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[Newtype-001]

1:40, look at that range!!

Simon's Bowblade is also really cool, it would make sense if it scales with skill, since we already have bloodtinge for the guns, strenght for the cannon and arcane for rosmarinus/flamesprayer.

All i have to hear now is Hihiou Zabimaru

 

[Breads]

One of the things I love about bloodborne is how they completely disregarded the 'dignity' mission statement of the souls designs. Bloodletting Beast's Headless form, One Reborn, and now this. All awesome Cronenbergian horrors.

 

[Gbraga]

It's a Souls DLC. Four bosses at least.

One boss is just being too pessimistic, but I really don't expect 4 at all, 3 at most.

4 bosses means a lot more in comparison to the amount of content in Bloodborne than it does for Dark Souls, so I guess that's the reason I just can't see them having 4 new bosses in the DLC.

I'd love to be wrong, of course.

 

[PolishQ]

One boss is just being too pessimistic, but I really don't expect 4 at all, 3 at most.

4 bosses means a lot more in comparison to the amount of content in Bloodborne than it does for Dark Souls, so I guess that's the reason I just can't see them having 4 new bosses in the DLC.

I'd love to be wrong, of course.

If nothing else, there's got to be a new Great One in there somewhere.

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

1:40, look at that range!!

Simon's Bowblade is also really cool, it would make sense if it scales with skill, since we already have bloodtinge for the guns, strenght for the cannon and arcane for rosmarinus/flamesprayer.

Watch it scale with bloodtinge and get some people even more rustled

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Yea, wow. This just looks killer. Can't wait, love the bowblade!

 

[Luigiv]

Watch it scale with bloodtinge and get some people even more rustled

I'm expecting sword form to scale with skill and bow form to scale with bloodtinge.

 

[Mermandala]

I want the bow to scale with arcane and let me shoot glowing blue space snakes, like good old Thulsa Doom did, but one better with the cosmic unholy applied instead of your regular garden-variety snake magic.

 

[Parmenide]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

 

[MrHoot]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

YES

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

 

[Gbraga]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

Sheeeit, will fit my first character perfectly. Burial Blade, Blade of Mercy and Bowblade.

 

[Ghost Slayer]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

Damn it, my SKL build is on NG+. Guess i have to start new character to use bowblade

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

YES. Arcane stays winning.

 

[Jabba]

As promised, I added a new video showing the beginning of the demo this time. Quality is so-so, but it will have to do.
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_tgs_bloodborne_dlc_gameplay-17113_en.html

Not sure I'm getting this as I barely finished Bloodborne. Scrub gamer here. I liked it but, no where good enough to actually pay attention to te story. Survival was my only concern.

Blim, mind if I ask, how do you guys decide who goes to TGS or you have corespondence in Japan? Heh

 

[Dominic_Shade]

Damn it, my SKL build is on NG+. Guess i have to start new character to use bowblade

Wait, can we not play the DLC on NG+?

 

[piccio_ssl]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

YESSSS

 

[Ghost Slayer]

Wait, can we not play the DLC on NG+?

We can but i don't want to play with my overpowered char

 

[DoubleTake]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

Hell YES. Yama the Divine will be pleased.

 

[nailbombxx]

dat eldritch abomination

 

[Fancy Clown]

Ya'll can have your little bow blade, but that pizza-cutter chainsaw is MINE

 

[Hypemaster]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

Hell yeah.

 

[B-Genius]

They showed Artorias off as well before the PC version of DS1 was released. Hopefully it's more in line with Bloodborne marketing and we haven't seen any of the real crazy stuff yet.

You have no idea.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Looking good!

 

[Sheriff_Battlesnake]

I kind of winged BB when it comes to builds.... should I have put more consideration in that or is it more okay in BB than it is in DS? I suppose when I NG+ I'll have to keep this all in mind.

 

[DoubleTake]

You have no idea.

....Dont do this to me....HYYYPE

 

[Qvoth]

it's pretty blurry but i think the bowblade is called simon(pronounced she-mon)'s hunting weapon?

 

[Gbraga]

Ya'll can have your little bow blade, but that pizza-cutter chainsaw is MINE

There's also a Zabimaru.

You have no idea.

You're in the know, right?

 

[Fancy Clown]

You have no idea.

Do you know what else is in the DLC already?

 

[Mermandala]

You have no idea.

I want an obscenely large feather on my hat. Like, a sleeping eye-covered peacock flouncing in the wind atop my head lantern. Is this in the cards?

 

[Sheriff_Battlesnake]

Also, I can't watch the video. Do arrows consume bullets? Or do little bits of self damage?

 

[Alcoholikaust]

Lovely.

 

[Fancy Clown]

There's also a Zabimaru

What's that? Is it cooler than a pizza-cutter chainsaw?

 

[Gbraga]

What's that? Is it cooler than a pizza-cutter chainsaw?

The big ass whip thing. Not really, the pizza-cutter is the best. The non-trick mode looks boring as hell though, same issue as the Burial Blade.

 

[Parmenide]

Also, I can't watch the video. Do arrows consume bullets? Or do little bits of self damage?

They consume bullets.

 

[Fancy Clown]

The big ass whip thing. Not really, the pizza-cutter is the best. The non-trick mode looks boring as hell though, same issue as the Burial Blade.

I dont remember the whip thing from the trailer (not gonna watch the new gameplay). What's the non-trick mode? Is it just a staff or something?

 

[Mermandala]

I dont remember the whip thing from the trailer (not gonna watch the new gameplay). What's the non-trick mode? Is it just a staff or something?

It looks more like a sword (or a cleaver) and a club had a hate-child but with notches making it reminiscent of a flattened backbone.

 

[JadedWriter]

The bow is SKL/ARC.

Fuck! Does this mean I have to roll a third character and make her skill arcane? I never leveled up arcane on any of my characters.

 

[Soriku]

Pizza cutter better be SKL/STR lol. Coolest weapon. The Bowblade is alright.

 

[Patapwn]

One of the things I love about bloodborne is how they completely disregarded the 'dignity' mission statement of the souls designs. Bloodletting Beast's Headless form, One Reborn, and now this. All awesome Cronenbergian horrors.

The beasts are supposed to be debased regressions of humanity. People like Ludwig, before of lofty status, have become the very thing they hunted.

The statement about dignity was about a dragon covered in maggots. I think FROM wants to keep things classy in general but thematically the design of these bosses are a rational diversion from this rule given the lore behind them.

And yeah, they're totally awesome cronenbergian horrors

 

[AWizardDidIt]

Bow-Blade seems like a great addition. One of the reasons I've been critical of Bloodborne as a game is because of the lack of varied playstyles between weapons so adding in a more viable ranged option for skill based characters should be really cool.

The boss looks neat too, though it's starting to get a bit hard to differentiate the various walking mounds of grotesquery that a lot of Bloodborne bosses are.

 

[Agram]

Fuck! Does this mean I have to roll a third character and make her skill arcane? I never leveled up arcane on any of my characters.

Arcane only matters if you plan on using Arcane Gems and fire/bolt/arcane attacks. Many other weapons have arcane scaling but it doesn't do much.

Skill is the way for high physical damage.

Edit: But seriously, I'm surprised that the bow doesn't scale with Bloodtinge because it uses bullets.

 

[JadedWriter]

Arcane only matters if you plan on using Arcane Gems and fire/bolt/arcane attacks. Many other weapons have arcane scaling but it doesn't do much.

Skill is the way for high physical damage.

Edit: But seriously, I'm surprised that the bow doesn't scale with Bloodtinge because it uses bullets.

That better stay the case. I guess worst case I can just level up arcane a bit during the dlc. Not like I won't get new blood echoes or anything.

 

[TacosNSalsa]

Wowowowowo!!! And I'm hearing Street Fighter in the background...I think I just ...came...

 

[Sanctuary]

It's easy to watch footage and criticize the way someone is playing, but it really looks like this person hasn't played vanilla Bloodborne much at all. He sits back playing way too timidly, when there were plenty of obvious chances to rush in and get a few hits off.

Looks good, though I'm not too impressed with that particular area. Looks like a rehash of Mensis and Nightmare Frontier.

Yep.

How do you usually access the DLC? Like if you've completed it and have a NG started, do you have to battle through all the stuff again, or is it an option on the main menu?

The Dark Souls 2 DLC just had specific warp points at the end of an area you would use to access one of the three new locations. Dark Souls required you to just go back to one area to grab a particular item and then go back to a previous area, which opened up a portal to the DLC.

 

[cormack12]

How do you usually access the DLC? Like if you've completed it and have a NG started, do you have to battle through all the stuff again, or is it an option on the main menu?

 

[Finale Fireworker]

Do you think we will finally get a performance patch, too?

 

[TacosNSalsa]

How do you usually access the DLC? Like if you've completed it and have a NG started, do you have to battle through all the stuff again, or is it an option on the main menu?

Normally no not an option from main menu , it woven into the main campaign . Get to certain points and get an item or something to access it. At least that how it was in previous games

 

[Aces&Eights]

The only thing that could get me more excited than Fallout 4 is more Bloodborne. Hot damn, I'm gonna play the crap out of this.

Edit: hmmm, my last save was the beg on new game plus. Wondering if they put the DLC at the end of the game lol. Will still play through it but dammit, ng+ is hard. Ludwigs +10 two hand will only get me so far, lol.

 

[bodyofanamerican]

Anyone fluent in Japanese have any idea what the captions were saying when the player met the boss?

 

[shortsoptional]

Normally no not an option from main menu , it woven into the main campaign . Get to certain points and get an item or something to access it. At least that how it was in previous games

I mean, in the trailer, don't they show using the pizza cutter weapon against Vicar? Sounds like what you're talking about as far as getting other items at certain progressions.