Thanks dudes, I found her by the grace at some main entrance to some castle looking place that I sure as shit am not entering.
I found a way to summon Torrent and am now full Red Dead Horse mobile.
I really need to figure out this inventory shit because I keep drinking some flask crap mistakenly and I’m sure I need to be saving it for some brawl.
- Pouches, that’s the crap you can access with the d-pad?
- If so, how do I add crap to it? It looks like I have one open spot, with the other being a sword, shield and flask. I guess it would be good to use the other opening on my horse ring or telescope, if I can figure out how to add stuff to it.
- D-Pad up = cycle spells. These can be assigned at the grace. To use them you need a Talisman (Faith based Miracles) or a Staff (Int based Spells)
- D-pad down = cycle items. You can add things here from the equipment menu, the list of slots at the bottom. Typically you would have your flasks first, then any items you want to use quickly. You can hold D-pad down to go back to the first item slot (usually healing flask).
- D-pad left/right = left and right hand weapons/shields etc.
Then there's a secondary 4 item menu you can use by I think holding one of the right side buttons on the controller, then pressing a D-pad direction. This can be populated from the equipment menu, on the right side of the screen. I recommend you use this for things like calling the horse, using telescope, or for summoning helpers.
Also telescope is kinda dumb because to put it away, you need to use it again, no other way. But it's useful for checking out areas.
- Chest
- So I can bring stuff in and out of my normal inventory using chests at the graces? (But only at graces?)
Chest is basically a dump you can access at any grace. The idea is that instead of having a shitload of stuff to go through in your normal inventory, you can cram things you cannot use atm, things you don't want to use by accident (e.g boss runes that can be used to just gain runes, but preferably boss weapons), or things you have duplicates of but cannot sell right now.
- Graces
- These are basically teleport, sleep, and inventory hubs?
In other Souls games these are called bonfires. Any time you rest here you reset the enemies in the area, regain all your flask uses, health and remove status effects from yourself. Otherwise yes, you can teleport to other places, upgrade some things and access the chest.
- The yellow light leaf looking stuff is grace guiding me to key areas? Aka death?
Yeah it guides you towards the next grace related to main story progress. Sometimes useful if you don't know where to go, but don't feel like you need to follow it to the letter as e.g the first boss in Limgrave area is pretty tough for beginners, and exploring other areas to become stronger is a good idea.
- Is there a run option? I led some soldiers on a low speed chase and thankfully they got bored at my mall walk pace.
Hold circle/B, or the same button that rolls. Also note you have different attacks when running.
- Parrying, I only see a block button, is parrying just hitting block at the time the strike would hit (as opposed to just holding block)
No, parrying is done by using a shield with a parry skill on it. Different shields have different parry windows, which is why you will see pros use a small buckler shield for parries because it has the most "parry frames". The specs of the shield don't matter, you can use an entirely unupgraded Buckler to parry any enemy. So just keep one handy in case you are in an area where you might find parries useful.
You then use the skill button (L2 usually) to perform the parry where your character flings the shield to deflect the enemy weapon. When you successfully parry, the enemy is open to a high damage attack and all you need to do is go close to it and hit R1. This high damage attack can be also performed on human sized enemies by simply getting right behind them and pressing R1, aka backstab.
Parries can only be done for one handed attacks. So if you see e.g a human enemy two handing their weapon, those attacks cannot usually be parried. But if they are e.g holding a sword and shield, parry away.
The trick to learning to parry is that you look at the
hand of your enemy, not the weapon. Right when their hand starts to go down, you parry.
I recommend trying this out on slow wind up, low damage enemies to get a feel for it. Parry is super useful against any "big knight on foot" type enemies in the game but I honestly find it tricky to use on many others because they don't have as clear tells for attacks.
I can’t find the cave to get the Whetknife thing, but now that I have Torrent I’m going to try to ride to the Church of Marika to get the Flask of Wondrous Physick, which is more shit I don’t understand but it’s the last thing on my beginner day 1 guide.
That's a great idea, it's very useful.
