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Those healing bastards are the worst, especially when you consider the actual boss’s health is made of paper mache.
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I know I know.. I’m just poking some fun at FromSoft’s changes to poise is all.
 
Halflight is indeed a pos of a “boss” fight.. at best, it’s nothing special and mostly just a big meh and at worst, it’s one of the worst and most tedious and uninteresting boss concepts.
 
I’m not even sure, why the hell did FromSoftware even think bringing back the DeS Old Monk was a good idea?… That was a Novel idea for its time, but when it comes to a polished game and delivering the best for its final installment, they should’ve made an actual boss for Halflight, something similar to Pontiff Sulyvahn.
 
 
@Mikey  
I think that depends greatly on your weapon and if it’s actually your weapon making bosses’ health bars in general, look like they’re made of paper mache, like the twin blades, or a very good bleed weapon.
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gotcha. simple and effective.
 
I liked to do this sorta thing more with quickstep and fast weapons, but that’s just what I got into lately with DS 3, I find the longer iFrames and longer distance covered helps a lot, plus the very fast in and out of combat that daggers provide helps keep that offensive up.
 
Although, I was fighting other bosses, I haven’t booted DS3 in a while too and my memory is foggy if I did that with Halflight.
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I’ve played 7 hours and a half and it felt like I only played 1 or 2 hours. This game is so insane and I honestly feel it’s gonna be very short.
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Oh, I’m not saying this as a negative thing. When I say that my 7 hours felt like 1 or 2 hours, that’s a good thing, at least to me.
In fact, I’m having so much fun with the game. It’s amazing!
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ngl, the bamco video really didn’t do it for me.
I watched afterwards the IronPineapple cover and wow, they really left out a lot they could’ve shown..
We get Power stancing back, DS 1 poise is back with DS 3 backstabbing, meaning we won’t have the DS 1 poise + chain-backstabbing, there’s a lot of fleshed out stuff in regards to the horse combat that they should’ve shown in that gameplay video, magic seems a lot better too which is cool, same for faith. That IronPineapple video showed a lot of interesting things to do even in the first couple hours of the game.
That power stancing and if it’s really good, might be the reason I’m getting the game, because DS2 had it too and it was nice, but I don’t feel like it had the appropriate PvE challenges for it.
Now I’m thinking, if they nail the balance with build diversity, this is gonna be their best game in the series.. that’s the only thing I’m worried about is how they’re going to balance things out, especially for build variety.
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Yeah, the combat looks like a culmination of the best parts of each game. There’s also a bit of Bloodborne in the fact that you can’t critical until you break poise.
I also like the streamlining of stats, no vitality, instead strength increases equip load. I like the checkpoint statues to get back to where you were faster after dying, the exploration looks solid.
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Oh yeah, moving away from vitality to strength makes a lot more sense for equip load.. honestly, that was a long, long time coming, this is the best way of doing this imo.
Now that this is done, it feels like they could still do much more here, like for example since Strength now has more to do with both heavy weapons, heavy armor and carry limit, Dexterity could mess somewhat with mobility/attack either movement, jumping, or even attacking animations.
They tried something similar like that with Dark Souls 1, but I think because it was never explained or shown in the stats, few people probably know it even exists.
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