Major Dark Souls Patch Released

Major Dark Souls Patch Released

Now available in Western regions

Written by Matrarch on 23 November 11 at 17:30 | Credit to hustlinonradio

Western regions are now receiving the latest patch for Namco's Dark Souls. Many, many fixes and alterations have been included. If anything seems a little off, that's due to the fact that these patch notes are via a translation of Japanese text from Pastebin.

Magic Changes:
Pyro Glove nerfed from 270 to 230.
You can see resonance signs now.
Vow of Silence range increased.
Sorcery spell damage as a whole was slightly buffed, but Homing Soul Mass and other pursuit style spells were nerfed.
Magic Shield duration lowered to ~11 seconds.
Strong Magic Shield duration lowered to ~11 seconds. Invincibility removed. Effect on Stamina drastically reduced.
Tranquil Walk of Peace and other Slow duration reduced to ~10 secs. Effect supposedly changed from 100% encumberance to 50%. Rolling possible if your equip burden is lowered. Slowness is similar to swamp effect.
Iron Flesh effectiveness nerfed.
Invisible Body duration remains unchanged.

Status Changes:
Base Equipment Burden increased (~6-10 points)
Humanity Item drop rate increased from 10 to 210
Medium roll recovery faster? (unclear and unconfirmed)
Defensive bonuses gained via Humanity reduced. Other defensive bonuses remain unchanged.
Item discovery gained via Humanity improved. Capped at 20.

Equipment General Changes:
Reported some weapon scaling gets improved at higher normal upgrades (+15 uchi dex scaling goes to A)
Some scaling reported as changing from A to S with higher upgrades

Upgrade Changes:
Normal scaling buffed by 5-20% (20% at +14).
Crystal scaling buffed by 5-20% (20% at +4).
Lightning +4 nerfed by 2% (+5 remains unchanged).
Raw scaling buffed by 10% (all levels).
Magic stat scaling buffed by 10-20% (20% at +9).
Enchanted stat scaling buffed by 15-20% (20% at +4).
Divine stat scaling buffed by 10-20% (20% at +9).
Occult stat scaling buffed by 15-20% (20% at +4).
Fire +9 nerfed by 2%. (+5 remains unchanged)
Dragon stat scaling buffed by 5-20% (20% at +5).

Specific Gear Changes:
Grant scaling changed to Strength:B and Faith:A
Gold-hemmed nerfed, still can't be upgraded.
Dust skirt nerfed hard (streamlined to match the other pieces).
Silver Knights, Sun, Hollow Soldier's Shield and other medium shield stability nerfed to ~70 at max upgrades to improve Great Shield viability.
Crystal Ring Shield scaling drastically nerfed. Does around ~200 +-50
Dragon Greatsword buffed from 360 to 390.
Silver Knight's Sword lightning effect removed. Now enchantable.
Elite Knight gear nerfed, then buffed slightly in 1.05

Combat Changes:
Lock-on acquisition range increased.
Lock-on changing/switching got easier (more responsive).
Ring of Fog users can now be locked on.

PVE Changes:
Overall increase in souls gained (~2-2.5 times more)
Damage reduced on some mobs?
HP lowered on some mobs?
Reduced acquisition range on normal enemies.
Supposedly reduced poise on some enemies.
Bosses drop Humanity and Homeward Bones
Ghosts and Skeletons give souls now.
Twinkling Titanite drop rate improved.
Pyromancers in Catacombs drop Skull Lanterns.
Darkwraiths in New Londo drop Dark Hand.

Online Changes:
You can see resonance signs.
Some invasion restrictions possibly changed? Darkwraith upperlimit confirmed as unchanged.
1.05: Summon restrictions improved slightly again.
Amount of souls the Master of the game gains changed.
Cracked Eye Orbs no longer get consumed on failure. Confirmed
You can hit Select to rate messages.
1.05: Fixed 1.04 bug where summon signs were invisible.

Covenant Changes:
Covenant Material drop rate improved.
Lowered requirements for Sunbro covenenant (requirements moved from 50 to 25. 3/4 assists should do the trick)

Other Changes:
Official Guide nerfed.
Forest Hunter NPC farming remains unchanged.
Dark Anor Londo NPC farming remains unchanged.
Kiln Skip Glitch still works in 1.05

Merchant stock updates:
Male Undead Merchant: Also sells bottomless box
Female Undead Merchant: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts
Andrei: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts
Domnhal of Xena: Sells Arrows / Crossbolts, Master Key (5000)
Giant Blacksmith (Fapsmith): Sells Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Titanite Shards, Large Tit Shards, Twinkling (8000 per, inf amount), Green Shards, Repair box, upgrade boxes
Vamos: Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Tit, Large tit, Repair box / upgrade boxes
Inglwood: Sells Transient Curses

Fixes:
Fixed some freeze issues
Lvl up screen displays souls needed properly now
Dragon-head glitch, snuggly, and magic shield glitches fixed.
Fixed a bug where your inputs come out 1 second later.
Fixed a bug where the second solaire event wont progress.
Fixed a bug where feeding frampt a titanite stone then going over 99 resulted in having zero.
Fixed some specific map areas where you'd get stuck or be unable to progress.
Changed some english subtitles on the overseas port.
Any thoughts on the changes? There are quite a few 'nerf's in here. Do you think that this patch might make this notoriously hard game harder than it already is?

As with all patches, you'll be prompted to update your game the next time you turn it on, so fire up Dark Souls to install the update!
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alanp9
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 17:38
Already finished the game, but looking forward to doing another full playthrough (or two) with all of these changes, since it'll be a very different experience. PvP might actually result in some fair matchups now, rather than an endless parade of Ring of Fog users.
Anubseth
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 17:38
And I thought that this game was too hard...
Dude Rain
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 17:39
Love this game so much.
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 17:48
of all the different changes the one that bums me out the most is the sun covenant requirement going from 50 to 25 (after i spent ages leveling my faith to 50) and the twinkling titanite for sale (again i spent ages farming them). Ah well, now its a little easier for people to try, i loved the game!
You want it when?
Posted on 23 November 11 at 17:53
About damn time, Japan got this patch about a month ago now.

Still, my Crystal Ring Shield is no longer my key to success when the game makes me rage, and it seems the ascended Pyro hand +5 won't be nearly as powerful either any more...Well good job my character wasn't just trained in one skill, so I'm good with these nerfs.

About damn time the Strong Magic Shield was fixed too, pissed me off when you try to have a good PVP game and you couldn't do fuck all to your opponent. What were From thinking when they added that in, anyway?
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 17:58
I enjoy this more then Demon Souls
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 18:04, Edited on 23 November 11 at 18:05 by Das Kuhnen
Quantum Resolve said:pissed me off when you try to have a good PVP game and you couldn't do fuck all to your opponent. What were From thinking when they added that in, anyway?I'd like to hear more about this "fuck all" ability in PvP please. smile
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 18:12
Just in time for me to not care. Seriously this "update" is way too late. Skyrim, anyone?
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 18:14, Edited on 23 November 11 at 18:20 by AutomaticOcelot
This Pastebin document is one of the most widely referenced I've ever seen. 17,000 hits in under a month. I like his humor though. Official Guide nerfed.... yup. So much for accuracy, so many post-it notes.

Das Kuhnen said:I'd like to hear more about this "fuck all" ability in PvP please. smileIt drains your.... humanity.
I have not yet begun to procrastinate!
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 18:14
This definitely makes farming materials WAY easier. Humanity, Chunks, Eyes of Death, all will take significantly less time to get. Totally sucks how Soulmass/Pyro are getting nerfed, but i'll take that trade off over hours of farming nonsense materials.
InvidiaViribus
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 18:17
PvP is so much more enjoyable without all the cheesiness. Unfortunately, it wont stop people from using external exploits.

Xiao1inSty1e said:Just in time for me to not care. Seriously this "update" is way too late. Skyrim, anyone?You can't play more than one game at a time? After playing whatever games i'm working on during the day, i'll play an hour or two of PvP at night when everyone else is online.
CtrlAltDamage - Bought my final two games for the year time to clean up achievements.
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 18:46
About time they did.
Roku750
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 19:02
Wow, even with all of the nerfs, this should make the game quite a bit easier. It's not likely to knock it down from "Hardcore" difficulty though.
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 19:07
Everyone should try this game, it's amazing.
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 19:33
This game seems to have gone under the radar a little as it was never talked about too much. It seems like a very interesting game, not normally the type of game I would enjoy but I have been wanting to try it for some reason.
FishyOutOfWater - I hate Cloud Storage so much...
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 19:37
Glad to see summon signs fixed, but Iron Flesh being weakened suuuucks.
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 19:44
Well of course I read most of this without playing the game and have little to no idea what's being talked about...however that is a hell of a list for a single patch. Some of this sounds like it will make the game tougher to complete though, won't be surprised if many start to play it offline with the patch removed. laugh
You seem a little furious...
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 20:13
This patch won't stop me from playing the game, but considering I am on my first playthrough with my only character, I was rather annoyed that they reduced my characters utility/survivability by 25-50%. I guess they expect me to just jump 10-20 levels from the extra soul drops to compensate.
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Posted on 23 November 11 at 21:14
this update is garbage and makes the game even harder than it already is.