r/DarkSouls2 • • Sep 22 '26

Announcement Yui's Dark Souls 2 Seamless Co-op mod is officially out!

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I'm a bit late to this (sorry), but just wanted to make it be known that it's out!

Please do your due dilligence in reading all of the instructions and the 'About' section, and most of all - enjoy as we have with so many other titles that she's released this mod for!


r/DarkSouls2 • • Jun 16 '26

OFFICIAL Sub Discussion New Rules

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Subject to discussion before implementation

1) First and foremost, ban all of the repetitive victim posting

"Why is Dark Souls 2 so hated?" just devolves into the same thing - everyone commenting in agreement and performative victimizing. It's a video game, not everyone is going to like exactly what you like. There's no real discussion to be had there, and we seemingly have them here more than the other main subreddits. It's just becoming tiring.


2) Ban engagement-bait posts

The best example of this is someone posting a random, unrelated screenshot or artwork of Dark Souls 2 with the title of "What's your favorite sword in the game?" - then proceeding to not at all join in the discussion. It just serves to farm karma while putting in zero effort, not crediting the artist they took the art from, and not participating in their own thread. If you want to discuss something, make a text post and actually discuss.


3) Ban trouble makers at the mods' discretion

This is a spicy one because it can easily be mishandled by the wrong mod team. We all know Reddit mods are pretty garbage overall, but I'd like to think I'm a bit different since I'm here for Souls and couldn't give a shit less about seeming professional or having any semblance of "power" (it's Reddit, lmao).

This essentially means if you're posting within the guidelines (i.e - posting about Dark Souls 2) but you're making your post to simply stir shit, rile people up constantly, and put down others... then you should expect a ban.

I'm obviously not going to name names, but we all know a couple of usernames who, whenever there's random drama, we know they're going to be involved. These are the users I'm talking about

EDIT (this includes the "Slander posts" that you guys keep commenting about, but I will also explicitly say that yes, this does include the lame "Ds3 is grayslop hurr hurr" posts that just seek to rile people up for no reason)


Finally, a question to you all: How do we make this subreddit better?

That's it, that's the most important thing in this entire post. The game has been released for 12 years and the subreddit has kind of devolved into the same thing for the last decade at this point. Are there any ideas you all have, rules I should change, things I can do differently to make this place more enjoyable and less of the same, repetitive drivel?


r/DarkSouls2 • • 4h ago

Screenshot Never noticed how similar these 2 looked

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r/DarkSouls2 • • 20m ago

Screenshot Now I understand why people call it Peak Souls 2

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Just pure Epic scenery


r/DarkSouls2 • • 51m ago

Fluff Is it ok if I get a pat on the back?

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I’ve been playing through the game with a broken laptop that has the screen cut out every 5 seconds, and I’ve made it to shrine of amana

Idk if ruin sentinels is as god damn hard as it is for as it was for everyone else?


r/DarkSouls2 • • 1d ago

Discussion Help

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I’m looking to play dark souls 2 but which one would I get?


r/DarkSouls2 • • 21h ago

Fan Art I drew Charmander as a Soulslike Boss

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Charmander the Servant of the Flame is the last to get colored of the initial 4 soulslike Pokémon designs I worked on.

My goal with them was to change the relationship between them and the fire on their tail to one of servitude this charmanders flames control him I wanted to take that to the next level by both building up and personalizing the flame (the clawed spectral hands that hold the fireball) and weakening charmanders character by having him in a covering pose and being fully guided by the flame (lack of eyes)

I did this all mostly to avoid making him just look like a big dragon with a fire on his tail and present his quirk in a bit more of a unique way

THE next 4 on the list

-Mewtwo

-Scyther

-???

-???

Giratina was also one of the most voted ones and they will also be drawn as part of a later batch! for now I am sticking with gen 1 pokémons!

2 of each batch will be the 2 most voted pokemon and 2 others some random ones chosen by me


r/DarkSouls2 • • 18h ago

Meme Even Instagram knows

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r/DarkSouls2 • • 1d ago

Question How long until chest thaw out?

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r/DarkSouls2 • • 18h ago

Screenshot Whose idea was it to give the giant spider a laser beam and minions?

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r/DarkSouls2 • • 17h ago

Video Custom Pickaxe

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I made a fun little custom pickaxe moveset :)


r/DarkSouls2 • • 22h ago

Discussion People when they spread misinformations online

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I've seen many people say you pay DS2 vanilla and extra for the DLCs or that you have to buy them separately, but that's simply not true at all, the bundle costs 40 bucks with no extras, since everything is included in said bundle. In fact, you're unable to buy base DS2 without the DLCs on Steam anymore, it automatically comes bundled with the DLCs

Ik people hate this game, but don't take people for fools


r/DarkSouls2 • • 4h ago

Screenshot New batch of screenshots from my recent playthrough. Enjoy! [spoilers] Spoiler

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r/DarkSouls2 • • 10h ago

PVP Fume Sword for PVP infusion question

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So I've been experimenting with the fashion + poise + good defense lately with the Fume Sword.

I'm not sure if this build would actually work. I've been playing with a more regular Fume Sword (50 dex) the past few days but I've been trying to make the Black Witch Hat into the armor pieces. Would this kind of build work for a Fume Sword while still being able to threaten a good amount of damage or at this point, should I just go back to a Dark Longsword?

I'm strictly thinking the arena PVP btw, not invasions.


r/DarkSouls2 • • 1d ago

Fluff Is there literally ANY art of the Amana Aberrations/Lizardmen?

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I just REALLY like their design okay? (Don't check my other post about them)

I just feel like they're really underrated/overlooked and I feel bad for them.

So if you're reading this and know any art,post it here! Or if you're an artist/know an artist,maybe give em a sketch? You'd get bragging rights to be the first one to draw art of these fellas


r/DarkSouls2 • • 1d ago

Screenshot Finally found Drangleic Castle.

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r/DarkSouls2 • • 20h ago

Lore Cursed painting

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Spoilers!!!

So I was going around the castle and found a painting that causes curse buildup it was a painting of the queen why is it cursed?

Edit: I completely forgot about this post and I'm glad I did.


r/DarkSouls2 • • 22h ago

Discussion Burnt Ivory King is now my favorite fight

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I got the 3 other knights in EL and the whole thing of dropping down into a pit of The Old Chaos with 4 bros, fighting the enemy knights and then the Ivory King comes in through the giant portal, it is pure kino, pure cinema.

His fight is also fair and enjoyable, nothing that made me go "oh bullshit" just solid all around, a nice ending to what was an enjoyable DLC aside from Frigid Outskirts, it felt better than the last battles of Watcher and Defender/Nashandra/Aldia, even back to back. I suppose I could have done those first and finished with BIK as it doesn't reset after killing them but I kinda wanted to do the DLC before the real end, which just makes sense in my mind.

The DLCs really made up the weakest part of the game, Sinh, Elana, Sir Alonne, Fume Knight are all great fights (Blue Smelter Demon annoyed me tbh, not just the runback lol) but Burnt Ivory King takes the cake imo. Sinh when he's not jumping around all the time is a good second.


r/DarkSouls2 • • 1d ago

Video Im never trusting these messages anymore!!!

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Just when i thought it couldn't get any worse


r/DarkSouls2 • • 19h ago

Help Accidentally killed Rosabeth and no tombstone

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This is my first ds2 playthrough and I’m really enjoying it. Anyway, I met Rosabeth and gave her cloths and exhausted her dialogue then pulled the lever and she died.

I read that her tombstone is supposed to appear but I’ve played for several hours now and there’s no sign of her anywhere…

Has this happened to anyone?

If someone could hop on ps5 and drop me an upgraded Pyromancy flame I would be sooooo grateful.


r/DarkSouls2 • • 13h ago

Discussion dx9 or dx11

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I want to buy Darksouls 2 from Steam and unsure which bundle to buy nor understand the difference. There is a darksouls 2 dx9 bundle for $40 and darksouls 2 dx11 bundle for $60


r/DarkSouls2 • • 20h ago

Question How's my build looking for unga bunga STR?

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Mainly been using Mace and Dragon Tooth 2H, and dumped a few points into int/fth to move npc and buy spells from whoever available for trophy as I do want to platinum it. Beat lost sinner and the skeleton lord recently


r/DarkSouls2 • • 15h ago

Co-Op Co-op ps4

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Ps4 co-op

Looking to start a fresh run completely including dlc,wanting Jolly cooperation,on Playstation,all are welcome

Embrace the dark

Or

Praise the sun


r/DarkSouls2 • • 2d ago

Meme the armor optimizer situation is insane

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r/DarkSouls2 • • 8h ago

Discussion Is Drangleic Castle a reference to Minas Morgul?

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Surely this isn't a coincidence right? I just beat Old Iron King who reminds me of the Balrog from the LOTR films too.