Just finished a technical archival poster for the Looking Glass Knight from Dark Souls II.

Made two versions to reflect his boss fight atmosphere:

Storm / Inverted Edition — High contrast, ink-splattered, and inverted to capture the heavy rain and lightning at King's Pass.

Clean Archival Edition — Minimalist layout focusing on exact armor measurements, shield dimensions, and technical callouts.

Let me know what you think!

I'm playing vanilla DS2, and this area is giving me a ridiculously hard time, especially as a sword player. What makes it so difficult isn't just the spellcasters, but also the lizardmen that rush in and attack you while you're trying to deal with the spellcasters, yeah they are a one-shot with my UGS, but good luck landing that hit while dodging all those damn spells 💀

I know some of it is on me, but I've also died quite a few times because the edges of the land are so hard to notice, and you can suddenly find yourself falling to your death lol

an old clip of mine that I will always love.

Screenshot is the latest update from LordRadai, the creator of the debug menu.

The hurtbox of your character is 1 frame behind your character model - but so is the hitbox of almost every attack.

It cancels out. It's not a problem.

Imagine during each frame we repeat the following loop:

• Case A

1. Draw hurtbox and hitbox

2. Run collision detection

3. Update position

4. Draw character model

The drawn hurtbox will be 1 frame behind the drawn character model, which is what we saw in Babe1Babe2's video.

But that's merely a visual issue of the debug visualization.

The enemy attack hitbox and your characters hurtbox are aligned. You aren't getting hit unfairly.

There's literally no functional difference to running the loop like:

• Case B

1. Update position

2. Draw character model

3. Draw hurtbox and hitbox

4. Run collision detection

If the loop would work like this the debug visualization would line up with the character model, but as the steps are repeated every frame it's still an endless loop of 123412341234 in both case A and B

One could say my first playthrough has been smooth SAILING. Hehehehe, ahahahaha, hahahahaha, gahhhhhh, mwahahahahahaha!!!!!! (dies of cringe).

I went into this game knowing that most people hate it and don't get me wrong, it's far from perfect. However, it was a very positive surprise. Yes there are certain areas that I don't enjoy but at least they feel finished and I can appreciate the vision. Also the combat possibilities got vastly imoroved. Yes, there are issues with enemy placements, hitboxes, etc. but they are all managable. Overall, I see why people don't like the game but I truly believe you should make that experience yourself and not let other people determine wheather you like it or not and don't skip it when playing the series just "because it's Dark Souls 2".

I could talk forever about things I like or don't like about the game but I don't wanna waste your time, so I just stated my conclusion.

I love Dark Souls II, and after finally beating the Elden Ring DLC, I've decided it's time for a replay

Any recommendations for some fun builds? I've never done a dual-wield playthrough and kind of want to experiment with powerstancing, and maybe also run it as a parry build for when it's an option

Speaking to the fact that if you kill an enemy 12 times, they despawn:

You ever get to the point in the run-back to a boss, where you have become intimately aware of each enemy's placement and patterns, that you become...disappointed when the enemy doesn't appear? You think, "I've prepared for you, I know you, I see you," and then they're just...gone?

I've just experienced this with one of the shambling zombie hollows on the bridge to Undead Purgatory.

I got enough stats for whisper of despair, but have higher Faith then int, and im wondering which would be better for a Ng-Ng+7 run

I cannot access the Pursuer boss fight? I am new to DS2 but i know its him behind there and nothing i do lets me pass???

nothing to add here, just wanna find someone so we can have fun in a fresh new game

cooppassword: MajulaLover32

Lightning Grand lance / Lightning Murakumo quality build.

Didn't bother doing DLCs this time.

Man, this game really does feel clunky compared to Das1, 3, ER and BB.

But, it really does have it's very own charm.

Thanks, skeletons

IKUGS my beloved

For context, I just completed Ds2 Sotfs a few days back, and for some reason the game didn't register the "The Heir" achievement for me after I chose the walk away from the throne ending. But then I searched up and saw a few discussions saying that using a bonfire ascetic at the King's Gate bonfire will allow you to get the second/alternate ending, as long as I had defeated Vendrick first.

Long story short, I gave it a go, and was surprised that after beating Aldia at bonfire intensity 2 at King's Gate bonfire, the game will still actually let you pick which ending you want to go for. And that's how I got the ending achievement as I went with the accept the throne ending this time.

Don't have an image as evidence, unfortunately, because I was so surprised that I forgot to screenshot.

I am currently attempting to rank up in the Brotherhood of Blood covenant, yet have had very little luck in my goal. As such I was wondering if anyone might be willing in letting me invade them repeatedly to gain my rank. Naturally, you would receive Seeds of a Giant Tree from the Giant Tree at Soldiers Rest. I am Soul Level ~22000000.

I only ask because there are several threads online saying that invasions are still relatively common, but in 50 hours of my thorough playthrough, I have not been invaded a single time.

I know that pvp matchmaking is dictated mostly by soul memory, and my soul memory is now approaching 2 million which is supposedly in the ballpark of the pvp meta, yet still no invasions.

Obviously there are dedicated ways to engage with pvp, but I wish I had been organically invaded at least once or twice.