SirSlade Posted February 10, 2017 https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ThoughtfulCrabTriHard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RubixsQube Posted February 10, 2017 Nick, if you want to farm vials, it is not as annoying or intense as you think it is. Wake up at the Central Yharnam lamp, right near where you got the flamesprayer. (1) Head left and down some stairs. There's an easy dude there. Kill him, he usually drops a vial or two. Head down more stairs and there's a door in front of you. Kill the dude in there, he might drop some. Kill the old wheelchair man, he always drops 5 quicksilver bullets. You have spent maybe 1 minute doing this. Head outside the house (not the way you came) and through a hallway, turn left and kill the two trolls (2). Practice parrying if you want. These guys almost always drop vials. Head back to the house, and go upstairs, killing two dudes upstairs. More vial possibilities. Outside and up the stairs there is another easy dude, two werewolves (again, good chances for vials), (3) and in the other direction (towards where you fought the cleric beast) a troll and some ravens. The troll will also drop some vials, usually. And past the troll there's a lamp (4). This loop takes ~5ish minutes, and it will usually net you a pile of vials and some quicksilver bullets. If you want to quickly get vials before a boss, do this instead of trying to BUY VIALS. The only time you should buy vials is if you have some extra echoes after leveling and you want a way to use them. You can do this while chatting with the stream between boss attempts, and it will be just as fast as when you fumble around with the menu furiously drinking coldblood dews. Now that you have confidence with both werewolves and trolls this little loop should be no problem. TRUST ME. You can watch me do it in this portion of my latest run. (no spoilers, it's all places you've been before) In three minutes, I collected 14 blood vials, and 5 quicksilver bullets. EDIT: Here is a map, referenced above with numbers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SL128 Posted February 14, 2017 Dan Floyd finished his Dark Souls 2 lore video yesterday, for those interested. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SL128 Posted February 18, 2017 It's been almost a month since I've been sent the clips, so here's an update: Over the past few weeks, I'd been instead working on job applications. Starting today, however, progress is resuming. At this rate, I expect to be finished by the end of the month. Also, here's one of the best and most naiive clips I've found while moving through them:https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/BadBeaverPipeHype Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Problem Machine Posted February 20, 2017 On 2/18/2017 at 10:39 AM, SL128 said: It's been almost a month since I've been sent the clips, so here's an update: Over the past few weeks, I'd been instead working on job applications. Starting today, however, progress is resuming. At this rate, I expect to be finished by the end of the month. Also, here's one of the best and most naiive clips I've found while moving through them:https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/BadBeaverPipeHype Oh that's gonna make a real nice jump cut one day Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RubixsQube Posted February 21, 2017 Did I miss something...has Nick taken an extended Bloodborne Break? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kyir Posted February 21, 2017 Nick's just taking some time to farm vials in preparation for the rest of the game. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Breckon Posted February 24, 2017 On 2/21/2017 at 11:37 AM, RubixsQube said: Did I miss something...has Nick taken an extended Bloodborne Break? I did. I have. I am. Sorry! The next episode of Thumbs has some explanation. But yeah, the vial farming was burning me out a little bit. I may stream another game for a week and come back to Bloodborne when I'm feeling more fresh. Or I may just play Bloodborne more sporadically than I played Dark Souls, to kind of spread out the farming, haha. Not sure. I'll definitely beat it, but yeah, I wish it had Dark Souls' health system. :/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RubixsQube Posted February 24, 2017 4 minutes ago, Nick Breckon said: I did. I have. I am. Sorry! The next episode of Thumbs has some explanation. But yeah, the vial farming was burning me out a little bit. I may stream another game for a week and come back to Bloodborne when I'm feeling more fresh. Or I may just play Bloodborne more sporadically than I played Dark Souls, to kind of spread out the farming, haha. Not sure. I'll definitely beat it, but yeah, I wish it had Dark Souls' health system. :/ I really do think that you could get back up and running if you followed my guide above for like, ten to fifteen minutes. You're going to need to get back into practice, and this provides a pretty good ramp in terms of enemy difficulty, while also allowing you to build up blood vials and quicksilver bullets. Also, you didn't, at all, finish exploring much of Old Yharnam, which would further allow for you to collect echoes and level your character up. You've got to level up your character, especially since Jasper started as a pretty crummy underleveled dude. It was fun watching you play these games, and, as you do have insight points to spend (or at least, madman's knowledge to potentially get insight points), at the very least I guarantee you that someone in the chat would love to come and help out with the fight. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cbirdsong Posted February 24, 2017 4 hours ago, Nick Breckon said: I did. I have. I am. Sorry! The next episode of Thumbs has some explanation. But yeah, the vial farming was burning me out a little bit. I may stream another game for a week and come back to Bloodborne when I'm feeling more fresh. Or I may just play Bloodborne more sporadically than I played Dark Souls, to kind of spread out the farming, haha. Not sure. I'll definitely beat it, but yeah, I wish it had Dark Souls' health system. :/ You have to pick up drops from enemies, and seek out pickups in the environemnt. You rarely cared about that on your Dark Souls streams, but these are how Bloodborne makes blood vials acceptable. (Not good, just acceptable.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SL128 Posted March 5, 2017 I don't want to keep flooding the IT thread with BB talk, but I agree with others that farming and exploring is much more interesting than inevitable death rushes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chummer Posted March 5, 2017 As someone who hasn't beaten any Dark Souls games yet, does the Souls series actually have good stories or are people just impressed at the way it hints towards that story with morsels through item descriptions and the game space? Or is it a combination? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SL128 Posted March 5, 2017 1 hour ago, SgtWhistlebotom said: As someone who hasn't beaten any Dark Souls games yet, does the Souls series actually have good stories or are people just impressed at the way it hints towards that story with morsels through item descriptions and the game space? Or is it a combination? It has good stories, good storytelling (once you start to piece things together), and excellent worldbuilding. Here's a summary of the first game's stories from Dan Floyd: And starting at 18:20, Super Bunnyhop discusses more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ZLoHl5UH8&t=18m20s I think my favorite big-picture video, though, is this from RockPaperShotgun's fail forward series; 9:48-15:32 being the most interesting part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Td0aesimw&t=9m48s Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kyir Posted March 30, 2017 Glad to see Nick enjoying himself again! https://clips.twitch.tv/ZealousPoisedLocustMikeHogu Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SL128 Posted March 31, 2017 From watching the vods, I saw that JasonSavior made this amazing image that nobody seemed to react to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TychoCelchuuu Posted March 31, 2017 Probably because that 404s. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kyir Posted April 3, 2017 Nick's single new DS3 stream whet my appetite for them and now I'm being left hungry. Life is hard. Very excited to see him reach the cheatin hitman section of DLC2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Problem Machine Posted April 3, 2017 I think I'm about halfway through and so far that describes basically the entire thing. Like I'm gonna fight four Harald knights, pfft. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Breckon Posted April 4, 2017 14 hours ago, Kyir said: Nick's single new DS3 stream whet my appetite for them and now I'm being left hungry. Life is hard. Very excited to see him reach the cheatin hitman section of DLC2. Apologies. As evidenced by the end of the last stream, my internet has been having some problems. It was bad again today, but I'll try a test stream tomorrow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TychoCelchuuu Posted April 6, 2017 https://clips.twitch.tv/HeadstrongDelightfulCrabsWTRuck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eRonin Posted April 6, 2017 Nick is done with games https://clips.twitch.tv/EasyCuteChickpeaDatBoi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kyir Posted April 7, 2017 This is a request of a simple man with simple interests, but going forward I would love to hear any thoughts by Nick on how playing the other souls games have affected his impression of Dark Souls 3. Classic Nick Clips from April 8th stream: https://clips.twitch.tv/TastyPeacefulYakKappaWealth https://clips.twitch.tv/WimpyAssiduousKaleBabyRage Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thainatos Posted April 13, 2017 Solid ownage by ProblemMachine on the April 9th stream. Also a quality stream. Nick smashed through DLC1 all while being hilarious and indignant. Someone oughtta make a mashup of all the times that bird fell on his head. I haven't laughed so hard in a dog's age. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Problem Machine Posted April 13, 2017 I remember being very supportive! That's how I remember it anyway. I'm sure whatever I said it was at very least hilarious. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kyir Posted April 18, 2017 Anyone with a better memory than me know where the two Estus Shards that Nick is missing are? I'm inclined to think that it's the Irithyll and Grand Archives ones, but it's a pretty specific thing to try and remember and I'm not very sure on either count. As for the last two Bone Shards, I'm thinking Cathedral and Grand Archives again (maybe?) I remember him getting smashed by the skeleton ball, but not whether or not he killed the wizard skeleton controlling it for the shard inside. I realize the Bone Shards provide a pretty negligible amount of extra healing at this point, but it might help anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites