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Cycloneman posted:Holy gently caress, is there any way to make escort quests not completely intolerable? It was bad enough with Mercedes, at least she could actually contribute to the battle... now I'm escorting the Chief of my home village and he keeps running up to a Chimera (which would otherwise be a pretty trivial fight) and sort of walking back and forth and getting himself killed. gently caress. The best way to do escorts is
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It's a tad extra leg work, but if you're intent on doing the escort quests, and you have a portcryst, just go to the location you need to get to on your own, toss a portcryst down, go back, start quest, use a ferrystone. Poof.
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Jul 29, 2012 16:18
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Only do the escorts that have a reward that you want, or you want to raise that character's affection level. They don't count towards any achievement or anything, so there's not even that tenuous motivation to do all of them. What I've done when I accidentally wander to close to a giant monster, or 3000 goblins/wolves is chug a liquid vim and throw them over my shoulder and sprint like mad. That and quicksave every 20 feet.
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The real secret to escorts is to put a Portcrystal at Bloodwater Beach because loving everyone wants to go there.
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likecnsnnts posted:The real secret to escorts is to put a Portcrystal at Bloodwater Beach because loving everyone wants to go there.
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So apparently letting someone else try the game out on my profile was a bad idea. Nothing like finally maxing out assassin only to have everything erased before I could actually use any of the perks.
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Seems like I finally nailed that quest, I'll post a writeup with some Beerseeker and Jill pictures before I re-hire more pawns and play again later. Will use spoiler tags for the images as it will pretty much tell you what's going to happen in the quest Honor and Treachery Everyone's acquitting themselves well and I've finally gotten to grips with Magic Archer. Little Beerseeker's a rapacious little dwarf, isn't he?  Check back to this post for imagedump / tales of valour in a while. As ever I'm taking on anyone's pawn of any level for at least a bit as long as you don't mind posting your info in the thread or PMing / Xbox Live messaging IllGarrett as I rarely check the google doc  Schubalts posted:I love stories about gryphons just being complete dicks like that. At least it didn't grab a Pawn. I love Gryphon behaviour, half the time they'll come fight us, half the time they'll get a butt full of arrows or magickal arrows courtesy of my character and just fly away, it's like they're going "NOPE! NOT THIS GUY! NOT TODAY! I GOT EGGS AT HOME!" JT Smiley posted:So apparently letting someone else try the game out on my profile was a bad idea. Nothing like finally maxing out assassin only to have everything erased before I could actually use any of the perks.  I'd hate that. I winced when I read it, my commiserations! I guess you could restart as a mage or something. Quick EDIT: Congrats, no casualties! "Twas stopped before reaching the residential quarter, at least." Although I did have to use my last secret softener, I think I'll stock up on those for er, the future. Once I've finished this session I'll do a nice little write-up, then hire some more goonpawns RYU and Belial have been picked up. I'm seeing how Ser Gabriel does with a new vocation, I want to pick him up more stamina as well as some climbey augments. Seeing Beerseeker clinging onto the Cockatrice for dear life and nearly dying repeatedly while distracting it just inspired me! I apologize if he sucks for a while. Will drop story later / tomorrow. Feel sleepy enough to sleep for once! TehGherkin fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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I just did the Arousing Suspicion quest and my character is a woman. It has a rather interesting effect on the way that it plays out, in that it has no effect whatsoever and this is really obvious even though I've never played a male character.
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Jul 30, 2012 04:21
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^^^^ I hated that mission on my first playthrough. Just in case: Here I am congratulating the game (while hiding like a coward) for allowing me to make a choice that actually matters. I thought, "why would I stand up against the duke? He can have me kicked out of Gran Soren, I'm not gonna rustle his feathers. I don't know this chick, she'll be fine... right?" But nope, you have to save her. Kind of weird that everything returns to status quo like nothing happened. ^^^^ GT is GuardianOMS. I've got a sweet level 65 Fighter. She's huge, has a butch cut, a stupid name, and totally uninspired. But she will wreck the poo poo out of some harpies. 
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Jul 30, 2012 04:43
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Welp, this makes the first game I've ever gotten all the achievements for. Got real close to getting them all in both Dark Souls and Saints Rows 3 (I still might eventually get them, I suppose), but some of them just seemed like a pain in the rear end. 
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SeriousCrimesUnit posted:^^^^ You don't have to do anything of the sort. You can just walk away. The plot doesn't care one way or the other.
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RotationSurgeon posted:Does anyone have a rad level 50ish archer? I've been trying running my main man Ryu the warrior and a mage/sorc combo but it takes so drat long for the sorceror to get her spells out that I feel like somebody with a bow just hailing on dudes would be a lot more helpful for where I'm at.
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What does it mean when a pawn's level is "Infinity" or when the RC cost is 9,999,999,999?
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Red Mundus posted:What does it mean when a pawn's level is "Infinity" or when the RC cost is 9,999,999,999?
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Manatee Cannon posted:You don't have to do anything of the sort. You can just walk away. The plot doesn't care one way or the other. Really? Because when I did nothing and just stood there I had to retry.
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Jul 30, 2012 06:33
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SeriousCrimesUnit posted:Really? Because when I did nothing and just stood there I had to retry. There's a much later optional quest where you have to actively go rescue her, that's the one he thought you meant, I think. For Arousing Suspicion, once you've gone to her room you have to intervene and end up jailed for it. It is an optional quest though, if you never accept it, or accept but never sneak in to see her the plot will still advance just fine. It is funny how once you bust out, no one seems to give a gently caress about it.
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a kitten posted:There's a much later optional quest where you have to actively go rescue her, that's the one he thought you meant, I think. For Arousing Suspicion, once you've gone to her room you have to intervene and end up jailed for it. It is an optional quest though, if you never accept it, or accept but never sneak in to see her the plot will still advance just fine. No, I mean in Arousing Suspicion if you just leave the room you fail the quest and nothing happens. But you can just leave. If you just stand there then nothing happens. You have to walk right up to them to trigger the next segment of the quest, so just don't go near them and walk out the door. The dragon can screw you out of the final quest in the chain if you wait too long, but that isn't what I'm talking about.
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Manatee Cannon posted:No, I mean in Arousing Suspicion if you just leave the room you fail the quest and nothing happens. But you can just leave. If you just stand there then nothing happens. You have to walk right up to them to trigger the next segment of the quest, so just don't go near them and walk out the door. The dragon can screw you out of the final quest in the chain if you wait too long, but that isn't what I'm talking about. Oh huh, I had no idea. That's pretty cool actually.
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This game really did spells right. Going from mage to sorceror has been awesome. With high gicel and bolide, and soon high maelstrom, I just stand back and cast. With the sorceror casting speed augments and the wyrm ring, its not even that slow. Anything in tight quarters can be a little rough, but its really fun to cast giant twisting spikes of ice, call down literal meteors and summon massive tornadoes. Fulmination is the only semi-disappointing spell so far. They really made each class feel very different. I can't wait to go magick archer and see how the hard leveling in mage and sorceror translates. ex post facho fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Manatee Cannon posted:No, I mean in Arousing Suspicion if you just leave the room you fail the quest and nothing happens. But you can just leave. If you just stand there then nothing happens. You have to walk right up to them to trigger the next segment of the quest, so just don't go near them and walk out the door. The dragon can screw you out of the final quest in the chain if you wait too long, but that isn't what I'm talking about. That's not true. I hid behind the curtain. After a while you see The Duke choke the life out of his wife, then leave. Then you can leave the room (and get arrested, and fail the quest.)
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Manatee Cannon posted:You have to walk right up to them to trigger the next segment of the quest, so just don't go near them and walk out the door. notZaar posted:That's not true. I hid behind the curtain. After a while you see The Duke choke the life out of his wife, then leave. Then you can leave the room (and get arrested, and fail the quest.) Cycloneman fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Remade my strider into a mage because I want to be a mystic knight, and decided to make a female pawn named Eira instead of the usual male pawns. First time resting I collected 15,000 RC. Coincidence? I received jackshit on my male pawns.
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Mr. Crane posted:Remade my strider into a mage because I want to be a mystic knight, and decided to make a female pawn named Eira instead of the usual male pawns. First time resting I collected 15,000 RC. Coincidence? I received jackshit on my male pawns. RC returns are based on how long your pawn was used so if it was literally the first time you rested after switching, that was someone using the male version of your pawn. If you start a new game or use the character edit items, you'll still get the RC returns from people using your old pawn. That's how it works anytime you change their class, skills, or the likes. I used male pawns most of the time because usually I played as female, and when I switched them around my now-female pawn basically never got hired by comparison. Don't read too much into people randomly searching for levels/skills and happening to pick yours or not.
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Gestalt Intellect posted:RC returns are based on how long your pawn was used so if it was literally the first time you rested after switching, that was someone using the male version of your pawn. If you start a new game or use the character edit items, you'll still get the RC returns from people using your old pawn. That's how it works anytime you change their class, skills, or the likes. After switching my pawn into a Warrior he was finally hired by not one but TWO people! *sniff* So proud.
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I noticed that once my pawn reached level 30 he basically stopped getting hired. Earlier levels he was out constantly. Might just be bad luck. Also some nice soul hired my pawn, gave him high-level items, then sent him right back. I thought that was really nice. I plan to do the same once I get to high levels.
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It's probably a natural consequence of the player base getting more spread out across levels as you go up in level. EDIT: Wait, that doesn't really make sense because the ratio of pawns for hire to slots that need to be filled ought to stay 1:2. Maybe it's more that at higher levels people tend to stick with pawns for longer because they're not constantly gaining levels and getting access to better pawns. Sindai fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Dragon's Dogma 2 will most likely be a thing if this is anything to go on. Badass! http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/30/dragons-dogma-2-capcom-reveals-first-details/ Also, Capcom is apparently actually profiting pretty heavily, which is the opposite of what I expected considering the sales compared to the fact that this is its most expensive game ever. http://www.vg247.com/2012/07/30/dragons-dogma-sells-over-1-million-copies-capcom-financials-up/#more-280579 Owl Inspector fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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Jul 30, 2012 21:59
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I hope it's going to be next-gen, or at least a real PC port. The PS3 is so choppy and actually stalls all the time on me, it's irritating.
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Quest creation? Does he mean like the Infamous 2 mission creator? I'm curious about how that would work out in a game with loot. It'd be awfully tempting to just play a mission that gives you every item in the game for free. On the other hand, that would make playing dress-up much easier.
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I can totally believe that a lot of their ideas for the game didn't make it in, I bet the first one is going to feel like a prototype compared to the second, as is all too common with new IP.
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Samurai Sanders posted:I can totally believe that a lot of their ideas for the game didn't make it in, I bet the first one is going to feel like a prototype compared to the second, as is all too common with new IP. My god can you imagine how amazing Dragon's Dogma 2 would be if it did an Assassin's Creed 1-2 style leap in development. DD1 is pretty rough around the edges so jesus if they get a longer cycle for 2 it should be glorious.
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I have seriously used only 2 pawns for most of my time playing the game. So whoever has the pawns named Sasha and De Rais then thank you. Also, I spent most of my time playing leveling up vocations. As it stands, I leveled up fighter, assassin, and I was level 7 in strider, and I haven't even advanced the main quest that much. The most recent mission I did was to kill the griffin at Bluemoon tower. Speaking of which, that place is one of the coolest environments in this game. I wish there were more places like it.
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randombattle posted:My god can you imagine how amazing Dragon's Dogma 2 would be if it did an Assassin's Creed 1-2 style leap in development. DD1 is pretty rough around the edges so jesus if they get a longer cycle for 2 it should be glorious.
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JT Smiley posted:So apparently letting someone else try the game out on my profile was a bad idea. Nothing like finally maxing out assassin only to have everything erased before I could actually use any of the perks. If I'm understanding correctly, does this mean if I start up DD on another PS3, and log into my account, I'll have to remake a character, and in turn auto-delete my one back at home?
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I'll only buy DD2 if it has the exact same intro song, and that song plays non stop throughout the entire game.
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Mr. Crane posted:If I'm understanding correctly, does this mean if I start up DD on another PS3, and log into my account, I'll have to remake a character, and in turn auto-delete my one back at home? I think it mostly means that whoever else he was letting play is a jerk, since the game asks for confirmation two or three times before letting you overwrite your save.
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Sindai posted:I don't think so, since other people have been saying you could have separate characters on other storage devices. Well time to find out!
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This game has the loving worst autosaves ever. Yeah, I didn't want to loving complete that quest with Fedel's letter, even though I already gave the letter to the Black Cat for forgery costing me a bunch of money, thanks for making it so that talking with Aldous not only cancelled that quest, but counted as a loving CHECKPOINT ARRRRGHH. Thanks also for immediately autosaving after I got caught by the Salvation dude and didn't kill his second-in-command, thus pissing off Mason. But don't autosave after I fight half a dozen monsters, I can just do that on my own.
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notZaar posted:I hope it's going to be next-gen, or at least a real PC port. The PS3 is so choppy and actually stalls all the time on me, it's irritating. Yeah, if any game desperately needs a PC port, it's this one. I bet it would sell extremely well, too, considering the type of game it is.
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Did anything every become of the DLC stuff? Any good quests or land expansions or such? I can only hope that DD2 is a bigger world with more paths, more enemies, more open choices (kill citizens), and less plot. Maybe just the same amount of plot. I kind of liked that the story just appeared out of nowhere.
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