Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

When mounting a large monster is shit.

 

It's the little details that make this game a step above, like using anything that explodes to empty a mining spot all at once.

 

You can also knock out all the ore in one go with a greatsword or hammer (clearly super-realistic). Another tip: In extremely windy areas, pick up your pawn to move more quickly through the wind while ensuring the pawn doesn't get up to shenanigans.

There are some niggles in this game too, and plenty of them. For example, pawns for whatever reason love to mill about IN FRONT OF YOU while you're navigating crags and ledges and need to perform running leaps. It's infuriating. On a related note, the D-pad commands are close to useless; "Go" sends them to wherever your camera's pointing for 10-15 seconds, and you must continually point to the desired area without moving the camera. If you move it, they'll rush to follow. "Come" is pretty decent if you want them to stop fighting and flee alongside you, though. "Help me!" might encourage them to prioritize healing spells or attack enemies near you, but it's hard to notice. Also, you definitely don't want pawns getting the Guardian inclination, since it's badly implemented.

These are minor aggravations, for the most part.

It's funny that pawns can learn bad habits from you, like picking up loot mid-battle. It's typically okay when they player does it, because you know you have a moment free to grab something, but pawns may do it at stupid times and you generally don't want to fuck up their inclination priorities. I therefore typically avoid picking up loot mid-battle even if there'd otherwise be no harm in it.

 

wow just installed ENB profile and holy smokes. DD which looks like DX9 game from 2006 with washed out look, looks now like DX11 2015 game at least. Some textures are bit crappy but hell Global Lighting makes everything looks way better than before.

And still runs butter smooth 60fps @ 1080p

 

Man BBI is a change of pace, loving it.

Place is pretty creepy, just got to the Warriors Respite or something, and it's depressing.

Anyone got a hint on how to get around on BBI? I got a bunch of Liftstones I can use, but then I would have to walk all the way back to where I left off? Or am I missing something?

 

You have to walk back but there are a few shortcuts to open up so it's not that bad.

 

Mine is mediocrepoet, also in the RPGCodex group.

With the Steam family profiles - do you have to add friends separately to that account re: pawn sharing? I've never tried to add a second account before but would love to have a separate save for this game.

 

I should think what you'd need to do is:

• create a second Steam account
• activate Family Sharing (Google the procedure)
• add second account to Family Sharing
• send friend request from main account to second account
• accept friend request

Now you have two separate accounts and can freely rent pawns between the two. Still, the main reason to do this is if, like me, you want to try a Sorcerer but are playing a Fighter/Warrior/Assassin (like me) with trash-tier Magick. If you just want Rift Crystals, join some GameFAQs or Steam "rent each others' pawns" group and add a ton of people.

Note, my pawn at the moment is moonlighting as Warrior to inject some offensive power into Strider/Archer. Two more ranks until I can grab Clout, and I believe I'm about to enter the final or near-final stage of the pre-Dragon game in which Gryphic Armor and such finally become available for general purchase.

The bow tiering is WAY off in this game. You get access to nothing but the most basic longbow with absolute shit-tier damage until after you're well into the mid-game, and only one slightly upgraded shortbow. I was so relieved when I got access to Veteran's Bow and Pleached Limbs. Fucking ridiculous.

 

You can get a pretty decent bow (but expensive) at Gran Soren with the forgery making guy
You can sell the monocle or some of the overpriced DLC stuff to buy the bow and that will get you nicely
Also if you are a fighter type and have a ranger pawn giving hi her the rusted blades with a couple of upgrades is very fun

 

They definitely paid way more attention to the melee weapons. It's trivially easy to find a sword, greatsword, hammer or set of daggers appropriate to your level, and there's some fairly obvious spots to find extra nice ones as well (like the sword in the stone.) Staves aren't terrible to keep up with either. Everything else though... urgh.

 

One of the very first escort quests near the beginning of the game (and a fairly easy one to complete, since Ser Berne can actually defend himself) rewards you with Gryphic Victory, which is essentially the strongest greatsword or hammer in the game until post-Dragon, or close to it.

Invictus I've only used a few of the DLC items (circlet, snake armguard, one of the chest pieces), primarily because they looked cooler than Official Level One Brown Rags, and will never sell them for a profit. That would be cheating, at least until BBI when you get a million gold every time you smash a pot. Of course, I'm not above running Watergod's Altar or killing 50 oxen, equipping 4x Suasion, and then selling all the aged meat or rings for 150,000+ gold, but then I worked for it.

You know, I think they missed an opportunity to add more variety. There are essentially only three distinct melee weapons in this game, but with reskins and alternate sound effects: broadsword/warhammer, greatsword/greathammer, and daggers.

Hatchets or handaxes would have been a great alternate reskin to daggers for a "ranger-like" feel.

 

Mods could do that easily enough I'd imagine.

 

I don't suppose there's any way to deconsolise the interface somewhat? basic options not hidden behind multiple menus, quicksave/quickload etc

 

Yeah Blaine I dont like cheating like that either but you have the option to get some money if you want to go that route

I thought warrior pawns were kind or retarded because they messed up most of their charge up moves but since switching my pawn she can really lay the smackdown with the non chargable ones like the 360 attack and a jumping stab. I was only originaly thinking of maxing her as warrior to get a couple of goodies and the switch her back to fighter but I might keep her a bit more, after getting a very nice ranger pawn with some actual good skills and inclinations along with my underpowered healer wizards my team is pretty much set

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFeH7OCIBrA

 

Always amusing to log back on and see/hope that someone has used your pawn. I'm only lvl 8 but it was used by two overnight, received a rotten fish and a rock

 

Great cannon actually does hurt golem crystals, although I wouldn't try it without super powerful BBI gear.

Great cannon seems like it does or doesn't break shit's DT at random, I'm always surprised by the thing it won't damage vs. the thing it will obliterate in 5 seconds.

 

I think it may have something to do with the active buff as well. Maybe.

I did kill it with GC in the end, but it took forever. And the weird thing was that the health bar reduced by practically nothing and then jumped down. My pawn was occasionally casting an enchantment on me and the sword I was using had an element as well.

 

lol at this sword. but i gotta admit it looks nice with enchantments:

 

Great Cannon is fucking great, love it.

I cheesed my way through the Gorecyclops at the start of BBI with it, just by standing right around the corner at the entrance and summoning the cannon and hitting homeruns with frost weapon. Took a while, but I basically solo'd him, cause my pawns were all fucking retarded.

 

If you haven't tried it yet, drop great cannons by a monster and then a ruinous sigil on top of them with the cannons and monster in it. Or drop great cannons inside miasma or fulmination.

 

Hah that's pretty cool!

Defeated Gazer, finally went back to Olga to purify some items and I just had 2 novelties? I am pretty sure I had a shitload more that I send to storage earlier... Pretty mad.

 

Oh boy, Oh boy. I found a mod that makes no restriction to what you can equip.

You know what that means ?

edit: joined posts

 

No restrictions at all? Can I put daggers in both slots, and give myself a combination of strider, assassin, and magick archer dagger skills then?

 

huh, I figured the reason mystic knights kept the shield on their back was some kind of animation issue with staff + shield, but I guess not