Dark Souls - The Bear and Badger

Rev

It's frankly amazing how quickly you can upgrade weapons when you aren't paying for soul levels..
Capra was the roughest so far with about ten attempts and queelag was done in two. I'm playing offline so no summoning.
Killed the asylum demon with black firebombs.

Minnesänger

Nice work!

hmmmm

You're actually making it sound tempting, Rev, good work!

Rev

It's fairly easy. I took the black firebombs so you can kill the asylum demon on the first time round.
Bought the reinforced club, hit the first bell, then down through the Drake valley to get to the second bell.
Then demon ruins to get the gold hemmed set and the ability to scale up pyromancy to +9. By that time I could also level up the club and Hollow shield. Picked up the grass shield then killed moonlight butterfly. Going to hit the depths, sif and then pinwheel next to up my estus limit

Rev

So after a bit of mucking about, I paid a visit to pinwheel to pick up the right of kindling, my pyro glove is now at +15, with the gold hemmed set. Rocking great combustion and the fire orb, with the bellowing dragon crest ring and the Dusk crown so I'm wrecking silver knights with one fireball. Using a lightning club which is kick ass.
Really liking to SL1 run now.

JonB

It's great fun. And I always like that it wasn't so much a major challenge as just a different way of playing, at least once you knew the game well. The sequels never had that flexibility.

Although, I've never done the DLC in SL1, and I think that would be much harder, especially the final boss.

Rev

https://www.youtube.com/user/TwinHumanitiesPod

Here's my friend Paddy doing one bros of one and two and currently one broing through Demons as well.

I totally agree about the dlc, especially manus.

kestla

It's always nice but risky coming in here, because it makes me want to play it through again. I'm very much contemplating getting this for the Switch - anyone know how it holds up? I'd be playing predominantly in handheld mode.

Wookienopants

kestla wrote:

It's always nice but risky coming in here, because it makes me want to play it through again. I'm very much contemplating getting this for the Switch - anyone know how it holds up? I'd be playing predominantly in handheld mode.

Get it.
I play handheld on switch and it's just brilliant.
It holds up VERY Well

kestla

Wookienopants wrote:

kestla wrote:

It's always nice but risky coming in here, because it makes me want to play it through again. I'm very much contemplating getting this for the Switch - anyone know how it holds up? I'd be playing predominantly in handheld mode.

Get it.
I play handheld on switch and it's just brilliant.
It holds up VERY Well

Good to hear. I may wait until I've made some solid progress on BoTW before purchasing though, as I know this will consume me again!

Wookienopants

Just get it

hylian_elf

kestla wrote:

Wookienopants wrote:

kestla wrote:

It's always nice but risky coming in here, because it makes me want to play it through again. I'm very much contemplating getting this for the Switch - anyone know how it holds up? I'd be playing predominantly in handheld mode.

Get it. I play handheld on switch and it's just brilliant. It holds up VERY Well

Good to hear. I may wait until I've made some solid progress on BoTW before purchasing though, as I know this will consume me again!

If it will consume you again, then get it after finishing or tiring of BotW.

kestla

Yeah, I feel like I should put some time into BotW after putting it off so long. Conveniently DS has gone back up in price, so I'll wait for the next drop.

Rev

So after about twenty attempts, I solo'd Slough and Ormscheap. My pyro took out Orms in four hits, but I kept being smash by the large fellow. Ended up using fire orbs, then black firebombs to finish him off. Totally delighted, never managed before.

stonechalice

Is Dark Souls on switch 60fps?

Dinostar77

Rev wrote:

So after about twenty attempts, I solo'd Slough and Ormscheap. My pyro took out Orms in four hits, but I kept being smash by the large fellow. Ended up using fire orbs, then black firebombs to finish him off. Totally delighted, never managed before.

Your playing without upgrading your character health right?

stonechalice

Without upgrading any stats at all. Upgrading weapons and armour is fair game on SL1 IIRC.

trippy

Excellent work, Rev! Such a brilliant boss fight, the elation must be strong doing it SL1.

Djornson

I have soooo many games to play but now i want to attempt SL1

Rev are you on remastered or original? is there much difference?

stonechalice

Frame rate lol. There didn't really do much to the remaster eh.

kestla

From what I've read, it shares more similarities with the original than the remaster, apart from some slight resolution improvements

Rev

Djornson wrote:

I have soooo many games to play but now i want to attempt SL1
Rev are you on remastered or original? is there much difference?

remastered. But I've got a duplicate sl1 run going on the ps3 just now.
The jump skip on AL is a chore without the l3 easy press.
And apart from frame rate I can honestly say the AI is exactly the same on both games to a tee.

acemuzzy

What jump skip is that?

Rev

Where from the bonfire you go up the spiral stairs, you can leap from them down to the corridor that takes you to s and O.

stonechalice

Why is it harder?

Rev

Using the O instead of the L3 has been trickier for me. These hands aren't what they used to be

stonechalice

Ah I see I forgot all about that!!

Rev

Yeah. The archers are still a pain in the ass..

Curtis

No idea what thread to post this in, but Mortal Shell is now in open Beta. So PC Souls fans go nuts!

The way they were handling beta codes over the past few days was utterly ridiculous - bots snapping them up within seconds and the social media mob, as always, were not happy.

So, this evening the developer said "fuck it" and opened the beta to everyone (while still being humbled by the insane amount of interest in their modest Souls rip-off).

It was a smart move, and it shows they have a finger on the pulse of popular demand, which will only help them going forward.

We need more of this!

hylian_elf

A friend of mine mentioned it earlier today. I hadn’t heard of it. Will read about it

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