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Running around in the ranger tights with my female arisen makes me feel like I'm playing Nier Automata. I decided I wanted my pawn to pick up some archer augments and the booty is equal opportunity at least. I haven't rested at an inn in ages because I don't want to send him to the rift as anything but a thief though. Every time I train up a different pawn vocation it means we have to go camping for a week. edit: a shameful snipe deserves photographic evidence 
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:I don't think so, you should do the quest with the guy hanging out in the capitol city in front of the weapon shop Omg the dork who always says "this is quality!"??
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Mar 26, 2024 02:06
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That guy and his family are pretty cool but I hope there's more stuff you can do with the elves in general if you can find a pawn to translate, because otherwise not-rivendell feels very half baked
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Mar 26, 2024 02:10
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I like this game a lot but I think they could stand to lower the spawn rate of goblins, wolves, and lizards. Half the time when an encounter ends with goblins wolves then lizards attack me. It's not tremendously fun since they're not really a challenge at this point. I want to head to the desert soon but I'm sure it'll be the same on those roads too.
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Mar 26, 2024 02:12
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Mr E posted:I like this game a lot but I think they could stand to lower the spawn rate of goblins, wolves, and lizards. Half the time when an encounter ends with goblins wolves then lizards attack me. It's not tremendously fun since they're not really a challenge at this point. I want to head to the desert soon but I'm sure it'll be the same on those roads too. I have good news. It's worse!
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First time using maelstrom on a griffin and that poor bird did not stand a chance
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Mar 26, 2024 02:14
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Like genuinely the endless trash fights are sapping my desire to continue playing the game. I can't stop to appreciate the environment or exploration and just look around because there's a pack of 6 goblins that decided they wanted to die today right around the corner every time. It's exhausting
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Mar 26, 2024 02:16
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If youre a magic person you can just keep running and leave a thunder mine behind you
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Yeah they really could remove like a third of the spawns in the world. I had one battle where I ran into a troll. While fighting it goblins, those green goblins, harpies and wolves showed up during the fight. This stretched out so long that it became night and then skeletons and ghosts started showing up to the fight.
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Tabletops posted:just an fyi you can get the same pawn quest reward multiple times  06IFOTXMRSSI lvl 46 so feel free to friend me on steam to get free recruit 30298569  please help wake up dis sleepy boy I looked through da possible reward items, this seems like (if someone will at least gift you one back) it'll allow duping of any armor weapon ring etc you have in your possession? it doesn't allow bugs n seekers n ferrystones n portcrystals, but you can put in as many as you have of allheals elixirs? this seems incredibly broken haha Everdraed fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 26, 2024 02:18
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Leal posted:Yeah they really could remove like a third of the spawns in the world. I had one battle where I ran into a troll. While fighting it goblins, those green goblins, harpies and wolves showed up during the fight. This stretched out so long that it became night and then skeletons and ghosts started showing up to the fight. For real, I just went to the second main city and I couldn’t go 30 feet without running into another pack of enemies. Just let me have a few minutes of peace to walk around the world.
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Owl Inspector posted:I got a chirurgeon’s tome from the girl you first meet in melve who wants medicine. I did her quest and a little after I met her in vernworth, she suddenly gave me the tome. I met her in Vernworth and she just thanked me and gave me nothing. I got ripped off!
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Leal posted:Yeah they really could remove like a third of the spawns in the world. I had one battle where I ran into a troll. While fighting it goblins, those green goblins, harpies and wolves showed up during the fight. This stretched out so long that it became night and then skeletons and ghosts started showing up to the fight. Imo Dragon's Dogma would be way more boring if it toned down this "no gently caress u" design. Most of what I like about the combat is that it's usually pure chaos where you can be fighting a cyclops and a pack of wolves but then a gryphon swoops in because it wanted to eat an ox because gently caress you. It's what makes the combat extra satisfying when your party goes full gank squad on everything.
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Mar 26, 2024 02:24
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Leal posted:Just did the quest with the kid who gets dragged off by wolves. Am I utterly blind or was there no glowing flowers heading to where the kid was? At the graveyard where the quest marker and my pawn led me I saw a trail going into a cave in the opposite direction, but that just led me back to town. The flowers only glow at night, you can see petals on the floor leading to the cave but they're harder to spot during the day.
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Ytlaya posted:I'm a person who generally has trouble playing "open" games like this and prefers very "directed" games with clear objectives. I expected to fall off of this quickly like I did with Elden Ring or the open world Zeldas. I think this is the first really "open" game I've really been hooked on. It's because most open world games are just an excuse for you to travel around looking for content in a big space and the content invariably becomes tedious because the gameplay isn't complex or interesting enough to support it past a certain amount of playtime (Cyberpunk 2077), or because there is a massive fall-off in quality or variety as the game progresses because trying to figure out how to pull all the player's past experiences, item collection, and game knowledge into a balanced endgame is extremely difficult, like Elden Ring and the booty rear end last quarter of the game where they made it so virtually everything kills you in two hits even if you stacked health and survability insanely and you run into tons of repeat content because making these games is literally not a sustainable practice, they take insane amounts of time and money to make so there's always something that has to give unless you're like Rockstar levels of moneyed with infinite time. Speaking of Rockstar, RDR2 is an extremely different game but succeeds far more than most open world games for the same reason this one does, the gameplay may be limited in scope, but the AI, layered mechanics that can interact in many ways, and the physics system can make even the most basic encounters have some crazy poo poo happen in them. It's far more exciting to come across a campsite, shoot a guy in the foot, watch him trip and accidentally pull the trigger of his own gun into his own face, then look at his goofy rear end dead body just laying there anti-climactically. I remember that 5 second long interaction more than I do like 90% of the content in something like Horizon: Zero Dawn lol. This game is very similar in that regard. It's fun to explore because the terrain can make poo poo crazy. The fact that you can run off a cliff and land on top of a cyclop's head and start wailing on it is such a simple thing, but outright makes the world and its geography feel more consequential. I'm tired of open world games that are just static. I want more complex AI, more goofy poo poo to happen, or at the very least, a reason for the world to be open outside of being an amusement park or selling scale. This isn't even getting into poo poo how just having the camping mechanic, reloads chunking off a bit of your healthbar, and the world being hostile because it steadily depletes your resources as you over-extend, actually makes it feel like you're going on a journey instead of just ping-ponging between fast travels or trying to make it to the next bonfire or whatever.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Imo Dragon's Dogma would be way more boring if it toned down this "no gently caress u" design. Most of what I like about the combat is that it's usually pure chaos where you can be fighting a cyclops and a pack of wolves but then a gryphon swoops in because it wanted to eat an ox because gently caress you. It's what makes the combat extra satisfying when your party goes full gank squad on everything. It's funny because the OG first two Gothic games basically did the opposite, outside of areas that made sense, if you killed everything in an area, it just stayed dead forever lol, it was kind of cool because it felt like you really did clear up this wack rear end prison dome. I see a lot of Gothic DNA in the DD games tbh, I dunno if the devs ever played them, but those games also relied heavily on emergent gameplay, the world feeling genuinely dangerous and hostile, and wild poo poo happening because of NPC interactions. It still blows my mind that for over a decade barely any other RPGs implemented a good solution to "you have stolen my chicken egg; the sentence is death" problem whereas Gothic NPCs would just beat your rear end unconscious, then take what you stole off your floored body, and usually something extra while calling you a piece of poo poo lol.
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levitate is so clutch, i can't imagine playing without it but i'm sure other classes have similar things
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I wish my pawn with levitate would actually loving use it instead of falling into the brine. I started archer, switched to mage just to do levitate because I thought I could sequence-break by reaching a rope ladder only to find it's a locked door anyway. (ice attack leaving a scalable ledge + levitate got me up there btw) I'd love to use it to do more exploring as other classes without having to switch to mage if I want to try and get around. Neeksy fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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johnny park posted:Battahl is cool looking and all but how in god's name does their city even function with this many monsters just strolling about on their main major trade thoroughfare? I had to butcher probably close to a hundred enemies just walking down the road. It gets real tedious after a while I have a cautionary tale to tell in this regard. I ran to Bakhbattahl with a horde of monsters in tow, as you do, and after having fought them off with the help of the locals, I proceeded to look for Menella, who was supposed to help me with the main quest. She was nowhere to be found, I thought maybe my game was bugged, then I decided to check the morgue. Sure enough, she was there, and I had to waste a wakestone on her. Kind of messed up that you can lose crucial NPCs in this way, although I assume she would have respawned eventually.
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i am losing my mind trying to find the first seeker token I found. I have no idea where it was but apparently I missed just about every early game one.
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Anyone experienced any obnoxious guard aggro behavior? I did a quest that involved gaol breaking a magistrate. My pawns attacked some guards in the course of it and now I’m finding hostile guards. Not always. It’s unpredictable. I just took a drat ox cart somewhere and had to kill the cart guards after a monster attack mid-route to proceed. Also had something similar while wandering around a cart stand before then. Sucks if I have to restart my whole game over this. E: burned down my cash and then got arrested on purpose so that I could bribe my way out for cheap. Fingers crossed. Insanite fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Mar 26, 2024 02:57
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Yeah I'm like 100% hosed on that. I know I got one in like maybe the trek to border checkpoint town, but if I seriously want to try and get it I'll have to do some nutty cross elimination with some websites map.
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I work my way into Bhattal the back way and circle all the way around to the other side of the gate, and they won't even let me back through! Oh well, at least I got to gently caress up a griffon while I was here and I've got some ferrystones to spare.
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well i have discovered a hosed up interaction with trolls, if you hide in a house eventually they try and grab you out of it. Im pretty sure i'm 100% hosed
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Wow I went back to Vermouth after faffing around in Battahl for a bit and I'm still running into new quests. There's definitely not a lack of content. Also I fought a drake and got it to about half health and it flew off, then a griffon landed in the same spot and I was about to kill it then it also took off 
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I unlocked Trickster just for the level 2 Augment that lets you get a clue as to where chests and seeker's tokens are. The clue is an audiovisual alert, it glimmers at a quiet rate, getting faster when you're close. It also makes a soft glinty noise, just soft enough that you had to lean over and listen. And they are stuck in all kinds places. There's one up high on a tower that you need to have Levitate to climb that one ladder that gets pointed at every time your pawns come into view. There's one on the outside of the walls on a narrow ledge. There's one out in the middle of the cornfield, just sitting on the ground. There are two hundred forty of them. Some of them require you to fly on a harpy to get up high enough. Some of them are on locations you swear should be unintended to be accessed.
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So Sigurd appeared at my house in cat land and asked to go on a personal journey to a place outside the Checkpoint town, but I got arrested and it said the quest failed. Is there any way to fix this?
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Insanite posted:Anyone experienced any obnoxious guard aggro behavior? Have you tried camping in the wilderness for a week or so? A lot of behaviors and spawns reset on some kind of timer & it might work to get the guards back into appropriate behavior.
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Do some of the larger monster encounters respawn? I kept getting cyclops quest pawns but never when I actually encounter them! Also as an archer, I find kicking a lot of things to death quite effective so far. So many wolves just kicked in the fuckin' face.
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Once you're used to the big dick damage that the thief or archer etc can deal you'd think the trickster would be not that interesting. But you'd be wrong. It's some of the most fun you can have in a videogame especially once you unlock the illusory floor ability. Jesus christ its funny to just send ogres plummeting to their deaths. It really needs a vocation rank or two to start singing but don't miss out. Don't run a tanking pawn with it, you don't need it. Just pure damage and maybe an offensively species mage with a heal is enough. I might ng+ an only this class run just to see how much I can get it to do Impermanent fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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  So I've gotten Trickster to rank 5. Going to spoiler my thoughts just in case someone wants to be completely blind to it. It's a fun class, but you absolutely have to rely on your pawns for damage, because your censure does nothing. I will say that I ran a warrior, sorcerer, and archer with the trickster and we managed to get from the capital to elf town without taking too much in the way of permanent health damage. That includes fighting a cyclops, an ogre, and a chimera. So like, it's a decent class for tanking and you can make sure none of your guys really take any damage so long as you're good with keeping the illusion up, but I don't think I will continue to play it once I max out the vocation. I haven't had a chance to try out the illusory floors yet, but the walls don't seem to actually do anything? Super interesting vocation, I'm going to play around with it some more. I may not have just tapped into what this vocation is capable of yet.
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Did some mystic spearhand, about half mastery, but couldn't really love it. There are some very cool moves, and maybe I gave up too early, but it just didn't feel nearly as good as the Thief. I think I will try trickster next, although I don't think I have very good gear for it. Zore posted:i am losing my mind trying to find the first seeker token I found. I have no idea where it was but apparently I missed just about every early game one. Amazingly, I actually perfectly remembered where mine was. Luckily it was in a notable place, next to one of those statues you often find that can have messages on them. Near the little girl death-mage-in-training's house.
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Nancy posted:Have you tried camping in the wilderness for a week or so? A lot of behaviors and spawns reset on some kind of timer & it might work to get the guards back into appropriate behavior. I did an arrest-bribe cycle and haven’t had any issues since. Not yet confident that anything is fixed, but it at least makes sense to me. 
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Play posted:Did some mystic spearhand, about half mastery, but couldn't really love it. There are some very cool moves, and maybe I gave up too early, but it just didn't feel nearly as good as the Thief. You probably gave up too early. Spearhand really takes a bit to get everything it needs to click People are sleeping on that dragoon jump counter too. That thing will instantly get you on top of monsters in a standing position and ready to stab Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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Haha I think I hosed up the beggar quest. I got tired of waiting to follow him around, and I randomly found his clothes while looting a house. I tried to give them to the guy who gave me the quest, but he didn't have the option. The next morning I found the guy by his house and gave him back the beggar clothes so now I guess there will always be some fake beggar out there? It's auto saved so I just gotta live with it, that's dragons Dogma for ya.
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Blockhouse posted:You probably gave up too early. Spearhand really takes a bit to get everything it needs to click Once I realized that interaction I started having a lot more fun with the class. The magic attack you unlock where you charge up a shot is great for damage too.
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man there's so many good fighter skills and i want to take all of them. as annoying as harpies are i'm not sure if i care enough about them to dedicate a whole slot to them, but i also basically have NO answer to them unless they come down into my face i also suspect skewer might be bait if i'm solo, i think like 90% of my damage taken against big enemies was fall damage from getting knocked off
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I'm leveling up mage to get the augment for the extended buff time since I read it effects the spear mage shield and I'm jonesing for the spear again
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Khanstant posted:Haha I think I hosed up the beggar quest. I got tired of waiting to follow him around, and I randomly found his clothes while looting a house. I tried to give them to the guy who gave me the quest, but he didn't have the option. The next morning I found the guy by his house and gave him back the beggar clothes so now I guess there will always be some fake beggar out there? It's auto saved so I just gotta live with it, that's dragons Dogma for ya. That's one of the endings to the quest. The other is you give it to his wife (the Beastran woman he hangs out with at the slum tavern in the afternoon) and she does a murder/suicide after learning he's been a rich rear end in a top hat cosplaying as a beggar and stringing her along
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God, this game is extremely Dragon's Dogma 2 in the sort of "he is extremely his father's son" kind of way. The quest design is just so hostile in a way that very few games are.
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