Dark Souls

[NoelEdwards]

I'm going to start playing Dark Souls this week. Any good tip's when starting out?

[Zaki]

For an easy ride, start as a pyromancer with the master key as your gift

I'm going to start playing Dark Souls this week. Any good tip's when starting out?

[Shoju]

Pyromancy does seem to be overpowered. You have to power up the glove but apart from attunement there's no stat investment required and it can do massive damage to almost all enemies. Bosses usually get massacred by Pyromancy.

[Zaki]

The imminent patch nerfs pyromancy from 270 down to 230 (for a maxed out glove).

Pyromancy does seem to be overpowered. You have to power up the glove but apart from attunement there's no stat investment required and it can do massive damage to almost all enemies. Bosses usually get massacred by Pyromancy.

[Womble9]

Ok just fired this for a quick hr at lunchtime and there's now 4mb patch for it. Only things I've noticed are that it now tells you how many souls you need to level up (strangely it used to show as zero till you had enough and then would tell you ho many it was using) and I seem to be getting handed out rather more souls for my kills too. In Undead Berg for example it used to award me 60 for a kill and now it's giving me 72, and even the Skeletons (in the graveyard out the back of Firelink Shrine) are giving me 50 when they used to give me nothing. I'd imagine there's plenty of other stuff too but I'm still not that far / deep into the game as yet.

[J0e Musashi]

I'm glad it shows how many souls you need now. It's infuriating when you are farming.

[briareos_kerensky]

http://probertson.tumblr.com/post/13115345688/demons-souls-dark-souls

[Womble9]

I'm glad it shows how many souls you need now. It's infuriating when you are farming.

I agree, kind of thought it was a bit odd that it used to say "souls required" and not actually show you how many you needed till you'd actually exceeded that amount .

Just had a few more minutes on it and indeed the souls awarded has changed. Still only giving me 100 for the trees in darkroot basin but there's a church with three nights inside it. I'm sure I used to get 100 each but killing two quickly showed 320 (in total I think, I've noticed the souls being show as a total on a few double kills now) followed by 200 when I killed the third.

[fuse]

Ooh, the patch is out?! I might have to go back in for a little bit. I got my 1000/1000 last Sunday, but I gather a lot of my gear is probably nowhere near as effective with this update. It'll be nice to just wander about and do what I fancy though, with no real worry of it impacting my completion.

No more duping is good, but unfortunately far too late - too many people have already cheated their way through the game and it wouldn't surprise me if people have already glitched an army of stupidly levelled characters with 99 humanity in preparation for this.

[Blaiz0r]

Ooh, the patch is out?! I might have to go back in for a little bit. I got my 1000/1000 last Sunday, but I gather a lot of my gear is probably nowhere near as effective with this update. It'll be nice to just wander about and do what I fancy though, with no real worry of it impacting my completion.

Here is the list of changes http://pastebin.com/HxMjdaBx

[jimtendo]

... No more duping is good, but unfortunately far too late - too many people have already cheated their way through the game and it wouldn't surprise me if people have already glitched an army of stupidly levelled characters with 99 humanity in preparation for this.

I think those rapscallions will still be able to, albeit offline and deleting the update, whilst boosting their character(s) and then going online to grief once they've tooled themselves up?

I've put this on hold as I've mainly waited for the patch to fix the armour/ miracles/ socery so as to determine which build and upgrades I want to go through, as I can't be arsed with doing creating multiple characters for different builds.

Also, I didn't want to pump too many upgrades into weaponary and armour as my fully loaded Hollow Soldier shield is now scrap metal, as is my crystal ring shield *sobs*.

[briareos_kerensky]

I'm glad my Black Iron set and the Greatsword of Artorias haven't been touched, though they nerfed Homing Crystal Soulmass, from around 1200 to 870 damage points against the giant dog skeletons in the Tomb of the Giants.
One thing I've noticed is that From rearranged the enemies on the Hellkite Drake's bridge, now they don't form a barricade to the stairs and should be easier getting to safety.
Tomorrow I'll check if upgrading Havel's Greatshield improves stability, so far there was no reason to upgrade greatshields.

[S3M]

Eurogamer tells lies!!

DARK SOULS + PS3 + UK + PATCH = EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry this is not the patch your looking for move along, wtf just switched on the PS3 and there was no patch to download, which has quite annoyed me as I was looking forward to playing the new version.

However I seem not to be having a lucky day as I noticed by Blueray has become cracked in the box! How I'm not to sure as I only every inserted it into the PS3 and back again into the box. Once of the clips was a bit dodge in the box and that's were the crack appeared. Guess my only option is to send it back to shopto and hope for a replacement copy.

[hudson]

Your Dark Souls math sum threw me slightly. I thought you were stating that the patch is poopy.

I think it's due today. EG stated it was 360 patch yesterday.

EDIT: UK PS3 patch now available - 12mb.

[rmoxon]

12mb is small for a PS3 patch, arent they usualy like the size of the game or sothing ridiclous? all the ones I install seem to be anyway.

Anyway i installed the patch on the 360 yesterday and played for a bit, I really couldnt tell any difference to anything though, nothing I use seems to have been effected by the changes. I was hoping I had got lucky and become super powered due to the patch.