Dark souls 2: Wishlist

I don’t mean to just walk through the bleed argument above without saying anything…. but its over my head =P

What I would like to see in Dark Souls 2 is a “player killed by enemy” counter.
Resident Evil 5 had an option in the menus where you could see what monsters had killed you and how many times they had done it. For a game series that prides itself on killing you, it would be neat to see what mob was yer worst enemy.

For me it would have been that spear knight in the dragon head room in Anor Londo. Always underestimated it when i was in a rush…always payed for it.

Forum Pirate wrote:Viable unarmed combat would be cool. Not sure how it could be done well though.

I think unarmed/fIst weapons could be made viable if they were just given better and faster attack chaining.

The Letter X wrote:

Forum Pirate wrote:Viable unarmed combat would be cool. Not sure how it could be done well though.

I think unarmed/fIst weapons could be made viable if they were just given better and faster attack chaining.

As a player who used this build, I can guarantee that simply increasing swing speed would probably not make for a very well adjusted fix. What makes the fist weapons (at least, Caestus) such a poor weapon choice is its range. Quite simply, it has practically nothing. It already swings fast enough that you can hit someone if they don't move, but it's incredibly tight for positioning. Forget spears; shortswords have longer range. (not saying you can't fight them, just that it's hard to do so without parrying, backstabbing, or just sitting and trading blows.

Fist weapons have short range - that's something they need to deal with. By "better" movesets, I meant maybe adding lunging attacks or dashing attacks to help deal with that range problem. Someone who uses fist weapons should be nearly the most agile on the battlefield, and giving fist weapons better chain attacks from spamming R1 or mixing in R2 is the only way I can see that happening.

The Letter X wrote:Fist weapons have short range - that's something they need to deal with. By "better" movesets, I meant maybe adding lunging attacks or dashing attacks to help deal with that range problem. Someone who uses fist weapons should be nearly the most agile on the battlefield, and giving fist weapons better chain attacks from spamming R1 or mixing in R2 is the only way I can see that happening.

Making the moveset more lunge-y would certainly help out quite a bit, although I see a few other issues:

Firstly, unless you lunge a LOT, you need to be in melee range constantly which is not a good place, as unless you have a shield, you are going to get hit a lot (excluding parries and dodge-dancing, the second of which would make counterattacking fairly difficult). The way I could see to improve this somewhat would be to increase the poise break of fist weapons so you have a shot at actually stopping SOMEONE that doesn't have bare-bones poise.

Secondly is that while, by necessity, boxers would have to be the most mobile, there really isn't a good way to do that. It's simple for the boxer to just wear light armor and fast roll, but the same could easily be done with a rapier, and that outclasses a fist weapon in every way now.

The way I see balancing unarmed attacks is too add a way too boost damage to decent levels (A caestus at 40/40 outshines daggers in damage, but lacks any kind of bleed or other turning point), increase poise break a little, make the attacks lunge-ier, and (as a new idea) maybe allow a temporary Assassin's Creed Style disarm while using bare fists/caestus by parrying and then kicking them (for instance). You get to use whatever weapon they had out at the time and they lose the use of that weapon slot, although they can still switch to their backup weapon.

Fist weapons that allow flips and kicks? That could be awesome.

I was thinking like daggers. Low damage per hit but very fast and really high crits.

The logic behind the high crits is that most armor wouldn't defend against holds like an armbar, kamora, gilliotine ect. Heavy armor would actually make it tougher to escape holds like that, because the opponent has to contend with not just your strength and weight, but the weight of the armor as well.

Maybe replace the kick with a grab that ignores shields, or maybe does normal damage but acts as a parry if the opponent tried to block it? This would actually give them a big advantage if they were actually close enough to do it.

But I like kicking... (I realize it was just an example lol)
Maybe grabs could be R1+L1? Then like the kick, everybody could use them. However, unarmed combatants would have the best grab available as part of their move set. Everyone else could just do a headbutt or something.

I actually just noticed the other day that an unarmed kick is actually a knee strike, I thought that was pretty cool.

But how can someone with a weapon in 1 hand and shield in the other do a grab? It would also screw with the unarmed characters close range advantage.

Everybody else would have the respective forward r1s for their main weapon. (usually a kick)

I love the amount of medical arguments here.

Gyonimizotetsu wrote:I love the amount of medical arguments here.

We all do.

i think your characters looks should change as your level up.

a character in dark souls can have 9 str but be built like the hulk if thats what you pick when you started. doesnt really make sense.

instead, leveling str should make you bigger
dex could change your posture
... any ideas for the rest?

Well, I don't want my character looking all big and ugly. I want to be like Aizen and be all skinny and Godly when I'm strong

Forum Pirate wrote:But how can someone with a weapon in 1 hand and shield in the other do a grab? It would also screw with the unarmed characters close range advantage.

Everybody else would have the respective forward r1s for their main weapon. (usually a kick)

Same way the pc magically pulls a weapon out their butt when switching. When you initiate grab, your weapon wouldn't be taken account. If the damage was based on your weapons, then they'd just be treated the same as backstabs.

I was thinking something like this would be the default grab attack. Unarmed, and maybe a few special weapons themselves would have unique grabs.

In case the Devs did want to give each weapon class it's own throw, I think there's plenty of grabs in Tekken and Soul Calibur that wouldn't look completely ridiculous.

Might get crap for this but whatever.

I'd like to see a " nerf " of sorts on weapons and items. Obviously they couldn't actually be nerfed yet since the game isn't finished though. I feel like after your first runthrough, the game becomes more of a mad dash for whatever cheap tactic you can grab onto so you can **** in online or even in PvE. I feel as though that would make you rely more on skill rather than cheap bullcrap.

The thing is, with DkS it's not a varied game so multiple playthroughs aren't warranted. NG+ I'd try if PvP didn't exist, but nerfing all weapons, just to make the game harder just seems unfair. And really, to be honest the only way you can get OP weapons, like a fire great scythe, is to run through areas WAY above your level and risk dying so many times, so they kind of earn that right don't they? Also even these early OP weapons become P later on so it all balances out. Even with a +15 whatever you won't be running through the game like it's a cakewalk, you could get hit off a cliff by the dogs in ToG or swarmed by millions of crystal hollow.

Damn avatars i thought you were talking to yourself.

All I want is more weapon variation. To spice things up

And lore. LOTS of lore

I would like gestures to mean things and a lot more of them.
What I mean about the gestures is to possibly have a gesture that mean "melee only" or "anything goes" things that pertain to pvp and co-op.
The ones we have already in DkS definitely fit into the co-op category more than the pvp but we do have both in DkS.
I just think From can put a game mechanic or just some sort of twist to the gestures to give them a more clever use.
What do you guys think, and what are some of your ideas if any?

I would love if you could cancel a Gesture . Would have saved me a lot of lives because i tend to get c0cky and throw a in randomly

They doubled the Amounts of gestures from Demons to Dark so i'm certain we get more this time too

Edit: The Forum doesnt like the word co.cky appearantly

Marino. wrote:I would love if you could cancel a Gesture . Would have saved me a lot of lives because i tend to get c0cky and throw a in randomly

They doubled the Amounts of gestures from Demons to Dark so i'm certain we get more this time too

Edit: The Forum doesnt like the word co.cky appearantly

You can cancel a gesture by quickly choosing another gesture, I believe

Oh_the_Humanity wrote:I would like gestures to mean things and a lot more of them.
What I mean about the gestures is to possibly have a gesture that mean "melee only" or "anything goes" things that pertain to pvp and co-op.
The ones we have already in DkS definitely fit into the co-op category more than the pvp but we do have both in DkS.
I just think From can put a game mechanic or just some sort of twist to the gestures to give them a more clever use.
What do you guys think, and what are some of your ideas if any?

And this sounds amazing. From Software, do this or die.

Sloth9230 wrote:

Forum Pirate wrote:But how can someone with a weapon in 1 hand and shield in the other do a grab? It would also screw with the unarmed characters close range advantage.

Everybody else would have the respective forward r1s for their main weapon. (usually a kick)

Same way the pc magically pulls a weapon out their butt when switching. When you initiate grab, your weapon wouldn't be taken account. If the damage was based on your weapons, then they'd just be treated the same as backstabs.

That can be explained. The devs were to lazy to animate every weapon you have on you at a time, but both a shield and a weapon require at least 1 hand.

I wouldn't be strongly opposed to someone 2handing a weapon being able to grab, but the rapier turtle already has his hands full. I couldn't let that slide with "suspended disbelief"

I'm not a big fan of most gestures. The basic beckon and point (up, forward, down) get the job done.

I'm more than satisfied with the amount of gestures we have now. I think I can get my point across by using only points, bows, and shrugs anyway.