45:33 - Stray Demon
55:16 - shiny pants (Leather Boots)
1:11:15 - Darkmoon Loyalty (emote/summon??)
1:18:11 - Burn Undead Bone Shard (x2)
1:37:58 - opening "door to Wolf's Blood"
Stray Demon is the first boss you see in Dark Souls Remastered, and you can fight like two or three incarnations of him in that game. ; ) Oh, fextralife wiki says these guys are sorta related to the tutorial boss in Demon's Souls, Vanguard Demon (also in Shrine of Souls in that game).
This one here on top of the wall seems made to be cheesed with ranged attacks; it's kind of fun though as you gotta dodge his black boulder spray from time to time.
Will I remember to try that "Darkmoon Loyalty" emote the mysterious well-dressed woman in Firelink gave me, to "call on her" when in need? What would it do??
OH so Burn Undead Bone Shard increases the healing you get from the Estus Flask! I burned my first two shards and nearly doubled the health replenishment--one swig is nearly a whole health bar now! Whoaaah. |
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Farron Keep boss--with summon Sirris of the Sunless Realms
31:06 - ravenous crystal lizard
55:04 - summoning Sirris
57:09 - Abyss Watchers
1:29:10 - Sirris dies somehow while boss is attacking me = oo (oh I wonder if she'd been poisoned by the NPCs outside...but she entered the boss area fully healthy...)
1:40:05 - darkwraith cosplay
1:43:01 - Catacombs of Carthus
1:49:38 - Havel's Ring & testing Grass shield regen
That gesture I got from Sirris earlier in Firelink doesn't actually seem to summon her or her sign. The fextralife wiki walkthrough also mentioned another NPC summon possibly being there, but then their own page on Black Hand Gotthard mentions nothing about him being there--and he wasn't. : P
Her play style is a little hangy-back or well shooting spells from medium-long range for a bit that tend to miss a fast boss; EVENTually she'll go in with a maybe spell-enhanced sword. Finding she'd get killed off if *I* tried hanging back with the bow, had to go in, which was tough against the boss' second form, your typical fast-with-huge-strike-area jerk--maybe could have finished him off if I'd stuck to long range attacks, but it would have taken a long time and been a bit chancy; dodging until she got an attack in to draw him after her, then going in to land an attack of my own, actually worked all right--certainly would've been a pain without her to take the heat half the time and let me work into position!
It was fun how the Watchers fought each other in the first phase! : D
Transposing to get Havel's Ring--a staple for me in Dark Souls: Remastered--got me the max equip load boost I needed to carry the Grass shield, finally. Rough testing shows Grass shield and Chloranthy ring both cut about a quarter second from my stamina bar's regen--so with both together it refills in about 2.5 seconds instead of 3. Pretty decent, actually! That's 16% more attacks I can make! : D |
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Cathedral of the Deep
0:00 - there's a guy with an axe
5:54 - dogs & arrows
11:49 - kamikaze = o
21:23 - cemetery
38:45 - ravenous crystal lizard
57:05 - suckered into another painting
1:20:46 - giant artillery
1:33:15 - Miyazaki flying buttress murders
Finally realized it's easier to deal with the dogs if I don't try to lock the camera on them, and just swing as they're closing.
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0:00 - rooftops
26:20 - that's no statue...
57:16 - grabby
1:12:05 - mimsy wimsy
1:13:12 - Mace knight
1:22:23 - wider spider |
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8:32 - splashed by giant
33:10 - halberded
50:55 - rafters
1:00:50 - slipped
1:07:25 - axed
1:24:00 - sluggoids
1:53:20 - altar
1:57:30 - I'm terrible at dodging
2:11:06 - giant ankles
2:32:49 - Longfinger Kirk (Rosaria's Fingers)
The giants don't have health bars and I'm still not sure the arrows were actually damaging them, but they go down without too much tickling with the Zweihander.
Still dodging too early. I'm actually better at dodging in 3 than I was in Remastered--but I think that's just because the enemies swing faster here in 3, so I end up dodging not quite as early as I was in Remastered, where they swung a lot slower. ; D
I should probably stop shaking my cane at my upstairs neighbors. You young punks! ; DDD The funny thing is, no matter how much noise they're making at like 11:00, by 11:15 it's lights out and I don't hear a peep from them until 6:45 to 10:00 am the next day. So, could be a lot worse. ; ) |
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Sorting out the saga of Siegward & Patches, co-op vs the boss of Cathedral of the Deep, and through Catacombs of Carthus
0:00 - Rosaria's Bedchamber (Cathedral of the Deep)
3:35 - Siegward
18:48 - Unbreakable Patches
33:49 - knight grinding (High Wall of Lothric)
43:40 - Catarina armor
44:40 - rescuing Siegward
46:54 - Reanu Keevs player summon
51:51 - Deacons of the Deep
1:11:02 - Patches
1:16:37 - Catacombs of Carthus
2:59:40 - Bonesy Ball vs skeletons
3:03:11 - oops that was Anri I shot
3:07:46 - Fire Demon
3:11:06 - mimic'd repeatedly : PP |
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Finishing Catacombs of Carthus and heading into Smouldering Lake
5:11 - High Lord Wolnir
14:58 - Wolnir rnd 2
17:35 - Wolnir 3
21:09 - peek at Irithyll of the Boreal Valley
29:14 - Smouldering Lake
34:01 - Old Demon King
46:31 - smouldering ghru catacombs
1:35:25 - annoyingly fiddly hole jump 'p'
The "Auto" HUD option is cool; I hadn't activated it at first because I thought it would hide things I needed to see, like my health, but it shows meters when they change, and that worked surprisingly for me once I got used to it. Anyway I had to try it once I saw the glittering sight that is Irithyll and yay! |
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Finishing Catacombs of Carthus and heading into Smouldering Lake.
0:00 - clone corridors
14:47 - rat fam
24:57 - bassy lisks
31:48 - Knight Slayer Tsorig = o
50:25 - slowly cheesing Tsorig
1:17:55 - slow cheese black knight
1:54:01 - giant worm
2:00:00 - crabocalypse
Hit a SUPER rough patch here after getting one-shot by Tsorig where, trying to get back, I just started getting killed by every enemy I came across, including I think even a slime after a ghru grabbed me once. ; D UGH. And I couldn't even put up a whisper of melee resistance to the black knight just past Tsorig, and settled for cheesing him extremely slowly...which made me feel slightly better. 'p'
Checking the fextralife wiki, the unique loot in those two lava treasure rooms spellcaster-related, so I'll skip them (and no magic lava-resist item to be had, it looks like, so you're just meant to cobble together the max fire resist you can and...try not to die :P).
Still gotta work out if I can get that item up on that shelf in the basilisk area.
Apparently Tsorig had a summon sign somewhere in the stage! And there was some warrior woman you could summon near the boss. I suppose I could probably still go recruit her...unless summon signs disappear once you've cleared the area boss or something, I dunno. Also she can get killed by NPCs--and can't use ladders, it says--so I dunno if it's worth embering up for that.
Crabs crabs crabs. |
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Crying as I try to polish off a few final tasks in Smouldering Lake, then heading into Irithyll of the Boreal Valley.
0:00 - Smouldering Lake
0:12 - Horace the Hushed
9:05 - Izalith Staff
16:44 - activating Ballista
18:34 - Ballista stops firing! = ooooo
24:36 - chumped by Black Knight on ladder ; PPP
26:16 - Speckled Stoneplate Ring
28:48 - Irithyll of the Boreal Valley
32:25 - Sulyvahn's Beast
41:28 - beasting
1:09:22 - trying Carthus Bloodring
That danged Ballista in Smouldering Lake stopped firing after I reactivated it, just before I got to the wall I needed it to shoot! What the heck! ; PP Then after I died, it started firing again. =; PP
Tried going SUPER glass cannon with Carthus Bloodring but it increased the damage I took by 30%--and I'd had to drop an HP boost to equip it, too! So yeah I couldn't handle that. = PP
The fextralife wiki says you could just cheese the Beast with a bow from outside the starting archway--it'll despawn, but apparently when it comes back, its health won't be reset. |
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Finding the sign to be summoned into Sirris of the Sunless Realms' world--in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley:
5:41 - oh there's her sign 'p'
13:48 - I'm invaded by ":)"; defended by "Wunde II"
22:52 - Yorshka Church backyard
48:20 - the river
1:06:12 - Siegward's cozy kitchen
1:12:13 - knights
1:24:07 - Smough's Great Hammer
Sirris' sign for being summoned into her world is a sort of light cream color--and in Irithyll that's laid over light bluish snow-covered cobblestones on the bridge, so, kind of hard to spot. That's my excuse for it taking me five minutes to find it, anyway. ; D
I failed in my co-op play here, first multiple times with NPC Sirris vs her NPC invader Creighton the Wanderer, then soon afterwards, with player defender Wunde II vs my own invader, ":)." Particularly in the :) fight, I managed to swing my sword just frames too slowly to catch them before they rolled away SO many times, gahrgh. I guess that's an argument that I should use a lighter, faster weapon. ... I mean for PVP, yeah, probably. But I don't play this game for PVP, so uh that's my excuse for not bothering to switch weapons, harumph. (Speaking of switching weapons, both times I tried switching to bow vs these co-op opponents was a total failure, the arrows just aren't fast enough to catch evasive enemies--at least, when I'm the one trying to fire them.)
The :) fight was complicated by my having left one of those powerful cross knights in the vicinity, who promptly started horning in with their long-range flame spell attacks on my team while we were trying to get the invader. Oof! Another tactical failure. ; D
"Did I die?" I asked naively--forgetfully?--at the end. Yeah I died repeatedly early on 'cause I couldn't co-op effectively with player nor NPC. ; D Don't think I died in the middle-to-end section with the vanishing wights and river hags and knights and so forth though, even though I pretty much ran outta arrows--that got rough.
Oh yeah I got some weird ashes I gotta try giving to the store lady in Firelink.
OOPS and I didn't see what was down that ladder in that chamber with all the eyeball vanishing dudes back near Yorshka Church. |
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14:22 - Irithyll Manor
46:06 - Pontiff Sulyvahn
1:48:07 - w/ Mira of Mirrah 2 (player summon)
2:09:14 - Alva, Seeker of the Spurned
2:21:35 - Irithyll Dungeon
Pontiff Sulyvahn, the Irithyll boss, is really tough, but to make up for it, the game gives you THREE NPC summons right outside his cathedral--except, in previous purposeful or semi-accidental rash moments in earlier stages, I had err eliminated a few of the NPCs--leaving me with just one summon to help me against this fearsome boss!
My slow greatsword swings missed him a lot as he zoomed around, so I tried switching the faster, icy (he was resistant to ice but never mind) Irithyll Straight Sword, which did seem to help. And best of all, a player summon sign appeared! So with a player summon--Mira of Mirrah 2--and an NPC summon--Black Hand Gotthard--I was finally able to go toe-to-toe with the boss, especially in his later phase where he starts popping out clones of himself! = ooo
Maybe I'll stick with this icy sword for a bit, it's pretty fun. : )
(I gotta take that additional armor I put on at the end back off--already forgot I switched to a ring that boosts my damage when I'm carrying less weight!) |
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Blundering around Irithyll Dungeon
0:00 - inventory & Firelink
17:09 - trading w/ Pickle-Pee
24:55 - Irithyll Dungeon
41:10 - brand-stomped
54:44 - wormed
1:04:44 - snoring mimic
1:11:52 - giant
1:20:11 - mimic 2
1:22:25 - 'lisk ambush
1:26:49 - arrows for giant
1:53:33 - mimic 3
2:02:00 - jailer party
The giant DID have a health meter--about half his height above his head! (Did the giants back in Cathedral of the Deep have 'em there, too?) And it seemed to indicate that arrows only did 1/10th of their normal damage to him while he was asleep! ??? |
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0:00 - Irithyll Dungeon (basement)
22:42 - Dragon Torso Stone
33:18 - transformation!
47:49 - oh rats
1:07:25 - nope, NOT a shortcut = oo
1:13:57 - rat cam
1:14:35 - Profaned Capital
1:47:46 - Torchy McBoltface
1:50:58 - Handy McHanderson
1:55:44 - mimic one-kick
2:08:28 - invis trap = o
2:22:42 - clearing Dungeon |
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0:00 - Irithyll Dungeon (basement)
6:03 - rescuing Karla
14:35 - Profaned Capital
19:26 - rescuing Siegward
26:12 - hand monsters (Monstrosities of Sin)
31:40 - forgot about the swamp toxin 'p'
40:09 - whomped by witch spiders, finished off by toxin ; D
46:27 - finished off by toxin while reading reward axe lore ; DD
53:36 - fell off roof sniping hands, finished by toxin ; DDD
1:16:02 - fballs
1:22:59 - the day after the party
1:33:32 - comically inept gargoyle & mimic fighting |
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Co-op smashing the boss in Profaned Capital, and cheesing the pair of Sulyvahn's Beasts in the "Water Reserve" secret area in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley:
0:00 - Capital bridge capers
28:20 - vs Yhorm the Giant, w/ Siegward of Catarina & "Snowpeapod"
1:11:48 - invaded by "I believe in you" (Aldrich Faithful) (in Irithyll)
1:23:46 - greatbow sniper
1:32:59 - Drang & giants
1:56:31 - cheesing 1st Sulyvahn's Beast in Water Reserve
2:34:18 - cheesing Beast 2
Was baffled by getting hit by the invader's big chopper even though I'd dodged well past the swing of their weapon--but could be lag or big weapon hit boxes--basically I think it comes down to it being another case of me rolling too soon; the goal should be to roll just as they swing to take advantage of the invulnerability frames while rolling--and that should also tend to leave you in a better position to counter-attack. I mean--in theory; I always get nervous and press the button earlier than I should!
Also I gotta stop dropping off ledges when being tailed in PVP--that just lets them drop on me for huge damage. ; D Last two PVP deaths have been due to that. ; DDD
Oh and maybe because that invader was auto-summoned as a "protector" for the area around Anor Londo (I think?) as a mechanic of their covenant, that didn't trigger the auto-protection summon my OWN covenant would otherwise have got for me? So I dodged around for ages and no covenant savior came. ; D
The "Ring of Favor" with a % Stamina boost (and HP and max equip load) = hurrah! 5 R1 swings with the Irithyll straight sword now, woo!
A rather abrupt end of Siegward's "story" felt a little half-baked. 'p'
Oh yeah my sword hits on Yhorm's legs were doing almost no damage, haha--didn't know you're "supposed" to run to the far end of his chamber and grab his spare sword that does like 100x more damage to him--which is what Siegward and the player summon Snowpeapod were using (and you have to hold the button to charge up its Weapon Art for a bit, which explains why they seemed to be standing around a lot ; D). Oh well at least I drew a little fire for them with my flailing around. ; ) |
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Gwynevere's old room in Anor Londo, Lothric Barracks section of eclipsed Lothric Castle
0:00 - Castle
6:31 - Londo
15:25 - Robe of Prayer (Prince Lothric's stuff) (Castle)
29:44 - he threw the axes!
39:10 - 'nother dwagon! = oo
1:14:47 - big silly knight
1:21:15 - Boreal Outrider Knight in the basement
Oh I guess technically they're wyverns again--says fextralife wiki--not dragons. : PP |
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Hijinks around Lothric Castle
0:14 - Castle
5:00 - dark
7:09 - pus vis glitch
13:47 - tiny mimic! didn't bite
30:12 - alcove cam glitch
1:12:00 - oh mim got me this time
1:25:33 - vs Holy Knight Hodrick w/ Sirris of the Sunless Realms (Undead Settlement)
1:45:20 - vs Dragonslayer Armour w/ Sirris (Lothric Castle)
1:58:33 - invaded by Dark Spirit kitterwave while task-switched reading wiki ; D (Grand Archives) (defended by Blade of the Darkmoon Murilo)
2:00:07 - wait it also summons BotDM John Dark Soul??
2:13:53 - me fail rampage
TWO Blades of the Darkmoon got summoned to help me and I STILL rolled into a pack of NPCs and got myself killed! 'ppp' Argh! ; D
Oh man that zombie DIDn't vis glitch in at me he just took advantage of my distraction by the actual vis glitch to ghost in partway behind a railing blocking my view - 7:34 - and then my own character blocking the view--heck of an ambush as it just about looked like he sprang outta nowhere! ^ _^
Kinda funny how Hodrick whipped out his shield right before the end. : P |
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Through the concentrated toxic tiny swamp of Consumed King's Garden:
39:31 - Hawkwood the Deserter
40:39 - Oceiros, the Consumed King
52:59 - Oceiros again
59:42 - Oceiros attempt #3
1:11:50 - Oceiros try 4 'p' (accidentally 1-handing Zweihander =ppp)
1:20:38 - Oceiros 5...
1:24:46 - oh Hawkwood is out of estus
1:36:45 - Path of the Dragon
1:38:17 - secret area: Untended Graves
Some particularly clumsy attempted co-op with NPC Hawkwood there vs the boss. ; D
Ah so according to the fextralife wiki, Greirat eventually dies on these foraging missions, and I have to go retrieve his ashes and give them to Shrine Handmaiden so she'll sell like the Standard Arrows he used to sell. I think since I talked to Siegward in the Irithyll kitchen that means he didn't go "save" Greirat on his Irithyll foraging outing, so I should be able to find Greirat's Ashes between the kitchen and the cistern below it. |
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Finding what became of Greirat, then dipping into the stacks of the Grand Archives:
1:35 - finding Greirat
15:45 - Grand Archives
57:38 - finishing Crystal Sage
1:08:59 - up-close head waxing
1:11:32 - cheesing Boreal Outrider Knight
1:31:52 - brief Lothric Castle grind
Those devices of brass hoops showing planetary orbits and things aren't "astrolabes" as I incorrectly named them--they're "orreries." (Astrolabes are discs with a rotating pointer on them, used to calculate the positions of stars and planets in the sky.)
I still haven't looked up what the head wax actually does, if anything--kind of feel like it's more fun not knowing. ^ _^ |
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Tumbling around the upper reaches of Grand Archives
0:54 - red eye knight backstab
17:13 - gargoyle head stab??
24:52 - cheesing gargies
51:41 - sliding bookshelf secret
1:02:32 - flamberged
1:40:33 - the three amigos
1:53:11 - winged goldies |
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Summoning help to beat the twin boss in Grand Archives, then crunching around in Painted World of Ariandel, from the Ashes of Ariandel DLC
1:40 - approach
22:13 - team vs Lothric Princes 1
27:46 - 2 (just 2)
34:51 - 3
43:34 - 4
50:38 - 5 (2)
53:28 - 6 (2)
56:26 - 7 (2)
1:01:52 - 8
1:20:04 - Painted World of Ariandel
1:31:13 - wolves
1:33:47 - tree ladies
1:48:15 - giant wolf
2:00:46 - Millwood Knight
2:14:05 - wolf roundup
2:15:16 - wolf stuck
Live wolf got its hindquarters stuck in the cliff. = oo (I made a bloopers clip of it: https://youtu.be/IOFiqECsQX8 )
Vs the Princes, a couple other players' summon signs showed up but then said unable to summon, harrumph. = P
Giant slashy bosses with resurrections is so aggra-vatin'. ;=P
Zweihander was still too slow. Going bow actually worked!
I was getting the name mixed up--THIS snowy world is "Painted World of Ariandel"--"Painted World of Ariamis" was the snowy world in Dark Souls Remastered. : P |
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0:00 - wolf roundup
1:12 - wolf stuck |
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I was terrible at fighting the giant Millwood Knights--until I found I could turn turn their tower into a death trap--for them! ; D
In Painted World of Ariandel, from the Ashes of Ariandel DLC:
5:01 - uppercut
22:50 - oopsie!
35:33 - red-eyed uppercut!
44:29 - Double KO!
52:28 - axed
54:35 - double-teamed
56:05 - taking the tower
1:15:29 - wolf peak
1:52:59 - cathedral
1:58:24 - Sister Friede
Huh, according to the fextralife wiki, the Millwoods are actually weak to frostbite! But my Irithyll Straight Sword didn't slow them down at all, so I had better success with the Zweihander--except I tended to get a bit too mash-happy on the R2, and get mashed myself. ; D
OH and they DO heal themselves gradually over time, maybe at least the ones with shields--'cause their shield has that passive healing buff! = ooo |
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Through Corvian Settlement, in Painted World of Ariandel, from the Ashes of Ariandel DLC:
35:00 - knives
41:16 - lizard & claws
48:34 - Slave Knight Leggings
1:22:49 - Sir Vilhelm
Hadda go Zweihander again 'cause those big birdy jerks with the claws/knives kept hopping out of the Irithyll Straight Sword's range. : P |
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0:00 - rambling ds3 impressions
3:53 - roofs & slopes
29:11 - Millwood Knight canyon
1:11:35 - flies
1:50:20 - secret flies
1:53:27 - roots
1:56:30 - Livid Pyromancer Dunnel
2:02:17 - Friede failings
Might have to skip this boss fight like I did that one black dragon DLC boss in Remastered. ; D Although I think if I can get two really good player summons then it should be in the bag--I kept getting one who was really good and then there were a couple others who didn't seem very effective; not that my longbow and I can talk haha aaaah shoot.
Also I was helping Gael against sis in the uh what 2nd phase or whatever, instead of going after daddy, who's a much easier target--but maybe if I pitched in against him, since they share a health bar, that would make that phase go super-fast and Gael would be fine anyway--and my player summons would be in better shape for the next phase. So maybe I'll try that.
Uh oops also I had the cat ring on during all those boss fight attempts. : P
Thinking of that though, by rearranging my rings, and also going bow-only, I can boost my bow damage ~25%. Okay so I have 10% less HP, but still, it should help in that boss fight.
Might also just do a bit of grinding to pump DEX a bit!
Watched a video of a player soloing Friede simply by backing off, waiting for her to spin in, sidestepping--no rolls at all!--and backstabbing her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKK7MckkRWk |
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Grinding--with a tragically clumsy start ; D--in Grand Archives in preparation for the Ariandel boss
0:00 - bow damage ring loadout for Sister Friede
12:59 - bad grinding
17:38 - hands
27:55 - oh, hands
29:02 - hands--again!
34:39 - spear
1:07:13 - iced sword
1:59:07 - waxed
2:00:25 - double-waxed
That video I was talking about (I linked it in the description of the previous episode as well) of a player beating Friede by spacing her attacks perfectly without even rolling is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKK7MckkRWk |
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0:50 - grinding & muttering about headset mics & ds3 being the least popular souls game ; D
54:35 - oops
1:12:14 - Sister Friede boss fight
1:34:15 - Untended Graves
1:51:23 - Untended Graves again
1:56:23 - ring muttering
Ah, most DS3 stats "soft cap" at 40, meaning the benefit you get from them above 40 is much less per point than it was below 40--so that's why the Hunter's Ring's plus 5 to DEX doesn't do much at all for me now that I ground my DEX to 42.
Messed w/ rings a bit more and I think I'll go w/ Flynn's Ring (big damage boost at low weight), Lloyd's Sword Ring (big damage boost at max HP), Sun Princess Ring (slow heal over time to regain Lloyd boost), and Chloranthy Ring (my STA fills in ~3 seconds instead of ~4); the Knight's Ring's plus 5 STR would still give an okay damage boost on the sword but eh, that'd go down eventually with the soft cap--not sure I'll level that far but hey, this is pie in the sky thinking! ; D
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Well after all that crying while grinding--about how Windows Update or something lowered the recording volume of my analog headset mic--with the last-minute gain adjustments I made, and the game sounds playing in the background, any difference in audio quality isn't all that apparent, thankfully.
The comparison with the USB mic I'll be trying is https://www.rtings.com/headphones/tools/compare/jbl-quantum-100-vs-razer-blackshark-v2-hyperspeed-wireless/13293/44397
(I mentioned the USB dongle latency is 25 ms, but the USB wired latency is 15 ms, so not much reason not to dongle, as long as the fidelity is the same--I'll have to test that.) |
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Mostly in embarrassing cave girl pants, getting past the last Dreg Heap angel in The Ringed City DLC, going back to loot the dark Firelink Shrine in Untended Graves, and finding and defeating secret boss Champion's Gravetender in The Painted World of Ariandel
0:00 - ring sorting (Dreg Heap)
5:16 - Pyromancer Zoey's escort respawned?
8:20 - the last angel
37:46 - Giant Door Shield
52:38 - Dancer's Leggings
58:45 - dark Firelink
1:34:10 - eyes for Fire Keeper
1:40:58 - how NOT to cut the bridge ; DDD (Painted World)
2:10:41 - giant crabs
2:14:51 - Champion's Gravetender secret boss
2:17:03 - Champion's Gravetender & Gravetender Greatwolf
2:26:27 - unlocking "Undead Match"
2:40:45 - Dancer's set
2:58:01 - Antiquated Gloves
I put me cutting the rope bridge wrong in its own blooper video: https://youtu.be/Noueeh-5yrU
There was more ring sorting at the start when I realized I had picked up a Ring of Favor plus 3, that pretty much took the place of the Ring of Steel Protection plus 3 I'd been planning to equip. |
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Messing around vs Demon Prince in The Dreg Heap part of The Ringed City DLC
1:56 - soloing Demon in Pain & Demon from Below w/ Longbow ; )
24:39 - trying various solo loadouts
1:27:50 - w/ NPC summons Amnesiac Lapp & Slave Knight Gael
2:12:13 - invaded when I had 2 NPC summons ; D--I "escape" when invader knocks me into boss fight ; DD
2:51:09 - a player! Klein
2:56:49 - w/ Klein again
3:26:02 - to The Ringed City
I made that bit when the invader lost me by knocking me into the boss fight into its own blooper highlight video: https://youtu.be/gPWrSlwyzbU
Never quite figured out how to keep those two NPC summons alive vs the Prince... Think I could'a done it eventually by getting a bit better at concentrating fire in the first phase... And having the right arrows 'p', durn them dark arrows. ; D I mean, I probably could've managed it that way sooner than by learning to take the demons on hand-to-hand properly. ; ) Well, I guess you're supposed to have a Bleed or Slash (curved swords etc) or Black Knight weapon. : PPP
I guess I learned I hate going to shorter-ranged shots--so I suppose that triple crossbow isn't for me anyway.
I did kinda have fun soloing the first phase with arrows. ^ _^ Oh and yeah so I don't think any of the stamina boosts helped (or the Carthus and whatever that other rolling ring is) for rolling away!
These sharp shiny boots are pretty neat.
Don't get why you have to do the NPC summons first--if you summon a player first you can only get one NPC after. Silly. ; P |
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1:10 - Ringed City
1:51:56 - "Seeker of the Spurned" CPU invader
3:06:17 - defeating Silver Knight Ledo
4:05:07 - cheesing Iron Dragonslayer
4:24:20 - "Humanity" puzzle
Oh man, the DLC is getting real ridiculous--way too long from the second to the third bonfire, and oh yay another swamp; this is what they thought people wanted more of? ; D And this one just has all sorts of ridiculous enemies just scattered everywhere. Oh well hey that'll get the play time up---ah oh actually I did go over 100 hours here in this session (now at 104 'p').
Finally had to remember about the Zweihander's Weapon Art to beat Ledo; I'd written it off because the initial pose thing is well sort of an attack I guess but super-short range; that doesn't really matter though, it just sets you to do a huge R2 uppercut, then you get a free R2 or whatever on the fallen opponent. Quite handy against these new eclipse-emblem knights or whatever they are, too!
Hm, I guess I CAN blow all my STA on just shooting the bow (1:12:46). 'p'
NPC invader attacks don't require you to be ember-ed in this DLC. |
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Running into a large dragon and then a funky boss fight with an actual player in it as the baddie
18:20 - dragon shenanigans
30:58 - Lapp
33:45 - mimic
49:10 - tanked Moaning Knight
1:22:46 - "I'm in the meat!"
2:12:42 - best I did against Darkeater Midir
3:22:59 - oh there's 3 of 'em! (Judicator Argo / Spear of the Church)
3:25:23 - is that a player??
3:28:28 - 3rd time's the charm! ^ _)
I suppose they probably are the same dragon, I mean the one I knocked off the bridge and the one in the optional boss fight. Anyway it's another optional DLC dragon boss I can't beat, just like the one in Remastered--hm actually not nearly as bad really, but I still probably am not really anywhere close to getting that last 30% HP off as the dragon goes into rage mode etc and the NPC always gets themselves killed, or anyway I can't keep them alive.
Hmm I'm thinking maybe if I got a bunch of pine resin to add lighting damage to the Zweihander, I'd have just about enough damage to beat that optional dragon boss...? Eh I guess I'll have to give that a shot or two. (Sneak spoiler: it didn't help me at all, I'm too horrible at this. ; D Anyway that'll be the first few minutes of the next episode, me lit up and still getting carved up!)
Oh well I got that PvP boss fight polished off pretty fast at least. Couldn't really believe that was it; guess I lucked out with a not-so-tough player being summoned. Oh, yeah, in the first I didn't know what I was doing and didn't concentrate targets, in the second the player dodged all my Zweihander swipes--that player was probably pretty good--but in the third I mashed 'em hard--I hadn't even bothered to go heavy armor, how frivolous of me ; D--and they probably had a chance to heal but didn't manage it. |
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Last battles of The Ringed City DLC, then off to Archdragon Peak
2:21 - pine resin doesn't help me vs Darkeater Midir
26:35 - Filianore (the embraced shell)
36:18 - Slave Knight Gael
56:48 - defeating Gael
1:43:28 - Repeating Crossbow
1:55:58 - Shira, Knight of Filianore
2:17:21 - Archdragon Peak
2:33:11 - weird Ancient Wyvern encounter
3:22:44 - Drakeblood Greatsword
3:51:56 - Midir eats my Drakeblood Greatsword ; D
4:14:13 - defeating Havel spawn
I actually had a lot of fun with that Gael boss fight; Gab and I felt reasonably evenly matched I think, and after Midir, it sure was nice to have a closer-to-human-sized--but still big--opponent and feel like you were actually mixing it up with them; and I really enjoyed how switching to bow right at the end felt like an actual meaningful tactical switch that paid off surprisingly well, letting me avoid Gael's boss rage mode and pick him apart for the final win. Cool setting for the battle, too. I don't think I could have beat it solo though--that kinda worries me about DS3 in general. |
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Finally defeating the Archdragon Peak boss, then the silly boss of the main game:
0:30 - Archdragon Peak
44:16 - ringing the bell
50:58 - defeating Havel
1:03:33 - Havel Set
3:09:43 - defeating Nameless King
3:37:38 - Kiln of the First Flame
3:51:31 - defeating Soul of Cinder
3:57:30 - ending
4:00:16 - credits
4:07:21 - New Game Plus - Cemetery of Ash
4:13:28 - NGP - Iudex Gundyr
4:15:16 - NGP - Firelink Shrine
So I guess going heavy metal might've been the exact wrong thing to try against Nameless King and all his electrical attacks? ; D It sure was easier to dodge once I shed the heavy armor... OH! Yeah, looking back, I had already switched to the super heavy armor by the first time I reached the second phase, hadn't I? So of course I couldn't outrun him by then. Oh well, that explains it. Anyway apparently it might've gone better if I'd gone light and with the longbow in the second phase. And man that last boss of the main game was so forgettable. = P Anyway that's done! On to Elden Ring! |
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