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Play
Apr 25, 2006

Strong stroll for a mangy stray
So, anyone fought a Medusa yet? If so at what level? Also how the f do I give Hugo guidance or whatever

Also I've collected so many wakestones and have nothing to use them on. The game somehow invited me to use one against one of the coral snake fighters, so I did just to see, and they immediately started attacking my again so I put them down. What a waste

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Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

Play posted:

So, anyone fought a Medusa yet? If so at what level? Also how the f do I give Hugo guidance or whatever

Also I've collected so many wakestones and have nothing to use them on. The game somehow invited me to use one against one of the coral snake fighters, so I did just to see, and they immediately started attacking my again so I put them down. What a waste

i fought and beat a medusa at level 45, but feel like you could probably beat it at level 30 if your equipment is up to date with the area its in.


i wish the fighter was better in this, as i really like all the fighter unique armor. but it just feels really weak, and it not having super armor like the warrior sucks for the class thats supposed to be a tank. or maybe im just playing it wrong but its frustrating to get hit out of an attack animation by an enemy fighter in one hit when they take multiple.

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Mar 25, 2024

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007

Vargs posted:

No, you need to put down your own.

Haha okay word. Any chance there's one lyin' around here? The only things I'm too scared to approach on the desert so far are talking dragons because mega health bar and kill all my gang instantly.

Calidus
Oct 31, 2011

Stand back I'm going to try science!
Early game fighter is very fun. Charge in parry some poo poo and cool jump attack.

.Ataraxia.
Apr 3, 2007

I think my NES is broken....
Should I be forging the specialization tomes? Or can you acquire multiple somehow?

Tei
Feb 19, 2011

.Ataraxia. posted:

Should I be forging the specialization tomes? Or can you acquire multiple somehow?

you don't need multiples, if you read one, the pawn learn the skill too

If we are talking about the same thing

Thundarr
Dec 24, 2002


Thundarr posted:

Oh. I found the sphinx without even really looking for her, just by being a nosy explorer.

Time to, uh, remember where I found that thing.

I remembered incorrectly. I'm in deep poo poo aren't I

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here

Play posted:

So, anyone fought a Medusa yet? If so at what level?

Yeah, at level 1 :smug:

Edit: Jokes aside, I assume this could be useful for fighting them?

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

anyone know how to cancel one of those escort quests where the request is all in text? i have plenty of wakestones so i dont mind killing them and raising them at the morgue if i have to

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here

.Ataraxia. posted:

Should I be forging the specialization tomes? Or can you acquire multiple somehow?

They seem to be common gifts from reaching high affection with someone, so I would assume they're not exactly one-of-a-kind

ajkalan
Aug 17, 2011

Drakes seem much tougher in this game than in the original, especially given that reviving your pawns takes time to complete instead of being instantaneous. Party-wide kill-everyone moves are harder to weather if you don't have the downtime to counteract them. Really makes me miss having a bow and dagger class for inside-outside play.

ArmTheHomeless
Jan 10, 2003

Added myself to the Google sheet and added ps5 people as friends so we can share free pawns. One person had their privacy settings to not accept friend requests, maybe unless friends of friends? (Can't remember which one)

Also, the OP of this thread says pawn codes should work cross-platform but several websites say that won't work? I got an "not found" error trying to add one person from Steam. So, either they don't work or I picked someone with a typo and was unlucky.

GreatGreen
Jul 3, 2007
That's not what gaslighting means you hyperbolic dipshit.
The encumbrance system is awful, especially in a game with such a limited fast travel system.

SHISHKABOB
Nov 30, 2012

Fun Shoe
So i'm level 26 with 491 magick power but I dropped on Meteoron on a Gryphon and it lost all its health except uhhh



about that much.

I used Maelstrom on a cyclops and it didn't do hardly that much damage. I think there's a lot of luck in whether or not your spells make good contact.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Roobanguy posted:

i fought and beat a medusa at level 45, but feel like you could probably beat it at level 30 if your equipment is up to date with the area its in.


i wish the fighter was better in this, as i really like all the fighter unique armor. but it just feels really weak, and it not having super armor like the warrior sucks for the class thats supposed to be a tank. or maybe im just playing it wrong but its frustrating to get hit out of an attack animation by an enemy fighter in one hit when they take multiple.

Fighter is way too dependent on you being really, really, good at blocking and parrying - a literal skill issue if you will. I can't count the number of times I've raised my shield to block or parry only to be off by like, an inch and have the enemy hit my elbow instead, or be too slow by a fraction of a second, and then ragdoll my character for like five more hits while I desperately try to find a way out of the hit stun because the fighter gets no dodge roll or anything to just get the gently caress out of there. I really want to unlock warrior already.

Broken Cog
Dec 29, 2009

We're all friends here
Do badges do anything, or are they just achievements for your pawn?

Nemo2342
Nov 26, 2007

Have A Day




Nap Ghost

Everdraed posted:

I'm debating about putting up a portcrystal lol

fakeedit: actually you can't? the really primo stuff they must not let ya pawn-mission, no portcrystal or ferrystone (though you CAN put up the fake partcrystal and ferristone haha), no goldbugs, no sorc quest tomes, etc

You can at least give Portcrystals as gifts when you send a pawn back. I've started doing that just because it takes me so long to release pawns that sending them back with gear is kind of pointless.

Zodack
Aug 3, 2014
How the heck does Heavenly Arrow work? Sometimes I'll get a headshot that does almost two healthbars, but sometimes on the same enemy I'll get a headshot that does less than Deathly Arrow. It does damage "base on the stamina you have remaining" which I assume is zero because it eats your full stamina bar to draw the bowstring, but I tried mashing harspuds into my mouth to build the bar back up pre-shot and it didn't seem to have any noticeable effect (it didn't do much damage at all)

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy
Genuinely curious how many main quests and side quests are interconnected. I did a side quest in the Vermund capital that allowed for an alternate outcome in a main quest, and that outcome plus an optional interaction with an NPC added a side objective to an upcoming main quest. I could have done these in a different sequence and it would have meant missing this extra objective. Makes me wonder what I might have already missed out on since this was by chance.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Anyone know where I can find Dullahans? I need a Cursed Dallahan Bone for my bow.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

404notfound posted:

I finally got to Battahl and was trying to do the sword restoration quest, but it wasn't triggering. I realized I didn't have the sword in my inventory, went to the inn to get it from storage, and it wasn't there either. Is it possible that I accidentally sold it? Can I get another one? :ohdear:

The game implied to me that stuff you've lost like that can be repurchased later at the salvage guy at the border town. I'm guessing/hoping that he exists as a way to prevent you from permanently loving yourself over like that.

Captain Oblivious
Oct 12, 2007

I'm not like other posters

MeatwadIsGod posted:

Genuinely curious how many main quests and side quests are interconnected. I did a side quest in the Vermund capital that allowed for an alternate outcome in a main quest, and that outcome plus an optional interaction with an NPC added a side objective to an upcoming main quest. I could have done these in a different sequence and it would have meant missing this extra objective. Makes me wonder what I might have already missed out on since this was by chance.

What was it out of curiosity?

Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

Phlegmish posted:

Anyone know where I can find Dullahans? I need a Cursed Dallahan Bone for my bow.

i found one on the main path between the the northern borderwatch outpost and vernworth. they only show up at night though, and you'll know if one's around because the map gets hit by fog.

Nuebot posted:

Fighter is way too dependent on you being really, really, good at blocking and parrying - a literal skill issue if you will. I can't count the number of times I've raised my shield to block or parry only to be off by like, an inch and have the enemy hit my elbow instead, or be too slow by a fraction of a second, and then ragdoll my character for like five more hits while I desperately try to find a way out of the hit stun because the fighter gets no dodge roll or anything to just get the gently caress out of there. I really want to unlock warrior already.

it's a weird class, because it definitely is a skill issue where being really good at blocking would probably really make it shine... but what's the point when the warrior just shits out so much more damage without having to worry about perfect blocking while being able to tank hits while still swinging?

Roobanguy fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Mar 25, 2024

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Roobanguy posted:

i found one on the main path between the the northern borderwatch outpost and vernworth. they only show up at night though, and you'll know if one's around because the map gets hit by fog.

it's a weird class, because it definitely is a skill issue where being really good at blocking would probably really make it shine... but what's the point when the warrior just shits out so much more damage without having to worry about perfect blocking while being able to tank hits while still swinging?

Just head north from Vernworth at night? Okay, I'll give it a try. I assumed they would be in Battahl somewhere considering that they seem to be rather high-level.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

I hit things with my greatsword, goty all years

Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things
Dullahans are the most bullshit big monster I've fought so far because they instantly aggro onto me and do their stupid teleport bullshit while I try to cast Meteor to one shot them.

jerks. Everyone else is cool with just dying basically instantly and ignoring the real threat in the party (me)

GreatGreen
Jul 3, 2007
That's not what gaslighting means you hyperbolic dipshit.

Nuebot posted:

Fighter is way too dependent on you being really, really, good at blocking and parrying - a literal skill issue if you will. I can't count the number of times I've raised my shield to block or parry only to be off by like, an inch and have the enemy hit my elbow instead, or be too slow by a fraction of a second, and then ragdoll my character for like five more hits while I desperately try to find a way out of the hit stun because the fighter gets no dodge roll or anything to just get the gently caress out of there. I really want to unlock warrior already.

There is honestly no excuse for the game not having a lock on mechanic. You obviously wanted to block that attack. It’s not believable that a person in real life would want to block an attack with a shield and simply just face the wrong direction by like 40 degrees and then whoops they get hit. It’s stupid. The developers were idiots not to include it and it honestly destroys the verisimilitude of playing a melee character that can block because of how clumsy the simple act of blocking is without lock on.

I will absolutely die on this hill. Anyone who disagrees is wrong, and not least because if you don’t want to use a lock on mechanic, were it to be added, you could simply not click the stick to activate it.

GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Mar 25, 2024

Roobanguy
May 31, 2011

my biggest complaint in the game...

dragon forging armor makes it have like a magic aura sheen to it and it looks bad imo. :mad:

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Alright haven't found any Dullahans so far but I did come across this merchant selling 3 Dappled Ore, which was exactly what I needed, so it was worth it

Wiltsghost
Mar 27, 2011


Just found out you can turn the vignette off with the latest Reframework nightly build. Can also further adjust fov.

https://github.com/praydog/REFramework-nightly/releases

ShadowMar
Mar 2, 2010

HERE IS A
GRAVEYARD
OF YOU!


Third World Reagan posted:

It is not

I have seen wolves, a cyclops, and an ogre in town

also lizards coming out of the gate

The town is not a combat free zone

https://i.imgur.com/yBpnKHV.mp4

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Wiltsghost posted:

Just found out you can turn the vignette off with the latest Reframework nightly build. Can also further adjust fov.

https://github.com/praydog/REFramework-nightly/releases

omfg thank you

turn off the TV
Aug 4, 2010

moderately annoying

Wiltsghost posted:

Just found out you can turn the vignette off with the latest Reframework nightly build. Can also further adjust fov.

https://github.com/praydog/REFramework-nightly/releases

this apparently also fixed crashing with proxy .dlls so it might work with the dlss 3 frame gen mod too

MeatwadIsGod
Sep 30, 2004

Foretold by Gyromancy

Captain Oblivious posted:

What was it out of curiosity?

These are all spoilers for early-ish to mid game quests in the Vermund capital:

First I did a quest to help rescue a kid from some catacombs built next to/under the Gracious Hand building in the slums. That reveals an old library hidden under the building. Then one of the main quests for Brant is to visit a magistrate that Disa has imprisoned in the dungeons. He can't be convinced to escape (afaik) unless he has a nice place to hide out that will stimulate his mind.

You recommend the old library in the Gracious Hand catacombs so he follows you out of the dungeon. I assume it's totally possible for him to die here or be recaptured since I had to bust out a wall in a nearby cell to get him back to the slums. That part is almost beat-for-beat a mission from DD1.

Then I went to pay the magistrate a visit after following up with Brant (but before I did any of his other quests). That's when he mentioned that his glasses had been confiscated and put in a storage room inside the castle. He added that a masquerade would be held in that area and it's a good pretext to steal the glasses back for him. The masquerade is a main mission you get from Brant that afaik you can do in any order.

I haven't started the masquerade mission yet so hopefully I can get into the storage room while I'm inside the castle.

Raserys
Aug 22, 2011

IT'S YA BOY
I felt really proud of myself when I used thief jumps to get up to a ledge I wasn't supposed to, only to come crashing down when they had the foresight to lock the door to the dungeon right behind it

Mode 7
Jul 28, 2007

My Fighter main pawn is a tall lady with a posh voice, easily delighted by everything, has repeatedly referred to things as being "such fun" and it's weirdly like I'm roaming around on a fantasy adventure being accompanied by a character played by Miranda Hart, GOTY.

Infinity Gaia
Feb 27, 2011

a storm is coming...

It's really weird how few Chimeras seem to be in this game, considering how common they were in the original. I'm like 32 hours in and I've fought a grand total of one. Are they ALL over in Battahl or something? On the other hand, WAY more Ogres.

Vargs
Mar 27, 2010


This was neat the first time but I'm really not a fan of it anymore. There's a loving drake in that exact same location every other time I rest in Vernworth. Doesn't even fly in or anything; it just spawns there. Maybe kills a couple people and then leaves when it gets low on hp so I don't even get anything out of it. This last time he killed Brant, who is seemingly the most major quest NPC in the game. Fuckin' good thing I noticed.

I think I'll just not go over there anymore. When he spawns after resting you can hear him growling from your house, but he doesn't start attacking anything until you get closer. Dude just lives there now I guess, and as long as nobody looks at him it's fine. I'll use the other gate.

Vargs fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Mar 25, 2024

Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

Infinity Gaia posted:

It's really weird how few Chimeras seem to be in this game, considering how common they were in the original. I'm like 32 hours in and I've fought a grand total of one. Are they ALL over in Battahl or something? On the other hand, WAY more Ogres.

I've run into about 5 and just got to Battahl so you might have been unlucky with spawns or managed to miss the dungeons they're in.

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LibbyM
Dec 7, 2011

do I need to do anything particular to have my pawn be hireable by random people playing the game, or is the simple act of playing the game automatically seeding her into people's rifts? Can people be using her when I'm also online using her, or will she only get use when I'm offline?

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