Dark Souls Forum • View topic - OFFICIAL PATCH 1.04 RELEASE NOTES (UPDATE: OUT IN JAPAN!)

tevil · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 6:04 am

RyuJin wrote:

Hunslayer wrote:

b3nje909 wrote:

I ahve just reached blightown....

ugghhhhhh..... is like a strobe light and I'm on drugs.

No intention of being rude, but I can't stand when people exhaggerate like this. I've played through BlightTown twice now (as well as making frequent returns) and there are a couple areas where the fps has issues (the very beginning and some swamp areas), but nothing anywhere near the level that people profess they are.

Seriously, I think people complain sometimes just because they can. It's fine to acknowledge the issues, but to blow them out of proportion is just unnessesary. It is nowhere close to being THAT choppy. You must be playing on an archaic PS3 or something.

Sorry, but I just had to express that.

Well I've played through BlightTown about 5-6 times now and the only time I had bad fps drop was the last time I was there. Its really weird because I was wonder why so many were have the fps drops and I was not. It can get really bad =(. I do not know what causes it but the first few times I went in I had little to none

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I noticed much worse lag in BT when running wireless over a wired connection. Now let me say fighting Sif I had HORRIBLE FRD which made the damn battle almost entirely luck because I just couldnt see what was going on. Everything was a giant stuttering grey blur.

popej · **Joined:** October 18th, 2011, 4:45 am **Posts:** 93

I take there is still no clear indication as to when it'll hit US/European Xboxes?

StormUrza · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 6:17 am

Hello, this is my first message here.

I'm a french player of Dark Souls, and I have the same question as above for EU and PS3. (Sorry I didn't read everything and i'm new here)

Thank you very much.

Munkay · **Joined:** October 20th, 2011, 11:33 am **Posts:** 191

So let me get this right...everyone has to remake their character to play in 1.04??

That's messed up if it's the case.

RyuJin · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 6:46 am

Munkay wrote:

So let me get this right...everyone has to remake their character to play in 1.04??

That's messed up if it's the case.

You dont "HAVE" to make a new character from my understanding. Now if the changes affect your build...thats another story. If your playing for PVP you will most likely want to remake your character. Unless the changes did nothing but help you.

Munkay · **Joined:** October 20th, 2011, 11:33 am **Posts:** 191

RyuJin wrote:

Munkay wrote:

So let me get this right...everyone has to remake their character to play in 1.04??

That's messed up if it's the case.

You dont "HAVE" to make a new character from my understanding. Now if the changes affect your build...thats another story. If your playing for PVP you will most likely want to remake your character. Unless the changes did nothing but help you.

Oh ok, good. I made a strength build and use scaling weapons (black knight great axe mostly). I don't do the pyro cheese, never dragon head glitched, and my armor of favor desperately needs more twinkling titanite...in that case, i'm good to go =)

b3nje909 · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 6:55 am

What is the Dragon Head Glitch???

TomatoDragon · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 6:56 am

I had my doubts there would be a patch...but the biggest news for me is seeing twinkling titanite for sale. Thank god.

RyuJin · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 6:59 am

b3nje909 wrote:

What is the Dragon Head Glitch???

I think its the ability to use it to dupe items. So you could have unlimited number of souls, humanity, etc. I do not know how it was done other then first getting the dragon head.

tenkirby · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 7:15 am

RyuJin wrote:

b3nje909 wrote:

What is the Dragon Head Glitch???

I think its the ability to use it to dupe items. So you could have unlimited number of souls, humanity, etc. I do not know how it was done other then first getting the dragon head.

Its wierd series of clicking buttons with the dragon head on, too complicated for me to try

not that i wanted to.
Ive seen "ghosts" of people doing it tho, its quite annoying when you invade someone who is in the middle of it -.-

SimplyB · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 7:19 am

tenkirby wrote:

RyuJin wrote:

b3nje909 wrote:

What is the Dragon Head Glitch???

I think its the ability to use it to dupe items. So you could have unlimited number of souls, humanity, etc. I do not know how it was done other then first getting the dragon head.

Its wierd series of clicking buttons with the dragon head on, too complicated for me to try

not that i wanted to.
Ive seen "ghosts" of people doing it tho, its quite annoying when you invade someone who is in the middle of it -.-

I love to invade someone who is doing it. Quick Kill and Souls because they are to busy with the Glitch to be prepared to die.

RyuJin · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 7:51 am

Well I'm unsure if parts of the US are getting the patch and some aren't but I have an idea.

Dragon Age 2 had a patch that my girlfriend got that I did not. After a few hours I still had not gotten said patch. So what I did was deleted the current patch forcing the game to make me download the current patch. It worked so you guys can try that. I'm at work so I can't do it right now.

Worst case you just end up re downloading the current patch. I'll try this when I get home but I'm here for another...5-6 hours =(.

Munkay · **Joined:** October 20th, 2011, 11:33 am **Posts:** 191

I can't wait to see if the top book of guilty people start having less than 99 humanity at all times. That'll confirm my suspicions i've had for a while now.

tenkirby · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 9:02 am

RyuJin wrote:

Well I'm unsure if parts of the US are getting the patch and some aren't but I have an idea.

Dragon Age 2 had a patch that my girlfriend got that I did not. After a few hours I still had not gotten said patch. So what I did was deleted the current patch forcing the game to make me download the current patch. It worked so you guys can try that. I'm at work so I can't do it right now.

Worst case you just end up re downloading the current patch. I'll try this when I get home but I'm here for another...5-6 hours =(.

Would that be the Dark souls save in the Game Data Utility or the save in the Saved Data Utility?
THe one in the game data utility is about 11 mb and the one in the saved data utility has about 8503 kb...
srry i wanna try and see if what bur saying works but not sure which one since i dont want to start all over.

hellmonkey · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 9:06 am

tenkirby wrote:

RyuJin wrote:

Well I'm unsure if parts of the US are getting the patch and some aren't but I have an idea.

Dragon Age 2 had a patch that my girlfriend got that I did not. After a few hours I still had not gotten said patch. So what I did was deleted the current patch forcing the game to make me download the current patch. It worked so you guys can try that. I'm at work so I can't do it right now.

Worst case you just end up re downloading the current patch. I'll try this when I get home but I'm here for another...5-6 hours =(.

Would that be the Dark souls save in the Game Data Utility or the save in the Saved Data Utility?
THe one in the game data utility is about 11 mb and the one in the saved data utility has about 8503 kb...
srry i wanna try and see if what bur saying works but not sure which one since i dont want to start all over.

OMG!!! DO NOT delete the game save information, you will lose everything. The GAME DATA is what you want to delete.

aedanwolfe · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 9:17 am

good to see the patch info, now i must log on and farm the crap for shards. tho...sad not to see titanite chunks or slabs. id even pay rediculous prices.

RyuJin · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 9:21 am

tenkirby wrote:

RyuJin wrote:

Well I'm unsure if parts of the US are getting the patch and some aren't but I have an idea.

Dragon Age 2 had a patch that my girlfriend got that I did not. After a few hours I still had not gotten said patch. So what I did was deleted the current patch forcing the game to make me download the current patch. It worked so you guys can try that. I'm at work so I can't do it right now.

Worst case you just end up re downloading the current patch. I'll try this when I get home but I'm here for another...5-6 hours =(.

Would that be the Dark souls save in the Game Data Utility or the save in the Saved Data Utility?
THe one in the game data utility is about 11 mb and the one in the saved data utility has about 8503 kb...
srry i wanna try and see if what bur saying works but not sure which one since i dont want to start all over.

I'm unsure right now seeing as I'm at work =(. If this works someone needs to post up ASAP ^^

Xehanort · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 9:24 am

When will this patch be out in europe? Or is it already out. I'm also at work, ancious to install it too xD

tevil · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 9:26 am

does anyone have an idea on the "Multiplayer matching condition adjustments"? Ive searched the web to no avail.

tenkirby · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 9:56 am

RyuJin wrote:

tenkirby wrote:

RyuJin wrote:

Well I'm unsure if parts of the US are getting the patch and some aren't but I have an idea.

Dragon Age 2 had a patch that my girlfriend got that I did not. After a few hours I still had not gotten said patch. So what I did was deleted the current patch forcing the game to make me download the current patch. It worked so you guys can try that. I'm at work so I can't do it right now.

Worst case you just end up re downloading the current patch. I'll try this when I get home but I'm here for another...5-6 hours =(.

Would that be the Dark souls save in the Game Data Utility or the save in the Saved Data Utility?
THe one in the game data utility is about 11 mb and the one in the saved data utility has about 8503 kb...
srry i wanna try and see if what bur saying works but not sure which one since i dont want to start all over.

I'm unsure right now seeing as I'm at work =(. If this works someone needs to post up ASAP ^^

All that happened was i re-downloaded the 1.03 patch. Sorry, but it doesnt work, i was really hoping it would tho

Scottgun · **Joined:** October 6th, 2011, 9:23 am **Posts:** 34

tenkirby wrote:

All that happened was i re-downloaded the 1.03 patch. Sorry, but it doesnt work, i was really hoping it would tho

Bummer. I'm holding off until the patch, which is hard for a DS junkie like me.

Scottgun · **Joined:** October 6th, 2011, 9:23 am **Posts:** 34

Quote:

Humanity Item drop rate increased from 10 to 210

I assume this means that a kill will more often produce a pillageable corpse, but doesn't change the quality of the drop correct?

MonkeyLungs · **Joined:** October 16th, 2011, 10:52 am **Posts:** 99

Too bad the patch doesn't force a reroll/wipe current pre-patch characters.

Oh well, other than that it seem decent. Won't know til we try it out. If the patch hasn't passed MS Certification yet then it might be awhile for USA/Europe Xbox 360.

Genorok · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 10:32 am

milkshake wrote:

Any fun guesses on what this "Adjust the amount of time you kill a enemy acquisition Seoul" means?

I believe it means that it takes longer to receive souls after an enemy is killed to reduce the amount of people dying in PvP and still getting souls when allies kill the enemy player (being host or Black Phantom)

daveydaveRTF · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 10:39 am

tevil wrote:

does anyone have an idea on the "Multiplayer matching condition adjustments"? Ive searched the web to no avail.

Nope. None of these changes will be clear until after a few days. The patch just came out, well today basically, and chances are everybody is still confused on what does what and whether anything has a real change yet. Seeing as how not everyone has the patch yet, it would probably take a week or so to truly work everything out.

From my understanding, I think they just increased the level cap for summoning/invading, since the 10% thing what a "condition" for matchmaking, I would assume that's is what they meant. I do hope they cleared some servers though, the less servers the better chances of us getting into more full servers, or at the least I hope they made them larger.

mailek · **Joined:** October 10th, 2011, 12:31 pm **Posts:** 295

Scottgun wrote:

Quote:

Humanity Item drop rate increased from 10 to 210

I assume this means that a kill will more often produce a pillageable corpse, but doesn't change the quality of the drop correct?

Actually I think it refers to finding Humanity on dead enemies more often than before. Along with the boss humanity drop change, players should have a lot more Humanity to spend on reviving - which in theory should increase the number of summoners/summon signs.

Quote:

Vamos: Arrows / Crossbolts, Small Tit, Large tit, Repair box / upgrade boxes

Someone tell Vamos they have doctors for that.

Mikekan13 · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 10:46 am

I also wish bs would have been tweaked.

aedanwolfe · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 10:51 am

so is patch out yet?

Mikekan13 · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 10:56 am

aedanwolfe wrote:

so is patch out yet?

not for Usa. Like I said it will probably be a couple days.

tenkirby · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 11:47 am

Mikekan13 wrote:

I also wish bs would have been tweaked.

Me too ...
getting back stabbed from the front is not what i call "fair"

Scottgun · **Joined:** October 6th, 2011, 9:23 am **Posts:** 34

Mikekan13 wrote:

I also wish bs would have been tweaked.

Or at least have an adjustable slider for it. Less BS<--------------|----------->More BS

Hitman_Warlord69 · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 12:15 pm

Thornback wrote:

Magic Changes:
Pyro Glove nerfed from 270 to 230.
You can see resonance signs now.
Vow of Silence range increased.
Homing Soul Mass and other pursuit style spells nerfed.
Magic Shield and Strong Magic Shield duration lowered.
Tranquil Walk of Peace and other Slow duration reduced to ~10 secs. Effect supposedly changed from 100% encumberance to 50%.
Iron Flesh effectiveness nerfed.

Status Changes:
Initial weight increased
Humanity Item drop rate increased from 10 to 210
Medium roll recovery faster? (unclear and unconfirmed)

Equipment 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
Normal upgrade path buffed by ~10%
Lightning path nerfed slightly (~5%)

Grant scaling changed?
Gold-hemmed nerfed, still un-upgraded
Dust skirt nerfed hard
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.

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

PVE Changes:
Damage reduced on some mobs?
HP lowered on some mobs?
Bosses drop Humanity and Homeward Bones
Ghosts and Skeletons give souls now.
Twinkling Titanite drop rate improved.
Some mobs may have added drops (Pyromancer dropping Lantern? Unconfirmed).

Online Changes:
You can see resonance signs.
Some invasion restrictions possibly changed? Darkwraith upperlimit confirmed as unchanged.
Amount of souls the Master of the game gains changed.
Cracked Eye Orbs no longer get consumed on failure. Confirmed

Other Changes:
Official Guide nerfed.
Lowered requirements for Sunbro covenenant (requirements moved from 50 to 25. 3/4 assists should do the trick)
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.

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
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

What are resonance signs though?

Seems like a good Patch. TWoP is still effective, but worse and you can lock-on to RoF users now (for those who can't take the time to learn how to not lock-on). Vow of Silence was a good one to boost, but Homing Soulmass and stuff nerfed?? I could barely ever hit anybody with those......

Glad to see the Giant Blacksmith sell Large Titanite, I hated running from Firelink to the Merchant in Sen's to buy them..... although the Twinkling is a bit of a bummer to see.

Glad they nerfed those waayyy to good Normal Shields, they were too good for what they are. I'm disappointed with the Crystal Ring Shield nerf though, it seems barely worth using doing only 250.......

I think they handled the Scaling Vs. Elemental weapons thing very well. They made it so Elementals are still viable, but scaling is better. I'm wondering which weapons get the upgraded Scale letters......

Overall the online changes seem to be good. Cracked Red Eye doesn't break if 'Failed', Host gets full Souls for a Boss, Invasion Restrictions changed.... made it like Co-Op hopefully, within each others SL range.

I'm really glad they fixed all the glitches and the 'Input Delay' bug!!

P.S. Resonance signs are something that shows up if another player used a Miracle in their World. If you see it and use the Miracle (not sure if it has to be the same one they used??) it gets an 'Upgrade' and performs better. So a Heal would heal more HP, Lightning Spear would do more Damage, etc.

aedanwolfe · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 12:24 pm

ill be surprised if 5% is enough of a nerf for them considering how powerful they were. i wouldve expected min 10%

tevil · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 12:32 pm

Hitman_Warlord69 wrote:

P.S. Resonance signs are something that shows up if another player used a Miracle in their World. If you see it and use the Miracle (not sure if it has to be the same one they used??) it gets an 'Upgrade' and performs better. So a Heal would heal more HP, Lightning Spear would do more Damage, etc.

never understood this concept.
1) what are the chances someone will be in MY area and use a spell I have
2) What are the chances i would need it and even want to cast it then?

Maybe Im not understanding the complicity of it all but I remember when this was first announced before release I thought it was a bit weird. Did From and Namco think their servers would be jam packed with people casting everwhere?

As for match making, Im hoping the coop gets better. I wonder if the servers fill up before plopping you on one or they just randomly place you anywhere. Im guessing plopping but I hope that changes, its way to hard. Every time I play the game my buddy is on the phone and we both say it "man this game would be so much more fun playing with each other"
The solo game does not have enough story progression to make you feel like your accomplishing anything. The only despair I have felt since day 2 of this game is my wallet 60$ lighter. PLEASE make it work better. Its also too difficult to know what levels you need to be to match with people. Its a fucking retarded system, and way to strict.

Hitman_Warlord69 · **Posted:** November 2nd, 2011, 12:35 pm

aedanwolfe wrote:

ill be surprised if 5% is enough of a nerf for them considering how powerful they were. i wouldve expected min 10%

With the Lightning (I hope it also affected Fire.....) a ~5% drop, when combined with ~10% increase to scaling is plenty to change the balance of things. Also, with some weapons having the Scale Letter get 'bumped up' by one at higher levels will make scaling get much, much better.

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