A sense of personal pride. Lol.
Also Snake Fortress suuuuuucks. I barely made it through with 10 Estus the first time, and it's not like my stats/gear are that much better now. Maybe I should look up where this magical elevator is tho. If it's near the top I might consider it...
Yeah it's right before the boss really. No enemies between the boss and this elevator except a puny archer. You do need to get the key to unlock it. It's the same one that unlocks Logan's cage. If you don't have it, you have to jump across a broken bridge (near the top, again no enemies around), there's a vendor in that tower too, and at the bottom of that tower is a lone flamberge snakeman you can easily kill for the key. If you miss the jump, you take some fall damage (about 60% of your health) but you don't die, so don't worry.
I can't recall if the elevator can be unlocked with the master key.
It can't, sadly. Weirdly enough you
can free Logan with it, but not the elevator.
Are there hitboxes issues in this remaster? Bull demon, Capra and the the butcher all couldn't hit me when they were swinging from their left to right and I was close to them. Weird
There are, of course. Unlike in DS2, where attacks hit you when they shouldn't, it's more that they miss when they shouldn't, sometimes. And those monsters have weird-ass hitboxes, yes. Grab attacks are also still bullshit, and some attacks also have ridiculous tracking/trajectory correction. That said, I think
this is a pretty good hitbox from a Capra, I posted it just a few hours earlier: my attack missed, and it indeed was just an inch short, and his attack went above my head as it should have (IIRC, the giant Heide knights in DS2 have similar hitboxes, I remember crouching to cast some spell and their sword swung above my head and didn't hit me, was pretty neat):