Dragon's Dogma II - "They’re masterworks, all – you can’t go wrong"

[Jinn]

The thing that is getting tiresome for me is the monster density, there is too much fighting trash monsters and after a certain point it gets a little bit repetitive

Luckily my spells are starting to hit like a truck so I can just murder goblins etc with ease now

Just run past them. I do all the time. Just keep calling your pawns to you when you do it and you can get away from them fast enough.

 

[Black]

This basically echoes some earlier things but I thought the specifics were interesting.

There's some decent benchmarks buried in this article as well, as well as some specifics as to what might be causing it, and what fixes we might be seeing in the future.

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/dragons-dogma-2-performance-analysis/

Unrelated -- For those who are as annoyed with the save-game situation as I am, there's a good mod for it that lets you have infinite saves.

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/52

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/59

 

[Matador]

Been playing warrior, and I think they improved the class from DD1.

Very satisfying to land those big hits and combos with the timing skill. Gotta try the parries today

 

[Reinhardt]

so if no one else asking most important question i will. what about monks?

 

[Haplo]

And i'm sure there are nothing else to do after DD2 's endgame, next game plus can be just repeatitive after a while.

Why has every game today offer endless content? It wasn't like that in the past. You play a game, complete it and move to the next one.

Yeah, who cares about "endgame".
...but the main/final quest better have some clear and satisfying resolution

 

[HoboForEternity]

Chucking shit at shitheads is so fun they really missed an opportunity to make a throwing based class. Imagine flinging gobbos at 100 kph to a cyclops.

 

[Deadass]

so if no one else asking most important question i will. what about monks?

they are gone forever
Itsuno is a hack

 

[NotSweeper]

Listen, I'm all about worshipping black queens, but not like this.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Chucking shit at shitheads is so fun they really missed an opportunity to make a throwing based class. Imagine flinging gobbos at 100 kph to a cyclops.

DLC maybe?

 

[Black]

 

[Renfri]

I found griffin lair while messing about during night. I saw griffin sleeping there and managed to cast meteor for some nice instakill. I've seen griffin on the ground only once before and then I was too busy to fight it. After that I've seen it fly above me many times, but still never attacking, I even fought and killed dragon before first griffin kill. Felt abit strange.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

Seems like it's mainly the NPC AI in the towns/city.

A bunch of NPCs shuffling around and doing nothing can overwhelm an i9, meanwhile Oblivion, an 18yo game with more complex NPC schedules, ran and still runs flawlessly on a variety of hardware.

Todd wins again.



Glad someone did a benchmark to shit on the fanyboys though.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

RPGHQ is going to have their hands full with this game.

 

[Barbarian]

Where is the portcrystal at notrivendell I mean Arborheart? Cannot seem to find it.

Spoiler

There is none. From what I can tell, there is 2 port-crystals in the main game, Vernworth and Harve. And Battahl are hardcore Rift-haters, so there's none there whatsoever.

If there's no Ox-cart, you're shit out of luck, beyond finding your own port-crystals you drop, but they're incredibly rare (I know of 5, so far)

You get a placeable portcrystal from saving elf waifu, for some reason it took me a while to notice it in my inventory. You just drop it anywhere and get quick travel.

You can place it anywhere but I assume devs associated it with this quest in order for you to use it on arborheart. It is a hard to reach place not connected to roads after all.

 

[Barbarian]

ITT, performance is great on PS5. Got no slowdowns or anything.

Just got a fight with the undead flying wizard guy. Fighting large monsters is really where this game shines. I'm quite sure whoever designed this watched Willow as a kid, the very idea of climbing a monsters back and swording its head/neck to death comes from that movie in my head.

 

[Non-Edgy Gamer]

ITT, performance is great on PS5.

So either own a $500 console or own a $5000 PC.

Sony better have written CAPCOM one huge check.

 

[mediocrepoet]

I've used the fighter's shield throw to get a few Pawns into hard to get places. I even used one to throw my pawn over the top of a barricaded door, and she then smashed it open so the party could get in there. Pretty nifty. Though sometimes the pawns dick around and stare at the chest as if I had some other reason to loft them to that spot.

Yeah, in my case, my main pawn has it and usually if I stand in place and look where I want to go, he'll set it up. Sometimes takes a bit.

I should add to this - if he doesn't, it usually means there's some other "intended" way of getting to it and you should look around a bit.

 

[mediocrepoet]

so if no one else asking most important question i will. what about monks?

Well, archer has kicks and a flying kick move. It'd take you forever to kill anything worth fighting, but it's there.

 

[Fedora Master]

Is there no lock-on in the game? How do I aim muh spells?

 

[Shrimp]

I've used the fighter's shield throw to get a few Pawns into hard to get places. I even used one to throw my pawn over the top of a barricaded door, and she then smashed it open so the party could get in there. Pretty nifty. Though sometimes the pawns dick around and stare at the chest as if I had some other reason to loft them to that spot.

Yeah, in my case, my main pawn has it and usually if I stand in place and look where I want to go, he'll set it up. Sometimes takes a bit.

I should add to this - if he doesn't, it usually means there's some other "intended" way of getting to it and you should look around a bit.

That's my impression as well, except in some cases that intended solution presumably just is 'walk the entire way around instead of trying to enter this place through its exit'
A lot of the time when I see some chest or ladder located on a cliffside or ledge that should be reachable with the help from the fighter/warrior skill the pawns just sit around without helping, even when I try to instruct them with the various d-pad commands.
Some times I can just barely make it up there with a combination of thief skills but in a handful of cases it has also felt like I had no choice but to just come back from the other side.

I wouldn't be surprised if the places where the pawns do help you out just are hardcoded or something like that

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Is there no lock-on in the game? How do I aim muh spells?

You have a lock-on for some spells, like Levin and Frigor

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

Just killed my first drake at level 32. First fight were I had to go back to a stone and select pawns with a specific set of skills and reasonable defence stats. Great fight, except for the meteor spam, but that was just a dps check, so 'twas fair cop, guv.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Didn’t see this when it was posted. Official art from Daigo Ikeno for the release of the game.

 

[Tyrr]

 

[Black]

The new game option... folded thousands of times, never before seen technology... Japs are truly masters of their craft...