I just bought Dark Souls 2 on Steam, I have been playing it on PS3. I just started the PC version last night and am building a strength character. I went home at lunch and went through Heide's Tower of Flame to the Dragonrider. I am using the Halberd from the FoFG. There are a total of 9 enemies in Heide's Tower proper, which I killed. My Halberd busted about 2/3 of the way through the Dragonrider. Luckily, I had the NPC summoned, which bought me some time to switch to my Club.
My question is this: I know the Halberd breaks easy but is breaking that easy due to the Halberd or due to the PC version?
I have read "rumors" that weapon degradation is much quicker on the PC version but I don't know that to be fact. My strength character on the PS3 version is using a Claymore +10 and Mastodon Halberd +8. The Mastodon Halberd breaks easy in that game too but I have never used a Halberd in Heide's Tower until now.
Has anyone used a Halberd in Heide's Tower on the PS3 or XBox and had different results?
Best Answer
At this point, it's basically "confirmed" that weapons degrade faster on the PC. From/Namco hasn't acknowledged it (that I know of), but there's been some pretty extensive testing by the community as noted here: http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkSouls2/comments/2517i8/durability_bug_is_linked_to_framerate/
Basically, Dark Souls 2 subtracts a set amount of durability per frame of animation. You swing your weapon exactly the same speed regardless of frame rate. That means that if your weapon is passing through an enemy for 1 second, there will be 30 "ticks" of loss at 30 FPS, but 60 "ticks" of loss at 60 FPS. The consoles are locked to 30 FPS, but the PC version runs pretty great on most machines and very regularly runs at 60 FPS. That's an overly simple explanation of what's going on, but it's the gist of the problem.
Apparently you can lock your FPS to 30 on the PC and the problem magically disappears, though I've never looked into how people are doing that.