Bloodborne is AWESOME

[The Frozen One]

beat the Old Hunters, the ending was anti-climatic and Orphan of Kos was a complete mess of a boss fight. Too many cheap shots, but somehow i managed to get him on my 5th try. I had trouble beating Lawrence, and had to summon a co-op to finally beat him. Even then he was tough.

I'm sad that I am about 90% done this game, and by 90% i mean unlocking everything. I'm in the 3rd level of Defiled Chalice, ready to face Amygdala. Just gotta beat him and I'm ready to beat the last and final chalice and get the last trophy in the game. I got 4 weapons upgraded to +10. Didn't really like any of the weapons from the DLC, but did test some of them out.. My favorite weapon is Ludwig and BoM. Tonitrus, Axe and the other Blade are also ones that i switch depending on who I am fighting.

But yeah, I gotta put this game to bed. It was an amazing experience. Can't wait for the new Dark Souls game.

 

[FloorGeneral]

So I finally fought Rom. My girl likes watching me fight bosses, so I had to put him off for a few days. If it weren't for those stupid ass spiders, he woulda taken 2 minutes to beat. I guess that's the point, but it took me 4 or 5 tries to finally get him. After leaving the spiders from the first phase, and then having him transport only a few feet away, thus doubling the spiders, that made up my mind to kill all the spiders before attacking him. Took a while, but oh well.

I'm not gonna even tell you how long it took me to beat that fukking hunter in the Grand Cathedral that left Eileen for dead . SMH, that fukking gun he has is bullshyt. Takes half my energy with one hit. And don't let him hit you with a damn Numbing Mist...smh, he just starts spamming the gun. So frustrating. Finally got him though. shyt gave me a damn headache. I'm gonna level up this Blade of Mercy, then probably go to Iosefka's Clinic before calling it a night.

I see after beating Rom my go-to farming spot isn't available. Guess I can use the Forbidden Grave site. But man...fukk that damn Hunter.

 

[Heelmatic]

I'm not gonna even tell you how long it took me to beat that fukking hunter in the Grand Cathedral that left Eileen for dead . SMH, that fukking gun he has is bullshyt. Takes half my energy with one hit. And don't let him hit you with a damn Numbing Mist...smh, he just starts spamming the gun. So frustrating. Finally got him though. shyt gave me a damn headache. I'm gonna level up this Blade of Mercy, then probably go to Iosefka's Clinic before calling it a night.

I see after beating Rom my go-to farming spot isn't available. Guess I can use the Forbidden Grave site. But man...fukk that damn Hunter.

Probably the hardest NPC in the game, DLC included, for me anyways. If you don't use the cheap way to beat him he's very tough.

 

[FloorGeneral]

Probably the hardest NPC in the game, DLC included, for me anyways. If you don't use the cheap way to beat him he's very tough.

The stairs? I used it only once, on my last try when I was down to a sliver of health and he hit me with a Numbing Mist. I waited til it wore off, healed, and went to finish the job (he was almost dead). Yeah, he's a bytch.

 

[gho3st]

@Zero @FloorGeneral

If y'all have the DLC, play it before you finish the game unless you wanna run through it on NG+

playing that shyt right now. I'm level 76 and im getting murked left and right. TO make matters worse they got white spider women now. and I know they definitely more viscious than the black ones

I'm level 18 I think and I beat father and got the tomb key. Then took my time, explored yarnham, stumbled upon the first boss then beat it in a couple of tries now im just finishing off finding whatever I didn't find in yarnham

I got this fukking bird faced bytch that keeps killing me in the church. I had to google what the fukk it was after dying like 10 times barely even taking any damage. Apparantly at some point in time when I first started playing I hit a npc and now its permanently my enemy or some bullshyt. I cant get the quest for the rest of the game now

This is what I meant about it being "noob friendly" how the fukk am I supposed to know this bird faced bytch was my friend in the game when everything hides in the shadows trying to kill me with one hit and now its irreversible. I cant even remember when I hit the bytch if I even did hit her but it is what it is

b/c if she was an hostile hunter, she would have attacked you the moment you got close to her. But your ass thought you was going for an easy kill so you hit her first. Then got shortly slaughtered after that

 

[SupaHotIce]

It's about 3 more of these dudes in the area as well, so I try to creep up behind one while I see the other one standing on a cliff that's about an entire valley away. There's no way he can throw that rock far enough to reach me, right?

From Software:

Me:

Now I have to constantly be on the run because apparently these are rocks with heat seeking missiles inside of them. :fohch:
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I roll around like a godamn idiot towards the way out only to be greeted by EVEN MORE squid monsters, and some more of those giants that throw Stinger missiles disguised as boulders.
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So I'm killing some squids, keeping an eye on the poison meter but guess what brehs? :whiteparadise: YET ANOTHER fukkING ROCK THROWING GIANT IN THE DISTANCE WITH A PERFECT HOMING ROCK THAT KILLS ME RIGHT THEN AND THERE.

 

[Deafheaven]

I'm not gonna lie I got schlept by them rock throwing fakkits first time I got to that nightmare too

 

[Vintage Eclectic]

So I gave this a second a chance after I forgot I had it and seeing this thread so many times. I bit the bullet and did something I hate doing, looked up some beginners tips since I never played souls game before this Ive been playing this shyt wrong and the boss I was fighting was the second boss the whole damn time Father whatever the fukk, without leveling attributes, upgrading my axe, knowing what the pistol was used for or any of that. I was just getttin the beats put on me for no damn reason outside of being stubborn on my end.

I remember somebody saying in this thread to treat it like a fighting game so now I play this shyt like dead or alive, I'm flying through this game and its pretty damn good

I still feel like it isn't really the difficulty that's the issue, they left a lot of shyt too vague and it aint noob friendly at all like they expect you to have played souls games before but its all coming together once you get the hang of things

Breh I just had the same exact experience. I kept getting killed by that big wolf looking boss during there first level and gave up on this back in October. Only to discover it's an optional boss . I'm on level 18 and made it to the first Hunter who I almost beat. Discovering all the shortcuts in the first level alone had me like.

Now that I've figured it out somewhat, I couldn't stop playing it last night.

Question brehs, what stats should I focus on increasing?

 

[FloorGeneral]

Breh I just had the same exact experience. I kept getting killed by that big wolf looking boss during there first level and gave up on this back in October. Only to discover it's an optional boss . I'm on level 18 and made it to the first Hunter who I almost beat. Discovering all the shortcuts in the first level alone had me like.

Now that I've figured it out somewhat, I couldn't stop playing it last night.

Question brehs, what stats should I focus on increasing?

Endurance is a MUST. Then Strength or Skill (depending on which weapon(s) you're using), then health (in my opinion of course). I put the weapons, and ability to swing and dodge as much as possible, above health. Atleast early on. Health is obviously important, especially with some HARD hitting bosses, but I did just fine with putting it on the backburner a bit.

Once I opened up Hypogean Gaol and found it to be a good farming spot, I just grinded away and I got my Arcane up to 20 now I think. I realized a little late that I wasted some levels getting my strength up too early. I started with the Threaded Cane (a Skill weapon), so I was getting my Skill up, then I got Ludwig's Sword, and just assumed that it was a Strength based weapon, which it is, but it also scales with Skill (and scales to an 'A' in Arcane as well. Gotta be the most rounded weapon in the game). Of course I then found the Cannon, and to use it you need 30 Strength, so I guess it'll work out in the end.

Bloodtinge is for guns, so if you wanna get your guns stronger, that's where you go. And Arcane affects fire and bolt weapons (including Molotovs). Unless you're familiar with the game, or maybe starting a 2nd character and going for a specific build, those 2 (for me atleast) are clearly "level up later" categories, unless you wanna spend some time and grind away to get your levels up early on like I did.

 

[Luck]

Breh I just had the same exact experience. I kept getting killed by that big wolf looking boss during there first level and gave up on this back in October. Only to discover it's an optional boss . I'm on level 18 and made it to the first Hunter who I almost beat. Discovering all the shortcuts in the first level alone had me like.

Now that I've figured it out somewhat, I couldn't stop playing it last night.

Question brehs, what stats should I focus on increasing?

Yea I'm flying through it now. I put all my points in vitality, strength, and endurance for now. The other stats come into play later in the game I'm guessing

 

[Goonberg Scandal]

I didn't like this game at first, but this game starts to become the shyt when you get the better, and more powerful weapons. I just don't like how certain weapons get weaker after using them for a long periods of time. All of the regular enemy and boss fights so far have been epic. I just wish you could get easier access to weapons in this game.

 

[gho3st]

Breh I just had the same exact experience. I kept getting killed by that big wolf looking boss during there first level and gave up on this back in October. Only to discover it's an optional boss . I'm on level 18 and made it to the first Hunter who I almost beat. Discovering all the shortcuts in the first level alone had me like.

Now that I've figured it out somewhat, I couldn't stop playing it last night.

Question brehs, what stats should I focus on increasing?

Secret to beating gascoigne is Molotov cocktails. The moment he changes into a beast just light his ass on fire. And don't use the music box on him

I didn't like this game at first, but this game starts to become the shyt when you get the better, and more powerful weapons. I just don't like how certain weapons get weaker after using them for a long periods of time. All of the regular enemy and boss fights so far have been epic. I just wish you could get easier access to weapons in this game.

It's just about usin weapons u good with

 

[KushSkywalker]

Make sure you research the soft and hard caps on each stat before upgrading

For instance there's not much good reason to bring endurance past 40.

 

[Zero]

Copped the Old Hunters DLC and decided to give it a little test run....I had to catch myself because I got immersed all over again

These new hunters with new weapons really got it out for your boy. Being level 100 has it's perks though because they all fell to my +10 axe

My stats as of right now:

Vitality: 30
Endurance: 40
Strength: 25
Skill: 25
Bloodtinge: 10
Arcane: 20


I think I'm ready

 

[Another Man]

Updates

Didn't have anywhere else to check out except the Lecture Hall so I went after avoiding it all this time. It's not really intimidating at all honestly, it's just dark. The students that show up looking like flan in a cap and gown die in 1-2 hits and that's the extent of the threat in the area. There's a room where there's like 10 of them and they seem to give up a good amount of echoes (went in with 669, left with 14k) so I might use this place to farm later on. I get to the door at the end of the hall and open it without even reading the text....I ended up in the Nightmare Frontier. Right off the bat, it's a nice change in scenery with the fields, but I don't get too much time to enjoy it because apparently there's a sinister bell ringing woman somewhere summoning actual players to invade my game. I only fought 2 of them. Got my ass whooped in the first fight, and took the second invader down with ease and got all my echoes back from the first fight. Only netted 30-something thou total. At this point I'm debating on switching to offline because I really want to just explore the place, but I eventually find where the bell woman was hiding and take her out from the back. There's also 2 NPC hunters in the area but they're hardly worth mentioning at my current power. Now I can actually explore this new area. These new beast like things with mouths that look like infected p*ssy only look intimidating but actually go down in 3 swipes for me. Same goes for those squid looking things that thrive in the poisonous water (which is the only kind of water this area has to offer apparently ). I pick up various cold blood stones and runes scattered about and end up in this field with these giant looking dudes that like to throw rocks. And I'ma tell you right now, these rocks do more damage than they ought to. Almost 2/3rds of my health bar? Even getting hit by the debris? Word? Luckily they're so slow, it's easy kill them or get behind them for a visceral. It's about 3 more of these dudes in the area as well, so I try to creep up behind one while I see the other one standing on a cliff that's about an entire valley away. There's no way he can throw that rock far enough to reach me, right?

From Software:

Me:

Now I have to constantly be on the run because apparently these are rocks with heat seeking missiles inside of them. :fohch: Getting past all of that, I find the first shortcut that's a falling statue placed closer towards the lamp. Now, what happens next is something where I can show you better than I can tell you.



I had to use a Bold Hunter's Mark just to get out of there.

Redid everything for the echoes and peace of mind and made sure not to end up in that spot again. At this point, I think I'm going to make some progress now at least, so on the upper path where I was supposed to go, there's this branching left path that even has little glowing dots (shining coins probably) to light the way to an item that's sitting on top of a dead corpse. This must be a really important item if From Software decided to light a pathway towards it! Whatever could it be? Is it a powerful rune? Perhaps a weapon? A quality bloodstone? An outfit with a higher defense stat than the one I've been wearing since the start of the game? The curiousity is killing me! Let me see what this item is that has been placed ever so careful in front of me-


From Software:

Instead, let's have this spider creature push the player off a cliff down into the poisonous water caverns lurking below the entire area with more squid monsters, where you move as if trying to walk in quicksand with you get slowly poisoned every step of the way, thereby forcing the player to roll around by mashing circle and spend the stamina they need to fight said squids efficiently!

Me:

I guess I should consider myself lucky that they didn't factor in fall damage for this. Again, the squid enemies go down in 2-3 hits but trying to manuver in that water is an absolute pain in the ass. At this point, my blood pressure is building like Beanie Sigel in 2000 eating the greasiest of cheesesteaks. I roll around like a godamn idiot towards the way out only to be greeted by EVEN MORE squid monsters, and some more of those giants that throw Stinger missiles disguised as boulders. I make my way back up to where the item was, and it turns out all it was was a Coldblood flower required for some chalice ritual. :fohch: Right about now, I'm just ready to turn this bytch off and get something to eat but I keep on going. End up in some caverns where another giant was perched for an easy visceral and some squid creatures that actually thrive on land for once. The way this area was set up though, there was no way to go but down into more of the poison water, so I fall down, killing some squid monsters and figure I'm gonna have to roll my way through all this to move forward. So I'm killing some squids, keeping an eye on the poison meter but guess what brehs? :whiteparadise: YET ANOTHER fukkING ROCK THROWING GIANT IN THE DISTANCE WITH A PERFECT HOMING ROCK THAT KILLS ME RIGHT THEN AND THERE.

I get my souls back, use another Hunter's Mark, level up some, and cut the PS4 right the fukk off.

I grabbed something to eat, took a little break, and dive right back into it because I didn't come this godamn far for nothing. Since this other water area is the only place left to go, I pretty much roll like hell avoiding damn near everything just to get past this bullshyt and try to find another shortcut that's close to a boss area that leads back to the lamp. Further up down here, I find a pathway leading up to the giant that killed me and savored every bit of the visceral I killed him with. I go back down thinking things will be easier, only to find what looks like a new cave with, YOU GUESSED IT , ANOTHER rock throwing giant in front of it. Short work is made of this motherfukker and I'm just ready for it all to be over. Well guess what nikka? It aint. This is another cavern with poisonous water so I get to rolling as usual (this is so fukking dumb), but in here, other than your average squids, there's something else lurking in these waters. Something that sounds like singing infact. I use an antidote and blood vial I didn't even need to go see what it was. Brehs....it's some new type of enemy that looks like Mother Brain from Metroid. I didn't even get a chance to take it all in because it shuffles towards you at light speed, and to me that only means one thing, this is one of those bullshyt enemies that can kill you in one or two blows. I swing my axe like crazy and it actually goes down in 3 hits, but my frenzy meeter is activated and it's moving faster than it ever has before...even after the thing died. :qpwtf: Frenzy maxed out and took most of my life bar with it. Mashing triangle like a madman, I go towards the exit of this cave...only to find another one of those brain enemies lurking outside. I don't even bother going for a visceral and just kill the thing....and once again it almost killed me. Right now I'm just trying to get the fukk up outta here and see 2 paths branching left and right. Towards the left is what looks like a boss arena and I run back like a bytch because I aint about this Bloodborne life no more today . Right path had an elevator of sorts that led to the beginning of the map with the lamp. I tucked my tail between my legs and went right back to the Hunter's Dream with the doll. At least she won't hurt me.