Jack B Nimble posted:

Will the bow require shooter style aiming or does it support lock on style combat? Or both? I'm not personally a fan of shooting with a controller, but I definitely want to play a third person action game with one. This is sort of the problem I have with GTA and CP2077, where I want keyboard and mouse on foot and a game pad in a vehicle.

Nemo2342 posted:

Not as out there as some people's character's, but I'm pretty happy with this (for now).

TheMostFrench posted:

I'm very excited be an Archer because of all of the jump kicking and shooting people in the face looks like hilarious good fun. It seems like exactly the thing that most ranged RPG classes lack is a bit of close ranged manoeuvrability.

K8.0 posted:

Am I the only person who thinks everyone who plans to focus on a single class is mentally ill? I always felt like playing a bunch of different classes was the second best part of Dragon's Dogma after pawns.

DangerDongs posted:

Do you counterbalance this with a polyamorist relationship you dull dull person. I bet you do you sick freak.
DD has the nice benefit of being able to quasi-try multiple vocations at once if you count the vicarious nature of pawns.

Mr. Baps posted:

In most games people who pick the basic Man Who Fights class deserve to be mocked for being the blandest most boring gamers on earth, but Dragon's Dogma makes even the basic fighter a whole lot of fun so it's fine.

If you never once branch out into anything else, though, then you might be the human equivalent of a bowl of plain oatmeal.

Vermain posted:

i played control at 800x600 on an rx 480 with the framerate dipping into the sub-30s on the regular. nothing in dradog 2 can hurt me

Vermain posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrO2ZHQ3mM

IGN performance review for those curious. consoles look hidebound to 30-ish FPS, whereas PC's able to push up to 50-60 and has both DLSS and FSR options

Vermain posted:

considering that the issue appears to be primarily CPU related, my guess would be that it's solely due to them cramming a ton of dynamism into the world with NPCs/physics/etc. that eats up a tremendous amount of cycles. might just be something the RE engine is bad at handling, but that's a question well outside my pay grade

acksplode posted:

It's a CPU bound game, it's not running poorly because of unoptimized visuals. It's that the simulation is very detailed and/or badly optimized

https://www.ign.com/articles/capcom-is-aware-of-dragons-dogma-2-frame-rate-issues-on-pc-looking-into-fixes

NeurosisHead posted:

idk exactly what it means but it sounds pretty cool and that's probably the point

isk posted:

Based on what we know so far, the assorted monster assaults and emergent behavior are contributing to it. Seems like the dev team wanted to make the game world feel a bit unpredictable

Nuebot posted:

Just kill everything. New game design philosophy unlock: the more monsters and NPCs you kill, the more you're rewarded with framerate and gameplay improvements. It's only when you finally beat the final boss that you unlock a consistent 60FPS, to lord it over the empty land.

acksplode posted:

I'm guessing lots of NPCs and enemies with dynamic and reactive behavior, and quests and the general world continuing to proceed in the background while you play. Games that want to deliver "emergent" gameplay can't get away with scripting things, so they have to run simulations that can interact with each other and the player, which isn't cheap. DD2 sounds especially ambitious here, at least for a AAA action RPG.

Volte posted:

CPU and GPU generally (ideally) run in parallel, so if the CPU load is making the game run at 30fps, then you might as well make the GPU do enough work for 30fps as well because it's "free". You can't really compensate for one with the other.

Dexo posted:

It gives you a few frames like literally maybe 2-4 as it lightens the load on the CPU some tiny amount, but it's not gonna be noticable.

acksplode posted:

Not if it doesn't decrease the CPU's workload, which usually isn't sensitive to resolution or visual effects. Dialing those down won't make NPC behavior easier to calculate. Coarse analogy, imagine an assembly line where the CPU is calculating scenes and passing them to the GPU to draw as frames. Making the GPU's job easier won't increase the assembly line's frame throughput if the CPU is already working as hard as it can.

Nuebot posted:

If it looked any "worse" it'd basically be video game hitler.

Malaria posted:

like 75% of my friends list on Playstation is made up of goons from Dragons Dogma on PS3 and PS4.

Are we gonna do a list again with PSN ID/Whatever Xbox has so we can add each other for pawns? I think we had like a google doc previously.

King of Solomon posted:

It WAS released on the 22nd. They just decided the release date would be midnight GMT, so people in other time zones get to play it before midnight.

Neeksy posted:

I don't care if it doesn't make sense, my magick archer is gonna be a tall, buff dude.

FauxLeather posted:

I waited 12 years for this sequel, I'd be damned if I let "5 healing items - $1.34"-grade dlc impact that.

Kind of regretting starting as an Archer because it was always my goal to switch into a Magick Archer as soon as I can. Games really making you work for it too, in comparison to the first. I feel like I'm watching my scrappy pawns have infinitely more fun than me.

Broken Cog posted:

Archer is super strong. Get the explosive arrow skill, take down boss monsters in 4 well-aimed shots

Vargs posted:

Protip: do your damnedest to remember where you picked up your very first Seeker's Token. Mine was picked up by a pawn gently caress knows where, so I'm screwed.

Impermanent posted:

Nancy posted:

Spoiler for details without giving away the whole bit: there's a side quest later that asks you to return to the spot you picked up your first Seeker's Token & return under a time limit, if you don't you can't progress to part 2 of the quest.

Mine was easy cause it was the one in the little drop down between the border outpost and Melve that you run past in the beginning of the game.

Where can I find advanced vocations beyond the first two? I thought the elf Arborist would lead to Magic Archer but no dice.

Phlegmish posted:

I read that you can allow your own pawn to guide you during quests, how do I enable this?

Vintersorg posted:

Seems everyone here picked melee? No posts about casters so I can get hot tips?

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

How far in the game is this? I've been bouncing between archer and mage and I kinda want to do both which I think I saw in some previews but I'm otherwise playing this blind.

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Ah, I figured it was going to be later in the game but it sounds like it'll be a long while before I get into it. I'll probably pivot to focusing on archer and maybe some thief in the meantime.

jizzy sillage posted:

I finished the game (and secret ending), used Magick Archer for most of it. Magick Archer is so loving cracked, the master technique oneshots almost everything in the game (except some specific large enemies with phased health bars or Dullahans since they just peace out sometimes).

Now I'm playing again from a fresh save as Thief, as it's clearly the second most OP class.

Nemo2342 posted:

If you try to follow the story progression it will take you quite a while before you get sent in that direction, since it's one of the last areas of the game.

That being said, I just went there on my own after looking it up and it's certainly doable at lower levels. I went in the high 20s but you could certainly go in lower if you're better at the game/more willing to run from fights.

Mordiceius posted:

idk - I don't ever get angry at exploring. For me, the reward for exploring is the act of exploration. Getting a chest at the end is bonus. I don't care what's actually in the chest and 90% of the time I don't actually even pay attention what I'm grabbing from chests. I just like exploring around and opening the chests.

Magmarashi posted:

Seeing the world, filling out the map, finding set pieces and things that aren't a big treasure box