Vapourware Dragon's Dogma II - modding general thread

[DJOGamer PT]

Oh
Here's some other gameplay mods from the author of Dullahan Overhaul:

• Weakspots for Archer fixed

Fixes a (I assume) bug that makes Archer deal about 3-5 times less damage to griffins, wights, and skeleton lords.

• Useful Potions

Debilitation curing potions make you immune to the debilitation they cure for 30 seconds (doesn't work for tarred, wet or caught fire obviously).

• Lenient stagger and exhaustion

This mod makes the stagger and exhaustion mechanics less punishing, decreasing the amount of time you spend without having control of your character.

• Durnehviir - Dynamic Enemy Encounters

Durnehviir overhauls the monster culling quests to bring in more interesting dynamic encounters, featuring bosses and packs of enemies with bosses that make for some pretty memorable combat encounters like we had in the first game.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

The guy behind the Graphics Suite mod is currently working on a project that modifies enemy AI to make it more agressive
Still no release date, but seems to be going well:

A small update I found out about this mod
The author is not just merely making the enemies more agressive (which apparentely in DD2 is best done by putting smaller pauses in the combos to "simulate" a shorter thinking time)
He is actually changing their entire movesets and behaviour properties - HP thresholds, proximity checks, priorities, cooldowns, spawn spell effects, tracking and the combat moves themselves

Basically he figured out how to make the SkillMaker but for enemies
The potential is huge

For now the author seems primarily interested on changing all Boss enemies before releasing the mod on Nexus
His intent is to make boss fights more fun to certain vocations (for example, the changes to the Minoutaur are done with a focus on Figther's abilities)
As such he is making some big departures from the vanilla enemy movesets
For example:
- in the video above, the Minotaur does a "desperation move" (as the author calls it) where he creates a circle of fire around the player and then proceeds to do the charge attack (which itself has new behaviours) ;
- the author also said the Cyclops (the first boss he completed) has a desperation move where he throws a meteor at the player ;
- the Wight has plenty of new spells as the author apparently really likes creating them, including an "ultimate" grab attack:

 

[HoboForEternity]

The guy behind the Graphics Suite mod is currently working on a project that modifies enemy AI to make it more agressive
Still no release date, but seems to be going well:

A small update I found out about this mod
The author is not just merely making the enemies more agressive (which apparentely in DD2 is best done by putting smaller pauses in the combos to "simulate" a shorter thinking time)
He is actually changing their entire movesets and properties - HP thresholds, proximity checks, priorities, cooldowns, spawn spell effects, tracking and the moves themselves

Basically he figured out how to make the SkillMaker but for enemies
The potential is huge

For now the author seems to plan on changing all Boss enemies before releasing the mod on Nexus
His intent is to make some vocation bosses fight more fun with certain vocation (for example the Minoutaur for Figthers)
As such he is making some big departures from the vanilla enemy movesets - for example in the video above, the Minotaur does a "desperation move" (as the author call it) where he creates a circle of fire around the player and then proceeds to do the charge attack (which itself has new behaviours) ; the author also said the Cyclops (the first boss he completed) has a desperation move where he throws a meteor at the player ; the Wight has plenty of new spells as the author apparently really like creating them, including an ultimate grab attack:

This game is really gonna be awesome in 5 years or so when DLC came out and mods like this become expanded.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

This game is really gonna be awesome in 5 years or so when DLC came out and mods like this become expanded.

The game is already awesome

The DLC should come out some months before MonHun Wilds - it's been Capcom standard pratice to launch DLC 1 year after a game's release at the latest, plus I guess that way they avoid product cannibalism

As for modding
Despite having no official support, the modding tools so far do seem quite capable of changing the gameplay
Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to create new levels and UI elements
But the real problem is that the modding community overall doesn't seem very dedicated
The only mod author pushing the limits of DD2 modding, is the modder behind the Graphics Suite and that Enemy AI project - EXXXcellent
And the ouput of mods decreased significantly in May
Which is specially curious and a waste considering this is by far the most moddable REngine game
Perhaps its due to the ''disappointment'' and bad reputation the game accrued...

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Speaking of EXXXcellent
If some of you prefer aspects of DD:DA movement and controls - like no infinite light attack chains, delay combos for Fighter and Thief, instant attack from sheathe, sprinting auto-sheathing, sprint jump landing roll, etc.

ReDogmafication

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Wild Loot
In DD2 the best equipment is found on shops
The purpose of the open world in the design of the economy and item progression is essentially to gather Gold, XP and Materials
If you prefer the style of hand placed item rewards out the in the world map, this mod does just that

Do keep in mind this means that you migth get rewards for a Vocation neither you or your Pawn are currently playing as
WARNING: at the time of writing, the mod doesn't work with the newest DD2 update - the author has however already acknowledged this and says he's working on a fix - I will remove this warning once the mod has been updated


Lucky Scavanger
For those that also prefer to find the best loot outside shops, but also like a touch of RNG to chest rewards
Also drops scale with your level and enemy levels


These 2 mods are compatible

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Enemy Spawner

Like the name says, allows the user to spawn any enemy or animal of their choosing
It even has options for Multispawn (no limit) and defining the Scale and Speed of spawned enemies
Also allows to disable Stray Pawns and set spawned enemies to only attack other enemies, npcs or game assets (the author is considering adding an option to have spawned enemies as "allies")

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Tasteful Weapon Redesigns

A collection of minimal edits on weapon models (shields as well).
For those that never liked the series love with paddle designs.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

2 cool mods this week


Updated Seamless Warfarer

Seamless Warfarer fixed to work on the July 2024 update.
Allows you to have 3 skills per weapon for the Warfarer job.

Weaponlord - Unique Weapons

From the creator of Dullahan Overhaul.
Distributes unique effects over 20 weapons.
None of the changes in this mod apply to pawns.

weapon changes by vocation

Fighter

• Silver Rapier: has a unique light attack chain that includes a thrust attack.

• Vermundian Brand: deals 15% more damage when used by humans.
• Steeled Virtue: deals 15% more damage if wearing marcher's armor (just the chest piece).
• Battahli Shotel: deals 15% more damage when used by Beastren.
• Carnation: light attacks are 15% faster if not wearing a shield.
• Threaded Cudgel: damage increases by 10% with each strike (up to +50% damage), not striking an enemy in 2 seconds resets this bonus.
• Dragon's Faith: makes you immune to catching on fire.

Archer

• Revenant Wail: increases damage of melee attacks (kicks) by 20%.
• Dragon's Rancor: light attacks and regular shots have no damage fall-off.

Thief

• Battahli Biters: deal 15% more damage when used by a Beastren.
• Crimson Teeth: increase the damage of the attack after dodging by 20%.
• Dragon's Vein: wearer no longer gets unbalanced when standing on monsters.

Warrior

• Flamberge: fully charged attacks imbue your weapon with fire.
• Wounded Heart: deals half damage on most attacks, but it has a 25% chance of striking a critical hit for 10x the damage, indicated by a sound.
• Black Matter: deals 20% higher damage on running and jumping attacks.

Mystic Spearhand

• Fool's price: it now deals blunt damage and won't bounce against hard enemies.
• Wings Asunder: deals 15% more damage while in the air.
• Soul of Antiquity: light attacks are 10% faster.
• Dead Ringer: heavy attacks are 20% faster.

Magick Archer

• Blackwing bow: doubles the damage of quickfire.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

2 cool mods this week


Updated Seamless Warfarer

Seamless Warfarer fixed to work on the July 2024 update.
Allows you to have 3 skills per weapon for the Warfarer job.

I used the "True Warfarer" mod in my second playthrough of Dragon's Dogma II, and it enabled three skills (other than rearmament) per vocation as a warfarer, though it was a bit tricky to get working.