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Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
No

nooooooo

quote:

Q) Does the game include the Berserk armor and weapon set?
A) Unfortunately, the Berserk gear is not included in the game due to licensing restrictions.
It was really good gear, I used it for a long time on my warrior. :qq:

Sindai fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Dec 17, 2015

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im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Sindai posted:

No

nooooooo

quote:

Q) Does the game include the Berserk armor and weapon set?
A) Unfortunately, the Berserk gear is not included in the game due to licensing restrictions.

It was really good gear, I used it for a long time on my warrior. :qq:

loving really?

That's a giant bummer. I mean, digital version of the design works is cool, but this is a shame.

But on the other hand:

quote:

Q) Is the Eternal Ferrystone and bonus items/gears available in the PC version?
A) Yes! Bonus Items immediately accessible are: Swordman’s Ring, Daggerist’s Ring, Staff-Bearer’s Ring, The Lion’s Spine, Robe of Enlightenment, Wavering Cloth, Vagabond Armor, Tiara of Enlightenment, Ruminator’s Monocle, Jester’s Cap, and Fiend-luring Incense. Completing the first escort quest and reaching Gran Soren will unlock the following: Eternal Ferrystone, Set of Fop’s Trek Wear, Voldoan Armor, Priest Vestments, Lady’s Trek Wear, Queen’s Clothing, and Nun Vestments.

I'm glad all this made it in. It could've been an easy oversight not to include some costume items and the Eternal Ferrystone, but they did good.

DOUBLE EDIT:

quote:

Q) While pawns have endearing personality and are great to have them around in my adventures, they’re a bit talkative. Any way to shut them up?
A) PC version adds a new option that completely silences the Pawns. They will only speak when talked to. To enable this feature, simply go to Options -> Gameplay and set “Pawn Chatter” to OFF.

lol

im cute fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Dec 17, 2015

mirarant
Dec 18, 2012

Post or die

quote:

Q) While pawns have endearing personality and are great to have them around in my adventures, they’re a bit talkative. Any way to shut them up?
A) PC version adds a new option that completely silences the Pawns. They will only speak when talked to. To enable this feature, simply go to Options -> Gameplay and set “Pawn Chatter” to OFF.

You can finally silence your minions you monster

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!

quote:

Q) Does the game include fast travel?
A) Yes! The fast travel system has been revamped and became a lot more accessible with the release of Dark Arisen expansion content. Several Port Crystals (these are your jump portals) can be found throughout the adventure and placed anywhere on the world map as you see fit. In addition, price of the Ferrystone are has been reduced significantly from 20,000 to 2,000 gold pieces. Even better, we are now including the unlimited-use Eternal Ferrystone which can be unlocked after completing the quest “Off with its Head.” The item can be found in the Storage which can be accessed from the Gran Soren Union Inn.

Fast travel is now much cheaper, although I can't remember if it was also this way in the console versions.

quote:

Q) Does the game support more than one save slot?
A) No. The pawn trading system and interaction with the Rift server was designed around a single save and player profile. While hot-swapping save file outside of the game is technically possible, this will cause synchronization issues with the pawn you have uploaded to the Rift or shared out to friends and other community members.

Only one slot inside the game is a bummer, but the game using the traditional file storage system for save files means it's not really a problem.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

CJacobs posted:

Only one slot inside the game is a bummer, but the game using the traditional file storage system for save files means it's not really a problem.

Probably to limit one pawn per profile in the Rift. I mean, you can likely switch around profiles just like you could create as many saves as you had storage types on consoles, but it'll overwrite your currently uploaded pawn I'd bet.

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007


Nooooooooo

Now how will everyone who uses my pawn know goblins are weak to ice and fire both and wolves hunt in packs? :(

Wiggly Wayne DDS
Sep 11, 2010



mirarant posted:

You can finally silence your minions you monster
the worst option

CJacobs posted:

Fast travel is now much cheaper, although I can't remember if it was also this way in the console versions.


Only one slot inside the game is a bummer, but the game using the traditional file storage system for save files means it's not really a problem.
i'm pretty sure it was 2k/stone in dark arisen, but that doesn't matter now that you can get the eternal ferrystone from storage very quickly

paco650 posted:

Probably to limit one pawn per profile in the Rift. I mean, you can likely switch around profiles just like you could create as many saves as you had storage types on consoles, but it'll overwrite your currently uploaded pawn I'd bet.
yeah the community manager said as much:

quote:

Q) Does the game support more than one save slot?
A) No. The pawn trading system and interaction with the Rift server was designed around a single save and player profile. While hot-swapping save file outside of the game is technically possible, this will cause synchronization issues with the pawn you have uploaded to the Rift or shared out to friends and other community members.

Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

No Japanese VO either. I liked having that option for when the English got a bit old. Maybe someone will be able to mod it in at some point.

Wrist Watch
Apr 19, 2011

What?



I'm glad Capcom knows what's really important to us.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Genocyber posted:

No Japanese VO either. I liked having that option for when the English got a bit old. Maybe someone will be able to mod it in at some point.

Japanese VO had the strange effect of making the pawns and PC sound much better, but everyone else sound ridiculous and have lip sync issues. But hey, I hope it gets modded in anyway.

Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

paco650 posted:

Japanese VO had the strange effect of making the pawns and PC sound much better, but everyone else sound ridiculous and have lip sync issues. But hey, I hope it gets modded in anyway.

Yup, but that makes it pretty much perfect for doing BBI (especially relevant for me since BBI challenge runs are one of my favorite things to do). Hopefully the game ends up being easy enough for people to mod stuff like that.

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011


preorder canceled

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Dragon's Dogma remains the only game I've ever played where it's fun to be an archer.

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.

RBA Starblade posted:

Dragon's Dogma remains the only game I've ever played where it's fun to be an archer.

This but a spell caster.

Namnesor
Jun 29, 2005

Dante's allowance - $100
What a refreshingly open and honest FAQ.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

Dexo posted:

This but a spell caster.

I never actually played as one outside of the mystic knight or whatever class, I should try being a mage when the rerelease comes out.

titties
May 10, 2012

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

RBA Starblade posted:

I never actually played as one outside of the mystic knight or whatever class, I should try being a mage when the rerelease comes out.

It's boring and the gameplay becomes "stand as far away as you can, hold the button for 10 seconds, repeat"

I still did it long enough to max both standard magic vocations

Im_Special
Jan 2, 2011

Look At This!!! WOW!
It's F*cking Nothing.
Up on GMG for preorder: http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/ca/en/pc/games/rpgs/dragons-dogma-dark-arisen/

Good option for Canadians. Came out to $32 CAD after the 23% off coupon (23PERC-WTHGMG-ADVENT).

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

In something like 6 playthroughs I tried being a mage one time and had to stop because it was so boring compared to everything else (Most of your skills come down to "hold down button for a long time") and it largely relies on your pawns being able to protect you while casting which they are terrible at doing. I thought of making a guardian pawn but I didn't really want to throw another one into the thousands of guardian pawns that were online.

Then I went back to being a flaming human cockroach and remembered why this was GOTY 2012.

ninjahedgehog
Feb 17, 2011

It's time to kick the tires and light the fires, Big Bird.


Guardian pawns suck balls. Scather/Challenger FTW.

Kiggles
Dec 30, 2007

titties posted:

It's boring and the gameplay becomes "stand as far away as you can, hold the button for 10 seconds, repeat"

I still did it long enough to max both standard magic vocations
Mage, yeah. Sorcerer is tolerable because the spells are loving insane, but because of the synchronization mechanic you can exploit, making a full 4x sorcerers really powerful, and a bit more interesting since it isn't about charging to get YOUR cast off, but simply charging to maintain a sort of party wide casting charge so that at least one (you or a pawn) successfully gets their spell fully charged.

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

Sorcerer owns because spells are crazy strong when they aren't in the hands of dumb pawns which means you get to do cool stuff like blow up the drake way earlier than every other class.

Kiggles
Dec 30, 2007

lets hang out posted:

blow up the drake way earlier than every other class.
Thems fightan words

Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

lets hang out posted:

Sorcerer owns because spells are crazy strong when they aren't in the hands of dumb pawns which means you get to do cool stuff like blow up the drake way earlier than every other class.

Nah. Properly specced Assassin or Ranger (probably Strider too) can mutilate the drake and other tough enemies especially if you use Conqueror's Periaps.

Kiggles
Dec 30, 2007
Every class can. Warrior, even with modest weapons, still has substantial knockdown that can pull drakes out of the sky by jump attacking the tail, which gives a big window to land an arc or lash on the heart. Fighter can burst strike the tail to similar effect.

It's one of the better qualities of the game; that with a little finesse, you can kill almost anything at almost any level. Can be enormously difficult prior to level 20 though. BBI is a different story, since DEF values are so high, but few things in Vanilla are so strong, or without weak points to effectively bypass armor, that you can't squeeze out a win with some persistence.

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying

Kiggles posted:

It's one of the better qualities of the game; that with a little finesse, you can kill almost anything at almost any level.
[Ask] me about killing a golem as a sorcerer over the course of several minutes.

(It turned out that either golems aren't totally immune to magic or the giant ice spear spell has a tiny physical damage component.)

Codependent Poster
Oct 20, 2003

Anyone who plays with the Pawns not talking isn't playing the game right.

Talkative Pawns all day every day.

Kiggles
Dec 30, 2007

Sindai posted:

[Ask] me about killing a golem as a sorcerer over the course of several minutes.

Everyone has fists.

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

Kiggles posted:

Everyone has fists.

If you haven't punched a golem to death as a sorcerer (or used Exequy :getin:) then you haven't truly lived.

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010

No Berserk items is a bummer. I don't care about Berserk, but some pieces of those armor sets looked nice and went pretty well with other equipment. Still only having one save slot is also super dumb, especially since you can't completely bypass it this time by creating multiple user accounts on your console. That means you only get a single slot to upload a pawn to, and can't hire your own pawns from your other save files (which was incredibly useful for farming RC).

Genocyber
Jun 4, 2012

If you really need RC that much that you're willing to exploit, you might as well just use CE.

Wrist Watch
Apr 19, 2011

What?

Sindai posted:

the giant ice spear spell has a tiny physical damage component.)

This is it. Gicel/Bolide/Seism all do a little bit of physical damage.

It's still waaaay faster to unequip your staff and punch the discs though.

Kiggles
Dec 30, 2007

Vargs posted:

No Berserk items is a bummer. I don't care about Berserk, but some pieces of those armor sets looked nice and went pretty well with other equipment. Still only having one save slot is also super dumb, especially since you can't completely bypass it this time by creating multiple user accounts on your console. That means you only get a single slot to upload a pawn to, and can't hire your own pawns from your other save files (which was incredibly useful for farming RC).

You can probably use Family Share to get multiple accounts, little different than setting up multiple accounts on PS360.

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.
I wonder if the Berserk Items are actually gone or "Gone".


Lord knows they probably aren't changing the XML file system the game saves are stored in. those Saves are easy as hell to edit. Maybe they just removed the references in the game to it but leave it on the disk.

Also maybe I can just move my Save from the Xbox Version to the PC Version.

Wiggly Wayne DDS
Sep 11, 2010



Dexo posted:

I wonder if the Berserk Items are actually gone or "Gone".


Lord knows they probably aren't changing the XML file system the game saves are stored in. those Saves are easy as hell to edit. Maybe they just removed the references in the game to it but leave it on the disk.

Also maybe I can just move my Save from the Xbox Version to the PC Version.
given the effort they're putting in i wouldn't be surprised if the assets are stripped out entirely - especially if they're willing to approve of mod support in advance of release. and the save format is different according to them, but whether that just means the console encryption wrapper is removed is something we'll have to wait and find out

community manager's already said that moving the save file will work, it's just going to cause syncing complications with your pawn

e: also rc is meant to be changed in the game with the removal of the microtransactions, no idea on how it's been changed beyond that part of the system being removed though

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Genocyber posted:

Nah. Properly specced Assassin or Ranger (probably Strider too) can mutilate the drake and other tough enemies especially if you use Conqueror's Periaps.

My first fight with the drake you run into near the fort literally took all night and all day in-game before I slew it.

It was one of the best vidjagame fights I've had.

Nasgate
Jun 7, 2011

Night10194 posted:

My first fight with the drake you run into near the fort literally took all night and all day in-game before I slew it.

It was one of the best vidjagame fights I've had.

Yeah the Drake is a really awesome fight. Especially with the occasional goblin getting murdered as collateral damage.

If you guys want to know futility, try fighting the steel golem by the witch, as a magical archer, with one ranged pawn that's never fought one before. Just the one in the tree took 20 minutes.

Kiggles
Dec 30, 2007

Dexo posted:

I wonder if the Berserk Items are actually gone or "Gone".


Lord knows they probably aren't changing the XML file system the game saves are stored in. those Saves are easy as hell to edit. Maybe they just removed the references in the game to it but leave it on the disk.

Also maybe I can just move my Save from the Xbox Version to the PC Version.

My bet is they are Gone, no quotes. Since it is licensed content it is kinda sorta really important that the content is actually removed from the game.

That said, if only the vendor entries are dummied out, but the 'listing' for the items is still present in the item database, coupled with the models not present, it may technically be possible to effectively re-implement them by stripping the content from PS360 versions, and doing a little fiddling to either CE the item entry on to your character, or possibly XML edit to re-enable them on the vendor.

You will need to do some work on your save data file to get it working on PC. If they actually delisted the Berserk gear from the item database, then any work getting your save on PC is going to be a big task, nevermind do nothing to get you the berserk equipment.

Kiggles fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Dec 18, 2015

Kiggles
Dec 30, 2007

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

e: also rc is meant to be changed in the game with the removal of the microtransactions, no idea on how it's been changed beyond that part of the system being removed though

Doubt it's changed other than removal of the option to buy RC outright. I don't know anyone who ever used it. You get enough RC when playing in Offline mode to compensate, and can pull in literally millions of RC if someone rents your pawn for a couple of Daimon kills.

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Wiggly Wayne DDS
Sep 11, 2010



Kiggles posted:

My bet is they are Gone, no quotes. Since it is licensed content it is kinda sorta really important that the content is actually removed from the game.

That said, if only the vendor entries are dummied out, but the 'listing' for the items is still present in the item database, coupled with the models not present, it may technically be possible to effectively re-implement them by stripping the content from PS360 versions, and doing a little fiddling to either CE the item entry on to your character, or possibly XML edit to re-enable them on the vendor.

You will need to do some work on your save data file to get it working on PC. If they actually delisted the Berserk gear from the item database, then any work getting your save on PC is going to be a big task, nevermind do nothing to get you the berserk equipment.
There's also handling pawns across a modified save if they're wearing non-standard armour

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