/dsg/ - Demon's and Dark Souls General

I can understand why fight club would ban esten flask since chads need it to keep going after each round.

But why ban it in a duel? You don't use your flasks after the duel is over and each player can use them.

>muh honourable fight to death
Ask your doctor for autism pills. It's a video game, flasks are part of the game. If the developers didn't want you using it in soap duels they would have done so.

>it ruins diversity
No it doesn't. If it did trolls would constantly be winning with attrition chugger strategies. Chuggers are no one near the level of dominance that would warrant a ban in the same kind of way pokemon or smash characters get banned.

>it prolongs the fight
Stop being a carebear, this is hardly an issue.

>it takes no skill
If it takes no skill then why can't you use it?

Because in a duel between phantom and host, the host would have 8 more flasks

>tfw Demons Souls online is ded

Offhand crossbow became a meme because of how easy they are to use to finish chuggers as they attempt a chug after going some distance.

First for mouse and keyboard best way to play for unlocked combat. It throws off pursuers every time when I 180 and pokey poke with my poker or slam with my red stick. It's optimal for all ranged combat, especially in pve.

If unlocked strafing was a possible option, m&kb would be unstoppable. Rate my opinion from pleb to not pleb.

>the autistic animetard at it again

>dks1 hovers around 2000 on pc

Why do you need estus in a duel in the first place?

Prolonging the fight is bottom line not the issue, you've been outplayed if you've gotten to the point where you need estus

Why in a duel, that you've gone out of your way to partake in, do you feel the need to bash someone for expecting you to be honorable, they aren't invading you, you're bringing them to your world for a fight

Maybe you just need to fuck off and invade if you want to estus, instead of trying to get butthurt about people playing by common sense rules.

Why do you need to be best 2 out of 3 in all major competitions?

And its not common sense rules its literally just carebears being carebears.

Guys I can't beat Siegmeyer.

Fucking guy won't let up on a unspoken, long held rule that everyone breaks every once in a while. He's calling other people autistic when he's the only one still arguing this hardly regulated rule. You must be baiting at this point or genuinely retarded.

He's baiting and people are replying to him. This would be a better place if people just ignored obvious bait.

I know that it caused pvp balance problems, but I am glad that phantoms could sip in Dark Souls II and III.

I'm replaying I, and co-op is aggravating. Most hosts are incredibly rude. For the past two times I've fought Quelaag, not one of my hosts have even taken an estus flask when I'm at low health.

The stupidity astounds me.

>fighting Siegmeyer

I'm doing the true boss order run.

phantoms couldn't sip while an invader was present in dark souls 2

all they had to do was keep this rule for dark souls 3.

Yes, that was a good design choice in II, but forcing invaders to only heal with warmth or miracles was retrograde.

Souls-senpai, can I borrow your ears for a moment?

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how do i kill lorian? i know i gotta get gud but what else should i know

@162708872
Fuck off, shill.

@162708872
No (You) for (You), shill

Bleed and you can also parry him

Autism hurts

just saw vengarl face in ds2
holy shit that ps1 tier face is so creepy

I mean velstat
I thought he named Vergarl, because of Garl, until i Googled, lol.

>tfw armored core verdict day

When did Veeky Forums start doing advertisements in the middle of posts?

Sony must be really desperate to be paying interns to spam Veeky Forums ads.

I always give a (you) to shitty posts, it's important to make it clear and obvious how shit they are. Otherwise someone reading might be tricked into thinking shilling is around here.

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What kind of players/builds piss you off the most

For me it's casterbabies that spam vestiges or soul spear and run as soon as you get near them

In group there's nothing worse than 2 or more players using washingpoles

Rate how annoying you'd think I'd be. I use a longsword, halberd, and occasionally a pokey stick. I also use rope bombs anytime I can, especially when back peddling.

Also, I've literally never encountered a caster that wasn't in a gank squad.

So what the fuck is this shiny shit?

>tfw no dark souls playing gf

The Abyss.

i see but i cannot parry and i cant bleed cause no points in luck

>tfw gf wants to play dark souls but she can't even walk straight in JRPGs

What's this about bleed and luck?

i would kill for any female who plays video games

i have never spoken to one

me neither i'm a lesbian though

If she can't walk straight obviously that means she doesn't play much.

if i was a lesbian and not a straight dude i would have a billion times more luck

i've met 12 lesbians and no straight girls into this shit game kill me

PC? FC? BF?

#TipTuesday

This is why I don't partake in autist tryhard loser high level pvp, the game was designed for you to be able to heal in some manner sometimes you get phantom ranged, sometimes you get the random ass pebble that makes your sword bounce off it like a mcdonalds pit ball and sometimes you fight some fucking tryhard using a meme weapon and you gotta take a few hits to learn how passive he is before you pull something else out and completely wreck him without getting hit again.

I would host an FC daily if it meant a GF

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I haven't played DS3, but in DS2 hoooly shit there are a few builds that I hate:

1. Hex spammers. These are the guys who start button mashing R1 as soon as you are summoned, draining through dark orb and sometimes climax. Unless you have a dedicated anti-hex shield then you have to basically do 4 or 5 perfectly timed rolls (since hexes will stun you out of a roll) just to START fighting.

2. Buffed-Infused Katana or Longsword "Meta" builds at low SM. (usually min-maxing SM by throwing on Vengarl's or Drangleic armor and investing all their souls into stats and the weapon). These are the most statistically effective builds, the game's mechanics supports them (wonky thrust hitboxes, 2H buff to poise destruction, 2-hit stunlock rule) the problem is that the counter to this strategy is ONLY possible at high SM when you can buff your elemental defense with GMB and use Rob Flynn. It's the equivalent of that shitty kid who always picks the strongest fighting game character and never uses anything else, but also never plays against anyone good enough to punish him.

3. Poison rapiers and spotted whip. Do I need to say more? When they're bad, it turns the match into an impossible trading game where after every attack you have to run away for 20 seconds to let your poison heal, and they have to constantly chase you around (worse on iron keep where space is limited). If they're good, they'll keep throwing out poison mist and running away, trolling you until you make a mistake and end up poisoned. After that happens your choice is to either run away and die, or use a poison moss while they throw out a forbidden sun.

Thankfully, at SL200+ these builds all become less viable. I'd rather fight a melee / greatbox gank squad than a single hex spammer.

l-lewd

>opponent does decapitate
>gets destroyed in the fight

dark souls team bringing the HEAT
bathtub

You think that until you get one

I had a girlfriend I lived with that played games with me and she was beyond garbage

So ontop of my own frustrations in competitive games, I now had her playing the same games as me I guess to be closer to me, and now I have her comment about shit over and over, I have to listen to her whine about stupid shit in the game and asked for advice over and over , I mean take any general, do you think "ffs read the OP" when people ask the same questions in every thread? Yeah well it's like that only you can't get away from it

Then they'll start talking lore with you. And discussing their own theories, which is usually something they saw on YouTube, and they only understand what they listened to on YouTube and often only remember parts of it so it's annoyingly ill informed a lot of the times, for this one id like you to imagine someone that wants to talk about say, multiplication in math, but they don't know anything about math other than multiplication and they can't get whatever you call it, order of something pemdas or whatever right either

Women are fucking annoying and the last thing you want is for them to become a part of the gaming aspect of your life (although fucking a gamer girl can be fun if you met them online desu, but they get lame after a few months trust me)

Btw I'm happily married I don't hate women I just hate women that play games with me

>tfw a boss hard counters your build and you fight till you're out of estus and you have to just hang way the fuck back with your phantoms do their business

Feels fuckin' bad.

Dear, that's not a problem with women. That's a problem with being in a relationship. Gay men have that problem too.

Shit's getting spooky

you don't understand how nice that sounds

even the most annoying vidya girl will at least share something in common with me. I feel like clawing my own eyeballs out so I never have to see a girl again

10/10 best game

>naked
>attacking NPC with his shield up
>has a greatshield but doesn't keep it up while trying to get behind

holy fuck you must have been terrified to be playing that badly

>naked
I have rags. Only thing I can equip atm.

>attacking NPC with his shield up
He put it up as I was trying to combo. My reaction time isn't that legendary to be able to tell. Watch a little closer on that.

>has a greatshield but doesn't keep it up while trying to get behind
I'm not super familiar with those enemies but I thought I could just waltz right around them like I could with most enemies. I was wrong.

Also I'd like to mention that I had no stamina at that point so it's not like I could block it anyways.

I actually do have to empathize with this

when you're playing in-game, everything seems slower and your reaction times more sluggish than when you're watching a video and you can see things earlier

Don't get me wrong, it's 3AM, and I'm not on my A-game, so I know I'm not playing great, but I do believe in being fair, too.

>I've met 12 lesbians and no straight women
Unless you live in San Fransisco that's super unlikely and more likely is that you're being creepy/pushy and they say they're a lesbian to let you down softly.

If I could post a pic right now it'd be the "Hi I'm Brian!"-image of a fedora trting to hit on a woman through Xbox live.

how was your day

>I mean take any general, do you think "ffs read the OP" when people ask the same questions in every thread?
the difference being that i can't cuddle with those people

Dark Souls 1 with DSCM is completely fine. And co-oping in DS1 is still fun as fuck, too bad the healing system forces the phantoms to rely on manatees if they don't have miracles but I guess that's why clerics exist.

Vengarl Vinland
But well, he's gone almost full hollow dude and you can't really see it during gameplay or the cutscene.

Day would be fine except I'm gonna be at work for 4-5 hours and then the commute home before I can actually play Souls. Feels badman.

Not too good desu, slept pretty badly and I've been putting off stuff for a few weeks. Trying to motivate myself. Thanks for asking.
DaS1 and DaS2 have surprisingly good numbers on Steam. They both sit in 2K plus with DaS3 going down to 5K or so. I'll prob try spicing stuff up by going back to both of those a bit.

DS1 is fine but DS2 seems to be perma-fucked thanks to SM. Never saw bell tower this empty, it's like 10 minutes between summons on 200k and almost no other bellfags.

Is the best level for co-op in Lothric Castle and beyond still 80?

How 2 git gud at Oceiros? I can't just summon for this fucker and be done with it, right?

any 100% physical resist shield

REMEMBER THE 5 D's OF DARK SOULS:
DODGE, DIP, DUCK, DIVE AND DODGE

Yeah, SM is pretty fucking stupid - I haven't looked at that game in a while, look forward to going back to both it and 1 for a bit though, even if the activity is hit/miss. Just bored with DaS3 right now.

Stand right in his ass during his second phase at all times - The only thing he can hit you with then is the tail spin. Don't try and stand in front of him cause of that 0 frame startup charge shit. Couple the above with a physical resist shield as you try and get right in his ass and he's a joke.

I was using Yhorms and he was still piercing it. I dunno, it seems like there's has been changes in how blocking works from 1 to 3 and I seem to take more damage than I should even with 100% resist.

Dodge with his swings and hide under his belly, I guess. You can kill every boss if you just learn their moveset in a couple of failed attempts instead of sperging them til you get lucky.

Killed that shit literally on the first time, what could possibly be hard?

Trying to 100% DaS1 and halfway through Witcher 3. I need to study reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>"Oh man a girl would sound so nice I really want a girl to cuddle with it would be just like my japanese anime and porn"

A girl isn't something you go buy at the girl store to make yourself feel better. Don't ever get a girlfriend because you're lonely.

What you really want is a pet to cuddle, a plant to take care of, and a fleshlight to fuck.

All I want for Christmas is a Pretty Girlfriend and if Santa doesn't bring me one I'll make myself a Sweetheart from the Ground-Up!

You can summon Hawkwood if you want to be a skreb. I've literally never died to Oceiros so I don't know what up.

Just saw a post on /v/ and want to confirm here: Did ENB really quit his day job for YouTube/Twitch/whatever? Did his wife really leave him?

Apparantly it's a case of the 3 AM and having trouble with his first phase. His second phase was laughably easy, but I kept dying in the first.

Dead thread dead general? Only English speakers that play live in merica?

Yes to both.
I'm not gonna sperg about his personal life further but both are correct.

youtube.com/watch?v=7aDZuCkKGkk&t=3580

lmaao

>just saw a post on /v/
Can you link the thread here?

Couldn't have happened to a better person.

His Twitch "career" if you will, is extremely profitable. I counted that he's getting at least 6500$ monthly PLUS donations. His office costs only 600$ in rent so it's 5900$ in profit as far as immediate costs go.

Twitch streaming has a few downsides, one of which is that job security is non existent and if you get sick for an extended period there's no health insurance but currently it's working out for him very well.

By "just", I mean a couple nights ago. 404'd long by now, sorry

>it's true
>that commentary afterwards
Jesus Christ, he really has retreated to his own little hugbox. I mean, I can't relate or even understand what he's going through, but that can't be great for him.

Alright, thanks /dsg/.

Between this pure white shit and that shiny shit in does that mean my PS4 is dying?

Was there some shit with the Bloodborne guide or do I remember wrong?