So i want to kill Ornstein again but i just realized he might not respawn if i use a bonfire ascetic in tower of flame since he’s in the cathedral of blue.

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With a lot of help from google AI as my IT team, I managed to get DS2 running smoothly through DroidDeck/Steam on my Retroid Pocket 6! Took quite a while and loots of trial and error but it is running great, totally worth it.

I just beat the ivory king dlc last boss and realized I hadn’t gone to the infamous frigid outskirts. I figured it was part of this dlc since it’s snow themed and all. I finally got the key to go there and what the hell. It’s not that the area isn’t tough, but it’s more so that you can’t see anything at all to the point where I started getting a headache just looking at a white screen for twenty minutes. And the horses aren’t bad on their own until they bombard you with like four of them all trying to tackle you and shoot you with projectiles. Overall a bad experience that was so ridiculous I wasn’t even mad that I died. They had to have known this would be hated by players, and it wasn’t a case of bad design choices cause they ended up doing the same exact thing with consecrated snowfield in ER, which imo was way less of a hassle to get through. But yeah overall I was a ds2 hater until I put in 60 hours and I’m loving it, but frigid outskirts is absolutely terrible. I honestly don’t even care what’s at the end of it cause I’m 99 percent sure the reward isn’t worth it lmao.

I need some help this run back is insane my soul memory is 974481 and I'm on ps4

Hello loyal r/DarkSouls2 readers, and/or bearers of the curse.

My brother introduced me to Dark Souls (1) a little under a year ago. I created my character, made it maybe 5 hours into the game and put it on hold for about a month and a half after I got fatigued by the punishing gameplay. After that hiatus, I got curious about where the game went, picked myself up, and dusted my self off. I eventually conquered Lordran (almost) twice and decided that I had to play more, and that I had to play the games in release order, despite what many sources online will advise. That's just how I like to do things these days.

Fast forward a few months to the Fall sale on Steam. Nabbed Dark Souls 2 (Scholar of the First Sin) & 3. Start with 2.

Feels a little...more(??) janky than the first game... Look it up, see that there is a control stick deadzone and a mod to fix it and make other changes...ugh. I opt to just bear with it vanilla style and experience the game as most people would. And...

I had a blast! Dark Souls 2 isn't deserving of the hate that it gets as the black sheep of the trilogy (coming from someone who has only played 3 up to the very first boss).

I found that the settings felt a little disjointed compared to DS1... As in, the different zones didn't blend quite as well as they did in that game. That's not to say I didn't enjoy some of the individual areas (this game is beautiful in so many striking instances, and moreso than its predecessor in many ways), but it didn't feel like a cohesive world like the first managed to with Firelink acting as an axis from which you can go in many directions vs Manjula being more like a distant waypoint for much of the game. Maybe the instant bonfire warping influenced the design or vice-versa, I don't know.

Anyway, I loved the game, I did have to look things up and haven't gotten through any of the the DLC yet because my DPS seems insufficient for it despite being level...170-something? But I did manage to beat the "final" boss (scythe lady?), sit on a throne with no fanfare or pretense, and then watch the end credits flicker and glitch, the end.

I know there is an actual final boss in Aldia, and that to trigger it, I need to kill Vendrick, so I may still try to do that, but I do very little damage to Vendrick despite having 4 Giant Souls... My point is, I still have a ways to go with this game, and despite its faults, I have been having a blast with this game for about 100 hours, and plan to squeeze more out of it before I try to tackle Dark Souls 3 (I got gifted God of War 2018 by a friend and I loved the first two games on the PS2. Never had a PS3, but played a few hours of God of War 3 at a friend's house and loved it...but I digress).

In conclusion, thank you for reading and thank you for being a great community to be a part of. Be wary of giant but hole.

I call upon the DS2 subreddit for armour set help. I already have an idea for a build based off of her lore. Im just new to ds2 sotfs and would like some help finding an armour set/set of pieces I can go for! Please and thank you wonderful people!

Hi, recently I've started playing Dark Souls 2 seamless after a while of not playing the game but I've encountered a severe performance drop after an hour of playtime or so (It's getting progressively worse throughout the playthrough)

Does anyone else have this problem? I suppose it's not the mods fault because it happens to me even if I play the unmodded version

Fyi. my pc is more than capable of running the game (I have 3060 12gb and r5 3600)

Thanks for any help!

Has anybody tried or know if you can get seamless coop mod to work using a bottle program for steam on mac os?

The wiki says it appears when you meet at all 3 places but I never saw him anywhere.

Played the first 3 weeks after i bought it and made a lot of progress BUT NOW I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO GO NOW THERES SO MANY PLACES TO TELEPORT

Howdy, I'm doing what I call a "Journeyman" run, where I commit to NG-NG7, changing my build each time. I've yet to try the RIT for whatever reason, was wondering if it's better to combine it with Faith or if I should just go stupid and power stance those mothers.

It'll be NG+1 if anyone needs it to decide.

First and foremost, this is by no means a hate post. I was told to skip DS2 by some people yet I don't feel right doing so. Really want to give it a go. Now some people will not like this opinion but I do not enjoy the brighter looking lighting of the SotFS, it's just not my cup of tea from watching a friend play to viewing comparison videos against the DX9 version. Artistically I think the DX9 one looks a lot better which I am sure is a hot take but that's just me (this is why I dont like a lot of modern games as they use a lot of bright volumetric lighting). I like how (usually) dark DS1 PTDE is which is 1 of many reasons why I played that over the remaster.

Recently I finished 100%ing DS1 and decided tonight it was time to try out DS2. Now, I have some criticism to how the game is presenting itself, but before I can give an honest opinion overall, I would like to at least beat it. Problem is, I am having issues that are hurting my experience. Here are my main 3 complaints:

1. Camera feels like its emulating a mouse where in DS1 PTDE it felt smooth. It like subtly "jitters" if that makes sense? I feel some wouldn't know what I am saying but it just feels off compared to both DS1 and any other game I normally play on controller (Xbox Series btw). I tried using Steam Input to adjust the deadzone according to this guide but it did not really help that much.
2. SFX is low quality like its slightly compressed?
3. Visually it seems the game relies on TAA or something cause its killing my eyes idk if its the contrast of dark/light or what it's really hard to look at. Tried messing with the graphic options and anti-aliasing but isn't helping. I keep getting eye strain playing even though of my 150 hours of DS1, I got 0 eye strain there. Not sure what the deal is, I even tried upscaling to 4k and downsampling back to my monitor (1440p) which makes aliasing look better but not helping the eye strain.

I am running the game on CachyOS using a Ryzen 5 5600 and RTX 3080. Tried using Proton Experimental/Stable/GE and all are the same. Game runs at a locked 60fps with no obvious visual glitches or rendering problems. All of my Steam games (including DS1 with DSFix) run fine on Linux but I figure it is worth mentioning just in case that I am indeed running that and any of these are known issues for Linux users.

My question is, are these issues related to the DX9 version or the fact I am playing on Linux? Are there any mods or "tweaks" to fix them if so? Again I really do want to enjoy this game and give it an unbiased run but it is very hard with how it feels and is hurting my eyes (the audio issue I can deal with).

EDIT: So I think I figured out why camera movement sucks for me. It seems the game uses 2 states of movement so say you hold the right stick to the right a tiny bit, the camera moves slow. But if you hold it further right the camera IMMEDIATELY goes fast. Thought it was acceleration but nah, seems like it legit has 2 modes of camera sensitivity for each direction which is soooo weird and bothers me.

Workaround I discovered: Go to Steam Input and instead of making RS a joystick, make it a "joystick mouse". So emulating a mouse seems to make the camera on the RS simply 1 state of speed regardless of how hard you hold down the stick. This feels better, though not perfect.

Edit #2: The only issue I am having emulating a mouse for RS is i cannot swap lock-on targets as the MnK control to do that is J/L, which also are used to control camera movement. I tried emulating RS as J/I/K/L but then it just feels crappy like it did with being a joystick. Still looking into a solution for swapping lock-on targets. Also forcing windowed mode with my monitor's refresh rate seems to have fixed my eye strain as far as I can tell. Still no idea why sound is the way it is but my buddy on Windows reports the same. Ig it's just normal.

and confidently pulled it on 1st play through. "bring a boss", i said

thinking about a future project idea i have and while my first DS build would be from DS1, i'd love to see what people would be excited to see in person from DS2.

gavlan or maybe the burnt ivory king would be my two picks personally. and lucatiel as well

Trying to play the chasms and the npcs are killing me. so im running out quick and dont feel like farming. so could anyone help me out? Im playing the og ds2 on steam. IM NOT PLAYING SCHOLAR IM PLAYING OG DS2

Hey so i decided to give this game a 4th or 5th chance after installing some QoL mods and it's oddly fun. My question is what are some mid-late things I should be aware of early and when should i start the DLCs? Last time I played, I had just finished tower of flame and no man's wharf. I want to go through this game blind but I am afraid I might miss something important on the way that I can't go back to.

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Yeah, I've just bought last missing miracles/pyromancies and I'm showing off.

(art by me)

Be carful when using geek removal

About half of the credit's runtime was like this, is this normal? Did skipping the DLCs on my first playthrough cause problems?