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has anyone ever tried to bully you and call you a pootato?

No that has never happened haha

My color vision is normal, but my eyes have a rare visual phenomenon called "visual snow" where I constantly see "static" in all lighting conditions. Even when I close my eyes. There is no cure and very little is know about the condition.

This is what it looks like when I look at the color purple.

I can't tell if I have this or not, because all the picture / gif examples are always really extreme whereas mine is barely noticeable to point where I can't tell if I have it or not.

Super Bat and Manman

better alternative to the decapitate gesture

cover me porkins

This thread's gone incoherent.

it's okay I got this

I didn't expect that

Ah, I didn't realize it was that bad. I assumed you were just talking about the usual latency that makes parrying more of a prediction thing than actual reflexes, but this is a lot worse.

Do you still try to PVP? I can't imagine it being any fun when the connection is just that bad.

Nah I almost never ever try, it just isn't worth it. 'Cos I'll be like oh maybe if I invade I can surprise them and win, but no it fails haha. And I only ever win duels against completely new people that have no idea what they are doing haha. Even just yesterday I started a new Dark Souls 1 playthrough to tide me over till Crown of the Old Iron King. And this guy invaded me multiple times, and he would just run literally straight at me and not attack, phase through me and then be insta-back stabbing me, I was defenseless to it.

Strangely, Co Op actually works almost flawlessly for me, like even if it has a little lag it's ignorable. I have no idea why, but my Sun bro status wasn't really much of a choice haha, as much as I enjoy it.

It's like that for everyone, I'm afraid. Parrying in DS PVP is almost all about prediction and timing. There's only a handful of attacks you can parry on sight and only certain parry daggers actually parry fast enough to catch the attack as it's happening. Took me quite a while to get used to, but it's well worth it.

The advice that helped me a lot was just to assess your opponent's fighting style. In DS1, the easiest attacks to parry are people who spam R1 (just block a hit or two and then parry right as he's about to attack a third time), and the roll/sprint attack. If you see your opponent pull a few of those, just anticipate on him doing it again and parry as soon as he's getting out of his roll or sprint. Easy going.

I find parrying a little harder on DS2 because of the delay on almost all of the shields and parry tools, but the same principles appy. Sprint/roll attacks and spammers are very predictable and can easily be baited into a parry. Also worth mentioning is the greatsword double R2. I'm sure you've seen it countless of times, where you first stab the greatsword and immediately follow up with this horizontal 360 spin attack? Block the first stab and parry right afterwards, people almost always go for that exact same follow up.

Oh it's not so much the attacks themselves, like I can parry fine in PvE. When I'm talking about lag affecting my ability to parry I mean because like my internet is so bad people run up to me and the attack animations aren't even playing and I'm being hit, they are just staring me down to death. Or backstabbing me from the front. Or hitting me from ridiculous distances Or pretty much anything under the sun. I know these things happen to everyone at some point, but to me they are every single match. Like I cannot even bother with the PvP covenant, since it requires consecutive wins to rank up.

The point being, I get how to like time it with the animations and all that, I just mean it's not worth me trying, because on my screen it will look like they are about to swing so I'll time the LT press, but then to them they are on like their 3rd swing stunlock and then it catches up and I die. Things like that.

 

Parrying dagger fgt.

I agree with Sandtrap though, PvP is pretty dull this time around.

hey I need the shield cos my internet sucks
there is no way I can parry in pvp because what I see happening is never what is happening

am curious

oh lordy