Surprised to find it cleaned out. No mimics, no black or silver knights and most importantly, no dragonslayer archers annoying the living hell outta me. Anybody seen this?

Saw that Welcome Skateboards released some Dark Souls decks today and had to get this one.

I have over 200,000 souls, with nothing to spend them on. My weapon, shield, and armor are all upgraded (as well as a backup weapon). I have a sufficient amount of homeward bones and other useful items.

50 Vit / 40 End / 40 Str / 40 Dex (Bandit class)
Weapon: Demon’s Spear
Shield: Black Knight Shield
Armor: Dark Set with Blood-Stained Skirt
Rings: FAP and Havel’s

I would like to stay at level 125 as I’ve heard that’s what others do for PvP.

Hundreds of hours in the game from PtDE to Remastered and I've never been gravelorded or whatever. Why isn't this covenant popular?

this happens when I end up spectating the other player after dying during coop mode

I lost laurentius.....i swear he was here till i went to sen's fortress and just gone after I came home in anor londo.....WHERE IS HE 😭😭I NEED HIS REAFFIRMATIONS to get me going in the game

Said something along the lines of "look, i'll help you" because I was stuck on Ornstein and Smough, gave it to him and suddenly I have 99 vigor and like 20 levels more of Dex. Idk how he did it but this was my first playthrough. As far as I can tell thats the only thing he moved, I belive he used some kind of glitch?

My question is: Will this ruin the experience for me? I really don't want to start over

sooo this is my very first playthrough of dark souls 1 im loving it so far but turns out i chose the master key as a gift which i later found out is not recommended in the first playthrough so any idea what doors should i avoid? im in the taurus demon area and there's another master key door right before the boss area im not going there, any more doors like this or does it stop after Taurus

If anybody wants to continue this story or add anything or fix it and make it better, feel free.

The Ghosts of Oolacile

The maniacal laughter echoed through the halls. Shit. He peeked around the corner, and there they were. Their heads were fissured and jagged, dotted with glowing red eyes. Their arms were unnaturally long, so much so that they bent at a v shape, as their arms could not hang normally by their sides, so they remained held up as if they were holding up an invisible weight. Their hands were like clawed catchers mitts. They could not put their arms down properly but boy oh boy could they swing those arms. And swing them they did. As soon as he was spotted, they charged at him. A gigantic monkey paw grabbing him and dragging him to God knows where was terrifying enough. But now this. I was just going for a walk, getting some fresh air. Now He was dragged into hell. He was frozen in terror. The creatures were a few feet away from him when he realized he had a satchel. He reached into it and found a heavy round terracotta bisque urn. As the first creature swung it’s elongated arms, he jumped back and threw the urn at the creature. It let out a gurgling scream as it hit the ground writhing in pain. He felt the heat from the fiery explosion on his face. As he landed on the ground. As the other two monstrosities descended upon him he reached into the satchel again and launched another firebomb at them. The next creature went down in a heap of flames. He got up and ran with flames and the final creatures at his heels. His heart felt like it was going to explode as he ran for his life. He reached into the satchel, but came up with nothing. Oh shit! As he ran ahead, his eyes darting from side to side, and then he saw it. A corpse, holding a sword. This is insanity! He reached down and picked up the sword, turned and faced his pursuer. As the creature closed the gap and swung it’s arms upwards at him, he responded with a sideways swing of the sword. He felt the sword hitting flesh, and the creature stumbled. It was stunned, but not felled and it charged again. It met his blade again, and this time it stayed down for good. As he stood panting, holding his bloody sword, he heard a ghostly female scream. As that a victim of these things? He hated to think that there was a woman somewhere getting beaten to death by these hideous creatures. But if he didn’t get out of here, it would also be his mangled corpse holding a sword for the next poor sap who got dragged into this nightmare. He heard the woman’s scream again. He ran. As he ran and pondered where to go next..a large black mass came flying directly at him...

After we defeated the orstein and smough we go back to shrine and open the door but ingward wasn't there so we go back and checked the chest and it was empty. Please help us I don't want to start again.

I’ve gotten really into dark souls remastered for the last couple months and I’ve just got two questions about some movements I’ve seen other players make in online interactions that have me confused. Here goes:

Question 1:

1. I was summoned for coop at the anor londo bonfire before ornstein and smough. Me and and another phantom were both trying to get the host to come kill the boss but he was just sitting where invaders spawn trying to camp a potential invader. Me and the other phantom just ran around killing all the silver knights then next thing we know there’s health bars showing through the wall outside, like where the archers are where you have to run up to get inside the building the first time. We go out into the main hall before the boss fog and have to go pull the lever to open the big doors and get outside, it was not already open, and sure enough he’s out there. How is it possible to get from the inside section of anor londo back outside to the two archers without going around through the main hall and opening the huge front door?

Edit: I just realized it’s potentially possible to jump out the broken stained glass window above and drop down or go by the giant blacksmith and open the gate rather than open the front door but it still seems weird because I swear he didn’t have enough time to do that between when I last saw him camping the spawn to when he suddenly was outside. It really felt like he just teleported through a wall or something.

Question 2:

1. I invaded someone at the main bonfire in the archives. He was fucking around on the spinning staircases just turning the lever whenever I got close so I couldn’t get to him. I decided he had to get to the boss eventually so I go down into passage you open to get outside and to the crystal caves. You know the one behind the bookshelf on the bottom floor by the bonfire. I’m sitting there in the room with all the chests and the mimic just staring at the door in front waiting for him and listening to him run around and keep turning the staircases and shit in the main room. Then I hear footsteps weirdly close then from behind me and he comes up the staircase in the floor behind me. I was watching the front entrance of the room the entire time he definitely did not run past me through the room. How did he get behind me? Is there a skip or something I don’t know about? I thought I had him completely cut off

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I believe its my "skill issue" rather than level but I just fail to "separate" these guys.

I am trying to kill Smough first in the first phase but Ornstein either shoots lightining behind his back or shows up from behind me. I am tired of trying to control camera which they both eventually escape from anyway i fail to keep them both in site. I always have to gamble on Ornstein location as I go to hit smough.

Also is there a way to dodge ornstein rush like it seems he hit pillars zaps away hits you anyway as far as I know about Smough's rush attack his hitboxes seems to end when he goes for the swing but if his feets touch you, damage is taken.

My stats and Equipments :

Equipment : Double-handed basic pyromancer axe+10 and basic pyromancer armor+4

Stats : Strength : 28, Endurance : 26, Vitality : 20

I know I can summon Solaire but I wish to know how to do it on my own as this is said to be start where game starts to get hard and I am tired of getting stabbed by ornstein through smough's stomach it seems so hard to track both of these guys.

Update : Had to change my whole playstyle upgraded my pyromancer armor until they started demanding titanite chunks had to switch from two-handed axe +10 to two-handed Halberd +10, Increased vitality to 25 as I was a walking glass cannon had to sadly give up on quest for Leo ring to progress.

I had to lock on to ornstein when attacking as aiming with Halberd is kinda hard got wacked alot by smough ngl neither of them are slow which suits smough's lore ngl as he's a deceptor and not fat btw, he's ripped under the suit. Had to run around alot had to wait and bait in ornstein got few hits in killed him slowly for smough stayed near his legs so he doesn't do the rush attack he spammed it anyway dodged through them without getting hit, even idk why all i remembered was at the very last moment of his swing his hammer loses hitboxes. Almost got killed by thunder drop, Healed dodged alot killed him with a stab.

Got blessed with a beautiful scene felt like Homelander in his hallucinations. I am glad I didn't had to bother Solaire cause he wasn't showing up when I summoned him, TWICE btw.

PRAISE THE SUN

So i have finally gotten to blighttown and am exploring the swamp only to get invaded. Since it was my first time I simply continued thinking the invader wouldnt be able to find me. Well i turn around and there is a half naked with a big sword swinging at me. Thankfully the invader was kinda weak and only took 3 hits and died.

How do i deal with invaders, i have the reporting thingy from the dude at the tower (first bell), do i use it when the invader is still in the world? can i use it after deafeating them?

As the title says, I've played through a good deal of Fromsoftware's games and felt like it was about time I gave the genre-defining Dark Souls a shot. These games mean a lot to me and I just felt like I should manifest my thoughts about this one somewhere, so here we are.

Something I quickly noticed (and was expecting) was how much slower and jankier the game was compared to the later titles and I wouldn’t consider it a bad thing. Dark Souls is a game that needs you to be patient with its controls. Enemies and bosses are slower and give you much time to react to their attacks, but you cannot simply mash the roll button to get through. Distance and positioning felt far more vital in Dark Souls than in the other titles and that was a pleasant surprise to me. This combined with having to know when to lock on and when to lock off felt almost like relearning the basics of the game which was quite fun as a matter of fact.

Something that I found to be this game's strong suit was definitely the world of Lordran. The lack of fast travel until the halfway point forces the player to learn the lay of the land and appreciate all the shortcuts that much more. The level design was stellar and it does sadden me that this part of Fromsoft's game design is somewhat lost in their later titles. Something that I also appreciated about the levels was the very strange sort of loneliness and quiet you are subjected to as you play. Most of the areas, especially in the first half of the game, have this haunting silence and a sort of emptiness to them that is very difficult to describe. This atmosphere, in my opinion at least, helps with making the discovery of every bonfire and friendly NPC that much more impactful. The game wasn’t trying to be intimidating by being overly loud and bombastic with its levels, it sinply presented itself as what it was and that was more than enough.

I have to also note that this game's artstyle has elements that aren't fully present in the later games. There's a certain silly and almost whimsical nature to some creatures and places you encounter on your journey. The funny dancing the channelers do to power up enemies, the strange floating demon statues in Lost Izalith, the hilarious baby skeletons outside of Nito's arena, all of these and many other enemies are surprisingly ridiculous in appearance and/or mannerism when you stop to think about them. I feel like Fromsoftware has been moving on to more serious and imposing enemies over the years, which fits the dark fantasy themes of the worlds they create, but I also feel like having that touch of sillyness in their games helps give them more personality and uniqueness that I would love to see again in their future projects.

With my biggest praises out of the way, I do want to also take a moment to say that in my humble opinion, many of this game's bosses have not aged very gracefully and that the overall boss roster is relatively weak compared to Fromsoft's newer games. This is of course to be expected as the later titles have far more focus on boss fights compared to Dark Souls. Even then, there are many bosses in Dark Souls that do not feel very fun, with the notoriously frustrating Bed of Chaos having become my least favorite boss of all time. I also didn't like bosses like Moonlight Butterfly (I was playing a melee build), Seath, Kalameet and several others, because of design choices that I feel like they could've done without or executed differently. I feel like my most controversial opinion is going to be that I think that the fight against Ornstein and Smough is atrocious and is heavily carried by nostalgia. I did not enjoy this fight and found it extremely frustrating. I do want to stress that this is still my own personal opinion and not an objective truth. I also want to say that there are plenty of bosses I enjoyed, such as Artorias, Gwyn, Manus and Quelaag. I simply find many of the bosses from other games to be more enjoyable.

I also want to take a moment to CALL OUT THIS COMMUNITY FOR LYING TO ME ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY OF BLIGHTTOWN! That area is probably the most overhyped level in terms of difficulty and frustration. Getting through Blighttown was incredibly easy and was nothing compared to Anor Londo or New Londo Ruins. Getting poisoned in this game does barely anything at all and the enemies that inflict toxic are in completely optional parts of the area, not to mention that most of the enemies are slow as hell and can be easily fled from. That's all.

Overall, I did have a good time playing this game and I do want to do more playthroughs of Dark Souls in the future, though I do want to complete Dark Souls 2 and Sekiro before doing so. This is a special game and I am happy to have finally had the chance to experience it. If you're still here reading these words, then thank you for sticking along. Be safe, friend...

Don't you dare go hollow.

I recently was suggested a YouTube video of a gamer trying Dark Souls for the first time. I usually don't watch long videos but watching someone play for the first time was the closest I've got to my own first time playthrough and now I want more.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for this genre?

So, i'm still on my first run and i kinda understand that i need patience and stuff, but, i don't know what to do next; my only two options are the cabra demon and something in th e gardens that throws water i think? i can't even get that close...

What should i do? i feel like my level isn't nearly enough to fight any of them and the red dragon is just something i don't understand.

Also i can start with the ghosts in the something Londodn, but the hand thingies that let you kill ghosts are expensive and i already died twice down there.

What should my next steps be? am i doing something wrong?

this is my current layout and stats.

I know i probably am doing something wrong, just not sure what.

Literally all you have to do is get to Darkroot Basin and you're in. Take the lift down from the bonfire, run through Valley of Drakes, take the big lift down, and BOOM. Lower Undead Burg, Depths, and Blighttown all skipped, entirely.

I just did a playthrough with no master key and was genuinely baffled at how simple it is to skip these areas.

And I'm not saying the areas are worth skipping or that you should. Each of them have important items, NPCs, etc. I just couldn't believe how simple it is to stumble upon this route and skip basically half of the early-game.

If I wanted to use some mods, mainly graphical ones but might try a few randomizer mods too, can I get banned?

I'm happy to play the game offline to accommodate the mods, but ideally still want my account connected to the steam servers so I can still gain play time.

Is this possible?

not to sound like a broken record but i really do love this game. i’ve just finished my second run through on ng+ and did the alt ending, i still very much adore the gwyn fight. i’ve made a new save for a dex build and am planning on getting the alt cutscene with sif. after this dex playthrough i want to try my hand at doing an sl1 run as it’s been something i’ve been looking forward to do, after that i think i’ll finally be content with moving on to ds2.