This is how dark souls typically is. It's as if you, today, were dropped into this world with. O recollection of why. Story typically comes from npcs and item descriptions. Also you're on the 4th game in the series so familiar things aren't familiar to you.I started playing this yesterday, myself. Also new to the DS series and it was gifted to me by a friend so its on my PS4. A lot of the stuff was explained in the early area by the red marks on the ground. Some of which I could see being missed easily. Things like locking onto targets, parrying, equipping items etc.
I refuse to look up spoilers for the bosses myself as well. But yes, I do agree that some parts of the character management system could really use more explanation. With that said, that is the stuff that Ive been looking up. One of the first things I looked up was what one of the boss shards was for. It didnt seem logical to give me thousands of souls and then a shard for 2 or 3k. Finding out that they give you gear from a guy that you can easily miss in shrine was a nice surprise though. Another thing is after upgrading weapons, there doesnt appear to be a way to tell if a new weapon is going to end up being better after upgrading it than the old one. Am I missing something?
Overall a great game. A challenge that I havent had in quite a while. Most games that are difficult, Im struggling with the UI or controls. But they feel solid on the PS4 so anytime I mess up, I know that its because I didnt think it through properly. The story bleeds through a little bit, but its probably one of my only complaints about the game. I really have no idea why Im killing the lords. Or why Im dead or "unkindled" etc. etc.
** Oh, and the Fire Gem is garbage. It removes base scaling and attribute scaling for only fire damage. The Dark Gem hes talking about gets rid of base scaling, adds dark damage in its place, switches primary stats from str and dex to int and faith scaling. Very nice gem for your playstyle.
Irithyll of Boreal Valley is murdering me. Everything up until now has been a relative cake walk. Ive been frozen at this guy for a couple hours now. Im fully equipped with Cathedreal Armor, and a Curse Ward Greatshield: 76% weight. Most stats in str/hitpoints/endurance/weight. Do I need to leave and go farm dex so I can use a spear and equip light armor so I can just dodge around him? Hes so fast and it just seems like he never gives me a break to even heal. Do I need to find something with Riposte? Whats the best advice here? I used an Ember and summoned the only guy I had talked to, but he was worthless.
When this game came out poise was garbage, not sure if they ever fixed it.Ive seen that. I guess Im referring to Poise, maybe? Not sure. I ran into a small wall with the Abyssal Watchers without the shield and fell in love with it as soon as I used it there. My block just stopped him in his tracks and made the fight end in about 20 seconds.
I went down a little rabbit hole when I started researching shields, which brought me to armor. Plenty of stuff on the web is saying that heavy armor, although poise is great, just isnt worth it. Thoughts? Those videos have me thinking I just need to yank out about half of my Vitality and distribute it elsewhere and go with the 30% weight ratio.
This is how dark souls typically is. It's as if you, today, were dropped into this world with. O recollection of why. Story typically comes from npcs and item descriptions.
Darkeater Midir is fucking hard as hell. Holy hell. I've finally got around to getting some attempts on her and I didn't do too well. Fighting the camera is pretty frustrating on that fight, and I think it makes the fight harder than it actually is.
Darkeater Midir is fucking hard as hell. Holy hell. I've finally got around to getting some attempts on her and I didn't do too well. Fighting the camera is pretty frustrating on that fight, and I think it makes the fight harder than it actually is.