I've beaten this game twice but only with the axe. Naturally...

the axe isn't shameful.
Axe is love, axe is life.

Whirligig saw is the best weapon, though.

I just like the whirlygig
there are a lot of fun builds you can do and try but its still the most fun to me

could try fist weapons

kirkhammer is fun

I got bloodborne for $12 on Amazon. Got a NOGAEMS4 for christmas.

Sageeeeee

Ayy

It's hard to find a weapon in this game that isn't baller as fuck. I wish I still lived with my old roomate so I could give it a go on her PS4 because there's no way in hell I'm supporting the practice of console exclusives with my shekels.

The canon is great
I wish I had the motivation to use the kos weapon

All the speed runners use the whip sword.

Bloodtinge is pretty fun. It kind of breaks the game once you get it high and use bone marrow ash.

Why the fuck is it bent

how do I beat blood starved?

Git gud

No but in all honesty, stay under him or to his sides until below 50% then bait his charge. Also bring plenty of that stuff that counters poison. Fire paper if you are damage output is too low.

You can also find the summon right next to the stairs leading down to the area before the boss, if you didn't know that already. Merry Christmas

On a side note; The hardest boss in the game by far for me was Rom, fucking asshole random boss that is.

Thanks for the advice, user.

IIRC on the initial release of the game people were stuck on bloodstarved for hours

My brother is pretty terrible at the game, he's been playing on and off for a few months, I think he's stuck at micolash at the moment. I have no idea how he got as far as he is. He is the definitive casual. He can't parry, can barely dodge and doesn't understand that you can get health back after taking damage by attacking no matter how much I tell him.

I had been stuck on shadows of yarnham for a couple of days. I still think they're one of the hardest bosses in the game. He got up to them and beat them on his first go. I think he only used like two blood vials as well. It was the most bullshit thing I have ever witnessed. I'm still fucking mad about it. He got stuck on Rom for longer then I was stuck on the shadows though. I beat Rom on my first go. I just remember whipping out the tonitrus and going to town on him. He didn't even get a chance to teleport.

There are lots of great weapons in the game, nearly all of them are fun. Try doing a skill build so you can use things like the Beasthunter Saif, Blade of Mercy and Rakuyo before swapping to the burial blade in NG+. I used the Beasthunter Saif as a transition weapon until I got the Blade of Mercy but it quickly became one of my favourite weapons in the game with it's fun moveset.

To be fair, parrying is really odd in Bloodborne compared to the rest of the games, I still haven't gotten my head around it.
Also I'm still disapointed that guns are nothing more than glorified parry items, I just want to be a kick ass gunslinger I'll still make an attempt at one on my 2nd character

Its not so hard. Once you get ludwigs rifle its pretty easy to parry attacks from well outside the range you would get hit from. I was able to cheese logarius' second form pretty hard by backpedalling and firing my gun when he attacked until I got a parry in, then I would just walk forward and visceral attack him.

I prefer bloodborne parrying to darksouls parrying. bloodborne just feels more consistent for me, and in the rare wonky moments where it isnt consistent and you get the parry and still get hit, you can usually get all your health back.

I actually like parrying in Bloodborne more, you have to time it so that the attack doesn't hit you at all since it doesn't give you any i-frames like DS does. I played Bloodborne before DSIII but now that i'm trying to go through DSIII I find that I can't parry at all because i;ve gotten too used to BB.

They were one of the bosses I had the least trouble on yet lots of other people seem to struggle without co-op help. You just have to constantly hit and run while baiting the melee ones into your attacks, you can also use the structure to your right as cover to block the caster. I have more trouble with Rom just because I sometimes get caught out by his volley attack that drops stuff from the sky.

So, is the parry timing/window the same as usual except that you have to compensate for your character having to point the gun before shooting and then the actual travel time of the bullet?

I always thought that DaS had the most consistent parry maybe because that's the first one I learnt. I liked it because the parry is active from the first frame of animation which makes it really easy to just parry on reflex

DaS3 just felt really off for me

I guess he's the first real "dps race" boss of the game. First time I played I died like a bitch to his poison so many times after he enraged, you kind of forget that you're poisoned while dodging like fucking Neo. He's also a rather big fuck you since he starts of so slow and harmless and then transitions into being almost as angery as Ludwig.

because it uses a projectile it has a "timing by range" effect, so you need to feel familiar with the rounds velocity to know when the adjusted timing is.
It also means that you can parry around frame drop by changing your distance from target.

How would you defeat the bosses with a double dildo?
Whacking them wouldn't do much good.

You stun them and then shove it up their anus. Extreme damage to whoever isn't a buttslut.

The timing is different. In Dark souls you parry as they hit you and then your shield negates the damage and stagger of their attack while stunning them. In Bloodborne you need to shoot them and have the bullets hit right before their attack. The parry forces them out of their attack but does not negate it so if you do it too late you will still get hit by the attack even while stunning the enemy, if it's a knockback then they will likely recover before you can use your visceral attack.
The guns have a small delay as you aim them before firing so you have to fire in advance of the enemy. The bullets also have travel time but since you will usually be parrying close up it doesn't usually matter as much. I like it more because it doesn't feel as cheap as it did in DS and I find the timing more comfortable.

It also doesn't break as many bosses. The only fight I noticed it really breaking was Maria.

And what if they are?

WHEEL

Blades of mercy are fun. That L2 backwards attack is sex.

DS2 and DS3 did alter the parrying mechanics and made them predictive - the rather long startup frames on most parry tools (let's ignore fist weapons in DS3 for a second) mean that you need to start parrying far before their attack connects. Of course, the idea of a DS parry is still the attack physically connecting with the parry tool during parry frames, but it's nowhere near as broken and easy as it was in DS1.

Too much spinning to win

Best weapon coming through

Kind of want to do a Stake Driver run, but it would get boring fast. Probably combo it with Kirkhammer.

It'll deal minimal damage
Elder god tier butt sluts will actually gain health

It is sort of a one-trick pony but it's surprisingly decent, even as a main weapon. If you're going to choose anything as a support weapon I'd recommend the Tonitrus

It's the most fun, but it's also the most casual. Makes everything too easy.

Why the fuck do devs keep doing this? Why the fuck would you want your shiny next gen game to look like it's out of focus?

Half the game is in a dream.
When you're dreaming, it gets more intense.
But actually all the game is in a dream.

I like it. The fact that it triggers you so much makes me like it even more.

Remember when this referred to extremely over-reactionary ideologues, like that one chick who said Twitter gave her PTSD, rather than to random people who dislike something you like?

Triggered

I hope someone gave that doggo a hug and a treat for letting that picture get taken

Refresh the page and check the email field.

Who says he didn't?

So, is this game sexual ?
Or is it just me, I'm noticing some sexual themes as I start to read up on the items and a few of the lines of dialogue I have encountered so far.
Pretty much went in completely blind.

Yes it's sexual

Wouldn't even pirate the collector's/director's/prepare to be blacked edition.

You eat rotten umbilical chords.

Then don't.

IT MAKES IT MORE CINEMATIC YOU SHITLORD!

Step 1.
Understand Meme magic
Step 2.
Understand how Quantum theory works
Step 3.
Watch that video which shows us the presence of an observer can completely manipulate reality with ripples.
Strep 4.
Watch/Read H.P lovecraft's from beyond, Tsukihime and nasu works for the understanding of "conceptual" used as a concept ascribed to items that perform a Conceptual purpose.
Step 5.
Understand what Flouride does to your pineal gland, and Astral projection.
Step 6.
Play Bloodborne.

Step 7.
Understand that there are a multitude of perceivable organisms hidden to us and nonexistent through such a medium via layers of perceivable reality and geometry, directly manipulated via the ability to understand higher levels of perception via a higher understanding of gemoetry, and that higher beings and intelligent lifeforms superceed such barriers by simply put, being better than us, and that speech and malleable communication held by such beings affects reality "ripples" to a greater degree, manipulating the very fabric of day-day life.

Understand that to reach this feat, one must witness the likes of being that are on the fringes of such a state to break illusions of disbelief, and that one must acquire a similar likeness to them by becoming enlightened enough that our heads are lined with eyes "In effect, the brain and the eyes are an extension of the same organism, but the brain degrades and dies, so the aim to increase thought on a celluar and active levels results in encounters with things beyond the relams of common man."

There are only two options to achieve this state of superiority available to mankind, which amounts to elevation of the mind to permanently project it's active consciousness and higher planes of thought, leaving the body behind, or mutating the body, and thus mind, to meet such a change with high chance of failure.

Bloodborne is about a group of humans who discover this in the form of another race that are the forefathers of mankind and civilization that, reached such a status and ascended with body and mind to higher planes, leaving behind the methods of their ascension guarded by their lesser keepers, and then apply this in religious practice, scholarly pursuit, and like humans do, fuck everything up in the process.

If you play your cards right:
You will become a Great One through the consumption of enlightenment heightening genetic material from other Great Ones that a Great One has manipulated you to kill, too fucking Eldritch as fuck to be made kin or otherwise as thrall to !notNyralathotep and start your basic gestation in the layer or "nightmare" of your employer, and control the cycle in which a Great One can impregnate a viable host (Organism closest to your heightened state of being (Yog-sothoth Ipswitch horror style) to bear a child.

Thing is, if you became a Vileblood, then your Vampire Waifu patron? You fuck her if you get the Great one Ending

Anyhow, the main problem with the Great Ones of Bloodborne is that they probably escalated to the higher planes of existence and then met with the Great Old ones, who weren't very fucking welcoming, and probably gave them the "LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT" talk-down, and that's why the moon Presence want's all the others dead, because it met the cosmic eternal Jew of jews, the Crawling Chaos.

On that note, Skinwalkers are real and are Injun Warlocks that made pacts with dark entities whilst high as fuck, loosing all discernible features and gaining their fucked up set of druidic-esque abilities.

There are however, an extra swathe of fucked up woodland shit including:

There's a reason these things fit lovecraft's stink like shit theme, and fuck with space and perception.

Gay Cthulhu?
I know the Old Ones can seemingly mate due to the fact they have children, but I don't even want to imagine what two male Old Ones fug like. Cthulhu wasn't even in At The Mountains of Madness

Anyone have the post of the guy going through the forest?

Scholar of the First Sin or Dark Souls 3
which is better?

Surprised there's someone who mostly understood Bloodborne, although you're bringing a little too much of Lovecraft into it that isn't in the game

Scholar of the First Sin by a slim margin

I'm trying for a STR/SKL build with a high END, though my Endurance has capped at 40, STR has softcapped and SKL is about to. I've mostly been using LHB as my main weapon with BoM as a secondary, when I'm feeling like a badass - I also use the Threaded Cane and Kirkhammer at times.

So where do I go from here? I'll probably pump some more levels into HP (which is currently at 30), so should I go for Arcane or Bloodtinge next? And if so, what weapons if not already mentioned? The build I'm going for is I guess a durable, hard-hitting ninja type, and I'm open to more exotic weapons.

Right now I'm leveled into the 90s, will there be any further room for stat growth in NG+? I was doing my best to make a balanced character on my first playthru and I don't think I've gimped myself really but a little guidance for where my next big stat investment goes.

Great fucking game, by the way. First Souls game I've really played outside of DS1, and the first PS4 game that really made me feel like the console was finally worth it. I'm cautiously optimistic for Nioh, I missed the open beta cause I assumed it was Musou level trash.

You could go for the hardcaps on STR and SKL, dumping points into your VIT is going to make the game trivial eventually. If you were going to go for another weapon stat it needs to be BLT, ARC has weird god damn scaling and there's no point starting to focus on it just now.

I'd suggest the Rakuyo but good luck getting it

Isn't the Rakuyo a DLC weapon? I'm committed to beating Old Hunters and collecting all the weapons within, so I'm looking forward to it.

BT seems like the most logical choice though, I was only thinking ARC cause I do want to try some of the more exotic weapons, but I'll save it for another day.

Thanks for the advice.

Well almost all of them are in the DLC. Think of the step up from normal Souls weapons to the trick weapons, then make that step again: that's the Old Hunters weapons. Beast Cutter, Simon's Bowblade, Amygdalan Arm, they're all nuts.

If you are going for a quality (STR/SKL) build then I wouldn't recommend putting any points into bloodtinge, you can put a few in arcane for some of the low cost tools like Beast roar and Phantasm shell but I wouldn't raise it above 15. Your best bet is to raise your strength and skill to 40 each and then boost vitality to 50 while also keeping endurance up at around 30 or so.

If you are looking for another quality weapon then the beast claw can be pretty fun though it's a pain in the ass to get. The beast claw on it's own is pretty meh but if you get the beasts embrace rune from the DLC then it's a really fun weapon that has you moving like a beast and getting a nice enhanced pounce attack. The animation and sound effects for it's attacks are also great, one of my favourite movesets in the game.

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