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This happened the first time I tried using those things, and I didn't look at them again until NG+ lol
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Phlegmish posted:Seems to me that they ran out of time and money about halfway through. You arrive in Bakbattahl, you're suddenly just a few quests away from finishing the game. It feels weirdly rushed. Game would have been incredible, albeit very long, if they had fleshed out the Bakbattahl quests a little more, and made Volcanic Island a proper third act. My absolute dream game would be one that has the world of Dragon's Dogma with the exploration, big monsters, and limited fast travel combined with the storytelling of something like Witcher 3 or something. Give me a robust RPG story with a big story and a lot of time with characters for me to care about. To be honest, I didn't give a single gently caress about any character in DD2 (my pawn aside).
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Ruffian Price posted:I made two forgeries of the Jadeite Orb and kept the original on me for the rest of the game. The outcomes for both halves of the quest don't really change, but the quest journal calls you out for being turboselfish Conversely, It's actually possible to give both of the questgivers the real orb, it involves a certain winged lady, and the quest log even acknowledges that outcome.
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Very lucky positioning for them - when I had that happen I did not have a convenient platform a few feet below me to land on.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:29
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:They should've made it so missing a high five with your pawn gives them dragonsplague or advances it if they already have it I just stand there staring at them and my Arisen doesn’t return the high five with my pawn, but will get the hired pawns every time.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:31
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I still really adore the credits music. Particularly combined with panning through the scenes showing most of the major characters you met if you did their quest, though I'm sad the two sorc maisters didn't get one and I feel they should have, similar to how Beren gets one if you got a happy ending for his quests. It's all just so... perfectly melancholic and bittersweet.
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Apr 30, 2024 21:32
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Weird that the elf dude and his dad were #1 and #2 when I showered Ulrika with gifts and chatted her up as much as I could. She was #3 but I guess I'm a magnet for strange men that live in woods.
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Inzombiac posted:Weird that the elf dude and his dad were #1 and #2 when I showered Ulrika with gifts and chatted her up as much as I could. It's got to have some sort of weird behavior where affinity spikes and decays quickly. You can do someone's quest and shower them with gifts, but just do an escort quest for someone on the road a week later and they're #1 now. That was a thing in DD1 at launch iirc, where the affinity bonuses from selling and buying from merchants were oddly high so yo always ended up with a merchant or innkeeper as your beloved.
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NeurosisHead posted:It's got to have some sort of weird behavior where affinity spikes and decays quickly. You can do someone's quest and shower them with gifts, but just do an escort quest for someone on the road a week later and they're #1 now. That was a thing in DD1 at launch iirc, where the affinity bonuses from selling and buying from merchants were oddly high so yo always ended up with a merchant or innkeeper as your beloved. Yeah, Brandt my #1 and my only interactions with him was to do his story quests and then escort him once during the endgame. Baffling. Meanwhile I showered Wilhelmina with gifts for days and she was like #3 for me.
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Apr 30, 2024 23:52
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Thundarr posted:That kid can throw hands, Brant better watch out. You're right. She just beat the poo poo out of Margit. How many dungeons have you guys discovered?  There really aren't that many Gorechimera in the game apparently. This is in NG+.  And what the hell is a Nex? 
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Inzombiac posted:Weird that the elf dude and his dad were #1 and #2 when I showered Ulrika with gifts and chatted her up as much as I could. I had a similar thing Ulrika was the one kidnapped by the dragon (which I am assuming is your #1 at the time it happens) but by the credits she had fully dropped out of my top 3. I never found her at all in the endgame so it's possible she just died at some point but I'm not sure when that would have happened. Sara was my #1 in the credits which made sense because I was still interacting with her a lot in the endgame to do upgrades and such, while elf sister and brother were my #2 and 3 which made less sense since I didn't really interact with them much after finishing their respective storylines but it's possible they also get an affinity bump from their endgame quest.
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Sioux posted:
It's apparently the name of the final final boss
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had a friend's pawn say that to me after they had run off a cliff into the ocean a couple days prior. totally rude.
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Ah, so you are that Arisen who surrounds themselves with Beastren.
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It's getting to the point where I can't stand my pawn being silent. Hopefully if I swap him from straightforward to simple and remove the aphonite specialty he'll still be sufficiently agro. I miss the calm voice but it's just not acceptable for a warrior to hang back instead of running in to wreck poo poo and calm is just too hesitant. Although... the lady version of the straightforward voice isn't godawful. Maybe it's time for a more in-depth metamorphosis.
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FishMcCool posted:Ah, so you are that Arisen who surrounds themselves with Beastren. Always! Which made it funny when one of my own pawns spit out Beastren like they had some deep seated self-hating issues about it
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Lol my pawn came back from a journey with three different Arisen since the last time we slept and he starts talking about how I definitely missed him and coming on to me So his amazing otherworldly quests have gone from losing to goblins repeatedly, to being horrified by other Arisen, to a marathon of presumably losing to goblins while Arisen gently caress the world up, and finally deciding "yeah I've got it pretty good"
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Thundarr posted:It's getting to the point where I can't stand my pawn being silent. Hopefully if I swap him from straightforward to simple and remove the aphonite specialty he'll still be sufficiently agro. I had to switch my simple fighter/warrior pawn to calm because he was incredibly useless as simple, and that switch immediately improved him a great deal. If you don't think they're aggressive enough as calm, you really won't like simple. Guy wouldn't even be in fights half the time, instead opting to wander off half a mile to do gently caress knows what.
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RBA Starblade posted:Lol my pawn came back from a journey with three different Arisen since the last time we slept and he starts talking about how I definitely missed him and coming on to me I’m convinced the “goblins got the better of me” message is bugged or some kind of default message takes priority when the pawn got downed by something they don’t have a line for. my pawn could have soloed a level-appropriate pack of any goblin type for the majority of the game in my world, but in everyone else’s world they apparently just shoved him in a locker over and over
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Vargs posted:I had to switch my simple fighter/warrior pawn to calm because he was incredibly useless as simple, and that switch immediately improved him a great deal. If you don't think they're aggressive enough as calm, you really won't like simple. Guy wouldn't even be in fights half the time, instead opting to wander off half a mile to do gently caress knows what. If straightforward is the only way to ensure that swords actually go into dragons, then it sounds like my course is set. Owl Inspector posted:I’m convinced the “goblins got the better of me” message is bugged or some kind of default message takes priority when the pawn got downed by something they don’t have a line for. my pawn could have soloed a level-appropriate pack of any goblin type for the majority of the game in my world, but in everyone else’s world they apparently just shoved him in a locker over and over I've never gotten that message, but honestly my warrior could probably solo every goblin in the game world at once and not be down more than a third of his max health. I sometimes get the "a chimera got the better of me" message and I still extremely doubt that, unless the chimera threw him off a cliff.
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Pawns just make poo poo up when they come back, at the very least some of the time.
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That doesn't sound like something Beef Supreme would do
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Thundarr posted:If straightforward is the only way to ensure that swords actually go into dragons, then it sounds like my course is set. Sometimes my dudes are super exhausted and have low max health and a bunch of goblins can just mob them
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jokes posted:Sometimes my dudes are super exhausted and have low max health and a bunch of goblins can just mob them That's the thing, i'll be running around without resting and be at about 40% my max hp and my hired pawns will be similar, and my pawn is still walking around with 85-90% of his. 1000+ defense and Intrepidity makes you stupidly sturdy.
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Thundarr posted:That's the thing, i'll be running around without resting and be at about 40% my max hp and my hired pawns will be similar, and my pawn is still walking around with 85-90% of his. 1000+ defense and Intrepidity makes you stupidly sturdy. My warrior pawn keeps getting chucked off cliffs and he just walks it off. I don't know if it's a bug or what but he no sells every fall
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Owl Inspector posted:I’m convinced the “goblins got the better of me” message is bugged or some kind of default message takes priority when the pawn got downed by something they don’t have a line for. my pawn could have soloed a level-appropriate pack of any goblin type for the majority of the game in my world, but in everyone else’s world they apparently just shoved him in a locker over and over I wonder if it counts stuff that happens if they are not hired but seen as a wandering pawn? Because 90% of the damage in this game is "Every goblin knows Stinger" letting them get a free shot in 0.1 seconds before they are reduced to paste. Half the pawns I see are almost dead when I round a corner and see them getting their poo poo wrecked even when they have great gear if I don't save them before I then ignore them. Which was extra surreal when backtracking in the Vernsworth area while level 75+ pawns are spawning. At least when they are being poisoned to death by lizards they have more of an excuse. "They have chosen to walk away from our mage's cure bubble. They clearly wish for death." Section Z fucked around with this message at 00:09 on May 2, 2024 |
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Ruffian Price posted:I made two forgeries of the Jadeite Orb and kept the original on me for the rest of the game. The outcomes for both halves of the quest don't really change, but the quest journal calls you out for being turboselfish I still love that the game acknowledges it if you give them both a real orb.
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Phlegmish posted:Seems to me that they ran out of time and money about halfway through. You arrive in Bakbattahl, you're suddenly just a few quests away from finishing the game. It feels weirdly rushed. Game would have been incredible, albeit very long, if they had fleshed out the Bakbattahl quests a little more, and made Volcanic Island a proper third act. It definitely does feel like there's an act one of the game and an act three but the entire act two is missing. I dunno if it's a "ran out of money" or "pushed out the door" thing or just "this is more or less what we planned because it's Dragon's Dogma and who really cares about plot".
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I reached Bakbattahl approximately four weeks before I finished the game so it is what you make of it (postgame not done yet). I do enjoy games where the main quest is short but you don't have to do it right away and there's plenty else to do before you do. The first DD was a lot like that too.
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I got save-trapped (no wakestone or ferrystone on me, last camping hours back) on a ledge over that canyon running between the Checkpoint Rest Town and the Ancient Battleground. By the time I remembered that I could tackle a pawn, I was at about 30% max health, and by the time I managed it (thanks WolvesHuntIn who sometimes is named Winter) it was more like 20%. I then immediately ended up somehow in a scripted quest thing with Raghnall. He took off into some woods and for some reason I thought it was time-sensitive, so I headed off to follow him. Made it through the choppers in the forest and found him, but then triggered an event where I was separated from my pawns. Did I mention that I am running as Trickster right now? Anyway, got through the fight at the end only taking minimal damage, and learned a lot about how to play the vocation I feel. I definitely need to get better at switching to punches, but I chucked dudes all over the place and played keep-away with my clone, and it was a lot of fun. 10/10 game, would use their dangerous save model again. I sadly think I need to say goodbye to WolvesHuntIn for a little bit because I can't keep up with Warrior aggro yet, and he makes things pretty chaotic especially with bigger enemies I'm trying to aim away from the party. Question: is raising your pawn's affinity just about romance, or does it unlock other stuff?
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Subjunctive posted:Question: is raising your pawn's affinity just about romance, or does it unlock other stuff? It does make a slight, slight difference to the way the game's ending looks. My pawn's affinity was lower in NG+ because the second run went a lot faster and the credits sequence changed.
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I've been learning how to mod this game so i can make the oxcart invincible for that cross country round trip tour. Making the cart invincible was relatively easy, the ox less so. For now my script just makes all loaded oxen invincible, including wild ones. Took the new wheels out for a test drive to see if i could get away with ignoring the driver and it held up beautifully against several small mob ambushes and even a cyclops raging at point blank! But then a griffin landed and destroyed the cart. I looked into the cart properties again and, well this won't do at all  Griffin attacks like that are relatively rare so I'm gonna go for it anyway but if it happens again I'm going back to disable that 
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I've been learning how to mod this game so i can make the oxcart invincible for that cross country round trip tour. Making the cart invincible was relatively easy, the ox less so. For now my script just makes all loaded oxen invincible, including wild ones. I'm curious what happens if a griffon swoops down to carry off an unkillable ox. Does it reach the nest and the ox just kinda wanders into the swamp?
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That's an excellent question, i might have to see if i can figure out the answer (I'm guessing you're right) Or eventually release the Invincible Oxen mod and hope someone else does it e: seems certain spells and enemy attacks can call executeBreak on the cart! Thought I was almost done but nopee2: Getting there! lol https://i.imgur.com/m8UNpgb.mp4 Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 20:52 on May 3, 2024 |
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The Unstoppable Ox meets the Immovable Griffon.
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Any new mods that improve endgame? Took a break for a bit and want to delve into a new game + run now.
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If you're modding to get a smoother cart ride anyway, might want to just mod out griffins, ogres and cyclops entirely. Also maybe have the car stop during the night, not much to look at when it's gets dark.
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But I want the monsters and arrows and spells to swirl around my Arisen, who refuses to stand up or lift a finger as he idly watches everyone else fight. He paid to ride the cart, not to be an auxiliary guard! As for nighttime, I like the darkness pierced only by occasional torch and lantern light. I'm thinking of checking out some shader mods to play with visuals a bit but my potato computer struggles with the lowest settings as it is so I'm not counting on them. Maybe in the future if I get a nicer PC I can see what this all looks like with pathtracing enabled E: i just learned that if your pawn is in the highest affinity tier, they'll ride in the oxcart with you. And they won't get up unless you do! Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 18:03 on May 4, 2024 |
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Well gently caress you too, DD2. I fuckup the recollection riddle, my bad. I decide to fight it, I win, and as its health hits zero, my main pawn stops waiting in the corner like I told him to smash her in the face and she gets mad and leaves. gently caress you!
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