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jokes posted:Funnily enough I stumbled upon the sphinx organically and answered all the riddles, other than where I found the first token, totally organically. I thought I was being clever with the "who is your beloved" riddle but when my main pawn said "truly?" I was very proud of myself. drat I bottled up the first NPC I saw with red cheeks around me thinking I was solving it the way she wanted but my pawn actually would have both been a lot easier and the honest answer
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Owl Inspector posted:drat I bottled up the first NPC I saw with red cheeks around me thinking I was solving it the way she wanted but my pawn actually would have both been a lot easier and the honest answer About a zero % chance I spend that much time in the character creator without falling in love
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Neo_Crimson posted:No, Gregor is the Watch Captain that gets sent on a suicide mission to kill a Dullahan. Who you're talking about is someone else. Oh! I mixed him up with Oskar. Wait, Gregor makes sense going into the drink where you fight the Dullahan, but I don't remember seeing harpies in that area, just night time ghoulies and bandits.
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Gregor is the dude who escorts you from Melve to Vernworth the first time (or at least halfway, if you choose not to take the cart) and also the dullahan quest guy.
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Candescent orb is really nice on MA. Just shoot on the ground for good aoe and it also destroys Griffins cause it keeps them on fire for so long.
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It's a really pretty light source in dark caves/at night too.
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I'm constantly surprised by how much I've just been enjoying being in this world and running around. I don't give a poo poo about the story or the characters. I have nearly 90 hours in the game and I still have quite a bit I want to do. It's just fun to play. I think my dream game would be the world exploration of DD2 with the storytelling of Witcher 3. Side note - I received the greatest compliment yesterday. Someone messaged me on PS5 saying "Would you be willing to share the sliders for your pawn?"
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I think DD2 needs a lot more enemy variety and a method of moving around at running speed without expending stamina. Maybe when out of combat sprinting doesn't suck up your stamina or something? bring back liquid vim?
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Btw Nuebot, thank you for another two beetles. My pawn now has a max encumbrance of 62 kg (with the Ring of Triumph equipped), still no cap in sight.
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Just make all trips downhill, easy peasy. (yes the game recharges stamina faster when moving downhill, and more slowly when moving uphill)
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jokes posted:I think DD2 needs a lot more enemy variety and a method of moving around at running speed without expending stamina. I disagree. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but I think the speed you move around the map is perfect. Ramping that up would make traversal feel... lesser. I enjoy standing on a mountain top and seeing something in the distance and know that getting there will not be a quick endeavor. Your characters naturally run without spending stamina. Stamina is sprinting. 
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jokes posted:I think DD2 needs a lot more enemy variety and a method of moving around at running speed without expending stamina. Maybe when out of combat sprinting doesn't suck up your stamina or something? bring back liquid vim? Theres a mod for that second thing
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the pace is fine but the traversal constantly taking control away from you to make you slide down every little 30 degree incline or vault forward onto every tiny obstruction in front of you without input is horrible. another thing that was much less commonly frustrating in DD1.Mordiceius posted:Side note - I received the greatest compliment yesterday. Someone messaged me on PS5 saying "Would you be willing to share the sliders for your pawn?" genuinely better than getting a portcrystal in the mail
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Owl Inspector posted:genuinely better than getting a portcrystal in the mail Hell yeah.  She's a modified version of a pawn I saw posted on youtube, but I genuinely think she's one of the prettiest characters I've ever made in a video game.
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I'm loving the custom difficulty settings mod - making everything moderately beefier and reducing XP gain really improves the feel of this game. It rules that you can set specific monsters to be as strong as you think they should be. I'm about 150 hours in and on my 2nd playthrough lol
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Owl Inspector posted:the pace is fine but the traversal constantly taking control away from you to make you slide down every little 30 degree incline or vault forward onto every tiny obstruction in front of you without input is horrible. another thing that was much less commonly frustrating in DD1. "Just play a wizard with levitate"  *foot touches incline, down you go* "...Well it still looks cooler when a wizard can't climb a shallow slope! Or switch to thief, thief can wall jump-" *Slight incline says no* Every drat game, my archnemesis right under forgetting my enemy can no-clip their entire upper torso through objects to hit me. Is short rocks declaring I shall trip more times than all three of my death stranding playthroughs (or making me suddenly stand in a stealth game).
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I've gotten the thief wall jump to work like twice, and it's never been important. Everything is juuuust too angled for it
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RBA Starblade posted:I've gotten the thief wall jump to work like twice, and it's never been important. Everything is juuuust too angled for it It's funny how it's like the highest skill ceiling thing in the game, I can't do it to save my life
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You need to be inputting the direction you want to jump as you hit the button. It seems to be way more reliable to be facing perpendicular to the walls you want to jump off/between.
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Deified Data posted:It's funny how it's like the highest skill ceiling thing in the game, I can't do it to save my life In other comedy thief failures I did not see coming news. I got so used to just laughing at armored cyclops no matter what class I play as, and easily busting their armor (Shield bash, hammers for warrior, loving high frigor on casters, don't even need consumable arrows for archer). So I was entirely unprepared for my thief awkwardly bouncing off of them until my pawns cleared the armor off. "It won't let me put dynamite on the armor for some reason? Uh... okay what if I use-no? okay jump off, use overpowered skull splitter-I immediately deflect for being in the same zipcode as armor... Well, I can climb up to their head, no helmet on this one-" *Stab acts like it has a helmet* "Oh come on!" The fight was still under two minutes tops, because pawns that don't bounce off armor let me get right to the murder in a bit. But man that was awkward for what is normally the easiest big monster to kill in the game.
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I can do the thief walljump, but only when I’m not trying to.
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Section Z posted:In other comedy thief failures I did not see coming news. I just self-destructed on their foot a few times, the explosion sorted it out for me.
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Thundarr posted:It took almost a week for somebody to actually take my pawn out to kill a sphinx. Maybe I just need to offer better than 10 jaspers. I find that gold isn't a huge incentive for quests because there are a million pawns with 10k cyclops quests and stuff. I usually offer dullahan bones or other really hard to find materials for mine and they tend to get snatched up pretty fast. Phlegmish posted:Btw Nuebot, thank you for another two beetles. My pawn now has a max encumbrance of 62 kg (with the Ring of Triumph equipped), still no cap in sight. I have no clue if the cap is a specific number of beetles or a statistical one, because I capped fairly fast - but also I've explored literally the entire map save for any areas potentially locked off by story and been lucky enough to get a few from pawn gifts. 76.15 is my max though and 52.65 is my pawn's, my character is pretty much as large as I could make her and my pawn is as small as I could make her. Nuebot fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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toward the end of my playthrough I entered a riftstone of potential and saw a bunch of pawns who looked solid (upgraded gear, meteor/maelstrom equipped etc) but had sadly never been hired enough to have their "travel for a day and night" quest completed even though they were level 60. I think whenever I do another playthrough I'll focus on using the riftstone of potential to give some love to those pawns who never get hired.
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OK, Simon, you’ve made your point. Name your price, as long as you start to springboard me in finite time.
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Do I get to kill the Sphinx somewhere because she bailed on me due to a physics glitch and my jank tolerance is being sorely tested. Getting to the point where I just want to stick with vocations and beeline the main quest to see it through. I just started the “get to Battahl” quest but I’m at level 45 and have dropped portcrystals everywhere down to the island—is that close?
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jokes posted:About a zero % chance I spend that much time in the character creator without falling in love This is an opinion born of perversion. My Arisen and her pawn are simply close friends and colleagues. Nuebot posted:I find that gold isn't a huge incentive for quests because there are a million pawns with 10k cyclops quests and stuff. I usually offer dullahan bones or other really hard to find materials for mine and they tend to get snatched up pretty fast. I think this is the sort of thing that will change radically as more players reach "endgame." For large swathes of the game 10,000 is more useful. Hell, even now it's still useful, since there's plenty of gear I want to buy and upgrading equipment isn't exactly necessary. And really early on stuff like wakestone shards is useful, while they're pretty worthless after the earlier parts of the game (which are both the only parts where you won't have many wakestones, and the only parts where you're particularly likely to die).
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I fought a fellord in a cave and then he just noped the gently caress out of there and idk where he went or why. But it sucked, I wanted his bones.
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Ok, Punchfighter isn't as much fun as I'd hoped. Can clear out mobs easily enough, and even cyclops aren't much of an issue, but these are still just early game enemies and anything with more than 3 health pips takes an eternity to bring down. Anything that can just run when it gets low (dragons and griffins) will have ample opportunity. Warfarer can't use other class skills without switching to the weapon even if the skill doesn't use it, like Implicate or Roar, making it pretty useless for punch runs, and the range/ speed of punches makes fast and flying enemies a nightmare. Harpies and wolves are no fun, but goblins and saurians are always fun to throw down with. Most shield skills work just fine without a sword, but I wonder if other classes might also work without their main weapon. I just need a solution to fast/ flying enemies that doesn't involve opening the equipment menu, since you can't use rearmament to switch to unarmed. Might just wait on some DLC or see if there's a decent unarmed mod, maybe they'll introduce a bloody knuckle ring. At the moment I've got the +damage when lightly encumbered ring and the encumbrance increase ring. Also, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do a Shoryuken, but I've done it accidentally like 3 times. I think the target needs to be stunned or something? It's definitely not a button combo. McKilligan fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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McKilligan posted:Also, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do a Shoryuken, but I've done it accidentally like 3 times. I think the target needs to be stunned or something? It's definitely not a button combo. The heavy attack of every melee does a special animation when the enemy is stunned or otherwise vulnerable. For great swords there's two variations and I haven't figured out what the triggers for each is yet but one has them slam the sword down on the target, spin and slam it down again, the other has them stab the target, pull the sword back and throw it to fling it off the sword (which looks really silly when fighting a big creature you can't actually do that to). For the fist you get the shoryuken. Usually you can only do it once per stun even if the enemy is stunned longer than the animation, it's weird.
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Nuebot posted:The heavy attack of every melee does a special animation when the enemy is stunned or otherwise vulnerable. For great swords there's two variations and I haven't figured out what the triggers for each is yet but one has them slam the sword down on the target, spin and slam it down again, the other has them stab the target, pull the sword back and throw it to fling it off the sword The throw is if it's a jump attack iirc
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Owl Inspector posted:does rearmament even do anything besides add the QOL of not having to open the menu to change weapons? You can't change your equipped weapon in the middle of combat without rearmament IIRC
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Beren: I challenge you, right this minute, to a 1v1. First to get knocked out of the ring loses. Bro I've got two bows, some knives, and a stick. Don't talk poo poo when I get launched into orbit without even being able to make you flinch.
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McKilligan posted:Ok, Punchfighter isn't as much fun as I'd hoped. Can clear out mobs easily enough, and even cyclops aren't much of an issue, but these are still just early game enemies and anything with more than 3 health pips takes an eternity to bring down. Anything that can just run when it gets low (dragons and griffins) will have ample opportunity. Warfarer can't use other class skills without switching to the weapon even if the skill doesn't use it, like Implicate or Roar, making it pretty useless for punch runs, and the range/ speed of punches makes fast and flying enemies a nightmare. Harpies and wolves are no fun, but goblins and saurians are always fun to throw down with.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I was curious what a punch run might be like! I wish more games included viable unarmed/fist options DD1 had an unarmed ring (that was a bitch to acquire, and only in the DLC) that boosted unarmed damage to make it viable, but DD2 doesn't really have any equivalent. Running around with my buff bro pawn smacking goblins around is fun as heck, but the game certainly wasn't designed around it. Certain enemies are just miserable to engage with on a punch run, and you can imagine how often a fighter pawn with no sword gets hired. McKilligan fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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I had implicate equipped when the beren duel happened so he just got instantly hurled out of the ring before he could move
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CharlestonJew posted:You can't change your equipped weapon in the middle of combat without rearmament IIRC pretty sure you can but you gotta be standing still.
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Nuebot posted:I have no clue if the cap is a specific number of beetles or a statistical one, because I capped fairly fast - but also I've explored literally the entire map save for any areas potentially locked off by story and been lucky enough to get a few from pawn gifts. 76.15 is my max though and 52.65 is my pawn's, my character is pretty much as large as I could make her and my pawn is as small as I could make her. Mine would now be at 57 kg without the ring, she's 170 cm but still on the petite side (59 kg). Don't know how the calculation works exactly, but I have to be getting close. I know I keep saying this, but I find it hard to believe that I somehow missed 20+ or however many beetles. Owl Inspector posted:toward the end of my playthrough I entered a riftstone of potential and saw a bunch of pawns who looked solid (upgraded gear, meteor/maelstrom equipped etc) but had sadly never been hired enough to have their "travel for a day and night" quest completed even though they were level 60. I think whenever I do another playthrough I'll focus on using the riftstone of potential to give some love to those pawns who never get hired. This seems statistically very unlikely. Even if you have the shittiest pawn imaginable, it will get at least a few hires. I've seen it with my own eyes. What I suspect is that those are people who were playing offline until recently, or maybe they somehow never rested. I still like that idea of hiring exclusively from the Riftstone of Potential, though e: Capcom also provides pity hires, identifiable by the 'Arisen' not having a Steam profile, but presumably that would indeed not count towards any pawn quests Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Apr 16, 2024 |
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