why you shouldn't run past enemies in DS2

despite what is said about this game its probably way better than ds1

[@cCoalYT]

Noticed some people are upset at this video. Look at the title for a long second. It is my first playthrough of the game, please cut me some slack about the traps. I didn't know where they were/how they worked🙃

[@theyouth2000]

You did really well avoiding enemies all things considered. I would have rolled straight into the lava below even on my 10th attempt. 😂 People should just chill.

[@orest395]

It’s ok, this was a learning experience

[@Ghorda9]

there's a ladder that's a lot easier to run to, you just need to pull the lever first

[@DavidGonzalez-is8ns]

You did better than me on my first play through years ago.

[@diegospidero9801]

I did the same shit and ran into that fat turtle guy in that same hallway and at that moment I realized this game is fucking hard

[@davidmadera009]

compared to other fs game, dark souls 2 is the only one where enemies follow you till the end of the world

[@waltuh11121]

When enemies actually have brains

[@Guill_Sillva]

Of course, you are they enemie 🤷‍♀️

[@aBandName]

I don't know in the remaster but in DSPTD if an enemy sees you they won't rest until you're dead

[@Guill_Sillva]

@@aBandName true buddy, the Armored Soldier in the room near to the first bonfire on Undead Unburgh with other 2 hollows that go to a stair for Capra Demom área followed me until Havel....

[@yeahwellthatsjustlikeyouro7466]

​@@waltuh11121 Developers forgot they're supposed to be hollows.

[@RunehearthCL]

most patient ds2 player

[@nero-vii]

Especially in the dlcs you realize running past enemies will eventually lock you in a passage with a dead end. Dead end being an enemy blocking your way while 10 other following you to the end of the world.

[@theyouth2000]

I really hated that about the level design. 😂 I swear, the AI is programmed to be sadistic. Even I have made it in the clear to consume my Estus flask, somehow one enemy always ends up landing the killing blow.

[@Ghorda9]

@@theyouth2000 there are ways to deal with it, you just need to be smart and have an actual plan. Alluring skulls exist for a reason

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

​@@Ghorda9 Some traps work too like the minotaur heads in Brume Tower

[@thefoxwolfdraconis]

DS2 - love it, mainly cause it teaches you PATIENCE the most out of any other of the franchise

[@LuckyLiarK]

You mean we all should fight against 3 reindeer at the end of frigid outskirt?

[@elsdodo]

bro had them all on the trapdoor and refused to use it

[@cCoalYT]

@@elsdodo my impatience got the better of me 😔

[@clearsky9109]

That and could've used it and jumped off back to area where the lever is

[@hannibalgiraldo4435]

Enemies in ds2 be following you like you owe them their mortgage money dawg, they be following you until your home is possible.

[@gabrielbelmont8013]

I was able to bring an enemy from Earthen Peak to the Iron Keep through the elevator once. They follow you til the end of the earth.

[@burymeinjhenny918]

LOL

[@karukikun2709]

No way

[@WeirdTroll666]

0:30 the discord notification... made me happy for a sec midra ost lol, also you can easily jump across from the turtle guy platform

[@someonewhodabs7998]

ΡΕ ΚΑΙ ΕΜΕΝΑ

[@FriedShrimp04]

MauLer, when playing ds2:

[@theaveragenormie7151]

Inaccurate, OP actually tried attacking.

[@victorprati7908]

according to his **objective** criticism this is bad game design, so, by his own logic, being able to ignore enemies and run past everything in ds1 is good game design 😂😂

[@dziosdzynes7663]

People when guards dont even try to stop you in other souls games: "heh what an idiot" People when guards defend their forts with their lives in DS2: "WHAT IS THIS GANKFEST FUCK THIS UNBALANCED SHIT GAME AAUURRGGHH"

[@cCoalYT]

I noticed that the guards in ds2 do NOT fuck around very soon 😭

[@peri5552]

shouldve leveled ADP

[@JavierGuareguaC]

Iron keep and heide's tower are totally a gankfest if you try to run past the enemies

[@PhantomBunny888]

me n the boys at iron keep

[@virtualcolt]

I love how the Teenage Iron Ninja Turtles are based on Iron Man's very first suit.

[@LadyEmpathy666]

All DS2 haters did this

[@NoahToledo-xo5pj]

"I am gonna rush through this area" "wHy i A m GeTtInG gAnKeD, GaNk SoUls 2 sUcKs!"

[@cCoalYT]

what people get when they don't play the game properly

[@DeadKingKnight]

90% of ds2 haters are like call of duty teammates, rather than blame themselves they blame their teammates for literally everything. Yes ds2 has flaws but not a single hater mention these flaws, they got stuck in the tutorial and gave up lol.

[@ВасилийБелоцерковец-х1м]

Why the fuck do I need to endure the same shit for 10 times in a row? The question is not about "right" decisions of player, it's about cheesy game-design, weird AI and barely bearable boredom from this gameplay. Should't games be interesting to play?

[@NoahToledo-xo5pj]

@@ВасилийБелоцерковец-х1м You need to endure it cuz you keep doing the same thing, you die and procced to do it again and you are gonna keep doing it until you try something different so stop crying and git gud.

[@ВасилийБелоцерковец-х1м]

​@@NoahToledo-xo5pj...and this is the the great reason why one of the three brothers turned out to be a morbid freak

[@AtreyusNinja]

damn the ANXIETY of this music o_O

[@caseyafternoon3545]

Best video I've seen on YT in a hot minute. I was on the edge of seat the entire time 😂

[@prodbraianzn]

ah yes, the dark souls 2 experience edit: on my first time in ds2, i died so much that all of the enemies on the first half of the map disapeared😂😂

[@theyouth2000]

To further add salt onto injury, I had lost all my souls from previous death, and I can't farm them back because the enemies do not re-spawn. 😂😂😂

[@poetryofcinema6957]

The amount of times I fricking died from falling down is hysterical. In Bastille there is a door where it just opens into nothing. One step and you fall. I mean why the door is even there😂

[@Ghorda9]

@@poetryofcinema6957 that's a shortcut to the ruin sentinels, you drop down onto the bit sticking out coming from the blacksmiths bonfire

[@poetryofcinema6957]

@@Ghorda9 Oh, when i looked down it looked too steep, I had many would and didn't want to make the long run again

[@hunterotte9555]

Based video description. Edit: strongly suggest the pvp of this game.

[@victorprati7908]

I mean you shouldn't run past enemies in any souls games but DS2 is especially competent in delivering that message.😊

[@bellreaper]

In my first run a friend told me to run trough the enemies, he had only played Dark souls 1 and 3, boy if he only knew that in Dark Souls 2 the enemies are ruthless and wicked lol

[@simonlow0210]

Lmao, that gave me a good laugh. 😂 But seriously, you couldve baited everyone and then just use the trap switch and kill them all at once

[@cCoalYT]

@@simonlow0210 happy I made ya laugh man! Also,this may sound dumb, but where do I activate the traps? Is it a pressure plate or something I wasnt looking at? Would be nice to know for another playthrough 👍

[@simonlow0210]

At 0:24, you can see a dark square pressure plate on the side. You walked around it so the trap didn't activate. That is the switch for activating the trap. There is a total of 4 switches in this room.

[@cCoalYT]

@@simonlow0210 that seems so much more obvious now 😭 it felt too blended in for me, thank you so much. I was wondering why sometimes the tiles fell and others didn't

[@Manabook-vf9cg]

I like the design better actually puts an emphasis on playing the game.

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

They are determined to protect the fort

[@dragonslayer3552]

Why do people even run from enemies in souls games its fun baiting out and engaging them Why does every game need to be a boss rush... People really want souls games to be like tik tok just scrolling through boss after boss and thats why they hate ds2

[@cCoalYT]

wait till they see the seath runback

[@rohitchaoji]

I don't get the love for DS3 for similar reasons. It's a boss rush simulator with short and linear areas. It's the only Souls game I explored fully and was underwhelmed by the end of it.

[@shadower227]

Good choice of music

[@samthepigman4069]

People shit on iron keep but it might be one of my fav levels. It really isn't that hard to single out an enemy and kill it

[@chrisse9894]

You did well to run past them, you just need to trap them in the fire than at the chokepoint :). Glad to see someone saying he enjoyed DS2 more than DS1, I very much agree. And it was way better than DS3 too in my humble opinion...

[@TheBeautyOf]

There’s a secret bonfire not far from the boss 🤫

[@Guill_Sillva]

Ds2 good tips to make the game REAL more enjoyable -KILL THE FUCKING ENEMIES, if you know that you will be gank if you run, try to kill them, is not difficult -Use estus to quick heal, and life gems to heal when nobody is close -ONLY HEAL ON A BOSS AFTER DODGE HE ATTACKS, try to heal and you will be hit (tge exact same way you hit the enemies if they try to heal) -This games have infinite heal itens and upgrade weapon is OP, soo get good and don't try to rush a map that you didnt know, and learn how to use your weapon on certain enemies and on certain map you are -This games have A LOT, of cool features in all the maps, if you just rush to the boss you will lose all of the cool things -If you want a boss rush go play Megaman X or Elden Ring -Level up ADP to 110 at end/post game, and to 100 on Early/Mid game, this will make it realy more enjoyable -Find a cool weapon and not just "Rapier them", this games have A LOT of weapons and 70% of them are realy cool to use -Iron Keep has 2 sections of like 15 enemies on the entire map and 2 bosses (1 being optional) soo its a realy fast place to travel -Shulva is peak, Bruma's Tower is peak of peak, Eleum Loyce is peak of peak of peak -Explore all the maps and places of the game, i promise, its fun, its cool, and have cool stuffs to see Extra: if dodge and still you got teleported to a boss grab (Like Sir Alonne grab attack) its not bullshit hitbox, you just got hit normaly, the game just teleported you to his sword so the boss make the animation of the grab correctly

[@yeahwellthatsjustlikeyouro7466]

Boss Rush > Filler Souls

[@thebignigga69420]

​@@yeahwellthatsjustlikeyouro7466 " Oh no , the game designers put enemies in the game , such a bad decision "

[@arturosandoval8862]

You shouldn't level ADP to 100, it's Agility that you have to level to 100, ADP increases Agility but at most you should level it to 24 or 30 or something like that if you have very low Attunement.

[@InfoGamer11]

The only thing i find annoying about this game is that there's literally 3-4 gank squads on every area oh and the runbacks are just downright DIABOLICAL.

[@Guill_Sillva]

Try to...it will be scary so please prepare yourself Try to...3, 2, 1 and...kill them when you see 2 or 3, and use estus/life gem if get hit Its more effective than running and making a legion of enemies behind you This game have a bonfire in every place soo its kinda easy

[@luisgustavodossantosrodrig2005]

Geting the bonfire's close to the boss definitive would help

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

​@@luisgustavodossantosrodrig2005 True, there's a bonfire a bit after where OP was running to.

[@Walrus5]

​@ThatGuy-ky2yf wtf where??? I had to run all that way to get to the old iron king. Luckily its an easy boss otherwise i would have had to do that runback so many times

[@luisgustavodossantosrodrig2005]

@@Walrus5 there's one right before the boss where have enemy with the hammer in the room with spikes in the wall

[@ПавелКратиров-ф6с]

It should be named "Why you shouldn't DS2"

[@Dead_on_Arrival.]

I wish i had a psycho girlfriend who can nonstop chase me like them

[@adelxiii6327]

You won’t like it …

[@ninj4k4]

Great video! I can understand trying this the first time, ive never gone through that fog wall since. Not worth it, i just go around

[@przemekkak7029]

Ds2 turns a casual into a veteran, Elden ring can't do that 😂

[@NigelUnchle]

Man that poise

[@Kamawan0]

I feel your pain from the perspective of a first playthrough. Good luck on the rest, assuming you are still working on it!

[@cCoalYT]

Hey, Thank you so much! I just got the King's Ring an hour or so ago, figured I would stop it there for now. I assume the king's ring is for that door in the forest of fallen giants area?

[@Kamawan0]

@@cCoalYT Exactly! There's another if you go to the bonfire just before Shaded Woods, too! The part that has the three-way fork leading to Drangleic, Shaded Woods, and somewhere else. If you see a huge troll and some cursed rats you're going the right way!

[@cCoalYT]

@@Kamawan0 Hi, just found my way into Aldia's Keep thanks to your help! I checked the door in the Forest of Fallen Giants but I couldn't do anything, did I miss a key item or is it for a later time? Sorry if I ask so many questions! 🙃

[@Kamawan0]

@@cCoalYT Hahah questions are fine! Yeah, go back there later, after Dragon Shrine :)

[@A97-II]

And don't even think about going through boss fog if they're 5 seconds behind you

[@HerraHissi]

Interesting that if you aggro an enemy and save-reload, the enemy location is saved so they will spawn where you left them. The DS2 engine is complete off-shoot from the rest and I'm glad I played it last. I actually tested my memory of this at Lost Bastille and the enemy loaded inside a wall, died and ragdolled inside of it lol.

[@kagataikaguri]

I keep checking my notifications like lmfaooo

[@smoothyodaproductions4373]

people hate dark souls 2 because you cant mindlessly run past everything like in ds3 lmao

[@playerje4722]

there are other reasons, like slow combat, bad mechanics (i do not hate nor dislike ds2, i never played the game, but you cant tell me that ADP is a good mechanic) and some others, but most problems can be solved by something called open mind, and understanding that games are different

[@surf3rin]

@@playerje4722 And mods. Tons of mods to fix the game. I went trough it again few weeks ago and couldn't enjoy it after Shadow of the erdtree withouts mods to fix it's kinky mechanics

[@killerklinge52]

​@@surf3rinthats the reason playing souls games on PC means nothing.

[@XxN00BxXgg3]

I would be fine with it if I didn't have to fight 3+ enemies at once all the time unless I'm being super slow and at that point I remember how fun the other games are So I go to play the other games

[@blackferdinand2260]

@@surf3rinI recently bought it and found it rather enjoyable. I had only played Bloodborne and Elden Ring before, so I had a pretty aggressive Bloodborne strategy so maybe that’s why I found it fine because I know you’re meant to be more methodical with the shield in these older games. I breezed through the dark souls trilogy in a few days.

[@derpoi]

Ds1 runbacks was fromsoft's most balanced one tbh, not too easy like ds3 and not too hard like ds2. Sen's fortress is a good example, challenging runbacks should be from less agressive enemies, while complemented by intuitively placed traps, instead of the unfun being chased by enemies to the ends of the earth that ds2 had, you have to fight every enemy a bunch of times to clear out the area which just pads the length of the game, sir alonne is the worst example, amazing boss locked behind an hour or more worth of killing every enemy multiple times to make runbacks manageable. On the otherhand runbacks in ds3 might as well not exist, as bonfire placement is too condensed at times and runbacks are super easy. Okay i will stop yapping now i love all fromsoft gamestoo much lmao 😂.

[@cCoalYT]

@@derpoi very good yap, very well said! 👍

[@JGSM_JuvenileGeryon]

Is it that hard to kill most of the enemies on the runback and attempt a boss fight on the same run? Use the gems on the run back and estus on the boss fight

[@yeahwellthatsjustlikeyouro7466]

​@@JGSM_JuvenileGeryon Hard? It's just a nuisance. Also, to anyone who wants to just skip all the filler and only reach the boss ASAP you can just do the good ol' quit and reload trick. It resets their AIs.

[@vojtechspinler6363]

Ds1 runbacks are just as bad as Ds2 runbacks tbh (Gargoyles, Capra Demon, Iron Golem, Seath, Nito, Four Kings, Bed of Chaos, Gwyn)

[@yeahwellthatsjustlikeyouro7466]

@@vojtechspinler6363 None of those even hold a candle to Blue Smelter, Sir Alone, Executioner's Chariot, vanilla Velstadt and the worst run back of all time, the King's Pets. The worst one from DS1 is Nito, it has lots of enemies (that can be easily run past) but in the end you're forced to take a lot of fall damage unless you use that one spell. Still preferable to the DS2 dlc ones.

[@albertomg4971]

I died just like this as well. Can’t fuck with this game 😅

[@Mike-xp8zc]

Yep best just to bait em and take your time 😁 oh and make sure your adapt is atleast a 100

[@2000holo]

bro is that midra soundtrack in the background?

[@cCoalYT]

yep, for someone called 'mid'ra hes pretty good

[@Phirestar]

Run past enemies - get punished by ganks. Try and fight enemies - get punished by ganks. Dark Souls 2 is truly one of the video games ever made.

[@thebignigga69420]

Of course he can't kill all 10 knights in the singular swing taht he performed , you either run past everyone like a monkey on meth or lure enemies one by one and kill them .

[@ikramalimi4397]

Good thing I played vanilla ds2 instead even though there are less players, the enemy placements in sotfs version seems brutal.

[@poekeyhoitz5233]

Relax. People suck. I didn’t see anything wrong with the video… I thought it was spectacular 100% was hoping it was going to be video of you running back to boss fight to get your souls, killing the boss, being super pumped that put your controller down to relax and the levels worth of enemies run in passed to now gone fogwall

[@zweihanderenjoyer4003]

It's not that you literally can't ever run past enemies. It's just not advised if you don't know the map you're running through and you have souls to lose. It's quite doable if you're already familiar with the choke points and ledges enemies will easily kill themselves on.

[@dhaz4455]

"DS2 is peak, you just dont like cause miyazaki wasn't on it" DS2:

[@DeadKingKnight]

“What you talking about? That’s peak gameplay!”

[@alessandroofthemediterranean]

Nah

[@loophole7934]

Played it recently and it wasn't that hard except every enemy in iron keep despawned other than that it's really good 👍

[@vazazell5967]

Can you give 50 soldiers a lava bath in miyazaki game? Nope

[@thebignigga69420]

" Ds2 is objectively bad , there are too many ganks ! " The player :

[@ed8054]

I ran past every enemy in this game… sure its annoying at times but its very doable

[@HerraHissi]

0:56 lol what's your ADP ?

[@cCoalYT]

I think 26, I had very poor dodge timing in this video

[@HerraHissi]

​@@cCoalYTdon't know. It looked like you could have barely made it but I haven't played since Elden Ring came out. I guess your Agility is ok.

[@darklorddisco]

Lord knows I've been there...

[@nelrettodelcetaceo]

best video ever

[@syedkaneki91]

Actually there ia another way. Pull that level and u will. Get a ladder climb that just to get to the another ladder. Its actually more safer than this

[@pajeetsingh]

B team thought this was a great design.

[@thestrongestlivingcreature]

Your adaptability just wasn’t high enough

[@PointlessProductionStudio]

I like this.

[@leoarroyo5466]

Ohh the chaos

[@forcedintofemininity]

You skipped the bonfire

[@TheRoyalAegis]

Yes and dont do that especially in that fucking area, i always kill everything

[@Ghorda9]

it's much easier to just pull the lever and then run to the ladder

[@anon3631]

I don't understand people who aggro the entire map and complain about DS2, also please level ADP.

[@giannevictoracupicop]

Is that Midra's theme??

[@cCoalYT]

yup, it is such a damn good theme

[@antpunisher7019]

The original ds2 didn't have as much ganks like sotfs

[@SunWarriorSolaire]

Trust me, og is worse than sotfs

[@VError]

truly bizarre harassment

[@MrQuadro83]

Going to have to play this. Only Soulsborne game ive never played. Only problem is, I only have Scholar Of The First Sin version. I've heard that version is pretty bad.

[@PointlessProductionStudio]

Vanilla is easier, scholar has more features

[@thebignigga69420]

Scholar is better , not as hard and unfair as everyone says it is , has better online connectivity and many items are better in it , while vanilla is only played for people who don't have access to sotfs or just like vanilla more .

[@ElementEvilTeam]

run faster next time!

[@21stcenturystops59]

This was a roller coaster of piss and shit. Good video though.

[@Guill_Sillva]

Think 10 enemies on a road, 3 you need to kill normaly, other 7 you can kill using the own map traps, they die with 3/4 hits or less, Of course i will run on the enemie territory to reach a dead end and realize i cant just run to the end of the map bcs i will be ganked, what i gonna do after i die? Try to run again

[@cCoalYT]

look at the title of the video, plus I dont know how to use the traps

[@citrusimp]

such a good video poopsiekins ❤❤❤❤ come down to dinner now its gonna get cold :)

[@cCoalYT]

you evil-hearted villain

[@dedynugroho4960]

Use Belfry Sol bonfire simple

[@huskonetap]

Not a point in adp 😭

[@cCoalYT]

its at 26, i just have garbo dodge timing 🙃

[@huskonetap]

​@@cCoalYT You new to the game or something

[@cCoalYT]

@@huskonetap yup, only souls game ive avoided playing till now its pretty fun

[@huskonetap]

@@cCoalYT don't level adp get a weapon u like get the stats then level up hp and stamina and enough points to be able to use your armor

[@Dominick_V.A.]

Average Tuesday at the iron keep:

[@Nyan4Eon]

works in ds1 lol

[@syedkaneki91]

Iron keep is worst than blightown.ngl way to many fast samurai enemies

[@piyushsharma3991]

Its tedious to have to fight every enemy

[@hozuki7946]

Thats fucked up

[@perforateur415]

Nice try but with my lottle experience of Ng+2 this zone , ypu must be patient and kill ennemy on 1vs1 If you are speed and no mistack , 5min and you finish thid zone and actived fire sword ( for teleportation ) I don't know whrite the real name sword fire 😂

[@Mat69420k]

yeah no wonder people who come from other souls to ds2 hate this game, how tf you're supposed to know this bullshit in your first playthrough? it's like ds2 is a different kind of game compared to the others, it has it's good moments, but it has way more flaws than the other souls

[@sergeantsuckyduck3271]

git gud casul

[@georgehouliaras7239]

May Ganking Take The World! -DS2 enemies.

[@youngkappakhan]

You can't even quit out and reload to remove aggro like all the other games, a trick I normally abuse. Despawning everything on the Blue Smelter Demon runback stands as one of my worst experiences in the entirety of Souls games.

[@Ghorda9]

it's actually not that hard to run through to blue smelter, just time your rolls, pay attention to your pathing and remember what the enemies do at certain points.

[@thebignigga69420]

" Abusing this mechanic has been fixed in this game !!! this game is so bad for fixing bad things from it's predecessors "

[@adrianolicardo5375]

Hahaha I now

[@ShaquilleOatmeal849]

Alternative title: Why you shouldnt play DS2

[@joshualing5667]

Git gud

[@LadyEmpathy666]

How about not run past enemies and actually fight them one by one?

[@kaspersaldell]

Being forced to fight every enemy again on the way back to a boss(assuming you'd actually die to a DS2 boss) is not fucking fun. That's why the enemy spam is tedious as shit compared to their other games.

[@theyouth2000]

Didn't like DS2 level design. The game was intentionally designed to trap you in a tight space to get killed. You then have to waste so much time baiting and dispatching enemies before moving to the next area. And the enemies here are one of the worst.

[@poetryofcinema6957]

Actually it's like you can run past the enemies but you just have to take care of one or two who might block the way.

[@Ghorda9]

in this case all he had to do was kill the iron clad and knights at the start, pull the lever and then run to the ladder to go up and around

[@mentallyderanged888]

Everything about this looks terrible, how are there people defending this game?

[@cCoalYT]

I think this game is definitely the worst in the series, but not bad. I agree though, these runbacks make killing enemies almost mandatory everytime and makes the game far less fun. (e.g Darklurker, Smelter Demon)

[@thebignigga69420]

Because they have actually played the game instead of listening to people talk about it , it's a game not a rumor , play it before talking about it ffs .

[@NOMlIl]

​@@thebignigga69420real

[@andrewtschuta2627]

The original game doesn't have this problem only in Scholar it does.