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Man the farm area outside the castle town is really chill vibes at sunrise.
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Oh man, I decided to go explore that cavern from right near the start of the game, thinking I might find Ulrika in there and after smashing my way through Dino-Men, skeletons, slimes, and what I assume was a Lich, I dragged my half dead crew into a fight with a loving Chimera... and I won!   I love this game.
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Mar 23, 2024 09:31
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I love/hate how some quests have completely hidden steps or endings. Like how for the quest where you follow around the beggar you can give the clothes back to the guy who gave you the quest, to the fake beggar or, the funniest option, to the fake beggar's wife and that last option is totally unmarked and requires you to have been paying attention to what's actually going on in the quest/the dialog. Edit: I'm also pretty sure there's non-obvious stuff to do on Agatha's quest considering her dialog about the river and what some random NPCs said while I was doing it about some little rich boy who looks exactly like her. Infinity Gaia fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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Mar 23, 2024 09:39
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I don't care if it doesn't make sense, my magick archer is gonna be a tall, buff dude.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:02
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So, how's the verdict on the game so far? is the microtransaction stuff ignorable or does it shove it in your face alot and game worse for having any? is the exploration fun or does it repeat the same few notes constantly? game good regardless or wait to pick it up for balance and performance patches?
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Mar 23, 2024 10:07
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I literally have no idea where the microtransaction stuff even is in the game. I would not know it existed if I hadn't read about it on the internet. My personal experience with performance has been fine, a bit rough in the city but you're not doing fights there so who cares. Exploration so far has been real cool, but hard to say how it'll hold up in the long run.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:11
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The MTX stuff has been seriously overblown by reviews, it's incredibly unintrusive and essentially pointless. The performance, however, is truly quite bad and in a specific way that seems like it'd be hard to fix, remains to be seen. Other than that, game's great, exploration owns, quests own, combat owns.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:18
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Why can I pick up rabbits and chickens but not rats? I want to carry a rat. Refunding the game.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:18
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No idea if it was a bug or not, but I summoned SA User Phlegmish's Archer Fiona from the Goon spreadsheet, only she had no bow, so she spent every fight punching and kicking everything. Maybe not effective, but looked hilarious.
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Had my first crash while dinking around in the human capital city. I had seen an autosave like forty seconds beforehand so I'm not worried about losing progress. Performance has been pretty stellar so far otherwise. Running smooth at a locked 60 until I entered previously mentioned capital city, then it's hovering between 30-40, but I have a pretty beefy machine. I'm also only playing at 1080p on medium settings because I'd rather not deal with stuttering if possible. I had run around the western side of the starting area of the map, cleared out some dungeon full of slimes and goblins, and changed my thief to be using Helm/skullsplitter instead of that dash attack. Increased my effectiveness greatly. Using ensnare on small enemies to pull them through the air and then doing skull splitter to catch them and cut them apart in mid air feels great. Managed to walk from that starting area back to the capital after delivering a letter, got into a fight with a minotaur which was then rudely interrupted by a Griffon. Got the Griffon down to two health bars and he ran away, the fucker. Then I beat the poo poo out of an ogre. Powder charge on an enemies skull feels GREAT. Fought another Griffon in the fields outside the capital but it ran away pretty quickly. This really captures everything I like about Dragon's Dogma, it will be super weird if/when I go back to Dark Arisen. Pawns seem super effective so I'm absolutely going to try out Trickster once I've maxed out Thief. My only concern with Trickster is that combat is so fun and feels so good that playing more of a support might not be as satisfying. Worth checking out, however.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:30
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I had some real magic voodoo poo poo experience ; when I tried the game last night, I got like 30-50 wildly fluctuating FPS in the opening open world sequence with the goblins... and now after making a new character with the save deleting, I got very steady ~60-70 FPS in the same section, felt really smooth to play. Only difference I can think of was to set my screen refresh rate to lower than it actually is (120/144), taking the frame limiter off and playing on windowed fullscreen instead of full... I didn't touch the settings beyond that, since the game started out in some 600x400 window again and I had to adjust it. Perhaps it will dip back later. But definitely left me a lot more optimistic, even if it does take a hit later on, but if it'd be like this for open world, it'd be very enjoyable even on my old rig (ryzen 3900x & 2080 super). Made a beefy warrior named Batsu (which funnily enough was in the pre-made sound list) yeah yeah, not original, sue me, but I am thinking I can top out the party with a white-haired dude and a black-haired gal from the pawns list pretty easily.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:38
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I think I know why the city runs like poo poo for a lot of people It isn't that he city is full of people It is that below the city is also full of people there are areas of the red desert that will also have issues for some people because of this Also I enjoyed taking a cart, having a few goblins and an ogre on one end ambushing us and a minotaur on the other end. Cart got destroyed. Welp time to stare at 2 dollars for a stone or 20 minutes walking.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:41
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Rotten food is really useful now since you can craft it into lantern oil.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:44
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Clocks posted:I was following a hired pawn who claimed she knew a shortcut. She jumped off a cliff to her death below, which was loving hilarious. Then the other two followed her while I wasn't paying attention. Turns out there was a hay bale type of situation down below that... two of them just missed while jumping? I threw the remaining guard into the ocean. Nobody upstairs gave a poo poo even though I'd been arrested 5 minutes earlier.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:47
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Jack Trades posted:Rotten food is really useful now since you can craft it into lantern oil. Lantern oil runs out so drat slowly it actually shocked me the first time it ran out because I had forgotten it was a mechanic completely since it was like hours and hours into the game.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:53
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 I'm not sure about the combination of the best robes and the best pants I can buy, constantly flashing my junk.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:53
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:So, how's the verdict on the game so far? is the microtransaction stuff ignorable or does it shove it in your face alot and game worse for having any? is the exploration fun or does it repeat the same few notes constantly? game good regardless or wait to pick it up for balance and performance patches? The game has an 'online store' option at the main menu, other than that I haven't noticed any in game advertising anywhere. The exploration is really fun and there are lots of little things to find around every corner. It's a good idea to hire a couple of new assist pawns every few levels and rest at an inn to see if your main pawn has learned anything new, because they will point things out all the time. Running very high settings at 1080p, I get some lag whenever I'm in an area of town where you can see a lot of people, or out in the wilderness when there are lots of monsters fighting around their camps (trees, buildings, camp fires and torches 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700K, 3610 Mhz, 12 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s) NVIDIA RTX 4070 12GB 32GB RAM
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:So, how's the verdict on the game so far? is the microtransaction stuff ignorable or does it shove it in your face alot and game worse for having any? is the exploration fun or does it repeat the same few notes constantly? game good regardless or wait to pick it up for balance and performance patches? Played for about 13 hours so far, it hasn't gotten old yet, there is a still a ton of map to explore, I keep running into new things of interest, new quests, new enemy types etc, everything about the game is just firing on all cylinders for me. Also: The_White_Crane posted:I literally have no idea where the microtransaction stuff even is in the game. I would not know it existed if I hadn't read about it on the internet.
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Mar 23, 2024 10:55
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This game owns, been playing on ps5 and really haven’t experienced anything I’d consider terrible performance. Exploration feels really good, love finding random battles between pawns or random people and monsters. Honestly impressed with this game , huge improvement on DD1. Going to be an all time classic for this gen of video games. I have no idea where the supposed micro transactions are, the game literally never mentions them and you don’t need them in any way, shape or form. The kind of poo poo people get mad about in video games lately is incredible (incredibly stupid) .
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Mar 23, 2024 11:01
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Man, the game is really not pulling it's punches. I'm like ten feet from the capital and I'm already beset by monsters I can barely scratch.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:12
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Do lizardmen have any particular weakness other than having their tails slashed? It feels like they have a buttload of HP and I can't find a spells that's particularly effective against them.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:22
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Okay I've figured out the microtransactions. My pawn is loving insufferable and the voice changy things are like £4 of funbux each.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:30
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I am a little disappointed they kept the brine since it rules out sea monsters, which are a classic element of Greek myth. not if you listen to a certain fisherman
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Mar 23, 2024 11:30
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Deformed Church posted:Okay I've figured out the microtransactions. My pawn is loving insufferable and the voice changy things are like £4 of funbux each. Just go to a pawn guild.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:31
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Thursday Next posted:Sorry if this was already answered but I can't find this online because Google is convinced I'm not using correct search terms. Keeps insisting I mean DD1 or monster respawn. I don't remember that being a thing in dd1, pretty sure chests are always cashed after you first open them.
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Mar 23, 2024 11:32
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Jack Trades posted:Do lizardmen have any particular weakness other than having their tails slashed? It feels like they have a buttload of HP and I can't find a spells that's particularly effective against them. Cold. Which makes sense. Or would make sense if they didn't primarily live in caves.
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Jack Trades posted:Do lizardmen have any particular weakness other than having their tails slashed? It feels like they have a buttload of HP and I can't find a spells that's particularly effective against them. they are easily frozen makes it easier to jump on their back which they are weak to
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Play posted:Cold. Which makes sense. Or would make sense if they didn't primarily live in caves. Does uhh Frigor do ice damage? Because I tried use that on lizardmen and it didn't seem to be particularly effective, other than ragdolling them. I guess they probably just have a lot of HP.
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Took ages messing with graphics settings because the game just looks blurry as poo poo to me. After all that, though, it's seriously a lot of fun just exploring an area or just going from point A to B. There's little caves and camps dotted around the place. I've honestly enjoyed this far more than any quest or exploring round towns. I found a cave full of slimes and had only one pawn with fire magic, and they only had that one spell equipped despite being lv 11. Most of that cave was me trying to corral slimes together and hurl an explosive barrel at them. Another event a pawn I hired decided to lead me on my quest objective, which was just to head back to the capital from the starting area. It took all day. Just as I was coming up to the capital, I managed to blink strike towards a goblin at night and instead dashed off a cliff to my death. One wakestone after that, I was surrounded by ghosts and just blindly running around while my pawns tried to save me before the ghosts gassed me or whatever. It's a really good game for telling stories about adventures gone wrong or right. The only issue so far is that combat can sometimes feel like a mosh pit, and trying to handle the camera during it is just as bad. Excellent game, dumb microtransaction choices.
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I waited 12 years for this sequel, I'd be damned if I let "5 healing items - $1.34"-grade dlc impact that. Kind of regretting starting as an Archer because it was always my goal to switch into a Magick Archer as soon as I can. Games really making you work for it too, in comparison to the first. I feel like I'm watching my scrappy pawns have infinitely more fun than me.
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the dlc drama is stupid and overblown but also capcom did it to themselves. sucks for the devs of the game though. and also game owns
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Yeah, not for a second do I actually believe that the director stating "I don't like fast travel" would have wanted to add dlc for additional fast travel.
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How does stat growth work in this one, do we know? Are your stats gained upon levelling based on your currently-equipped vocation like it was in DD1? Like, am I kneecapping myself if I switch my classes around too much
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Mar 23, 2024 12:00
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your stat gains are based on your class but they average out to be the same at higher levels. you probably shouldnt switch class around too much though
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I wasn't sold on mage until I got frigor, and now I'm just yeeting whole armies of saurians and goblins while my pawns throw huge blocks of ice at their limp bodies  Jack Trades posted:Just go to a pawn guild. I went to a place in the main city and there was a vendor for a voice book that cost 2k RC? I'd love to know if there's a way to change it without buying that.
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Anyone tried running a party without a mage? I feel like you just absolutely need a dude who can heal, and sadly that means I'm either running a party with a single melee fighter while I'm running archer and my pawn sorcerer for augment farming, or I'll have to switch my pawn back to mage in order to keep two melee fighters in play
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Mar 23, 2024 12:27
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Until you find an infinite money fountain like the ur-dragon was or something like healing springs and empty bottles from the first game it feels wise to have a healer in the party.
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last night when I was doing a goblin cave I had a party with an archer, thief, and two fighters and the pawn fighter and I were shield bashing everything and barely needed to heal. I think you can go without a mage if you know your enemy. e: their kind hates being bashed in the loving face, arisen
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I've been having a lot of fun; my PC is a giant woman just throwing people around and my pawn is a horrid little greasy gremlin called OlManJenkins who I hope people hate looking at. I also got into a hell of a fight with a troll that ended with it dropkicking itself, a mage pawn and myself holding onto it off of a cliff and into a river.
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I got the Trickster Augment that lets you detect Seeker's Tokens and boy those things are everywhere.
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