Can You Beat Dark Souls 2 Without Creating a Character? (All Stats at 1, no stat boosting gear)
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Can you beat Dark souls 2 at negative Level 44? Beating DS2 Sotfs as the starting character who has all stats at 1? You can by using the character creation skip discovered by Sleepmoover. 45 levels lower than SL1. No stat boosting gear and no other glitches. Negative Soul level: SL-44.
Watch the full livestreams here:
• Dark Souls 2 at Negati...
How to perform the character creation skip:
• DS2 SOTFS Character Cr...
0:00 Intro
1:05 Getting Started
3:14 Early game
25:44 The Great Souls
41:41 Drangleic Castle
54:41 End-game
1:02:06 Fume Knight
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You may also enjoy watching me beat Dark Souls 3 with two broken arms: ruclips.net/video/C5pKUQ41DgQ/видео.html
Watch the full livestreams here:
ruclips.net/video/sDTq_Z7mYaM/видео.html
How to perform the character creation skip:
ruclips.net/video/C4iFS3vcyrs/видео.html
Intro song: Dream Theater - Hollow Years
And my previous DS2 vids that I mention in this video:
Dark Souls 2 SL1 NG+7 Broken Straightsword & crossbow (all stats at 6):
ruclips.net/video/2zdsVVRUwQo/видео.html
Torch and Immolation only guide:
ruclips.net/video/fikBebgxnNY/видео.html
How to beat Dark Souls 2 as a Butterfly:
ruclips.net/video/ds_J81n5T0k/видео.html
Dark Souls 2 SL1 Beginners Guide:
ruclips.net/video/GY7hUt-E2bU/видео.html
Why not use the machine gizmo when fighting the Pursuer? :)
btw the arrow hit from the dlc they have a special move that they lift up the bow and they sniper above you
DS2 uses directional rolling as a key element to its combat, unlike every other souls game. Rolling to the weak side against enemies with large weapons, rolling same direction as incoming swipe attacks around an enemy and dodging towards and under an enemy aerial attacks. Each time in video you comment on not knowing why fight suddenly seemed easy occured when you instinctively got the directional rolls down for each bosses attack. The addition of directional roll dynamic is how DS1 vets have sometimes gone from ng+ easy mode giants to lol@thenewb dying to the DS2 tutorial areas. Just for future runs 😉
hey just curious, Gowers ring doesn't work anymore does it?
Hey the pitch shifted song in your intro was stuck in my head for days but I couldn't find the version in this video on RUclips so could you link me that version of the song, if a full edit exists? Thanks and cool video.
DS2 was my first game, and i spent like an hour throwing myself at the hidden ogre before the house without even knowing that wasn't what i should do
I remember dying to the weird dog-like enemies before that
@@PressContinue they’re actually these weird monkey gremlins.
That Ogre is the original tree sentinel
I couldn't make it past the hub without breaking my sword, lmao. The first spuls game I ever actually finished was ds1 years later. Thankfully I had a friend to tell me what to do, otherwise I'd probably have spent hours throwing myself at the catacombs
@@callumburke6967 that ogre is vanguard demon, and asylum demon
"In Lordran, time is convoluted. In Drangleic, space is convoluted. In Lothric, the mind is convoluted. In Yharnam, the body is convoluted. In the Lands Between, everything is Convoluted."
Just say 'In Drangleic, space is convoluted.' when someone says how tf do you get from Earthen Peak to Iron Keep using an elevator
in every game: lore is convoluted
In Boletaria, DLC is convoluted
In Ashina, life is convoluted. In King's Field, your sanity is convoluted
What about Boletaria? Everyone always forgets about Boletaria
Press Continue at level -44 without even having a name: *you know what? I think I’m getting too powerful now*
After torch and immolation, everything feels overpowered
The reference to One at the beginning was absolutely gorgeous lmao
It was _just_ subtle enough that I had to rewind the video, I thought I was hearing things.
Beautifull
Funnily enough, I just found that song a few weeks ago!
Hooold my breath.
At first I thought it was just a coincidence untill he said the next lyric. Absolutely love that song
smooth af
“Fume Knight,
has taken my sight,
taken my speech,
taken my hearing
taken my arms,
taken my legs,
taken my soul,
left me with life in hell”
Souls*
*epic guitar solo*
Elite comment
"what is democracy father?" -a young kid
What is this from? Is it just a poem you've written?
"Your strength, extraordinary. The mark of a true lord." :3
Seriously though, the perseverance this entire run must've taken makes that fight look like a walk in the park lol. Bravo, Press!
:3333
Op= 10/10
Full vid= 10/10
Ending10/10
Enjoyment= 30/10
His pain= 100/10
Honestly, the last one should be 500/10 bc think about it: do you think you’d be a 100/10 after doing this yourself? No, you’d be a 500/10
Build= 1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1/1
20% pain,
10% pain,
100% pain
Ability to pronounce the letter „s“ correctly
= 0/10
Stats = 1/99
Now do it deathless, no bonfire, 100% full game completion.
Seriously though this was an amazing run, good job. Love your puns, always get me to chuckle.
You forgot to add:... on NG+7
Someone call Otzdarva. He's got a job to do.
while partaking in the covenant of champions with the aggro ring equipped
The seal, gower's ring and pupa were definitely not your crutches, they were your very necessary tools.
And I'd say you chose a fair time to start using the seal, even fighting the four great ones with just consumables with 1 ADP seems too crazy.
😊
Imo a fair time to use the seal is the moment you can get it considering you are 45 levels below 1 lol
Yeah, a lot of the appeal of watching challenge runs to me, is seeing how powerful you can get even with all of the restrictions added on. I would love to see a version of this run with all of the arbitrary restrictions removed.
Press Continue: “I absolutely despise farming.”
*Farms desert sorceress armor on nearly every playthrough*
Er.... well you got me there... but you know... sometimes sacrifices must be made
@@PressContinue I hear you. Fashion is worth a bit of pain and suffering sometimes.
Maybe that's exactly the reason why he despises it.
@@urtoryu_dy_althraidn Hey, I'm just glad he chooses to hate a thing _after_ trying it and determining it sucks.
@@hardgay7537 You're right, people should take him as an example.
1:03:26 He didn't actually hit you through the bars. When that enemy fires its bow, the bow actually levitates up far above its body before shooting. You can see how the arrow comes in at a steep angle, then as you move the camera back and forth, the bow slowly returns to his side. It pretty much only makes a difference in this specific room, so I'm not surprised most people don't know about it.
Oh I see. Well not weird that I thought he'd hit me through the bars after that caster in shrine of amana shot me right through a solid wall
Learned about that recently on my SL1 run, luckily not by dying to it but still a surprise anyways
@@PressContinue I believe it's one of those "in the rotation" attacks that just happens to be predetermined for that specific guy. Or at least seems to have a higher weight on him
I think the ones in the area leading up to the blue smelter demon also do it very often (because why the fuck not right?)
Yet people unironicaly say this game is a masterpiece even tho it has an extreme amount of issues lol
As soon as this glitch got discovered I had so many questions; How much does leveling up cost? What happens if you respec? Is this the secret to the ultimate STR build with 1 DEX, 1 INT, and 1 FTH?
Well, unfortunately, the Smelter Hammer chicken wing requires more than 1 Dex.
@@khajiitimanus7432 clearly it isn’t the ideal strength weapon
@@chronicscoliosisgaming1139 Except for the fact that all weapons in DS2 have a Dex requirement of 3 or more.
Smelter Hammer is 6 Dex and 70 Strength.
The only 2 weapons in the game with a Dex requirement as low as 3 are the Hand Axe and Reinforced Club - both of which are pretty terrible Strength weapons.
I don't like leveling Dex just as much as most others trained in the bonk, but a minimum of 6 is required for maximum bonkage. Granted, this could be bypassed with a Dexterity Ring, since that adds 5 Dexterity, but I'm not so sure it's worth the ring slot.
The only 'weapon' that works fine with no Dexterity are catalysts and Vanquisher's Seal. However, with no intelligence or faith, catalysts are right out - so you just have Vanquisher's Seal if you don't want to use rings.
edit:
I was wrong. Forgot about shields, haha! The majority of medium shields and greatshields have no Dexterity requirement, including Orma's Greatshield and Reeve's Greatshield - in other words, the Imperious Knights got it right.
Clearly the ideal strength build uses neither a weapon nor the vanquisher's seal
@@somethingsomewhere4854 I am not chad enough to do that
Idk if im seeing enough love for that God tier Metallica reference in the opening dialog. Shit was clean
Ma man! \[T]/
indeed that was so sick
Yea that was greate
that was great, and so was the SOAD reference during the Freja fight.
I thought that reducing a stat might potentially underflow the value, so it's good that you tested that!
everyone else playing a game: "yea lemme become as strong as possible and destroy everything"
this guy while doing one of the most absurd challenge run of the worst dark souls game: "yea that'd make things too easy, lemme not use that"
As you got to the double-headed horse in the castle hall, I was already thinking "you of all people should be familiar with horses standing in a hall." I was relieved to see that that did in fact lead up to a carnaval joke. Well done.
1:03:25 If you go to this spot and watch that dude, he actually raises his bow up above the fence to shoot you. One of the times DS2 actually uses its environment very well, imo
There’s a lot of moments like that in the game
The archers being smarter than the melee guys make me go hollow every time I go for that catalyst. That and their arrows curve mid flight
DS2 archers are fucking surgical
The vision issues in the Freya fight is pretty ironic since you get Seath’s soul in ng+
And seath is blind. Yeah that's true
This is probably the second hardest DS2 run I have ever seen. This only gets beat by the bleed damage only run I watched. You are so insane!
*There is another*
All bosses no hits, the true nightmare.
**looks at Vanquisher's Seal**
I guess this run can be summarized at you becoming _armed_ and dangerous.
39:30 Based on how you described it, it sounds like you entered a "flow state." AKA Got "In The Zone." Very fascinating subject to look into. It effectively is Ultra Instinct as you mentioned.
So glad to see you do a DS2 run. I'm one of those freaks who actually likes 2 a little bit more than 1 (3 is the best imo) and it always saddens me to see how much hate 2 gets.
Ds2 has some great enemy and boss designs, theres just soo much jank and questionable mechanics
Even though it's my least favorite as well, I've definitely given it lots of attention throughout the years
@@PressContinue You have indeed. Your Broken Straight Sword NG7 run is one of my favorite things you've done. I understand why most people dislike 2. There are plenty of issues. But those issues don't outweigh all the things I love about it. It also introduced some important things to the series like the Soul Vessels and powerstancing. There are things I love about 1 over 2 and vice versa. Anyways, really love your videos. Appreciate the massive amount of time and effort you put into your content and how entertaining your personality is.
3 was terrible. Mechanically and visually it’s fine but it was so lazy that it can never keep my interest for long.
@@joshs2734 and also those issues are not exclusive to ds2 and are equal in the other games if not more common.
Holy sh*t, a SL -44 run. Mad respect to this guy, and additional respect for loving the game but also being mature enough to acknowledge its flaws.
2:50 I love this little reference. Its especially fitting cuz you're at level One
I'm so mad I didn't catch that the first time
And, like in One, he's living his life in hell!
The first 2 things that came to mind were Vanquisher's Seal and the Dark Pyromancy Flame (not for casting spells, but for punching people for fire damage). I reckon the latter would've actually been really good for some of these fights.
Also, at 1:03:23 that Possessed Armor has an attack where he loads an arrow, floats his bow like, 18 feet above him, then fires from there. So what happened there is intentional, you just missed the attack's telegraphs.
DS2 was my first souls game; there's something wonderfully adventurous about it. This was insane! Great job - Your commitment to challenge runs is biblical.
I love this game despite it's flaws, and always replay it along with the others
Ds2 is my favorite tbh. The vibe this game has is my favorite.
@@baklapjr yea, as much as I HATE playing it, it's vibe is one of my favorites in the series
Oooh, that "One" reference of Metallica's song of the same name. Too bad he didn't mention Jason's lack of bass
Jason's volume knob was not even at 1
@@PressContinue it was -1. Unlike what the ladle did
Dream theater and DS2? Two of my favorites things mashed up in a video? I'm in
Finally its here I've been waiting for a run like this ever since I found out about the character creator skip of DS2.
Okay that little montage at the start was lined up with the music so nice, that was great.
Nameless Undead: “I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms. At night, I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep.”
I have been so excited for this run!!!! Love your content, and love DS2!
Well done on completion! That might be the most insane ds2 challenge I've seen
I'm always happy to see some Best Souls 2 content.
"I thought the vanquisher seal would make me too powerful" this man's a beast. Also, "throwing knives are a surprisingly powerful tool" he was lying to himself and he had already finished the run, imagine what he had to tell himself to keep playing 💀💀💀💀
It just works
Amazing vid man! Love your humor, knowledge, and explanations on this run!
Watching this stuff when I can barely do a NG+3 run is always entertaining.
Honestly after that One bit at the start, I just have to say how much I appreciate that you don't append any jokes with a self-depreciating qualifier. Soooo many RUclipsrs seem to have this tendency to make a pun or reference and then immediately follow with something like "oh god, what a terrible joke, just end me now", "oh man, that reference is so obvious, ugh", or "I don't blame you if you unsub after that one" and it's just obnoxious to me at this point. Very refreshing to have a video where the little jokes just come and go without having someone stop and point them out every time.
love your commentary dude, the puns are awesome and the word plays make the video very entertaining to watch ^^
This is great. I love this game despite its flaws. I rarely like or subscribe to much anymore, but you earned both and deserve much more. Keep it up
Great analysis & run video! Thanks for uploading!
Beautiful work. Thank you.
Im currently doing a base vit/posture, no prostetic, charmless, and demon bell, as well as no combat arts. Its been a challenge so far.
Are consumables your only crutches?
As long as you can parry and jump it should be okay, good luck
@@zamany7596 thank you
@@EdanR i dont know ive mainly just been using the sword. Im still allowed to ugrade the ap so at least i can deal decent damage
I did the same thing but without using exp points to get skills, attack power 1 and base vit and posture, only thing i allowed myself to use was prosthetics, i managed to defeat every single boss except isshin, demon of hatred and owl father in the memory, thats when i decided to quit
I was not prepared for this video to open up with Dream Theater nightcore but sure I guess, what less should I expect lol
That was a great run looking for more in the future
easily my favorite intro of yours, I’ve come back like 15 times in the span of 7 days 😭
First time viewer here. This is the balls-to-the-wall, hardcore, drinking warm milk for fun type of DS run I’ve been looking for. Entertaining as all hell. Liked, subscribed and laughed a lot. 10/10
Oh oh een paard in de gang. But yeah, it was the "vind ik niet leuk" for me 😂 this run must've been so painful dude, good job, great video!
Another great vid as always man, keep up the good work
Epic DT mix bro! Great vid too!
Impressive work my friend, btw for that Lost Sinner part, it's called skill my friend, you are really good! Keep it up the great work!
So excited to watch this!! Absolutely love your content and seen every single video., always looking forward to the next one. You deserve a million subs and I hope you will finally get the attention your runs deserve. Even though I personally do not enjoy DS2 myself you make it fascinating. Thank you for going through that agony for our entertainment, haha! Mega respect for all you do!
Edit: I thought it was impossible for me to like you even more and then you hit me with Dream Theater and references to other amazing bands, haha. You absolute legend
Aw man, I love this format of yours❤️
Very glad RUclips suggested this channel to me!
This is the backstory of how Virgil escaped the demon world while lacking all his power
Awesome to see how this turned out, I feel like it was years in the making.
Well the idea itself has been there ever since the game was first released. So it's surprising it took this long for it to actually happen
Must say brilliant video and bloody amazing song at the start lad
Okay. That TCAP soundbite at the start is the price of my subscription.
Good show.
God your patience is legendary
This video has given me the needed fuel to push through into the dlc with my SL1 run.
Man. My first sl1 run was brutal. Ended it yesterday. (Base game) and am thinking ahout going to the dlcs... Idk man. After the pain in the antlers that was the aldia fight. (The boss that killed me the most in the game, 15 deaths), i am seriously not the least bit interested in any more pain.
I gotta say you got some excellent song choices
Thank you for the laughs Press, i needed that. Love ur sense of humor
this must’ve been hell to do
It was quite frustrating, yes.
1:03:30
Those guys can send their bow into the air and shoot you from there. Essentially a very high shoot. So he most likely did not shoot you through the wall, but instead over it.
u r a madlad. i played level 1 run and wanted to gouge my eyes out. this is just crazy you earned my respect
26:56 when you gave us the "press continue" experience, i thought i wasnt wearing my glasses, cause i just came back to the pc. very realistic experience, 10/10
When I first fought the poison boss I didn’t know you could get rid of the poison so I had killed her with a full poison arena it was miserable
Yeah it was the same for me on my first playthrough. I mean, who would have guessed that you could burn the windmill
Just so you know, in the intro song he didnt make the pitch higher like he normally does, James Labrie actually sounds like that
LOL, well... that's not completely untrue...
I have yet to even come close to beating ANY souls game....
...and you're doing this.
You absolute Mad Lad Chad. To say "I'm impressed" doesn't even start.
Absolutely love the commentary 😅
The point in which mind and controller blend together as you say during The Lost Sinner fight actually has a name. Its called the Flow State and ironically enough its really what ultra instinct is based on. Its most often recognized in sports but it can happen during gaming as well. Its a point at which skill meets challenge and you no longer need to think, you simply do. Once you realize youre in the Flow Stats, youll pull yourself out of it.
Aaah You’re finally at true level one an inhuman run with 1 adp
Love the SOAD reference in the Freya fight, one of my favorite songs as well
Loved this run!
First time I've heard the alternate names for the Throne knights. Literally laughed out load at those.
"Bimmy and Jimmy" is no slouch either
Congrats my guy, you have officially earned a quintaple chad chin after beating the game under such restrictions :D
I've been waiting for this!
2:58 "It's like darkness imprisoning me, because all I see is this absolute hollow. I cannot live. I cannot die. I am trapped in myself [...] making this body my holding cell. Oh please, God, wake me"
That was one interesting choice of words, I see you're a man of culture as well.
How long will it take for Lars Ulrich to copyright claim this video?
the hardest challenge i did - sl1 on ng+, but this seems even more painful
I was here for the livestream! Pure delicious pain
Damm so in short not a sl 1 run but a sl -44 run.
No stat-boosting gear and no weapon.
Pure insanity.
Subscribed.
This game was a pain. Was different than the other darks souls but had a little charm thinking of playing it again.
Honestly, I really enjoy ds2. It has some jank, there is no point in denying that. But it and bloodborne are the only from games I feel the urge to retry. I also think the story is the best of the trilogy
That metallica improvision. I subscribed. I hope landmine hasn't taken your sight, your speech, your heaven, your arms, and your legs.
2:48 you absolute menace with that Metallica - One reference.
"I mean, when all your stats are gone, and you're just one it's like darkness is imprisoning me because all I can see is this absolute hollow. I cannot live. I cannot die. I'm trapped in myself---since I cannot customise my character---making this body my holding cell. Oh please god wake me"
38:38 you can easilly avoid this by just walking, not even running, walking forward and right to strafe it, as a wise man once said, if the roll doesn't work, then don't roll
43:50. I'm not from the Netherlands, but from Germany. And there actually IS a German version of this carnival song (Da steht ein Pferd auf'm Flur). Ha, didn't know this but it's quite funny! ^^
Really enjoying your runs btw. You suffer for us so we don't have to... thanks bro :)
There's a german version? I had no idea you guys even knew about carnaval in the first place
@@PressContinue Yeah, I'm from Mönchengladbach, which is not too far from Venlo. Carneval is kinda big there! But it's even bigger in Cologne. ^^
I've been watching your videos for months now since picking up Bloodborne last year and now playing through DS2, and have been trying to figure out your accent ever since!! So glad that my guess of being a Southern Dutchie was correct hehe. Sounded so familiar since I study in Limburg as an international!!
i always wanted to do this, glad someone finally found a way
58:32 We don't deny it, it's just insane how much ds2 alone gets clowned on for hitboxes when it's literally every game in the series that has bad hitboxes
I think two is the most egregious example.
And honestly, 1 didn't do all bad. At least not by the time I played prepare to die.
DS3 and ER both have good hitboxes
@@peenyyt4921 Nameless King has bad hitboxes and bad hitbox animations but the rest of DS3 is mostly okay, and Astel's grabs are definitely messed up. But I mostly agree with how Elden Ring's hitboxes are. They feel tight for most normal enemies and bosses.
@@Hahvayz NK's hitboxes are sort of trash yeah
Love challenge videos and I really love Ds2, this was just amazing, maximum respect sir.
Ps: You could've parried some enemies with bare hand.
Ps2: You can bait fume AI to not enter second phase using consumables
As shown in the video you can still parry with a shield even when you don't have the stats. But I never parry in this game to begin with, because it's barely ever beneficial.
And yeah lots of people said that about fume in the stream, same for veldstadt's helmet. But nah, Fume has 2 phases so I didn't want to circumvent having to deal with either one.
Hey man great video!! and the dad jokes still kill me!
Fucking dream theater is the last thing i would have expected to hear on a dark souls challenge video. Good shit, my man
and im proud of just completing souls games
I click on the video
*Do I really want to watch this right now*
Suddenly Hollow Years starts playing
needless to say, I stayed
Thanks for reminding me the name of the song!
Literally everything about this video is wonderful.
Good stuff man, good stuff