spacehamster wrote:
I was just down there yesterday night after installing the HD textures and didn't notice anything, so I guess I'm good.
Just went there again and it's definitely fine. There's loading hiccups occasionally when I sprint halfway across the game world in ten minutes, like taking the shortcut to the bottom of Blighttown via the Valley of Drakes, but that's hardly a problem.
Now ask me why I walked all the way to the Daughter of Chaos bonfire again. No, really, ask me.
See, I was getting ready to juice up my Pyromancy Flame for the Blubberball & Fuckstick bossfight when I noticed that Laurentius had disappeared. I hadn't used him since literally my first playthrough over 2 years ago, so of course I completely forgot that you can't talk to him about the Fair Lady's pyromancy or he'll go looking for her and die. Whoops. And here my PF's only at +2, so no Quelana either. Double whoops. So I spent about an hour grinding in Darkroot and then hiked all the way down to the Fair Lady, constantly terrified I'd die in Blighttown and lose an hour's worth of soul-grind.
Just when you think you've got this fucking game mastered (I spent a good hour going back through Sen's before that, looting everything and didn't die once), it kicks you in the balls, I swear.
Anyway, Tublord & Dogface are no more. Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to beat the Ceaseless Discharge without Flash Sweat. And the Four Kings without Iron Flesh. Sigh.