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Annath
Jan 11, 2009

Batatouille is a great and funny play on words for a video game creature and I love silly words like these
Clever Betty
I try casting Firecounter, or whatever the first magic Knight spell is, but it doesn't seem to work.

Dude raises his arm and makes a glowing ball appear, and the button flashes saying the spell name, but dude just kinda stands there posed until I hit jump to regain control.

I don't know if I'm supposed to hit a button combo or something or what.

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Electric Lady
Mar 21, 2010

To be victorious
you must find glory
in the little things

Annath posted:

I try casting Firecounter, or whatever the first magic Knight spell is, but it doesn't seem to work.

Dude raises his arm and makes a glowing ball appear, and the button flashes saying the spell name, but dude just kinda stands there posed until I hit jump to regain control.

I don't know if I'm supposed to hit a button combo or something or what.

You have to wait until the bar under the spell name fills up, then release the shield button. You'll enchant your shield with fire and when you block it'll release small puffs of fire. If you perfect block (you'll know if you do) you launch them back and shoot a fireball at them.

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

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

So, how do I get into the Steam Group? Big Pat needs experiences and summoning and goon pawns are usually way better than the swarm of pedomages.

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

Captain Oblivious posted:

What they really needed was someone who had the vaguest grasp of the videogame market and could forecast the blindingly obvious truth that Dragon's Dogma could never possibly do Call of Duty numbers. :v:

This has been kind of a recurring issue though. A lot of big names like Capcom are astonishingly bad at the business end of games.

In that case they just wouldn't have made the game at all

Random Hajile
Aug 25, 2003

Night10194 posted:

So, how do I get into the Steam Group? Big Pat needs experiences and summoning and goon pawns are usually way better than the swarm of pedomages.
Post a link to your profile so someone knows where to send the invite.

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

lets hang out posted:

In that case they just wouldn't have made the game at all

:agreed:

I'm glad Capcom spent so much money making this insane, gem of a game; even if it didn't sell CoD numbers, we're better off for having it

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

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

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197972352219/ I think this should work.

Also, did they seriously remove the Berserk gear, I was hoping to put Big Pat in Guts stuff so she can finally have a decent costume instead of the lovely mishmash of early game armors.

Bakalakadaka
Sep 18, 2004

Has anyone put together a listing of players and their pawns? Back when this first came out someone had a Google spreadsheet or something where people could add their pawns with their vocation/level/inclinations along with the player's id so you could search for that pawn in the rift. Since pawns at or below your level are free that might be a good way to share more pawns without having to add a million steam friends. I can start one later if no one else has done it yet and I'm not the only one who thinks it'll be useful.

Mung Dynasty
Jul 19, 2003

Why do the peasants slave while the emperor gets to eat all the mung?!

Perestroika posted:

So anyways, now I'm in what's apparently the post-game, though the background and story of the whole thing still is somewhat hazy. Will there be significantly more story found in the Everfall or can I just go ahead and read up on all that stuff somewhere else without spoiling anything cool?

The game isn't over. At least do the 20 Wakestones quest in the Everfall and go see the real ending(s).

EDIT: I misread your post. The Everfall has hints of story as you explore it, like what pawns become when separated from their masters, and what it means for you to be (apparently) stuck there forever. It's nothing overt; you just kind of learn and feel it passively.

You can stay and explore and fight til your hearts' content, but if you want the story to expand and ultimately finish, completing the Wakestone hunt will lead you to an actual ending.

Mung Dynasty fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Jan 20, 2016

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Night10194 posted:

Also, did they seriously remove the Berserk gear, I was hoping to put Big Pat in Guts stuff so she can finally have a decent costume instead of the lovely mishmash of early game armors.

Licensing issues, apparently. :smith:

Night10194
Feb 13, 2012

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

Harrow posted:

Licensing issues, apparently. :smith:

Did that also destroy the beauty of flying into the free?

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Night10194 posted:

Did that also destroy the beauty of flying into the free?

Yes. But that can be modded back in.

Green Bean
May 3, 2009
If I use a mod or Cheat Engine to change stat growths, is there any risk of my pawn access restricted? I set it so that the game doesn't upload my main pawn, but I still use other peoples', and I still want to be able to rate/gift them.

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



I just wanna say sheltered strike is awesome and it makes me feel like I'm prison shanking people

FutonForensic
Nov 11, 2012

I'm... I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna throw Pip into the Everfall

CJacobs
Apr 17, 2011

Reach for the moon!
Gifting people with lovely/weird pawns rocks is the best because there's no way to tell if it was once a rare item or was just a rock the whole time from their end and it'll make them paranoid that they're "trade banned" or whatever.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



A hot tip for new people starting out and in need of good curatives: pick every single Grangrape and Apple you find lying around. Keep an eye on your inventory, as they should eventually turn moldy after 2-3 in-game days (they'll become a separate item with a slightly different icon; don't let them sit for too long, or they'll become rotten and useless). Combine them with a plain ol' Flask of Water and you've got yourself a reasonably lightweight 600 HP curative that can be made for practically nothing. If you need a good supply of fruit, the area to the direct Southeast of Gran Soren (follow the path you escorted the ox along and take the other fork just past the gate with the portcullis) is filled to the brim with Grangrapes and Apples, and they respawn after about two days. (They're also packed full of goblins, so it's a good place to go if you're looking to advance a vocation.)

Vermain fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Jan 20, 2016

sicDaniel
May 10, 2009
I would add: Keep those large nuts. There are several Harspud milks, sauces etc in the game which are pretty good (restore both health and stamina) but also super heavy. With nuts they combine to potions which restore either health or stamina to the entire party and you can dump those on your pawns.

Rirse
May 7, 2006

by R. Guyovich
drat, so much for getting all quests done in one playthrough. Didn't notice one of the drat quests expires after the trial is over, as I didn't do it since the trial is timed.

Im_Special
Jan 2, 2011

Look At This!!! WOW!
It's F*cking Nothing.

Green Bean posted:

If I use a mod or Cheat Engine to change stat growths, is there any risk of my pawn access restricted? I set it so that the game doesn't upload my main pawn, but I still use other peoples', and I still want to be able to rate/gift them.

A very high probability of you being restricted from pawn sharing if you do that (your pawn that is), Capcom has tons of checks in place that pawns must go through, and messing with your stat growths seems like a good way to mess something up that will result in you showing to other players as "Corrupt". If the stats don't add up correctly according to Capcom.

ChaoticGood
May 7, 2010
del

Vitamean
May 31, 2012

Has anyone else had issues with popping noises happening in the game? I first noticed it in the Duke's Demesne where it would happen in quick succession unless I stopped moving, and since then I've noticed it happens at varying frequencies in other locations. I think it happens whenever the game loads a torch or some other light sources, but I'm not 100% on that.

Also how many RC do the multi use character remakes go for?

Im_Special
Jan 2, 2011

Look At This!!! WOW!
It's F*cking Nothing.

Moldy Taxes posted:

Has anyone else had issues with popping noises happening in the game? I first noticed it in the Duke's Demesne where it would happen in quick succession unless I stopped moving, and since then I've noticed it happens at varying frequencies in other locations. I think it happens whenever the game loads a torch or some other light sources, but I'm not 100% on that.

I have this too, others have as well it seems to be a known issue.

Magus42
Jan 12, 2007

Oh no you di'n't

Josuke Higashikata posted:

If you have a port crystal, and it's worth taking one with you at all times to sort of checkpoint yourself, you can basically look at an escort quest, go to the destination, put your crystal down, teleport back, start the quest, teleport to the destination crystal, take it back and then complete the quest without any risk whatsoever to the NPC.

I love having one on hand because no matter what quest you're doing, you can drop it, teleport back to Gran Soren, rest up, change skills, etc, then bounce back.

Demiurge4 posted:

Escorts are dumb bullshit too because if you fail you don't get to try again and there's no way to know how strong the enemies on the way are. The first escort I tried was from Gran Soren to the Greatwall Encampment at level 12.

You can go to the location first before accepting the quest to learn the way and see what's there.

Annath posted:

So I hope I'm not gimping myself too terribly having hired 2 level 55+ pawns from the get go, only now being level 15 myself. :v:

You're nerfing your experience gains, but if you don't care, have at it :)

Geokinesis posted:

I swear I've seen it mentioned but what graphics options fix the glow making stuff hard to see, sky banding and the black colour looking off?

I use the "Dithering only" bit here and it seems to have helped significantly with the color banding.

For the glow, turn HDR to Low.

Demiurge4
Aug 10, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 32 minutes!
I came to the conclusion the other day that Steam needs to implement Steam Groups as friend lists in games like this where sharing characters/pawns is a core feature. That way I can filter out awful goons from my friends list :corsair:

FairyNuff
Jan 22, 2012

Magus42 posted:


I use the "Dithering only" bit here and it seems to have helped significantly with the color banding.

For the glow, turn HDR to Low.

Thanks, does it have to into any particular folder?

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here
Is there any way to dragonforge female only gear if you're a male character?

2 SPOOKY
Sep 9, 2010

Always Be Alert!

Magus42 posted:

I love having one on hand because no matter what quest you're doing, you can drop it, teleport back to Gran Soren, rest up, change skills, etc, then bounce back.


You can go to the location first before accepting the quest to learn the way and see what's there.


You're nerfing your experience gains, but if you don't care, have at it :)

Is there a set formula for this? The wiki is vague at best and the best I can get out of it is "+/- 25% XP affect per party member". I'm using a friend's pawn who is a handful of levels higher on average, idly curious how that's effecting my XP gains.

Random Hajile
Aug 25, 2003

Broken Cog posted:

Is there any way to dragonforge female only gear if you're a male character?
You can crossdress. There's even a cheevo for it.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Broken Cog posted:

Is there any way to dragonforge female only gear if you're a male character?

You can use two Arts of Metamorphosis to change to female, Dragonforge what you need, and then change back. It'll set you back 10,000 RC, although you're probably swimming in them if you've been doing the Badge quests from the Pawn Guild and tramping around the Isle.

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here

Random Hajile posted:

You can crossdress. There's even a cheevo for it.

Are you sure that's available for all of it? I know you can wear some, like the outfit you buy from the Black Cat dealer, but I found a piece in BBI, and it doesn't seem like I'm able to wear it, even if it's all-vocations.

Vermain posted:

You can use two Arts of Metamorphosis to change to female, Dragonforge what you need, and then change back. It'll set you back 10,000 RC, although you're probably swimming in them if you've been doing the Badge quests from the Pawn Guild and tramping around the Isle.

Allright, thanks. Does that mean I have to make my guy over again, though?

Speaking of, what's the most convenient way to dragonforge stuff outside of the Ur-Dragon?

Feindfeuer
Jun 20, 2013

shoot men, receive credits
You can't crossdress with everything. There are female armor pieces that just can't be worn by male characters at all. Two I came across where some panties and a dragon cult skirt. If you want to dragonforge that kind of equipment with a male main you're out of luck. Or you gift it to the pawn of a friend with a female main, let him dragonforge it and than gift it back. But that requires two female pawns.

Vermain posted:

You can use two Arts of Metamorphosis to change to female, Dragonforge what you need, and then change back. It'll set you back 10,000 RC, although you're probably swimming in them if you've been doing the Badge quests from the Pawn Guild and tramping around the Isle.

That's a much easier way to do it, and shouldn't be that much of a problem now that pawns bring in large amounts of RC.

Vermain
Sep 5, 2006



Broken Cog posted:

Allright, thanks. Does that mean I have to make my guy over again, though?

Yes. If you want to be exact, my recommendation would be to go to the barber's and look through the various options so that you can write down the variant number you selected (e.g. face #23, ears #4, etc.) so that it'll be easier to recreate it when you do switch back.

Or you can finally just fully embrace looking cute + feeling cute. :colbert:

atelier morgan
Mar 11, 2003

super-scientific, ultra-gay

Lipstick Apathy

Vermain posted:

A hot tip for new people starting out and in need of good curatives: pick every single Grangrape and Apple you find lying around. Keep an eye on your inventory, as they should eventually turn moldy after 2-3 in-game days (they'll become a separate item with a slightly different icon; don't let them sit for too long, or they'll become rotten and useless). Combine them with a plain ol' Flask of Water and you've got yourself a reasonably lightweight 600 HP curative that can be made for practically nothing. If you need a good supply of fruit, the area to the direct Southeast of Gran Soren (follow the path you escorted the ox along and take the other fork just past the gate with the portcullis) is filled to the brim with Grangrapes and Apples, and they respawn after about two days. (They're also packed full of goblins, so it's a good place to go if you're looking to advance a vocation.)

Even easier is just buy a whole bunch of empty flasks and head to one of the healing springs (3 in gran soren, 1 in bbi iirc) and fill up as many as you please and as they're group healing items you can just hand them out to pawns

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

UberJew posted:

Even easier is just buy a whole bunch of empty flasks and head to one of the healing springs (3 in gran soren, 1 in bbi iirc) and fill up as many as you please and as they're group healing items you can just hand them out to pawns

When I start out after getting to gran soren for the first time I'll do the witchwood quest then go back through that same pass where those bandits were and run between the bandits on the left and the chimera on the right. There's a healing spring against the mountains south of shadowfort that's surrounded by goblins and makes going from 15 to 25ish much much less painful, and then you can just kinda wander around after that. Drop a portcrystal there and you get free good healing items for the cost of a couple of ports and a stack of empty flasks.

Spoilering exactly where the spring is in case you want to find it yourself

ShadowMar
Mar 2, 2010

HERE IS A
GRAVEYARD
OF YOU!




my fighter pawn is pretty good outside of BBI but getting murdered (along with every other pawn) in BBI. whats a good build for BBI fighter pawns?

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
Yo, anyone experience with bugs for escort quests? Selene wants me to escort her around, wiki says she wants to go to healing magic fountain. I've taken her here but there's no progress on the quest? The quest marker itself is inexplicably off the map, outside the northern bounds where you can possibly go. :/ I'm just going to go to the Catacombs for now, hope she doesn't die!

Random Hajile
Aug 25, 2003

Khanstant posted:

Yo, anyone experience with bugs for escort quests? Selene wants me to escort her around, wiki says she wants to go to healing magic fountain. I've taken her here but there's no progress on the quest? The quest marker itself is inexplicably off the map, outside the northern bounds where you can possibly go. :/ I'm just going to go to the Catacombs for now, hope she doesn't die!

There are several healing springs, and she wants the northernmost one. Are you sure you didn't miss a path leading up to it?

FutonForensic
Nov 11, 2012

Khanstant posted:

Yo, anyone experience with bugs for escort quests? Selene wants me to escort her around, wiki says she wants to go to healing magic fountain. I've taken her here but there's no progress on the quest? The quest marker itself is inexplicably off the map, outside the northern bounds where you can possibly go. :/ I'm just going to go to the Catacombs for now, hope she doesn't die!

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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.

Demiurge4 posted:

I came to the conclusion the other day that Steam needs to implement Steam Groups as friend lists in games like this where sharing characters/pawns is a core feature. That way I can filter out awful goons from my friends list :corsair:

Just do what I did, at a "Real Friends" tag to the people who are actual friends you plan to play with. Leave the unwashed goons in the massive list that you minimize.

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