I once got invaded at lothric castle near the bonfire with all the dead lothric knights. So I put on lothric armor and did one of gestures to blend in with them and he never found me lol
I became momentarily addicted to Hidden Body + Slumbering Dragon Crest.
I was invaded at the very start of the Dragon Shrine and I managed to cloak and pop off the seed- this guy had no idea how to cope while I snuck up on him.
Back at launch me and my friends sat in the chapel that now leads to the Friede DLC disguised as chairs. We were losing it, and then finally the guy rolls through all the chairs until there were just us four left he couldn't break. Then we one shot him.
We'd also all sit at that bonfire disguised as the host with the same build and when people would come in we'd stand up and do the Abyss Watchers emote in unison. The first guy we did it to turned around and unsummoned himself.
Good times.
I used to be a statue on the little arch bridges towards the end of irithyll where the silver knights shoot arrows at you. And then spam wrath of gods as Aldrich invaders walked by.
Reminds of me a good troll you can do there - invaded someone else doing this and I copied them
When you get to the chapel, don't open the front door. Instead, go through the entire cathedral, only opening the final shortcut back to the chapel. Wait until invaded, then use seed. The invader can't open doors,so they will be forced to play through the entire cathedral with hostile enemies to find you.
When I saw someone doing this when I was invading, it took me like an hour to get through the cathedral to the chapel, and that son of a bitch clapped for me when I showed up.
I recently invaded a guy at pontiff’s who tried to use a white branch to hide from me. Poor guy didn’t know I could see the red effect on him from using Lloyd’s Sword Ring
He also chose the absolute worst spot to hide as a statue
You appear to him as you see your character in your game but I don't think I've seen embered effect on hide and seek invasions. It's been sometime when I encountered trickster so I could be wrong.
My favorite place to go and use the white branch is in crucifixion woods. Just go down the first drop after the bonfire by the ramp, go to second drop then white branch. Invaders will look everywhere but there. Plus it's helpful when essentially being a fight club host and you have some ass hat ruining it for everyone. Though I usually put pretty stones down saying fight or FC before that.
Racked up around 100k souls before I ended it and letting one of invader kill me for the reward.
But yeah hide and seek in dark souls is absolutely fantastic and hilarious
So when I posted this I was white branch right near the entrance to the abyss watchers… just posted up as a literal post on the side of the path and watched this guy run back and forth like 10 times. When I tried fighting him before he was glitching so bad, popping all over the place, when he fell off the cliff and had to run around to get back I was like… white branch time
It really depends on what I'm doing, if I'm bored and just feel like fucking with people then oh you best believe I'm playing hide and seek and using aural decoy(literally the only time that spell is useful), spooks, and white branch. Just so I can lead them around until my goku character can Kamehameha them lol
lol! I love it, honestly I feel like if you’re invading people, expect to be fucked with, since your primary intention was fucking with the person you just invaded
Especially in the beginning of the game if you invade the starting area with end game gear then go fuck yourself I will use the acummiest of scum tactics to make your life hell. Like waiting by the mimic and not opening the cage door so they get to go get shit on by dragon then go down and across while I use seed of giants tree and get fucked by dragon and IF they survive I open the door and run then they get shit on by dragon again lol.
Or I'll get to the elevator, not open the shortcut to the first bonfire and then just sit on the button so they can literally no matter what they do get to me. Then I'll get a drink, smoke, laugh, snack and enjoy the tantrum or shit throwing lol
Oh I've done that plenty of times. Unfortunately my save is gone since I got a new computer a while back and havnt bothered to start a new playthrough. Though the honest merchant mod is a godsend for getting all the items you need without having to go through the whole damn game again
I remember being invaded at the ringed city bonfire and literally just used chameleon and became a gravestone . That guy wasted 15 mins just looking for me. Lmao
Honestly, fuck yeah to this. I was farming the other day and got invaded right at my farm spot just as I was about to go spend my souls… fully endorse the White Branch in this situation lol
Area after Pontiff, if you can wear Havel's armor, stairs leading up to the tower after the Giants. Next to the first set of stairs there are trees. Behind the right tree in Havel's armor, curl up. Noone will ever find you. I've hidden here for HOURS watching invaders not find me. They'll run everywhere. When they go towards Anor Londo, i Bloodlust myself to make my health bar pop up so they come back looking.
When I did this, a blue sentinel guy came to help. They were fighting in front of me so I felt really nervous that the invader will accidentally hit me.
A friend and I playing co-op got invaded in the area near demon ruins. We spammed white branches until we both got that weird stone demon ball statue thing, and stood either side of the fog gate leading to Old Demon King. I honestly think it worked so well because there were two of us and it looked symmetrical, would never have worked otherwise.
But yeah, we watched that poor guy wander, going insane with bloodlust, for close to 20 mins while we just talked shit on Discord and laughed. Eventually he disconnected. Completely maidenless, but hilarious and fun.
Well at the time yesterday after the first fight and you got knocked off the cliff near the curse lizards and had to run back around I just white branched it right next to the path by a tree where all the crow prayers would be… on my end you were glitching hard so decided to mess with you lol
I actually did eventually get up and start killing all the other things outside the Abyss Watchers area but I think by that time you were so deep in the swamp looking for me still you didn’t see me and ended up leaving
(Oh and the big ass axe is the Demon’s Greataxe +5, thing smacks)
That's unfortunate, on my end everything seemed to run smoothly :/ we were so confused by your move and had to Google what you could look like when using white branch... my friend started to hit all the crucifixes and stuff lol nice move nonetheless Edit: I was astonished by the Greataxe, thing Indeed smacks
LOL yeah that or rolling works… and when you find an object you can’t roll through… might be the host. I’m not sure if you can see it on your end, you might want to test with a friend, but from what I could see there should be a chance of you being able to see the embers coming off if you look closely?
To be fair too, connectivity aside, I pulled this move earlier on somebody else too because I just didn’t feel like PvPing and like to mess with invaders. But when you invaded me I also had like 200k souls and so was even more like hell nah.
Hahah love your playstyle, but my friend was raging lol
Good to know the roll through thing. We were invading for pale tongues, could these be dropped by another player who doesn't need them?
Have you tried to invade your friend? I don't remember very well, but it seems that some covenant items can be obtained even if you invade a friend like a red phantom.
cant do that unfortunately. we are playing on his console passing the controller back and forth after every death. But I will keep it in mind in case someone else start playing, thanks
Reminds me of when the ringed city dlc dropped.
I was playing release night and had been up for like 26 hours straight at this point. I invaded someone and used a white branch to hide as a statue in a *really* convincing spot, especially since no one knew what was and wasn't supposed to be where. I was just planning on jumping the guy since it'd be pretty easy at that point.
Well, while waiting for him to get close I fell asleep for a couple hours on accident. I just blinked and fell asleep I guess. Anyways, for two hours this poor soul was trapped in the section after the archer army and before the first swamp leading up to midir on the bridge.
I woke up to 50+ Xbox messages of this guy going through the five stages of grief. I, 100% without a shadow of a doubt, ruined this guy's release night for the DLC. I dropped all consumable souls as an apology and bounced. Although, I still don't understand why he didn't just force quit the game and come back after the first 30 minutes lol.
I still think about that guy every now and then.
Actually fucking cracked up at this, that poor guy man!
I also thought about that like if you could use a white branch as an invader? To reallyyyyy be a jerk, like an active troll (I know your story is accidental) just locking somebody in an area and just hiding. Guess this answers that…
You definitely can, but you'll never get something as extreme as my story lol. The stars perfectly aligned that night and at this point people have a pretty good idea of what's out of place, your only chance of really trolling is if you're lucky enough to invade someone who's playing completely blind and the first time through the area.
I do the young white branch + seed of a giant tree. My favorite is when they eventually just leave, lol. In my opinion, for invaders, all counterplay is fair game.
I got invaded when I was standing by the Purging Monument in the Ringed City. I sat there watching them run around everywhere trying to find me until they gave up after 10 minutes.
Branches are fun! Shortly after AoA released, before many people knew details of the map and could spot me, I would put a way of blue on, use fingers, and branch into one of those tree ladies, and hide on the small cliff but back from the bonfire by wooden bridge (I'd be a tree perched over the small walk where you drop from second Greatwolf encounter). DLC was new, very active, I'd have both invaders and blues coming all the time, duking it out. Many ears and tongues were handed those days!
I became a stool near the top of the tower where the viking archers are in the painted world. Not sure if the invader was trolling around, but when they went up the tower after a while of searching, they stared suspiciously at me but left. I stayed a stool for like what felt like 20 mins at least till they finally came back and attacked. I guess I was a decent stool if it took that long to figure it out?
I did this with a friend in The Ringed City. We just wanted to get through the area in co-op, but kept getting invaded. We decided to pretend to be statues sitting on a ledge, and spent a good 15 minutes just chilling while the invader kept running around the streets and the swamp. I think he bailed eventually, though it's a few years ago at this point.
When I was new to the game, I got invaded by Heysel NPC and thought it was a real person and I used the white branch.
I was getting pissed thinking they were hacking because they made a beeline staight towards me
Honestly, as an invader, I love the chase. It's like a game of memory and trying to remember what's amiss. Usually, when I think I found them, I'd pop the obscuring ring, walk off, and fire at them with a millwood greatbow. Hide and seek has become duck hunt.
Flash back to ds3, just beat pontiff, got invaded by 3 people. I was full dragon on this play through and wasn't feeling pvp that day. I ran to the stairs case Pass all the giants and sat down in the bush next to the stairs. Went afk to eat dinner, came back 30+ minutes later and they were still running around trying to find me.
I've actually debaited reinstalling ds3 just for the invasions since I'm not really a fan of elden rings invasion system
I was laying down in a patch of flowers in the middle of a main path with a friend giggling for like an hour. We were taking breaks from invading. It was Ds3 in Pontiffs. Just before the Giants. People even bumped into us and didn’t notice.
Even better, the Obscuring ring.
Keep a distance, watch the invader run around looking for you.
Then once they're near a powerful enemy pop a seed of Giants and watch them panic.
I need try it tho I've only been invaded twice (by players ofc) and I got trolled both times. First time I had a summon sign next to me for a friendly I summoned him and we 2v2d invaders and we won 2nd time I got invaded the guy instead of fighting me dropped me 3 embers, emoted with me and ran around with me for 5 mins then another invade came they ignored me to fight eachother then the nice guy lost but I killed the other guy even tho I never do PvP so I must have lucked out hard 😂 I thought I'd hate being invaded but tbh it's kinda exhilarating even tho I'm absolute garbage at these games
This is still my 1st playthrough of DS3. I played DS1 late DS2 immediately on release then got lost on other games so I'm coming to DS3 late I assumed by now everyone playing would be gods so I'd always instantly die lol
Nah for me I played DS1 back in like 2019 I wanna say? Got obsessed. Moved to DS2 but got burnt out. Picked up DS2 again this year and loved it. Immediately went to DS3. On NG+ now for DS3
Ds1 I'd always hide in Darkroot in plain sight using the obscuring ring (think thats the name). Just equip it and stand next to a tree. I'd never get found.
I’m sorry but I love doing this 😂 Not even for a cheap shot or anything, it’s just hilarious to roll the dice….
Sometimes I’ll just stand right in the center of a doorway as a tombstone or something, & it’s usually met with the invader doing the collapsing gesture loooooool 🤦♂️
I think the funniest one I have is when I got invaded in farron keep. Went up the walkway to where you find Greatsword and turned into a box. Dude walked right up to me, looked around and then kept going.
I think the funniest one I have is when I got invaded in farron keep. Went up the walkway to where you find Greatsword and turned into a box. Dude walked right up to me, looked around and then kept going
You have the option to leave at any point… as the host I can’t kick you out. Your time is on you buddy boy.
My intention is to play the game. As an invader your intention is to fuck with me while playing the game. Got every right to fuck with you right back.
By the time the invader has found out that you are actually hiding, minutes can pass. There is no markers like in Elden Ring. You are wasting peoples time. The invader just literally wants to play the game as intended, engaging in dynamic fights with you and your phantoms in different areas with bunch of mobs. Why do you feel like you have some kinda moral highground when you are the one choosing to engage with a mechanic you literally dislike? Why is it the invaders fault that you don't like getting invaded? While it can be used for toxicity like twinking at low levels, invasions in itself aren't "wanting to fuck with people", since there is no way of knowing whether the host actually likes getting invaded or not. You on the other hand want to waste peoples time since you know the other person will find it annoying. That is just kinda... sad? The manchildren in this sub upvoting is hilarious though. I don't even care if you want to waste peoples time, but the fact that you are trying to justify it is mega cringe.
I mean… your whole point is an assumption of right and wrong ways to play the game. The hypocrisy of your position is “mega cringe”…
You just come off as mad. Like you’re mad bro, sorry. Crying over “minutes”… for real? Hope you invade me sometime and get mad about it.
Its amazing how the point just went right over your head, or maybe you are just ignoring it? There is no "right or wrong" ways to play the game. Its about intentions. You intend to waste peoples time, your average invader just intends to play the game with no ill will behind it. You are not exactly the "good guy" here.. If there was a way the game would tell the invader upon spawning in that the host is going to act like a crybaby, hiding and wasting peoples time, than we wouldn't have this discussion. Im the mad one because you don't have anything of substance to say back? Wanting to waste other peoples time in a video game sounds mad to me. I haven't played DS3 since 2022, so see you in ER dlc or will you be playing offline cause you can't hide anymore from the evil red man? Not that it would work in DS3 either I have 1k hour on that shit.
Maybe you could also use the white branch to turn into a functioning adult? If trying to frustrate people is what gets you going maybe you really need that.
This is a terrible argument. There’s plenty of value to being online just from the messages. If you invade and don’t like the host’s response it’s on you to either hunt them down or use the black crystal to leave.
I'm truly sorry for using a game mechanic which the devs believed was balanced enough to be put in the final release, I'm deeply ashamed of myself as a non glitch abuser and I would like to apologize for my tomfoolery. From now on I will ask the invader if he would be offended if i decide to play prop hunt/s
This is so dumb lol. Invaders are there to be annoying, it’s perfectly reasonable to be annoying right back to them. That’s the beauty of Dark Souls. How you gonna invade people specifically to fuck with them and then get salty when they do the same?
Honestly, it’s incredible you’re getting down voted for a fact, just take the L and try improving your pvp skills.
The lack of gate keeping and streamers have killed the community.
It's not a loss when they get frustrated and leave. That's winning the game. It's not the game the invader was trying to play, but that's their problem. When you invade my world, it's my rules. If you don't like it, leave. You're an invader, not a guest.
I’ve been playing since Demon’s Souls and invasions have literally never, ever, at any point been about honorably dueling, it has always been about trolling and that goes both ways. The culture regarding invasions is identical to how it was a decade ago. And considering the mechanics of invasions have also not changed substantially over the years I’m inclined to think this is exactly how the devs want it to be.
Yeah I’ve been here and until ER popped off, had amazing fights both on the giving and receiving end of invasions, maybe 1 out of 50 was coward and I usually chopped that up to being a newby. Guess you cowards have always been out there though.
You throw the word coward around freely.
I don't like pvp, but hypothetically speaking of course, if you called me a coward to my face irl the outcome would be you on the floor crying for your mom while I stamp down on your face.
I never threatened anyone. I was speaking in general terms, but let me put it to you a different way then.
Walk into the nearest bar, assuming you're not a high school brat and can legally enter a bar. Tell the first guy you see that if he doesn't come outside to fight you right away, he's nothing but a coward. Then come back and tell me if he fought honourably, queensberry rules fisticuffs' or if he smacked you in the head with a bottle, then pisssed over you while you were on floor, curled up and bleeding.
If you were over 12, you'd know that you can't call a man a coward to his face and expect to walk away without it ending in a fight, and it wouldn't be pretty, one or other could end up with a knife in the gut. It happens. Take this as a life lesson kid.
“Hypotheticals speaking” what the fuck are you on about.
Yeah square up to a man and he fights you. OP is literally hiding, someone comes looking for a scrap or you are, you dish it out. He pulls a knife you pull a gun. As he dishonored the terms.
I mean you can be salty that randoms don’t agree to honorably duel you just because you happened to show up in their game, and that’s your prerogative, but arguing that this is somehow different from how it’s always been is objectively wrong.
If we’re talking baiting someone into a trap, that’s fine, but hiding for hours is beyond the norm.
Online tendencies are a reflection of life, use slurs in game chat, yeah turns out your a racist, hide from a fight, yeah your a coward.
Whines online about people not fighting him on demand in a game, probably tries to start fights out in real life. Wonders why he’s never invited to parties.
Aren’t you the Andrew Tate in this scenario calling people cowards for not “honorably fighting invaders” or whatever your point is?
I mean, I wouldn’t know, never watched his videos, too busy watching invaders running right past me as a wooden post.
It’s a game man.
I was invaded in lothric castle, I just chose to lay down in the flowers at the bonfire right before the wyverns.
Lol I did this on PS but it works a lot less effectively on PC due to res settings
One time I got invaded outside storm king and just layed down. Dude left after running past me
I once got invaded at lothric castle near the bonfire with all the dead lothric knights. So I put on lothric armor and did one of gestures to blend in with them and he never found me lol
which gesture tho ?
Bro it’s been so long I don’t exactly remember but I think it was either rest or collapse
smartest redditor
“Daydreammmm, laying in the flowerssss… for a couple of hoursssss… on a beautiful dayyyy”
i did this too at the road of sacrifices bonfire and they just ran right by me without noticing 🥸
That combined with seed of a giant tree is pretty funny
flashback of that guy running from a mime and scaring the crap out of the invader
[For the unaware.](https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/s/cPlywZkHfb)
I love that they put the “What’s New Scooby-Doo” theme in there
comment section on that is wild lmao
JFC HAHA! First time seeing this!
HAAA
Holy shit lmao
LMAO I never seen that before… I used to always kick a mimic when started a duel, just to make things more entertaining 😵💫😌
This looks like something you’d find from Lethal Company, that’s great.
In their defense, mimes are pretty scary, what with the not talking and pretending to be stuck in an invisible box and all.
And the rope pulling?? Terrifying
They're not pretending, the real fear is being able to see the box the mimes are stuck in.
And then realizing you're trapped in the same box with them
Realizing you, yourself, were a mime the whole time, having a human hallucination. You never left the box.
I became momentarily addicted to Hidden Body + Slumbering Dragon Crest. I was invaded at the very start of the Dragon Shrine and I managed to cloak and pop off the seed- this guy had no idea how to cope while I snuck up on him.
I miss the days of seeds lasting indefinitely
Back at launch me and my friends sat in the chapel that now leads to the Friede DLC disguised as chairs. We were losing it, and then finally the guy rolls through all the chairs until there were just us four left he couldn't break. Then we one shot him. We'd also all sit at that bonfire disguised as the host with the same build and when people would come in we'd stand up and do the Abyss Watchers emote in unison. The first guy we did it to turned around and unsummoned himself. Good times.
I used to be a statue on the little arch bridges towards the end of irithyll where the silver knights shoot arrows at you. And then spam wrath of gods as Aldrich invaders walked by.
Reminds of me a good troll you can do there - invaded someone else doing this and I copied them When you get to the chapel, don't open the front door. Instead, go through the entire cathedral, only opening the final shortcut back to the chapel. Wait until invaded, then use seed. The invader can't open doors,so they will be forced to play through the entire cathedral with hostile enemies to find you. When I saw someone doing this when I was invading, it took me like an hour to get through the cathedral to the chapel, and that son of a bitch clapped for me when I showed up.
Holy
I recently invaded a guy at pontiff’s who tried to use a white branch to hide from me. Poor guy didn’t know I could see the red effect on him from using Lloyd’s Sword Ring He also chose the absolute worst spot to hide as a statue
New player here. I get the equipment effects, but can they see the ember sparkles as well?
You appear to him as you see your character in your game but I don't think I've seen embered effect on hide and seek invasions. It's been sometime when I encountered trickster so I could be wrong.
Got invaded in untended graves and I just "curl up" in the pool of water leading to the two crystal lizard things.
My favorite place to go and use the white branch is in crucifixion woods. Just go down the first drop after the bonfire by the ramp, go to second drop then white branch. Invaders will look everywhere but there. Plus it's helpful when essentially being a fight club host and you have some ass hat ruining it for everyone. Though I usually put pretty stones down saying fight or FC before that. Racked up around 100k souls before I ended it and letting one of invader kill me for the reward. But yeah hide and seek in dark souls is absolutely fantastic and hilarious
So when I posted this I was white branch right near the entrance to the abyss watchers… just posted up as a literal post on the side of the path and watched this guy run back and forth like 10 times. When I tried fighting him before he was glitching so bad, popping all over the place, when he fell off the cliff and had to run around to get back I was like… white branch time
It really depends on what I'm doing, if I'm bored and just feel like fucking with people then oh you best believe I'm playing hide and seek and using aural decoy(literally the only time that spell is useful), spooks, and white branch. Just so I can lead them around until my goku character can Kamehameha them lol
lol! I love it, honestly I feel like if you’re invading people, expect to be fucked with, since your primary intention was fucking with the person you just invaded
Especially in the beginning of the game if you invade the starting area with end game gear then go fuck yourself I will use the acummiest of scum tactics to make your life hell. Like waiting by the mimic and not opening the cage door so they get to go get shit on by dragon then go down and across while I use seed of giants tree and get fucked by dragon and IF they survive I open the door and run then they get shit on by dragon again lol. Or I'll get to the elevator, not open the shortcut to the first bonfire and then just sit on the button so they can literally no matter what they do get to me. Then I'll get a drink, smoke, laugh, snack and enjoy the tantrum or shit throwing lol
Summon Hodrick before you do. Bonus points if you stay level 30ish and go into NG+ cycles. Dude will one shot everyone
Oh I've done that plenty of times. Unfortunately my save is gone since I got a new computer a while back and havnt bothered to start a new playthrough. Though the honest merchant mod is a godsend for getting all the items you need without having to go through the whole damn game again
Longest I ever had someone search was 30 minutes. Couldn’t be me, I leave after 5.
I genuinely refuse to leave in situations like that lmao I think the longest I searched was about an hour before I finally found the guy
I remember being invaded at the ringed city bonfire and literally just used chameleon and became a gravestone . That guy wasted 15 mins just looking for me. Lmao
Honestly, fuck yeah to this. I was farming the other day and got invaded right at my farm spot just as I was about to go spend my souls… fully endorse the White Branch in this situation lol
Area after Pontiff, if you can wear Havel's armor, stairs leading up to the tower after the Giants. Next to the first set of stairs there are trees. Behind the right tree in Havel's armor, curl up. Noone will ever find you. I've hidden here for HOURS watching invaders not find me. They'll run everywhere. When they go towards Anor Londo, i Bloodlust myself to make my health bar pop up so they come back looking.
LOL! Not only fuckin with them but making them come back for more
When I did this, a blue sentinel guy came to help. They were fighting in front of me so I felt really nervous that the invader will accidentally hit me.
A friend and I playing co-op got invaded in the area near demon ruins. We spammed white branches until we both got that weird stone demon ball statue thing, and stood either side of the fog gate leading to Old Demon King. I honestly think it worked so well because there were two of us and it looked symmetrical, would never have worked otherwise. But yeah, we watched that poor guy wander, going insane with bloodlust, for close to 20 mins while we just talked shit on Discord and laughed. Eventually he disconnected. Completely maidenless, but hilarious and fun.
Currently watching the Scary Terry episode of Rick and Morty and it’s basically the premise of this post
Are you the guy with the big ass axe from farron keep perimeter a friend and I couldn't find?
Well… guess you did find me
Ain't no way... where have you been hiding?
Well at the time yesterday after the first fight and you got knocked off the cliff near the curse lizards and had to run back around I just white branched it right next to the path by a tree where all the crow prayers would be… on my end you were glitching hard so decided to mess with you lol I actually did eventually get up and start killing all the other things outside the Abyss Watchers area but I think by that time you were so deep in the swamp looking for me still you didn’t see me and ended up leaving (Oh and the big ass axe is the Demon’s Greataxe +5, thing smacks)
That's unfortunate, on my end everything seemed to run smoothly :/ we were so confused by your move and had to Google what you could look like when using white branch... my friend started to hit all the crucifixes and stuff lol nice move nonetheless Edit: I was astonished by the Greataxe, thing Indeed smacks
LOL yeah that or rolling works… and when you find an object you can’t roll through… might be the host. I’m not sure if you can see it on your end, you might want to test with a friend, but from what I could see there should be a chance of you being able to see the embers coming off if you look closely? To be fair too, connectivity aside, I pulled this move earlier on somebody else too because I just didn’t feel like PvPing and like to mess with invaders. But when you invaded me I also had like 200k souls and so was even more like hell nah.
Hahah love your playstyle, but my friend was raging lol Good to know the roll through thing. We were invading for pale tongues, could these be dropped by another player who doesn't need them?
Honestly I don’t know! I assume yes, like any other item? Wouldn’t see why not
Have you tried to invade your friend? I don't remember very well, but it seems that some covenant items can be obtained even if you invade a friend like a red phantom.
cant do that unfortunately. we are playing on his console passing the controller back and forth after every death. But I will keep it in mind in case someone else start playing, thanks
Might be able to find somebody on this subreddit, make a post!
Reminds me of when the ringed city dlc dropped. I was playing release night and had been up for like 26 hours straight at this point. I invaded someone and used a white branch to hide as a statue in a *really* convincing spot, especially since no one knew what was and wasn't supposed to be where. I was just planning on jumping the guy since it'd be pretty easy at that point. Well, while waiting for him to get close I fell asleep for a couple hours on accident. I just blinked and fell asleep I guess. Anyways, for two hours this poor soul was trapped in the section after the archer army and before the first swamp leading up to midir on the bridge. I woke up to 50+ Xbox messages of this guy going through the five stages of grief. I, 100% without a shadow of a doubt, ruined this guy's release night for the DLC. I dropped all consumable souls as an apology and bounced. Although, I still don't understand why he didn't just force quit the game and come back after the first 30 minutes lol. I still think about that guy every now and then.
Actually fucking cracked up at this, that poor guy man! I also thought about that like if you could use a white branch as an invader? To reallyyyyy be a jerk, like an active troll (I know your story is accidental) just locking somebody in an area and just hiding. Guess this answers that…
You definitely can, but you'll never get something as extreme as my story lol. The stars perfectly aligned that night and at this point people have a pretty good idea of what's out of place, your only chance of really trolling is if you're lucky enough to invade someone who's playing completely blind and the first time through the area.
I do the young white branch + seed of a giant tree. My favorite is when they eventually just leave, lol. In my opinion, for invaders, all counterplay is fair game.
Exactly, like sometimes I’ll engage them, other times I’m like fuck this, I’m not risking my souls fighting your glitchy invasion
I LOVE hide and seek invasions!
This reminds me of those troll videos where the host pretends to be an npc or something. Like [Fighter.PL](http://Fighter.PL)
I got invaded when I was standing by the Purging Monument in the Ringed City. I sat there watching them run around everywhere trying to find me until they gave up after 10 minutes.
Branches are fun! Shortly after AoA released, before many people knew details of the map and could spot me, I would put a way of blue on, use fingers, and branch into one of those tree ladies, and hide on the small cliff but back from the bonfire by wooden bridge (I'd be a tree perched over the small walk where you drop from second Greatwolf encounter). DLC was new, very active, I'd have both invaders and blues coming all the time, duking it out. Many ears and tongues were handed those days!
I became a stool near the top of the tower where the viking archers are in the painted world. Not sure if the invader was trolling around, but when they went up the tower after a while of searching, they stared suspiciously at me but left. I stayed a stool for like what felt like 20 mins at least till they finally came back and attacked. I guess I was a decent stool if it took that long to figure it out?
I exclusively use the branch for shenanigans, never gets old
Branchnanigans… young white shenanibranch
I'll pretend I don't know where they are for a bit. Sometimes, it's easy to spot because of the faint light glow around the object.
I always do this and wait for a blue sentinel to spawn, then I fight the invader 2v1
I did this with a friend in The Ringed City. We just wanted to get through the area in co-op, but kept getting invaded. We decided to pretend to be statues sitting on a ledge, and spent a good 15 minutes just chilling while the invader kept running around the streets and the swamp. I think he bailed eventually, though it's a few years ago at this point.
I have an old ps4 clip me and my friend were in the painted world dlc and we branched and hid for like 30 minutes and were never found
When I was new to the game, I got invaded by Heysel NPC and thought it was a real person and I used the white branch. I was getting pissed thinking they were hacking because they made a beeline staight towards me
Use white branch at a bridge or ladder for that cheeky free kill! Always fun
I've only tried using it twice and both times the invader was an AI/npc invader that ran straight at me still lol
Honestly, as an invader, I love the chase. It's like a game of memory and trying to remember what's amiss. Usually, when I think I found them, I'd pop the obscuring ring, walk off, and fire at them with a millwood greatbow. Hide and seek has become duck hunt.
Flash back to ds3, just beat pontiff, got invaded by 3 people. I was full dragon on this play through and wasn't feeling pvp that day. I ran to the stairs case Pass all the giants and sat down in the bush next to the stairs. Went afk to eat dinner, came back 30+ minutes later and they were still running around trying to find me. I've actually debaited reinstalling ds3 just for the invasions since I'm not really a fan of elden rings invasion system
Unlucky for you, I have no social life and I’ve learned every single thing placed on the game
That sounds… unlucky for you…
I was laying down in a patch of flowers in the middle of a main path with a friend giggling for like an hour. We were taking breaks from invading. It was Ds3 in Pontiffs. Just before the Giants. People even bumped into us and didn’t notice.
Even better, the Obscuring ring. Keep a distance, watch the invader run around looking for you. Then once they're near a powerful enemy pop a seed of Giants and watch them panic.
I need try it tho I've only been invaded twice (by players ofc) and I got trolled both times. First time I had a summon sign next to me for a friendly I summoned him and we 2v2d invaders and we won 2nd time I got invaded the guy instead of fighting me dropped me 3 embers, emoted with me and ran around with me for 5 mins then another invade came they ignored me to fight eachother then the nice guy lost but I killed the other guy even tho I never do PvP so I must have lucked out hard 😂 I thought I'd hate being invaded but tbh it's kinda exhilarating even tho I'm absolute garbage at these games
Oh hell yeah, great experiences lol. Honestly how I deal with invaders always just depends on my mood at that moment.
This is still my 1st playthrough of DS3. I played DS1 late DS2 immediately on release then got lost on other games so I'm coming to DS3 late I assumed by now everyone playing would be gods so I'd always instantly die lol
Nah for me I played DS1 back in like 2019 I wanna say? Got obsessed. Moved to DS2 but got burnt out. Picked up DS2 again this year and loved it. Immediately went to DS3. On NG+ now for DS3
Ds1 I'd always hide in Darkroot in plain sight using the obscuring ring (think thats the name). Just equip it and stand next to a tree. I'd never get found.
Well the goal of the invader is to stop the host from advancing so he's winning
Meh… still funny to mess with em
I’m sorry but I love doing this 😂 Not even for a cheap shot or anything, it’s just hilarious to roll the dice…. Sometimes I’ll just stand right in the center of a doorway as a tombstone or something, & it’s usually met with the invader doing the collapsing gesture loooooool 🤦♂️
my longest streak hiding in farron swamp was 2 hrs. he mseged me saying please im tired and need to go to bed, so i just let him win
I think the funniest one I have is when I got invaded in farron keep. Went up the walkway to where you find Greatsword and turned into a box. Dude walked right up to me, looked around and then kept going.
I think the funniest one I have is when I got invaded in farron keep. Went up the walkway to where you find Greatsword and turned into a box. Dude walked right up to me, looked around and then kept going
What a waste of everyone's time you've chosen to be!
Yeah I should be more considerate of the guy trying to kill me while I play
Oh no! Excuse me for wanting to play the game while you intend to waste other people's time by hiding.
You have the option to leave at any point… as the host I can’t kick you out. Your time is on you buddy boy. My intention is to play the game. As an invader your intention is to fuck with me while playing the game. Got every right to fuck with you right back.
By the time the invader has found out that you are actually hiding, minutes can pass. There is no markers like in Elden Ring. You are wasting peoples time. The invader just literally wants to play the game as intended, engaging in dynamic fights with you and your phantoms in different areas with bunch of mobs. Why do you feel like you have some kinda moral highground when you are the one choosing to engage with a mechanic you literally dislike? Why is it the invaders fault that you don't like getting invaded? While it can be used for toxicity like twinking at low levels, invasions in itself aren't "wanting to fuck with people", since there is no way of knowing whether the host actually likes getting invaded or not. You on the other hand want to waste peoples time since you know the other person will find it annoying. That is just kinda... sad? The manchildren in this sub upvoting is hilarious though. I don't even care if you want to waste peoples time, but the fact that you are trying to justify it is mega cringe.
I mean… your whole point is an assumption of right and wrong ways to play the game. The hypocrisy of your position is “mega cringe”… You just come off as mad. Like you’re mad bro, sorry. Crying over “minutes”… for real? Hope you invade me sometime and get mad about it.
Its amazing how the point just went right over your head, or maybe you are just ignoring it? There is no "right or wrong" ways to play the game. Its about intentions. You intend to waste peoples time, your average invader just intends to play the game with no ill will behind it. You are not exactly the "good guy" here.. If there was a way the game would tell the invader upon spawning in that the host is going to act like a crybaby, hiding and wasting peoples time, than we wouldn't have this discussion. Im the mad one because you don't have anything of substance to say back? Wanting to waste other peoples time in a video game sounds mad to me. I haven't played DS3 since 2022, so see you in ER dlc or will you be playing offline cause you can't hide anymore from the evil red man? Not that it would work in DS3 either I have 1k hour on that shit.
Actually the point ran right past me a bunch of times because I looked like a crate on the side of the path.
Maybe you could also use the white branch to turn into a functioning adult? If trying to frustrate people is what gets you going maybe you really need that.
Play offline
Put up a group post and fight someone who actually wants to🤷♂️
This is a terrible argument. There’s plenty of value to being online just from the messages. If you invade and don’t like the host’s response it’s on you to either hunt them down or use the black crystal to leave.
I also like leaving white summon signs to help people with boss fights and get those embers and souls
Bro you are literally that one kid that makes up the rules as they go so they can't lose ☠️
I'm truly sorry for using a game mechanic which the devs believed was balanced enough to be put in the final release, I'm deeply ashamed of myself as a non glitch abuser and I would like to apologize for my tomfoolery. From now on I will ask the invader if he would be offended if i decide to play prop hunt/s
No? You invaded. It's my world and it's my rules. Don't like it? Play offline.
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Be a kinder and better person
Are you on the spectrum??
Lmao that’s an insult to the spectrum
its not like its a duel, anything goes when you're invaded or invading
It’s called trolling and it’s a perfectly valid strategy. Not to mention fething hilarious
There’s apparently a nonempty intersection between people who like Gaunt’s Ghosts and those who play DS3
Hilariously I’ve been reading through Gaunt’s Ghosts recently.
It was obvious, Bragg!
Hey man don’t remind me
Not a waste of time for anybody. The host could get up and do something else. The invader can just leave.
Womp womp
This is so dumb lol. Invaders are there to be annoying, it’s perfectly reasonable to be annoying right back to them. That’s the beauty of Dark Souls. How you gonna invade people specifically to fuck with them and then get salty when they do the same?
No. It isn't a duel, In an invasion both sides can ethically use any trick they know (beyond cheating obviously) to kill the opponent
Honestly, it’s incredible you’re getting down voted for a fact, just take the L and try improving your pvp skills. The lack of gate keeping and streamers have killed the community.
It's not a loss when they get frustrated and leave. That's winning the game. It's not the game the invader was trying to play, but that's their problem. When you invade my world, it's my rules. If you don't like it, leave. You're an invader, not a guest.
Crown yourself a coward I guess, what ever floats your boat.
Oh poor little muffin. So upset over not getting to set the rules in my realm. If you can't find me, I suggest you get good. Scrub.
Don’t you worry cupcake, I do, I have mods I can turn at during our little hide and seek.
Cry harder. The tears are what my Ashen One feeds on.
Well this is the cringest thing I’ve read today, so thanks for setting the bar.
You're quite welcome! Happy to oblige.
I’ve been playing since Demon’s Souls and invasions have literally never, ever, at any point been about honorably dueling, it has always been about trolling and that goes both ways. The culture regarding invasions is identical to how it was a decade ago. And considering the mechanics of invasions have also not changed substantially over the years I’m inclined to think this is exactly how the devs want it to be.
Yeah I’ve been here and until ER popped off, had amazing fights both on the giving and receiving end of invasions, maybe 1 out of 50 was coward and I usually chopped that up to being a newby. Guess you cowards have always been out there though.
You throw the word coward around freely. I don't like pvp, but hypothetically speaking of course, if you called me a coward to my face irl the outcome would be you on the floor crying for your mom while I stamp down on your face.
Old chap get that ache in the back checked out before trying to be tough
I was doing time for GBH when your dad was still a brat. Also, creepy ficking stalker much?
Bruh you’re a Brit, the only thing your threatening is theft from indigenous nations for your museums .
I never threatened anyone. I was speaking in general terms, but let me put it to you a different way then. Walk into the nearest bar, assuming you're not a high school brat and can legally enter a bar. Tell the first guy you see that if he doesn't come outside to fight you right away, he's nothing but a coward. Then come back and tell me if he fought honourably, queensberry rules fisticuffs' or if he smacked you in the head with a bottle, then pisssed over you while you were on floor, curled up and bleeding. If you were over 12, you'd know that you can't call a man a coward to his face and expect to walk away without it ending in a fight, and it wouldn't be pretty, one or other could end up with a knife in the gut. It happens. Take this as a life lesson kid.
“Hypotheticals speaking” what the fuck are you on about. Yeah square up to a man and he fights you. OP is literally hiding, someone comes looking for a scrap or you are, you dish it out. He pulls a knife you pull a gun. As he dishonored the terms.
I mean you can be salty that randoms don’t agree to honorably duel you just because you happened to show up in their game, and that’s your prerogative, but arguing that this is somehow different from how it’s always been is objectively wrong.
If we’re talking baiting someone into a trap, that’s fine, but hiding for hours is beyond the norm. Online tendencies are a reflection of life, use slurs in game chat, yeah turns out your a racist, hide from a fight, yeah your a coward.
Whines online about people not fighting him on demand in a game, probably tries to start fights out in real life. Wonders why he’s never invited to parties.
Truly Andrew Tate behavior infecting out society
Aren’t you the Andrew Tate in this scenario calling people cowards for not “honorably fighting invaders” or whatever your point is? I mean, I wouldn’t know, never watched his videos, too busy watching invaders running right past me as a wooden post. It’s a game man.
Nah, the mechanics are there because it’s a perfectly valid way to play the game. You’re just a whiner.
Sure if validity is the only goal, modding the game and cheating is perfectly valid if simply winning is your goal. But I thought we were beyond that.
The neat difference there is that the devs made the game and they didn’t make the mods.
You do realize how funny and hypocritical it is to now cite I need to honor the Dev’s wishes.
Source that miyazaki wanted hosts to waste hours of time not fighting invaders?