Dark Souls 2 DLC

General balancing is happening all the time and soul memory won't be removed since it's integrated, get used to it.

The only problem of ds 2, wich is a game that I personally LOVE, is pvp: some weapons are unbalanced, some covenants are just stupid, lag is triplicated, weapons have phantom ranges and the community is full of assholes. Plus, the clipping of mobs with other things is just... disgusting? And I would add that backstab has been totally ruined

nice source -.-

I'm going to regurgitate some speculation I saw earlier about the roll/backstep parries, binoboost, and skywalking. So take this with a grain of salt.

In Dark Souls 1, you couldn't cancel animations. If you entered a fog door, you couldn't roll out or be hit out of the animation. When you opened a door, you were locked into the animation and were invincible until it finished (you couldn't roll out of it). In Dark Souls II, though, they added animation cancelling. You can roll out of door opening animations (I don't know about rolling out of fog doors, but you can certainly be hit out of them). But the thing is, some weird things happen with the engine when you cancel these.

Let's look at each of the exploits mentioned:

• Roll/backstep parries: You can cancel the parry animation and replace it with a roll. The parry frames still exist, and you get a free roll/backstep. It's pretty simple.
• Binoboost: While zooming with binoculars, you start a parry and replace it with a roll. Not quite sure how this one works, to be honest, but it's likely that the animation cancelling has something to do with it.
• Skywalking: After parrying an opponent, rolling and attacking (to get the riposte) will let you walk on air and freeze the opponent on the ground. The timing is pretty much frame perfect. It seems like the roll lets you move around while letting you inherit certain qualities you usually only get when riposting. The ability to walk on air is probably something the code used to position your character when performing the riposte.

I'm not even sure why I wrote this all out. Maybe I was trying to say that fixing those glitches is going to require some modification to the engine? shrug

Whatever, the more you know, I guess.

thats why i hope it has lots of content to make it up for.

Who could blame them, honestly? That's a basic rule of supply and demand : there's demand so we supply.

Apparently, I'm not, for once. Thank you for pointing this out.

I only played it after the DLC came out, but I felt it complemented the base game nicely with more in-depth lore to Artorias, Sif and the dragon hunters. Nice new areas, enemies and bosses. I didn't think there was a lesser moment in it's duration, where the base game had some minor slumps, so it was stronger in it's consistency for sure.
Still, I'm waiting this one out. Looking at that release schedule they look alot smaller in comparison.