Bloodborne - The Nightly Hunt begins... (The Old Hunters DLC out Tuesday!)

Ad7 wrote:Matt getting salty because Jenuall isn't complaining like a scrub

Nah its fine. Its obviously what happens when you come off the back of beating DS1 without summoning.

Jenuall wrote::lol:

Haters gonna hate, me and my axe are doing just fine thanks

Happy to take recommendations on weapons you would prefer me to use. If you want me to switch to using the cane then by all means I will do so and still ace it

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Hexx wrote:
Jenuall wrote::lol:

Haters gonna hate, me and my axe are doing just fine thanks

Happy to take recommendations on weapons you would prefer me to use. If you want me to switch to using the cane then by all means I will do so and still ace it

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So you like a bit of cane do you?

The Watching Artist wrote:
Ad7 wrote:Matt getting salty because Jenuall isn't complaining like a scrub

Nah its fine. Its obviously what happens when you come off the back of beating DS1 without summoning.

Summoning is for wimps!

I would be doing far worse if i hadn't come off the back of playing DS1 so recently. I've been trying to think back to how I got on in the early stages of that and which of the two games I think might be objectively harder. The Bell Gargoyles, Moonlight Butterfly and Capra Demon were all fairly early on in DS1 and I did find them tricky, but then Gascoigne was a bit of an arse at the start of this as well!

Oddly enough I tend to find early bosses in these games the hardest. I think after a break form playing this type of game it takes me a while to find my groove again.

Pootered about last night to Old Yahamarn.

Co-op FG a couple of time. Yeah the transformed heavy attack stun locking bossing isn't at all broken :lol:

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IAmTheSaladMan wrote:Oddly enough I tend to find early bosses in these games the hardest. I think after a break form playing this type of game it takes me a while to find my groove again.

Yeah I think I would agree with that where DS1 was concerned (and from my time with DS3 which I think I got about ~75% of the way through) - it never got easy but the real "banging your head against a wall" stuff was definitely in the earlier stages!

Overall feeling - still massively enjoying this! :wub:

Jenuall wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:Oddly enough I tend to find early bosses in these games the hardest. I think after a break form playing this type of game it takes me a while to find my groove again.

Yeah I think I would agree with that where DS1 was concerned (and from my time with DS3 which I think I got about ~75% of the way through) - it never got easy but the real "banging your head against a wall" stuff was definitely in the earlier stages!

So I decided to follow up on that invitation from the clinic last night, hitching a ride in a totally un-suspicious empty and driver-less carriage from Hemwick which took me to a very impressive looking castle in a snowy region (and then the horses froze to death which is a bit sad ). Here's me posing outside, ready for some action:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159574519222349838

Inside there were some strawberry floating annoying crawling, spider-esque creatures that looked a bit like a mini version of Amygdala - seriously these guys can strawberry float right off. Fortunately Hexx failed to mention that the Cane/Whip is MASSIVELY OP and has a RIDICULOUSLY HUGE hitbox for it's transformed R2 attack which basically smacks down anything anywhere in a wide arc front of you for about 5m!

So having whipped those guys into shape (and dealt with some doubly annoying little worm bastards as well!) I headed into the castle to be greeted by lots of weeping ghost ladies, clearly this place went through some bad times to be this haunted! Cleared out the hallways and up through the library, eventually making my way to a rooftop where I met Martyr Logarius.

He was an interesting one, some of his arcane magic attacks were a bit annoying, and that thing he does where swords start flying around was a pain until I realised you could kill the spawner for them (dude did it behind one of the towers first time so I hadn't spotted him put it down!) Eventually I went with a fairly cautious approach - stay back, keep moving, dash in for 1 or maybe 2 hits when he's vulnerable and then get the hell away again! Took a couple of goes but now he's down:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159616340354879489

Grabbed his crown and have revealed that there is more to explore, but called it a night at that point!

Oh and as I forgot to post it yesterday, here is the final moments of my clumsy take down of Amygdala:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159617818800918529

That camera really was annoying!

Overall feeling - still massively enjoying this!:wub:

Can't help but notice you're back to the OP weapon for the boss fight hmmmm

What level are you btw?

Hexx wrote:
Jenuall wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:Oddly enough I tend to find early bosses in these games the hardest. I think after a break form playing this type of game it takes me a while to find my groove again.

Yeah I think I would agree with that where DS1 was concerned (and from my time with DS3 which I think I got about ~75% of the way through) - it never got easy but the real "banging your head against a wall" stuff was definitely in the earlier stages!

So I decided to follow up on that invitation from the clinic last night, hitching a ride in a totally un-suspicious empty and driver-less carriage from Hemwick which took me to a very impressive looking castle in a snowy region (and then the horses froze to death which is a bit sad ). Here's me posing outside, ready for some action:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159574519222349838

Inside there were some strawberry floating annoying crawling, spider-esque creatures that looked a bit like a mini version of Amygdala - seriously these guys can strawberry float right off. Fortunately Hexx failed to mention that the Cane/Whip is MASSIVELY OP and has a RIDICULOUSLY HUGE hitbox for it's transformed R2 attack which basically smacks down anything anywhere in a wide arc front of you for about 5m!

So having whipped those guys into shape (and dealt with some doubly annoying little worm bastards as well!) I headed into the castle to be greeted by lots of weeping ghost ladies, clearly this place went through some bad times to be this haunted! Cleared out the hallways and up through the library, eventually making my way to a rooftop where I met Martyr Logarius.

He was an interesting one, some of his arcane magic attacks were a bit annoying, and that thing he does where swords start flying around was a pain until I realised you could kill the spawner for them (dude did it behind one of the towers first time so I hadn't spotted him put it down!) Eventually I went with a fairly cautious approach - stay back, keep moving, dash in for 1 or maybe 2 hits when he's vulnerable and then get the hell away again! Took a couple of goes but now he's down:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159616340354879489

Grabbed his crown and have revealed that there is more to explore, but called it a night at that point!

Oh and as I forgot to post it yesterday, here is the final moments of my clumsy take down of Amygdala:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159617818800918529

That camera really was annoying!

Overall feeling - still massively enjoying this!:wub:

Can't help but notice you're back to the OP weapon for the boss fight hmmmm

What level are you btw?

I haven't put any upgrades into the Cane and I couldn't be arsed going back to the Dream to upgrade before fighting him so I went with the axe on this occasion. Also need to up my skill stat to really make use of the cane.

I'm on level 70 I think. I've not been farming echoes or going out of my way to level up so I would hope I'm not over-levelled at this point. As I've died far less in this I have lost far fewer echoes than the souls I was losing during my DS1 run so that has probably helped me level up a bit. I think I've only failed to retrieve my echoes on one or two occasions and those only lost me a few thousand.

Jenuall wrote:
Hexx wrote:
Jenuall wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:Oddly enough I tend to find early bosses in these games the hardest. I think after a break form playing this type of game it takes me a while to find my groove again.

Yeah I think I would agree with that where DS1 was concerned (and from my time with DS3 which I think I got about ~75% of the way through) - it never got easy but the real "banging your head against a wall" stuff was definitely in the earlier stages!

So I decided to follow up on that invitation from the clinic last night, hitching a ride in a totally un-suspicious empty and driver-less carriage from Hemwick which took me to a very impressive looking castle in a snowy region (and then the horses froze to death which is a bit sad ). Here's me posing outside, ready for some action:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159574519222349838

Inside there were some strawberry floating annoying crawling, spider-esque creatures that looked a bit like a mini version of Amygdala - seriously these guys can strawberry float right off. Fortunately Hexx failed to mention that the Cane/Whip is MASSIVELY OP and has a RIDICULOUSLY HUGE hitbox for it's transformed R2 attack which basically smacks down anything anywhere in a wide arc front of you for about 5m!

So having whipped those guys into shape (and dealt with some doubly annoying little worm bastards as well!) I headed into the castle to be greeted by lots of weeping ghost ladies, clearly this place went through some bad times to be this haunted! Cleared out the hallways and up through the library, eventually making my way to a rooftop where I met Martyr Logarius.

He was an interesting one, some of his arcane magic attacks were a bit annoying, and that thing he does where swords start flying around was a pain until I realised you could kill the spawner for them (dude did it behind one of the towers first time so I hadn't spotted him put it down!) Eventually I went with a fairly cautious approach - stay back, keep moving, dash in for 1 or maybe 2 hits when he's vulnerable and then get the hell away again! Took a couple of goes but now he's down:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159616340354879489

Grabbed his crown and have revealed that there is more to explore, but called it a night at that point!

Oh and as I forgot to post it yesterday, here is the final moments of my clumsy take down of Amygdala:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159617818800918529

That camera really was annoying!

Overall feeling - still massively enjoying this!:wub:

Can't help but notice you're back to the OP weapon for the boss fight hmmmm

What level are you btw?

I haven't put any upgrades into the Cane and I couldn't be arsed going back to the Dream to upgrade before fighting him so I went with the axe on this occasion. Also need to up my skill stat to really make use of the cane.

I'm on level 70 I think. I've not been farming echoes or going out of my way to level up so I would hope I'm not over-levelled at this point. As I've died far less in this I have lost far fewer echoes than the souls I was losing during my DS1 run so that has probably helped me level up a bit. I think I've only failed to retrieve my echoes on one or two occasions and those only lost me a few thousand.

You're about the midpoint of recommended level for Cainhurst. So don't worry you're not overlevelled and using OP weapons

I'm a big fan of the shoot/visceral combo (My FG kills was about 4 of those and then a moltov to the face...the video wouldn't save) - but it eats bullets. I tend to spend a lot of echos on bullets

Hexx wrote:
Jenuall wrote:
Hexx wrote:
Jenuall wrote:
IAmTheSaladMan wrote:Oddly enough I tend to find early bosses in these games the hardest. I think after a break form playing this type of game it takes me a while to find my groove again.

Yeah I think I would agree with that where DS1 was concerned (and from my time with DS3 which I think I got about ~75% of the way through) - it never got easy but the real "banging your head against a wall" stuff was definitely in the earlier stages!

So I decided to follow up on that invitation from the clinic last night, hitching a ride in a totally un-suspicious empty and driver-less carriage from Hemwick which took me to a very impressive looking castle in a snowy region (and then the horses froze to death which is a bit sad ). Here's me posing outside, ready for some action:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159574519222349838

Inside there were some strawberry floating annoying crawling, spider-esque creatures that looked a bit like a mini version of Amygdala - seriously these guys can strawberry float right off. Fortunately Hexx failed to mention that the Cane/Whip is MASSIVELY OP and has a RIDICULOUSLY HUGE hitbox for it's transformed R2 attack which basically smacks down anything anywhere in a wide arc front of you for about 5m!

So having whipped those guys into shape (and dealt with some doubly annoying little worm bastards as well!) I headed into the castle to be greeted by lots of weeping ghost ladies, clearly this place went through some bad times to be this haunted! Cleared out the hallways and up through the library, eventually making my way to a rooftop where I met Martyr Logarius.

He was an interesting one, some of his arcane magic attacks were a bit annoying, and that thing he does where swords start flying around was a pain until I realised you could kill the spawner for them (dude did it behind one of the towers first time so I hadn't spotted him put it down!) Eventually I went with a fairly cautious approach - stay back, keep moving, dash in for 1 or maybe 2 hits when he's vulnerable and then get the hell away again! Took a couple of goes but now he's down:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159616340354879489

Grabbed his crown and have revealed that there is more to explore, but called it a night at that point!

Oh and as I forgot to post it yesterday, here is the final moments of my clumsy take down of Amygdala:

twitter.com/RussellMcIver/status/1159617818800918529

That camera really was annoying!

Overall feeling - still massively enjoying this!:wub:

Can't help but notice you're back to the OP weapon for the boss fight hmmmm

What level are you btw?

I haven't put any upgrades into the Cane and I couldn't be arsed going back to the Dream to upgrade before fighting him so I went with the axe on this occasion. Also need to up my skill stat to really make use of the cane.

I'm on level 70 I think. I've not been farming echoes or going out of my way to level up so I would hope I'm not over-levelled at this point. As I've died far less in this I have lost far fewer echoes than the souls I was losing during my DS1 run so that has probably helped me level up a bit. I think I've only failed to retrieve my echoes on one or two occasions and those only lost me a few thousand.

You're about the midpoint of recommended level for Cainhurst. So don't worry you're not overlevelled and using OP weapons

I'm a big fan of the shoot/visceral combo (My FG kills was about 4 of those and then a moltov to the face...the video wouldn't save) - but it eats bullets. I tend to spend a lot of echos on bullets

Cool. I'll do some upgrades on the cane and then explore its options a bit more next time. I do like the R2 attack for the wide area of damage it does, doesn't seem to use up that much stamina either so combos should be powerful.

My axe technique means that shooting has been relatively rare thus far, so I have a gooseberry fool tonne of bullets in the bank to play around with! :lol:

Cane - ignore what it says about scaling with Arcane btw. That's kinda of misdirection.

Fair enough. I'm assuming the whip transform will be very useful against beasts?

I enjoyed using the cane against the standard enemies in Hemwick - zipping around them and chipping away at their health before they could strike back.

Jenuall wrote:Fair enough. I'm assuming the whip transform will be very useful against beasts?

I enjoyed using the cane against the standard enemies in Hemwick - zipping around them and chipping away at their health before they could strike back.

Anything serated is good against beasts. So your saw always will be, and alt form cane,

There's another type of damage that some things are vulnerable to - they're much rarer than beasts though so don't worry. Basic form cane does that.

Righteous or Church weapons are a subgroup of the regular weapons in Bloodborne. They deal additional damage to the "enemies of the Healing Church". T

Cainhurst. :datass:

One of my fav boss fights. Apart from that sword bit. :datass:

Hexx wrote:Yeah the transformed heavy attack stun locking bossing isn't at all broken

Y'all just salty about my skills.

I've been enjoying Cainhurst a lot so far, reminds me a bit of the Painted World from DS1, what with all the snow (and there's a snowy bit in DS3 if I recall right?) Hoping there's a fair amount more to it as I'll be sad if not!

How much enjoyment would one get out of this without a PS+ account? Is it essential to the experience like Dark Souls?

Another two bosses down tonight, both courtesy of Hexx's favourite weapon. You could say I'm still caning it!

Dual wrote:How much enjoyment would one get out of this without a PS+ account? Is it essential to the experience like Dark Souls?

I played DS1 entirely offline and most of my time on this has been offline (as the PS4 keeps dropping my connection frequently enough that it got annoying to be kicked from the game!) and I have had an absolute blast with both games!

As far as I can tell the things I'm missing out on from playing this way are - random messages from other players and stuff like co-op, invasions and covenants. Personally I can take or leave that stuff so it hasn't bothered me.

Jenuall wrote:I've been dumped back by the door round to the right of the Cathedral which is now open. Let's see what's next!

You, uh, didn't notice anything else then? :shifty:

Hexx wrote:
Jenuall wrote:I've been dumped back by the door round to the right of the Cathedral which is now open. Let's see what's next!

You, uh, didn't notice anything else then?

Only other thing I can think was that the previously invisible monster in that room is now visible? And now I can see that it looks like Amygdala as well!

I stopped right at that point and haven't gone back to it since so there may be other things to spot. I'm sure the big strawberry float off red moon was important

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