Bloodborne

[MerrickG]

Me any my third partner got him.

Tried to help some dude beat Longarious, but he got killed within two seconds.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by Elandyll

In my experience, there is also the possibility of a "behavior script pattern" change. Case in point the Pthumerian Descendant in the Defiled Pthumerian Chalice.
One day, I spent about 2-4 hours wiping on him, and farming consumables to get back to it.
The next day (after turning the PS4 off and starting fresh, so no memory leak possible), he was a cakewalk, wasted him 1st try. So maybe I was less tired and I also had gotten better from my previous sessions, but I could swear that the boss himself was not behaving the same way and was far easier to gun parry, and seemed less agressive too.
So there 's also the possibility of a random behavior pattern kicking in imo.

Definitely something is up.

The mem leak is patched but I think the enemies & bosses get a Vitality & Stanima cap each time they face you until you kill them, then it's reset after so many failed attempts.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by Derb

Definitely something is up.

The mem leak is patched but I think the enemies & bosses get a Vitality & Stanima cap each time they face you until you kill them, then it's reset after so many failed attempts.

It's odd because Demons Souls (supposedly) got harder the more you died.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by MerrickG

It's odd because Demons Souls (supposedly) got harder the more you died.

I heard about that.

It seems odd in Bloodborne that you are not playing any differently (Making same mistakes) yet the bosses & enemies seem like they are not as strong or quick as before. Maybe it's just random luck since they all have more then one move to kill you & that gets shuffled in the mix the second, third try..

[jsteinhauer]

I never noticed any difficulty evolution in Bloodborne. I did think early videos demonstrated memory leak at times.

Demon's Souls was unique. Each level had I think seven levels of gray from white to black. You character had seven levels from white to black. Every time you died or killed a good guy, your character lost a level, up to the limit of pure black. The level of the world you were in also lost a level toward black. When you beat a boss and some other stuff perhaps you gained a level of gray, as did the world you were in, up to pure white. The darker you character, the lower your damage and lower your HP. The darker the world, the tougher the enemies. Black enemies dropped better stuff and granted more souls, though, so it was not lose-lose, and it was not a bottomless pit of despair.


I found Ebrietas the hardest boss in Bloodborne, followed by Amygdala. The attack from behind did not work for me, as you note the camera problem. I mostly stayed out front, dodged the ranged attacks and the lunge, making my move after the lunge. Bone marrow ash and your pistol can do quite a bit of damage with a face shot. I also stayed out front of Amygdala in the main game encounter. Not enough space to do that in the dungeon.

[MerrickG]

I will say that Cainhurst castle was a disappointment. I expected that area of the game to be much bigger. I was very surprised at how quickly (and easily) I got to Longarious. I expected to go through the courtyard and fight a miniboss and/or hunter. All you do is enter the castle go through a few rooms and into a giant library then walk on the roof then Martyr Longarious.

I would have happily traded more of that area for the stupid chalice dungeons.

[Goodintentions]

Originally Posted by jsteinhauer

I never noticed any difficulty evolution in Bloodborne. I did think early videos demonstrated memory leak at times.

Demon's Souls was unique. Each level had I think seven levels of gray from white to black. You character had seven levels from white to black. Every time you died or killed a good guy, your character lost a level, up to the limit of pure black. The level of the world you were in also lost a level toward black. When you beat a boss and some other stuff perhaps you gained a level of gray, as did the world you were in, up to pure white. The darker you character, the lower your damage and lower your HP. The darker the world, the tougher the enemies. Black enemies dropped better stuff and granted more souls, though, so it was not lose-lose, and it was not a bottomless pit of despair.


I found Ebrietas the hardest boss in Bloodborne, followed by Amygdala. The attack from behind did not work for me, as you note the camera problem. I mostly stayed out front, dodged the ranged attacks and the lunge, making my move after the lunge. Bone marrow ash and your pistol can do quite a bit of damage with a face shot. I also stayed out front of Amygdala in the main game encounter. Not enough space to do that in the dungeon.

its funny how different everyones experience is .. amygdala was 1 of the 3 bosses i beat alone and on my first try ... i was around level 65 when i did

[Rothwilder Blu]

I found all the bosses to be not bad.

The only hard ones for me were the ones that were hunters.....second and final.

[Derb]

Rom (Depth 5) Chalice was the hardest boss for me.

It's not like an endless lake of spiders, more like a cramped nest.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by Derb

Rom (Depth 5) Chalice was the hardest boss for me.

It's not like an endless lake of spiders, more like a cramped nest.

Some have said that the depth 5 Rom fight is easier since you can use pillars for protection.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by MerrickG

Some have said that the depth 5 Rom fight is easier since you can use pillars for protection.

2 things happen if you try that.

Rom does the blue shard magic crap
The little spiders land on your face

[MerrickG]

Why the heck am I getting invaded nonstop now that I am at the nightmare levels? I had never been invaded non I'm getting invaded no stop.

[Derb]

Originally Posted by MerrickG

Why the heck am I getting invaded nonstop now that I am at the nightmare levels? I had never been invaded non I'm getting invaded no stop.

I didn't know people could just randomly invade your game online. Maybe try playing offline?

[Elandyll]

Originally Posted by MerrickG

Why the heck am I getting invaded nonstop now that I am at the nightmare levels? I had never been invaded non I'm getting invaded no stop.

Nightmare Frontier is open to invasions, and it's the only area like that afaik.
If you want to avoid that, you'll have to play offline for the moment.

Edit: You can also try to find the bell maiden, but she is in a cave past the two hunters that hang out past a bridge.

[Harlock415]

Originally Posted by MerrickG

Why the heck am I getting invaded nonstop now that I am at the nightmare levels? I had never been invaded non I'm getting invaded no stop.

I killed the cave maiden. Didn't know it was her because I came up behind and just thought I was killing a creature. When you do that it doesn't respawn when you reload the area later.

EDIT:
And I actually stumbled upon her too, so I could not tell you for sure how to find her. Maybe If I check the book later. Amygdala is my current target as Logarius destroyed me easily.

[Elandyll]

In order to locate the maiden:

[MerrickG]

Celestial Emissary is the easiest boss in the game by far.

[jsteinhauer]

Originally Posted by Derb

I didn't know people could just randomly invade your game online. Maybe try playing offline?

LOL! Welcome to Souls.

[Harlock415]

Is there an explanation as to why sometimes I'll just randomly acquire blood echoes? I'll be walking along and all of a sudden anywhere from a hundred to a few thousand blood echoes gets added to my total.

[Goodintentions]

Originally Posted by Harlock415

Is there an explanation as to why sometimes I'll just randomly acquire blood echoes? I'll be walking along and all of a sudden anywhere from a hundred to a few thousand blood echoes gets added to my total.

just means an enemy died somewhere .. it happens pretty often .. theyll fall off a cliff or something ..