Rodderz
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Post by Rodderz on Mar 1, 2022 0:04:16 GMT
Getting my exploring groove on a bit now. Found some interesting things tonight, including a scroll, which I took to the sorceress lady under waypoint ruins to unlock more spells . Whereabouts did you find that item you mention Rob?
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Post by suicida on Mar 1, 2022 0:07:58 GMT
Not sure who you mean, the only new conversation I had when I went back was the spirit tuner and I can now upgrade ashes summons unless there's someone I haven't unlocked yet? (don't tell me who if that is the case) That's weird. For me there was a guy in armor sitting by the round table who had already told me to watch out for a dead mariner. He had more to say once I'd killed the ghost boatman. Maybe I did something to unlock that character? You mean the guy that sells the holy spells? He's there but no extra dialog for me. Hmmmm....
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Post by Nanocrystal on Mar 1, 2022 0:10:47 GMT
Nope, another guy.
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Rodderz
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Post by Rodderz on Mar 1, 2022 0:13:28 GMT
The one with the weird armour that looks like he's holding a silver head in his right hand, and his helmet is gold and covers his face ?
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 1, 2022 0:15:00 GMT
Not sure how I feel about this being open world. A few hours in and miss the lack of direction. It may just be open world fatigue.
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Post by Nanocrystal on Mar 1, 2022 0:22:26 GMT
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Post by gibroon on Mar 1, 2022 0:25:20 GMT
Two mysteries: Someone singing near the cliffs ? Ghost white "footprints" following a pattern on a beach ? Yeah, I found the one on the beach. No idea what is going on. Also wondering what the notes you buy from vendors do. Bought a couple but not much happened after and can't see them in inventory.
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Post by Danno on Mar 1, 2022 0:25:50 GMT
Not sure how I feel about this being open world. A few hours in and miss the lack of direction. It may just be open world fatigue. Just go out and kill a few beasts, it's for your own good
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Post by Danno on Mar 1, 2022 0:28:01 GMT
Two mysteries: Someone singing near the cliffs ? Ghost white "footprints" following a pattern on a beach ? Yeah, I found the one on the beach. No idea what is going on. Also wondering what the notes you buy from vendors do. Bought a couple but not much happened after and can't see them in inventory. Notes: look in the very last part of the inventory. They're hints for various things.
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Post by mikeck on Mar 1, 2022 0:31:06 GMT
Two mysteries: Someone singing near the cliffs ? Ghost white "footprints" following a pattern on a beach ? Yeah, I found the one on the beach. No idea what is going on. Also wondering what the notes you buy from vendors do. Bought a couple but not much happened after and can't see them in inventory. This was bugging me in the network test, never found out what they were. Think the notes are just cryptic clues for discovering things. I had another couple of hours this evening uncovering more and more of the map. I've done a fair few mini-bosses, but no-one major yet. Probably should, level 26 now, rocking a couple of the named weapons mentioned earlier in the thread and have a few ashes of war and summons to choose from.
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aubergine
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Post by aubergine on Mar 1, 2022 0:42:05 GMT
So I have a bell and a wolf ashes thing, but absolutely can’t make it work. He just grabs at his belt or something then makes an “I’m missing something” kind of shrug. In other news, I went back to a cave double-boss fight that I’d stumbled onto earlier and died. Didn’t expect to get my lil’ bundle of souls back, but this time tried the “summon an NPC” thingy and beat the bad guys. Turns out this is a secret passage to your mom which I could see earlier from the cliff tops. Left my game there as I’m away for a week.
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aubergine
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Post by aubergine on Mar 1, 2022 0:44:09 GMT
Also, I’m glad to see Digital Foundry calling out the frame rate of this. I hadn’t seen anyone else mention it, but it’s surprisingly janky on PS5. I’m more used to it, but I find it hard to play for any long periods.
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Post by bichii on Mar 1, 2022 0:44:14 GMT
So I have a bell and a wolf ashes thing, but absolutely can’t make it work. He just grabs at his belt or something then makes an “I’m missing something” kind of shrug. In other news, I went back to a cave double-boss fight that I’d stumbled onto earlier and died. Didn’t expect to get my lil’ bundle of souls back, but this time tried the “summon an NPC” thingy and beat the bad guys. Turns out this is a secret passage to your mom which I could see earlier from the cliff tops. Left my game there as I’m away for a week. You can only summon your wolves in certain areas when there is a little glowing blur door icon on your screen. You also need enough FP to summon them, you increase your fp in the mind stat.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2022 0:49:47 GMT
Torrent cares not about the swamps, rejoice! Danno you bloody Star, I've just found a (equipment spoiler) Meteroite sorcerer staff here in some Ruins, located at a far end of the swamp !! Go Torrent! Hell yeah, this scales S with Int! I've already tested it out and it's doing quite a bit more damage than my starting Astrologer staff ! addyb if you don't mind spoilers, get on this ASAP ^^. where was the location again?
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Post by fonzie on Mar 1, 2022 0:54:13 GMT
After no illusory walls for ages, I then find one on the floor to reveal some steps going down to a boss fight. This was in some ruins with some teleporting wizards and wolves.
Then went on to a manor full of giant hands and ghost cuckoo infantry. Guard counter is being used to the fullest now. I have a talisman that heals on a critical hit so performing those means I don’t have to heal that often so can save potions.
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Mar 1, 2022 1:26:37 GMT
I have a talisman that heals on a critical hit so performing those means I don’t have to heal that often so can save potions. I got that one tonight too. Pity I'd already found a regen one, as slow as it's always been in Souls, but handy enough for a cig break, hiding mid-dungeon. And the singing was that bat variant ? Noticed one was different, caused poison, but I didn't really get a good look at it. Might go look for vendor clues for the beach footsteps then.
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Post by quadfather on Mar 1, 2022 3:06:46 GMT
I've just got another map fragment and had one of those "fuck me, this game is massive" moments. Amazing.
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Post by neems on Mar 1, 2022 3:10:53 GMT
I just found the trap down South some of you were talking about, fuck me.
They should have just called it 'Magnum Opus', this game is unbelievable.
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Post by ekz on Mar 1, 2022 3:38:48 GMT
Had a little bit of time last night after our move over the weekend to play. This game is so cool, I went into a cave and killed what I'm assuming is a very easy mini-boss because it only took me like 5 attempts to kill it. And then I got my horse! What an eventful, exhilarating 45minutes.
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aubergine
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Post by aubergine on Mar 1, 2022 5:45:31 GMT
So I have a bell and a wolf ashes thing, but absolutely can’t make it work. He just grabs at his belt or something then makes an “I’m missing something” kind of shrug. In other news, I went back to a cave double-boss fight that I’d stumbled onto earlier and died. Didn’t expect to get my lil’ bundle of souls back, but this time tried the “summon an NPC” thingy and beat the bad guys. Turns out this is a secret passage to your mom which I could see earlier from the cliff tops. Left my game there as I’m away for a week. You can only summon your wolves in certain areas when there is a little glowing blur door icon on your screen. You also need enough FP to summon them, you increase your fp in the mind stat. Ah! Could be the FP. I was in the glowing door area.
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RobEG
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Post by RobEG on Mar 1, 2022 6:43:45 GMT
Getting my exploring groove on a bit now. Found some interesting things tonight, including a scroll, which I took to the sorceress lady under waypoint ruins to unlock more spells . Whereabouts did you find that item you mention Rob? I kind of got there in a round a about way, but I think it was close to the agheel lake south bonfire. There was a statue on the edge of the cliff with this underneath . I can be a bit more specific later if needed when I get back on.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2022 6:51:16 GMT
Yay got the fancy staff. Caelid is no joke!
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Post by monkman5000 on Mar 1, 2022 7:07:46 GMT
Right, I’m a dexy boy and I’ve found an uchigatana. Haven’t upgraded my starting estoc - is the uchi good, should I upgrade that instead?
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スコットランド
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Post by スコットランド on Mar 1, 2022 7:14:10 GMT
Yay got the fancy staff. Caelid is no joke! Fancy staff you say? Hmmm. I still have the starting Astrologer one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2022 7:23:56 GMT
Yay got the fancy staff. Caelid is no joke! Fancy staff you say? Hmmm. I still have the starting Astrologer one. Have you been to the lovely family friendly resort of Caelid?
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Post by f00b_inc on Mar 1, 2022 7:24:08 GMT
Yay got the fancy staff. Caelid is no joke! Think I also stumbled across this yesterday! Also finally found someone selling INT spells. Pottered about for a couple of hours yesterday somewhat aimlessly but enjoyed every minute of it! Fell into 3 separate chest teleport traps one taking me way North (bad bad bad). The grizzly woods were quite amusing to leg it out of. And also the red sky area others have mentioned here. As a result I have opened up a few of the map areas surrounding the intro area but haven't really done much else. Oh and murdered a pumpkin head dude. I think next I will go back to try to go up into the castle Stormveil finally.
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Post by スコットランド on Mar 1, 2022 7:26:09 GMT
Fancy staff you say? Hmmm. I still have the starting Astrologer one. Have you been to the lovely family friendly resort of Caelid? I haven’t but I fancy some R’n’R so I’ll head down there tonight
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2022 7:38:51 GMT
Just found the peaceful village of Jarburg, home to jar people. They were obviously going for the annual Village in bloom award. So of course I slaughtered them all and stole all their flowers. Also did a good old fashioned bit of farming at the first waypoint ruins in limgrave. Rocking the full Godric Knight set now.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2022 8:20:02 GMT
Right, I’m a dexy boy and I’ve found an uchigatana. Haven’t upgraded my starting estoc - is the uchi good, should I upgrade that instead? Yes. Yes it is. Bleed. Lovely bleed. Its only worth making it keen around +5 or so as up until then the scaling doesn't outweigh the reduction in base damage. I'm still alternating between my uchi, rapier and flail. I do love this flail. The charged r2 when you swing it about is a beautiful thing when you're charging down twats on horseback.
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Post by monkman5000 on Mar 1, 2022 8:32:20 GMT
Thanks wunty. So just standard upgrades to +5? It's only D for dex at base and +1, presumably that improves?
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