Can You Beat Dark Souls 2 By Setting Yourself on Fire? (Torch & Immolation Only)

Dark Souls 2 immolation and torch only. In other words, by setting yourself on fire and waving a torch around? The torch and the immolation pyromancy are likely the worst weapon and spell in the game, even worse than bare fists or the broken ladle. No buffs, upgrades or infusions. Main game only but I might go back for some DLC later on. A bit like the Olympic torch run but attacking with it and keeping yourself lit as well
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How to Beat Dark Souls 2 with a Bell
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Dark Souls 2 SL1 NG+7 Broken Straightsword & crossbow (all stats at 6):
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Dark Souls 2 SL1 Beginners Guide:
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Dark Souls 2 Mimic Head / No Healing Livestreams:
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Sorry for the terrible video quality. I should have made a separate recording instead of using the livestream footage :( Watch the full livestreams of this run here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoK1mKOqnNh2Z80 Also check out my other Dark Souls 2 videos: How to Beat Dark Souls 2 with a Bell kzbin.info/www/bejne/gquphXd8jaijjc0 How to beat Dark Souls 2 as a Butterfly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqTCe2tno5qHZs0 Dark Souls 2 SL1 NG+7 Broken Straightsword & crossbow (all stats at 6): kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKvHpImMh7qqh9E Dark Souls 2 SL1 Beginners Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYqamYiqYqplmLc Dark Souls 2 Mimic Head / No Healing Livestreams: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoiqhIqfl7yrb9k www.patreon.com/presscontinue Become a channel member: kzbin.info/door/TXq-6py1mnaAmVadMeY_Cgjoin

[@danielpayne7194]

Now beat The Thing on hard... Yes, I know you won't, but never mind.

[@frostyelwood9898]

@@danielpayne7194i think Jerma has a video on The Thing video game if you dont know. I didnt watch all of it but it did look like a hard choice game before Telltale was a big thing

[@batchagaloopytv5816]

fyi you can hard quit out by giant if your invaded just wait like 20-30 seconds after killing the one giant then hard wuit

[@Solhurst]

Someday you should just say no, just a five-second video introducing the challenge then you say no, and it ends

[@PressContinue]

LOL, that sounds like an April fools day kind of thing

[@deliriushunter]

@@PressContinue Pebble only..

[@hoobershmoober5251]

@@deliriushunter make it a glintstone pebble and we have a deal

[@justinscatina5321]

😆 🤣 😂 😹

[@Yumao420]

@@deliriushunter sounds fitting for your profile game

[@victorhugosoarespereira1413]

Man, not even here in Brazil we have such brain damage to do something like this, you have my respect for sure!

[@PressContinue]

Never underestimate the insanity of the Dutch

[@kugerblitz7388]

@@PressContinue Dutch East Indies company is a prime example lol

[@naherathe]

kkjkkkkkkkkkkkjkkkkkkjkkkkj os cara é bravo man

[@danilodeoliveira5417]

Brasileiro é praga em todo canto kkkkkkk

[@MassimilianoCavalera]

What's up Brazilian guy! Quick question. Do you know Charles Oliveira and Max Cavalera? They're 2 of my heroes

[@janzuun]

Each one of your videos is a little treasure, thanks for putting yourself through such torch-ure for our entertainment ^_^

[@Bilndmann]

Shut

[@KinDeth]

Up

[@Markshadow4999]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate your top notch DSP jokes? They always kill me

[@Ostr0]

What in da hell e ell!? 🌚

[@sacherry5300]

Wait I had no idea the last giant could fall over, you learn new things every day

[@grfrjiglstan]

That's the best time to hit his left arm, in fact. If you deal it enough damage, it falls off and he can't use it in phase 2 anymore. He also has a unique defeat animation if you beat him while he's down, he doesn't just snap back to a standing position.

[@yourireijs]

as a fellow dutchman i have the upmost respect dor all your insane playtrough. and i love the intro music, its great FUEL for this run

[@Someone89a]

“Amazing comedy and soothing tones” so glad that made it in - now every night I can fall asleep to Press remarking about how soothing his voice is

[@PressContinue]

Especially when sped up of course

[@duineganainm]

Watched a lot of this live for the first time, I can't wait to see how it translates into a edited video!!

[@HavocHounds1988]

Yep, same. This was the first live stream I caught. I wasn't subbed for the one previous to this one.

[@lucavillano7575]

"as a man of culture, i'm a big fan of traps" you got me there😂😂😂😂😂

[@PressContinue]

at 8:41 I meant to say vigor instead of vitality of course

[@jmv333]

1:58 also says 'Flesh Sweat' which sounds like a fun euphemism for blood lol :D

[@PressContinue]

@@jmv333 Woops! And that wasn't even a typo. I really thought it was called that. I mean where else would sweat come from? But it's actually Flash sweat. Well, I'll be a son of a gun...

[@jmv333]

@@PressContinue And because of 'Iron Flesh' probably, fair enough misread tbh, I loved the vid tho and glad to be supporting you now!

[@kirramcdowell]

0:55 your fault for buying a torch from the dollar store. Should have bought the premium 😁

[@PressContinue]

@@kirramcdowell Didn't buy it at all. Found a stick and I set it on fire and called it a weapon

[@Tata-Jooma]

11:07 Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

[@jjba3553]

I can feel your burning passion for us with this run

[@m.c.i.d23]

Fun fact; those bonfire aesthetics in aldias keep let you have infinite invasions and there's a skip to get into aldias

[@PressContinue]

Ah, the new parry walk glitch I bet

[@m.c.i.d23]

@@PressContinue yep, so now I don't have to take 15 hours getting everything set up for a vanquisher seal twink build

[@SteamPaladin]

what's the point of a "challenge run" that relies on glitches and exploits and skipping 75% of the game to do successfully lmao

[@m.c.i.d23]

@@SteamPaladin my comment is 4 weeks old find something better to do

[@IsaacClodfelter]

@@m.c.i.d23 what an awful perspective. Stuff on youtube is archived and one of the best parts of the website is that a conversation that died three years ago could be revived by a stranger having something to add. You can't add a moratorium to the responses your comments get without just deleting them, nor are responses any less valid just because time has past.

[@oliverjoel5870]

So glad I caught this live! Apart from the first stream but I was there for the old iron king marathon. Your Elden ring videos are gonna be sick!

[@JaggedBird]

There's being grossly incandescent, tHEN THERE IS BEING A MINI GWYN! This run is hilarious

[@grfrjiglstan]

Great video, as always. The stream was a real fun experience, and I loved seeing some of the jokes from the stream making it into this video. Also, your sped-up voice sounds British, for some reason? Who'd have guessed.

[@PressContinue]

British? I didn't know that speeding up one's voice could affect the accent

[@MatthewGilliard]

good job, fine work skeleton. I just wanna mention that after the snake-eater ladder, if you crunch yourself right into the corner to the left you can aggro one of the mannekins (you can hear it through the wall) so when you get into their room they are pre-separated. GGs!

[@Beauty_lee0716]

so this is the video ymfah watched, nice. Really looking forward to the dragonstone run vid :)

[@maxmouse713]

Subscribed for the Bimmy and Jimmy Reference. Edit: Correction, subscribed because you have good taste in references in general and overall. Also, I'm glad somebody gave poor ol' Immolation some use. That spell could/should have been so cool. And very, very good work with the Giant Lord and the Time Limit! Well done. Very Well Done, indeed. (Pun Intended.)

[@melindaszabo6505]

Epic run, intense OPness

[@revy2348]

sucks that i couldnt catch all of the streams but the ones i did watch were entertaining. i also couldnt dream of having this level of patience lol

[@honeykrisp16]

These videos are always so fun to watch

[@BallmeatSlapnut]

From your humor and manner of speech, you give off some serious Dad vibes which makes watching your videos very comforting. I’ve been watching you ever since your Ninja Gaiden video and I’ve loved every single upload. Please keep being you PC!

[@ThetaWindfall]

Congratz on finishing this run, definitely a challenging one!

[@ashclaw2306]

This is so lit and warming... Thanks for the content.

[@JohannesBee]

Great run! Fun to watch a cut version of the livestreams.

[@oli-yj5xv]

Just finished doing your sl1 guide Guess I gotta do this next

[@scapegoat2660]

Glad i could catch this live! I'm surprised at how fast you pumped this out! keep up the good work!

[@batchagaloopytv5816]

this should have 1 million views well done(and fyi defender has a self buffing sword by two handing and L2(or R2 )

[@realityoverdrive4059]

19:00 Did you forget to grab the Great Soul off the ground and had to go back for it later?

[@PressContinue]

I did not. I've got burned before because of that, so I made sure to pick it up

[@realityoverdrive4059]

@@PressContinue I'm glad, the run could get a little spicy if you had to go back and get it. I've done it to many times and I always get heated

[@joshmay2944]

That intro is a masterpiece of cinema

[@jaymillz8235]

Love the accent and love the commentary. Keep up the good work bro!!

[@LJAndrews1986]

Let's see if he can handle the heat, I'll see myself out 😂 love your work man, bring on Elden Ring

[@Karanagi]

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

[@stefandesic6709]

Man your ds videos are only ones i can watch till the end, its even good as a background noise just listening to all jokes

[@pumpkinhead4426]

You did the Bell challenge with Whom The Bell Tolls and now Fuel. Hope you keep incorporating Metallica song in all DS2 Videos

[@CrushCard]

I'm suprised you didn't call this the burning man playthrough. Great video, keep it up!

[@kai_the_floofster1862]

Before this video started i got a Firehouse Subs ad 😭 Amazing video as always, Press :)

[@snezor2783]

God I love the intro. I can't recall the name of the song it's been so long and oh my god the amount of distortion on it I can barely recognize it. Lmao. Thank you based Press Continue.

[@PressContinue]

It's fuel by Metallica

[@williamhenderson2661]

I like your videos because you’ll say you need to go do something and how good of an idea it is… but then you forget to do it hahah love it. I do that a lot when I play. Doesn’t always go as planned

[@spookyjohn6543]

Scholar of the first flame edition

[@perfectvermin6489]

22:59 we are very proud of you, you fought fire with fire!

[@ReidZer0]

I have never wondered this... Because I like to have fun while playing games

[@PressContinue]

Challenges are fun

[@ReidZer0]

@@PressContinue I agree... Challenges can be fun and very satisfying to do. This challenge does not seem like it would be fun to do personally.

[@lucaspreussler3879]

Your lives are gold! But this vídeos... Priceless!!!!!! Thank you soo much!👏👏👏👏

[@DJxGameHunter]

God damn that Fuel remix was…🔥🔥

[@Bluecho4]

As the father of Dr McNinja once said, they can't catch you if you set yourself on fire.

[@cheeky_casual]

Anyone else feel like Baron had just a bit too much fun making all those fire jokes?

[@PressContinue]

Did you just call me Baron as in Baron's Castle? When I'm clearly that Backlogs guy from the Gamersweekend channel? Jeez....

[@cheeky_casual]

@@PressContinue Oh God I did, didn't I? Ive been watching yours and his videos too long, I'm getting you confused🤣🤣

[@josipdruzic12345]

this is the Backclogs guy

[@cerebraltempest9810]

I used whisper of despair in my torch only run, with ROB+1, Flynn's, fire clutch which you get from the chilly DLC, AND sacred oath from Velstat's soul becomes very viable damage easily comparable to fist only:) just requires lots of casting and buffing constantly as you fight (if U wanna allow non dmging spells) nice video!

[@TheDeatharcana]

I'm more excited to see what you'll do with Elden Ring than playing the game myself.

[@thickveinysausage3062]

if you get soaked in water (or equip the pharros mask), use immolation and exit into the main menu it'll give the self fire infinite duration only logical conclusion now is to kill NG+7 fume knight with warm hugs

[@PressContinue]

Yeah...... no. But I might go and kill Fumey with the torch at some point

[@franciscoruiz8064]

This channel’s edit is comedy gold

[@deliriushunter]

Man you're on fire (I'm sorry), so hyped to watch it :)

[@bigdaddydinglebe]

If your voice isn't soothing then dammit why do I keep falling asleep to these long videos?

[@Gary_a_normal_human_being]

Missed opportunity to start the video with a sped up Immolation song

[@MisterTTG]

what the hell? i've never seen the BDSM tree before, and i've played DS2 countless times

[@HavocHounds1988]

Oh man, I remember during the stream when that Basilisk broke the door to try and get you. Shit was funny.

[@valkyr_]

Been watching videos sped up for so long now I legitimately had to check the playback speed within the first six seconds, lol. No way I'd miss this 🔥SUPER HOTness🔥 in glorious regular speed. Just don't spontaneously combust irl, pls :3

[@foxhound3956]

26:30 love the blade runner reference 😂

[@danielpayne7194]

This was the run that made me think you might genuinely be open to thumb screws...

[@TruePirateKing12]

A literal burning man.

[@Sed_Wes]

31:25 this is the best joke that I’ve heard on this channel so far

[@no1normal750]

that's it, that's the hardest run, there's nothing more difficult left

[@rogofos]

my man read all the "try torch" messages in front of mythas arena and took them a little too seriously

[@thespuditron9387]

I absolutely ducking love the intro song. James Hetfield never sounded so cool! 😃

[@rumbathehoova1810]

KZbin isn't showing upload notifications so I nearly missed out on another gem

[@PressContinue]

Oh really, that sucks. Hope that others won't miss the video for that reason

[@Fausto_4841]

wow. metallica's guitars and drums actually sound interesting in chipmunk mode.

[@stuntfumbler]

the bootsy spankins, PI reference was the last thing i expected

[@PressContinue]

And it's not even the first time I did that

[@DerunglaublicheMrJ]

your puns are so good in this one :D I laughed alot

[@gregoryporter-gaming2559]

5:50 ??? what the hell??? Never seen the last giant do that

[@HavocHounds1988]

26:16 no, you said in a previous video that the one on the left is Horsey.

[@PressContinue]

... Josh... that's the joke...

[@HavocHounds1988]

@@PressContinue Lol, I figured as much. My comment was sort of a joke itself. Not a good one I might add.

[@Lightbrek]

I saw the backlog go completely insaine by doing this, kets see how you do it

[@luisantonio8518]

dam a opening with alvin and the chipmunks

[@csigataraj]

I am doing this run on stream. Neat tips lol. However I was masochistic enough to tackle aava before going into the castle. Took several very lengthy deaths... but she went down from about 34 immolation casts and a LOT of lifegems... but I got the clutch ring. Another thing I did was killing the smelter demon for accessing the ring of blades +1. Much to my surprise I only wanted to try my dmg nothing serious but he went down in one go 😁 And about 70 lifegems because of the CONSTANT fucking fire aura he had. Even dodging and playing almost no-hit for half an hour took that many heals. Currently in Amana. Oh yea Ruin Sentinels were cancer as well 🤣

[@PressContinue]

Oh boy, rough ride. But at least you got a tiny bit of extra damage out of that for the run of the run so you won't burn yourself out.

[@plallscandenaro3565]

low bitrate makes the screen go funky when immolated on lower video quality settings

[@thekaz5225]

Cheese Schnitzel sounds bomb right now. Also saying OPness has the same energy as that dude who started the company Pen Island and didn't realize his mistake until he looked at his company URL

[@PressContinue]

Or how about game company STD software

[@thekaz5225]

@@PressContinue XD mistakes were made.

[@skullknightsfanboy8991]

yo-you p-psychopath good job i get stressed out from normal souls can't imagine how this felt

[@PressContinue]

Warm. It felt warm. Heart warming in fact

[@marcosdheleno]

0:49 missed opportunity to show the ending of devil may cry 1 scene. that would've been amazing.

[@PressContinue]

I'm afraid I never actually played devil may cry 1.

[@DarkCT]

wait. so flynn's ring affects the freaking torch, but not the bow and crossbow?

[@raccoonofmotivation20]

So when you use a torch it's like throwing a spitball but when hollows in ds1 use torches it melts through my havel armour like nothing.

[@PressContinue]

LOL, yeah it's quite a contrast

[@aidenmccormick6661]

Metallica at the beginning of every video is great

[@arklados3596]

I couldn’t even beat this game regularly. Damn Nashandra and her curse buildup.

[@PressContinue]

You can either outheal it, destroy the orbs by attacking them, or lure her away from them. Or the hollow skin from the iron king DLC whch negates curse completely

[@Data-AnalystSera]

Now one understands why Ymfah did not bother

[@TheGirlInFandomWorld]

You. Are. Nuts. Also I love LobosJr.

[@voidcheque7019]

Opening up with Metallica gets you an instant like and sub lol.

[@bjarnivalur6330]

19:51 Can confirm that, because your metabolism happens inside your cells and There exist certain substances that increase your metabolism to the point of your cells overheat and destroy themselves(burn up), so yeah, human flesh can burn underwater(in theory).

[@PressContinue]

Hmm... not quite sure about in practice though

[@josephhanicak7922]

Fume Knight has like 90% fire resistance. That would be absolute misery

[@PressContinue]

Would still better experience than my last stream

[@silverking8531]

I was entertained but this was previously done by The Backlogs, immolation only anyways

[@PressContinue]

This was a year before he did it. Also why would that be relevant to begin with?

[@silverking8531]

@@PressContinue I was merely making a comment alongside the fact that I enjoyed the video. I didn't notice the post date of the upload so my bad

[@00Knucklehead00]

even tho you're dutch you sound icelandic, your accent sounds a lot like Hafthor Bjornsson. don't get me wrong, sound reallly cool, 💪💪

[@MrMiarne]

Something amazing to go to sleep to

[@Omar-ci2ps]

you can beat real life like this too

[@gb9884]

Character name: Joshua Graham

[@akrmanwar7029]

Bro took the age of fire thing too serious

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

Should have used the Memetallica remix for the intro song Otherwise, great stuff as always.

[@PressContinue]

In a sense, this is my version of memetallica

[@MamaTrixxieAsmr]

Desert sorceress cleavage is nice, and moon butterfly underboob is nice, but nothing beats smelter demon armor. Too bad you didn't go after him, i wouldn't either, as that's a war of attrition with the odds stacked in the demon's favor, but damn that would have been nice, you could have been smelter demon (paired with a better headpiece tho, his isn't exactly flattering)

[@primarchlogarius]

A true streamer knows his audience very well… loved it just loved it… keep up the corny jokes and we will have a popcorn party

[@primarchlogarius]

Your ending bgm was way better than the actual game ending music

[@cinemation4515]

At this point I feel like you're making up challenges to make yourself suffer

[@PressContinue]

You guys seem to like that

[@Someone89a]

The more Press suffers the less we feel the pain of waiting for Elden ring.

[@mr.jabbywock1830]

This looks like pain

[@PressContinue]

Well you're quite literally on fire, so there's that...

[@eduardosantos2477]

Lol where do u find those high pitch songs off the montages??? It aways cracks me up too much hahahahagahab

[@PressContinue]

I make those myself using Reaper

[@mikerussell4751]

nicely done !