Dark Souls 3 hype thread!

[Objectable]

I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

 

[Objectable]

I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

Depends on what's causing it. Do you get this from trying to summon phantoms, or when you have too many enemies in one room?
If you explain it, I can provide help. I've dealt with crashes / frame drops / all that, through particular fixes

I try to get it while trying to launch the game. On the rare occasion when it does work, it runs horribly.
Honestly, I was hoping to use this Dark Souls game as my launch point. A lot of the marketing turned me off since it was all "THIS GAME IS SUPER DUPER HARD GUYZ DON'T PLAY IT IF UR A CASUAL". But then Jim talked about it and how that marketing is dumb and doesn't represent the game at all, and a live stream.
I should have known better TBH. I heard bad things about the Dark Souls 2 port.

 

[DefunctTheory]

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I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

Depends on what's causing it. Do you get this from trying to summon phantoms, or when you have too many enemies in one room?
If you explain it, I can provide help. I've dealt with crashes / frame drops / all that, through particular fixes

I try to get it while trying to launch the game. On the rare occasion when it does work, it runs horribly.
Honestly, I was hoping to use this Dark Souls game as my launch point. A lot of the marketing turned me off since it was all "THIS GAME IS SUPER DUPER HARD GUYZ DON'T PLAY IT IF UR A CASUAL". But then Jim talked about it and how that marketing is dumb and doesn't represent the game at all, and a live stream.
I should have known better TBH. I heard bad things about the Dark Souls 2 port.

Hardware? Operating system (Confirmation)?

 

[Silence]

I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

Depends on what's causing it. Do you get this from trying to summon phantoms, or when you have too many enemies in one room?
If you explain it, I can provide help. I've dealt with crashes / frame drops / all that, through particular fixes

I try to get it while trying to launch the game. On the rare occasion when it does work, it runs horribly.
Honestly, I was hoping to use this Dark Souls game as my launch point. A lot of the marketing turned me off since it was all "THIS GAME IS SUPER DUPER HARD GUYZ DON'T PLAY IT IF UR A CASUAL". But then Jim talked about it and how that marketing is dumb and doesn't represent the game at all, and a live stream.
I should have known better TBH. I heard bad things about the Dark Souls 2 port.

First, you should definitely not use 3 as a starting point. Even though it is not the point, 3 is fucking hard and definitely targeted at players of the first two games.

Second, that sounds like your PC can't handle it, honestly. I heard of a lot of bugs, but that is what happens to me with a game I can't run, not with bugs.

 

[Objectable]

I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

Depends on what's causing it. Do you get this from trying to summon phantoms, or when you have too many enemies in one room?
If you explain it, I can provide help. I've dealt with crashes / frame drops / all that, through particular fixes

I try to get it while trying to launch the game. On the rare occasion when it does work, it runs horribly.
Honestly, I was hoping to use this Dark Souls game as my launch point. A lot of the marketing turned me off since it was all "THIS GAME IS SUPER DUPER HARD GUYZ DON'T PLAY IT IF UR A CASUAL". But then Jim talked about it and how that marketing is dumb and doesn't represent the game at all, and a live stream.
I should have known better TBH. I heard bad things about the Dark Souls 2 port.

What's your Driver? Your Hardware and all the vital information so me and Accursed can help you.
(Type DxDiag in your Command Bar and then save the listing, there's even a button to save your information into a .doc)

I don't know the exact specs (Not at home) but it's an ASUS. I know, sue me, those things are terrible, but I neede a laptop cheap and it works for the majority of my games.
TBH I think it might be my hardware. I think I'll get a refund and just get DS 1 or something. Maybe Armored Core?

 

[DefunctTheory]

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I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

Depends on what's causing it. Do you get this from trying to summon phantoms, or when you have too many enemies in one room?
If you explain it, I can provide help. I've dealt with crashes / frame drops / all that, through particular fixes

I try to get it while trying to launch the game. On the rare occasion when it does work, it runs horribly.
Honestly, I was hoping to use this Dark Souls game as my launch point. A lot of the marketing turned me off since it was all "THIS GAME IS SUPER DUPER HARD GUYZ DON'T PLAY IT IF UR A CASUAL". But then Jim talked about it and how that marketing is dumb and doesn't represent the game at all, and a live stream.
I should have known better TBH. I heard bad things about the Dark Souls 2 port.

What's your Driver? Your Hardware and all the vital information so me and Accursed can help you.
(Type DxDiag in your Command Bar and then save the listing, there's even a button to save your information into a .doc)

I don't know the exact specs (Not at home) but it's an ASUS. I know, sue me, those things are terrible, but I neede a laptop cheap and it works for the majority of my games.
TBH I think it might be my hardware. I think I'll get a refund and just get DS 1 or something. Maybe Armored Core?

...Yah. I suspect the cheap, featureless laptop probably is the problem.

I think it would be advisable to check game specifications from now on before purchasing. If you can't run DS3, it's only going to get worse as we go forward.

 

[Objectable]

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I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

Depends on what's causing it. Do you get this from trying to summon phantoms, or when you have too many enemies in one room?
If you explain it, I can provide help. I've dealt with crashes / frame drops / all that, through particular fixes

I try to get it while trying to launch the game. On the rare occasion when it does work, it runs horribly.
Honestly, I was hoping to use this Dark Souls game as my launch point. A lot of the marketing turned me off since it was all "THIS GAME IS SUPER DUPER HARD GUYZ DON'T PLAY IT IF UR A CASUAL". But then Jim talked about it and how that marketing is dumb and doesn't represent the game at all, and a live stream.
I should have known better TBH. I heard bad things about the Dark Souls 2 port.

What's your Driver? Your Hardware and all the vital information so me and Accursed can help you.
(Type DxDiag in your Command Bar and then save the listing, there's even a button to save your information into a .doc)

I don't know the exact specs (Not at home) but it's an ASUS. I know, sue me, those things are terrible, but I neede a laptop cheap and it works for the majority of my games.
TBH I think it might be my hardware. I think I'll get a refund and just get DS 1 or something. Maybe Armored Core?

...Yah. I suspect the cheap, featureless laptop probably is the problem.

I think it would be advisable to check game specifications from now on before purchasing. If you can't run DS3, it's only going to get worse as we go forward.

The thing is, I understand why the FPS is so low, and I can deal with it. But why does it crash so often?

 

[DefunctTheory]

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I'm having trouble on this one boss. Not sure what it's called, so I grabbed a screenshot. Any help?

Depends on what's causing it. Do you get this from trying to summon phantoms, or when you have too many enemies in one room?
If you explain it, I can provide help. I've dealt with crashes / frame drops / all that, through particular fixes

I try to get it while trying to launch the game. On the rare occasion when it does work, it runs horribly.
Honestly, I was hoping to use this Dark Souls game as my launch point. A lot of the marketing turned me off since it was all "THIS GAME IS SUPER DUPER HARD GUYZ DON'T PLAY IT IF UR A CASUAL". But then Jim talked about it and how that marketing is dumb and doesn't represent the game at all, and a live stream.
I should have known better TBH. I heard bad things about the Dark Souls 2 port.

What's your Driver? Your Hardware and all the vital information so me and Accursed can help you.
(Type DxDiag in your Command Bar and then save the listing, there's even a button to save your information into a .doc)

I don't know the exact specs (Not at home) but it's an ASUS. I know, sue me, those things are terrible, but I neede a laptop cheap and it works for the majority of my games.
TBH I think it might be my hardware. I think I'll get a refund and just get DS 1 or something. Maybe Armored Core?

...Yah. I suspect the cheap, featureless laptop probably is the problem.

I think it would be advisable to check game specifications from now on before purchasing. If you can't run DS3, it's only going to get worse as we go forward.

The thing is, I understand why the FPS is so low, and I can deal with it. But why does it crash so often?

If I were to take a wild stab at it, without knowing the specifics, there's two probable causes.

1. Memory issues (Either insufficient or simply old)
2. Old video card causing problems, either from insufficient power, archaic architecture, or so old it's firmware doesn't get updated

 

[PapaGreg096]

Has anyone beat the old demon king because that boss is cheap

 

[Fat Hippo]

Update on the my experience with shields in this game: like I mentioned previously, early on I was hardly using my shield against tougher enemies because I didn't have the stamina to take their combos with it anyway. But now that I have a shield with lots of stability (59), a lot more stamina (112) and the ring that boosts stamina recovery it has become far more feasible. I've even been in fights where I was trying to be too fancy with rolling around when I should have tried simply taking more hits with my shield, and was way more successful when I tried this style of combat. I'll see if things stay this way, or if new enemies I face will force me to practice my acrobatics once again.

 

[Fat Hippo]

Has anyone beat the old demon king because that boss is cheap

I beat him just now, but he was a mean bastard. After a few failed attempts, I decided to summon a phantom. Unfortunately, he got killed about 30 seconds into the fight, leaving me on my own. So I decided I would try a different strategy of a slightly more cheesy variety, and switched to a ranged weapon. With my trusty Arbalest+3 I pumped almost all of my standard bolts into him before he finally went down. At a distance, it's much easier to avoid most of his fire attacks, which are just bullshit when you're stuck under him slashing at his legs.

To help survive what fire attacks I couldn't avoid, I buffed my fire absorption as much as I could. I was wearing the red stoneplate ring, and casting the pyromancy spell "flash sweat". When my mana ran out, I started munching on red bug pellets. I still ended up using most of my estus flasks though. To keep my distance, I circled around the giant piles of demon corpses, allowing me to back away from him throughout the whole fight while I shot at him. Those piles were also useful in blocking the fireballs he summons to rain down on you once you've taken about half his health.

Overall, I've got no clue how you're supposed to solo him with a melee weapon. So many of his fire attacks cover almost the entire floor and would require dodge rolls of the highest precision to avoid. But since you're stuck under him, it becomes almost impossible to read his next attack when you're mostly stuck looking at his legs. But ranged weapons really do work pretty well.

 

[Silence]

Has anyone beat the old demon king because that boss is cheap

There are far worse bosses in the game. But, as far as I remember, try to stay behind him.

Update on the my experience with shields in this game: like I mentioned previously, early on I was hardly using my shield against tougher enemies because I didn't have the stamina to take their combos with it anyway. But now that I have a shield with lots of stability (59), a lot more stamina (112) and the ring that boosts stamina recovery it has become far more feasible. I've even been in fights where I was trying to be too fancy with rolling around when I should have tried simply taking more hits with my shield, and was way more successful when I tried this style of combat. I'll see if things stay this way, or if new enemies I face will force me to practice my acrobatics once again.

I found I needed shield for a lot of enemies and bosses now, just because I'm not as good with acrobatics - but the shield helped immensely. I even need different shields for different bosses/enemies.

But sometimes, you need to dodge, no way around it. Still, shield is immensely helpful.

Overall, I've got no clue how you're supposed to solo him with a melee weapon. So many of his fire attacks cover almost the entire floor and would require dodge rolls of the highest precision to avoid. But since you're stuck under him, it becomes almost impossible to read his next attack when you're mostly stuck looking at his legs. But ranged weapons really do work pretty well.

I beat him solo in meelee, staying behind him, very close, and dodging the flame attacks, worked.
And you can predict most moves, imo.

 

[Jandau]

Has anyone beat the old demon king because that boss is cheap

He's not too bad...

Stay at medium range until he starts to swing his weapon at you, then roll in and take a few swipes. Immediately get out, since he'll usually respond with a close range AoE. Every once in a while, he'll start channeling one of his big spells. One is another AoE around him, just stay back. The other will call down a rain of meteors which can be avoided by simply not standing still. Takes a bit of practice to learn the exact reads of each attack, but in general, that's it. Either he swings his weapon around, which means he can't hit you if you're close, he's trying to shake you off with a quick AoE, which you avoid easily, or he's casting one of his big spells, which just require you to run away (maybe sneak in a few hits when he's just starting to cast.

 

[EvilRoy]

I fucking... cannot deal with how much game there is here. I'm like 17 hours in, just got to the second cinderlord, and even as I sod around avoiding having to fight him - I KEEP FINDING MORE NEW SHIT. I'm even pretty sure I missed a coal somehow, and I left the vast majority of the swamp unexplored because I just didn't FEEL like it, man.

It wouldn't worry me so much, except I can tell that aside from the odd branching path this is clearly a largely linear game. Meaning that after I kill this asshole, chances are there is a whole nother segment of fuckery to be explored.

 

[Fat Hippo]

I fucking... cannot deal with how much game there is here. I'm like 17 hours in, just got to the second cinderlord, and even as I sod around avoiding having to fight him - I KEEP FINDING MORE NEW SHIT. I'm even pretty sure I missed a coal somehow, and I left the vast majority of the swamp unexplored because I just didn't FEEL like it, man.

It wouldn't worry me so much, except I can tell that aside from the odd branching path this is clearly a largely linear game. Meaning that after I kill this asshole, chances are there is a whole nother segment of fuckery to be explored.

I keep being worried that I missed something too. I probably missed a coal as well, and I think I missed a covenant. Can anyone tell me whether I should have found the covenant that lets you put down the purple summons? I'm in the Boreal Valley, and kept seeing those everywhere in the Undead Settlement, but never found the covenant for them.

 

[Fox12]

I fucking... cannot deal with how much game there is here. I'm like 17 hours in, just got to the second cinderlord, and even as I sod around avoiding having to fight him - I KEEP FINDING MORE NEW SHIT. I'm even pretty sure I missed a coal somehow, and I left the vast majority of the swamp unexplored because I just didn't FEEL like it, man.

It wouldn't worry me so much, except I can tell that aside from the odd branching path this is clearly a largely linear game. Meaning that after I kill this asshole, chances are there is a whole nother segment of fuckery to be explored.

I keep being worried that I missed something too. I probably missed a coal as well, and I think I missed a covenant. Can anyone tell me whether I should have found the covenant that lets you put down the purple summons? I'm in the Boreal Valley, and kept seeing those everywhere in the Undead Settlement, but never found the covenant for them.

That's the mound builders covenant. There are two ways to find it. The first is to go to the undead burg, cross the first bridge, and immediately take a right turn. There's a path hidden by some debris. After killing some enemies on a roof, you should find one of those big red guys with a saw. This one is non-hostile. He has a cage on his back. Walk up behind him and get into his cage. He'll take you to the covenant room. Talk to the guy there. He'll ask you a question. Choose the first option.

Alternatively you should be able to join it after defeating the huge tree boss in the church in undead burg. Go to the underground boss room after you win, and there should be an alter and a dead body. Approach it to join the covenant.

I believe the covenant is a dueling covenant that allows you to duel other players without invading them.

 

[EvilRoy]

I fucking... cannot deal with how much game there is here. I'm like 17 hours in, just got to the second cinderlord, and even as I sod around avoiding having to fight him - I KEEP FINDING MORE NEW SHIT. I'm even pretty sure I missed a coal somehow, and I left the vast majority of the swamp unexplored because I just didn't FEEL like it, man.

It wouldn't worry me so much, except I can tell that aside from the odd branching path this is clearly a largely linear game. Meaning that after I kill this asshole, chances are there is a whole nother segment of fuckery to be explored.

I keep being worried that I missed something too. I probably missed a coal as well, and I think I missed a covenant. Can anyone tell me whether I should have found the covenant that lets you put down the purple summons? I'm in the Boreal Valley, and kept seeing those everywhere in the Undead Settlement, but never found the covenant for them.

Oh yeah, that's a weird one. Like fox said there are two ways apparently, but I suggest the boss. You're probably overleveled for it now, but its a good fight. That's another one of the crazy things though. The most useful messages in this game are the "Critical Foe" and "Not Critical Foe" notes people leave around, because that is the only way I would ever know if I stumbled into an optional boss fight or a critical one. And MAN I stumble into a lot of bosses.

 

[Fat Hippo]

I have to say I'm sick of getting invaded because I want to play it in co-op. I get that it's "part of the experience", but the fact is that losing embers to that shit, while they risk nothing is just straight up a bad choice of design.

My mate just told me that it might be because I'm part of blue covenant? If anyone can elaborate, I'd love to hear how the hell I deal with this part of the game. Alternatively I guess we can just shelf it and wait a year, so most of the community has moved on.

Edit; Forgot to mention that I keep getting invaded within a few minutes of using an ember. It's become nearly unplayable.

Being in the blue covenant shouldn't lead to you getting invaded more, as far as I know, but should rather get someone from the Blue Sentinels summoned to help you fight the invader. I take it this isn't working? It's very odd, since I was in the Blue Sentinels for ages and didn't get summoned once. Not sure if it's broken or what.

If you're running out of embers, I recommend leaving your summoning sign right outside of a boss room. If someone summons you and you help them kill the boss, you will get embered again. And killing bosses with other people is a lot of fun anyway. Good souls in it too.

That's the mound builders covenant. There are two ways to find it. The first is to go to the undead burg, cross the first bridge, and immediately take a right turn. There's a path hidden by some debris. After killing some enemies on a roof, you should find one of those big red guys with a saw. This one is non-hostile. He has a cage on his back. Walk up behind him and get into his cage. He'll take you to the covenant room. Talk to the guy there. He'll ask you a question. Choose the first option.

Alternatively you should be able to join it after defeating the huge tree boss in the church in undead burg. Go to the underground boss room after you win, and there should be an alter and a dead body. Approach it to join the covenant.

I believe the covenant is a dueling covenant that allows you to duel other players without invading them.

Big red guy with a saw, huh? If I stumbled upon him, chances are I attacked him on sight, but I'll take a look. And I could've sworn I'd checked that underground tree room for anything like that, but I guess I wasn't rigorous enough in my examination. Thanks for the tip!

 

[PapaGreg096]

Has anyone beat the old demon king because that boss is cheap

I beat him just now, but he was a mean bastard. After a few failed attempts, I decided to summon a phantom. Unfortunately, he got killed about 30 seconds into the fight, leaving me on my own. So I decided I would try a different strategy of a slightly more cheesy variety, and switched to a ranged weapon. With my trusty Arbalest+3 I pumped almost all of my standard bolts into him before he finally went down. At a distance, it's much easier to avoid most of his fire attacks, which are just bullshit when you're stuck under him slashing at his legs.

To help survive what fire attacks I couldn't avoid, I buffed my fire absorption as much as I could. I was wearing the red stoneplate ring, and casting the pyromancy spell "flash sweat". When my mana ran out, I started munching on red bug pellets. I still ended up using most of my estus flasks though. To keep my distance, I circled around the giant piles of demon corpses, allowing me to back away from him throughout the whole fight while I shot at him. Those piles were also useful in blocking the fireballs he summons to rain down on you once you've taken about half his health.

Overall, I've got no clue how you're supposed to solo him with a melee weapon. So many of his fire attacks cover almost the entire floor and would require dodge rolls of the highest precision to avoid. But since you're stuck under him, it becomes almost impossible to read his next attack when you're mostly stuck looking at his legs. But ranged weapons really do work pretty well.

Thanks, I personally just spam arrows at him and he pretty much went down

 

[EvilRoy]

Being in the blue covenant shouldn't lead to you getting invaded more, as far as I know, but should rather get someone from the Blue Sentinels summoned to help you fight the invader. I take it this isn't working? It's very odd, since I was in the Blue Sentinels for ages and didn't get summoned once. Not sure if it's broken or what.

If you're running out of embers, I recommend leaving your summoning sign right outside of a boss room. If someone summons you and you help them kill the boss, you will get embered again. And killing bosses with other people is a lot of fun anyway. Good souls in it too.

In somewhere between twenty and thirty invasions, I've had one defender show up. I swapped over to Sunlight and had 1 in 3 invasions so far. I'm almost exclusively in co-op, so I've had help every time anyway, but two newbies against twink veterans is still not much of a fight.
Having read up bits and pieces here and there, it seems that invaders gets a list they can choose from and they can supposedly see what covenant you're in.

It stands to reason that the people who just want to PvP and win, pick players with blue covenant since they're likely to be new players. Having seen how rarely you actually get a defender or help from blue, it's an added incentive for ez ganking.

I'll try swapping over to Farron and see if it discourages people even more.

That's nuts man. I've been invaded like once - but I also have no covenant at all. Maybe you're painting a target on your back by being involved in a pvp covenant in this game? I suppose it could be like marking yourself as wanting to get into combat - although I don't know how being a sunbro would get many invasions either.