Dark Souls 3 ► Another 15 Hidden Mechanics

[@z3bra_f0untain36]

For people still wondering about the estus recovery mechanic: There is a hidden counter in the game that goes up every time you kill something. Different enemies increase the counter different amounts. Usually red eye enemies give higher values than normal enemies. NPCs have the highest value in the game. Players have set estus recovery amounts: Killing invaders (as a host or summon) gives you 2 estus. Killing invaders and phantoms (as an invader) gives you 1 estus, unless you kill a blue spirit, which gives you 2 estus. Hope this helped

[@zombiedragonmast970]

I once just stood in one place and got an estus

[@JackWallters]

I once just pooped under the tree in the woods and got estus..

[@Thalanox]

It could be that you also get an estus whenever a player online in the area that you're connected with pops an ember. Do you normally play online? Edit: You also get estus refills whenever someone rates one of your messages.

[@TheScout437]

I also believe there is also a certain amount you can receive after a certain point, i had all the estus flask shards and my flask was empty, so i was killing off enemies until i got to 6, but than it stopped for me.

[@lokicaderyn4128]

From my observations it’s more likely to happen when your ember is restored

[@Nick-gf2nj]

No skeleton ahead, then skeleton ahead. I saw that when playing with a friend, I didn't know it was you Vaati!

[@hypesthevasukilad1199]

Same.. How tf has it stayed this long!?

[@cheyhey2170]

@@hypesthevasukilad1199 same msg diff player

[@ethanbrock5438]

I saw that too!

[@eldritchplayz51]

I found it on my first play through, 3 years after this video. It had a gold emblem.

[@gxvro1]

still there

[@kirbae4335]

There's also the mechanic with lightning and water, if you throw lightning in water, it spreads through a certain radius of the water

[@dgalloway107]

Since Ds1.

[@davidizsak7200]

Do you remember the "Sanctuary Guardian"-bossfight?

[@kanelandes3485]

Dávid Izsák that boss was lit

[@acastusofastora8641]

@@kanelandes3485 remember when their was suddenly two of them?

[@MikeHunt-lz2hq]

That's not a mechanic it's physics

[@SlayerRunefrost]

For all of you going crazy trying to find them. In Dark Souls 3, Lloyd's Tailsmans are called Undead Hunter Charms😉

[@nymphoflove]

Owl in sekiro just yeets dumplings at you

[@DrunkGnu]

@@nymphoflove that always snapped me out of focus. he would unleash these ass-whooping combos on me, and then he just faints a swing and goes “ergh!” and lightly tosses a fuckin sekiro-equivalent of a lloyd talisman.

[@leo-oi8em]

@@DrunkGnu the way he lightly drops it is so out of place to how he moves

[@stephenkelly7903]

There is roughly a 100% chance that an invading phantom wants to PvP, and a much lower chance that the host wants to. Based on that, one can assume that, on average, invaders are more skilled at PvP than hosts. Presumably, From decided to stack the odds in the host's favor to compensate for that. Sadly, the logic behind the decision is of little solace to the poor invaders who end up trapped in a corner being stunlocked by four guys with estocs.

[@derajo4958]

I was so sad that I didn't have ember health when invading, rest in peace (unless summoned thankfully) ;_;

[@biggles9700]

"100% chance that an invading phantom wants to PvP" Okay but look up the dark souls _fashion police_ just because it's a beautiful story

[@death2178]

+ThatSneaky Neenja poise isn't removed. it's hyper armour now. and its why great weapons are easy to win in pvp with. because there designed to trade....and its a very one sided trade

[@stephenkelly7903]

A Completely Generic Duck I did say "roughly".

[@MrThelegodudes]

+A Completely Generic Duck Whenever I invade a seeded world I try to help out the host instead, since I can. Of course 75% of the time they fight me anyway but hey, worth a shot

[@VenomSnake420]

There's this cool new mechanic in the PVP where other players give you cancer from using overpowered weapons

[@099roar]

Best mechanic Cancer/10

[@rebellucy5098]

+Nobody Noel Bestoc

[@TA-ew9bi]

not a new mechanic to the series try again troll

[@dylanwoodward3801]

Cestus, Hornet ring, rapiers...

[@Di0nysys]

+Dylan Woodward Estoc spam and Greatshields yay

[@cymirasol2463]

8:55 Mimics Making Out. You're Welcome.

[@GPEtana]

Deathstroke's Apprentice, Not my proudest fap

[@madgameralexthegreat]

Reminded me of seeing a DS comic strip, where a guy got raped by a mimic in the cowgirl position. They got married by the last panel. I'm yet to figure out why google thought of that when I asked for traps

[@xd1712]

WhiteWizardAlex fuck now im curious what comes up if i search dark souls 3 mimic porn tfw end me

[@knightontheinternet281]

Deathstroke's Apprentice I have 2 replies. 1. Majestic And 2. HHHHHHHHH

[@lunchladiesunited4065]

G-piste Etana Then GIT GOOD

[@Matt_Ake]

Huge throwback seeing this video again, three years later. Wow.

[@salvadorfonseca7]

no kidding. I saw DeS gonna be on ps5 and picked ds3 back up. Legend of a game with great content creators.

[@PlagueOfGripes]

There's another gesture called "Unmannered Bow," which looks a lot like you're doing a mocking imitation of a gorilla... but as far as I know, no one in the game uses it and there's no way to get it. There's a lot of weapons and stuff in the game right now that is inaccessible without cheating.

[@ryanbacker4870]

Aye there Mr. Gripes. How you doin?

[@TrollPiracy]

+PlagueOfGripes its another Capcom Vs Marvel on the Wii episode

[@arstotzkanatthedmz4486]

Hey plague, lurking around outside twitch I see.

[@sagivn.s2237]

+PlagueOfGripes yo cool dude

[@poizunheizu]

Yeah it's a shame most of the stuff has been cut from the base game like weapons and armour, but hey there's always the 2 dlcs right? I mean the heavy set (probably a base name) looks so good but it was cut :( I mean they are all textured really well as well so they have to have spent a lot of time on them so why not use them :(... Also I love you grapes :3

[@Bunnymon]

When I first started playing DS I hated it. It was really confusing at first. My friend suggested your videos and here I am today. I watched every single one of your videos. Thank you for investing your time to bring DS lore closer to us

[@paid14]

Very late but was it the gameplay you hated? Because I can't really see how Vaati videos would help with that

[@dougmorison5364]

Fun fact: you know those rock versions of crystal lizards near the dragon belfry bonfire? If you need space to heal or just recover from their flamethrower special attack, try kicking them. They'll roll backwards and away. It blew my mind the first time I accidentally karate kicked one that had just bowled me over, and it backflipped away.

[@dougmorison5364]

I see no reason for it to work on the little crystal variants, and I seriously doubt it affects the giant crystal variants. I'm pretty sure that kicking only screws with the rock ones.

[@dougmorison5364]

Also, this is probably well known already, but these same rock versions of crystal lizards near the dragon belfry bonfire drop both twinkling titanite and titanite scales. I spend lot of time farming them myself

[@BEEZUS45]

The great arrow flying at the screen at 0:48 had me dying hahaha

[@baelphegore7946]

It also had him dying as well.

[@smackatiger_420]

@@baelphegore7946damn beat me to it

[@RagnaFenrir]

0:49 it was at this moment Vaati knew, he fucked up

[@zFallen117]

Did you know you could summon Tsorig in demon ruins as a white phantom after killing his red phantom, and if you keep him alive long enough through the area, you can have him fight his actual self? Tsorig v. Tsorig

[@zFallen117]

Oh and that function with the ring of sacrifice, I believe that has been in all souls games

[@NinjaGamer-oy1ol]

Cristhian Benavides I never killed I just fought him and still had him to help me. Still can't kill the fucker for his armor

[@JuanGarcia-gy8vl]

NinjaGamer2003 I lure him to the Black Knight at the brigde above and make them fight. Tsorig usually wrecks the Black Knight but it helps.

[@BGame46M]

I actually had to do that lol, he fucking sucks to fight, so I had Phantom Tsorig fight him

[@saltyslug2637]

He dies so fast against the fire bird things

[@SecretAsianMan26]

Lord of Cinder, I was wondering if you could do a lore video on Edwad Emberpants, the chosen one! He is such a unique character in the Dark Souls series and I was curious to his backstory and how he became the chosen one. Love the video and thanks for the great content!

[@cuckadile6814]

lol

[@Chaosrain112]

HIIII IM EDWAAAD

[@ajwott]

All he is is a combination of everyone who previously linked the fire, giving him a huge variety of abilities

[@Mexican_Sunbro]

This needs to be a thing! We must learn the legend of Edward Emberpants!

[@AngraMainiiu]

+Mexican Sunbro The only true legend is Giantdad!

[@cromwelltheconqueror3430]

I survived the Knight Slayer Invasion, the real knight slayer took some serious cheese to beat

[@codename1176]

Cromwell the Conqueror I pulled a terminator

[@eplatamx2017]

I cheesed it with sorcery until he was at 5% hp, then I was like "ok I will give you a fair death" as I got close to hill him with a normal weapon, he oneshoted me

[@indi3_B]

I'm pretty sure he didn't kill me in my first playthrough mostly because I managed to kill him first try with vorts hammer In the other playthroughs he clapped my ass more times than I like to admit

[@daddalonglegz0]

I lure the black knight down there and watch them battle each other

[@abigcupofwater]

@@daddalonglegz0 who wins?

[@marcusgallagher6481]

Every time I fire up DS3 I go back to these videos. Thanks for all the work.

[@terrormachine6704]

Vaati's voice is seriously the best.

[@TheEndwasthere]

+Justice Ward I'd say Vaati has the 2nd best voice, cryaotic has the best.

[@Demonhorse1]

+Justice Ward Harmful Opinions beats them both.

[@pel323]

+Demonhorse1 Dunkey hands down.

[@bearbeargr]

y'all have it wrong. its sunlight blade's

[@alexb.9889]

+Garrett Strawn they're both great mane

[@vsGoliath96]

Vaati has yet to explain the most hidden mechanic of all... Poise.

[@deletedaccount3047]

That shits actual rocket science, there are many great vids on it

[@moonwolf8470]

It went to miracles user

[@Locust13]

@광기 except they give an in game explanation for it, the ability to take attacks without breaking form.

[@marcusavey8529]

​@광기 the word poise is french, thats why you wouldnt of come across it, and "balance" is a rough translation, dunno if you know by now, but poise in dark souls 1 was the mechanic where you ignore being disrupted during an attack, high poise meant you didnt get knocked down as easy too, here's the secret to poise in DS3, its switched off,

[@elhomo6406]

@@marcusavey8529 it works as intended, it was just drastically changed for ds3. Can't quite remember the way it works since I haven't played dark souls in a while but there's plenty of videos on it.

[@meghgowda9459]

You can escape the grab attack of the “hand face” creatures in the profaned capital.

[@joshuad748]

Those things are so terrible lol. Hated coming across them but they gave me elenora which almost no one has it seems

[@ComradeOgilvy369]

Ooh good tip

[@tarheelfan407]

LOOOOOOOOOORRRRREEEEEEEEE

[@VaatiVidya]

+tarheelfan407 I knoooooooooooooooooow I just have so many gameplay videos I want to make first, which are really relevant when people are playing the game. Lore is timeless you know, which is why i dont' need to rush as much. I know you guys want it more than anything though. After soulsong I have a big lore video planned.

[@cwc5085]

+VaatiVidya when do you think you are going to get around to it?

[@XanderCottrell]

+VaatiVidya that's how ring of sacrifices worked in ds2 isn't it? or did that get patched in later or something?

[@ctonellopedro]

+tarheelfan407 OCELOOOTTEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

[@GenePark]

+VaatiVidya I could never figure the lore out without you and the community!

[@brimuurr]

*Combat tip:* if you hold your shield while running, then pause and still hold your shield up, the next attack you perform (heavy or light, doesn't matter) will be a running attack, not the regular attack. Most duelist know this and use it for mix-ups. Kudos if you already knew this technique! (I learned it from Praise the Sun)

[@merpiderp]

Probably known feature at this point, but i found that having a torch out makes the frost debuff go down faster and stamina recovers at normal speed. :)

[@ProfessioanllyAVG]

+Kevin årsandøy well i didn't know this. thanks

[@minatoarisato8210]

+Kevin årsandøy Works with bleed aswell. :)

[@shad2854]

+Kevin årsandøy I have gotten "! FROSTBITTEN !" before and honestly, what does it do? I haven't noticed.

[@user-st7sk8pq7m]

+Decca it makes you frostbitten ;)

[@LordNow01]

+Kevin årsandøy frost bitten makes you lose health a little bit (similar to bleed but worse) and then you lose stamina recovery a little until its gone.

[@crazycactuar1465]

What I just realised is that in all dark souls games you move the camera to aim arrows/spells, I always wondered why fireball had bad range

[@Gorecatto]

Actually, its funny, you can move the camera to aim your swings/punchs Take a greatsword, and aim to the sky, and swing, the try looking the ground I found it very and somewhat useful on Mobs with really low hitbox

[@Oblivion0fate]

I've recorded in a piece of paper for my entire walkthrough, I've gotten 93 estus returned from me and I've only been able to receive them from human and humanoid typed enemies.

[@Oblivion0fate]

Excluding skeletons, some undead and Giants.

[@klendathu996]

damn

[@aaro1268]

I remember bumping into an item that mentioned being able to recover some estus as you slay enemies. I didn't buy it however and I'm not sure if it was in the second game.

[@Saya-fs1jo]

I've managed cathedral nights giving me estus, rarely two, lvl 90-104, 99hollow, hollow shield, 11luck. NPC invaders give 2-3 and very rarely a crow thing will give me one, silver nights will occasionally drop one. I don't have anything matched out or studied would be interesting to see

[@aaro1268]

Saya 1 yeah, since then I've watched for it. corvians, knights, and pretty much any non boss I've encountered can give back used estus, but it is a very low chance. You see an orange effect when their souls come to you, and it seems slightly more likely as you have less estus. It definitely seems to only work on humanoid undead enemies. Even the weak enemies near Iudex drop it sometimes.

[@NikushimiZERO]

I know this is rather old for a video, but to comment on the whole "NG+ doesn't scale high" thing....I'm actually really glad for that. Like, I'm all for harder enemies and such when going into NG+'s and such, but when it's just a sheer spike of difficulty it gets pretty ridiculous. It was one of my gripes about Dark Souls 2. In game I had a +10 weapon with which, in regular New Game, I could one hit the tutorial enemies in, and even the beginning enemies with the Forest of Giants. However...upon entering NG+ for the first time it was just sheer spike. It was like walking on open ground then all of a sudden...oops, there's no ground anymore. The enemies I was one shotting were now taking at least 4 hits to kill, and since my weapon can't get any stronger...well, it can only get worse from here. Damage was at least doubled if not tripled whenever I got hit, to the point I was just being one shot...and this was in NG+. Just regular NG+. I could understand if it was like NG+ 5 or NG+7. But NG+? That's a sheer spike that I was not ok with. So I've been putting off going into NG+ on Dark Souls 3 for that very reason. I was afraid of what kinda crazy large spike was waiting for me, and I was putting it off. Hopefully it's still that way and NG+ still isn't too big a leap. Idk, just my ramblings because I'm all for NG+'s to be more difficult, but on a steady curve. Not just hitting the deep end after just an inch of shallows. Especially in a game where your weapon can only get so strong and stats have a cap to the effectiveness they make on weapons. Not to mention while the enemies defenses, health, and damage goes up (sometimes tripling) you remain the same/hit a cap and can't do much else. So I definitely appreciate that Dark Souls 3 difficulty doesn't go from 0-100 from NG to NG+. That 100 should be gradual imo. *Shrugs*

[@Chieana]

I wholeheartedly agree with you, NG+ in DS2 is no fun for me either, the difference is simply too big. It's good to know that I won't have that issue with DS3. I would have liked it if they put newer enemies around though, that is something I did like in NG+ DS2; there were several new enemies I hadn't seen before :) (then again, in Scholar, those are in normal NG -sigh-)

[@NikushimiZERO]

ChieanaStrider Yeah, the spike was really huge in DS2. Same for Bloodborne. I went into NG+ thinking it shouldn't be too hard, right? After all my character is like BL362 or something like that and the weapons I used were all at +10 for the most part, mainly my Blades of Mercy. Early enemies, even without upgraded weapons in NG I could one shot, and then I get to NG+ and my +10 Blades of Mercy were taking 3-4 hits on the very beginning enemies. I was just like "Wut?" It was just ridiculous for the most part. I did like that feature too. The new enemies and placement of them. That was interesting. Kinda wish they did that in DS3 too, but RIP. My main concern now while going through NG+ (after going there finally once I just topped off on a few levels of Vitality so I could wear my new fashion and carry my weapons) is wanting to get through as fast as I can, but then missing the new stuff. Mainly the rings. :\ I really don't feel like exploring everything again. Call me lazy, but my first playthrough I scoured EVERYWHERE, and I mean everywhere. I went into the most obscure places and walked to deadends more than I could count just searching. Might just look up a guide as to where all the new stuff is, but so far the only noticeable difference in difficulty are the bosses and the NPC enemies. I fought Gundyr with my +10 Moonlight Sword and +10 Crow Quills, and with 130 Crit on the quills my repostes were doing only like 600-800 damage or something and normal attacks from my Moonlight was doing about 300-400 :\ So either the defenses are way increased or bosses spike higher than normal enemies. Then the Samurai guy by Firelink was taking about 200-300 damage from my attacks and i'm just like "Whaaaaaat?" Sorry for my rambling. D:

[@bretth342]

Nikushimi_Zero what they should do is make NG+ scale harshly but allow you to further upgrade your items

[@NikushimiZERO]

Brett h To be honest, I don't mind damage scaling up on enemies. It's mainly how your weapon stays the same damage while the enemies health and defenses go up. In the end your +10 weapon will be doing like 200 damage to like a 100,000+ health boss while they just one shot you. So the damage I can be okay with enemies doing. It's the lack of damage you're able to do that get me to be honest. So yeah, I agree. Being able to upgrade your weapon more would be nice, or just keeping enemies defenses the same or something. But *shrugs*

[@stormtrooperelite1453]

yeah the jump from NG to NG+ was kind of brutal in Dark Souls 1

[@possiblycreativecomment3021]

Originally I thought getting a message rated meant getting an extra Estus

[@bredboi8416]

Nah too op

[@spiffy6845]

That's what I thought

[@HankHilliamsJr]

It’s both

[@flamingrubys11]

i swear it does

[@TheFloodFourm]

It works. I’m currently rocking 3000 estus.

[@TheWadouichimonji]

I thought the ring of sacrifice working in that way was common knowledge, I've been using it that way since DS2.

[@jackenglish5777]

Well I didnt anyway. Fkn hell the HOURS I could have saved!

[@CollinsQuerJogar]

I've been doing ever since dark souls 1

[@lucaslandis4023]

Yeah well I have been doing it since I was in my mother’s womb. So I’m the og

[@killerqueenbitesthedust9593]

@@dingdawng oh yeah? Well I've been doing it since the dawn of man so I guess I'm the og

[@dingdawng]

@@killerqueenbitesthedust9593 oh yeah? Well I've been doing it since the formation of the atom that created the big bang so I'm the og

[@idon896]

Did you know that if you don't drop your shield, the spirit of Pat will hunt you down and yell at you?

[@erikobernhard]

I know. I keep hearing "YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?! DROP YOUR FUCKING SHIELD!!" every night when I go to bed

[@shragenz]

Not if you're PERFECT

[@GinyouRinsom]

+Your Next Line is Hey! Listen! DROP YOUR FUCKING SHIELD!.

[@Fadedgogeta]

Did you know that if you don't drop your shield, the spirit of Pat will hunt you down and yell at yo-- NANI??!!

[@luccagiovani]

+shragenz or godlike

[@Laoruperteen18]

5:40 because having double the estus, having their full max health, being able to summon 3 phantoms AND have blue phantoms randomly join to beat the invader, being able to resummon after a phantom dies, and hiding in chameleon until the invader gets bored searching, or having any kind of actual skill to fight and WIN against the invader, isnt enough for a host right? nah, give them seeds too. Thanks From

[@fifth_elephant]

+Voldebutt Voldebutt? more like Voldebutthurt! ;)

[@Fischtoria]

+Voldebutt Oooh, _someone's_ salty

[@Moffy998]

+Voldebutt Nah I invaded someone in irithyll dungeon and used a branch and turned into a chair and sat there for 20+ minutes while they searched for me. Eventually they just coincidentally sat in front of me and started tossing prism stones.

[@mylife3601]

+Voldebutt From needs to reconsider

[@thedidact07]

+Fischtoria Sometimes salt is justified.

[@ArchangelExile]

7:31 Talks about the Triangle button... Sees Xbox controller layout on screen.

[@Yawgmothra]

I also call every videogame button as PS buttons

[@DaRknEsS13_06]

Me too

[@riot_player7245]

Its Standart Layout... i play with M&K and dont know how to play this games.... it Takes 1H to know how....

[@aridflesh3248]

@@riot_player7245 cool

[@BaalSilverwing]

If you were smart enough you would know that PC version has only Xbox prompts. Same with DS2.

[@brokenhomebob34]

0:51 Qu the”To be continued...” meme

[@CoolLane50]

Killing a phantom seems to be a guaranteed Flask

[@luissambranoliozuno530]

+coolLane its confirmed if you as a host kill a red or purple phantom you got 2 estus flask if you are doing coop the phantom get 1 and if you are a red or purple and kill a phantom(any kind) you get an estus.

[@Satsaru]

+luis sambrano As a red, It seems like you can get two flasks if you kill a blue phantom. Not terribly sure, hadn't been keeping track of it but I think I've almost always gotten two when I kill a blue phantom, be it a dankmoon blade or a blue sentinel.

[@luissambranoliozuno530]

***** thanks i forget the blue phamtons.

[@BtD4mAkEr]

+coolLane I was in a fight club, and eventually, the flasks stopped coming. Maybe you have to be the person to kill them?

[@caleballen818]

if any phantom dies enemy or team mate gives you an extra estus all the time

[@maxumusjesus]

Vaati wants Lucky Ted to be a cannon build, doesn't he?

[@dramaticaarcterra1845]

"Wait just a moment Bobby, I'm getting reports that The Nameless King seems to have been crushed by his own partner?!""Zach, I truly believe that Lucky Ted has EARNED another victory on this day.""Couldn't agree with you more Bobby."

[@hairypancake]

+Unskilled Lucky Ted is OP

[@Satsaru]

+Unskilled What do you mean _want_? Lucky ted *already IS cannon*!

[@maxumusjesus]

***** So now where's the Luck Ted and Edwad Emberpants lore videos?

[@Efreeti]

+Unskilled Rather Lucky Ted than Shitty Bill

[@FalcondelSur]

One mechanic I just found recently while trying to improve parry skills is that of the spell "Great Magic Shield". If you cast it and fail to parry, as long as you get your shield to cross with your enemy weapon, you won't receive any damage. Without the spell you certainly are going to get hurt even If you don't loose your stance. This is very useful to train your parry timing without dying too many times in a row.

[@victormtz5018]

Thanks bruh , 🙏🏻 i suck at parry , i just boost vigor and use gundyr armor and havel shield , i ll try this

[@reedjohnson5916]

My favorite DS3 message is "try tongue, but hole"

[@spacecowgirl2248]

I GOT THDT TOO LOL

[@averageodd]

In the graveyard outside the cathedral lol

[@erahdreifunf4759]

"Hole... Try Finger" or "try Finger but toxic" are my messages at this Spot xD

[@TheBrandedOne2003]

Woman required ahead

[@jadinwemette8251]

Hahaha yes, found that yesterday cracked me up pretty good

[@kennythegamer3633]

I usually get Estus Flasks back from red eyed enemies. I have luck stat 10 (base stat for the Deprived)

[@therandomzinogre8755]

How do you drop items in bags?

[@getinuyasha]

Leave an item instead of drop. It leaves it on the ground.

[@mistajerka5221]

Also worth mentioning: if you die as a phantom with the ring of sacrifice you will break the ring even though you dont lose anything

[@peepogob]

thats dumb

[@qwert_au]

+aidans kat Actually it makes sense. But mostly, it's completely in line with the fun troll-style production From like to do some times! I think it's hilarious.

[@msoulja]

your souls can drop when you die as an invading phantom

[@mistajerka5221]

+msoulja yeah but u can pick em up afterwards. I died as a white phantom and the ring broke

[@peepogob]

DarkL88 k i just thought ds3 could be even easier

[@kshaway]

This vid is better with 0.5 speed.

[@bushbro7383]

+Kshaway what the heck are u doing at this video

[@overplaying-uriel140]

Why u here?

[@AyyyyyyyyyLmao]

+Kshaway I had no idea you liked dark souls

[@honouredknight-wanderer357]

+Ayy Lmao Haven't you seen him playing dark souls? I do believe he got a few videos of that.

[@TekashiCanabravaIsAutistic]

+Kshaway what

[@InfernoCA]

0:50 dat spear. (To be continued music)

[@brendanmcdonald6382]

VAATI please make a lore series, there are some already being uploaded and none of them are anywhere near the caliber of content you'd put out. we need it!

[@smp1017]

The firekeeper actually has blue eyes. Contrary to what people thought about her not having eyes. If you look into her head with the camera you can see behind her eye covers are her eyes. This is weird because firekeepers are "not supposed to have eyes" and also you give her the eyes from the untended graves shrine... Weird...

[@eelshark12345]

+Stephen Mp It's probably just From Software not bothering to make an entirely new character model that doesn't have eyes.

[@budspudsy436]

Don't know if this is very well known or not, but when you wear the cleric outfit when (spoilers) Patches tricks you in the cathedral of the deep, he mentions that fact. Called my female cleric a rotten nun when he lowered the wall.

[@simobarret]

+Bud Spudsy "Are you a cleric...?" Cit.

[@hudrowportnof4058]

Wow, I've never heard of that one. Good find.

[@budspudsy436]

Hudrow Portnof Hey man, make fun of me all you ya want. We've known he hates clerics since his first appearance in DaS, but he never mentioned it here because he was disguised as Seigward. Just thought I'd point it out bruv ;_;

[@FlatSkip]

+Bud Spudsy I was just a cleric starting class and he insulted me lol, was not wearing the robes.

[@hudrowportnof4058]

Bud Spudsy ......I wasn't being sarcastic

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

I always wondered about that Ring of Sacrifice thing. Never tried it though, I’m super conservative with those things. The message format thing isn’t really a “hidden” mechanic. It tells you on the bottom of the screen. I’m pretty sure mashing the shoulder buttons also works on the oozes.

[@Winslow19]

my estus would refill every 20 to 35 enemies I've killed. i have 65 luck

[@Winslow19]

and it usually happens to the lothric knights, darkwraiths, deacons of the deep, and hallows

[@madlad7488]

Deacons? they are so easy to have high points.

[@c4_murloc782]

Lol. Jesus Christ 65 Luck!? I feel bad that I wasted one Soul Level to boost mine to 8

[@madlad7488]

+C-4567 he might be high level

[@Winslow19]

+chaos fire wolf high level is an understatement. im level 298... and this isnt bragging, im actually kind of embarrassed

[@monkboks3886]

If you use hollowslayer great sword on soul of cinder you will do more damage to second stage suggesting he is hollow

[@ScarletAlly]

The second phase has less health.And i don't really think Gwyn is still hollow while being a soul :P

[@zeehond604]

Tasteless Alex he means his defense is lower not his health

[@ethanbain8647]

I believe the button mashing also works when a sludge enemy falls on you

[@WhiteMaskAlysa]

Yep

[@jaredhoozky123]

Also the giant ogre hands in the profaned capital

[@WhiteMaskAlysa]

The ones that are also in the cathedral of the deep?

[@dougmorison5364]

BUTTON MASHING WORKS FOR EEEVERYTHIIING, MMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSHHHHHH

[@WhiteMaskAlysa]

nope

[@hughmccabe1455]

I love this guy. Just picked up ds3 and was curious about anything that's changed. No spoilers or anything. He's the best

[@DocMahk]

You didn't know about #9? That was present in DS2.

[@Poldovico]

+Tenebris Signum Also in DS1. It's been around since Rings of Sacrifice have (I don't know about Demons I guess).

[@timothymcfarland75]

And DS 1

[@VaatiVidya]

+Tenebris Signum Really! No, I never really used them. Thought it was unique to this game. Oops and oh well

[@quacktac]

Yeah, clearly he needs to git gud.

[@IamWalkingDead1]

+VaatiVidya Well you couldn't add gestures before.

[@nucl3ar_snake]

Something that's been happening very often for me now is that I sometimes "trip" the enemies when I roll, most of the times it happens when they are mid swing, I roll out of their attack and instead of finishing said attack, they just stagger, its pretty cool.

[@raymondbratley2387]

ElShadow7 it is because u can't be moved by movement from enemy animations so u act as a sort of wall. I use it to avoid damage in catacombs from big Skeletons

[@MisotheScot]

that giant seed is the ultimate troll. Hiding invader? seed.

[@MrThelegodudes]

I tried to lure the host past the giant crabs in Crucifixion Woods the other day, I was standing beside one sniping him and suddenly I'm on my ass getting destroyed by the crab. It was pretty damn funny

[@Yorikoification]

Akryyn Deserved

[@darrellmiddleton6615]

I got invaded by 2 people at the same time in crucifixion woods in ng+ just popped a seed and stood in the corridor where the black knight chills and let the crabs do all the hard work eventually they left

[@pixyl4415]

@RajunCajun34 Whoa calm down that comment was 2 years ago chill dude.

[@cheyhey2170]

@RajunCajun34 invading someones world not to have an honorable duel? -> harassing him hm..

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

06:24 OHHH So _THIS_ is why I was constantly getting summoned into worlds with sooo many phantoms in it that would mess me up in the swamp when I was farming for my farron wolf covenant yesterday! Wow. I knew the players that were wrecking me were leet, but this explains it so much more! Even when there was an additional helper on my side, I still got destroyed lol. I also didn’t know about the mashing buttons to escape the stray demon from yeeting me into another dimension two times in a row lol. I actually tried to escape it by mashing some button or shaking my controller (I forget what exactly I tried because I was so stressed out lol, however my instinct was telling me that escape might be possible and idk where I first learned it in the past as much of my memory of previous souls game has faded over time), but obviously I wasn’t doing the _RIGHT_ trick. Oh well, I’m glad I didn’t know exactly how to pull off this trick, because I was laughing my arse off when it happened - it was soooo funny! I wouldn’t have wanted to miss that death for anything. 😁 Many spoilers can suck the fun out of these games on our first playthrough. ;) P.S. I learned soooo much from these videos of yours on mechanics! I was actually about to look up how to leave messages because I didn’t see a messaging soap stone to buy from the handmaiden. Also, I wanted to try to get the Symbol of Avarice from that first mimic that drops the deep battle axe, but I dumbly thought it would respawn after I killed it the first time. Of. The chest was gone when I went back to it to try to farm for it. Dang. I’m so sad I forgot so much souls knowledge with being so rusty for not having played one of the games in 7 years.... Now I have to wait to try for it when I come across a new mimic, whenever that will be. I wish I had it soooo badly when I was farming for those 10 hours straight from enemies for my swordgrass for the wolf covenant. 😢 All I had was a sword with boosted item discovery that I equipped in my offhand (I don’t know if it worked or not though with my two handing my main weapon in my right hand - my character status screen said that my discovery rate was higher so I _ASSUME_ it helped... It sure did take me a _LONG_ arse time though to get all the swordgrass drops I needed, as I was only able to get two off of PvP fights I won in about 12 summons in total (because I kept being summoned into very skilled player’s worlds who were also using the dried finger or had terrible connections with them transporting all over the place every time my weapon _SHOULD_ have made contact - I swear, one leet guy I got summoned into a good 6 times in a row was also estus cancelling 😡). Thanks sooo much for these tips, man!! I learned _A LOT!!!_

[@ohnoitsseth3710]

I invaded for pale tongues just to do this, luck 99: I almost always got a estus from red eyes, winged knights, skeletons, and dogs. 80 luck: every second time I killed one of those I go, 50 luck: every fifth time I killed one of the above I got an estus, and lastly 20 luck: it took me about six tries to get even one.

[@sven3540]

In the Grand Archives. if you dip your head into the wax the spectral arms won't damage and curse you.

[@sven3540]

+Sven Stoffer You take increase fire damage by the way

[@Mstea0149]

+Tyler Pfaff I figured it out on the first day. Realized the arms weren't hurting me at one point while helping someone as a phantom.

[@ColdSpark824]

+Sven Stoffer But what does that white paint do that the candleheads throw at you? It goes everywhere+on your character but it doesn't seem to damage or have any effect....

[@sven3540]

+ColdSpark824 yup, what tylers says. slow and prevents rolling. Also enhabces gire damage.

[@aceofspades5317]

+Sven Stoffer And if you get hit with fire, the was melts.

[@kylegarner6753]

also, you are correct about the luck. I switched from.having 10 luck to 50 for a bleed build, and I've noticed a lot more Estus recovery

[@ryanmadeachannel]

7:47 IT'S EDWAD!!!

[@redmercer4158]

Sac Rings protecting your bloodstain souls has been a mechanic since at least DS1

[@Justin-rs1ug]

+Red Mercer i liked it better in DS2 where you could repair them but i also know in 2 there were less than in 1 and 3 but being able to repair them was better imo

[@redmercer4158]

Being able to repair broken rings was weaksauce but it was probably necessary because of the equipment damaging stuff they put in the environment

[@MikayaAkyo]

+justin sattelberg In Scholar of the First Sin there is exactly one Ring of Life Protection and one Ring of Soul Protection in each NG-Cycle. they also increased the Repair Cost in SotFS due to people complaining it was too easy to repair them. +Red Mercer I liked that mechanic but to be honest it was a mechanic required because they wanted your super flashy Rings to also break after a while. Dark Souls 1 and 3 rings don't ever degrade, you never need to repair them so they just put a lot of Ring of Sacrifices in and were done with it making them just disappear for good. DkS2 had Rings breaking, Corrossive pits and such that would've made it annoying if every ring you had just broke apart forever. Imagine you go through a whole lot of trouble just to find your loved weapon and when it's Durability is depleted it just breaks and disappears, would you want that? because if degrading Rings disappeared in DkS2, then it would've been just logical to make it so Weapons do too which would've sealed the existance of "broken Ladle Runs" XD

[@martyg8137]

+justin sattelberg being able to repair them ruined it for me, it basically took away any consequences of dying.

[@Justin-rs1ug]

FartyFiddler then dont wear them?thats also an option i dont wear them most of the time i found the game was so easy any way i would only use 1-2 H.E.s per run

[@axonn101]

the awkward moment when you see 2 bosses you didn't even know existed.

[@felixlenz539]

yeah I wanna figure out where to find the old demon thing...

[@adrianfeliciano8464]

+Frostfall N7 you remember the wooden bridge before wolnir? after it collapses, climb down it into an optional area where he hangs out.

[@felixlenz539]

Oh my god, this game keeps suprising me, thank you.

[@schuka5]

+Frostfall N7 The collapsible bridge in the Catacombs acts as a ladder as well.

[@bulrog]

+schuka5 Isn't it the same. If not, which one exactly ?

[@TheAngelicDog]

I bought Dark Souls 3 right when it came out without any experience in the series and just played it. I then later found out builds were a thing at level 158, and I guess I'm a half/half knight with speed and damage... my luck has stayed at 10 and I've gotten plenty of estus flasks from dark wraiths, lothric knights, giant crabs. It seems that I get them from enemies that are few and difficult to battle when first encountered, and those estus flasks have saved me quite a bit.

[@moesephthebroseph4249]

The grapple break effect also works on the creatures in the dreg heap

[@Auksey]

So NG+ being bad is a hidden mechanic now?

[@xXMLGCreatureCatsXx]

+Auxkom no it was the plus rings in ng+

[@ragekage7790]

Yea I was kinda disappointed to see the +1 only applies to some of the rings.. like come on....

[@SkyeTsow]

+Gage Jongeneel imagine the +2 Hornet Ring or Leo Ring if +Rings could be every ring.

[@ragekage7790]

they could get buffed, jsut not as much, instead of 15% it goes 16% 17% and so on

[@knightontheinternet281]

Auxkom being bad is my life.

[@DanielBlack82]

16: Poise dos not actually exist in the game, despite the game lying to you that is dos. I am really hoping they get off there asses and patch that shit...

[@supernova2597]

+SnowCrash I hope they fix a lot of things, this is my favorite souls game and I want it to do good. I want them to fix the Blue/Darkmoon cov. matchmaking, fix poise in a patch, and maybe even have a very large patch where they add in new enemy placements and item placements (Currently only new item placements are rings and soul items) :(

[@Scharrez]

+Alluring Skull Darksouls 3 Scholar of more money pls - Pay again edition

[@DooyevenTriforce]

+SnowCrash Fun Fact: Poise is programmed into the game already. It's just disabled. This has been proven thanks to the good people at the DkS3 subreddit. (I can provide link if desired.) Why? No one yet knows. And due to R1 mashers using rapiers and straight swords, it's kind of scared me away from PVP until the issue is rectified.

[@tehCostHD]

+Alluring Skull they should leave blue, but give dark moons a blue eye orb, so it gives extra incentive to upgrade from a sentinel to a darkmoon blade

[@DanielBlack82]

Dooyeven Triforce I know its there but turned off but really that just makes it kind of worse. Yah i am just really hoping on a large patch

[@sinever8961]

EDWAAAAAAD EMBERPANTS, THE CHOZEN WAHN (7:48) Also, to the "call to action" at (9:06), I could've sworn that I actually got THREE estus charges back while randomly running around between the Firelink Shrine and the Iudex Gundyr bonefires. I didn't notice when it happened, though - I only noticed that I was back at 13 while I could've sworn that I was just previously at 10.

[@OhNoTheFace]

"What does from have against invaders?" Nothing but you are invading someone else's game, it should be stacked against you

[@kurdtcoben]

No, absolutely not. Ignoring the fact that invading gives you gameplay rewards such as rings, spells and weapons that you might wanna collect, invading has always been a mechanic to balance out the gamebreaking coop mechanic. Think about this: You're the host and you can't "git gud" or can't be bothered so you wanna summon your friend. Okay, first of all you have to be embered to summon, that's +30% HP for you. Then you get a human cooperator in your game, in a level that's finetuned about one player interacting with the enemies. Everything from enemy placement to enemy strength is geared towards that. Of course, your summon increases the HP of the mobs in the game by 10% but that's literally not worth mentioning since you only have to care about 50% the attack patterns, solve all combat puzzles more quickly (saving you on estus and concentration) and do twice the damage. And that's where the invaders come in. Since coop BREAKS the game and the way it was intended to be played, invaders are there to even out the scales. They are there to counteract your giant benefit of having a summon around and refresh the balance of difficulty which you just broke. Of course, invasions also happen when you're solo and embered. But then again, you have 30% extra HP and your invader only has half the Estus, so it's more than fair in that regard (for you at least). So please stop whining about invaders. Invasions are part of the game, the lore, the meta-narrative and the overall experience Dark Souls was trying to create all along. And yes, FromSoftware (or rather Bandai Namco by proxy for the casuals) has a giant problem with invaders. That's why they send in singular invaders against teams of 3-4 cooperators most times. You won't believe how unfairly the odds are stacked against you as an invader in Dark Souls 3. It's disgusting.

[@BARDOCK601]

I absolutely loath people that invade games im struggling enough trying to get thru my game last thing i need is a dickhead with op items and weapons trying to fuck me over on top of it

[@christianpecina8443]

NEOHD just play offline if you don’t want to get invaded. 🤔

[@cheyhey2170]

@RubensVance no argument from you though.? most of the things he said are facts, how are they bs?

[@cheyhey2170]

@RubensVance oh well, very strong from you :/

[@TheMagus]

I find the Estus recovery happens more often when I'm progressing quickly or killing a high number of enemies or many powerful enemies in a short amount of time. Perhaps there's a hidden point value ascribed to each creature that slowly counts down but when you pass certain point "checkpoints" you get an Estus boost?

[@shilukk4539]

7:54 EDWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD EMBERPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS!!!!

[@redmoonlight4826]

LOL

[@_sargentocoelho_4441]

" He really just did that ? Ok lets help him "

[@Γιώργης-τ9ξ]

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[@Γιώργης-τ9ξ]

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[@syedhamzabinarif]

Lol

[@Quonchon]

There is this cool hidden mechanic where it's impossible to break a great shield's guard

[@TheValinov]

+TheEpongeMan no, you are wrong, you can absolutly do it, if you equip the "horse ring". you get this ring by killing patches. i know it sounds like a joke, but its the truth ^^

[@Yemeth42pis]

+TheValinov You can buy it from patches no need to kill him ... but why wouldn't you kill that piece of shit of a traitor (maybe for the poison arrows he sells :p ).

[@Quonchon]

TheValinov It doesn't work THAT well to be honest, you still need to kick like 4 times

[@stryfe8959]

+TheValinov Oh boy it takes like 4 kicks now instead of 5-6. That's assuming that they'd stand completely still and let me just spam kicks, oh joy.

[@VVabsa]

+TheEpongeMan maybe horse ring with that ring you get from the knightslayer guy in the smouldering lake would work? that ring makes enemys with shields up lose more stamina per hit.

[@4137Swords]

"Does this make Sorcery viable in PvP? No. Nothing will." XD too true

[@riverland1372]

Shows what you know. Have you ever really MADE a sorcery build? You have more than just soul arrows you know.

[@LIGHT-SEEKER]

@@riverland1372 You right, people need to stop sheeping cause sorcery works with a bit of intelligence and practice.

[@victordreyfus8744]

it's more like sorcery ONLY builds aren't viable in pvp, but they're super useful as a complement. Also if you tilt your camera at the right angle using the binoculars (or bows I guess but haven't tried that one) you can snipe people with spells, works great with the obscuring ring hehehe... *emotes and disappears*

[@riverland1372]

@@victordreyfus8744 Sorcery builds can be very viable, you just have to know the ins and outs of Sorceries you're using.

[@OddStare]

luck 7, drop estus when i manage to parry, back stab, heavy attack, weapon art... almost like the game reward you when you do cool actions

[@DiscountOstrich]

I need an update on the questline video. I think I've messed up all of them

[@SeasonsMad042]

+TheNuroshi Same... Greirat will be missed... He didn't deserve that.

[@KodiHammon]

+Mike Fang A lot of people knew about it to begin with.

[@DarkArcharon]

+TheNuroshi your profile picture matches perfectly with your comment

[@SeasonsMad042]

Mike Fang How is that working for you? I've been interested in that type of build since he mentioned it in this video.

[@MrGhobo]

The ring of sacrafice bit was already there in ds2, weird youu wouldnt know about that one

[@SerDerpish]

And DS1

[@khamillw763]

yeah, really weird, it was accually there in DS1 !

[@supremebuffalo6322]

Yea i understood this even as I was dying 30times in the berg as a brand new noob. Ifeel a better description for Ring of Sacrifice would be 'prevents dropping a green thingy when you die' ignoring the souls part helps explain the concept IMO.

[@MrBrochachos]

FRIENDLY TIP though guys. If your killed via curse then it will reset the soul drop making you lose the souls you where going for and you will keep the ring

[@h33day]

If you gesture in front of the Firekeeper, she responds with another gesture depending the gesture.

[@roronoa1243]

If you use Arstor's Spear instead of a shield then two-hand your sword, the heal from killing enemies will still activate.

[@Klefth]

"Does this make sorcery viable for pvp? No, no it doesn't. Nothing will." Ahh, yes, the thing that made me the happiest about DS3. Goodbye, ice rapier homing soulmass shitlords. May you burn in hell. :)

[@fartchamber12]

That's a bad thing about dark souls 3 honestly, the game and especially certain bosses really only allow one kind of build unless you want a serious challenge.

[@Klefth]

***** At least they have to bother fighting you. It's not literally just putting up crystal homing soulmass and spamming R1 with an ice rapier for a free win.

[@knavenformed9436]

Andrés Cifuentes Ice-Rapier was far from the best stuff though. Imo thrust weapons are amongst the easiest to counter. Tho I do love my Spears and Halberds.

[@noddwyd]

I still think of FP as Flower Points from Super Mario RPG.

[@kanardy]

noddwyd Congratulations, you played one of the best RPGS of all time. Still trying to figure out how to get Link out of that damn bed and join my party lol.

[@kanardy]

I know it doesn't happen 😔

[@Adoochi]

I just realized that Vaati showcased part of Edwad's fight against Wolnir around a month before that part went up.

[@stalker6617]

Estus Flask: I started playing a couple of days ago. It seems that i get estus flasks when fighting enemies i have not fought before but going to the same area too many times seem to stop the enemies from dropping estus flasks.

[@TheAudioInjection]

Are you going to make a video about how poise is 100% turned off and useless? Because it is :/

[@TheZedman5000]

It's certainly not doing what it used to do, but it still affects recovery time after getting smacked, when you get staggered a little bit. I did testing with a friend, you recover MUCH faster in very heavy armor than in cloth.

[@leonscottkennedyre4]

+TheAudioInjection Poise is broken, equip a greatsword and swing that bitch, you will never get staggered.

[@brentramsten249]

+TheAudioInjection except when you are swinging a great hammer/curved/ultra sword, in which case you get a metric shit ton of poise during your damage animation. its abosulte ridiclous.

[@CuthburtAllgood]

+TheZedman5000 That's actually your equip load being higher. Try removing the heavy armour and throwing on heavy weapons that don't give poise. You'll get the same recovery.

[@MrThewooter]

+leonscottkennedyre4 Isn't that hyper armor, not poise

[@destructiveodst1199]

7:30 "conjugations"

[@-8Cake]

Man even these video are old i still wanna watch every day 😊

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

05:00 oh Lord… I wish I knew that when I was farming yesterday for 10 hours straight and lost 430,000 souls, which was the most I’ve ever held in any souls games at one point. 😢😢😢 I am going to have PTSD over this for a very, very long time!

[@yeeterman8622]

Where were you farming

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

@@yeeterman8622 I was farming the collectible for the covenant with the wolf statue in Farrow’s Keep… I forget the name of collectible and the covenant. You had to get 30 of them in the game to get the final reward I wanted. You are “supposed“ to farm them in PVP, but I was only able to get a couple of them that way in the timeframe that I was farming, because I kept running up against tag teams of people that had way better equipment than I had… So I was getting them overwhelmingly from farming the enemies that have the worm heads with skinny tall bodies (I forget their name of them too… It has been a while since I’ve played the game)... There is a pack of three of them right next to a bonfire, and then one really close by on the other side of the connecting bridge… So I would sit at the bonfire to reset and farm those four enemies over and over for 10 hours straight. And right before I got my 30th collectible, I died two times in a row without getting my soul stain, because of having the worst RNG possible, on top of being tired (the enemies would constantly change of which type they were).

[@SebastianRikk]

It seems like you get estus flasks from humanoids (like dark knights) and those enemies which use flask themselves (including invaders).

[@crowbarviking3890]

about point 15. IIRC the humanity in DS1 was gainable from enemies as long as the boss of that area was still alive. maybe it is the same for flasks in DS3

[@Derikimi]

7:01 I noticed that the Dogs by the Braille Divine Tome of Carim can grab you, more like a pounce, and you can escape it by mashing the shoulder buttons.

[@batman85057]

When you open a mimic chest, if you're quick enough you can roll before it eats you.

[@TheUgliestBarnacle]

Hey Vaati, did you know that using a dagger in your left hand gives the dagger a new move set?

[@-TRIPLE_A-]

+Some neon green (Handsome potato) haha. "Very. Good!"

[@A.C_B.]

luck is so op in this game just watch the current speed runners its insane how much damage they can deal

[@Jojimbo009]

Right! I've seen people run it with bleed or using Anri's sword.

[@A.C_B.]

its all anris sword the scaling is bs its like the new lautrec

[@zeppie_]

anris sword luck scaling is nerfed in the newest (or upcoming?) patch so dont worry

[@heroicspirit474]

It only took off ten AR apparently.

[@konstantinjovanovski2754]

I think the base damage is nerfed to the luck scaling...

[@ryanshannahan8893]

I don’t have stats like everyone else but I definitely noticed a significant increase in the frequency that I would receive a random Estus when I leveled my luck stat throughout the game (up to lvl 30). Also noticed that recent character builds without any increase in the luck stat seem to rarely get them in comparison.

[@valerian9012]

How about a call to arms about the Poise system

[@zegreatpumpkinani9161]

we now this already, poise only triggers when you are in the middle of an attack

[@sunnyta1990]

man, from really needs to fix NG+ and make it a LOT harder they also need to bring back poise

[@jeremynielsen860]

Also I want reasons for doing NG+ instead of more powerful rings, I'd love to see different enemy placements and a maybe a few extra moves thrown in the mix

[@DooyevenTriforce]

+Stephen Weir Fun Fact: Poise is programmed into the game already. It's just disabled. Why? No one yet knows. And thanks to R1 mashers using rapiers and straight swords, it's kind of scared me away.

[@Mexican_Sunbro]

+Jeremy Nielsen The one thing people actually thought was great in Dark Souls II and Fromsoft ignores it...

[@sirpuppy1]

+Jeremy Nielsen there are 4 different endings. go to NG+3

[@tehCostHD]

+Jeremy Nielsen the only boss that actually got harder for me was the dancer... Even pontiff was easy on new game plus I felt like his damage stayed exactly the same and his health wasn't that much mote

[@kafka6309]

Hey Vatti, ive started the souls series from bloodborne and yus i feel in love with the game, now I want to move to Dark Souls, so my request is can you make a introductory on dark souls video aiming towards new players of the souls series (like me) may include things like what to expect, recomendations (builds or tactics), similarities and differences in gemeplay mechanics.

[@kafka6309]

*Vaati, oops sorry.

[@Lbird1993]

Might be best to just go in completely blind and fully immerse yourself :)

[@therealxmarksdeathx]

If you are looking for a good introduction to Dark Souls, check out LPdarksoulsHD. Really knows his stuff.

[@tomdeubel9239]

in ds 1 if you want to op your character right away get both the Drake sword and the gravelord sword...

[@superphatcakes]

I know the video's not that new, but there's actually a second "grab" attack you can escape from more rapidly by mashing buttons, and it's from those slime-like enemies (both versions) that drop down from the ceiling, usually at item ganks. Additionally, if you're mashing the roll button as well, you'll roll out of their grab instead of being stuck in the "getting out of it" animation.

[@TheStrawhatNO]

(Apparently this was just patched out, so never mind then)

[@tehCostHD]

Seriously??? 😂 wow that spell is even more op now

[@PinkB00mer]

+tehCostHD It's not op though.

[@TheStrawhatNO]

Damn. Never mind then

[@PinkB00mer]

Recken Yes and you will only have 1 HP. Throwing Knife, Thorns. And you are gone and second chance won't do anything at that point. It's good, decent but not overpowered. If it gave you a second chance with more HP than 1 it would be overpowered.

[@PinkB00mer]

Recken Well there was no specification there. And in PvE it's the same story. It's still only 1 HP. It will most likely save you in a lot times. But it's not overpowered. It's good no doubt about it. If you are already being overwhelemed and it triggers, you will most likely die anyways. But other times fighting a boss and you get hit by something and it saves you. It might have just won you the fight but again it's only 1 HP. And at that point if you can't heal right away only 1 hit of literally anything will kill you. Or a extremely tiny fall.

[@DrakeVagabond]

Will you look at the Ni-Oh demo?

[@Zephyr_Weiss]

I'm pretty sure mashing reduces squeeze and chomp damage when caught.

[@floppseng]

the enemy behind the tree on the ledge at 11:12 i believe the estus recovery is on the red eyed harder enemies. not just any mob that has red eyes, but the ones that are the same as other mobs in appearance (aside from the eyes) but they have higher health as well.

[@darklight645_]

7:49 **in Edwad voice** Edwaaaaaadddd

[@CastDeathGames]

How can i contact you? I think I just found hidden dialogue on bloodborne no one has posted anywhere

[@helenkeller7783]

What is it?

[@bttrinity6336]

+CastDeath Ooh, keep us posted on this. Id like to know.

[@CastDeathGames]

Ill try posting the video on my channel as soon as I can and see if anyone else has noticed this

[@j0hnnyblade]

+CastDeath I'm also very interested in every little piece of the game, so I will dwell here in hope that you keep updating us.

[@CastDeathGames]

Johnny Blade I Uploaded the footage on my channel! Its a brute that speaks!

[@RozzWilliamGrover]

I am so confused to how that estus system works. I've just been walking around and have gotten 2 more estus for no reason

[@mikkellorentz467]

+Dick Haverchuck Its when the area boss dies in another world :)

[@Mstea0149]

+Dick Haverchuck Lol what's hard to understand? Before, it was when someone boosted a bonfire and now it's when a boss dies. Don't question good things.

[@mondaymorning1]

+Tea Requiem That also means that you can not get rewarded a flask when you chose to play offline, right? And I don't mean Steam in offline-mode, but the offline function ingame. Cheers

[@Mstea0149]

wutz kopp There's apparently a way to get a flask freely offline as well, something about NPCs or certain enemies rewarding up to 2 after being defeated. I can't necessarily say I've noticed this happen but it would explain a lot of "what the fuck, didn't I use that flask?" moments I had.

[@skootdiggity]

+Tea Requiem I've definitely gotten them offline

[@nevereververerr3762]

My tip: There is a scare/panic factor that is used in DS games. Why does every time I fight a tough enemy, my heart beats out of my chest? It's the volume! As enemies attack you, the volume is set so high, your ears are assaulted with really loud noise, triggering panic. As well, your character is always heavily respiring. This suggests that you are breathing heavy, and combined with the audio cues, you are immersed in the fighting and the overly loud audio, the fact that you respire heavy, and the soothing prefight music contrasts with the current loud audio, so what happens?.... Your heart races! So, to make gameplay easier, turn down the battle volume a little, and then you don't panic during a fight.

[@jakeread9668]

I didn't expect to see a comment from 9 hours ago on a 4 year old video :)

[@nevereververerr3762]

@@jakeread9668 It's a Halloween classic.