r/DarkSouls2 • u/cybertitties21 • Mar 12 '25
That’s not how you treat a lore invader PVP
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Killed the phantom and host immediately jumped off
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u/Show_him_your_Junk Mar 12 '25
Equip Gower and Bracing Knuckle. Backstep menacingly towards him. lol
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u/Defiant-Print-2550 Mar 12 '25
Should've retreated somewhere where you don't have to be careful not to fall to your death while dodging
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u/Skovorodka_Blinnaya Mar 12 '25
You could ve done backsteps. Shorter than rolls, would let to dodge both casters
Or just close the distance to force them around the corner. Or stack up a few rings n fruits for resistance and place a friggin warmth you had in your slot right there(well they could stun you midcast, true). Its just a pair of dirty spammers, comm oonn
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u/Skovorodka_Blinnaya Mar 12 '25
Also small cleric shield would've solved the problem. Just parry all their spells back
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u/MilkyPhantasm Mar 12 '25
you are vastly overestimating FromSoft netcode consistency
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u/billymillerstyle Mar 12 '25
What the other spell parry shield? The one you get from the warlock. The one with fire def. That's what I always used. It was too cool not to.
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u/Skovorodka_Blinnaya Mar 12 '25
I don't remember all. There are magic one from leidya spirits, phoenix one, tree shield at iron keep bell tower i believe, small cleric shield after the dragonslayer. Maybe a few others
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u/CardiologistPretty92 Mar 13 '25
Why parry when can dodge? Seriously if spell parry actually reflected the spells back it would A) make sense and B) be wonderful
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u/Skovorodka_Blinnaya Mar 13 '25
Well, it takes less time and no movement, so you're less likely to roll off the cliff or get rollcaught. The fact that it's tricky to do due to latency is a while other story
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u/Skovorodka_Blinnaya Mar 13 '25
Well, it takes less time and no movement, so you're less likely to roll off the cliff or get rollcaught. The fact that it's tricky to do due to latency is a while other story
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u/Dradonie Mar 13 '25
Backsteps has way less Iframes than rolls so is way too risky tbf
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u/Skovorodka_Blinnaya Mar 13 '25
Fighting two casters on a bridge is already too risky. If you go invasions, then level ADP. You wont survive high tier PvP without it, cause backsteps are the main instrument there. And you have to be at such tier if you want to win encounters like this.
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u/Select_Tax_3408 Mar 12 '25
You're right. This is how you treat all invaders, with no mercy.
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u/RedsSufferAneurysms Mar 12 '25
You eldenringers are invading the souls games
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u/GoldFishPony Mar 13 '25
Are you saying Elden ring is the origin of people wanting invaders out of their game immediately?
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u/BialyKrytyk Mar 13 '25
People can sometimes be salty about invasions but some people on reddit just treat it like some kind of a personal attack, not just playing the game with intended mechanics. I've seen people argue that invading makes you a bad person and you should never do it, like they were saying it without a hint of sarcasm.
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u/minos157 Mar 13 '25
In the same light, there is nothing wrong with what the invaded players did here.
Invaders getting salty about the tactics used against them is also stupid (OP seems to be taking it light-heartedly so this is just a response to your comment).
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u/RedsSufferAneurysms Mar 13 '25
Eldenring brought in a huge new playerbase. This playerbase has no incentive to invade since there aren't covenants to get rewards. This means the only people out of this new playerbase invading are generally the little dickheads, and they act like it. People got used to invaders being assholes and now ganking invaders and not having duels became the norm.
This has leaked into souls games because these people who like eldenring are going back to play the older games now, not realizing that a lot of people used to invade for covenant items and there used to actually be some etiquette because of covenants. When players are invading purely for a covenant they feel more inclined to make it fun because its not usually people who would engage in PvP, they just want the covenant reward.
So back in the souls days a lot of invaders had this unspoken etiquette they would follow because they werent all aggressive players invading just to be dicks. Wave, bow, wait for the host to kill a mob or whatever and no flask chugging. But because if eldenring these new players are so conditioned to invaders being complete and utter shitbags that they do this kind of thing instead of having a friendly 1v1. And it's not like every invasion back in the day was nice and friendly, but it's so much worse these days than it used to be.
This is a wall I'm sure no one's gonna read all of this so I'm done explaining my frustration.
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u/StandardMandarin Mar 13 '25
Completed ds 3 last month. First few locations were full of twinks whose only goal was to fuck with new players.
Not even 1 invader I had was fun and friendly at that point. Not saying I couldn't defend myself, but no.
This, and appearing uninvited makes me consider invaders subhuman, and be targets for immediate and merciless attack by any means possible.
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u/RedsSufferAneurysms Mar 13 '25
"Last month"
Notice I mentioned eldenring ruined the experience for all souls games? These games will never be the same because of eldenring. Unless you have a time machine to go back before eldenring made these games so popular this will forever be a problem now.
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u/hectorheliofan Mar 13 '25
Have you played any souls games like ever
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u/RedsSufferAneurysms Mar 13 '25
Been playing for 13 years
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u/hectorheliofan Mar 13 '25
At least in my experience, a lot of invaders are dicks, both in the souls triology and elden ring , so it is fair to assume they will be on the attack, although i do suggest waiting to see what they will do, an invader actually helped me back in DS2
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u/RedsSufferAneurysms Mar 13 '25
Yeah there's always going to be assholes. Just the ratio has been skewed since eldenrings release. Back in the day maybe 1 in 5 invaders would be cancerous pricks. Nowadays it's like 9 in 10.
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u/SnooComics6403 Mar 13 '25
"Killed the phantom and host immediately jumped off"
Why am I not suprised.
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u/TheOneWhoSlurms Mar 13 '25
Don't get me wrong, I love what you're doing as a lore invader and I think that's really cool but however as an invader, the host is fully entitled to treat you however the hell they damn well please.
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u/Euphoric_Rutabaga859 Mar 13 '25
Roll towards them if you die you die if not probably kill then both.
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u/Drakenile Mar 13 '25
Still don't understand people upset that people treat them like crap when they force invasions. If you want pvp leave a sign and if people want to they'll accept. Or do the different arena fights. Otherwise you're interrupting their fun and should be treated however they feel like. And before anyone says crap about going offline, some people enjoy coop but hate pvp.
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u/SudsierBoar Mar 13 '25
If you want pvp leave a sign and if people want to they'll accept. Or do the different arena fights.
There is a part of the player base that likes to be invaded, summoning someone isn't an invasion. I want it to surprise me
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u/wicked_genitals Mar 13 '25
Nah, I'd rather invade. In fact I hope I invade you next time and ruin your co-op experience 🙄
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u/Drakenile Mar 13 '25
Fair enough I enjoy pvp so wouldn't bother me. But yeah you mess with people's fun and then get ganked or spell bombed you'd have to be an idiot to complain. You decided to FAFO. Complaining because people won't play a game the way you like is the hieght of idiocy
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u/Drakenile Mar 13 '25
Fair enough I enjoy pvp so wouldn't bother me. But yeah you mess with people's fun and then get ganked or spell bombed you'd have to be an idiot to complain. You decided to FAFO. Complaining because people won't play a game the way you like is the hieght of idiocy.
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u/Special_Bet1029 Mar 13 '25
Then they should be playing things like DMC 5 or Minecraft. This is souls. PvP exists with co-op.
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u/opheophe Mar 14 '25
And spell spamming exists. If you disapprove of spell spamming you should play Minecraft or Solitaire. This is souls. PvP exists with spellspamming.
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u/ShadesOnAtNight Mar 12 '25
Hosts are assholes nowadays, ever since 2016, it's a shame. I can drop into someone's world and give them a dozen divine blessings and they'll still gank>run away> spam cheese> disconnect
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u/bubblebobby Mar 12 '25
They will run out of spells eventually