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

[Yosharian]

Well when you think 60 FPS is good, of course 58 wouldn't bother you

30 FPS isn't even action gaming at that point, you're just engaging in a point and click adventure

This is your brain on 120 FPS memes. I've been playing Bloodborne and it's amazing how shitty 30 FPS looks at first when you are used to 60, it's equally amazing how after a couple hours the brain adjusts and it's perfectly playable. 60FPS is more than enough.

Yes perfectly fluid motion with GSync is just a 'meme', good one.

 

[Spike]

Well when you think 60 FPS is good, of course 58 wouldn't bother you

30 FPS isn't even action gaming at that point, you're just engaging in a point and click adventure

This is your brain on 120 FPS memes. I've been playing Bloodborne and it's amazing how shitty 30 FPS looks at first when you are used to 60, it's equally amazing how after a couple hours the brain adjusts and it's perfectly playable. 60FPS is more than enough.

Yes perfectly fluid motion with GSync is just a 'meme', good one.

Keep justifying that monstrous purchase to yourself.

 

[Perkel]

https://www.enqform.capcom.com/form/pub/form1/dd2_en2

Capcom has made a feedback survey that you can fill out. No guarantee they'll read anything, but you can at least use it to submit any complaints or requests you might have through an official platform.

lol at random screenshot at the end as a reward

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

 

[Yosharian]

Well when you think 60 FPS is good, of course 58 wouldn't bother you

30 FPS isn't even action gaming at that point, you're just engaging in a point and click adventure

This is your brain on 120 FPS memes. I've been playing Bloodborne and it's amazing how shitty 30 FPS looks at first when you are used to 60, it's equally amazing how after a couple hours the brain adjusts and it's perfectly playable. 60FPS is more than enough.

Yes perfectly fluid motion with GSync is just a 'meme', good one.

Keep justifying that monstrous purchase to yourself.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Yes perfectly fluid motion with GSync is just a 'meme', good one.

Yup. FPS isn't the problem, colour bleed combined with white-to-black time is the problem (I'm sure there are industry terms for this). This is purely a monitor hardware thing. ONE DAY I'LL GET MY WIDESCREEN CRT AND I'LL SHOW ALL OF YOU, YOU'LL SEE!

 

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

I am monster hunter nut and MH GS has nothing on Warrior "feel".

I have a theory that DD2 was a test bed for Wilds on at least a technical level, so I hope some of the design choices are ported over too.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

That's actually a good bait
He starts by being "earnest" and "honest", then gradually moves on from being disingenuous and to outright bullshit
I like how he even incorporates the old "teach pawns cool tricks" - for reference this was a common meme myth found in DD threads on /v/ even before the DDDA pc port release - funny seeing newfags still falling for it
7/10

 

[Sentinel]

That's actually a pretty good bait
He starts by being "earnest" and "honest", then gradually moves on from being disingenuous and to outright bullshit
I like how he even incorporates the old "teach pawns cool tricks" - for reference this was a common meme myth found in DD threads on /v/ even before the DDDA pc port release - funny seeing newfags still falling for it
8/10

Pawns do learn from your behaviour in the first game. It's more noticeable if you run the same class as the pawn, they'll start to imitate your ability usage and what you attack. You can teach them to use spring board for example, or to break crates or open chests for you (pretty useful in BBI to avoid traps - also hilarious to watch a worm eat them).

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Yeah, they learn how to beat enemies by seeing it done by someone else and their behavior also depends a lot upon their inclinations and equipped skills/augments.
2 also has this

But you can’t “teach pawns cool tricks” in the original, that was a bullshit a myth with no evidence

 

[Fedora Master]

I really don't understand the map design.
Why are there THREE camp sites within sight of each other at times?

 

[Cyberarmy]

I really don't understand the map design.
Why are there THREE camp sites within sight of each other at times?

Bermuda Triangle.

 

[deuxhero]

https://www.enqform.capcom.com/form/pub/form1/dd2_en2

Capcom has made a feedback survey that you can fill out. No guarantee they'll read anything, but you can at least use it to submit any complaints or requests you might have through an official platform.

Not enough space to fully express my disgust, but I think I got the big ones in the other field.

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Archer falls off a bit later on I've heard so that might be a good option.

Can confirm. I've been maining archer from the very start and I feel like the most useless member of my whole party. Kind of depressing to be honest. Her most powerful skill, heavenly shot, doesn't do all that much damage considering the wind-up time and fact that it drains your entire stamina bar. I'm kind of shocked at how useless she is. If I rolled with a two-person party I'd probably be fucked.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

The good news is modders are already at work creating a proper hard difficulty

They can now change the properties of weapon skills as well

The oversized lantern at your belt is 5k poly.

Smaller Lantern

 

[Shrimp]

Saw an interesting comment regarding the game's difficulty (or rather lack of thereof)
Since the pawns wandering in the open world scale to your level but the type of monsters don't (ie first area will only have the weakest goblins and the regular cyclops/ogre/minotaur) once you enter NG+ and start going through the game again the wandering pawns will be strong enough to take on many of the random minibosses by their own. Allegedly you'll some times see NPCs fighting a cyclops or ogre only for it to be half dead once you make your way over to it.

 

[Fedora Master]

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Saw an interesting comment regarding the game's difficulty (or rather lack of thereof)
Since the pawns wandering in the open world scale to your level but the type of monsters don't (ie first area will only have the weakest goblins and the regular cyclops/ogre/minotaur) once you enter NG+ and start going through the game again the wandering pawns will be strong enough to take on many of the random minibosses by their own. Allegedly you'll some times see NPCs fighting a cyclops or ogre only for it to be half dead once you make your way over to it.

Enemies don't become stronger in ng+? That's a dumb oversight if true.

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Beastren (in the story) are definitely an allegory for oppressed black people, which is hilarious because it usually comes off as insulting even though that probably wasn't Capcom's intention.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Saw an interesting comment regarding the game's difficulty (or rather lack of thereof)
Since the pawns wandering in the open world scale to your level but the type of monsters don't (ie first area will only have the weakest goblins and the regular cyclops/ogre/minotaur) once you enter NG+ and start going through the game again the wandering pawns will be strong enough to take on many of the random minibosses by their own. Allegedly you'll some times see NPCs fighting a cyclops or ogre only for it to be half dead once you make your way over to it.

Enemies don't become stronger in ng+? That's a dumb oversight if true.

Same as the last game bruv, and this ain't dark souls for ng+ to really have any worthwhile impact.

 

[Yosharian]

Pawns definitely learn from your behaviours but I'm not sure about teaching them 'cool tricks' as such, I've just seen stuff like Mages mounting enemies which is obviously behaviour copied from their masters

 

[Yosharian]

I cannot believe that enemies don't scale up at all in NG+, is that true?

 

[Turisas]

I cannot believe that enemies don't scale up at all in NG+, is that true?

Gotta wait for the dlcs

NG+ Difficulty increase A
NG+ Difficulty increase B
NG+ Difficulty increase C
NG+ Difficulty increase D
NG+ Difficulty increase E

Remember to buy all five as a bundle deal for best savings and intended gaming experience!

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Same as the last game bruv, and this ain't dark souls for ng+ to really have any worthwhile impact.

Ohwell. Just gives me more incentive to delete my save and play as a warrior.

 

[Shrimp]

Pawns definitely learn from your behaviours but I'm not sure about teaching them 'cool tricks' as such, I've just seen stuff like Mages mounting enemies which is obviously behaviour copied from their masters

I think the 'cool tricks' from the original post(s) that DJOGamer PT is referring to was just shit like pawns toggling their lanterns on/off and learning to take advantage of elemental weaknesses in enemies. There was a decent amount of stuff going on behind the scenes but a lot of the common misunderstandings just come from people not really knowing anything about the pawns' inclinations (which were based on the player's actions) and pawns gradually learning more about enemies as you filled out the bestiary.

 

[Shrimp]

Speaking of the bestiary I really wonder if there's more to it in DD2 than just the pawn badges you get for killing large amounts of minibosses.
When I first started playing the game I felt like combat encounters lacked a lot of the 'TIS WEAK TO FIRE type chatter but as my playtime increased they at least did start commenting on elemental weaknesses. However they still don't offer any advice on how to actually fight the monsters like severing saurians' tails or removing the armour from cyclopes. Since there's no bestiary like in the first game it makes me wonder if the game still keeps track of these things in order to update the pool of voice lines the pawns can pull from during battle. There's a separate interface that shows how many times you've killed various enemies including the ones that don't award pawn badges, so that's definitely at least one metric they're tracking.