Also if you tap drink flask while drinking flask, you will drink twice without having to do the full drinking animation. You did it in a previous episode but not sure if you noticed.
Current death count : 51 The death count slowed down since the first 4 parts . Well you said you wanted to see more than just the castle so they gave you a creepy new area .
Lol, I love watching this but it's so painful haha. Gets rare black knight drop, stuffs it in box. Dreaming of that elevator being a new place, me knowing it's back to the very beginning. Gets gold pine resin, wastes it. And bro loves spears but is sitting on the Halberd, AHHH! And stop upgrading your armor! I love it! So entertaining! But boy do I want to yell at my screen haha!
LOL - well one thing is for sure Bryce, if anyone had any doubts if this was truly a "blind" playthrough, it sounds like I've made enough poor decisions to alleviate any doubts...lol. Appreciate the tips/hints - I'll try to get at least some of these corrected in upcoming episodes.
That's what I'm loving in this playthrough though. A lot of the advice are good but I kind of wish people wouldn't give so many that are like "Do this" or "Don't do this" you know Your first playthrough of Dark Souls is really special and it would be really interesting if he was going completely blind, I mean he was doing super well even when he was super blind! Of course advice like "Don't upgrade armor!" is good definitely, but at the same time it's kind of a "min-maxing" type of advice, like if you want to optionally get more of your resources, instead of a "you will get stuck if you do this" type of advice. The only one I agree to tell anyone tho is Resistance, since leveling up resistance really is useless. But if he wants to upgrade armor, it would be interesting to see! Still throughly enjoying the playthrough though!
In response to question at 27 mins. Most people typically focus on 1 area until they do pretty much everything while keeping not of other areas the time have yet to visit, but it's not uncommon for people to find an area tough or confusing so they change area for a while.
Yeah, where I'm at in the playthrough at the moment, I started to feel a bit lost. I think I have a plan though for recording my next episode now (Part 18), as I've had some great hints/suggestions come in from Members that was very helpful.
The storage box Is definitely clunky in this game. It improves in the future (it's for storing items so you don't have to look trough 50 weapons to find the one you want faster
Remember the dialogue the crestfallen warrior told you when you arrived at Firelink Shrine "One's up above, in the Undead Church. The other is far, far below, in the ruins at the base of Blighttown." Also, there *was* one more door in the drake bridge that you forgot about...
The map is really interconnected, as you first saw with the bonfire in the burg, and now again with the elevator. You can often see other areas in the distance too. I'd just like to point out, regarding your concerns with getting invaded by other players, that you spent almost the entire episode (and a good bit of the previous one) with your humanity restored. In other words, you could have been invaded at any time - but it didn't happen, so you can see it's not always a big risk. It does kind of depend on the area though: Undead Burg doesn't have a lot of invaders, while some other areas are known PvP areas.
Thanks Ethan... yeah, it's wasn't too bad running around as a human. Are there really any benefits I should consider, outside of being able to call for help? Currently, I figure if I am human due to kindling a fire, I'll just run that until I die, and then stay in my undead form until I kindle again - unless there is another bonus/reason to do it.
@@BenjamightGaming The benefits of walking around human are: - You can summon people - If you come across a bonfire you want to kindle you only have to spend 1 humanity - I think you can only invade while human but I don't think you'll be doing much of that - You don't look like beef jerky :) So yeah, usually you'd only become human to kindle. Though don't be afraid to summon an NPC if you really struggle on a boss. Solaire, the sun knight you met who first explained summoning, can be summoned for most bosses.
@@BenjamightGaming Souls games are kinda like metroidvanias where you suddenly find a route to a location you've been in 10 hours ago! So it's alright 😄
I would say undead burg is more of a medievil castly town/city built up high off the ground. Not castle necessarily. However if undead burg is this big and fortified what would a castle really be like in these games?
I don't know if someone already said this in a future episode of yours, but one of the reason to save multiple weapons is if you want to have multiple type of ascension to them. When you ascend them, I believe you cannot un-ascend them anymore, at least not in this game. So you might want to have multiple of the same weapons but with different properties. In case you want to use your Fire Shortsword for example on an enemy which is strong against fire, then you use the other Shortsword you have. Other than that though, there's no reason, and it's mostly used for PVP. Most people just use one weapon even if it's weak against the current boss, or use another weapon altogether.
@@BenjamightGaming Oh but something I forgot to mention, saving armor is completely useless xD Unless you want to have multiple armors with different levels of reinforcements for some reason haha
Man, and in my last video I just commented about how I was wondering if you'd hit the rare drop table on the Black Knights and by god you really just hit it on the very next one. Black Knight Sword is a great weapon and definitely good enough to build your entire character around. I understand if you're really digging the pole-weapon route and are already far enough into Dex that you're just gonna stick with it, but the BKS is definitely good enough to be worth pivoting your level-up structure for if you were looking for an excuse to do it.
the most important tip you'll hear in this journey since you're gonna be at this a long time if you're already talking about DS2...they're called "souls" plural not singular "soul!" unless you only have one! even in the other games where the currency isn't souls, everyone still just calls them souls lol edit: and the shield is pronounced "ka-DOOSH-us"
What! I had no idea... it's crazy, a dozen episodes in, and I'm STILL learning new combat abilities...lol. I'll definitely have to try the charged attack.
@@BenjamightGaming I have also discovered how to do the kick. To quote a Reddit comment; "The trick is to hit R1 when the analog stick is fully moved forward. The click from the button press and the click from the analog hitting the plastic shell of the controller must be simultaneously. "
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"fire shrine or something..."😂 I am seriously envious of how noobish you are. Your first playthrough of Dark Souls is a special one.
lol - yes, I'm as noob as they come, that's for sure. I'm loving it though... hopefully not driving people too crazy. ;-)
Also if you tap drink flask while drinking flask, you will drink twice without having to do the full drinking animation. You did it in a previous episode but not sure if you noticed.
I did notice that during my panic fight with the knight... that's super helpful.
Current death count : 51
The death count slowed down since the first 4 parts .
Well you said you wanted to see more than just the castle so they gave you a creepy new area .
Wow, that was a big improvement for sure.
Lol, I love watching this but it's so painful haha.
Gets rare black knight drop, stuffs it in box.
Dreaming of that elevator being a new place, me knowing it's back to the very beginning.
Gets gold pine resin, wastes it.
And bro loves spears but is sitting on the Halberd, AHHH!
And stop upgrading your armor!
I love it! So entertaining! But boy do I want to yell at my screen haha!
I'm glad im not the only one lol. Great content tho!
LOL - well one thing is for sure Bryce, if anyone had any doubts if this was truly a "blind" playthrough, it sounds like I've made enough poor decisions to alleviate any doubts...lol. Appreciate the tips/hints - I'll try to get at least some of these corrected in upcoming episodes.
@@BenjamightGaming you rock! Keep doing what you're doing!
That's what I'm loving in this playthrough though. A lot of the advice are good but I kind of wish people wouldn't give so many that are like "Do this" or "Don't do this" you know
Your first playthrough of Dark Souls is really special and it would be really interesting if he was going completely blind, I mean he was doing super well even when he was super blind!
Of course advice like "Don't upgrade armor!" is good definitely, but at the same time it's kind of a "min-maxing" type of advice, like if you want to optionally get more of your resources, instead of a "you will get stuck if you do this" type of advice. The only one I agree to tell anyone tho is Resistance, since leveling up resistance really is useless. But if he wants to upgrade armor, it would be interesting to see!
Still throughly enjoying the playthrough though!
You killed that black knight with ease :)))
In response to question at 27 mins. Most people typically focus on 1 area until they do pretty much everything while keeping not of other areas the time have yet to visit, but it's not uncommon for people to find an area tough or confusing so they change area for a while.
Yeah, where I'm at in the playthrough at the moment, I started to feel a bit lost. I think I have a plan though for recording my next episode now (Part 18), as I've had some great hints/suggestions come in from Members that was very helpful.
The storage box Is definitely clunky in this game. It improves in the future (it's for storing items so you don't have to look trough 50 weapons to find the one you want faster
I'm glad they improve it in the future, because it definitely feels a bit clunky in this one. I was worried I was just using it wrong...lol.
Remember the dialogue the crestfallen warrior told you when you arrived at Firelink Shrine
"One's up above, in the Undead Church. The other is far, far below, in the ruins at the base of Blighttown."
Also, there *was* one more door in the drake bridge that you forgot about...
Appreciate the hints Hugh, thank you.
The map is really interconnected, as you first saw with the bonfire in the burg, and now again with the elevator. You can often see other areas in the distance too.
I'd just like to point out, regarding your concerns with getting invaded by other players, that you spent almost the entire episode (and a good bit of the previous one) with your humanity restored. In other words, you could have been invaded at any time - but it didn't happen, so you can see it's not always a big risk. It does kind of depend on the area though: Undead Burg doesn't have a lot of invaders, while some other areas are known PvP areas.
Thanks Ethan... yeah, it's wasn't too bad running around as a human. Are there really any benefits I should consider, outside of being able to call for help? Currently, I figure if I am human due to kindling a fire, I'll just run that until I die, and then stay in my undead form until I kindle again - unless there is another bonus/reason to do it.
@@BenjamightGaming The benefits of walking around human are:
- You can summon people
- If you come across a bonfire you want to kindle you only have to spend 1 humanity
- I think you can only invade while human but I don't think you'll be doing much of that
- You don't look like beef jerky :)
So yeah, usually you'd only become human to kindle. Though don't be afraid to summon an NPC if you really struggle on a boss. Solaire, the sun knight you met who first explained summoning, can be summoned for most bosses.
Upgraded flask lets goooo! Also so fun to see you go down the elevator to end up back at Firelink! ^^
lol - I felt like such a noob all of a sudden when that happened. ;-)
@@BenjamightGaming Souls games are kinda like metroidvanias where you suddenly find a route to a location you've been in 10 hours ago! So it's alright 😄
I would say undead burg is more of a medievil castly town/city built up high off the ground. Not castle necessarily. However if undead burg is this big and fortified what would a castle really be like in these games?
I don't know if someone already said this in a future episode of yours, but one of the reason to save multiple weapons is if you want to have multiple type of ascension to them. When you ascend them, I believe you cannot un-ascend them anymore, at least not in this game. So you might want to have multiple of the same weapons but with different properties. In case you want to use your Fire Shortsword for example on an enemy which is strong against fire, then you use the other Shortsword you have.
Other than that though, there's no reason, and it's mostly used for PVP. Most people just use one weapon even if it's weak against the current boss, or use another weapon altogether.
SUPER helpful advice here Theceptorperson, thank you... I actually hadn't heard this tip yet, but I see the logic in it.
@@BenjamightGaming Oh but something I forgot to mention, saving armor is completely useless xD Unless you want to have multiple armors with different levels of reinforcements for some reason haha
Oh man... I was still holding out hope there would be some 2nd purpose for it at some point...lol. Thanks for letting me know.
Man, and in my last video I just commented about how I was wondering if you'd hit the rare drop table on the Black Knights and by god you really just hit it on the very next one.
Black Knight Sword is a great weapon and definitely good enough to build your entire character around. I understand if you're really digging the pole-weapon route and are already far enough into Dex that you're just gonna stick with it, but the BKS is definitely good enough to be worth pivoting your level-up structure for if you were looking for an excuse to do it.
Yeah, I had a lot of people say the Black Knight gear is fantastic. If I do a 2nd playthrough of this game, I'll have to try it out.
the most important tip you'll hear in this journey since you're gonna be at this a long time if you're already talking about DS2...they're called "souls" plural not singular "soul!" unless you only have one!
even in the other games where the currency isn't souls, everyone still just calls them souls lol
edit: and the shield is pronounced "ka-DOOSH-us"
I'll try to remember that, thank you Xcaughta.
Who else rewound their video to see exactly how long the gold pine resin lasted?
It was 60 seconds
Thanks Galvatron - I had a feeling it was only a minute or 2... nice to know for sure.
Oh, you can also hold RT to build up heavy attack and time a strong hit.
What! I had no idea... it's crazy, a dozen episodes in, and I'm STILL learning new combat abilities...lol. I'll definitely have to try the charged attack.
@@BenjamightGaming I have also discovered how to do the kick.
To quote a Reddit comment;
"The trick is to hit R1 when the analog stick is fully moved forward. The click from the button press and the click from the analog hitting the plastic shell of the controller must be simultaneously. "
Really? I thought ds1 only had 1 type of heavy. Didn't know it was implemented this far back
@@mrman-yj3bn You might be right. Thinking I might have mistaken it for bloodborne combat
Black knight sword makes the game easy mode !
I've heard a few people say it's the best weapon in the game... I'm going to have to give it a try before I finish this playthrough.
@@BenjamightGaming i agree😯, I mean it’s so strong it will change the entire game for you! Such a great playthrough so far