Dark Souls Tutorial Details

[MisterWJu]

Hey Ilkar are you going to set up a builds section in the Dark Souls wikia (not the wikispaces)? I sorta want to see a PvP build from you. If that was pointed out in the video, I'm sorry but my computer is currently muted.

[Heneghan1995]

you havent said what was wrong with the health regen gift

[wildwildwes515]

no third video...grr>:(

[gunmomm]

o3o Srsly. Did the third one get deleted or something? I'm curious about the crowwsss.

[mrcow94]

Damn you for holding out on the last video!! =(

[Kelohmello]

What's the broken sword reference? I don't understand.

[XoRandomGuyoX]

@Kelohmello

Broken Swords and Slave Shields are the equipment of Dreglings, the zombie-like soldiers you face in the beginning of the Demon's Souls tutorial, and in Boletaria Palace. In Dark Souls you're pretty much one of the undead yourself, so you start out with their gear. Though he explains you get your 'real' starter gear later on. Brigands/Bandits get a cool spider shield and battle axe, for example.

[Kelohmello]

@XoRandomGuyoX Oh, cool. I totally wouldn't have gotten that joke. Thanks.

[gaborsama]

Thanks for the info! I'm already planning a naked no-death Deprived run on NG+

[Valhala2020]

will there be a stockpile npc?

[mankindx83]

nice work ilkar, thx for the infos so far.

see the new jump attack here -> youtube.com/user/mankindx83?fe­ature=mhee

[IlkarDS]

Only the DS/DkS community could make 5 pages of comments arguing about the BBS and having 90% of them be wrong. Love you guys, lol.

[scratch189]

@IlkarDS Cursed Crushing Knight sword here. Fuck your BBS. :D

[XoRandomGuyoX]

@IlkarDS

??? Luck is a rather wasted stat. Luck 20 was the most efficient spot in terms of return per point invested for boosting BBS attack rating, though Luck 30 still worked well enough. And, Thief is a bad starting class. Higher SL means it is more expensive to level up early on, the entire Black Leather set was available for free relatively early in the Tower of Latria, the Mailbreaker in 1-1 was almost as good for backstabs as a Dagger: the latter having a newbie unfriendly moveset.

[scratch189]

Ilkar, can we raise the cap on pvp characters for Dark Souls? Make it 200 instead of 120 :D

[Bodycage]

@scratch189 Are you stupid? The cap was 'game' imposed due to diminishing returns at around that level, so your question is both moot and a waste of bandwidth.

[scratch189]

@Bodycage ur a faget

[Bodycage]

@scratch189 You're very thick. Good luck with that son :)

[scratch189]

@Bodycage Aw yeah man :)

[IlkarDS]

@scratch189 It's not exactly anyone's decision, but 120 was the cap for a reason. However, because of the changes to how endurance/hyper armor/all that crazy poise stuff works I can see it being beneficial to go a little higher. We won't really know until a few months after release when we've tested a few things out. Although, we have a team put together to try and get to the bottom of PvP issues asap.

[TAMPATLBLACK]

@IlkarDS like I said, I am sl 300 and pvp all the time

[TAMPATLBLACK]

@scratch189 it is not 120. I am 300 and pvp all the time lol

[berserk2112]

3rd part?

[IlkarDS]

@berserk2112 Working on it. Had some background work to do and a lot of things to clear to make sure I'm allowed to tell you all the secrets I know, lol.

[DavetzWin]

@IlkarDS

Nice to hear you are still doing it.

I thought some Namco guy called you and said "NOPE, YOU CAN'T DO IT" lol

[Bodycage]

Why the long face??

[JuiceInThePocket]

@Bodycage He is the Irish Napoleon Dynamite.

[Metadaxe]

12:16

Next show us the Katarina shirt.

[Metadaxe]

Moot, we need more moderators for /v/, it's nothing by ponies and dubs.

[IlkarDS]

@Metadaxe BRB soup

[SirDetectiveE]

Only question, Thieves still useless? Suggested starting class?

Like, how Thieves wasted the luck stat, got any of that?

[darkoni12398]

@SirDetectiveE theres no more luck stat dude and all classes are the same soul level...heres looking forward to playing different classes

[killerducky420]

@SirDetectiveE thieves were never useless character class makes no difference you build your character to be anything you want regardless of class

[s4m102]

@killerducky420 If you were doing a 120 SL build, thief was useless because luck stat was a waste.

[killerducky420]

@s4m102 actually it does not matter the thief class was not useless it has high luck making it a good class for the only build in the game that requires luck try again buddy

[s4m102]

@killerducky420 the only way you could use the thief was for a BBS build. Otherwise every other classes were better

[killerducky420]

@s4m102 and? it makes no difference you just proved your previous statement wrong and you say it as if the thief class is just passable by using bbs a thief is a very good class for bbs regardless pvp isn't about your build it's player skill that determines the winner

[s4m102]

@killerducky420 It was still a waste. + even if this class started with high luck for BBS, other classes would work too so there's no point in using a thief. I agree that player skill determines the winner but having 15 luck is a waste if you're not going BBS. It's 5 SL wasted. It will n=most likely not change the outcome of the battle but it can still affect your performances a little.

[killerducky420]

@s4m102 now you're going back to your previous point again yes you can use other classes to use bbs but if you use it with a thief its not 5 sl wasted when you need to pump luck anyway even if you do want to be a thief without bbs just de level yourself everything you are saying has no relevance

[s4m102]

@killerducky420 the point of wasting time lowering your luck stat when you can use another class? None. I'm not saying you must not pick the thief, only that it's useless If you're not playing a BBS build

[killerducky420]

@s4m102 once again as i previously stated they are not useless for other builds you just have to be more patient than people like you meaning it is not useless completely disproving your theory that thieves are useless

[IlkarDS]

@SirDetectiveE I have no idea this early on. I'm going to try and get some of the experts together for a little meta talks session to see what we can work out.

[KellzzTV]

everyone knows about jump attack its in alot of E3 footage but its still cool

[IlkarDS]

@KellzzTV Nuh-uh. This is a different attack entirely, I've checked now and seen that nobody knew how to do it, lol. All the 'jump attacking' in the videos from E3 was me, by the way, it's the term I used for what I'm now gonna call the 'leap attack', which is the sprint+jump+attack.

[KellzzTV]

@IlkarDS Oh well then thats even cooler

[joshwade44]

if left stick forward+r1 does a kick how do you push?

[killerducky420]

@joshwade44 you don't

[DDTink]

@joshwade44 kick is the new push

[Chuthuluku]

and I also never knew how to push in DS...xD

[Chuthuluku]

BWAHAHA! Cracked up at the overweight thief part!



[A5m0d43u5]

Thank you for the nice infos.

Is the co-op mechanic still limited to the human/soul form? can you please tell us about the multiplayer side of the game?

I would also like to know if you got the chance to try out percing swords, are they usefull?

Sorry for the bad english, greetings from Italy :)

[sora99215]

I think the tutorial boss should be called Nigel, he looked kinda like a Nigel, or maybe if it's female then Lynne, but it did look more Nigel than Lynne. Of course we could play it safe with a unisex name, but I can't think of any that fit.

[PublicEnemy651]

Ilkar how old r u?

[IlkarDS]

@PublicEnemy651 20, as of the start of August.

[GoToBedSheeva]

How do the stats for the weapon layout look now? and are all the stats the same as demon's souls with the exception of int/faith?

[archi545]

@GoToBedSheeva the luck stat was removed and replaced with humanity(works like # of souls)

and it looks like all the defence stats might be grouped into resistance instead of being spread out

[FaxanaduJohn]

Rad info, thanks man.

[survick]

THIRD :D

[HiComeSayHello]

Second :p

[IlkarDS]

FIRST LOL