Speed Demos Archive - Dark Souls. Released in October 2. Dark Souls is the sequel to cult hit Demon's Souls. Players traverse an open, minimalistic world and gain the experience necessary to take on gigantic bosses. The game's subtitle was Prepare to Die, and the difficulty was hyped, but really, the game just punishes mistakes by giving enemies about the same amount of power players have. In late 2. 01. 2, the game received a DLC expansion titled Artorias of the Abyss, which added new areas and bosses. Any% Kiln Skip is the fastest way to beat Dark Souls by abusing a console- exclusive warp glitch. The route is using the Great Club combined with the moveswap glitch and Red Tearstone Ring (RTSR) as the main damage source. The Kiln Skip allows you to skip the four Lord Souls, effectively cutting the game in half. Contrary to popular belief, the Kiln Skip is still possible on the current patch of the game, but only for the Xbox 3. Xbox 3. 60 the only platform viable for this speedrun. Dark Souls 3 Wiki Guide: Weapons, Walkthrough, armor, strategies, maps, items and more. A page for describing YMMV: Dark Souls II. Accidental Innuendo: Some of Straid and McDuff's intonations in their respective dialogues leave little to the Embers - Dark Souls: Here is the list of embers and different ascensions that can be performed. Embers are found and given to black smiths allowing the black smiths to gi. Dark Souls II Guides Description Links (New Window) Finding The Blacksmith Key: The coveted Blacksmith Key. Don't leave home without it! Read More: Starter Item Guide: Make sure you pick the right starting items in Dark Souls. Dark Souls 3 Multiplayer allows you to summon friends or random players to help you clear out an area or defeat a boss more easily. You can summon up to three white phantoms to help you, who’ll be around your level unless. Wolf Knight's Greatshield is a Shield in Dark Souls 3. Greatshield of a knight tainted by the dark of the Abyss, and master of the wolf's blood of Farron. Boasts consistent defense and divine protection against various status. Dark Souls 2 Wiki Guide: Weapons, Walkthrough, armor, strategies, maps, rings, bosses, items and more. Weapons are a very strategic and important choice for the player in Dark Souls. The player will be encouraged to discover and deeply learn a weapon that suits their style of play and preference, with subtle parameters. Secondly, an internet connection plus an Xbox Live Gold membership is required since the method used to perform the essential warp glitch involves forcing the game to switch from the online to offline mode. While this technically makes this run online, no actual online gameplay mechanics are used.- Red Tearstone Ring (RTSR) The Red Tearstone Ring increases your Attack Rating by 5. Dark Souls Wiki Guide with Quests, items, weapons, armor, strategies, maps and more.HP is below 2. 0%. Because of the damage calculation done by the game, a 5. AR usually results in a damage increase varying between 1. This makes it an essential item to quickly dispatch bosses.- The Warp Glitch. To perform a warp glitch, you first need to play online, then use a warping item such as a Homeward Bone or simply die and create an Xbox Live party during the loading screen. The game won't let you continue playing online while being in an Xbox Live party and will force you back to the main menu. When it does that, the game doesn't know where you've warped to, so it puts you at a default location based on where you were when you warped. If for example you perform the warp glitch in Firelink Altar, it will put you at the default location of that area: inside the Kiln of the First Flame.- The Moveswap The moveswap glitch allows the player to transfer the running, rolling and plunging attacks from one weapon to another and is commonly used in speedruns since it can double the damage output when used with the right weapons, in this case the Estoc is used since its running attack hits twice. The glitch is essentially starting an animation (usually jumping), queuing up the two- handing of a bow in the left hand (while performing that animation) and then switching out the bow for another weapon so that this newly equipped weapon is two- handed in the left hand instead of the bow. Since this is normally not possible and a bow normally doesn't have a running and/or rolling attack, the game retrieves this information from your right hand weapon instead. So when you now use either of these attacks you will get the ones of your right hand weapon but still have the damage of your left hand weapon.- Item Dupe- - Type 1 - Items with confirmation box. This is the most common, easy and known duplication glitch in Dark Souls. The type 1 allows you to infinitely use items with a confirmation box, like boss souls or Homeward Bones. To execute this, make sure you have the item you want to dupe highlighted in your hotbar first. Perform an action such as parrying, rolling or using a lever and queue up the use of the item by pressing . Instead it uses the item that you chose in your inventory but gives you the effect of the item with the confirmation box. In this speedrun, it will only be used to duplicate Homeward Bones.- - Type 2 - Items without confirmation box. The second type works on most items that have no confirmation box as well as on items with a confirmation box such as boss souls, but type 1 should be used for those. Notable here is that only the effect of very last one of the stack can be recreated. For example, if you carry 6 firebombs, you need to use up the first 5 before being able to duplicate the effects of the sixth one to throw a seventh, eighth, etc. To execute this, as you use up your last item, queue up another use of it by pressing Square (PS3) / X (Xbox) again on the very last frames of the item- use animation where your item number still says . With souls the dupe window is one frame (3. Since you need at least one dupe this causes a lot of runs to fail at the beginning.- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Run Commentary - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - Undead Asylum I'm starting as a Hunter with the Master Key. Hunter because I need a bow to perform the moveswap glitch and this is the fastest way to get one and Master Key because it allows me to reach the Valley of Drakes/Blighttown early. The Asylum is pretty simple. Talking to Oscar is faster than killing him, but you really need to mash through the dialogue. A double hit is performed on the Asylum Demon by doing a jumping attack from the balcony instead of a simple drop attack.- Valley of Drakes After defeating the Asylum Demon, I'm heading straight to New Londo Ruins to pick up the Estoc. I will need it for the moveswap glitch. Next, I open the shortcut to the Valley of Drakes using the Master Key. I pick up 2 lesser Souls in the Valley, one giving me 1'0. Theoretically, I only need the 2k Soul but since the dupe glitch has a 1 frame window, picking up the second soul gives me a second chance to attempt the dupe glitch, increasing the amount of runs that get past that point. I then pickup the Red Tearstone Ring, take the elevator up, dupe the 2k Soul, level up my Strength stat to 1. Great Club that I'll pick up soon in Blighttown. I then perform the first warp glitch of the run. As explained earlier, this will put me at the default location of the current area, in this case being the entrance of New Londo Ruins. This allows me to quickly get to Blighttown without having to run all the way back through the Valley of Drakes, saving around 4. Blighttown & Quelaag Arriving at Blighttown, I perform a nice but rather easy skip, the Blighttown drop. Falling is obviously faster than climbing down. I land on the waterwheel and heal. Here comes a tricky part. I need to have RTSR for the next boss, Quelaag. Thus I need my health to be under 2. I'm going to achieve that by combining falling damage and poison damage. If my RTSR setup is perfect, I have 1. HP before Quelaag. The poison deals 3. HP/s, which would leave me 3. Quelaag. Drop too early from the waterwheel and your HP will be too low, not leaving you enough time to kill Quelaag. Drop too late and you won't be under 2. HP, meaning no RTSR (+5. In this run, the drop was a tiny bit too high, making the Quelaag fight really close. After the drop, I pick up the Great Club in the swamp and moveswap it with the Estoc before the Quelaag fight. The fight itself is RNG heavy, since Quelaag has a lot of bad attacks that can make you lose time, thus making you lose HP, since you're fighting poisoned. This is basically the big reset point of the run. It went well this time around though. I then ring the bell, use Quelaag's Soul for an extra 8. Souls and dupe the Homeward Bone, warping me back to the cave bonfire.- Undead Parish & Gargoyles Here comes the second warp glitch of the run. I pick up the Grass Crest Shield in Darkroot Basin, an important shield for this speedrun since it increases stamina regeneration by ~2. I then dupe the Homeward Bone again to again trigger the warp glitch. Since I left the Valley of Drakes and I'm now in Darkroot Basin, the area has changed. Thus the default location has changed too and I now spawn at the entrance of Darkroot Garden, saving yet again around 4. Arriving at the Undead Parish, I talk to Andre of Astora, buy 9 Titanite shards and upgrade the Great Club to +5 for increased damage. I rest at the bonfire and level up my Endurance stat to 2. Great Club (< 2. Using regular enemies in the Undead Parish I put myself below 2. HP to trigger RTSR, moveswap the Great Club and make quick work of the Gargoyles. Unfortunately, the first Gargoyle decided to fly up at the start, making me lose around 4s. This is of one the two major timelosses in the run. I then ring the second bell and use the Homeward Bone. I don't need to dupe it this time since I'll use the Dark Sign for the rest of the run.- Sen's Fortress & Iron Golem I level up one last time, leaving me with 2. Strength. This is needed to later kill Ornstein in 2 running attacks since 1. In Sen's Fortress I quit out for the boulder on the stairs because I don't have enough HP to survive its damage. I then moveswap the Great Club and kill Iron Golem by making him fall off the arena. This is possible because 4. Anor Londo & Ornstein & Smough Arriving in Anor Londo I immediately head for the elevator leading down. I heal to full and then use the upcoming drops to setup my Health for RTSR later on. This is quite risky since there is a lot of places where you can get hit in Anor Londo. After getting past the Silver Knight Archers I moveswap and start the Ornstein & Smough fight. Even if this fight was quite fast, it was far from perfect. Because both of them dodged, I had to attack Ornstein one more time and Smough two more times. This is the second major timeloss together with the Gargoyle opening attack from earlier. I then kill Gwynewere with my bow to skip her lengthy dialogue and obtain the Lordvessel, using the Dark Sign while receiving it.- Kiln of the First Flame & Gwyn From the Undead Parish bonfire, I warp one last time to Firelink Shrine and head to Firelink Altar. From there, I perform the last warp glitch, also known as the Kiln Glitch. This works the exact same way as previous warp glitches and puts me inside the Kiln of the First Flame. I setup RTSR using the first Black Knight, I moveswap the Great Club and kill Gwyn by stunlocking him.
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