Hangout: Dark Souls II Launch Party

By Josh Posted Monday Apr 21, 2014

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It’s Dark Souls week on Spoiler Warning, and we’re going to have a hangout this Friday for the PC launch of Dark Souls II! It’ll be fun, bring your friends, watch me die to mooks and bottomless pits.

We’ll be having it on Friday, April 25th, at 3 PM Pacific/6 Eastern/11 Britain. You can catch it at the usual Twitch page. Shamus will be there. Jarenth says he’ll be there. Justin might be there. And our very special guest on the Diecast and Spoiler Warning this week might even show up. So tune in for literally hours of painful gameplay where I learn the true meaning of “death.”

 


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25 thoughts on “Hangout: Dark Souls II Launch Party

  1. IFS says:

    I hope you guys record this one on twitch, I might be able to catch some of it but I’m sadly going to be pretty busy on Friday. Sounds like a lot of fun though, I’m looking forward to seeing what you guys think of the game!

    1. LupusAmens says:

      I hope they upload it to youtube or something because twitch has zero buffering and no video quality options which does not work with 120kb internet.

  2. Doomcat says:

    Is it bad that I really want to watch this, but probably wont…seeing as I’ll be playing Dark souls 2 that day as well…and I’d rather avoid spoilers…

    Dang console launch has made spoiler avoidance hard…

  3. Humanoid says:

    8am Saturday morning, so you’ll all have to forgive my groggy commenting if I manage to turn up on time.

    Aside, is there a particular reason we’re sticking with Twitch and it’s irritating delays for streams when it’s been retired for Spoiler Warning? Alternative services not able to handle the public traffic?

  4. Irridium says:

    I’ll try to make it. But I’ll probably be playing the game myself.

    We’ll see what happens.

  5. Adalore says:

    I’ll show up using the power of “I have two computers, one is a laptop that I use exclusively for multitasking!” and with a healthy side of “I already had the early game spoiled to hell and back dang it, why did the game have to be released practically 2 months later on pc?”

  6. The Rocketeer says:

    Well shoot, I am not going to be able to be there. But I hope you all have a blast!

  7. Ilseroth says:

    I’ve played through Dark souls 2 about a dozen times now; couldn’t resist getting it on consoled despite the fact the PC version will be better. Over a month wait was just too long for me.

    Overall honestly; if Josh did indeed play enough Dark Souls 1 to get Stockholm syndrome; Dark Souls 2 really shouldn’t murder him *too* much.

    That being said, I most definitely will taking a break from my own enjoyment of the PC release to watch Josh play…

    Maybe I’ll invade him… though given how many people will playing that would likely be impossible.

  8. I work that day, so signs point to me being roughly two hours late. I’ll try to show up though.

    1. krellen says:

      I’ll fill in incredibly poorly for you until you show up.

  9. Sorites says:

    Will this be recorded for those of us who can’t make it?

    1. Josh says:

      Yes, we have recordings on twitch of most of the past hangouts. You can view them here.

      1. Sorites says:

        Woohoo!

      2. el_b says:

        sucked how livestream started deleting older vids, still went back to the saints and xcom run, they were fun.

  10. Always when I’m working! :(

  11. Phantos says:

    I am a lot more curious to see this, after having watched Mathewmatosis’ critique of the game.

    I used to know someone who swore up and down that Dark Souls was worse than Demon Souls. So I’m also curious to see if the franchise has sunk even lower, or if that guy just sucks at video games.

  12. Mike says:

    Nitpick, but “Friday, April 25th, at 3 PM Pacific/6 Eastern/11 Britain” probably would be more clear as “Friday, April 25th, at 3PM Pacific/6PM Eastern/11PM Britain”, because (a) it’s obviously not universally PM in all parts of the world, hence ambiguous (b) simple “11” intuitively interpreted as “11 out of 24” where there’s no AM/PM (c) shouldn’t Britain have 24-hour clock (hence “11 Britain” is just plain incorrect)?

  13. Vipermagi says:

    You know I have to be here to witness this.

    I know I have to get up at like 7 in the morning, and kind of have to sleep early so I don’t end up a complete wreck.

    May the Pursuer curse the shit out of your decaying corpse. I will be there.

    Oh, by the way:
    Poise apparently only works during actions (while rolling, attacking, but not while standing still), and two-handing grants an excessively large bonus to Poise damage, making it very easy to stagger just about any player. Not even the highest-poise Armour does well against a two-handed Dagger with a Stone Ring.

    Heavy armour is cool for PvE, but it’s even worse for PvP than in Dark 1. At least it’s better than in Demon’s, where it was always useless!

    1. Klay F. says:

      I’ll preface this by saying I haven’t messed with PvP much (yet), but it seems to me that magic, particularly hexes, are just as overpowered as in DS1. It makes my pure melee self sad, especially now that there’s no Demon Greataxe. :(

      1. Vipermagi says:

        Slightly less so, but still way more potent than melee or ranged, from what I’ve heard and seen (which isn’t terribly much in the way of min-maxing, for obvious reasons).

        In Dark 1, only two or three bosses can survive two hits of Dark Bead on NG+. The list doesn’t grow a whole lot with each passing playthrough, either; the Gaping Dragon still goes down like a sack of spuds on NG+6, which is the point that enemies don’t become any tougher (if you’re curious: not even a crowning).

        Dark 2’s bosses can actually survive a bit more punishment than that, due to there being far fewer multiplicative scaling options. That said, it still puts out the same damage as backstabs do, at range, so whatever. You can even manually aim Spells now, if you wield binocs alongside your catalyst.
        I’m really curious to find out the maximum potential of Spells in Dark 2.

        1. Klay F. says:

          The potential for griefing at least, is near infinite depending on the area in which you invade/are invaded. There’s a youtube video of a guy invading in Dragon’s Aerie. He gets players to chase him down a zipline, then uses Lifedrain Patch, which knocks them off, to their deaths. This is a spell that has no other purpose than to grief other players.

  14. Tse says:

    Yay! Good thing I’m not starting work till next month. I’ll be there at 1am.

  15. Deadpool says:

    Awwww…. I’m gonna miss it :(

  16. Galad says:

    It’s .. not a crappy console port?

    If it’s not I’ll probably be buying this.

  17. Abnaxis says:

    I’m probably going to be playing, not watching.

    I loved me some DS1, but there a lot of niggling issues that got fixed in DS2.

    Maybe I should try invading at the appointed time so I can grief Josh? Comeuppance :p

    You going to be doing jolly co-op on the stream?

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