I just made an invader and holy shit why did Miyazaki ruin invasions in this game. I decided to use the great epee since I've never really messed with thrusting swords in Dark Souls. After getting my ass handed to me by a few gank squads I tried out perfume and now I just two shot the phantoms and the hosts are useless. The system was at its most fun in dark souls three with high phantom limits and covenants. In this game you literally can only invade hosts who have one or two phantoms and the total player cap is 4. The constant 2 or 3 vs 1s force me to make a optimal build that just shits out damage on poor PvE players to deal with all the dedicated gankers. This system literally only seems best for those braindead players that sit in gank squads and spam aoe. You literally never get to invade normal players who play the majority of the game solo. Instead you get these special little guys who just fat roll around after you kill their phantoms.
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Modern invasions are lame. They should bring back solo invasions. At the very least for certain dungeons.
DS3 pvp was ass, just like ds3 as a whole. So ridiculously boring.
I imagine you prefer ds2 the game where player characters always move like they gotta take a shit and are worried it's just gonna pop out and the environments have the most beautiful repeating texture quality almost evocative of the N64 games of my youth.
I prefer the entire series to ds3. As for texture quality, ds3 has much, much worse issues than that lol
Please explain to me why conservativly half the areas in a game looking like ass is something I should judge less harshly than misplaced assets at the edge of a map pretty much every player will miss.
No other souls game has places where you can look outside the mad and see a massive pit into the fricking void lol. Look at this and tell me it's quality. The only way to miss it is if you don't look or you ignore it so that you can pretend its a well crafted game. This isn't misplaced assets. It's laziness unlike anywhere else in souls.
>Look at this area off the map
No thanks I'll look at where the actual game is happening. Keep nitpicking the skybox or whatever.
Awwww he doesn't like when his first souls game is called out. seething isn't gonna get rid of the games awful art direction anon.
Neat you have no argument against the fact you have to look at the edges of the map in 3 to find ugly shit mean while it's front and center in 2 so you resort to calling me a baby. Fascinating. Anyway Dark Souls 1 was my first souls game and remains my favorite overall but watching you sperg out because I praised an aspect of 3 in the OP has been entertaining.
watching you deny deny deny ds3's ugly art and low effort has been more entraining, I assure you.
Speaking of low effort, elden ring literally has 10 stock buildings and constantly copy paste and rotate them lol
And that building is from DaS3.
and yet, no gaping holes in the world showing the void... or anything as bad as this
N64 Woods is worse because I don't have to go out of my way to see it.
>deny deny deny
This is surely an efficient coping strategy
You don't have to go out of your way to see any of ds3's ugliness, you have to practically wade through it
Interesting you seem to be the one who's only denying and not engaging with what other people are saying. I suspect this stems from a shitty childhood spent playing ds2 spitfully resenting those who came before enjoying DS1 and Demon's at their heights. This now overgrown child spends it's days blindly flailing at the game that came after 2 in some bizarre attempt at vindicating what it once felt. He sees a thread that casually praises DS3 PvP and can't help but spam screenshots off obscure coroner's of the map over and over, as if this will make OP like DS3 PvP less. Then repeat his mantra
>Deny Deny Deny
except im not defending ds2 here, im attacking ds3. I know that's going to infuriate you since it removes the only defense you have for ds3 which is
>b-but ds2!
Look little guy, I promise you that no matter how much I dislike ds3, an internet strangers opinion on it isn't going to hurt you that much. Just look away from the screen, or filter me or something. Young people these days are so sensitive. It's just a video game.
Aside from those trees what are you b***hing about exactly. The wall in
DS2 has about a hundred times more walls like this.
Honestly can't even tell what your b***hing about in this one but I'm sure it's definitely something I would notice in an action game. And finally based on this one I must be arguing with lord gwyn since you seem to be mad about the concept of darkness because I can't see anything wrong.
But why don't you champion some good art direction so I know why this is shit? Post some scenic earthen peak or maybe some beautiful shaded woods. Or Drangleic Castle but make sure if it's a video the camera isn't moving or I might notice the broken rain effect.
vgh... ds3
Post the inside of Earthen Peak.
that looks worse than the pic of earthen peak
>b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-but DS2
obsessed
No other souls game has places where you can look outside the mad and see a massive pit into the fricking void lol
The ceiling of the first bonfire room in Undead Crypt is missing and you can stare at the elevator shaft hanging in the void.
tbh all souls games have this. maybe elden ring is the best in this aspect since its open world so areas are supposed to be travelled to.
Of course, but you would expect a game from 2016 to look better not worse than its predecessors
How often do you run into kitted out ganksquads vs what is clearly two or three random PVE coopers that never fight PVP and you absolutely blast them apart? I'm just curious because I coop Elden Ring all the time so I fight invaders all the time. You know what completely still fricks me? That axe with the lightning whirlwind move Nepheli has. I've died to it a hundred times, you think I would learn not to just bumrush the invader when he pulls out an axe but nope, I think endure will save me.
It's really varied with the different times I've played sometimes they are all I seem to see, others I'm mostly running into two guys running through a level together(usually with host who forgot to level vigor with dropped late game gear and level scaled phantom) Across the board everyone seems to have forgotten to level vigor. I've run into a solo host using taunters tongue exactly once.
DS3 invasions were also bad. You'd invade someone to discover the gank squad and the host using a seed of a giant tree. Ever since Bloodborne the games have prioritised invading people who have already summoned. Invasions have essentially been opt-in ever since. In DeS and DaS there were actual benefits to going human which came along with the risk of being invaded. No more.
Elden Ring invasions were awful though. I spent the time doing them to get all the items and took hours just to get the bare minimum. Haligtree was the best place simply because the enemies were dangerous enough to cancel out the host with his two buddies.
>n DeS and DaS there were actual benefits to going human which came along with the risk of being invaded.
There were zero advantages to being human in DaS.
You couldn't summon unless human.
Thats just the same as the
>invasions are a co-op thing now
Literally the fricking same, if you dont want to summon being human is fricking useless.
You don't look ugly when human.
Aww shucks, guess i wont be able to see my excellently made character with the top tier CC of das1 that surely wasnt going to be covered by one of the dozens of closed helmets of the game anyway.
DaS3 fixed this by forcefully giving you embers every boss death and giving you some bonus health, its not my favorite but it has the best online components of all of them.
ds1 pvp > ds3 > er > ds2 (too many cheaters)
elden ring pvp could be better if they made it so we could 3v2 invasions at the least consistently. the worst part is that you're going to run into at least one person in an invasion that is spamming mage which is super OP paried with two aggressive players spamming the same ash of wars close to you.
ds3 invasions were the best. things were balanced so you always had a chance at beating gankers which made them worth fighting.
lol
The main problem for me is the lack of teams. You have blues and yellows who side with the host, and reds. That’s it, there’s no purples or blurples that can just frick with anybody or make temporary alliances.
only good post in this thread.
The real main problems are
>no single player NATURAL invasions
People who want to be invaded dont want to give permission first with the tongue, its in the name "invasion".
>small player count
After das3 raising the player count to 6 coming back to 4 just isnt cutting for most
>open world invasions
The open world, as expected, SUCKS for invasions. too open, too big, too few enemies, so it becomes a minutes long chase sequence 50% of the time, boss invasions are great though.
>enemies in dungeons
They were already too squishy in 3 but in ER they feel specially non-threatening, so one of the few advantages of the invader is lost with it
Most of these are easily fixable but From wont do it.
I for the longest time wondered if the Tongue even worked. I ran with it for a really long time and never got invaded once.
If you played close to release i would guess the game gives preference to players with summons so it never gave you a chance (one of the few weaknesses of the system), if it was recently i have no clue how that happened.
purples are just going to split invaders any further and hunt them instead of phantoms
>BUT YOUR GAME LOOKS WORSE
who cares, genuinely. All of the DS games have good looking locations and some really bad ones. How about that gameplay?
the start of irithyll is annoying
the 3v1 rivers of blood spam near the launch of the game was unbelievable, and they didnt patch it for like 4-6 fricking months. they just hate invasions now
>see 3 other guys with rivers of blood
>yeah I can take them, I'm using RoB too but I'm better than them
the novelty of multiplayer in fromsoft games worn off years ago. i play exclusively offline now.
But you'll miss out on the amazing messages like finger, but hole
I remember when I was king of the belltower
No man could survive the partizan 2HR2 combo
Solo invasions are bad, will always be bad, and invaders that want them back are bad players
Elden Ring invasions are also much better than Dark Souls 3, but you get to reposition and have much better anti-gank tools
The two guys going back and forth about which game has the worst off areas are moronic. talk about invasions.
>waaaaaaaaaah I can't harass people just playing the game with normal builds using my twink anymore
this is you
You can't even invade and play normally either. Both sides are fricked. It's time to admit that invasion is no longer a valid mechanic and if they want to have PvP in the PvE setting, they need to do something else.
we partied too hard in das1
And now we're stuck in this eternal shitfest because of whiny homosexuals
Good frick invaders. You think I'll just let you ruin my fun? Frick off, whenever I got invaded I just pulled my LAN cable when they came close to me. Have fun wasting your time homosexual
Invasions have been utter shit since DS3. FromSoft shouldn't even bother with them on their next Souls style game