AWKWARD ZOMBIE

fookin hell m8, this second boss is giving me some serious trouble, think i'll run around and grab some souls. And is it just me or do some enemies disappear? Like the garden variety jobbers seem to leave the area after a bit.

Once you kill enemies a certain number of times they just stop spawning.

Also, is it just me, or is this even less clear on story progression than DS1? What am I doing, exactly? Am I trying to cure myself? Am I trying to become king??? Why do I only need to beat like, four bosses? Who is this chick I have to use to level up? What is happening at any point in this whole story?

otherwise it's fantastic i've died like twenty-ish times just in the span between four bosses it's cool as hell to be dying in a dark souls game again, the new movement is weird but well done and i dunno everything about this strikes me as a massive improvement over DS1's gameplay

Its alot more fluid imo

Epicnamebro is back to makin vids btw

Really now? Any idea if there's a limit on this, or if eventually they'll start spawning again? Is it possible to have an area or even the whole game completely devoid of enemies if you're at it long enough?
DOES THIS MEAN NO FARMING?

there's no limit, they won't start spawning again until NG+, and yes if you kill every single enemy in an area enough they will not come back ever and you can clear everything out

but you have to do it like, ten times i think, so it's a fucking hassle to do it just to gets shit to stop spawning

at this rate every enemy in the fucking castle's gonna be gone by the time i dent this fucker's armor. How'd y'all beat him?

rolling no longer has invincibility frames but to compensate, weapon hitboxes are VERY ACCURATE and not just kind of weird like they used to be

so you can bait him into charging you

and then

roll under his sword



also be sure you have a decent weapon, the blacksmith sells a B scaling mace for strength builds and a few nice B scaling dex weapons so be sure to grab one, that mace carried me through until i was able to use the dranglaic sword

spoiler time
Lit the first primal bonfire after some serious issues with the boss. Each of these areas is about as long as it would be in DS1, but it takes four areas to get to a primal bonfire it seems like. This is a very long game, and the fact that so far there's been multiple paths that I can take to get to the same place means there's a LOT of replay value and mmmmmMMMMMMMMMMM ME GUSTAAAA

If you burn bonfire aestithics the mobs in the area will respawn at ng+ lvl. Then rinse repeat

Did they change parrying? I just simply cannot parry, it seems.

Parrying now knocks an enemy down. You have to wait for them to completely fall, and then attack.

I'm just finding it difficult because new enemies=new parry timing. I'm also having issues with it but that's prolly because I'm not used to the new enemies yet (or I'm too used to the old enemies lol)

they changed the timing a bit, so yes its harder now than it was before in DK1. its generally easier to just shield break the enemy then punch them in the face that way

FINALLY BEAT THE RUIN SENTRIES FUCK YEAH
daisies that was a tough one, though. Really want their armor.
That battle definitely felt like it was supposed to be done with multiple people.

i actually had a decent time with em, only took 2 times.

what build are you runnin vax? i was mostly str tank focused

I'm a str/dex swordsman. 's been goin good for me so far! Can't wait to get a better bow and a flamberg. They look cool as shit in this one