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Dark Souls III |OT+2| Why Can't We Poise the Game?

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Ultryx

Member
Sande said:
I never summon so I'm definitely not an expert, but I don't think anything you do in an area can affect summoning in other areas.
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6for8 said:
Ringing the bell will just send Hawkwood home, you could still summon human players for the boss. Your other areas are fine.
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Stevey said:
Hawkwood was blocking summons, go back and it should be fine.
Also, check near the bonfire as well as right near the fog gate for summon signs.;
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I'll give this a try. I tried to summon people yesterday. I am able to be summoned into people's games, but I don't see any summon signs in my game. They're not appearing at the bonfire or at the fog gate. I'm not soft-banned either and only like SL 65. I'm not sure what's up.

Edit: Got 'em finally. Summon signs were really rare for me, but I found one guy to help out.
 
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batrush

Member
Began replaying this again on PC. Anyone else find
Dancer
to be the most difficult boss in the main game? It's the only fight that consistently gives me trouble across my playthroughs...
 
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Empty Space

Member
I started a new play through today on PC and grabbed the watchdog covenant. The number of people disconnecting is astounding. It get a summon prompt like once every 5-10 mins, but almost every time the person disconnects. I don't think it was ever that bad with Dark Souls 1+2. Is there a reason for this? Are hackers way more prevalent now?
 
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smashballTaz

Member
BossDarkseid said:
I need help, Dark Souls Gaf.

I use my XB1 Controller for DS3 (gave away my 360 one when I got an XB1 like 2 years ago), and whether I used it wired, or with the wireless adapter, I occasionally get 2-3 second stutters in game, usually in pairs. So *2-3 sec freeze* movement for 1 sec *2-3 sec freeze* etc, then nothing for about half an hour or so.

It's not any auto-save related hitching because it has a wonderful tendency to occur in boss battles when I'm mid dodge-roll (it's not exclusively in boss fights, just naturally its where I notice it the most), and I'm pretty sure it's not to do with my specs (5820k, 16gb Ram. 980Ti etc etc) and DS3 is installed on my SSD...

Now some solutions I saw online were for people using 360 Controller but basically related to either doing a device driver rollback to 2009 (naturally there wasn't one for the XB1 controller on my PC, earliest I could find was 2014), or see if there were multiple XB1 Controllers listed in Device Manager. There we no duplicates.

I wouldn't describe it as a game breaking issue, but it is of supreme annoyance. I don't get the issue with DS1 or DS2, so I'm kinda inclined to think it's something about how DS3 interacts with controllers? I kinda hope I'm not shit out of luck :/

Also yes, Great Soul Dregs make a mockery of some bosses and seem to travel for days.
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No idea if this will help you at all, but I always need to go into Device Manager and disable HID Game Controller each time to get my Xbox One controller to be seen by Dark Souls. I only ever need to do it for the Dark Souls games, which is annoying. Hopefully this may help your issue? Also do you have anything like xmapper or motionjoy running / enabled for your dualshock 3 controller? That could be causing a conflict.
 
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BossDarkseid

Member
smashballTaz said:
No idea if this will help you at all, but I always need to go into Device Manager and disable HID Game Controller each time to get my Xbox One controller to be seen by Dark Souls. I only ever need to do it for the Dark Souls games, which is annoying. Hopefully this may help your issue? Also do you have anything like xmapper or motionjoy running / enabled for your dualshock 3 controller? That could be causing a conflict.
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No xmapper etc stuff, and no other HID Game Controller appears in Device Manager...it's a really weird issue. I did Irithyl Dungeon with K&M to see if it was 100% a controller issue and there was no stuttering etc at all....
 
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Ratrat

Member
Im playing Ashes of Ariandel and got to the Friede fight. But I heard somewhere that theres a boss before that? Where?
Gentle hint pls.
 
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EasyMode

Member
batrush said:
Began replaying this again on PC. Anyone else find
Dancer
to be the most difficult boss in the main game? It's the only fight that consistently gives me trouble across my playthroughs...
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I agree. She has such deceptive timings on her attacks. I'm much more confident against every other boss, DLC included.
 
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smashballTaz

Member
BossDarkseid said:
No xmapper etc stuff, and no other HID Game Controller appears in Device Manager...it's a really weird issue. I did Irithyl Dungeon with K&M to see if it was 100% a controller issue and there was no stuttering etc at all....
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There should be only one HID Game Controller option. Try temporarily disabling that to see if it fixes your issue. I need to do it every time I run any Dark Souls game with my Xbox One pad. Which is a pain, but it works, and seems to be a common-ish issue.
 
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Steiner84

All 26 hours. Multiple times.
Ultryx said:
I'll give this a try. I tried to summon people yesterday. I am able to be summoned into people's games, but I don't see any summon signs in my game. They're not appearing at the bonfire or at the fog gate. I'm not soft-banned either and only like SL 65. I'm not sure what's up.

Edit: Got 'em finally. Summon signs were really rare for me, but I found one guy to help out.
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how do ppl manage to be so underleveled? That is your problem i would guess. People are just not putting down their sign at NK with that level.
I was level 103 when i beat NK and I saw lots of signs. without farming or excessive helping with bosses.
 
neoism

neoism

Member
woow at these wallpapers
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https://m.imgur.com/t/wallpaper/JtuQJ
 
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Rich Uncle Skeleton

Member
batrush said:
Began replaying this again on PC. Anyone else find
Dancer
to be the most difficult boss in the main game? It's the only fight that consistently gives me trouble across my playthroughs...
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I played a sorcerer which more or less trivializes that fight. If you have any way to do decent ranged damage, I'd recommend that if you want to make it easier.
 
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Disgraced

Member
Hi everyone. Blue Blades of the Darkmoon Sentinels should be cyan in co-op. That's all I have to say about this video game right now.
 
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BY2K

Membero Americo
New patch coming.

https://www.facebook.com/darksouls/...869331419453/1546128825460156/?type=3&theater

Ashen Ones,
a new update patch is coming on May 12th for Dark Souls III on PS4, XB1 and PC and a server maintenance will occur as usual.
Read the full content of the patch below.

The patch 1.14 will be deployed on Friday, May 12th as follow:
PlayStation4
JST - 10:00am to 12:00pm
CEST - 03:00am to 05:00am
PDT - 06:00pm to 08:00pm

Xbox One
JST - 10:00am to 04:00pm
CEST - 03:00am to 09:00am
PDT - 06:00pm to 12:00am

Steam
JST - 05:00pm to 07:00pm
CEST - 10:00am to 12:00pm
PDT - 01:00am to 03:00am

The changes are listed below:
• Fixed issue where the first spell would disappear if either Seething Chaos or Crystal Hail is used twice in succession
• In PvP battles, the 2nd attack of the Call to Stone (skill for Ledo's Great Hammer) attack can now be cancelled by rolling immediately after successfully delivering a different attack to the enemy
• Fixed issue where 2 Spears of the Church were occasionally summoned in the Ringed City
• Increased absorption and stamina recovery speed when summoned as the Spears of Church in a world with 2 or more White Spirits.
• Decreased cooldown time for Ritual Spear Fragment and Divine Spear Fragment when summoned as the Spear of the Church in a world with 2 or more white spirits.
• Fixed issue where following certain steps could make the Ringed City Streets bonfire inaccessible
• Fixed issue where the player was unable to use the bonfire despite having defeated the Demon Prince in The Dreg Heap.
• Fixed issue where further progress was disabled when interacting with the Crystal Sage Clone in a certain way.
• Animation cancel now available for whips except the Rose of Ariandel.
• Fixed issue where the weapon reinforcement effect of the right-hand weapon was applied to the left hand equipped with a Greatshield weapon when performing the Shield Bash skill
• Reduced rotation capabilities of the Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords
• Decreased stamina consumption for Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords attack and increased attack power of Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords
• Fixed issue where the art for the Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords could still be performed when there was insufficient FP
• Fixed issue where a combination of the Lothric War Banner's Art and the Aquamarine Dagger would result in FP continuously replenishing
• Increased attack power and motion cancel speed for Call to Stone skill attached to Ledo's Great Hammer
• Increased attack power for the skill attached to Quakestone Hammer
• Decreased attack power and R1 projectiles of the Blade of Peril skill attached to Gael's Greatsword
• Increased attack power and decreased stamina consumption for Farron Greatsword
• Decreased stamina consumption when attacking with Darkdrift
• Increased animation cancel speed for the Darkdrift skill attached to Darkdrift
• Increased bleeding attack power for Bloodlust skill attached to Bloodlust.
• Increased luck for poison, bleed, and hollow-infused and decreased stamina consumption of Astora Straight Sword.
• Decreased strength and dexterity of Sunlight Straight Sword
• Decreased stamina consumption for Aquamarine Dagger's Crystal Blade skill.
• Increased attack for Repeating Crossbow
• Fixed issue where no more stamina was required to use the Repeating Crossbow weapon art when the player did not have the minimum stats.
• Fixed an issue when a female character or a male character wearing the Reversal Ring uses the Repeating Crossbow art, the character would move forward without any analog stick input.
• Fixed issue where the effectiveness of the Preacher's Right Arm art did not decrease when the player did not have the required Intelligence
• Fixed issue where the weapon reinforcement effect of the right-hand weapon was applied to the left hand equipped with Preacher's Right Arm when performing the Feasting Branch skill
• Fixed issue where the Unfaltering Prayer effect was retained when casting certain miracles and quickly casting another spell afterwards
• Fixed issue when activating the Wrath of the Gods miracle through a catalyst held in the character's right hand, the idle time after the spell cast was longer than it should be
• Decreased vitality recovery when using the Projected Heal miracle
• Increased stamina consumption of Lightning Arrow and decreased stamina recovery speed while the player is drawing the bow
• Fixed issue where players could parry the Flame Fan
• Fixed several other small issues
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Sad they are nerfing the rotation on the R1 for the Paired Greatsword but reduced stamina consumption and increased attack is HAHAHAHAHAHA!
 
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Jombie

Member
• Decreased stamina consumption for Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords attack and increased attack power of Ringed Knight Paired Greatswords
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They nerf the dragonslayer spear but buff the damage and stamina of that fucking thing. Bravo, From.
 
TheSadRanger

TheSadRanger

Banned
So I'm doing the Ashes of Ariandel DLC and why are these stupid bird monsters screams so loud..... Those damn trees scream loud to, like it's really disproportionately loud compared to other sound effects.

I wish From would tone this down a bit cause I remember them doing it Bloodborne to. I'm okay with a loud scream but I really don't wanna hear it 30 times in a row.
 
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Cannon Goose

Member
Ring of Favour +3, Prisoner's Chain, and the Ring of Steel Protection +3 (yes, I know it gets nerfed a bit in PvP) allows for some ridiculous heavy armour usage on low level builds. I redid my SL35 scumbag and now he's as tanky as ever:

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Nearly 40% average physical absorption? Don't mind if I do!
 
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Dick Justice

Banned
Just got this on PC. Why does character movement look weirdly stuttery? Same as Dragon's Dogma, rotating your character almost looks as though it's stuck at 30fps while everything else is 60fps.
 
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Greatest Ever

Member
Dick Justice said:
Just got this on PC. Why does character movement look weirdly stuttery? Same as Dragon's Dogma, rotating your character almost looks as though it's stuck at 30fps while everything else is 60fps.
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For what it's worth, the game doesn't hold 60 FPS on my 980ti, so it could be stuttering. Otherwise, it also could be the increased player speed not having the speed of animations compensated properly.
 
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Dick Justice

Banned
Greatest Ever said:
For what it's worth, the game doesn't hold 60 FPS on my 980ti, so it could be stuttering. Otherwise, it also could be the increased player speed not having the speed of animations compensated properly.
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Afterburner shows 60fps, and the camera movement is completely smooth. It's just the movement rotations that look off. Running on a 970 at max.
 
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Hippopuncher12

Member
Finally getting back to this game after completing it once when it launched. I was not a fan when I played it the first time in fact it was my least favorite of the series, but this 2nd playthrough I am finding it far more enjoyable. I don't like that a few NPC quests lock out other things for a playthrough, but since you have to finish it 3 times for the Plat anyway, oh well.
 
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Dahbomb

Member
Beat the DLC yesterday.

That final boss fight was certainly no joke (this is NG+5 on my Onikiri Luck/Bleed character). But it was at least an honest fight unlike that dragon fight which was just hitbox Dark Souls at its worst.
 
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Professor Renegade

Banned
Sup guys, bought DS3 last week and I've been blasting my way through it. Just finished beating Nameless King (!!!) and I'm wondering if I should do the DLC before putting down Prince Lothric's cinders? Assuming of course that the game doesn't just pop you into NG+ at the end like DS1 did.
 
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iRAWRasaurus

Banned
Professor Renegade said:
Sup guys, bought DS3 last week and I've been blasting my way through it. Just finished beating Nameless King (!!!) and I'm wondering if I should do the DLC before putting down Prince Lothric's cinders? Assuming of course that the game doesn't just pop you into NG+ at the end like DS1 did.
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After you beat the final boss, you can pick to do ng+ or remain in ng.
 
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Professor Renegade

Banned
So noob question here, but what benefits are their with infusing with sharp/heavy/refined gems? I went through the whole game upgrading a Zweihander with titanite, but would I get better damage output by infusing?
 
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Red Liquorice

Member
Professor Renegade said:
So noob question here, but what benefits are their with infusing with sharp/heavy/refined gems? I went through the whole game upgrading a Zweihander with titanite, but would I get better damage output by infusing?
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They give better scaling on their respective stats, and lower scaling on others. So if you're going for a pure DEX build for example, it's usually beneficial to go for a sharp upgrade.

Worthwile doing, but by no means mandatory.
 
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