here gamers is a beginner guide for Dark Souls 3 on how to change inventory items such as how to equip different armor and weapons or how to change your quic Dark souls 2 was not even as bad as dark souls 3 in this respect as the mouse and keyboard controls are what are creating a lot of lag in the game itself for most PC players. Yes by the way I know 2 had issues as well but it was to do with input lag alone 3 is input lag and not registering buttons and causing horrible fps drops all tied to the I could bind it to forward+select (to remove it) or just press r3/l3 (the analogue stick). 1. [deleted] • 9 yr. ago. switch to a weapon that doesn't have kick, or stop button mashing. souls is about precision and timing, this isn't streets of rage. 1. You need to press parry a few frames before they hit, so usually when they end the windup and start the swing. Practice on some easy enemies like the spear hollows. Then sword hollows, then silver knights, then black knights, then Havel. 3. [deleted] • 4 yr. ago. Hit the button like 80% through the animation. 4. Dark Souls Remastered – Pure Dexterity PvP Character Build. Dark Souls Remastered – Pure Sorcery/Magic PvP Character Build. Dark Souls Remastered – Pure Strength PvP Character Build. Dark Souls: Remastered – Dark Ember Guide. DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED – Fix Game Crashing to Desktop. DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED – PS4 & Xbox One I notice on the bottom right of the screen there are 2 slots for arrows, anyone know how to switch between them.. for pc. there's a wiki. Two hand the bow. Attack button will fire arrows from first slot. Strong attack button is for arrows from second slot. Two hand the bow. Attack button will fire arrows from first slot. Yep, scimitar estoc rapier and a select few others do backstep moves instead of kick. Kinda sucks honestly because kicking is way more useful. Feel free to Private message me if you want to speak to me. morbid-snails (Topic Creator) 5 years ago #9. Delay your attack a fraction of a second. There's a lot of scenarios when moving forward and attacking would be beneficial and there's 2 scenarios when kicking is useful. Except you stop moving when you keep attacking. The kick is caused by pressing forward + attack simmultanously with very short delay in between. The next thing I would try is going into dark souls then when u hit the title screen press shift and tab at the same time and then at the top right it should say controller configuration then when u are there try pressing square to change ur template and try to find the recommended template for ur controller or If u cant, use one of the regular templates for any game and try that Fwd + R1 works for kicking. Practice your timing. Shiny_Soul. • 8 yr. ago. if ur using straight sword , ull prob find it easier to just do the L2 plus R1 combo.I carry longsword for just those cases .Kick does massive stamina damage but still not a guaranteed guard break. 1. Grimalkinx. EmHjo.