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Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011
I gave the bandit lady a few hundred skulls so she would be my lover. But then i moved away from the ps3 and never got to see my handiwork.

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Wrestlepig
Feb 25, 2011

my mum says im cool

Toilet Rascal

2house2fly posted:

I'm trying for Mercedes but when it comes time to face the dragon I've got a sneaking suspicion it'll be Madeleine. Hey, as long as it isn't Selene. I don't really try to game the affinity system (it's so opaque I'm not sure it even can be gamed) but I don't want to be shacking up with a child.

I avoided pedophilia by throwing a child at a wall for 5 minutes, although with how some NPCs become inaccessible it's not always that easy.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

A nice thing is that the person who shows with the dragon and the person who shows up on the beach don't have to be the same. I once got the princess for the dragon, gave a bunch of wine to a random woman I liked, and she became my beloved after the post game.

marshmallow creep fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jul 26, 2015

BattleTech
Jun 6, 2010

Is this easy mode?
Fun Shoe

Lotish posted:

A nice thing is that the person who shows with the dragon and the person who shows up on the beach don't have to be the same. I once got the princess for the dragon, gave a bunch of wine to a random woman I liked, and she became my beloved after the post game.

I got the merchants daughter once, threw her into the ocean and when I turned my game back on Mercedes was my love interest.

Noper Q
Nov 7, 2012
I think that the person who shows up in the cutscenes is whichever person with the pink glow you talked to last. That's always worked for me anyway.

Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

Noper Q posted:

I think that the person who shows up in the cutscenes is whichever person with the pink glow you talked to last. That's always worked for me anyway.

It's whoever has the highest affinity with you, or if multiple NPCs have max affinity with you, then it will be whoever you talked to last.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
I was so bummed out when I learned that you couldn't end up with Feste on the first playthrough.

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

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Celery Face posted:

I was so bummed out when I learned that you couldn't end up with Feste on the first playthrough.

But you can...

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
You certainly can!

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde
Aw, he doesn't get any special dialogue :(

Rubellavator
Aug 16, 2007


I do love how regardless of who your beloved is, they play out Aelinore's animations during that cutscene.

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

It would be funny to get the biggest, burliest bandit or similar and make him go through those animations.

...!
Oct 5, 2003

I SHOULD KEEP MY DUMB MOUTH SHUT INSTEAD OF SPEWING HORSESHIT ABOUT THE ORBITAL MECHANICS OF THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT A LAGRANGE POINT IS?

2house2fly posted:

Hey, as long as it isn't Selene.

It could be worse. I've been reading about this game's hosed up romance system (why is the Arisen's Bond even a thing since it has no bearing on who the game chooses?) and some people say they ended up with Symone.

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde

...! posted:

It could be worse. I've been reading about this game's hosed up romance system (why is the Arisen's Bond even a thing since it has no bearing on who the game chooses?) and some people say they ended up with Symone.
What's really gross is that Symone is one of the people with special dialogue at the end, so she's meant to be an option :gonk:

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

...! posted:

It could be worse. I've been reading about this game's hosed up romance system (why is the Arisen's Bond even a thing since it has no bearing on who the game chooses?) and some people say they ended up with Symone.

It actually does make a difference, giving it to someone instantly gives you maximum friendship with them. The problem is that there's other characters who have quests you can finish right before the dragon takes your "beloved," and finishing one of those quests after you gave the ring to someone will give you a bunch of friendship with them and possibly overwrite your choice. So you have to finish all the quests you want to do before going to fight the dragon, then give the ring to someone as the last thing you do before they get taken. When I tried to get reynard it was a pain for that reason since he also leaves after you finish his quest, which means you have to time it just right or else you'll accidentally end up with the jester or whatever.

gibbed
Apr 10, 2006

The DDO twitter tweeted out that you can now log into the client to start the patching process.

Geomancing
Jan 8, 2004

I am not an egghead. I am well-read.
Assuming they keep the IP lock on release, I'll have to figure out how to use a VPN to play this as I've never had to use one before. Or played a game where the entire thing is in a language I can't read.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
hmm, downloaded the client, logged into it, but am seeing this




My Gut is telling me it's some kind of beta key I need but I can't find where I would get one.

Yeah, going back to my one semester in Japanese the katakana is asking me for a Coupon Code of some kind

Dexo fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Aug 1, 2015

gibbed
Apr 10, 2006

Dexo posted:

hmm, downloaded the client, logged into it, but am seeing this

My Gut is telling me it's some kind of beta key I need but I can't find where I would get one.

Yeah, going back to my one semester in Japanese the katakana is asking me for a Coupon Code of some kind
Guess they forgot to disable the beta code check.

gibbed
Apr 10, 2006

Dexo posted:

hmm, downloaded the client, logged into it, but am seeing this




My Gut is telling me it's some kind of beta key I need but I can't find where I would get one.

Yeah, going back to my one semester in Japanese the katakana is asking me for a Coupon Code of some kind
Looks like this has been fixed, so if you want to get the client downloaded, you can.

Sylphosaurus
Sep 6, 2007
drat, that Dragon's Dogma manga is really one awful piece of crap.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

gibbed posted:

Looks like this has been fixed, so if you want to get the client downloaded, you can.

Haven't tried it today, but I'm getting a bunch of popup error messages with the only option being OK

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




i have a warrior character and i somehow lucked my way through the twin liches fight with no ranged weapons and a lot of tornado riding. i imagine the dragon i have to go kill also flies around and will piss me off, what's my best option for ranged support for a warrior? i don't think i can wield a bow.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Real hurthling! posted:

i have a warrior character and i somehow lucked my way through the twin liches fight with no ranged weapons and a lot of tornado riding. i imagine the dragon i have to go kill also flies around and will piss me off, what's my best option for ranged support for a warrior? i don't think i can wield a bow.

Besides the Lash skills and jumping heavy attacks (which have surprisingly good range), I'd just bring a couple of Sorcs with you. They will vastly outrange you and when Grigs flies high he really does fly, like cloud level. Maybe throw on War Cry or bring a Fighter with Shield Summons if you're feeling spicy, but for the most part you're going to playing the waiting-fireball-dodging game.

EDIT: almost forgot that there are a handful of ballistas scattered around the final arena. I never had too much luck with them, but it's an option and one or two solid hits should bring him down.

titties
May 10, 2012

They're like two suicide notes stuffed into a glitter bra

Real hurthling! posted:

i have a warrior character and i somehow lucked my way through the twin liches fight with no ranged weapons and a lot of tornado riding. i imagine the dragon i have to go kill also flies around and will piss me off, what's my best option for ranged support for a warrior? i don't think i can wield a bow.

I don't know about DDO, but in Dragma / DA you were probably better off changing vocations and getting some levels in a ranged class yourself. It might be different for DDO but the perks you unlock by playing different classes were not restricted to that class so it's good to level all of the things.

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




i beat the dragon thanks for the balista tip

so how many hours are the post game quests in the original version? is it like another quarter of the game or is it just some busy work before the real final boss?

2house2fly
Nov 14, 2012

You did a super job wrapping things up! And I'm not just saying that because I have to!
There's not much in the way of quests, I think they began to ran out of time when they were doing the postgame stuff. There's a lot of changes to enemy spawns and a big new area full of grueling fights though. If you just want to rush to the end you'll probably be done in a couple hours.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Hmmm

Sloppy Milkshake
Nov 9, 2004

I MAKE YOU HUMBLE

it's down for maintenance.

Russian Remoulade
Feb 22, 2009
Alright, what the gently caress am I supposed to do to these goblins in this goddamn church? Killing them does not seem to be the objective.

Unusual
Nov 12, 2013

The Crooked Warden posted:

Alright, what the gently caress am I supposed to do to these goblins in this goddamn church? Killing them does not seem to be the objective.

you need to do a bunch of random garbage in order, so try like jump attacks attacks blocks your skill, grabbing it while it's down, etc.

SlippyFists
Jul 16, 2007

To The Flowers of Time!

I see one person streaming DDO right now, so maybe the CBT is live? I don't have the client so I don't know.

Edit: Yeah the CB is live

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Dragon%27s%20Dogma%20Online

SlippyFists fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Aug 7, 2015

Boar It
Jul 29, 2011

Mesmerizing eyebrows is my specialty


Spent five hours figuring out the squiggly lines and how to navigate the ui. The google translate app was essential, photographing my screen with my phone and getting some fractured Engrish results. Good enough to get the gist of quest descriptions and stuff. Also it appears that you need a pawn before you can play coop with others.

So far the game feels like Dragon's Dogma with multiplayer and some combat tweaks. Which is exactly what I wanted. Doesn't beat a proper non-f2p sequel but at least it is Dragon's Dogma on PC with glorious 1080p@60.

Boar It fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Aug 7, 2015

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Torabi posted:



Spent five hours figuring out the squiggly lines and how to navigate the ui. The google translate app was essential, photographing my screen with my phone and getting some fractured Engrish results. Good enough to get the gist of quest descriptions and stuff. Also it appears that you need a pawn before you can play coop with others.

So far the game feels like Dragon's Dogma with multiplayer and some combat tweaks. Which is exactly what I wanted. Doesn't beat a proper non-f2p sequel but at least it is Dragon's Dogma on PC with glorious 1080p@60.

Wait Google Translate can do pictures?

holy poo poo. I'm dumb.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
Streaming some DDO on a hunter right now

http://www.twitch.tv/dexo1123/

Edit:

And it's done,

Archive up here for those remotely interested.

http://www.twitch.tv/dexo1123/b/682064785

Dexo fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Aug 10, 2015

Clever Spambot
Sep 16, 2009

You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone...gone...
GONE....
I guess some person on reddit uncompressed the games .arc files during the beta and managed to make a patch that translated a few bits of UI and plans to continue doing so when the main game comes out. They seem to be doing it just using google translate and cleaning it up using context and knowledge of how things were localized in dark arisen so they probably wont be able to do any of the story bits.

Did anyone see if the beta let you keep playing the game if you turn off your VPN after logging in on the launcher? I forgot to try.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

Clever Spambot posted:

I guess some person on reddit uncompressed the games .arc files during the beta and managed to make a patch that translated a few bits of UI and plans to continue doing so when the main game comes out. They seem to be doing it just using google translate and cleaning it up using context and knowledge of how things were localized in dark arisen so they probably wont be able to do any of the story bits.

Did anyone see if the beta let you keep playing the game if you turn off your VPN after logging in on the launcher? I forgot to try.

It worked for me as soon as the green button appeared turn it off

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Dexo posted:

Streaming some DDO on a hunter right now

http://www.twitch.tv/dexo1123/

Edit:

And it's done,

Archive up here for those remotely interested.

http://www.twitch.tv/dexo1123/b/682064785

Is the archer class as popular as it seems? I don't think I've seen any streamers use the fighter. I've already seen people using the mystic knight class in a boring fashion.

Lunethex
Feb 4, 2013

Me llamo Sarah Brandolino, the eighth Castilian of this magnificent marriage.
I'm guessing it's because the hunter does decent damage and isn't directly in the line of fire of monsters who I'd imagine can take people down in less than 5-10 hits.

DDO sounds really lacking by not having the ability to use a bow and daggers at the same time, among other things. That allowed effective fighting and for you to take on big dudes or anyone getting too close, now everyone has to be a specialist it seems.

Lunethex fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Aug 10, 2015

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Caphi
Jan 6, 2012

INCREDIBLE
I restarted this game after probably at least a year very recently and I'm kind of surprised to see the DD thread alive. I mainly wanted to express that.

It's been so long that the first time in my new file I rested at an inn, I got a pile of items and like 67,000 RC.

I'm a Mystic Knight now. I was a Magic Archer before and so far I'm finding my new character more fun to play.

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