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

oh thought that was what you meant. i'd been hoping they were going to add something like that where you invade in another form or as a boss. at least they delivered on the beast mode thing. so theres actually 2 optional bosses, haven't found either yet but both sort of remixes of main game ones?

yeah i haven't gotten another invasion to work there.

i think there's only the one optional boss (in the church where you fight Amelia in the main game), what's the other?

thats one. the other is blood starved beast part 2 inside a tunnel past the big river of blood tick things

maybe he doesn't have a boss health bar, i havent gotten back there yet

oh yeah he's just a regular baby beast, no boss bar. loved that dark cave.

sooo i've gotten super addicted to doing pvp in this game. the more i do it, the deeper and more fun it feels. so much of it is just getting to the point where you're relaxed and patient, same as the main game i guess.

^an unfortunate and inevitable consequence of this is getting hatemail from children. at least it's better than playing a game with voice chat.

xp just recently opened up ability to do a CRF chalice (but screwed the first one up with a mis-click, will get there tonight though) and am salivating at the prospect of farming gems & runes & materials forever in chalice dungeons. i get some folks don't like them, but these things are like crack to me

previous xp was to compare addictions in bloodborne. i haven't really done any pvp yet (hoping i can still get summons on my 118 guy, am already planning alts)

nice. i've been doing pretty well in pvp without the really good chalice gems, but every now and then will come across someone who will just decimate me in two hits (or even worse, two bullets).

i took a long break from the chalices but i'm currently trying to beat defiled Amygdala, just to finish that last dungeon.

hit me up on psn if you want some help, i'm always looking for insight and have fought amygdala a lot (so i think i have the rhythm mostly down)

psn: vrilr0

finally beat her last night. :) every co-op partner i had died pretty quickly, and it ended up being easier to do it solo (the cannon made it possible to get through that last phase). now i'm messing around with the final dungeon, some of the layers feel really expansive.

i'll add you though, lemme know if you want to do some friendly pvp practice.

This game though. Smashed The One Reborn last night and mega hyped for the last areas.

This game gets better as it goes on imo, the escalating sense of everything just going absolutely fucking nuts is incredible

amazed myself by reaching second lamp in the DLC too which for a while was looking like a never-gonna-happen thing

https://clips.twitch.tv/CheerfulCarelessAlmondThunBeast

p good

several rookie errors there: trying to use cover to hide from a boss attack that cuts through it, rolling willy nilly, running headlong into a special attack

Still warms my heart.

I enjoyed that. Sums up boss fights. nothing like the panic facing the impossibly destructive attacks of a boss. 'not dead not dead!' is otm.

Got the urge to play this again (thank you based Grimes) and it's so good. As much as Dark Souls 3 invasions are my favorite thing, starting a new character is kind of a slog. In BB, I had forgotten how brilliant the starting area is in terms of design, so many twists and turns.

I have started this and have no idea what I'm doing. Also, I died.

You can doooo it

GRANT US EYES

So if I die and don't pick up my lost blood money before dying again, it's gone forever, right? I wonder if I should start my game over (since I'm like 30 minutes into the game).

Don't do that, you can't worry about losing souls/blood echoes. They come and go, there are always more where those came from (although after beating a boss, it is a good idea to spend them rather than rolling the dice in a new area).

I saw a hilarious clickbait article promising the latest news on Bloodborne 2, which broke down to this: 1) From Software is busy with that new game, and hasn't mentioned a sequel to Bloodborne, and also Bloodborne is not on the calendar 2) People have been wondering if Bloodborne 1 might come to the Switch, but probably not, because too hard to do and see 1), and 3) a quick pivot to why there probably won't be a sequel.

WTF?

I named my character Allison, because she looks eerily like Allison Janney.

I have played and beaten Bloodborne and it’s a magnificent game in every way but this is still the first thing I think of every times it’s brought up.

https://youtu.be/HPjJCVylFBo

Sound needs to be on btw

lol, I forgot about that

LOL WANT.

I think I'm starting to get the hang of it a little, enough to do a little grinding for blood echoes to upgrade my attire. However, I have forgotten where the first big, nonhuman enemy is, so I haven't really tested my new combat skills yet.

Playing late at night was a little too intense, though.

I've kind of figured out how to play this (at least the beginning), i.e. I can avoid dying when facing mobs of human enemies.

Now I just need to figure out where to go.

Found the Cleric Beast but as you might expect I died. Then in my haste to try again I kept dying in the beginning of Central Yarnham -- SUPER frustrating. Are there any checkpoint lanterns in between so that I don't lose so much progress every time I DIED?

There's only one lantern iirc, but there are doors/shortcuts that you can open up that make it a quick trip (maybe that house that's very dark inside?).

in my haste to try again I kept dying

souls games in a nutshell ime

There's only one lantern iirc, but there are doors/shortcuts that you can open up that make it a quick trip (maybe that house that's very dark inside?).

I found the house that lets me avoid the two werewolves(?) on the bridge right before the boss, but I was hoping to avoid the part where I had to get past the guys at the gate staring at the big bonfire.

I might be misremembering, but I think you can go out a downstairs door of that house and head right up to the starting lamp?

you're not misremembering, that's the shortest path

Cthulhu help me, I'm looking at a walkthrough right now.

cleris beast is optional (:

I realized that except for the blood echoes (because you know why) I have resources now to upgrade my stats and my weapon (axe). I've read that health and weapons should be prioritized, so I'm just going to grind the starting area for the echoes needed.

I also encountered my first NPC that isn't locked behind a door!

Beat the Cleric Beast! It didn't feel so overwhelmingly hard once I got a feel for its attack patterns an be after I gave up trying to land visceral stacks on it.

Father G on the other hand feels like I should try for visceral stacks when I can. Haven't had much luck against him so far.

Picked this up again and after the requisite period of remembering the controls, I managed to beat Father G. So, nice that I can explore a new level. The controls did feel a bit wonky during the boss fight, like when trying to dodge, my character would do to moves after soon he initial delay (probably me button mashing).

Bought to the Kirk Hammett Hammer with the process (and selling his the saw blade I found), then realized that I didn't have enough strength to world it.

*two moves

Maybe you were out of stamina (and mashing)?

It's not worth selling weapons imo, there aren't that many of them in the game, and it's easier to kill enemies to get currency. You might want to use it later (or not, but still).

I kind of had that thought about stamina too, so I upgraded it. Haven't had much chance to fully test drive yet.

Good point on weapons, I even found a path that's not too hard for farming blood currency.

So I ground enough enemies to buy that Hunter emblem to open a big gate that leads to Vicar Amelia (fight her twice to no avail, even with an NPC buddy, I've heard that you should only tackle her at around level 25?), and I've found the way to Old Yarnham (the farthest I've traveled there is that plaza where the Hunter enemy keeps trying to do a hot and run against me).

However, I'm not sure which area to go and/or focus on next.

I always got super turned around in Cathedral Ward tbh. It's been awhile, but iirc Old Yarnham is technically option but leads to some other optional areas (chalice dungeons, another one that should be a surprise), and beating Amelia is the way forward.

She's one of the few Souls bosses that never quite clicked with me, I think I summoned help every time. I love the fight with the three npcs down in the cemetery (?) below though.

Hm, I was kind of stuck on Cathedral Ward -- there didn't seem to be any other way for me to progress besides either going into Old Yarnham or sinking 10000 echoes to buy the Hunter Emblem Key.

I know from looking at the wiki today that if you do go into Old Yharnam and beat the boss there, a door opens up by the Cathedral Ward lamp and then there's a tricksy way to avoid having to get the Hunter Emblem.