BLOODBORNE given Feb '15 Euro/NA release date, deemed worthy of own thread by ilxor

I DIED a few times before work this morning. :)

went with the axe + pistol, kinda regretting not taking the cane. i got as far as the two werewolves, while also managing to (i'm sure) miss every shortcut. and i definitely keep trying to two-hand and accidentally healing. loving it so far.

went with axe and blunderbuss. the merchant will start selling the other weapons for not unreasonable prices after a certain point early on. might need an item for that to happen?

i played through and beat what i thought was the first boss last night. looking around online today though, it looks like i missed an optional one.

game's great so far. can't wait to get back to it.

will say that FROM really ain’t so hot at graphics optimization though, huh? the game looks good, but not so good it should stutter like it does on PS4 hardware. and the character creation tool is still comically antiquated. minor quibbles though. these things are basically trademarks of the series at this point.

ha, my girlfriend tried to help make a character that looks like me and it went horribly awry. basically the more parameters you start to change, the more you look like hideous mutant. i find it endearing though.

the stuttering sucks, how do you not iron that shit out of a console exclusive before release? i don't even usually notice that kind of shit. i just haven't played any games on ps4 that have had this issue. well except ac:unity

also saw lag during co-op which can hopefully be fixed in the network/server? the online stuff seems really buggy across the board

i went with axe/pistol and my char came out looking like 70 yr old kyle maclachlan

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havent seen any lolfedora messengers yet, did see a top hat one

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eh

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NEXT GEN

praise the buns

sack

so far i seem to be an order worse at this than the souls games. i played a couple hours total and have literally got nowhere. i have the axe and pistol and my guy looks like the british librarian from buffy

was there an ilx password decided for co-op??

YALLDIED

What level are you? Read something saying that being within 10 levels helps.

21 and currently stuck at old yharnam

Same!

Getting the system and the game (but not the upgraded hard drive) tomorrow, setting aside Sunday for a deep dive

am0n, if you want to try and sync up, just lemme know if you're calling or responding.

ha awesome are you at that same section? its fuckin hard! the framerate gets even worse too

ok i put the pass in lowercase and used the beckoning one

k I'll jump on in a sec

lol, if that was you, I apologize. I've between jumping down on the other side, never even saw that route before.

am0n & i got it together after a couple tries btw, that was super fun. there was a weird thing where, when we got to the boss in my game, he couldn't come through the fog until midway through the fight. i wonder if that's by design or if it was because it was my first time encountering the boss (so there was no fog for me)?

yeah that was fun. i went back to that boss on my own and i guess none of the boss fights have fog the first time so its a surprise except thats only for the host. any co-op person will see the fog and not be able to enter until the event triggers. kinda sloppy design, it would be much cooler if we both went in without knowing. i also didn't enter until midway because i was in the damn ps4 message screen typing so thats my bad

ah that makes sense, lol. i'll be playing tomorrow morning/early afternoon if anyone wants to co-op.

the password things works well. if they can just fix the lag

just hookin' this monster up; joining y'all shortly.

Yesss, lemme know when you have that insight.

Died SO many times to the blood starved beast these past two nights. Jesus. Just finally got him on my last swing before I was poisoned to death. Phew...

Helped somebody kill that boss today, then failed solo. I was sooo close using those pungent whatevers but panicked in the end. Might try and summon somebody tomorrow.

okay so here i am getting killed repeatedly by two wolves on a bridge. i think i just started.

Apparently playing co-op in the forbidden woods can lead to a game breaking glitch (key quest item fails to spawn and stops you getting any further) so don't do that.

Managed the blood-starved beast after summoning an npc, which helped a ton.

Vicar Amelia bugged out on me. Sat there stationary as I killed her. Feel guilty about cheesing that one :/. I'm only cheating MYSELF.

Can't seem to summon or be summoned to save my damn life. Got it to work once.

does it feel like there are a diversity of viable builds a la the souls games? asking for a friend

No, unfortunately. The potential for diversity is less immediately obvious anyway.

cleric beast beaten. i get the sense i'm barely started?

Well, yeah, man. That's like the first boss. Depending on which route you take. He's optional.

I like the fact that they've gone back to the DS1 way in that respect. Fewer bosses but they seem to be more memorable. DS2 had a zillion bosses but I remember like 4 of them.

Yeah one of the reviews said the boss fights were all memorable if not quite as intense as Ornstein/Smough, the first two I did definitely pretty distinct atmospheres

Is it possible to do Gascoigne first depending on path or did I miss something totally optional?

i'm making a point of not reading much about the game and going in blind. I should maybe read a bit more about game mechanics though... i played a half hour before figuring how to equip my weapons.

xp

I did Gascoigne first too. The Cleric Beast is an optional boss in that general area. It's definitely best to go in blind, but I like to read up on a spot that I just cleared just to see what I might've missed.

I'm seeing some rumblings about hitting Resume Game instead of Load Game can lead to the multiplayer function not working. Might explain my summoning issues. Will test out tomorrow.

cleric beast is down! stumbled into father gasgcoine by accident while exploring with no blood vials to hand and got torn to shreds :(

am i right in thinking there's no easy way to reset downed enemies for xp-farming purposes? my usual m.o. in souls games is to go out collecting xp, rest at a bonfire, then repeat until i've got enough xp to level up. using lanterns to go to the hunter's dream and then back to yharnam is easily 90 seconds of loading in-between grinding runs and it's wearing pretty thin tbh.

ok fuck it bought this (and a ps4). beat father gascoigne before work this morning so i'm ~feeling pretty productive~

loading times are a drag but i look at it as a time for reflection

using lanterns to go to the hunter's dream and then back to yharnam is easily 90 seconds of loading in-between grinding runs and it's wearing pretty thin tbh.
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, March 30, 2015 4:36 AM

thinking maybe it could work like demons souls where you farm then die and reset at checkpoint to pick up bloodstain. would save at least one loading screen

yeah, its not like this is a dragon age type thing where you might need to reload the same encounter, die and try a different strategy several times in a row

if you die you're not fighting the boss again for like five minutes until you practice killing all the guys on the way, not that big a deal to get 45 seconds to focus on your breathing

the warping thing is definitely more of a pain, if you can warp anywhere from the HD you might as well be able to warp between lanterns as well, the only effect it has is more load times