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Capcom Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Dedicated_Dark

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Spent 45 mins fighting the tentacles :negative: used up all my healing items and a resurrect stone.

Feel like a massive idiot.

lol. I guess your pawns constantly shouting, "we cannot beat this thing now" or something along those wasn't clear enough.
 

polo

Magister
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You have no pawns? They kept telling me "Flee, there is no use in fighting", "We must leave now", "Run you fucking moron".

Also, the lack of save slots is annoying as fuck in a game that kind of WANTS you to experiment.
Oh, and jail is stupid.
 

Saark

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A Beautifully Desolate Campaign
Just managed to kill off Grigori on Hard, level 47 after receiving the kill XP. Took me about 20 tries, most of which ended with me being oneshot by either a tail swipe or his area of effect homing missile bullshit. I would really prefer not dying in one hit in a fight that long, my first try went fairly well and after like 15 minutes getting oneshot and having to start the whole fight over seems a bit much. Thankfully my main pawn eventually figured out how to cast maelstrom and aimed it at the heart, first time she did that took away 4-5 of the 9 healthbars. Assassin seemed fairly weak for that fight since he is neither tanky enough to survive any of the attacks, nor does he have good enough ranged damage. Climbing seemed like a good idea at first but again getting fucked when he tries to swipe you off made this almost impossible. In the end I just stood at maxrange, dodge-rolled every tailswipe and supported my pawns with a rusted bow to poison the motherfucker. The fight would probably have been fairly easy if I had leveled a little more or actually prepared for the fight though, so it's not too bad. Going in blind may become an issue though, especially since having just one save file means that if you're stuck, you're stuck.

Story-wise I feel like the whole stereotypical "stole your beloved" could've been explained a little better, unless it really is supposed to be that cheesy. Still better than Bioware.

Anywho, Everfall/BBI here I come. Also, I don't know if I just spent too much of it, but I am constantly strapped for gold on hard. Having a shitload of 100 gold drops from every single enemy doesn't really help much in that regard. I obviously skipped killing goblins/bandits after a certain point though, maybe thats the issue?
 
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Mozg

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If you whack Greg's weak spot from the lowest possible point on his chest where you can still hit he'll miss you when he tries the "grab this dude of my chest" attack, at least if the PC is pretty tall.
 

Saark

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A Beautifully Desolate Campaign
I tried to find a safespot for hitting the heart but at one point or another I have to reposition myself, am slightly off and get hit by his "dude piss off" swipe. Since it onehit me I decided to not screw with melee at all which turned out to be the safer strategy in the end. It certainly is doable but since my damage was somewhat lackluster it took forever to get him even close to dying. My best attempt ended at like 20% and that one took me about 10minutes, after I lost all that progress I just switched over to ranged attacks and killed him the following try.
 

Zed Duke of Banville

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Cool thing that happened in my Gazer fight:
You discovered one of the two trick ways of defeating the "Gazer" as well as the direct method.

What does NG+ do? I only got to the second boss in BBI.
NG+ starts the game over from the beginning, but you get to keep your character and pawn, with their levels, vocation ranks, skills & augments, equipment, gold, and so on. In other words, you can easily make your way back to BBI, but you'll have to redo the sections you already completed.

Anywho, Everfall/BBI here I come. Also, I don't know if I just spent too much of it, but I am constantly strapped for gold on hard. Having a shitload of 100 gold drops from every single enemy doesn't really help much in that regard. I obviously skipped killing goblins/bandits after a certain point though, maybe thats the issue?
There's enough expensive equipment that it's easy to spend your gold reserves on weapons and armor that aren't much better than what you already have. On the other hand, if you act like a miser and only purchase equipment when it provides a substantial boost, then you should be able to quickly accumulate a substantial reserve of gold even playing on easy mode.
 

Gentle Player

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Some absolute hero hired my pawn from the rift, did absolutely bugger all with him (zero rift crystals earned and no new bestiary knowledge) and left no comment but gave him five star ratings and a gift of Cursed Bitterblack Weapon Lv.3! Maybe it was a fellow literature lover? I've no imagination when it comes to names so tend to draw from various novels, in this case Tietjens and Macmaster from Some Do Not...
 

Dreaad

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Deep in your subconscious mind spreading lies.
Spent 45 mins fighting the tentacles :negative: used up all my healing items and a resurrect stone.

Feel like a massive idiot.

lol. I guess your pawns constantly shouting, "we cannot beat this thing now" or something along those wasn't clear enough.
Well considering 90% of the pawns comments are "There is a split in the road, make sure to check your map." and they feel the need to comment every 5 seconds. I turned that shit off and removed the subtitles. Who knew that 10% of the shit they say is the ONLY information available on how to deal with a monster. Fucking retarded design is retarded.
 

80Maxwell08

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Spent 45 mins fighting the tentacles :negative: used up all my healing items and a resurrect stone.

Feel like a massive idiot.

lol. I guess your pawns constantly shouting, "we cannot beat this thing now" or something along those wasn't clear enough.
Well considering 90% of the pawns comments are "There is a split in the road, make sure to check your map." and they feel the need to comment every 5 seconds. I turned that shit off and removed the subtitles. Who knew that 10% of the shit they say is the ONLY information available on how to deal with a monster. Fucking retarded design is retarded.
Yeah the pawns are a double edged sword when it comes to that sort of thing. There really should have been something stopping them from repeating the same crap a thousand times so the useless advice only goes off once or twice.
 

Zombra

An iron rock in the river of blood and evil
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Gotta listen to those pawns man.

I like that they keep repeating stuff in case I missed it, but this game could definitely benefit from a frequency slider à la Desperados.
 

Ivan

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a bit late but when I restarted on Normal I noticed I wasn't able to rate Pawns anymore like I had been able to on Hard. Is that exclusive to Hard? Or would it have to do with my being online/offline?
 

Moink

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a bit late but when I restarted on Normal I noticed I wasn't able to rate Pawns anymore like I had been able to on Hard. Is that exclusive to Hard? Or would it have to do with my being online/offline?

The pawns offline are randomly generated by the game, so you can't rate them for obvious reasons.
 

Mr. Pink

Travelling Gourmand, Crab Specialist
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PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Is there any way to raise the fov more and disable screenshake? The motion sickness is making this game unplayable for me.
:negative:
 

Gentle Player

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Most of the bloody Pawns are daft as a brush. I was standing in front of one of those Bitterblack chained Cylopes, who are weak to Ice, with my ice-enchanted mace ready to cast Great Cannon and slaughter it, and what does the rented Mage Pawn do, without any D-pad input from me? Enchants my Mace with damn Fire! Utilitarian/Medicant my arse, more like Useless/Muppet.

Also, I swear to God, another rented Pawn killed herself on purpose. I was in Black Abbey, a few feet away from a chest near the edge of a cliff overhang, and without any input from me whatsover - no D-pad command, no combat going on as all enemies had been killed long ago, and neither my other Pawns nor my Arisen moving about near to her and brushing against her, forcing her to move out of the way (I'd in fact just loaded a save, so we were all stationary up til then) - she just decided to jump off the fucking cliff to her death, for no reason whatsoever. I would have left the idiot to rot in the Rift with the default 3-star ratings and no gift, but I was Godsbaning for a specific item in that chest so loaded up the save and restored her. I'm not sure whether she was killing her self out of shame for being so useless (this was a Ranger pawn and, again versus one of those elite Cyclopes, instead of following me to the top of a safe nearby tower and blasting it with ranged attacks - she had an Ice enchanted Longbow for Christ's sake! - she thought it wise to start climbing on it whilst it was rampaging about, getting promptly thrown off and squished to death...), or whether the suicide was simply part of some arcane ritual to bless me with luck, as after reloading not only did I get the right Cursed item I was after in that chest, it also Purified to exactly the item I wanted - but there we have it. Fun times.
 

Inspectah

Savant
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So, what's up with this eternal ferrystone?
Just found it in my stash, was it a reward for some quest or is it a dlc cheat item?
 

Martius

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Its kinda dlc cheat item. In console version it was bonus for owners of base game, in pc version you can get it after finishing quest leading to Gran Soren. Its unlimited fast travel item but I would not call it personally cheat. Fast travel points are pretty spare, you can set up your own but you need another rare item for that.
 

Inspectah

Savant
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Oh that's cool then.
Still, I would still feel bad using it, guess I will stick with the lil'normal ferrystones. Not like I fast travel a lot yet anyway
 

Gentle Player

Arcane
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If anything, those free outfits are overpowered "cheat" items. Specifically Duke and Duchess outfit. Very good defense stats for time they are available, particularly when upgraded.
 

Zombra

An iron rock in the river of blood and evil
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Make the Codex Great Again! RPG Wokedex Strap Yourselves In Codex Year of the Donut Codex+ Now Streaming! Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 BattleTech Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
In console version it was bonus for owners of base game, in pc version you can get it after finishing quest leading to Gran Soren.
Ohhhhhh. When I read where the wiki says for owners of the base game, I thought that meant people who transferred their shit over from PS3. So where do I get the damn thing? I've been in Gran Soren for hours and all I see are the (admittedly very inexpensive) one-use ones at the Black Cat.
 

Martius

Liturgist
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Yeah, just go to tavern where you can also change vocations.
 

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