r/DarkSouls2 • u/Holographicknight • 6h ago
Fan Art The emerald herald has a request
(art by me)
r/DarkSouls2 • u/e_0 • Jun 16 '26
1) First and foremost, ban all of the repetitive victim posting
"Why is Dark Souls 2 so hated?" just devolves into the same thing - everyone commenting in agreement and performative victimizing. It's a video game, not everyone is going to like exactly what you like. There's no real discussion to be had there, and we seemingly have them here more than the other main subreddits. It's just becoming tiring.
2) Ban engagement-bait posts
The best example of this is someone posting a random, unrelated screenshot or artwork of Dark Souls 2 with the title of "What's your favorite sword in the game?" - then proceeding to not at all join in the discussion. It just serves to farm karma while putting in zero effort, not crediting the artist they took the art from, and not participating in their own thread. If you want to discuss something, make a text post and actually discuss.
3) Ban trouble makers at the mods' discretion
This is a spicy one because it can easily be mishandled by the wrong mod team. We all know Reddit mods are pretty garbage overall, but I'd like to think I'm a bit different since I'm here for Souls and couldn't give a shit less about seeming professional or having any semblance of "power" (it's Reddit, lmao).
This essentially means if you're posting within the guidelines (i.e - posting about Dark Souls 2) but you're making your post to simply stir shit, rile people up constantly, and put down others... then you should expect a ban.
I'm obviously not going to name names, but we all know a couple of usernames who, whenever there's random drama, we know they're going to be involved. These are the users I'm talking about
EDIT (this includes the "Slander posts" that you guys keep commenting about, but I will also explicitly say that yes, this does include the lame "Ds3 is grayslop hurr hurr" posts that just seek to rile people up for no reason)
That's it, that's the most important thing in this entire post. The game has been released for 12 years and the subreddit has kind of devolved into the same thing for the last decade at this point. Are there any ideas you all have, rules I should change, things I can do differently to make this place more enjoyable and less of the same, repetitive drivel?
r/DarkSouls2 • u/LordRadai • Jan 21 '26
Hello folks, Radai here. I am a modder and reverse engineer, my main focus is Dark Souls 2. I am the author of DebugManager and other modding tools for the game.
The 31st of December 2025 I was sent a very worrying Twitch clip, showing messages appearing on the game screen. These messages were directly addressing the streamer, someone had found a way to send custom messages to whoever they wanted. When I was this, I immediately knew it was serious.
The next day I spent the whole evening testing what can be done with this, and I found out it's possible to format the message in such a way that the receiver game crashes. I reported this to Yui, author of Blue Acolyte, immediately. We kept this a secret until she made a patch for it, and now it's ready. It's recommended for all of those that want to play online to download Blue Acolyte.
Here's also a post from Yui describing the issue in more detail.
Also mods, if you see this, please pin. It needs to remain visible.
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Holographicknight • 6h ago
(art by me)
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Garzell • 12h ago
She look like someone who will tell you to join dark side.
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Temporary_Mix1603 • 7h ago
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Ashamed-Host-4991 • 14h ago
a friend bought me this and I'm quite curious lol
r/DarkSouls2 • u/International-Cup890 • 1d ago
It helps me feel like I'm not by myself lol. Crazy I know.
r/DarkSouls2 • u/SirBurgerThe8th • 12h ago
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r/DarkSouls2 • u/Sad-Passenger-2299 • 20h ago
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Let me know if you guys have any ideas or suggestions for this area. Maybe new name, enemy types, traps and so on!
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Evilresident64 • 1h ago
Title. Basically checked all my old profiles and combined I have 1k hours, started a new playthrough today and I can confidently say I didn’t read anything in this game before.
r/DarkSouls2 • u/LPlusRaitio • 1h ago
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r/DarkSouls2 • u/One_Understanding267 • 14h ago
If Hollow Soldiers are like zombies behaving on remnant memories, guarding the fort and attacking intruders, why don't they react to roaming huge Ogres?
I can understand them not attacking dogs since they're probably hollowed versions of their dogs, but other monsters?
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Initial_News9909 • 1d ago
Playing Dark Souls 2 in Polish, I noticed a funny little thing- weapons with infusions use contracted form of the infusion's name. Since the polish word for darkness is mrok, it shortens it to Mr., thus making it look like my weapon's name is "Mr. Scythe"
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r/DarkSouls2 • u/New-Addition1802 • 1d ago
Just started playing dark souls 2 after finishing dark souls 1,i thought i was gonna hate it since in the souls community itself,the game was pretty hated and the mechanics,graphics were bad they said
But hell nah they are not,I'm quite enjyoing it so far,its so really good guys
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r/DarkSouls2 • u/daddylongjohnsliver • 1d ago
ironclad soldier vs Old Knight Great Hammer
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Hasyahshin • 1d ago
Aura farming since 1877 (ds2 release date) and still doing in another universe.
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Internal_Middle8165 • 13h ago
After playing the shit out of Elden Ring, I've decided to go back and try the Dark Souls series.
The DS1 remaster I found surprisingly easy, with a two-handed big axe. I'd like to try something different, but the allure of big bonk is strong. Is a hybrid pyro/bonk worth looking at, or should I stick to full pyro if I want to try that magic?
Thanks!
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Sharp_Ad_8890 • 6h ago
I've been trying to get it for forever, but it just wouldn't work, using UXM, unpacking it is simple and no errors, but once I patch, the game sends an error when I launch it, and if don't patch and just add the mod to the game directory, or unpack without patching, the game launches, but many things are off, missing/invisble/unusable, I tried everything, and ran out of options, so please, if anyone manages to get this mod up and running, teach me, thank you.
r/DarkSouls2 • u/Awkward-Ad-4815 • 2d ago
In the new edition of Elden Ring released recently, you can find an armor that is completely similar to Lucatiel of Mirrah's as well as her weapon, given that the character model wearing it is in every way similar to the one in Dark Souls 2 : a blonde, blue-eyed woman with Rot on the same side of her face as Lucatiel. On top of that, the NPC is named Leonciel.
If FromSoftware didn't want us mixing the universes, then they messed up, because with the new armor, weapon, and character they released, they completely forged a link between the Dark Souls and Elden Ring universes. They can't complain later if fans do nothing but theorize that the two worlds are connected.
I already thought before that the different Soulsborne universes were connected because of the Archtrees, but now with this specific connection, there's just no chance they aren't.
(I translated my paragraph using AI because I don't speak English fluently, so I apologize for any phrasing issues or repetitions)
r/DarkSouls2 • u/state_issued_femboy • 1d ago
I wasnt the biggest ds2 fan, after playing er I decided to pick up ds2, and the game was not fun whats so ever, controls are awful, and everything feels slow, bloated and floaty. But after replaying ds3 replaying er twice and beating ds1 I decided to give ds2 another shot, and holy shit im addicted to this clunky game, ive played it for over 20 hours over past three days I have been so hooked and enthralled, Idk what it is, gameplay is not really fun enemies are overbaked, the bosses are a joke (I just defeated the first 4) and the soundtrack is eh. But the level desgin and the well crafted casualty of the game really makes this game so good. Probably even better than ds1
r/DarkSouls2 • u/grumpy1kitten • 1d ago
I wonder if there are in game characters that look like characters from other fantasy stories, besides the obvious heavy Kentaro Miura influence here and there.
r/DarkSouls2 • u/trollerotico • 1d ago
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