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buying MTX for dragon's dogma 2 actively diminishes the whole thrust of the game. it very much comes across as something that capcom corporate finance demanded be put in ad hoc rather than something that was designed around from day 1 it's a very stupid inclusion but not for the reason The Discourse has been determined to push
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turn off the TV posted:imo the most hosed up thing about this game so far is that something like 95% of the "dungeons" that you find are just caves with maybe ten to five guys in them and a chest with five explosive arrows and 2000 gold in it. i don't know why they went with this direction. i feel like making half that number that were twice as long would have been a lot more enjoyable I honestly haven't seen a cave / dungeon without at least one gear chest.
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Khanstant posted:To me the fundamental difference is in game design. Mtx I associate with the grander suite of dark designs. It's not just being available in game, it's that those games are designed around mtx on a core level. The dlc here are the kind of crap an mtx based game might include, but the game itself doesn't funnel you towards them. I would never want to buy rift crystals because I literally do not use the RC I have already, every pawn I rent costs 0 RC lmao. In an mtx game I would want RC because I have to grind for it to be able to do something fun like summon a pawn. Yeah these are all reasons why it's not nearly as bad as most games with microtransactions. But they still are microtransactions and shouldn't be there to begin with in a full priced game. Same goes for literally every Capcom game though.
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Mar 29, 2024 18:35
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Phlegmish posted:
If you don’t get it there, you can get it from Daphne on the quest when you bring her to imitate the noble boy when he goes to collect a flower for his sick mom.
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Owl Inspector posted:In DD1 my beloved was always the last person I got to max affinity before it gets locked in, so I was reliably able to get the person I wanted by giving them the arisen’s bond as the very last thing I did before going to the greatwall. George Sex - REAL posted:Hearing about people's specs/performance makes me scratch my head about my own. I've got a 7950X3D, 6400HZ ram and a 3090 TI. Fans barely speed up if at all, temperatures stable, ~30% CPU utilization in cities and I really can't break 40 FPS. The rest of the game is fully inconsistent. Weird experience, nothing quite similar. I'll randomly get 60+ FPS while adventuring and just think how much better it feels. Wish I had a solution Broken Cog posted:Dunno if anyone else has noticed, but people you have high affection with seems to leave gifts hanging by the door of your house when you buy it. And some pretty valuable stuff at times, too. I've gotten good weapons and ferrystones. and for those trying to get access to the last part of the ancestral .. place NE of the elves and connecting to the start of the game. make sure it's night but also to force skeletons to summon go to the barred gate then save and return to title screen. i got in a big fight then with a skeleton lord so there's more special elite versions of enemies than it appears, they're just .. very rare
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Mar 29, 2024 18:48
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 This is the sword Brant leaves at your door if you get high affection with him, which you should just by doing the main quests. Better than anything you'll see before Bakbattahl at least, looks cool too
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Mar 29, 2024 18:59
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So I bought this and had 3 crashes in the first 30 minutes, all during cut-scenes, so I refunded. Just to make sure, there isn't some silly setting I can change to fix this right?
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BadLlama posted:So I bought this and had 3 crashes in the first 30 minutes, all during cut-scenes, so I refunded. Dunno, could be anything in your PC without being more specific. I have 40+ hours (2-3 on yesterday’s patch) in the game and have yet to experience a crash.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:06
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Broken Cog posted:
You get the same sword and a matching shield if you save the guardhead from being cucked to death
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Mar 29, 2024 19:08
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jizzy sillage posted:Ricochet is incredible indoors/in caves, and singlehandedly clears rooms ahead of the party. You should really try Sagittate Downpour / Avalanche. It is absolutely ridiculous for single target damage and their most powerful skill outside of the ultimate. It's even better than Frostseeker. At the very least it should be used during stagger phases. e: It's also the only physical damage type skill that Magick Archers get. So it should be on your skill bar for that reason alone. CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Mar 29, 2024 19:09
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Coolness Averted posted:And that would be classified as story dlc/an expansion, not mtx by most criteria lol Thank you I am aware of that. I was contrasting the intrusiveness and pointing out that it could be much worse. And also that was just really funny.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:21
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Broken Cog posted:Might just be me, but I think it's right to mock dumb mtx for 70$ games. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely something to be mocked, I just think mocking is more effective when it's aimed more accurately. I've been hating DLC since horse armor and have wasted much time railing against the gambling mtx in casinos to the gamblers in it. The DLC spread here is stupid and is in all their games. There are usually 1 or 2 DLCs with actual content you'd want and cannot get in abundance in normal play, like in Yakuza games some add classes others give u a fuckin can of coffee. Same with DD2, most are junk but one adds different sound effects and music.
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Vermain posted:buying MTX for dragon's dogma 2 actively diminishes the whole thrust of the game. it very much comes across as something that capcom corporate finance demanded be put in ad hoc rather than something that was designed around from day 1 The camping tent one seems like the worst, there's a progression to tents and it would just add the best one to every shop for free or cheap.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:33
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Here is a bad take. I love the warrior. It's like the truck simulator of vocations. I get into kind of a zen state of chaining together attacks that just really clicks with me. I feel like going back to thief would be a net negative in terms of gameplay fun, damage output and crowd control.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:39
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I've only seen modest and meager camping kits and I don't know what the difference is because they both weigh the same.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:40
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Leal posted:I've only seen modest and meager camping kits and I don't know what the difference is because they both weigh the same. I don't know what the difference between those two is, other than they also sell for different amounts, but I've seen three more camp kit types that has very clear bonuses.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:41
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Leal posted:I've only seen modest and meager camping kits and I don't know what the difference is because they both weigh the same. Their descriptions should give you some clues. And in case anyone who doesn't already know, you should probably read the item descriptions because items actually do what they say they do that is not represented in stat comparisons. Edit: To explain further, a modest camping kit is the worst camping kit as it is susceptible to being destroyed more often when ambushed at night. The mundane is better just for being not as susceptible. There are other camping kits that have a regional advantage in Vermundian and Battahli areas, the explorer's camping kit that less chance of being destroyed the farther out from cities you are and the elite camping kit that is marked as resilient against enemy attacks. I've had an Elite camping kit pretty early and it has yet to break from enemy ambushes while 3 out of 4 times I camped with the modest, I lost it. 8-bit Miniboss fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Professor Beetus posted:Thank you I am aware of that. I was contrasting the intrusiveness and pointing out that it could be much worse. And also that was just really funny. Right, I'm just emphasizing how silly and intrusive that was, and that it wouldn't fit the definition of mtx, while the dd2 stuff for sale is so harmless and unintrusive is getting "well, it's still technically mtx so it's cancerous and really drags the game down on principle."
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Jimlit posted:Here is a bad take. That's not a bad take. I always wonder who the classes I don't even wanna try yet are for and it's great to see those folks and why. It's cool the game has those options. It's also not hard to imagine fights and encounters being harder to the point where other specific play styles and locations get to shine. More crowds to control for the tanks. Really just copy WoW, they've been making boss and raid encounters for small groups of specialized classic rpg parties for two decades.
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Leal posted:I've only seen modest and meager camping kits and I don't know what the difference is because they both weigh the same. The difference in most camping kits is how many ambushes they can survive. There are also some that lower the chances of night ambush based on if you're in grasslands or desert 'Grass-colored camping kit' and 'Sandy camping kit'. personally the only time I was ever ambushed was when resting multiple times in a row
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Mar 29, 2024 19:48
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I thought ambushes only happened if you tried to camp while goblins were literally chilling within view and I always do a quick goblin sweep before bed, so why not in game too.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:51
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Trying to use a skill from a different vocation as Warfarer should just switch you to that weapon right away instead of making you cycle manually with Rearmament first.
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Khanstant posted:I thought ambushes only happened if you tried to camp while goblins were literally chilling within view and I always do a quick goblin sweep before bed, so why not in game too. Other enemies have a chance to attack. I've had a couple instances of skeletons attacking.
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I have 50 hours in the game and I'm yet to see a camp ambush.
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I don't know if it's just reddit in general, but I've been following the subreddit for the game since it came out, and it's weird how it's been dominated by these cycles of outrage. First everybody was really upset about the microtransactions, then everybody was really upset about dragonsplague ruining their saves, and then they were really upset about the lack of enemy variety. I get that sometimes there's a topic du jour that people will bat back and forth for a bit, but at its peak, it seemed like at least half of the posts in the sub were one form or another of complaining about the game. Like, if reading the sub were your only exposure to the game, you'd think Itsuno personally went to every redditor's house and shot their dog or something. Not to say that the game is flawless, but I've just been over here enjoying the journey (literally and metaphorically), climbing on big monsters and savoring the hammy pawn banter. It's like reddit wants to hate the game, for some weird reason
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Jack Trades posted:I have 50 hours in the game and I'm yet to see a camp ambush. Your DM is kind. 
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Coolness Averted posted:Right, I'm just emphasizing how silly and intrusive that was, and that it wouldn't fit the definition of mtx, while the dd2 stuff for sale is so harmless and unintrusive is getting "well, it's still technically mtx so it's cancerous and really drags the game down on principle." Ah okay I don't think we're in disagreement then, I may have misread your reply. I'd never have known this game had MTX if it weren't for the absurd outrage machine and review bombing. e: on the subject of kind DMs, I have had a single camp ambush in over 60 hours of gameplay. And with like 20+ ox cart rides I have had 2 ambushes, only 1 of which resulted in the cart getting wrecked
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404notfound posted:I don't know if it's just reddit in general, but I've been following the subreddit for the game since it came out, and it's weird how it's been dominated by these cycles of outrage. First everybody was really upset about the microtransactions, then everybody was really upset about dragonsplague ruining their saves, and then they were really upset about the lack of enemy variety. People that enjoy the game are too busy playing it to bitch about it online.
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Is there a way to revive NPCs in the post game? I have a main quest I can't progress at the moment because a certain guard got himself killed fighting a golem, and the morgues don't seem to help.
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Jack Trades posted:I have 50 hours in the game and I'm yet to see a camp ambush. It happens, but it's rare. The only time my kit got broken was when I had an Elite camping kit. Maybe just a coincidence, but I don't feel like the quality makes all that much difference.
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Nuebot posted:Yeah that happens. They seem to always go for the lantern in my experience. Kill them and you can get it back. First time someone stole from me it was that wakestone finder thing and I couldnt grab it back because everyone got sleeped by harpies
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Your camping kit quality doesn't matter if you're just never ambushed (I have never been ambushed, clear the vicinity people). Actually that's not completely true, the worse camping kits weigh more.
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I'm seeing like memes, pawn pics and praise for the game on the dd2 subreddit. Folks seem happy over there about the game
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I miss respawning chests and all the niche semi rare and niche gear you could find in dd1 too. The armor change really makes it feel like there's not as much to work with appearance wise and there's no niche stuff like rusted/golden weapons. Everything dies so fast by mid game status stuff isn't really a thing but I'm hoping we get a dlc with a more expensive and challenging mode/region where things like status effects become a plan you can use again.
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I was ambushed once when I tried to camp like four times in a row outside Harve for the "come back in a few days" quest. Otherwise I have never seen it.
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I've only been ambushed twice but in both situations it was after I swept through the surrounding area checking for enemies who might ambush me. Guess I didn't do a good enough job but I have no idea of how far away things can be from a campsite for it to not be a problem.
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The elite camping kit weighs 4kg, compared to modest and mundane's 6 and 7. That's the main draw, I think. And the only time I've been ambushed was when I tried to camp multiple times in a row in the same spot, so might be something there.
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Jimlit posted:Here is a bad take. I love all the vocations but warrior is specifically hard for me to put down because you're a big strong truck who don't care about monsters
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Jack Trades posted:People that enjoy the game are too busy playing it to bitch about it online. I think that's literally it, the first few days especially I was too obsessed with the game to even think of writing a review (I like to write proper reviews and not just meme it). Once I'm done with the main story I will, and guess what, it's going to be a positive one. DD2 seems to be on the opposite trajectory of Starfield, where it started out really low because at launch it got symbolically crucified for its microtransactions and optimization (deservedly but also exaggeratedly), but the people who sink enough time into it can see that it's worthwhile, despite its many flaws. Started at 40% (maybe even lower?), now it's at 56%, and I'm pretty sure that at some point the trajectories of these two games will cross and it'll have a better score than Starfield.
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404notfound posted:I don't know if it's just reddit in general, but I've been following the subreddit for the game since it came out, and it's weird how it's been dominated by these cycles of outrage. First everybody was really upset about the microtransactions, then everybody was really upset about dragonsplague ruining their saves, and then they were really upset about the lack of enemy variety. I am enjoying the game a lot but I will agree with the lack of monster variety. Besides the performance, that's the thing I am most disappointed about. Seems like they barely added any new monsters. Also you are fighting goblins and wolves 60% of the time.
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