Dark Souls: How To Aim Your Crossbow

Upset that you can't aim a crossbow in dark souls, in the same way as your bow? No fear. Here's your solution!

Buy a short bow (even if your dex is too low to use it). Equip it, zoom in and aim it (left bumper). Zoom back out. Equip your crossbow and have at it.  As long as you didn't move your camera position at all, your crossbow will be aimed at that exact same point. For us low dex people (bandit, yay!), it's a good way to fire at ranged targets effectively.

So far, I'm loving this game. The thing I'm not loving is the incessant back tracking if you die. I'm also not loving the lack of humanity. Takes 2 for each new bonfire, assuming you are undead - which you are most of the time. And given how hard humanity is to come by; that's ridiculous. 5 Estus really make for a short venture out before returning to regenerate health.

So far, all the bosses have pretty much been - wait for it to attack, roll to the side, hit it. Rinse/repeat till dead. What makes some of the fights hard is the lack of room to move in.

The first death knight you face (Undead Berg) is in a long corridor and if you drag him out and up the stairs you came down on ... you can dance around the red ladder and he won't use his charge attack. Firebomb him from a distance and its an easy kill. Second one in the undead parish (upstairs right when you come up from the bridge) killed me, but seems like he's the same - drag him downstairs, fiddle with him on the ramp which will interrupt his charge and kill him from the distance. I've seen video on the pig from the IGN reviews, he doesn't seem too bad. But lots of bad guys around him worry me - wonder if they'll be adding or not.

For free "titanite shards" and 300 souls, kill the Tauren Demon boss (firebombs make this cake) and get to the bridge. The dragon will kill the 5-6 undead guys giving you 300 souls - and about half the time they drop a titanite shard. Just use your short cut back to the bonfire and rinse/repeat this for free souls and some shards.

I still haven't gotten the "drake sword" trick to work. The event seems to reset itself after each arrow hit on the tail. Maybe that's been patched? Who knows. The dragon feels like a 2 person fight. One person hits the tail, other stands up top and whacks the dragon when it flies toward you. Maybe. Maybe not. Feels like it, though.

I'm resigned to the fact that I'll never finish this game though. While fun, the back tracking is very irritating. I -almost- quit the first night after the intro area. I went to the graveyard to kill those skeletons that spawn. Bastards were near unkillable and I was like "This game is too damn hard. Two targets at once with variable attack speeds! Impossible!" - then I gave up and went up to Undead Berg instead and was like "Oh this is a lot easier!" I went back to those skeletons later and found them to be much easier after I got some practice on, you know, killable targets.

I should have picked the master key as my starting thing. I picked the firebombs instead (stupid). Lots of doors I'd like to open, but I can't. I did get the key to the Undead residences, but still. Other doors remain locked. Sad face. Then again, I should have also picked a character that could use a bow. Being able to down guys from range would really make my life easier. At least I currently have 3600 souls that I'll use to get my dex to 11 and farm to get it to 12 so I can use it.

I wonder if there is a level cap? I'm like 16 now. Wonder how high it goes and if I should worry about allocations or not.