None, there are no hard bosses in the game, they can all be parried which makes the fights extremely easy, think the only boss I have fought that cannot be parried is Rom, and that is a gimmick fight, you'll understand when you get to it.

Machine Gun guy is typical dumb NPC, climb up ladder, lock on, shoot, climb down ladder watch him fall to his death jumping after you. Only figured this out on my second character

Only boss I can think that may pose a challenge is the Shadows because it's 3 on one, they can be stunned, but it's more of a hit and run thing. Once you get 1 of them the win is guaranteed.

That machine gun guy made me roll away twice and fall off the side lol!!! I then decided to get him near the side, and then knocked him off

As for difficulty, this game is definitely easier than both Souls games imo. Even though I have not gotten that far yet, in the Souls games I died a lot more in the 1st part of the game (especially Dark Souls 1) than in Bloodborne, and I think this is due to the Evade aspect being brought in and the Shield part taken out. I do think that the pace Bloodborne plays at is decent I'm loving this game, but knowing there's an online side - from co-op to invade - and I'm not able to use it, constantly feels like there's an emptiness in the game I'm playing

So I killed the Blood Starved Beast on my 3rd try...and I accidently found a way to make him into (probably) the easiest boss. Don't run away from him no1, run towards him (locked on) and he'll swipe at you, dodge twice and you'll be right behind him enabling you to hit him between 3 - 4 times. But what made him really easy - and I did this accidently - is hit him with Molotov Cocktails. I wanted to use an Antidote, but instead of that being in my load out, I had a Molotov equipped and threw it at him, does decent damage, I had 5 equipped and it was more than enough to take some decent health off the Boss, I think each one hit for 160 damage

I also bought the Kirkhammer last night and upgraded it to lvl 3...yeah...waste of Blood Ecoes imo Really enjoying this game!!! Ppl should really buy this, worth every cent

Got to Father Gascoine and I am stuck. I get this guy down to his wolf form without breaking a sweat, but then he just takes me down and kills me from almost anywhere on the map MID DODGE! I managed to get set up for a visceral attack but accidentally dodged and lost the opportunity.

I have completely depleted my stock of blood vials (and I had a ton), so now I have to go sort that out before I can go back for my 7th try.

When he transforms just play the music box should give you enough time to kill him while he is stunned.

Yeah, the fight is a joke with the music box.
Actually thought it would only work once but three back stabs and a few R1's and the fight was over.
Also the graves help keeping him at bay.

Might actually get some decent time playing tonight so hopefully get through the 3rd boss

I haven't found or collected the music box yet. I'll look for that.

I didn't even know about the music box and I killed him 1st go. Where do you find this box? (PM Me) I'd like to get it on my next play through to see how it works I thought I searched Central Yarnham from corner to corner! Unless I have it but just never noticed it

Hi guys,
 
Got a question regarding co-op;
So I’ve planned an awesome get together with mates this long weekend and we intend to hammer time some Bloodborne co-op style.
 
Now, both mates are starting a fresh game and I have all three bells.
So what I wanted to know is if I guide them far enough to get 1 insight and get at least the first bell.
I can obviously join one of them if they summon me, taking into account that we’ll be in the same room together so being in the same area, passwords ect will be in place and made easy.
Essentially I wanted to know if co-op is strickly for boss fights only or can you summon or be summoned on the bridge (for example) in Central Yarnham and then you can together mission through the stages helping him/them open shortcuts ect.
 
Having never co-op’ed in a souls game before i’m not sure if thats how it works.
Or does it work exactly like that but of course you open yourself up to invasions which would be quite a treat.
 
Shot!

Normally Co-Op is just before a Boss, you'll maybe have 1 or 2 enemies on the way, but other than that, it's mostly for Boss Fights. Also, you can't be more than 10 lvl's higher than the person you intend to invite

*Pls Note: I have not done Co-Op yet due to my internet being down, but that's how the Souls games work.

Understand that but if you've been summoned what's to stop you from not starting the boss fight and go around killing beasts.

In other words,you don't have to kill the 1st boss, so get summoned and then go through the rest of central to activate the elevators to the second boss?

DP should give you a better idea of how it works, he has co-op'ed already. See below:

DarkPrince said ...

Sinncross said ...

I have a question, how does co-op actually work?

First you need to get the 3 bell items, Beckoning Bell, Small Resonant Bell, Sinister Resonant Bell.

When you have at least 1 insight warp back to the dream world and the messengers on the floor will give you this bell.

In order to get the Small Resonant Bell and Sinister Resonant Bell you must have 10 insight in order to merchant to appear just outside the house window/door, after that you can purchase the bells for 1 insight each. The merchant will disappear if you go below 10 insight.

I order to use the Beckoning bell you need to be in an area where the boss has not been defeated, ring the bell and it will open you up for others to enter. The player that wants to join you must then ring the Small Resonant Bell, this can usually take between 10 seconds to a few minutes. To make this easier to connect select options and go to network, in network set your region to worldwide, for some reason this never worked when set to local, and set a unique password and give this to the person that wants to co-op with you. Also note that your levels must not be more than 10, so a level 31 player cannot join a level 2o player, but 21 and 31 will be fine.

After successfully creating the co-op session you will also get a notification that a sinister bell is ringing, the Bell Maiden has entered your world and opened you up for invasion, you need to seek this bell Maiden and kill her in order to prevent invasions, if you do not you may get invaded continuously.

Also take note that any player being summoned into another players world for co-op will have 30-40% reduced health and only receives half the amount of blood echoes as the person who summoned them.

The same applies for the Sinister bell, you can ring it at any stage and you will be summoned into a co-op world to defeat the targets. If your summons dies you will still be invaded until you kill the Bell Maiden so keep that in mind, 1 on 1 invasions can still occur.

After you defeat the boss your co-op session will end.

There is a 4th bell that you get later in the game called the Choir bell, it takes 10 bullets to use but will heal everyone in your co-op party. You can have up to 2 players join your world and then another invader.

On top of all of this you can also co-op Chalice dungeons but it works slightly differently, the person that wants to coop needs to create the Chalice Dungeon and then set it to public, there will also be a key on the bottom right side looks something like eeg768fw gives this you your co-op partner. The co-op partner now goes to the Chalice Tombstones and says search for public game, enter this code and it will enter you into the dungeon. When the main user has entered the dungeon ring the beckoning bell and the partner rings the resonant bell, you will no be warped into their dungeon. Completing each layer will disconnect the co-op session and you will have to either reverse the summoning, so summoner becomes the summoned or the other player can run through the layer by themselves and then ring the bells at the next layer to continue the session.



On a side note it seems the Nightmare Frontier area will be the main PVP area, as no matter your co-op status there is always a bell Maiden there so you can be invaded in this area 1 on 1 unless you kill the Maiden.

Ok, I think I saw that post in another forum.
Think we'll just experiment

Sweet!

About the best I could find

http://www.gosunoob.com/bloodborne/how-to-summon-friends-play-coop-and-get-bells-in-bloodborne/

Wow that is one heckuva complicated system just to co-op, why is it that complicated and why the design choice not to just let people c-op from the beginning? Not a criticism just curiosity.

Its actually simple and a lot easier when you actually do it in game. They explanations just sound complicated. These games are designed to test YOU and see how far YOU will get before you need to ask for help. To add a co-op system where you can play together from start to finish defeats the purpose of the game imo, as when you co-op, the game becomes stupidly easy

They should've had a system where when you co-op, the games difficulty increases to the highest lvl of one of the characters in the co-op session

Just my opinion but the game can be played solo or with friends. There is not definitive way to play the game. If it was intended to be played alone they wouldn't of placed a co op option in the game.

I will be solo'ing myself but the game is so epic that playing with friends is a must try.

^^You are correct...but, the game is a lot harder on your own. So I think the idea behind creating these hard games, was to test an individual, to see how far you can go and push yourself in this game. If that wasn't so, then why develop such hard games? Co-Op to me is also fun, but on my 1st play through I always try and see what I can and can't do on my own. 2nd Play through I use co-op a lot. And now that one can voice chat whilst you co-op in this game (Souls you couldn't) is just super cool, so I can't wait to play alongside some mates myself...

Only difference between this and the souls games, is that everything in the Souls games was challenging, I found it harder sometimes in the Souls games to get to the bosses than the actual bosses were, where as this game just has tough bosses, so co-op I assume would be used more as a fun factor rather than "needed".

@ DP: Any bosses you've come across, harder than these 2?

Well morschee, we should hook up some Co op then .

Still only level 13 as I've focused on weapon upgrades but if you keen or anyone else then let me know