Die even though I’m wearing the Covenant of Artorias

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I'm wearing the "Covenant of Artorias" ring and I still die when jumping down to "The Abyss" to fight the "Four Kings". I've tried jumping off at different angles and holding different items and nothing is working. It registers that I made it to "The Abyss" but my health is instantly all yellow like it was a 1-hit KO and my health drops to zero and I wake up at "Firelink Shrine" or wherever else I last rested. What am I missing? Please help!

Best Answer

If you are playing on PC and are using DSFix, set the maximum FPS to 30. I've found a post on Steam with a problem that sounds like yours and it was caused by having more FPS.

According to the post, the length of the falling animation for jumping into the Abyss is tied to the framerate, so that the fall lasts only half the time with 60 FPS compared to 30 FPS. The effect of the Covenant of Artorias to negate fall damage only seems to start at the end of the falling animation and at higher than 30 FPS the animation ends too soon to trigger the effect. The game was originally released only on PS3 and Xbox 360 with a locked framerate of 30, so there was no problem anticipated with that. Locking the framerate to 30 should thus solve the problem.

From Software oddly seem to sometimes tie game mechanics to the framerate. While on consoles this causes no problem, as the FPS is locked for everyone, it can cause problems when the framerate changes. For example, in Dark Souls 2, weapon degradation is tied to the framerate, so running the game at 60 FPS on PC or current gen consoles causes weapons to break twice as fast, while on old consoles or 30 FPS on PC it works normally.

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