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Can confirm I had a buddy restart early on before the new game option was added and I've been able to see his old pawn the whole time
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What's the earliest I could feasibly get to the Magic Archer quest & be able to complete it? I mean, if I am of very average ability.
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Mar 31, 2024 04:20
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Broose posted:I think for my next playthrough when they finally release any big DLC I will get a mod that decreases player XP earned from small mobs (but leaves vocation XP the same). I've just got done exploring everything in Vernworth and about to do the coronation, but I'm already level 40+. The big guys are nothing, and I have a feeling what I meet in the desert will be the same. I don't really have a problem with the difficulty, but I outlevel everything so quickly just checking every nook and cranny. Yeah you know what, I think I might get a mod like this too, on top of the difficulty tweaks and class/augment rebalances. You do level up very quickly if you're doing full clears and fighting to kill everything you encounter instead of just running.
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Mar 31, 2024 04:32
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Is there a reason why I can revive 2 of these dead named bandits from the Coral Bandit quest?
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Mar 31, 2024 04:34
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Sometimes it just does that since I guess they might have had lines or something?
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Mar 31, 2024 04:38
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Kild posted:Is there a reason why I can revive 2 of these dead named bandits from the Coral Bandit quest?
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Mar 31, 2024 04:39
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I hired a pawn. Her fashion sense is clearly much more powerful than mine, and my pawn is fighting back the urge to comment on it. It's also funny because I used the red hair dye to give him a makeover, and I swear ever time I look at him it's just a little bit more red.
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Mar 31, 2024 04:43
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My today with DD2. ~Realize that the coronation made 'An Ornate Box' uncompletable because Sven is no longer in the capital. ~Get informed that Sven wants to see me in the capital. ~See Sven in the castle. Obviously can't give him the box. ~Go to the Border Town. Rest at the Inn, get ready to go north. ~Keep dying to some large skeleton with a greatsword who would occasionally decide 'yo gently caress this sorcerer' and one shot me. ~Realize that I hadn't actually accomplished anything since my last rest. Go to 'Last Inn Save' ~Reload into my house, losing the entire session. Apparently I don't know the difference between a Tavern and an Inn or something. Apparently buying everybody a round isn't resting at an Inn despite it costing money and having a little bed symbol on the map. (So what good is it?).
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Mar 31, 2024 04:44
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Tambaloneus posted:What's the earliest I could feasibly get to the Magic Archer quest & be able to complete it? I mean, if I am of very average ability. Level 30? 35? I honestly can't remember when I did it. Basically as soon as you get to Bakbattahl. But it really depends on how much you struggle to kill stuff as the quest involves escorting a NCP through some high level monsters. You can run past monsters to get there, but you can't really avoid them while escorting him. I mean I guess you could run to where the quest ends, drop a port crystal, go back to where he is, pick him up and use a ferrystone.
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Mar 31, 2024 04:45
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ChrisBTY posted:My today with DD2.
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Mar 31, 2024 04:50
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ChrisBTY posted:
the tavern is down stairs the inn is upstairs
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Mar 31, 2024 04:50
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ChrisBTY posted:My today with DD2. That sucks, but yeah taverns have a frothy beer mug icon, inns have a bed icon, I think there's one place where an inn is situated on the second floor of a tavern so that might have been your confusion.
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Mar 31, 2024 04:53
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:I mean I guess you could run to where the quest ends, drop a port crystal, go back to where he is, pick him up and use a ferrystone. Thanks for the info - and yes that's my preferred method of "escorting" anyone anywhere 
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Mar 31, 2024 04:54
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Pelican Dunderhead posted:Awesome I chose to not use a wakestone in the postgame and now all my progress has been removed. This was after spending six hours in the postgame and being almost ready to clear it.
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Reive posted:That sucks, but yeah taverns have a frothy beer mug icon, inns have a bed icon, I think there's one place where an inn is situated on the second floor of a tavern so that might have been your confusion. I am now really glad I never reloaded at inn rest at the period of the game before I got my house and only rested at campfires (because it's cheaper and more useful). ChrisBTY fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Mar 31, 2024 04:58
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Phlegmish posted:NG+ mechanical spoilers: I beelined for the Dragonforged just so I could make my archer pawn even better, but the options were a bit underwhelming. Improve Vocation has no immediate effect, but is supposed to give you higher stat increases upon leveling up while a specific Vocation. Not too useful for me since I probably won't be leveling much in the near future. Improve Skill halves the stamina cost of a specific skill you can select. And with that I think she's about as good as I can make her for her level: I took her with me today on my low-level journey to unlock Magick Archer early. She jumped into the brine almost immediately. Tambaloneus posted:What's the earliest I could feasibly get to the Magic Archer quest & be able to complete it? I mean, if I am of very average ability. Getting to the quest? You could do that immediately. Running away from enemies is pretty easy and you can take the ravine under Checkpoint Rest Town to get to Battahl. Just be aware that when you go through the goblin/saurian cave to get to the volcano island, you should REALLY bust up the rocks holding back water before jumping in the horrible saurian pit since it will clear a way through the rubble. Now, completing the quest to escort slow back pain man without him dying? That's tougher. Could rely on high level friend pawns, but if you lose the escort guy I think you're just screwed and can't be MA on that playthrough. Bring a bunch of wakestones for both him and yourself. You can clear most of the mobs before you start the escort, but some saurians will spawn when you accept it. Probably best to just carry him and run past the golem.
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Nuebot posted:Those have dialogue? The book guy asked me to escort him to the city and I looked at how long that trip was and just ferrystoned that poo poo and he was like "Oh, thank you" and disappeared. She's still alive every time I check in. Usually in the mornings i see them both in their drat house.
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Mar 31, 2024 05:13
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the launch skill seems like a trap on warrior pawns. This much higher level hired pawn with that skill is doing less damage than my vocation 1 personal warrior pawn because he basically doesn't attack. he tries to do it in any situation whatsoever and canceling it with "wait"->"go" will just make him do it again a second later.
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Mar 31, 2024 05:35
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:Basically as soon as you get to Bakbattahl. But it really depends on how much you struggle to kill stuff as the quest involves escorting a NCP through some high level monsters. You can run past monsters to get there, but you can't really avoid them while escorting him. just pick him up and sprint there while chugging stamina itmes like a normal person
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So I have found 3 trebuchets that break blocks opening new areas at the ancient battlefield has anyone found any more
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Don't try to rush to Magik archer early, it really isn't worth the headache. I found a cart to get me through the gate into the desert and didn't realize a cart didn't go back THROUGH the gate. So everything is super high level and can't do much. I've leveled a ton, unlocked the trickster but I can't get back to doing actual quest without backtracking through caves I've never been to. Grateful I can just start a new character.
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i have no idea why you would be in that position and want to make a new character
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Yeah, there's two other ways to get back to Vermund without going through the gate, but they're both a hell of a jog. edit: Assuming you can't just ferrystone back.
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I've got to unequip the augment that highlights seeker tokens, it's the brainworms augment and I'm stopping every 20 feet to activate noclip mode to try and find it. I'm also level 41 and just gotten the "delivery crystals to ambrosius" quest. I'm certainly overlevelled but I'm still not going to stop poking around the world.
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LibbyM posted:The real meat of the game is in the side content, but huge swathes of the side content are easy to overlook and miss. Quests that you only get by walking up to and sometimes actively engaging conversation with random townsfolk npc's who look exactly like all the others and give no sign that they have anything interesting for you. Exciting locations and quests that you only find if you go out of your way to explore in the wilderness with no direction, but insanely high enemy density with very repetitive fights against the same poo poo that discourage you from spending time discovering what's out there. I love this dumb game a lot but quest discovery is definitely the biggest pain point to me. I really wish that anyone with a quest would pop up on the minimap in the same way the escort quests do once you get close enough.
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 Endgame thief drip is sick. (Not pictured are the daggers I gave her once I fully upgraded them. Also, what kind of photo mode doesn't let you freely rotate the camera? Urgh.) Her Highness is ready to adventure and loot stuff in your world! Postgame was a lot of fun, I liked fighting the bonus bosses and the whole change in environment, although I didn't really stick around as much as I could have. I did my best for most side quests but I failed a couple and didn't do a few more (never found the grimoire girl everyone mentions, never did the beggar quest or the guy following the arisen, never followed up on the bandit hideout guy who got jailed or whatever, never did anything with wilhemina or whatever that some people mentioned was a thing). I already posted my biggest complaints (difficulty, density, the way the story is structured, lack of layered equipment & skill slots). I'll play a bit of NG+ to see what's going on there but I think once they release a DA/BBI style DLC it will be hella awesome.
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isk posted:FWIW I teleport pretty much all the time. The insta kill move doesn't 1HKO drakes and the like, but with the right gear it can knock off a whole life bar gem You're talking about Unto Heaven right? Because it does literally nothing for me against big enemies. https://i.imgur.com/4crPhYc.mp4 Kild fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Neeksy posted:She's still alive every time I check in. Usually in the mornings i see them both in their drat house. The grandma and grandpa look very similar and have similar names, make sure you aren't just seeing them both at different times.
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Kild posted:You're talking about Unto Heaven right? Because it does literally nothing for me against big enemies. I'm no expert, I didn't use the skill when I was working on spearhand, but it looks like you missed both times. Like the first swing he got knocked out of range but you weren't even close for the 2nd. Failboattootoot fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Kild posted:You're talking about Unto Heaven right? Because it does literally nothing for me against big enemies. You need to be within the kissing range for it to hit.
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Finished the game, and stopped for now at the true ending. Some thoughts: (big spoilers obviously) The lack of several really good things from DD1 is really strange.
The structure of DD2 feels so anemic. I don't understand how people can say DD1 felt unfinished moreso than DD2. The progression from Wyrmhunt -> Investigate the Cult -> Kill Grigori -> Deal with the Everfall -> Confront the Seneschal was fine to me, and throughout all of that you kept up with characters like the King and got to see his downfall. The writing and delivery of the cult leader and Grigori himself far surpasses anything in DD2, despite having similar subjects. Characters like Phaesus in DD2 feel flimsy in comparison. The cutscene with your beloved under attack in DD1 was great (and sometimes hilarious) to watch while Grigori talked on, and in DD2 he just holds your beloved in his hand and says a few lines? Come on. I love the larger new world and enjoyed playing the game as much as I did, and a lot of the changes to vocations are good. The game also LOOKS really loving good. But holy cow DD2's narrative doesn't hold a candle to the surprises DD1 kept in its back pocket. I'll see if my opinion changes after working my way through the true ending.
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It's ridiculous how much love Thief vocation got compared to everyone else. They even have unique climbing animations.
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Close to the end, and while I enjoy the second game a lot more, I respect the first game more. I'm guessing Capcom yet again didn't give the team enough money or time, because it feels like a very safe sequel. The original was an overambitious game but it was also 11 years ago, and the sequel barely has any new interactions with the world. The enemy roster being almost the same in particular hurts it a lot. What's also really surprising is a lack of proper dungeons. DD1 had a watery ruin, a castle, crypts, a tower... Sure, there were very few of them, but they were interesting and big, and no matter what my Steam achievements tell me, no caves are not "dungeons". There's not a single place that felt similar to the cool gauntlets of DD1 aside from one optional cave I've found, and even then it looked like most other caves. Also, while the appearance of the number II in the title card is a hype moment, it feels like the game is gearing up for a second half, only for it to be like 10% of the game. I've enjoyed the game a lot, and it's been a while since I was so dead set on just exploring, but I really wish the game was given more time and/or money so it wouldn't just be Dragon's Dogma 1 But World Is Bigger
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I wonder if the concept of "dungeons" may be something game designers are moving away from these days. The Legend of Zelda was a series which typified their use, but then they had a game where they decided to make a bunch of little, bite-sized dungeons that could be completed in only a few minutes, instead of the comparatively large ones from before that supposedly took hours. The turnaround on that change was so successful that darn near everyone is doing it now. ... but I also wonder if it isn't really a matter of scale. With seamless open-worlds like these, having no loading zones or other dedicated boundaries, everything loses its sense of proportion after a while. They could drop a DD1 location right into DD2's engine and it would feel smaller because everything else is just that large. Maybe it's possible that a lot of the very large cave systems in the game are actually quite comparable to the "dungeons" of eld, but we're no longer capable of assessing it objectively because everything needs to be that much larger, just to pass.
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Dumb elfs and their hair. Tried to carry princess to safety, but apparently it was dad elf. Fucker fought me the entire time carrying him out the cave
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Sorcerer has been effective so far but with no way to target weakpoints I worry I'm going to have trouble with Drakes etc. What element should I be using on the stone lizards (rattlers)?
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Tambaloneus posted:What's the earliest I could feasibly get to the Magic Archer quest & be able to complete it? I mean, if I am of very average ability. I did it in the highish 20s with a mostly maxed out first vocation (Archer). You'll want to follow a guide if you're skipping the story quests, and if you have the RC hiring some stronger pawns helps a lot for encounters you don't run from. And as someone else mentioned, be prepared to grab the final escort and just haul rear end with him if you encounter anything you can't handle.
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Does anyone happen to know if Allard's body stops existing after doing Wilhelmina's quest or if it's somewhere other than the morgue? I was trying to see if there are any alternative solutions to it and the Oracle tells me to revive him, but I can't find his body.
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The Lone Badger posted:Sorcerer has been effective so far but with no way to target weakpoints I worry I'm going to have trouble with Drakes etc. I just have my pawns cast meteors and tornadoes. It seems to work on everything. Especially my vision.
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I can't sort the pawn spreadsheet anymore (usually do it by pawn level) so it's a bit hard to keep track now.
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