PollySMPS

Yeah, I'm almost sure it's just players not knowing how the things work. I've taken more than my fair share of arrows to the back because of the damn things. So everyone is either just a shitty troll or they're terrible. I'm erring more toward the second.

I have run into a good number of people who snatch up summon signs at a boss door, then intentionally run in and get mutilated just to waste everyone's time. I've seen this happen a good 20-30% of the time. I know someone running into a boss' opening attacks and just standing there to know that one's intentional.

Yesterday was a goldmine of cheaters for me, unfortunately. Was doing some helping out some folks with Smelter Demon and got summoned by a guy that was using infinite HP and infinite stamina. I was gonna call it lag when I saw the guy eat a full combo and take no damage, but knew something was up when I'd backed off and saw the guy swinging his Giant Club without ever stopping, even after the boss had died and I was fading out he just kept swinging. I'm not sure why he's summoning with infinite HP and stamina. I guess I was supposed to be impressed or something.

Second run-in was later in the evening when I was playing a newly created caster and was helping some folks with Old Dragonslayer. Same deal with a dude getting creamed over and over and taking no damage. Still confused as to why these people are summoning anybody!

The last one basically ruined it all for me. Before going to work this morning, I was running down to Huntsman's Copse to grab a few things, got invaded. The guy appears in end-game gear, takes no damage from my attacks, and proceeds to one-shot me with an attack. When I respawn at my bonfire, all my stats were 1.

Think I'm done with this game for a while.

After 75 hours and completing the game once and about 80% through on NG+, I really don't think this one is gonna have the same staying power for me. I mean, I think it plays better than the previous games by leaps and bounds, but the world is just so uninteresting to me, the characters don't have the same impact as Demon's or Dark Souls' cast, and the boss encounters are probably the most boring and uninspired in series history. There's just no excitement or sense of pacing or world to keep me coming back.

From made the safest game they possibly could and unfortunately a feeling of safety isn't something that really fits with a Souls game.

I used to have a couple of other messages that had 300-400 rates, but they either disappear over time or are scrolled off the most recent 10.

@pr1mus: This can get you banned from being able to co-op or invade. There's a one-use item that will let you reset your ban, but after that, if you continue to do it, you'll be locked out of being able to summon or be summoned.

@mordukai: Making them walk backward off a cliff or punting their dumbasses off a ledge was ever so satisfying.

My real beef with cheaters in PvP this time around is that beating them can completely fuck your Soul Memory and how you get matched up from then on. It's not worth winning this time if you're looking to maintain a reasonable Soul Memory since most of them also drop in excess of a million souls.

I've run into one cheater while sparring with Blue Sentinels. Infinite HP of course, but he didn't really seem to have much of a grasp on anything else (big surprise, I know.) I basically spent 10 minutes rolling in and poking him and easily evading his attacks before the session either timed out or he ALT+F4'd because I wouldn't let him win.

I could be mistaken, but I could swear Jeff was tearing up there when the credits theme started rolling.

This past week, I finally decided to take a cue from some of my favorite game journalist-type people and reached out to speak with a developer whose work I was interested in for an interview. I'm pretty sure it reeks of "first-timer" in a few places, but my goal was to keep the ball rolling and have a natural progression to the conversation, and in the end I'm still very happy with it. Link to said interview is below:

http://bossdungeon.com/we-love-pixels-interview-with-joymashers-danilo-dias/

It was a really fun first experience and I'm hoping to continue down this road to talk to more people I'm interested in, especially composers like Jake Kaufmann, Tim Follin, and Simon Viklund.

@reisz: I think that's absolutely fine. I think it's a thing people should have access to should they want it. No question about that. I was merely agreeing with the user I replied to in that I don't really understand Jeff and Brad's enthusiasm for that version of the game in particular.