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Re:Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom (2010) by anon4 on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @05:54PM (#7973726)
And that's somehow not super annoying and unreliable? What about titanite demons or bonewheels or mobs ganging on you? What about those tiny tiny ledges in Sen's? What about the archers in Anor Londo? What about the spiders and the mosquitoes and those toxic-spitting things in Blighttown? What about the demonic dogs? What about tiny spaces? Capra Demon?

Er.. I'm not expecting an answer to all of those, but I am curious how you pull off the playstyle in general. Do you mostly use ranged attacks?

I'm not saying it's impossible. Heck, there's speedruns where you can see people just rushing past every enemy and then stabbing the boss in the butt (i.e. the one true strategy for every boss in DaS) with some minmaxed weapon.

I guess I'm just noting it won't be fun for me to play that way at all. Well both not fun and nearly impossible.

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Re:Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom (2010) by egypturnash on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @02:25AM (#7975528)
Ranged attacks are a definite part of it! I love sneaking around and sniping and am generally peeved that it refuses to let me do that to bosses. I was ECSTATIC when I finally found the dude in the undead burg who sold me a bow. Blighttown bugs, I deal with by a combo of shield and a targeted magic missile; I diversified into a few experimental spells and liked that.

I also haven't played in a while; I got to a point where I couldn't make serious progress in any of the avenues currently open to me, and then the keeper of the initial bonfire got killed, and I accidentally used what the internet tells me is the only item that could bring her - and the flame - back. I really didn't want to continue and I also really didn't feel like starting fresh.

Also use the environment! Pull gangs of mobs into a place where there's room to pick them off one by one, or just circle around and lose them. Aggro a mob, vanish around a corner, and beat heck out of it as it rounds the corner and tries to figure out where you are. Hell, I cleaned out ALL the dragons in the dragon valley by cheerfully abusing having an arrow range longer than their aggro distance...

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