Taunt me as I die my way through Dark Souls. Maybe.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Twitter and the chat got a ten minute warning!
E: Yeah, next time I'll let you know I'm streaming at least thirty minutes beforehand. I kinda have to do it short notice though, because I can't predict if my interwebs will be fine a few hours from now or tomorrow. It's been weird lately.

[Doc ock rokc]

Originally Posted by Pulsating Tumescence

Twitter and the chat got a ten minute warning!
E: Yeah, next time I'll let you know I'm streaming at least thirty minutes beforehand. I kinda have to do it short notice though, because I can't predict if my interwebs will be fine a few hours from now or tomorrow. It's been weird lately.

I suggest scheduling a TIME so that we have TIME to prepare.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

If I tell you that I will start streaming in thirty minutes this will be me scheduling time. Relative time using the timestamp on my post as a base and you will have thirty minutes to prepare if you wish to join. I don't want to schedule actual events for like... tomorrow 20:00 my timezone because I can't be sure my connection will work at that time that day (it's kind of weird, it sometimes just doesn't work very well anymore 19 o clock-ish) As soon as I hear back from my isp and they tell me it should probably not happen again this is something that can happen, though.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by MSperoni

I've managed to set up a co-op with a friend before, but it can be a bit time consuming to pull off, and one time I got invaded while we were trying to do it. He also lives in the US, so that might have made things easier. (I think we just got lucky, actually).

I bump into a lot of Japanese people at certain times, usually over night, I can tell they're Japanese via their trophy lists. Not that it makes much difference. My online activity with Dark Souls has actually been pretty nice, and I've had a share of success with invasions and being invaded (I win more than I lose, which is rare for me in an online venue).

EDIT: One time me and another member of the Blade of the Darkmoon Covenant invaded someone, and that person had a partner who was trying to pull the ol' "Disguise as a Vase" trick on us, but I spotted it and smacked them. I think they were surprised that I wasn't surprised because their instinct was to just run rather than stand their ground and fight back, but my character, despite having heavy armor/weapons is very fast, and I managed to kill them before they could do much. The person who we invaded was dispatched soon after by the combined might of me and my partner. That was a pretty cool match.

I also had one where me and some people were all battling it out in that part in Anor Londo in the rafters. Like, someone had invaded someone else, and the invaded player summoned me and another player to their defense, and we all ended up in that rafter area. I chased the invader across the rafters while the other helper shot at them with arrows. The fight ended with the invader slipping off and falling to their death.

I had a couple great ones too, my favorite was in Anor Lando I was trying to get the covenant stuff for darkmoon via invading. So I invade this guy, and right after I invade him, he uses iron flesh, I back stab him a few times, not doing much damage, but he can't do anything 'cause of the movement restriction, and then a black phantom invades. The other phantom attacks me first, for whatever reason, I manage to kill the other phantom, and then go back and kill the dude who was iron fleshing (now not doing that anymore having probably learned his lesson.

Then there was the time I was leaving a summon sign just inside of the forest so people could summon me to help fight off forest covenant invaders, and I killed like three or four for him while he was basically nothing but a distraction.

Good times.

[Krylo]

Haha, oh man, Iggy, I'm watching the backlog of your stream, and you keep dying to those dogs for the same reason: Completely ignoring that your sword is bouncing off the wall and you can't hit the dogs with it like that.

It's hilarious.

Edit: You still don't seem to have figured it out when you finally beat the dogs. You just got lucky as shit on them. Fantastic.

[Moogle0119]

Very nice, I just finished up going through Dark Souls about a month or two ago while getting all the achievements. One of the most rewarding games I've ever played. While Blighttown does indeed suck, I always hated Tomb of Giants even more until you got that helmet (sunlight maggot) that illuminated the area for you. Great game though either way, I'll definitely have to watch these.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Haha, oh man, Iggy, I'm watching the backlog of your stream, and you keep dying to those dogs for the same reason: Completely ignoring that your sword is bouncing off the wall and you can't hit the dogs with it like that.

It's hilarious.

Edit: You still don't seem to have figured it out when you finally beat the dogs. You just got lucky as shit on them. Fantastic.

I actually know that and I tried stabbing them (I'm not sure I did it in my sloppy run today, though). The wind up of my stabbing attack is just too long for when the dogs get too close since it's a heavy attack. By hitting the wall with my light attack I at least hit them or uh... may hit them, I'm open to their attacks either way.

I actually just now watched parts of the second vid from today. And man, I really do some stupid shit. Really stuff suicidal enough I usually wouldn't even think of doing it. I actually consider myself a fairly good player, if my pvp successes and the fact that I barely died during my second full playthrough are any indication at least. Not gonna look for excuses, though. Just hope I get better again. But it IS kind of fun to not just plow through the game like it's nothing.

Anyway, I think I might go for a spear+shield combo, because that's easy to use. And safe. I could go for the Zweihänder as well but as funny as that sounds, the brute force of that weapon requires more precision than spears. It's all in the timing. If I time the heavy attack of the Zweihänder right I can one-shot a lot of enemies as they charge at me.

I'll probably just switch it up every now then anyway, I might even try out the butcher's knife finally, even though I heard it sucks in this game.

I'm not gonna try and learn something that takes time and skill to get used to in a run on-camera, though. That means no double cestus. Sorry to disappoint you, Krylo.

On the subject of multiplayer; the times I was actually able to connect to the internet with my PS3 I had some fun being invaded in Dark Anor Londo. The community seems to be nice too. At least the people I fought. We usually opened with a bow and then fought. Of course, in Dark Anor Londo a lot of darkmoon blades invade, so very often I'd get invaded by a second guy while I was fighting off the first one. They rarely ganged up on me though. They waited for the first fight to finish, let me heal up, do another bow and after that we'd fight. Of course red phantoms invade as well, but they're usually scared of people who wait for invasions in Dark Anor Londo. It's ridiculous how cautious they were, even after I bowed to them, waved to them, walking very slowly towards them with my shield down and... yeah. Another time a guy invaded while I wasn't in the great hall so he looked out the window upstairs to see if I was outside, the nice guy that I am I hit the wall to let him know I'm there instead of backstabbing him. It's kind of nice to make experiences like these with a multiplayer community for once.

Yet another time, though, I got invaded by a twink while going through the undead parish with a new character. It's a hot-spot for that kinda thing I hear.

Oh, and I actually successfully used the red sign soapstone a few times. Those fights were fun too.

Best experience I had was fighting back a 3v1 gangbang, though. I got indicted for it but who cares. I didn't deserve it for this but I may or may not have invaded some innocent players on their way to the Iron Golem before.

[Krylo]

You had a halberd. I saw you loot it!

Edit: And you can hit them with the lunge there. It's tricky but you basically just attack right after blocking them.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Yeah you're right, I have a halberd, I also have the winged spear I didn't use. If I had thought of that the dogs would have been trivial at best.

[Aldurin]

Halberd is pretty boss especially if you sink upgrades into it early on. The range makes you harder to hit while you deal out very good damage.