>invader charges >keep that shield up, watch his movements >unleashes flurry of attacks >stamina bar longer than call of duty's release list >hold my ground, attack >shit stamina gone, back away >he rolls around for the backstab >shield bash to stagger him >get one hit in, luckily this is a big weapon so i may not be able to combo him but it will still hurt >i think i can win this fight
Dark Souls 3
>invader charges >keep that shield up, watch his movements >R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1 >oh what the fuck im staggered!? >jesus christ move!!! >he wont let up! What im fucking STUNLOCKED!?!?! >what the FUCK
From Soft >lol we added all these big weapons and armor plus some cool shields >lol just use an estoc >lol no poise is meant to do that >like favourite and subscribe
Dark Souls 3 is fucking shit, but its no as bad ad Froms attitude towards it
You have a free action after getting hit twice. Use it.
Jacob Lopez
>Dark Souls 3 is fucking shit, but its no as bad ad Froms attitude towards it read this in a Scottish accent
Christopher Reyes
>"Poise is working as intended." >okay so what does it do >"It's working." >yes but there's no difference when the character has equipped poise or not so what's the diff- >"Poise is different in this game." >yes I heard you but what does it d- >"Working as intended."
Fucking Fromsoft.
Nathan Green
>implying im not scottish Cunt
Dylan Torres
>R1R1R1R1 >What is parrying
Owen Martin
Have you tried becoming more skilled at the game?
Carter Sanchez
>parrying >with greatshield
Colton Robinson
>everyone uses dark sword "you just have to parry"
>tries to parry >lag wont let me
Henry Mitchell
>Getting guard broken by R1 spam with a great shield
Andrew Lee
Estoc is bullshit I agree. It's too fast to parry after you block the first hit.
If you were struggling vs Dark Sword users I would tell you to git gud.
Grayson Sullivan
>people don't realize that poise will make most weapons useless in pvp like in DS1
>people don't realize that the only reason DS2 and 3 have so much variety is because no poise
Dominic Butler
Its like you dont get the fucking problem with the game.......
Juan Diaz
Should I play the first Dark Souls or are the second and third better?
Lincoln Brooks
>Variety It's literally Estoc/Straight Swords you fucking meme lord.
Owen Davis
The first is probably the best overall. 3 won't make any sense without having played 1. 2 is OK but weird. Honestly, though, the first ~60% of Dark Souls is my favourite vidya experience of all time.
Carson Walker
They're all garbage games, play Bloodborne if you can.
The way Dark Souls works is they decide how to make the gameplay as shitty as possible. The entire game is a chore to play. It's not about getting good, it's about it's a lot of work with very little enjoyment.
Jonathan Ortiz
Sounds like you're retarded nigger. Just 2h that great shield and jab his fucking face with it.
Jace James
Launch day called, they want their false information back.
Joseph Morris
Is there any reason to ever not use a shield? Even if you two hand most of the time I still always keep the shield in off hand.
Noah Flores
You only get stunlocked if you too try to mash something like r1 like a retard when you get hit. I agree its kinda stupid that your only option is to roll away, but atleast you only take 2 hits and you don't need exploits like toggle that you had to do against certain weapons in 1 or they would stunlock you for real.
Easton Parker
Post your build right now then.
Xavier Phillips
I'd prefer DS2 pvp than this shitfest of dark sword/estoc users
Ryan Ross
The current state of the game, after 165 hours, makes me real sad. There is no real reason to use anything other than a thrusting sword, straight sword, or any great axe/ultra greatsword. Everything else just underperforms and you gimp yourself, although admittedly its not that awful where its totally useless (though, some weapons are). It baffles me, after the first two games then Bloodborne, From still can't seem to have their games balanced enough on launch.
Poise being disabled or broken or whatever the fuck also is ridiculous. I don't really want Dark Souls 1 poise again, because frankly, it was really shitty and prefer the way DS2 did poise after it was adjusted some.
I can't really play this game much anymore. Build variety is nonexistent. Its like they took way too many cues from Bloodborne, except it doesn't work in a Souls game.
Jonathan Cooper
I don't have the game installed anymore nignog.
Michael Ortiz
>wahhh why cant i be a turtle fag anymore waaaa!! fuck you op turtlefag are as worst as r1 spam gladly end yourself.
James Hernandez
Nigga I have only lost to Washing Polers with olympic gold medals in sprinting and I use a combination of Heavy Large Club + Smough's Hammer
literally git gud, even without poise great hammers and such are viable
Eli Evans
>not wanting to be The Wall
Nolan Morales
QUICK Sup Forums I'M AT CHARACTER CREATION
I'VE BEATEN THE GAME ONCE WITH A ROMAN LEGIONARY
SHOULD I MAKE MY NEXT BUILD A MAGE HUNTER OR A DEFENDER OF HOSTS
Camden Morgan
>I don't know how to deal with a greatshield while using my estoc, because I don't have a kick with estoc
Joshua Cox
Mine is 27 vig 30 end 40 str 40 dex Murakumo and Washing Pole.
I've not lost to a straight/thrusting sword user once. The only losses I catch are to BKGA, DSGA, or Champ Halberd/Glaive
Jackson Mitchell
>play dark souls 1 >get invaded >pull the ethernet plug
Am I a faggot? I figured anyone still invading in 2016 it is just there to fuck me up and I really just wanted to play the game.
Adam Edwards
Kick does almost nothing to a Greatshield anyway, dude. You'd have to land like 20 kicks in a row. 15 with the ring.
Jaxson Morris
I only alt f4 from undead parish invaders because they're guaranteed to be twinking faggots. Higher level invaders are usually pretty fair.
Jack Sanders
Have you even played this game? Serious question.
The way that stability in this game works is fucked. Any greatshield that isn't Havel's takes on average, two kicks to break, whereas Havel's takes three.
Colton Campbell
>Any greatshield that isn't Havel's takes on average, two kicks to break, whereas Havel's takes three.
Why do the Japanese have this odd approach to game design where they make games deliberately unbalanced and want people to discover the most broken options and abuse them, rather than actually making more than one thing viable?
Matthew Wood
>posts a video of a guy exclusively two handing his +5 Havel's Greatshield
No fucking shit.
Cooper Reyes
Greatshield of Glory has higher stab than Havel's. You aren't kick breaking a GS
Jordan Hughes
Weight, I use dark hand just because its 0 weight
Jackson Sanders
>DS3 >variety DS3 is literally all halberds and occasional niggas trying to wombo combo with curved greatswords or buffed twinswords
Carson Allen
You should attempt to attain a higher degree of skill.
To the point that you shouldn't be attempting to block an invader's attacks or even carrying a shield unless it's for a stat or parrying if you're that guy.
Jack Reed
>tfw Dark Souls 3 only has one build
Ayden Gonzalez
Warden Blades with Rouge Washing Pole BKGA BKG, Gundyr's DSGA Anything with the Spin Slash weapon art Combo Farron Memers R1 spamming SS users(literally the easiet to fight out of all of them)
This is my entire DaS3 experience so far
Thomas Price
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Dominic Adams
So do you even use anything other than two handed running attacks with katanas
Gabriel Bell
>and prefer the way DS2 did poise after it was adjusted some You prefer poise being absolutely useless? Why even have it at all then?
Oliver Murphy
>das3 invincibility frames requiring more skill than managing your stamina while blocking
kek
Thomas Morgan
Working as intended
Gabriel Collins
No weapon uses more than one move
Tyler Hall
> DaS1
>invader charges >you autisticly hold up a shield >he clips through you because of shitty latency >backstabs and kills you in one hit
> dark souls 3 >he charges with a BKG and kills you in one combo
Samuel Sanders
Greatshields fucking destroy katanas and estocs. Like, there's literally nothing an estoc could do to a greatshield, even quick switching into something else to kick, assuming the greatshield user is a retard and let him do so, will barely eat 1/3rd of your stamina.
Cameron Butler
>inb4 git gud
Fuck off, thats exactly what you need to do.
Jose Reed
as someone who's done AAA gamedev this is so true it fucking hurts
>critical bug, potential for completely JUSTing your entire save file >file it as high priority >next day >moved to low priority >spend the next month and a half unsuccessfully trying to escalate this bug so someone fixes it >eventually someone else who knew about it just up and snuck a last minute fix in right before gold, like, literally hours before the gold had to be out the door and shipped to manufacturing
And people wonder why I quit, although the socjus invasion had more to do with it
Leo Stewart
Play in this order: Demon's>Dark>Dark 2>Dark 3, and of you want something different after that, then play Bloodborne.
Jordan Anderson
>useless
It let you tank through hits, but not forever. of course it still had some issues (some weapons had crazy poise break for what they were) but it's better than it basically having no reason to exist like it does in 3
Jaxon Peterson
I'm level 200 and Estoc/Katana is still rampant, I don't get it I have to use darksword in order to defend myself from these fucks, and it still feels scummy
Dylan Rodriguez
The worst of it all is the phantom range of the estoc/straight sword
Levi Anderson
There's nothing any weapon can do against a greatshield
Benjamin White
>level 200 >Dark sword Just fucking use Anri you cuck. It has the highest damage potential in the game, that weapon is pants on head retarded.
Mason Walker
S-shotel! It's working as intended!
Luke Sanders
40 str 40 faith 40 dex 40 intel Reinforced Darksword. have yet to run into a weapon that out damages it for the speed/
Hunter Clark
The numbers of have been ran already faglord. Anri's outdamages Darksword well before the SL 200 mark.
Anthony Morris
That's just to get around saying get gud, it's like you pointed out though removing the shield removes the problem and you really don't need it.
Tyler Thomas
>Shield bash
Wait what?
Robert Gonzalez
Still doesn't disprove my complaint, try to out range/outspeed this against an estoc. this game is fucking broke. fuck off
Jason Gray
If you're at level 200 use Twin Princes Greatsword or Greatsword of Lorian, your dinky straight sword won't help you here unless it's a buffed anris
Jack Watson
Greatshields and some other smaller shields have a bash/strike as their L2 instead of parry
Isaac Murphy
>The current state of the game, after 165 hours, makes me real sad. There is no real reason to use anything other than a thrusting sword, straight sword, or any great axe/ultra greatsword. Everything else just underperforms and you gimp yourself, although admittedly its not that awful where its totally useless (though, some weapons are). It baffles me, after the first two games then Bloodborne, From still can't seem to have their games balanced enough on launch. Are you talking exclusively about PVP?
Blake Campbell
Make a miner forty-niner. Go full strength and 15 faith for the endure miracle. Only use the pickaxe and the leo ring for the bonus thrust damage on counter. Spam the heavy charge attack and one-shot anyone r1 spamming while armor from the undead settlement. back up weapon can be mourne's for the aoe attack.
Josiah Carter
Wouldn't be surprised if all the balance problems would instantly be fixed if they fixed their netcode so you could actually apply spacing. As it stands, even if you have a weapon with twice as much reach, you still have to dodge if they start an attack anywhere in your general location on your screen.
Michael Sullivan
>DMB enchanted Sellsword Twinblades on my dex/faith build post buff, backed up by dragonslayer spear and swordspear This is pure fun
Benjamin Kelly
>they literally said poise is working as intended Holy shit at least balance it. Poise can literally make or break a low-level run in the first game, and it being shit in Dark Souls II and Bloodborne is the stupidest shit (though definitely understandable in the latter). Why did they think it was a good idea to keep it shit. It made fucking light armor viable. With the wolf ring you could take one, maybe two hits from an opponent's weapon before getting flinched, which could give you time to back off with your last little bit of health and try to finish your opponent off before they off'd you. It was broken, sure, but it wasn't something that should have been thrown away, and it's literally made the games so much more God-damned frustrating not having it at times, but having enemies with nearly unbreakable poise like the DLC fuckers in Dark Souls II.
Hudson Rivera
Please, tell me more about how SJWs have fucked shit up.
Carter Richardson
I am getting tired of being already out-of-range of my opponent's attack, dodging anyway to be safe, and then still getting hit when their weapon didn't come close to hitting me.
Colton Taylor
Not to mention getting hit and stunlocked in the middle of a blade art dash/dodge.
Easton Nguyen
So many shitters ITT. I've been thinking about getting into streaming my ds3 invasions but I definitely want to make YouTube montages to show all of you how fucking terrible the dark sword and Estoc are.
Evan Hughes
Doit up, won't stop people from hating the PvP for them
Aiden Price
Butcher's knife needs to be fixed. Badly
It has more phantom range than any weapon i've ever seen
By working as intended I think they mean the number comes up in the stat screen, not that they actually programmed it to do anything.
Josiah Walker
>redit the post
>activate poise again >havel + ESTOC everywhere >all greatswords /axes /glaives / duel wield weapons nonexistence >w-why did from ruin the games pvp >w-why did from turn poise back on turn it off.
Oliver Martinez
It's not just that Poise isn't working, it's that for some reason they still left the fucking dummy stat in the game. It might as well just be some retarded counter like Fashion Level because it does fuckall, so why leave it in the game to confuse people? It's a hackjob
Elijah Lopez
>tfw I use cheat engine to turn poise on for me
Working as intended
Nathaniel Watson
>first clip against a caster >switches out of Estoc
I can see this video will be super convincing that the Estoc is op
Colton Peterson
If I use Cheat Engine to change my character's name while offline will I get VAC banned?
Liam Perez
They really just need to remake the entire series using the gameplay from 1 and the graphics from 3. They really don't know what the hell they're doing with the core mechanics in the current games.
Matthew Ramirez
They probably have more insight than any user on Sup Forums about this
my guess is they turned it off because they saw how unbalanced it would make the pvp with straightswords / rapiers vs greatswords / great axes / ugs
Grayson Wright
>And people wonder why I quit
such things happen literally everywhere, enterprise, web dev, you name it programmes are all the same
Adam Stewart
It's mostly estoc r1 spam with some parrys and distraction spells.
Asher Martin
>programmers
fug
Jose Gutierrez
>free
no it's not, it cost you 1/3 of your health bar retard
Evan Lopez
BB is practically perfect, and DaS is easily the worst gameplay wise.
Blake Morales
most likely, the only things they don't ban for is godmode probably because they can't detect it
Alexander Evans
What do you want them to do? Make poise make you an invincible juggernaut so everyone goes around wearing full havel's again?
Camden Watson
I never once said they should turn it back on? I just want them to say what it does if it's supposedly working as intended. They won't say what it does or how it works, which just makes them look like lying assholes since all the other stats are pretty obviously explained.
Gabriel Lopez
>and DaS is easily the worst gameplay wise. Objectively incorrect. It didn't have estoc spam and armor/weapon choice actually mattered for your preferred poise/roll choices.
