jfunkhouser

@demoskinos: Aw, shit, sorry about that. Yeah, 360. I just received 56.000 rc from an anonymous benefactor. So whom it may concern: Thanks a bunch!

I would be grateful if someone could drag around my pawn for a bit, I need rift crystals for the character editor item. Currently at 5.000 rc, I need 10.000. My gamertag is JFunkhouser, my pawns name is Adonis. He's a fighter right now.

@minipato:

Ah, ok. Good to know.

Yeah, I've read multiple reviews, but IGN:s review specifically mentioned that in a pretty big way, so I just wanted it confirmed that IGN was wrong (hence the lol-part in my previous post). As far as I've read (sources unconfirmed), you can complete the game at level one if you are skilled enough. Which is cool. Thanks for the info on the online part.

@golguin, @the_laughing_man, @dark Thanks for clearing humanity up.

Hi. I have a question regarding the online part of Dark Souls. I can't really wrap my head around the online function. I'm really looking into buying it, but I read in the IGN review (I know, lol) that at times it can be near impossible to advance without help from someone else. If that's the case, are people still playing it?

I have also tried to read up the humanity part, and still doesn't know what it's all about. Anyone care to explain?

Thanks

J

If anyone wants to take along my fighter, feel free. Level 44, using him as tank mostly. Don't think anyone has used him yet. Probably cause he's a guy. And a fighter. My gamertag is JFunkhouser.

I often have to convince myself I want to play a game. I buy too much games, and then never really getting into them.

Personally (and general consensus, probably), I think this console generation has been going on for far, far too long. As someone else said, I get more enjoyment out of buying my games and hoping that it have some new, awesome mechanics, than actually playing it. Naive, I know. That never happens anymore, because every game is just the next game in a longrunning series, or totally derivative of something else. The last game I bought and had high hopes for was Dishonored. When I started it, it just kept reminding me of what I don't like about Deus Ex and Thief. I finished it though. Only because I felt obligated to. That's something, I guess.

Holy shit, I haven't seen the answers.

@thephantomnaut: No wifi, always been on ethernet.

@briareosph: I have not tried that since the problem started (since I only use macs from 2011 as the latest, and hence nothing interesting to play), but I have had no trouble streaming anything. Of course that preloads a bit, so a short drop wouldn't be noticable. I guess I should try this. Now to find an interesting game...

So, in around the middle of December I started getting disconnected mid-game while playing multiplayer. Only from the current game and Xbox Live party chat, never Xbox Live. It happened in all games. No iDevices or computers had this problem. Everything had been working like a dream until then. I was on a D-Link DIR-600 router. I talked to my ISP. They said it was the router. It did not believe them. I started replacing the cables, tried a million different settings on the router (in case it was an MTU problem or a port-forwarding problem) ran pinglogs, scoured the web for the same problem. Nothing.

So I bought an Airport Express. Now all my networking problems would forever be gone. Hallelujah. Right. It made things worse. Not only was the wireless range shit, it dropped internet completely and seemingly at random. Every time it lost internet I had to hard reset the Airport. So I took it back to the local Apple Store. They ran som tests and said, and I quote (translated from swedish) "This one is dead on arrival. Change it at the store you bought it in." So I did. Came home, set it up. Same problem. I don't know to this day what the problem is, but I'm guessing that my ISPs Cisco modem (circa 1997) isn't updated to handle it.

About this time, I spoke to my neighbour. He had the same problem. We tried to "compare notes", and he told me he got disconnected while playing League Of Legends (on his PC of course). He had a Belkin. So he went and bought a D-Link DIR-615. It started working. So of course, I buy one too. It worked. I game heavily for two weeks, deeply satisfied with my new D-Link experience.

Tonight, it did the same thing. I immediately turned of my Xbox and raged quite heavily.

So, has anyone experienced this specific and quite weird problem? It feels like I am shit out of luck. Either my Xbox is broken, or my ISP are lying to me (which seems quite possible). Or, possibly, it's a D-Link related problem. Or, possibly, I will never fucking find out. Maybe I just have to buy a new router every other week. I would not post this if I hadn't exhausted all fucking possibilites on my end. Grateful for any (and I do mean ANY) help.

/Johannes