Dark Souls Dissected #13 - Poise Mechanics (and glitches!)

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  @LordRadai · 3 years ago · pinned

  Very late here, but Dark Souls II has two different stagger mechanic, and something like... 5 different &quot;Hyper Armor&quot; events.<br>Dark Souls II was the first game to introduce the posture system, later featured in Sekiro. There is an hidden meter that, when depleted, puts the character in the guard broken state, where a critical attack can be performed. Most enemies have absurd values of Posture, Hollow Infranty (the first enemy you see in the Forest of Fallen Giant) has 4400 Posture and regens 2,2 posture per second. Plus, your attacks deal an average of 5 posture damage per hit. Basically unusuable against normal enemies.<br>Bosses however use Posture as their default stagger mechanic, while having persistent Super Armor (which prevents Poise stagger OR poise damage, depending on the Super Armor event type).<br><br>As for Armor events, they are all triggered by TimeAct, FromSoftware&apos;s proprietary animation metadata format (what is usually referred to as &quot;frame data&quot;). There is event 110500, &quot;Super Armor&quot;, which disables Poise stagger, 110210 which disables Poise damage (and as a result, Poise stagger lol), 110600, &quot;Ultra Armor&quot; (shitty name I came up with in my Discord for the memes but was accepted by the PvP community, what to say) which disables Posture stagger and 111900, &quot;Hyper Armor&quot;, which changes the poise damage multiplier from 1 to a value that depends on the specific weapon that enabled this event. Hyper Armor basically reduces poise damage by a certain percentage.<br><br><br>Some attacks can have a property, commonly referred to as &quot;Hyper Stagger&quot; which will always stagger regardless of poise. Does not get through armor events as far as I am aware though, but I haven&apos;t run extensive tests on this.

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• NO

  @novessel6822 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwffSOSzcAM&amp;t=777">12:57</a> &quot;We couldn&apos;t see her, because she was invisible&quot; <br><br>That made me think of something I would hear in a Nintendo direct. (:

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• RA

  @rayquaza5059 · 4 years ago

  I like how the 3 spells that deal 130 poise are Sunlight Spear, Chaos Storm, and Great Gravelord Sword Dance. It’s like they chose attacks representing Gwyn, Witch of Izalith, and Nito on purpose.

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• SE

  @SeaJay4444 · 4 years ago

  Wearing more pieces of poise-granting armor reducing your regen timer is such a mindblow for me.

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• JA

  @jayzona9 · 4 years ago

  Whoever the developer is that wanted to make the 4 kings staggerable, you deserve the world ♥️

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• DE

  @DeathScorpi0 · 4 years ago

  The balder knights are actually geniuses because they take advantage of their lack of poise to parry you. Because you know they will stagger at every hit, some players would resort to spam, and that&apos;s a free riposte there.

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• AL

  @algi1 · 4 years ago

  Wow, it&apos;s thematically so appropriate that the three creatures with the highest poise are all made of stone.

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• KA

  @Karanagi · 4 years ago

  Illusory wall: Interesting and useful.<br>LimitBreakers: Interesting and useless.<br>With their powers combined, all data will be covered!

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• AQ

  @aquasomnus · 4 years ago

  There is something so funny seeing all these buffed characters and creatures and even lord Gwynd himself competing for a spot in the poise category and then there&apos;s Gwyndolin next to them, just existing

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• IN

  @IntelligenceCorn · 4 years ago

  So my takeaway from this video is that I should find Iron Flesh before going up the stairs in the Undead Asylum in order to mitigate against the rolling boulder.

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• CJ

  @CJacobsLP · 4 years ago (edited)

  The tankiest enemy award was such a fun way to present that data. Great video! It helps that it sounds like the commentary was done with a smile.

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• AD

  @adude6568 · 3 years ago

  I love how andre is as tanky as the literal lord of light

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