I'm currently engaged in my 6th playthrough of Dragon's Dogma (3rd on PC), and I just saw new pawn behavior: in Soulflayer Canyon, while fighting snow harpies on a narrow pathway over a gorge, one of the harpies picked up my character and flew off. I managed to shake the harpy off, and I think would have managed to land back on the pathway rather than falling into the bottomless pit to my death, but in any case one of my support pawns shouted "No, I won't let you fall", jumped up into the air, grabbed my character in mid-air, and landed us safely on the ledge together. Complete with one of those slow-motion combat cinematics, of the pawn jumping and grabbing my character.
I recently fell twice in that area recently with a solo Magic Archer I'm playing. It was funny because even though I fell down a very long way (from top of canyon to below it), I still landed in water and took no fall damage and the brine reset my character on land. Second time I fell I barely hit part of the ledge falling taking fall damage. Wasn't enough to kill me because I didn't fall as much, had about 50 hp left, but then fell further down into water and brine reset me. Couldn't believe it, almost reloaded as soon as I fell. Had no idea you took no fall damage as long as you landed in water.I'm currently engaged in my 6th playthrough of Dragon's Dogma (3rd on PC), and I just saw new pawn behavior: in Soulflayer Canyon, while fighting snow harpies on a narrow pathway over a gorge, one of the harpies picked up my character and flew off. I managed to shake the harpy off, and I think would have managed to land back on the pathway rather than falling into the bottomless pit to my death, but in any case one of my support pawns shouted "No, I won't let you fall", jumped up into the air, grabbed my character in mid-air, and landed us safely on the ledge together. Complete with one of those slow-motion combat cinematics, of the pawn jumping and grabbing my character.
I don't remember a single game that has impact damage from hitting water too hard. It's either instant death or a safe landing area for large jumps.
Just Cause 2 actually had that. Impact damage, which would kill you if you fell from high enough, which you would more often than not.
Maybe the plan is to bring them to you but it quickly gets overwritten because of the fight?
Challenger
Yes, one of the behaviors is all about bringing pawns back to the PC. Best for PCs that don't move around too much and tend stay back.
Here's the thing. While Inclinations affect a pawn's general behavior, the tactics they employ are something else entirely. For an example, Scather makes your pawn go into the offensive against weaker enemies. Challenger makes him strike the stronger enemies. How he goes about doing that, however, is something else entirely. Basically, if you give him tons of crappy Bow skills and the best Dagger skills, he'll use those. If all he sees is you fighting on melee and using daggers yourself, he'll do the same. And if the only enemy tactics he witnesses are climbing on monsters, he'll do that.
Challenger makes him strike ranged casters and stuff. Mitigator goes after all weak enemies first. Scather goes after the strongest enemies and will typically climb them and get into melee range. Utilitarian relates to tactics and spell synching between magic users. The problem is with pawns using tactics is, they don't do it if they have no knowledge of the monsters they are fighting. That's what the stars correlate to. Once they gain that knowledge and know their weaknesses, they are pretty reliable about using tactics against the mobs.
