Folks started a-speculating, and then this video from 'ANDELE3025' showed poise working the old way. It seems to do almost nothing for players. Even in the heaviest armour with the highest poise values, characters are easily jolted. Soulsers assumed poise would work the same way in Dark Souls III, but it doesn't. With high enough poise, characters can shrug off blows from bosses that'd otherwise send them flying. Character with low poise will often be staggered by hits, knocking them out of attack animations, maybe knocking them down, or even leaving them helplessly stunned by chains of blows. The stat's boosted mostly by armour, with bigger, heavier sets tending to grant more. In the first two Dark Souls games, a character's poise statistic affects how hard they can be hit without being interrupted. 'The stat works differently than in past games and is more situational, which seems to be the reason for the confusion.' 'The poise stat is working as intended and is not 'turned off' as some fans have theorized,' a spokesperson for the game's publisher Bandai Namco told Kotaku yesterday. Is it meant to, like in the first two, stop enemy hits making your soul man flinch? Why doesn't it? And how come folks can re-enable the old way by hacking settings? Is it bugged? Bandai Namco now say nah, it's meant to be this way. The poise statistic in Dark Souls III has been a mystery.

poise?' Ah what the hell, you need another anyway. 'It's about mysteries and secrets, about observation and deduction.' You consider smashing your bottle over the bar and driving it into their guts but ach, you've still a few sips left. 'Dark Souls isn't about difficulty, y'know?' they say, backing you into a corner.

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