Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-25247371-20140813071145/@comment-91.97.152.236-20140903153741

AzureDusk wrote: @ Otto: We're not saying you can't be "honorable". What we ARE saying is that the game has nothing to do with your version of honor and never will, you shouldn't judge others for not playing "honorably" and you should not CHEAT and make yourself into a hypocrite piece of trash because someone did something you dislike. Divine Blessings are something that nearly NO legitimate player (people who don't cheat) uses because they are so rare, which makes them something unreliable to use in combat. Fromsoft wanted Divine blessings to be like that, something used in last resort for if you had nothing else. Cheaters who exploit items like that are the scum of this community and can NOT be compared to legitimate players (people who DON'T cheat) because what they are doing was never intended to happen in the game in the first place. Divine Blessings are my last resort against gankers and bow backstabbers. Don't forget, YOU people started the war, and I end it. I could also have used humanity and Estus, the damage that guy inflicted upon me was small, it was only damage caused by lag. The main difference you conveniently ignored all the time here is that my countermeasures to your foul moves put us on equal grounds. I am not taking advantage of Divine Blessings or so. I also have more than three WoG casts, by the way. Is that also cheating?

You suggest that I succumb to your despicable behaviour, but if I reverse it, you're going all out. Don't forget your pitchforks and burn me! Parrying against a laggy opponent is supposed to be my countermeasure? Blocking shock damage? Using physical damage only against my opponent's physical and shock? Oh yeah, great ideas, they totally don't put me in a disadvantageous position which I got only into because I allowed that dude to pull it off while I was bowing. No, standard counter for GMB is dodging it until it runs out. Since you can only activate it safely from afar under normal circumstances, that means twenty seconds of dodging. Pretty doable. But that makes the fight boring and exhausting. Same if you use GMB against magic users. GMB is problematic and incredibly one-sided, especially if you take it out while your opponent bows. And since I didn't even scratch my opponent while dodging, after GMB went out, I did succed in creating that fair fight it should have been right from the beginning. My opponent didn't die because I hurt him during GMB and healed my damage. My opponent died because he was an inferior swordsman, period.

You cannot, in no universe possible, believe in what you're saying. Negating GMB, which was a direct counter to my DMB and therefore an offensive action, was the most fair action I could think of. Sure, YOU would have rushed him and stunlocked him to death while he was kneeing, but I decided that a fight at full health for both, both having faith buffs, was the fairest move to pull off. See the difference? Yeah, you don't, I know. Don't worry. The rule I'm pledging for is that every player starts a duel without being disadvantaged. That's the golden honour rule you guys so carelessly violate. You might want to defend now saying that this was okay, because no "Honour Souls", but I told you before: THIS IS WHAT MODDERS THINK! They don't care whether modding breaks your code of "Dark Souls" not being "Honour Souls" not being "Hacker Souls". Further note, how absolutely arrogant of you to claim your position in the middle of the spectrum was okay, but modding would be too far. The only way to minimize modding and other BS is to create an enjoyable online experience for everyone. But you just care about yourself. Does it really please you if you start with triple health because you backstabbed the bower with your Claymore/Zweihander?

I much enjoy getting that seldom, yet regular "gg" after a close fight from my opponent. That is the reward for playing honorable, something you will never understand. So far, I have only been accused of being unhonorable once, because of activating a second DMB. I could clear that out with the opponent via chat, because I actually had my first DMB still active from the bonfire when he entered. So, so far, no one has ever felt being treated unfair by me. But I have received a lot of nice messages. Can you say the same?

And that's all, folks. There is no meaning to your endless hollow babbling about how we should accept this game was not meant to be played fair. Keep whining about disconnects and so on, because that's unfair to you. We honorables enjoy the game to the fullest in the mean time.