Dark Soul's: Prepare to Die Edition (PC)
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That's exactly what I've been saying since I made the topic, so long as it matches the console experience then it is worth the compromise of playing on a low end port. If we wanted to be console scrubs we'd own consoles, but it's only a one off and its a worthy one off.
Will be buying this at some point, might show some self control though and wait a few weeks, got way too many games backlogged.
might.
Or you own all 4 platforms and not limit yourself
Why should you pay more for the same experience? It's madness.
True, it is cheaper to go buy an Xbox/PS3, saw them in Tesco for tree fiddy.
If you've never played it before then god yes, but it isn't like any other RPG game besides its predecessor, as it is a challenge.
Being a big RPG fan myself, there is one thing that genre definitely lacks; difficulty.
It has the best world I've seen and its beautifully integrated and connected. There's a little bit of backtracking, though. Loot is okay, a lot of pre-determined places to find specific gear and whatnot, with nice random drops that are usually crafting materials or healing/thrown items, occasional weapon or ammo. If your a DS virgin, then £24 for the full game + improvements + new content is an amazing way to pop your cherry.
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LMFAO! Are they configurable?
God dammit Tibbz, I've lost my windows save, I'm gonna have to reformat my PC now! Well done!!
That worked perfectly for me, thanks for posting it
Think I'm going to go for a Faith build first time around, gonna head straight for the gravelord covenent to get the gravelord sword and miracles and then workd around a build from there.
Have fun.
LOL
Faith is great for pvp and healing, but for offense your gonna want Magic.
Great Scythe? I played this a ton on Xbox 360 and can't ever remember finding one of those.
I remember the Dark Wraith armor, I used the trenchcoat looking clothes though, with a parry dagger and the Greatsword of Artorias. One parry was an instant kill on most players. Not gonna lie though, I did invade a lot of people in Anor Londo just to Wrath of God them off the ledges for cheap kills.
I'm not proud, but by god I had tons of souls!
Save it up for when you need help with a boss, use it, become human, and summon another player for assistance.
Using Humanity:
Regaining Human form costs one Humanity point, which you must spend at a Bonfire.
You may choose to "Kindle" any bonfire by spending a Humanity point there, while you are already Human. Doing this will increase the maximum number of "swigs" your Estus Flask recovers from staying at that fire.
Human form will allow players to summon Phantoms for help and guidance on their journey.
Human form will allow players to invade another player's world.
Human form will also leave the player open to invasions by hostile Black Phantoms.
Stacking Humanity:
The amount of Humanity held by the player is represented by a number in the top left corner of the HUD. Usually referred to as 'soft' humanity.
"Holding" Humanity - that is, when you have Humanity on your person (in your Humanity meter) - puts those points at risk. Upon death, your held Humanity will be left with your bloodstain in addition to your Souls, thus increasing the price of dying twice in a row.
Holding Humanity is not the same as being human - recovering your Human form will cost you one Humanity point from your meter.
Humanity affects the damage of weapons and spells that do "Chaos" damage. Maximum at 10 Humanity.
Humanity increases the player's Physical and Elemental Defenses (not Bleed and Poison Resistance), similar to leveling up.
Humanity increases the player's resistance to being Cursed. Maximum at 30 Humanity.
Humanity also increases the player's Item Discovery rate, which determines the likelihood of enemies dropping items. Maximum at 10 Humanity.
At 10 humanity the item discovery rate (no other enchantments or buffs) is 210. (patch 1.05 and non-patched game)
Maximum Item Discovery rate is 410 and is achievable by holding 10 humanity and using the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring or the Symbol of Avarice .
Using Humanity:
Regaining Human form costs one Humanity point, which you must spend at a Bonfire.
You may choose to "Kindle" any bonfire by spending a Humanity point there, while you are already Human. Doing this will increase the maximum number of "swigs" your Estus Flask recovers from staying at that fire.
Human form will allow players to summon Phantoms for help and guidance on their journey.
Human form will allow players to invade another player's world.
Human form will also leave the player open to invasions by hostile Black Phantoms.
Stacking Humanity:
The amount of Humanity held by the player is represented by a number in the top left corner of the HUD. Usually referred to as 'soft' humanity.
"Holding" Humanity - that is, when you have Humanity on your person (in your Humanity meter) - puts those points at risk. Upon death, your held Humanity will be left with your bloodstain in addition to your Souls, thus increasing the price of dying twice in a row.
Holding Humanity is not the same as being human - recovering your Human form will cost you one Humanity point from your meter.
Humanity affects the damage of weapons and spells that do "Chaos" damage. Maximum at 10 Humanity.
Humanity increases the player's Physical and Elemental Defenses (not Bleed and Poison Resistance), similar to leveling up.
Humanity increases the player's resistance to being Cursed. Maximum at 30 Humanity.
Humanity also increases the player's Item Discovery rate, which determines the likelihood of enemies dropping items. Maximum at 10 Humanity.
At 10 humanity the item discovery rate (no other enchantments or buffs) is 210. (patch 1.05 and non-patched game)
Maximum Item Discovery rate is 410 and is achievable by holding 10 humanity and using the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring or the Symbol of Avarice .
Ah and I just noticed the minimum specs are a 4870! Coupled with the ATI performance not being too good I think that's your problem
Still the res fix is supposed to improve performance altogether so still give it a try
Nice double post Tibbzy
Despite how bad this game is as a port, I'm really happy they are having tons of success on Steam, I can only imagine the retail side is just as successful, it looks like the next Souls game could very well be developed for PC alongside consoles, and hopefully FROM learn and learn and actually do it properly next time. Nothing but good news.
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the controller.......
the keyboard mapping...
having to use a res fix...
Two bad ports in one day!
Most games are bad ports in one way or another, even Sleeping Dogs is far from perfect. I think people need to be grateful it even came to PC, and it'll be done right in the future after the success of Prepare to Die edition, From hopefully have opened their eyes to the PC platform and Souls III will be a great port.
Least they aren't douchey like Capcom, the fact the consoles can't even handle Dragon's Dogma is hilarious, its blatantly a game that should be on PC.
Controller is good though? Only really the res tbh and that takes less than 5 secs to fix, certainly worth it
The lock on system began to get on my wick when trying to fight 4 enemies from all different directions
I can tell you right now, using the lock on feature will get you more deaths than anything, don't use it, just move your character where he needs to go.
Isn't there a separate strafe though? Running around someone puts your shield away from them so when they attack it's annoying without the lock-on
Lock onto enemies when your not surrounded, otherwise just stand in the middle, and flick your character so hes facing whoever is attacking and block/parry. Better yet, don't get surrounded, if a load of enemies are around you, start rolling and moving so you can position yourself with no enemies behind you, then lock on. If your ever surrounded and can't get out of it, don't lock on. Heck, even when your not the lock on feature can knock you to your death, I did that many a times around the catacombs!
Okay thanks guys
I keep rolling into other attackers lol. I love how when you die it's always you being a tard. Don't know why I like that though
Mate, lets put it this way, if you lock onto an enemy and that enemy goes slightly out of range, youll auto lock onto the second nearest enemy, now sometimes that enemy can be right behind you. Imagine being in the middle of a lunging power attack and the camera flicks off to the left/right and your character follows... enjoy!
It's remotely challenging. Something pretty much every game isn't these days. Fantastic gameplay too, think Zelda for adults.