Can You Beat Dark Souls Using Only the Pike's Special Running and Backstep Attack?

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[@PressContinue]

Again sorry for the glitchy visuals, frameskips, washed out colors and stutters in the video. As my regulars know, I've been experiencing problems with my recording device and software. Footage for the next video is already recorded so that will have the same issues, but hopefully after that everything should be fully functional again. Check out the full livestreams here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6qpqmp7r7yYqdk Discord server: discord.com/invite/9wmc2AV6fJ

[@Scowleasy]

Can you beat dark souls 1/2/3 as the grim reaper? (Scythe, fog ring/ hidden body, pyromancy)

[@AddMoreJPEG]

Can you go ONE (1) day without playing souls challenge (impossible)

[@darthplagueis13]

Ultra-specific pet peeve, but would you mind editing the comment to move the stream link down a line? Because right now it's possible to accidentially click on it even though it isn't visible because youtube apparently is a bit janky in that regard.

[@PressContinue]

@@darthplagueis13 You mean like how it is now? Not sure if I understood you correctly

[@darthplagueis13]

@@PressContinue Yep, thank you.

[@shady6281]

I couldn’t believe how hard Gwyn was when I wasn’t parrying him, he really is the hardest boss, he’s just super aggressive and leaves you hardly any window to heal

[@CErra310]

Appropriate for a Hollow

[@Ryan-op7yd]

It's like the Pinwheel fight if you manage to let him summon all his clones: surprisingly difficult

[@jooot_6850]

@@CErra310 Torch Hollow With Really Big Torch that Burns With The Power Of the Sun

[@CallMeMimi27]

i find it funny coz i defeated him without parrying in all my attempts coz i just suck at parrying.

[@sirGuy1995]

@Shady I’ve heard people say “Gwyn is supposed to be a pushover with parries because it represents how fall he has fallen and just how sad he is now” …IDK, he’s pretty darn hard if you don’t parry. Only time I beat him otherwise was with a high sorcery build

[@Markshadow4999]

Ah yes, the requirements in dark souls 1 were a little particular: if i remember correctly a weapon's strength requirement was always equal to (weight * 2) + 4, the pike's requires are an unfortunate side effect of this. Edit: ALMOST always, i checked and the formula seems to not apply to weapons that weight over 20.0

[@PressContinue]

I guess the pike should have simply not weighed that much to begin with or simply be a strength scaling weapon instead

[@chadthe_peacock94]

I thought of it as, to two hand a weapon you take the original strength requirement divid it in half, the divid it in half again and add on the first number to the second and that’s how much strength you needed, so if it was 36 strength you would need 27 cuz 18 + 9 = 27. Keep in mind I was only 11 when I thought of this so it could definitely be wrong

[@zanklancnim3661]

@@chadthe_peacock94 you have to divide by 3 then multiply by 2. If it was 36 strength you would need 24 since 36:3=12x2=24, 24x1.5=36

[@dretadel]

@@zanklancnim3661 or just two-thirds of the strength requirement when two-handing, rounded up.

[@Slender_Man_186]

@@chadthe_peacock94 two handing effectively increases your strength by 50%, so you can wield weapons with 66% of the required strength. Ex: if you want to use a weapon with 18 strength, you only need 12 to use it while two handing. This is why you never level Strength above 66, because that becomes 99 when two handing.

[@amberhernandez]

Btw, the Elden Ring Pike's charged heavy is meant to combat horseback enemies! It's still not super useful in general, but it's pretty good at its niche.

[@procrasadini2283]

Also some of the flying bird enemies, the charge attack can consistently hit birds when they're flying close by

[@PressContinue]

Well... thats... dumb. The whole point of a pike is to have the reach advantage. The charge R2 should allow you to hit enemies really hard from far away, not have some dumb niche attack for guys on horseback or stupid birds. Fromsoft just can't get their pikes right. In each game it has issues. In DS1 it's too heavy and has high strength requirements for a dex weapon. In DS2 and DS3 the damage output is really sub-par and it's a bitch to acquire in DS3 to begin with. And in Elden Ring, the game where R2's matter more than ever before, it's an attack with almost zero reach. The pike just always gets the shaft it seems

[@jooot_6850]

@@PressContinue I somewhat disagree; a big reason for using pike formations is to specifically dissuade mounted forces from charging at you

[@DioDCynic]

@@PressContinue There's a reason why spears are not pikes.

[@RiderofGary]

@@PressContinue yes and no, spears and pikes have the reach advantage and where strong anti cavalry weapons, the upwards thrust whilst exaggerated shows this latter strength of the weapons as its more applicable to use them in ER due to the presence of mounted units, itd also give you the reach in game to hit giants in their weakpoint which i believe is their torso and head. As said by others its niche but its good design to show some weapons having uses to more than just 1 aspect

[@1Madnan]

19:27 ok that was actually hilarious lmao

[@dr.dolittle4505]

Crazy how the pike charge handicap actually made Pinwheel look like an interesting boss

[@PersonGuy968]

Lore-wise it makes sense why Pinwheel is weak af, but gameplay-wise it makes for a shit boss with a good premise.

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

​​@@PersonGuy968 Pinwheel is not supposed to be weak because as a space holder they gave him the life of asylum demon and they forgot to modify it?

[@PersonGuy968]

@@BaldianOfIbelin I mean tho, he is frail af and has trouble even walking around. He doesn't use any melee attacks, only spells.

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

@@PersonGuy968 Yes, but he is also someone who stole from two gods and the Bonfire Rekindling Rite

[@PersonGuy968]

@@BaldianOfIbelin He stole it in the hopes of reviving his family, not for power.

[@BobbyBlackhearts666]

I imagined you were sitting in a cosy cottage, but then you fell out of a modern skyscraper. Not to mention the whole scene was totally unexpected in the first place and I'm still cackling,.I love your humour, and I'm looking forward to watching this!

[@Bluecho4]

The Pinwheel fight being harder this go around makes perfect sense to me. Pinwheel was very obviously designed around the assumption that players might go after him very early. From a designer's perspective, the logic is sound: why _wouldn't_ players want to bum rush the boss to get access to more healing? (The answer, of course, is that when you're an experienced player, you often don't need the extra healing). In any event, the boss was tuned to be a challenge for low-level characters with low damage output. In practice, this didn't end up happening. Going UP to the Undead Burg and all the areas branching from there is far more intuitive. Especially since their alternatives are The Bone Zone (with endlessly reassembling skeletons and Wheel Skeletons) and The Ghost Zone (with enemies you can't even normally damage). OF COURSE people would put off going to these places until they'd exhausted their other options. So in a vast majority of playthroughs, people don't reach Pinwheel until they've already upgraded their stats and weapons to the point where their DPS outpaces the build-up of illusory duplicates. To the point where people just _assume_ that Pinwheel is a joke, by default. Rather than it being a direct result of how people approach the game. It's only when you get meme runs like this that you start seeing Pinwheel in the mode that, in retrospect, he was always intended to be occupy.

[@mordraug]

Yeah, and more so, even if you know the shortcut to Pinwheel, forbid you activate the Tomb of the Giants or Vamos bonfire :D Because then good fucking luck getting out :D On the other hand, it makes for a truly, and I mean truly, unforgettable experience.

[@vonskeedle5309]

I always thought Pinwheel should get some kind of buff after beating O&S or placing the lord vessel. That way the fight is reasonable no matter if you fight him early or when actually going for Nito.

[@shadowjoey777]

I fought Pinwheel after only beating Capra and Tauros Demon and he's still a joke. Weirdly enough, even a +2 or +3 weapon just does way too much damage to him. But the area is so much harder to get through period if you don't have that. Pinwheel is just badly designed along with the bone zone to me.

[@Bluecho4]

@@shadowjoey777 It's very weird, yes. The Bone Zone is a pretty tricky area, especially for new or underpowered players. Whereas the boss of the area ends up being a joke by comparison, unless you're so undertuned you'd have trouble even reaching Pinwheel. The game puts what should be a tough low level boss and gates them behind a nightmare level.

[@st.haborym]

Exactly. Pinwheel is only stupidly easy because most people don't fight him til after O&S, and by then you're massively overpowered for such a weak boss.

[@Kaien-itis]

We’ll you really POKED the hornets nest with this challenge…. I’ll accept any hate mail that comes with making this joke

[@SPIKYBOI69420]

Actually a good pun

[@cuddlequeen3225]

This is exactly the type of joke Press Continue himself would make.

[@paulfrank5424]

I love you dad

[@bmurff1]

>:((

[@SPIKYBOI69420]

@@bmurff1 why are you angry

[@victor981006]

Glad to have been there for this one! That Ornstein and Smough win was awesome. Long live Friet Pikalilly

[@MrDrCthulhu]

These puns do more damage than the pike charge! I love/hate them. Nice work.

[@xlakzy]

Love your vids man! The humor is hitting the spot better than the charge ever did!

[@dimitrijepuja424]

"Apparently if you are holding a spear in a church you have to Maaaake Haaaaste or something" 😂😭

[@ryanb5127]

I don't know why but you casually noticing your coffee was cold after beating artorius was so funny to me

[@adamyohan]

The spear of the church pun got me good.

[@HypnoTox]

Those jokes man, they got me good. Awesome run! FYI: The video issue weren't too bad, didn't bother me really.

[@PressContinue]

Thanks and I'm glad it wasn't distracting

[@MattJDylan]

@@PressContinue yeah not too bad, but maybe be sure that's not a epilepsy hazard?! Not sure how that works, but you might want to put up a disclaimer if that might be the case?!

[@xSilentZeroXx]

Is it really a pike charge only run if you're not also using it to move around? All jokes aside, very sad I missed this when it was live, lol. Glad to see it panned out, though!

[@dad7702]

Is it possible to clear the game with only great demon hammer that you get from asylum demon(or any heavy weapon) and not meeting the stat requirements using only the attacks where the character barely swings it in the offhand?

[@PressContinue]

Damn, that would suck. Apart from the 4 kings, it would at least be feasible.

[@kaimacdonald3006]

I want to see this

[@xrpmoonwolf]

Ty for keeping Dark Souls alive

[@nssheepster]

I actually love the little logo man segments. They're ridiculous, but funny, and well fit with your sense of humor. Incidentally, I've also been enjoying the shifted focus from 'guide' to 'terrible jokes'. Still good solid information of course, and you're not one of those fools who does no preliminary research whatsoever, but the jokes are great. Well, they're terrible, but great.

[@moritzh.314]

I really love these videos. One of the few youtubers i am actually looking forward activly for the videos! Really appreciate the effort you put into these and thank you for the amazing content. Those got me into playing the Souls games the first time! :) Oh and the recording issues didnt bother me at all! Thank you for the really good entertainment!

[@Mxtthz]

Been tuning in to your streams and just wanna say love the content have been watching your bloodborne and ds3 runs and been loving it! 👍

[@lemeres2478]

0:22 I mean... admittedly, dragons are a VERY common problem in elden ring. And "extra long stabby stick" is one of the best options for normal people when facing giant monsters like that.

[@zaguldo]

This randomly popped up in my recommended and I absolutely loved it. I love any DS1 challenge run to be fair but your commentary and constant bad (and good) jokes made it so much better. Definitely subbing and checking out more of your content.

[@PressContinue]

Welcome to the channel :)

[@ruddog555]

my favourite part is always the commentary hilarious as usual. keep up the vids man

[@BoneWalker]

The pike's definitely one of the more fun weapons to use in DS. If you've ever been lucky enough to get a titanite catchpole to drop, you'll know the most fun.

[@user-uy7bn4kt2b]

I had that weapon once and it hits like a truck, it's R2 heavy is super interesting, but the attacks were too wide

[@GretgorPooper]

I recently finished watching the full run, and decided to watch this video discussing it. I gotta say I love your sense of humor and your funny interludes.

[@SuperMegabits]

Loved your vids, the dedication you put into it is just amazing! Congrats!

[@cameronwise-maas5610]

I love the pike (long range, buffable, and highest base damage in spears? Sign me up!), but I'd always avoid the running R1 like the plague. Good to know I wasn't missing something. It really is that terrible.

[@geenoix2357]

It's a really fun weapon, but it's not best-in-class

[@Jimmyvdpost]

You are getting really good at writing scripts!

[@justanothercasual2320]

Another great video! The pike is a very interesting weapon, glad you did a run with it. Keep up the great content!

[@TotalCaveman9009]

Your production quality just keeps getting better and better, Love it!

[@PressContinue]

Kind of ironic to say that when I was having technical difficulties but I appreciate the sentiment

[@TotalCaveman9009]

@@PressContinue the glitchy visuals occasionally didnt matter in the bigger picture, because it was so good

[@winterflan]

oh, man! I remember watching that Lobos Jr pike charge run years ago, what a blast from the past.

[@quantumhawk806]

Always great content. Caught you live for a few of these fights for once.

[@FeebleCursed-One]

Amazing, as always, can’t wait for the next streams/vid

[@nothingness217]

Awesome streams and videos, man. You and Baron are the only challenge runners I watch. Love the humor and commentary. Keep it up, pal. And btw, I was expecting to find more DS2 challenge runs on your channel, given the fact that DS2 has a lot of challenge run ideas. Looking forward to catch more streams and your next videos. Also, wow, I was in the video on my first stream here XD

[@PressContinue]

I'd say that I've plenty of DS2 videos, especially given how it's considered the black sheep of the franchise. In fact, I've done more Ds2 than Ds3 videos I think

[@nothingness217]

@@PressContinue True. I still hope for more DS2 content, nonetheless. Bell only is my favorite video btw, ds3 idea : light saber only (sword spells and aquamarine dagger weapon art)

[@vanderkarl3927]

For far more early game damage from sorceries and magic weapon, if you can manage to kill the hydra (it can take a long time but it's not too hard to do damageless even with a crap weapon if you practice enough), you can get the Oolacile Ivory Catalyst which gives you 180 flat magadj, the same as a sorcerer's catalyst with 27 INT, iirc. Just something to consider for future runs if you hadn't, already.

[@PressContinue]

Well I did get the oolacile catalyst after killing the hydra as you could see, but I was told by chat that the regular catalyst is only out-scaled at higher int levels, so I just stuck with the regular stick until the end-game. So we did discuss it but I didn't know myself and maybe they were going by assumptions as well. Also I assumed that the Hydra would be a massive problem with the pike charge, so that would have prevented me from killing it early as well. However that assumption also turned out to be wrong.

[@tytar1037]

Dude you are awesome! Just finished my first play through of this. So I’m very entertained but also realize how terrible I am lol. I can’t get enough of meme runs.

[@rumbathehoova1810]

You gotta know that most people would want to use this weapon for the chance to thrust smough

[@kaimacdonald3006]

I am going to shave your kneecaps

[@hikagevonblitz8151]

10/10 love watching your videos man, i've only managed a bow only run so far on Dark souls remastered sadly haha, keep up the great work. :) also love the addition of the trivia for flacid penis made me chuckle and replay that bit to make sure i heard right haha

[@TheGamingCamel22]

Ohhh been waiting for this for a while now! Glad to see the video uploaded!

[@ThatGuyOrby]

This challenge run is more like "Can You Beat Dark Souls While Making an Obscene Amount of Pike Puns?" XD

[@vanderkarl3927]

My man, you're a veritable wordsmith. Keep it up!

[@vvbr2372]

Found your channel a few days ago and I've been binge watching all your videos since then ^^

[@grfrjiglstan]

It seems now we know why Ornstein is allowed to buffer his charge until he has a good angle for it. On a more useful note, it seems the charge speed is unaffected by your equip load or deep water, whereas your actual run speed is. Unhelpful for you, but useful general knowledge.

[@MattJDylan]

Yo bro, cool ass name! 😂

[@slimchelmi6940]

this was a blast live!! can only recommend joining the live streams, pure chaos and joy xD

[@SirVampyr]

My favorite challenge runner has returned to bless my feed and soul with another video! Thank you good sir!

[@wingusdingus9447]

I'm subscribing to you cuz I like falling asleep watching dark souls vids and your voice doesn't annoy me. Good content

[@PressContinue]

It's surprising, but you're not even the first person who said that

[@machiavellohermosillo8312]

Man this was an AGONY to watch! I'm on my first play, and bought the pike awhile ago, but never actually tried it much. Today I was in the yard trying different weapons and found the pike's running attack, and thought it was awesome! I imagined dashing through a mob impaling everyone in my path, hell yeah! and I upgraded it to +10... before actually trying it against an actual enemy. Then I tried to charge some enemies and noticed all its disadvantages, and just discarded it and went back to my usual weapons. I could only bear it for a couple of minutes. Seeing that you did an enrite run only with this attack, I can say I feel your pain!

[@Spewb]

Seath was actually far more likely to have soul speared Velka, not Gwynevere. I have no idea where the idea it was Gwynevere even comes from, it makes absolutely no sense and there's nothing supporting it.

[@PressContinue]

That's actually a less disturbing image I suppose given that we no so little of Velka.

[@Old_Harry7]

What we need now is a pike and shield only run (having a shield up and smashing R1 to attack behind your defensive stance).

[@omgwtf999965]

so awesome to see non-ER games again, love the vids!

[@jmv333]

49:50 is cinematic as hell, love it!

[@compedycakemine6960]

What amazes me about your videos is how witty you are with your wordplay. You are a genius!

[@senecauk8363]

Cracking run mate :)

[@Zeonis]

Blind man assaults local village with walking device.

[@ronancallaghan976]

Nearly at 60k subs I remember when you were at 21k lol, keep up the good work dude

[@DonYagamoth]

Another punderful video, nice The color change during the Artorias fight kind of looked like you went through the trouble of stiching the stream footage over some recording error

[@PressContinue]

Yes that's where there was several seconds missing in the recording, so that's exactly what I did

[@DonYagamoth]

@@PressContinue I really appreciate your effort :)

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

51:25 my dog had died 1 week before my blind playthrough of DS1. When I got to siff and heard him whimper and start to limp, I had to quit. Never went back to DS1

[@PressContinue]

Aww that's so sad 😢

[@jjba3553]

That pike charge was definitely compensating with flashiness for its poor damage

[@FOEBOS]

the "ironically very solid" joke got me GOOD

[@MineSlimeTV]

I want to say something. I think I remembered you, seen you before. And I watched this video cause you put the bloodshield. Seriously I love that shield so much, hoped to hear if it was put in that cinders mod. But despite this. I hoped you'll be doing well, you reminded me of The Backlogs! He also makes different challenges like this P. S And then you used an Elden Ring clip. I was trying my darndest to see how far I go by seeing the least put of a triple AAA Highly anticipated game. You did nothing wrong, just found it funny infact

[@khamultheeasterling4459]

Dat jij dit wapen voor de hele run gepikt hebt;). Deze video is opnieuw een gem keep it up!!!

[@PressContinue]

Ik had er uiteindelijk flink de pik op

[@RealMonkeyDKirby]

Lmao swaffelen. Definitely stealing that

[@cuddlequeen3225]

"No matter how I would lube up shaft." Fucking hell! No shame. I love it.

[@darkling-studios]

i like to think the part at the end where he sais "qwen can kill you before you say" and then sais a quick paragraph after. he actually refers to the entire rest of the video in that quote.

[@werami9126]

i LOVE your play on words

[@majinlilkek4367]

i did not know pinwheel could summon so many clones

[@Chrisability00]

I've had that second black knight kill itself before while i was waiting for it to come down the stairs, still no idea how it happened

[@OmegaTC666]

This attack reminds me of those little pike enemies in Wario Land 4. I now see their power was underrated lol

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

man is literally killing everything with a pie chart, madlad

[@DarkCT]

another insane run. also, a functional "this is where the real game begins"... hahahha!

[@senseweaver01]

4:04 - Turtles? Those are dogs man...

[@PressContinue]

Next thing you're going to tell me is that the dog pope in Elden Ring is actually a turtle

[@senseweaver01]

@@PressContinue I'm thinking I probably should've finished Elden Ring. I'm missing a joke aren't I...

[@s0fiance999]

50:55 we have this one too in France It's called "bifle". Oh and great playthrought by the way

[@LoKi_OS]

Finally i can sleep to a high quality video

[@toogee1850]

I've never even played Dark Souls 1 or 2 but watch all of your vids, they are fuckin gold. Lol

[@happygriffin7482]

i loved the streams man, and the video is also gonna be good, havent watched but from thye streams i already know!

[@theequitableprose]

I like the cut of any person's jib that says owo out loud.

[@allup7242]

50:37 Thanks for the new vocab word!

[@goki2513]

I'm not even an english speaker and I'm already in love with your accent

[@alexandrubighiu7637]

Thank you, for this video!

[@GameBuff2305]

Not once, not twice, but three times you charged out of the window; hilarious! 🤣 🤣 🤣 😂 😂

[@jupiterho11ow]

I could have sworn you could sprint straight forward while locked on.

[@PressContinue]

From DS2 onwards your movement was no longer restricted by locking on

[@jupiterho11ow]

@@PressContinue So I just popped open the game to play around with it for a bit, and for whatever reason, in all of it's Dark Souls 1 jank, you can sprint while locked on so long as your joystick is within about 45 degrees of due north.

[@Ganondorf5]

King Leonidas would be ashamed of your Spear Skills :D

[@thewolfstu]

I dub the pike the stick of knowledge cause you learned so much during this run.

[@zoom9037]

great video :D

[@MiriamBordeaux]

bro, youre an actual madman lmao

[@darth_lord_sith449]

Wake up babe, the new Press Continue challenge run just dropped

[@wimbusbert1249]

When I saw the title of this video I immediately felt annoyance because, "duh, of course you can with enough time and practice." But then I felt guilty at having felt actual hatred for essentially no reason and for something that has no real effect on me. I allowed myself to succumb to a visceral, short-term anger, and I'm disappointed with myself. It's good to let other people do things the way they want to do them, and to let them feel comfortable doing so. Be excellent to each other, is what I am saying.

[@wedding2710]

That's kind of weird dude

[@wimbusbert1249]

@@wedding2710 no I don't think it is. I think many people start to feel a sense of snide ownership for what they consume when they spend too much time consuming things other people have made, and unrightfully so. I think expressing and talking about these things is worthwhile because pretending you aren't feeling them, or worse indulging them, will over time make you miserable.

[@wedding2710]

@@wimbusbert1249 I have trouble believing that it's at all common for people to feel "actual hatred" when the premise of a video fails to meet their standards, if I'm understanding what you're saying correctly. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but what you described seems unusual and somewhat off-putting to me. You seem to think that it's a widespread feeling, or at least a feeling that people other than you have held. Where did you get that impression? Have you heard other people talk about this feeling before?

[@wimbusbert1249]

@@wedding2710 yes! I have seen it many times in comment sections since I started participating in them ~2013. The example I will use is the channel Cracked, which had many cast members add to their talent pool throughout that channel's heyday. Every time a new face appeared in a video it was met with vitriol. The comments were flooded with hate and disgust that boiled down to: "How dare this thing I like change, even slightly?" I believe this gut reaction I had comes from a similar place as those comments. A result of too much sitting down, too much content digestion, and not enough remembering what I am seeing was made by a fellow human being, who has good days and bad days, as well as good ideas and bad ideas, and even further than that, ideas that mesh well with me and ideas that do not. Gamers especially have become well known as a large group of people addicted to rage and who flip out over essentially nothing, and I think it's important to stop ourselves when we find ourselves doing so, and to acknowledge it.

[@soldierofgodrick6187]

You should've gone to the Demon's Souls Winged Spear Redeye Knights for advice. They know how to charge. And charge. And FREAKING CHARGE!

[@PressContinue]

LOL, I wish you could actually do that attack yourself in with the winged spear. But there's no spear charge at all in Demon's souls unfortunately :(

[@soldierofgodrick6187]

@@PressContinue unfortunately not.

[@shady6281]

“I don’t know what it’s based on, but at least it’s based” lmao

[@JohannesBee]

GG. Thanks for the torture as always.

[@landoncube769]

21:20 you really shafted quelaag

[@gb9884]

Haha the spear of the church make haste comment was pretty good.

[@cuddlequeen3225]

It fucking took me so long to figure out what you meant by "turtles" when I thought "don't you mean dogs".

[@PressContinue]

Yeah took me ages to figure out why people called the turtle pope a dog as well

[@cuddlequeen3225]

@@PressContinue I don't know why

[@champiggyfrm_pig5271]

50:54 don't worry, we the french have a word too for that

[@orbisvae2334]

If you upgraded your Pike to Lightning after fighting Ornstein and Smaug, you would only get a slight damage reduction (about 10-20 units), but gain stable elemental damage (to which most enemies in the game are vulnerable), great poise break and avoid having to apply a temporary buff and spend a HUGE number of levels for pumping intellect for GMW. Oh, and no need to upgrade your Dex for better scaling)

[@PressContinue]

No that would have been a huge mistake. Like really huge. I would have had a massive reduction especially in the DLC and it would have been beyond useless against Gwyn. It would not increase poise break, which I didn't really have in the first place. And most of my damage came from my magic buffs anyway which add damage rather than split them. So those levels in INT were well spent. So no, I very very very much disagree. That would have been a grave mistake

[@orbisvae2334]

@@PressContinue Look, I'm not gonna argue without any proofs) Gonna get some testing myself, than I'll back with specific damage numbers and data in general

[@adamyohan]

"Pointy handshake" LMAOOO

[@sveintheberserk]

"Now my coffee's cold". I hear that. Wasted many a coffee playing DS games.

[@cuddlequeen3225]

This is an interesting one.

[@muratonuryilmaz5385]

Did you record start of this video before servers get shot down , right? Or bell sound in Gargoyles boss fight was part of the fight?

[@PressContinue]

First streams was on july 22th

[@muratonuryilmaz5385]

@@PressContinue than how bell ringing sound can be heard?

[@PressContinue]

@@muratonuryilmaz5385 I was online at least. I didn't even know the servers were still down. Are you sure they were?

[@muratonuryilmaz5385]

@@PressContinue I'm not sure . At least servers were down since February and they still as I know.

[@RealMonkeyDKirby]

@@muratonuryilmaz5385 they still do it offline. I've only played offline on PC and hear them all the time. So I'm not even. Sure if it's actually true the bells are from other players ringing them or if that's just ds fan fiction