Dark Souls

[apocrypha]

What problems are you having jak?

DSFix will sort out the low-resolution internal rendering and lets you tweak a few other things. If it's the controls, then I'd highly recommend getting an Xbox 360 controller. Really. I spent about 30 mins struggling with the mouse & kb, swapped to controller and it was night & day.

I'm stuck at the end of the Undead Parish. I cannot defeat either the Bell Gargoyle nor the Titanite Demon, but every single time I go human to summon Lautrec and Solaire or some actual humans to help me I get invaded almost instantly and pwned by some pvp wankstain. Much as I love the implementation of multiplayer in this it can be a total cockblock sometimes.

Oh well, moving house on Tuesday, packing PC's up today and then without internet for at least a week (thanks BT for fucking that up), so I'll return and try to find a way through this impasse in a week or two.

[jakonovski]

I think it's because sometimes the framerate tanks when there's a lot happening and I want to turn the view rapidly. It makes it much more difficult to do things like like locking onto an enemy or changing a weapon.  I read a bit and apparently the game sometimes has problems with ATI cards.

edit: the worst thing is that the game is still just as addictive. I'm torturing myself here.

edit: also I'm already using DSfix and a 360 pad.

[apocrypha]

Ah, ok. Yeah I get the occasional nasty framerate crash, so far though only when fighting bosses, i.e. the worst possible time!

You're right about the addictiveness, I'm supposed to be packing but instead I'm browsing the wiki & this thread 

[Vaiti]

Waiting on a refund from Steam on this one. I have no idea what I was thinking other than "maybe they fixed stuff"
They haven't. I have no idea why I am surprised. Maybe I was little intoxicated when I purchased. I wasn't, but I tell myself I was to make myself feel better.

I can't even get the game to start. Even if I do get it to start, while trying to figure out how to get the game to maybe start I stumbled on lovely snippits of information like how wonderfully they implemented keyboard controls for this.
http://pcgamingwiki.com/images/7/79/Dark_Souls_controls_Tru3Magic.jpg (url as I can't recall how to resize properlly with the img tag atm)
  

End key for menu, esc key does nothing. YESSSSSS.

Oh man. This game.

[jakonovski]

I got more spells, such a relief. Now I can cheese my way through many annoying things. Mecha Boar, Tower Knight and his buddies are toast but I'm afraid of the rooftop gargoyles. Also they must've patched the dragon, because he doesn't die even if I empty my entire spell inventory on his ass from under the bridge. Hopefully you can still win the Drake Sword by shooting his tail, must try it soon.

[Margalis]

To defeat mecha-boar I got him to crash into a fire or torch or something towards the right wall as you face him. He charges into it, catches on fire and takes a ton of damage.

[NiX]

I think it's because sometimes the framerate tanks when there's a lot happening and I want to turn the view rapidly. It makes it much more difficult to do things like like locking onto an enemy or changing a weapon.  I read a bit and apparently the game sometimes has problems with ATI cards.

edit: the worst thing is that the game is still just as addictive. I'm torturing myself here.

edit: also I'm already using DSfix and a 360 pad.

Are you also using the 60FPS unlock?

[jakonovski]

To defeat mecha-boar I got him to crash into a fire or torch or something towards the right wall as you face him. He charges into it, catches on fire and takes a ton of damage.

I just blasted him with Heavy Soul Arrow from the bridge above him.

[jakonovski]

Are you also using the 60FPS unlock?

No, there were all sorts of instability warnings so I got scared. But I'll try it if it might help!

[apocrypha]

To defeat mecha-boar I got him to crash into a fire or torch or something towards the right wall as you face him. He charges into it, catches on fire and takes a ton of damage.

I did that completely by accident, I was trying to plink him to death with my crappy light crossbow from the bridge and fell off. Thought I was fucked then noticed as he charged towards me he was on fire...and he died a millisecond before reaching me 

Soon as I'm back online I'm going to have to explore earlier areas a bit better and get a proper bow and more spells for sure.

[bhodi]

Guys. You run up the stairs to the walkway that has the 2 skellies on it. At the end, against the wall, there is a corpse. That corpse has alluring skulls. Look directly down, there is a bonfire. Throw one at the bonfire. Profit.

This time I got the master's key and got astora's sword and the elite and stone armor set. At the 10x10 room demon again, but I should be able to beat him easily this time. I'm going heavy in faith, though honestly I am not sure which weapon to use. I've already killed the butterfly so I need to pretty much pick a random weapon I guess!

[Fabricated]

I side stepped the boar and backstabbed it, which looks horrifying because you shove your arm literally up its ass. Also did you know that if you kill everyone there really fast you can make it through the gate before the one dredge shuts it? That was kinda cool.

[jakonovski]

I'm level 18 and the last thing I did last night was try the Capra demon (the one in a small room in lower Undead Burg with 2 dogs), he pretty much one shotted me.

[bhodi]

Yeah, after I took a trip through valley of the drakes & darkroot, I was able to beat capra pretty easily. The extra armor is crazy useful and summoning people really really helps as well. Then I spent the next 2 hours being summoned to kill that asshole over and over again. It's so satisfying.

[Muffled]

I side stepped the boar and backstabbed it, which looks horrifying because you shove your arm literally up its ass. Also did you know that if you kill everyone there really fast you can make it through the gate before the one dredge shuts it? That was kinda cool.

You can also pull everyone in the room with a bow, the dredge that shuts the gate does not respawn and is silly enough to charge you like the rest if you plink him.

[Margalis]

I'm level 18 and the last thing I did last night was try the Capra demon (the one in a small room in lower Undead Burg with 2 dogs), he pretty much one shotted me.

So far that was the hardest part of the game for me. (I think I'm a little more than halfway through now)

Apparently you can throw stuff over the wall to kill the dogs before you go into the room.

[Yegolev]

What?  Oh man.

The dogs are the worst part about Capra.

[jakonovski]

Wandered around again, accidentally killed the Titanite Demon and now I'm farming the stone knights in the garden thing. Two HSAs take one down real easy, and the plant things are just regular Soul Arrow fodder. I should probably try the Belltower Gargoyles but I'm still scared.

Bought the Magic Weapon buff spell, but it sucks total ass because the effect goes away if you switch weapons.

edit: the knights also dropped Great Stone Sword, a very rare drop that is useless to me. Of course.

[Yegolev]

I beat the gargoyles and the stone knights fucked me up.  Just chop off the tail and you'll be fine.  Gets you an axe, too.

I was using a Black Knight Sword, if that matters.  All others are number two or lower.

[jakonovski]

I have just a +5 shortsword, it's pretty ok with the Magic Weapon buff but not otherwise.

[Yegolev]

You'll just need to fall back on your player skill, then.

[jakonovski]

Heavy Soul Arrow is distilled talent, to the tune of 250 armor piercing damage per hit.  

[Margalis]

You can summon an NPC to help with the gargoyle fight if you have humanity. He can tank them for you pretty easily.

[Muffled]

You can summon two NPCs if you're friends with Lautrec. 

[jakonovski]

I found my first Crystal Lizard and immediately upon sighting the game crashed. I hope it'll still be there.

edit: totally got the lizard and then proceeded to kill the gargoyles. Lautrec and the sun dude did help a bit though.

[jakonovski]

Trying Capra Demon now, it's like the boss itself is the smallest annoyance. Really long corpse run, soul income carefully balanced so you can't buy stuff on the way without backtracking. Boss fight happens in a phone booth where probably half of your deaths are because of the camera freaking out. Sucks that it's a mandatory fight.

[Nightblade]

http://www.twitch.tv/logothx/c/1741213

I love this game.

[Margalis]

Trying Capra Demon now, it's like the boss itself is the smallest annoyance. Really long corpse run, soul income carefully balanced so you can't buy stuff on the way without backtracking. Boss fight happens in a phone booth where probably half of your deaths are because of the camera freaking out. Sucks that it's a mandatory fight.

The camera is actually the boss, Capra Demon is just his minion.

[Fabricated]

Run straight up the stairs the instant you enter the room and you can kinda start a game of of ring around the rosy; picking off the dogs and avoiding the capra demon.

[jakonovski]

Run straight up the stairs the instant you enter the room and you can kinda start a game of of ring around the rosy; picking off the dogs and avoiding the capra demon.

One of the dogs had RNGd itself to the stairs and reset there every time when I tried.

[bhodi]

I just summoned someone for help. That is the best and easiest way.

[Muffled]

For real.  If you are beating your head against a tough fight, summon a bro or two and just focus on keeping yourself alive.  While you can clear every fight in the game solo, if you're determined enough, summoning help in for tough fights is a core mechanic which you are strongly encouraged to make use of.

[jakonovski]

I now have the Tin Banishment Catalyst, so I shall have to see if that's enough to turn the tide. Also I can now wear partial Elite Knight's Armor without getting encumbered, which should help survivability. I hate other people in my Souls, so I won't summon them except in the direst of circumstances.

[bhodi]

I now have the Tin Banishment Catalyst, so I shall have to see if that's enough to turn the tide. Also I can now wear partial Elite Knight's Armor without getting encumbered, which should help survivability. I hate other people in my Souls, so I won't summon them except in the direst of circumstances.

Did you start with the skeleton key? If so, take the tower down and kill havel for his ring (lure him up the steps, dodge back when he attacks then run up and kick him off the edge about 5 times). I also did a quick run through darkmoon for some extra / new armor which made a world of difference. A WORLD of difference. So much so I'm repeating it twice on one page.

[jakonovski]

Yeah, I'm using the skeleton key. Havel seemed to be vulnerable to cheesing around the tower's bottom entrance when I last encountered him, but I didn't try killing him.

Where is this Darkmoon, or do you mean Darkroot?