
To tackle this dragon players need to prepare significantly, being well-prepared is the difference between a humiliating defeat and a hard-fought victory.Īs mentioned, Midir has a hefty life bar and even heftier defense. Coupled with his immense health bar and high defensive stats and you have the recipe for a boss as difficult as it is frustrating. The Ringed City will toy with the community’s expectations in other ways, like forcing players to take enormous (but non-life threatening) falls from heights that would be fatal in the base game.Midir is a challenge that is unlike any other within the context of Dark Souls 3. The beast has a variety of one-hit kills or close to death attacks that even the highest level characters can't withstand. And it sounds like the studio’s new twist should be at least slightly less maddening - even if it’s just as patience trying - as trekking through another Blighttown. And it sounds like the studio has some ambitious plans to ensure Dark Souls 3 players don’t walk away from The Ringed City with a similar sense of disappointment.īased on GamesRadar’s reporting, it sounds like FromSoftware devised an interesting variant of the mechanics it usually employs when the developers want to force players to move through a zone faster than they’re comfortable with. The studio hasn’t decided how players will access Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City yet.īecause so many people hated the first expansion, FromSoftware needs to place the entrance in an area where it would be still accessible to those who skipped out on Ashes of Ariandel. A build so early that, rather than make Sullivan discover the doorway to the next DS3 DLC, FromSoftware began the demo from the expansion’s first area. The new information on Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City comes courtesy of GamesRadar, after reporter Lucas Sullivan was given hands-on time with an early build of the expansion. Early reports suggest many community complaints about Ashes of Ariandel, the first Dark Souls 3 expansion, won’t be an issue when The Ringed City debuts.

And we aren’t just learning more about the next set of locales we’ll visit in DS3. New details on Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City are out this week, following a recent hands-on demonstration for select members of the press.
