Tree sentinel question

[Vingard]

theres something i dont quite understand about tree sentinel, after you get his HP arouund half he begins to do like a shield bash and a shield gound slam attack, and i find they hitboxes to seem quite unconsistent and also blocking this attacks, sometimes im able to block them, other times they go right through my guard and get one shoted or nearly one shoted, so, whats the deal with the unconsistent blocking?

[Shard of Manus]

It has a lingering hitbox. You need to dodge later.

[Seferoth]

This game has some hitboxes that make Dark Souls II blush.

[Shard of Manus]

Originally posted by Seferoth:

This game has some hitboxes that make Dark Souls II blush.

Dark Souls 2 had very good hitboxes, people just didn't understand how adaptability worked.

[Pacino]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

Originally posted by Seferoth:

This game has some hitboxes that make Dark Souls II blush.

Dark Souls 2 had very good hitboxes, people just didn't understand how adaptability worked.

Hahahaha!!!

[Agoraphobic Meep]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

Originally posted by Seferoth:

This game has some hitboxes that make Dark Souls II blush.

Dark Souls 2 had very good hitboxes, people just didn't understand how adaptability worked.

Man I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love DS2, but...lmao. No.

[Shard of Manus]

Yes.

People think the hitboxes are bad, but they aren't. The hitboxes were very accurate, people just don't understand how it works.

In DS2 your i-frames are governed primarily by adaptability, and if you have low adaptability you would often get hit by attacks that in other games wouldn't have done any damage - because i-frames were more forgiving.

DS2 is notorious for bad hitboxes, but wasn't worse than any other Souls game - and in many instances had much tighter hitboxes.

I recommend the following:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQaiHMc52E
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYfXzTx1qY

This channel has a few videos with visualised hitboxes also:
- https://www.youtube.com/@Domo3000/videos

[Seferoth]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

Originally posted by Seferoth:

This game has some hitboxes that make Dark Souls II blush.

Dark Souls 2 had very good hitboxes, people just didn't understand how adaptability worked.

No, just no. ADP or not, the games hitboxes are garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDicGBTRp1Q

[Pacino]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

Yes.

People think the hitboxes are bad, but they aren't. The hitboxes were very accurate, people just don't understand how it works.

In DS2 your i-frames are governed primarily by adaptability, and if you have low adaptability you would often get hit by attacks that in other games wouldn't have done any damage - because i-frames were more forgiving.

DS2 is notorious for bad hitboxes, but wasn't worse than any other Souls game - and in many instances had much tighter hitboxes.

I recommend the following:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrQaiHMc52E
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mYfXzTx1qY

This channel has a few videos with visualised hitboxes also:
- https://www.youtube.com/@Domo3000/videos

Just stop. This horse has been beaten to death repeatedly. DS2 has bad hitboxes and ADP was one of the worst ideas ever introduced to a Souls game. Just accept it and move on, noone except Hbomberguy is going to have your back on this one.

[Courier6]

Originally posted by Seferoth:

This game has some hitboxes that make Dark Souls II blush.

DS2's hitboxes are way better than DS3

[TizianOwO]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

Originally posted by Seferoth:

This game has some hitboxes that make Dark Souls II blush.

Dark Souls 2 had very good hitboxes, people just didn't understand how adaptability worked.

People have beat DS2 NG+7 SL1 with no weapon upgrades and still say the hitboxes are ♥♥♥♥ I think they know how ADP works... I'll trust theirs, and my own experience on that.

[Persona Au Gratin]

DS2 brain is something else.

[Bandit]

hahahaha 😂😂 ds2 copers

[Pacino]

Originally posted by Persona Au Gratin:

DS2 brain is something else.

I know, they're like the flat earthers of the Souls fandom.

[Persona Au Gratin]

Originally posted by Pacino:

Originally posted by Persona Au Gratin:

DS2 brain is something else.

I know, they're like the flat earthers of the Souls fandom.

I saw some obnoxious goof who was like

"Oh man those stupid people who tried to run to the Smelter Demon, if only they arbitrarily killed enemies until they stopped respawning which is completely unlike the previous game with which you're basing your skills on. Arbitrary choices in design are so sick as long as I understand them."

Dark Souls 2 is the game that needs other, better games to exist to make people think it isn't some massive failed experiment. "Oh man, Tanimura!" Like, we currently have no idea who the actual original director was of that game, that's how much pining for validation that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game brings out. They're waiting to tell you about some lost idea or thing that DS2 brought forth, but it's all selective and no one actually cares about something like "Man, what actually went wrong, who was that person who dipped and why?"

Appreciation at someone or something else's expense.