Dragon's Dogma

Thanks mate.

Am I supposed to mod jap voices in?
Because in english she sounds like retard 10yo boy.

They mostly just want to shipost about loli pawns and compare fashion.

I know

Today iDragon Dogma Online enters season 2. Grab a free VPN, set it to japan and play on server 13 room 1.

What? The japaneae voices come as free dkc, you dont have to mod anything

Wait until you know what they're saying, because a few of it is not bullshit and might save your ass.

Arent there subs tho?.

Never had them, can't confirm.

I watched videos on it. It's basically PSO2: Fantasy Edition. And I played PSO2 to death.
So I'll stick to the original here.

I dunno, I just maxed out graphics, edited controls and stormed in. I didn't check DLC anything.

Well in a fight there is no fucking time to read some text in the corner of the screen, so I'm leaving eng voices for now. But gotta say voice acting is pretty bad in there.

You'll get used to them.

Can you prove we're not?

Have you ever seen Holla Forums in the same place at the same time?

Speaking of graphics, it would appear that setting fps to anything higher than 30 will break cloth and hair physics, basically disabling them.
Good job, crapcom.

We are. Dialogue with oneself is natural for human, so Holla Forums operates exactly like one's schizophrenic psyche would.

The combat is not MMO like, it's Dragon's Dogma with more climbing… and a fuckload of grinding. Don't base your judgement off youtubers.

Now if only the PC version had those graphical options.

Suck it mustards

So PSO2.
Well except in PSO2 you "climb" by dive kicking and dragon punchging huge ass monsters, not by literally climbing them.
PSO2 is exactly that - stylish action game with a lot of verticality and big attention to weapns' and enemies' movesets, breakable parts and elemental weaknesses. I just have over 2k hours in it, and want something less intense.

Well original DD is pretty intense, but at least you're not expected to fly all around the place at sanic speeds.

Haha

what if Holla Forums has actually been Holla Forums this whole time?!

that dastardly Holla Forums!

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say am I going stupid or did they remove how mercedes took honour for you chopping off the hydras head? could have sworn that was more obvious when I played this on the ps3 version some time ago.

did 8-4 fuck with the game again?

the town cryer makes a big deal out of it

Ok autismo.

I got the game a few days ago and just refunded it.

Honestly there is just something about the game that feels bad. It felt too easy and anytime I slowed down it wasn't because it got harder but because something tedious appeared. Also the interface is terrible. Specifically the menus.

this game is garbage

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You're going to hit a nadir for the next couple of hours but after that it's on the up and up.

did you play on hard mode?

That's the different thing, can't you fucking read? God damn.

Well it's overhyped there as shit, and a whole lot about it is either presented or told by other people that isn't fucking true.
It's not an open world game, and it's not really a full fledged RPG.

The better way to describe it is "a japanese take on Diablo 2". You have a bunch of huge areas, that allow you so much freedom and optional dungeons, but you gotta proceed them in order.
All you do is kill shit, get loot, upgrade yourself and follow linear plot.
Combat is simplistic at first and to get to the variety of attacks and interesting parts you need to level a whole bunch of times, but it takes a while.

So yeah for all intents and purposes it's diablo 2 with beat em up combat, and japanese quircks here and there, it's a cool little game, but it aint no the best motherfucking RPG ever some people claim it to be.
And being PS3 game means it looks like shit, even all cranked up.

Yeah, biggest problem with it is unrealistically high expectations its fanbase likes to set up. It has waifus and all that crap, but if you ain't into it like me it's hard to stomach initial slog this game is. But from mechanics alone it's clear that it will pick up the pace.

I guess he was triggered by shitty escort missions in the beginning, both of them happen at night. Well they happened at night for,
And menus are absolute dogshit, you can't fucking argue with that.

There's a lot of issues I have with this game. Mostly along the line of making choices and shit.
I want to actually be able to respond to some crap now and again. Like crazy dutchess's advances. Lady, I just thought you had a job for me, like literally everyone else in this godforsaken country. Now I am getting whipped because I stopped your loony husband [which, incidentally, went from a large spikey shockmace swinging at his back to a light touch on the shoulder: Not so happy about that, either], and I can't so much as defend myself? I could rip apart all these guards like they were nothing, too.

Same issue with best waifu. I just want to comfort her, tell her she's doing a fine job, and that she shouldn't give up so easily.
I also wish I could toss her sword her way at the end bit. A knight being chased around by goblins is rather unbecoming.

Incidentally, the way I saw it, Arisens were mostly about seeing tomorrow, if you will. Advancing, going over the hill, what ever you want to call it.
Ending was rather shitty thanks to that, you ask me. You are told "oh yeh help me continue the cycle you worked so hard to see the end of".

Gameplay's okay. I didn't really have that much fun, honestly. Too grindy in some areas, easy in others, and flat out trivial in others.
It was an okay game. Not really that great.

That actually might have been the problem for me. I was expecting to be playing the greatest game made in the last ten years. It was absolutely not that good.

The pawn system was also extremely strange. It almost seemed like a great idea. Or maybe it's a good idea but it's executed very strangely.

Just everything about the game was like, like when you mail a box and it shows up at the destination squashed like someone sat something too heavy on it. It's more or less the same thing, just skewed.

The menus were atrocious the more I think about it. When I am going to be picking up that many items, don't make inventory management MORE of a pain in the ass. But again, I suspect this was a console limitation and the design for a mouse was never thought about.

Also it didn't help the controls were fucking weird. It clearly is a port since the use of a mouse was spotty. Sometimes it lets you use it to select things, other times it doesn't. Also having the confirm/go back buttons be different from the "select" and "unselect" buttons was a problem I thought got solved two generations ago.

I think there are a lot of great ideas in the game that should be an inspiration for designers, but as a whole the game just felt really weak. I am not sure what exactly people here are talking about when they call it a masterpiece.

It's a janky ass game with absolutely loads of weird technology quirks.

The pawn system is weird but sometimes things just come together. Having a pawn catch you as you fall from a dragon you just climbed and slew in mid air makes you want to shout about it. People want to post about those things but any time anyone brought up the mediocre or bad parts they kind of got overshadowed.

This makes me feel bad, because I like the game despite its flaws and never once called it a masterpiece. Maybe you're partially at fault for buying into the idea that any game could ever be revered as a true masterpiece. Think about games that are considered the best of the best (shit like Ocarina of Time, Final Fantasy VII, Dark Souls, etc) and then actually go play those games, and most of the time you'll find that even though they might range from okay to even great titles, they typically are not without flaws whatsoever, and it can be quite easy to pick these games apart and ultimately find ways in which they could be improved. The type of people who claim "X is the best game ever" are likely the type of people whose repertoire of general gaming experience is quite limited from the outset.

Anyway, for people who are interested in this game, I say you pirate it and check it out before you make a purchase. It's strange that the Steam version doesn't offer a demo when the console version's demo is still available today. It features some great combat and a variety of monsters to fight. This is the game's main selling point. If you want to fight dragons, ogres, cyclops, golems, chimeras, griffins, hydras, wights, skeletons, bandits, goblins, and various other monstrosities in a pseudo MMO fantasy setting, then this game is for you.

No game is perfect and this game is no exception. The story's not that great, but not terrible, and you won't really be able to make deep and impacting decisions that alter the course of your personal playthrough. It has RPG elements like leveling up, vocations, stats, weapon and item management, crafting, and a basic party system, but it's more like an action game than an RPG. You're going to spend the majority of your time killing monsters and exploring dungeons. This can be fun, but you shouldn't expect anything else. That's it. There are quests you can accomplish, some of which offer basic choices that allow you to make basic decisions, but major quests will all be entirely the same for everyone. The pawns can be brain dead, especially those generated by the game, so if you want a competent party, you need to train your own pawn yourself and then acquire pawns that have been trained well by other players. The game does not explain the steps that you must take if you want to train your pawn in practical terms, so you must search the internet for this information yourself. You cannot give pawns direct commands, and instead your input is boiled down to a few simplistic commands like "GO!" "Come!" and "I need help!".

I could go on and on about the game's various flaws and talk about what could be done to improve them, but fuck that. I just wanted to point out that even though the game might be hailed as "the greatest shit ever", and that you might not personally like it, it's still a decent game worth playing for some people.

What about Mercedes and the Dragon Dong?

There's a couple Dungeons that you explore as part of the storyline and they are genuinely great level design. 5 or 6 dungeons that you pass through are genuinely better than pretty much every other action RPG out there. On top of that, you actually do need to manage your lantern and lighting matters in a big way, which only adds to the experience.

But then there's The Everfall which opens up ever more stuff to do..

And then you go to Bitterblack Isle and the Dungeon Crawling is infinitely better. Just some truly awesome shit. I can't believe no other game has made me feel like I was experiencing the kind of shit that D&D and other tabletop RPGs have been trying to promise me for decades.

mods:
-look up dense seism, comes with a pack that reworks a bunch of sorcerer/mage skills for the better
-There are some ok armor remodels, but they don't change the armors drastically so I wouldn't bother unless you really want to
-Original title song (dangan) mod is pretty good, not sure what it was named though

-There's a compilation mod with infinite run stamina and no item burden and some other useful tweaks like clothing highlighting augment changes and similar. It comes with a '4k' nude mod but when I went into the textures I was really puzzled to find the texture bitmap was reworked well for a nudity mod but the texture itself was just laughably bad. like a guy cut a a v0g00 off some low quality 3d porn in mspaint and just taped it onto the belly button, so not really sure if I'd recommend that unless you're willing to merge the game.arc for the compilation mod with the vanilla textures or one of the other nude textures

I would also highly recommend this mod:
nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma/mods/260/?

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Those sound like fucking cheat codes.
What the hell bro?

I downloaded this and quit at the first lion boss thing after a few sword swings. Shit shallow combat, I've seen too much of that. Sick of it.

Those are just cheats, why would you recommend anyone use those?

Top kek.

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This is why you take everything Holla Forums says with a grain of salt

It's no masterpiece, but it's easily my favorite ARPG

So how big the world is compared to say… Skyrim?
Are there plenty of decent quests or is it just "fetch this item kill 10 of these" shit for the most part?
How many hours of enjoyment should i be getting if i'm slightly autistic?

Just about to buy it and try sometime next week.

Skyrim is a huge flat map, while DD has something more like interconnected levels. Think Diablo 2 or Torchlight 2.
You can't just run from one border to another.

I replayed this game and went into new game + just yesterday and after seeing a fighter pawn I hired slashing and using his shield like a second sword really inspired me.

then after killing myself and remaking my old wizard dude into an aryan amazon I choose fighter and wondered how that stat growth was going to fuck me over, I was a sorcerer until level 61 so I imagine I already screwed myself over pretty badly.

the only thing I actually know about this whole stat growth shit is that mystic knight apparently has the worst of it.

It's rather small for an open world game, but travel can be tedious when you consider the amount of enemies that are placed in groups around the overworld. You'll always be on foot, there is an item and equip burden that slows your movement speed, and you have a limited pool of stamina that slowly regenerates, so even though the world is small it may take some time to get from place to place. I'd say it's around the size of Twilight Princes or maybe a tad larger.
There are three types of quest. You have the major quests, the side quests, and the notice board quests.
Major quests: Story related and mandatory if you want to complete the game. Most of the time you'll have to report to an NPC and then engage enemies in a specific scenario. For instance, one of the early main quests has you report to a commanding officer on the outskirts of a goblin occupied fortress who asks you to infiltrate via a hole in the ground and open the barricaded door from the other side. When you get the doors open, the goblins attack using various means, and the quest ends when you thwart the onslaught and occupy the fortress in the name of the Duke.
Side quests: Your typical optional quest. You don't have to complete these to progress. They offer small scenarios that see you given specific but negligible rewards. As an example, one of the early side quests involves making the trek to a thick and fog covered forest called the Witchwood to find a specific NPC who has reportedly gone missing. Nothing major happens if you fail to do this quest, but you will be locked out of another optional quest later on if you skip it. Another quest has you search for a special tome for a wizard, while another sets you on a journey to either convince a landlord to allow his tenants to stay or evict them in his name.
Notice Board Quests: Your typical MMO quest that you've just described. They typically involve going to an area and killing a select number of enemies, or collecting a specific number of items. Sometimes there are escort quests that ask you to deliver a special VIP NPC to some part of the map. While on these quests, you are charged with keeping your escort out of harm's way.
I'm going to say a solid 20 to 30 hours if you just play the main quest. The DLC will add another 20 on top of that, and if you want to max out all vocations and reach the level cap, you'll get another 20 to 30 hours out of it. I'd say 80 to 100 in order to see everything. You may spend more time if you want to properly train your pawn and play through the game more than once.

its smaller than skyrim but it is a far better constructed world than skyrim.

there is a lot of kill 10 x quests but i just take them and never think about them until I just so happen to see the creatures they want me to kill. there is a whole lot of actually interesting quests though like sneaking into the queens bedroom or helping a jew escape the police.

Since this is a Dragons Dogma thread, I want to ask a question related to it:

Is it possible to kill the Ur-Dragon as Warrior? Do I have to hit every weak point on it? Like all good Warriors do when met with impossible challenges, I tried to power through and just wail on him in the hopes that it would be enough to kill it, but it didn't seem to work. I managed to hit every weak-point on the dragon except his wings and since climbing was all kinds of fucked when I tried to get to his wings, I never got around to slaying it. Had to drink so much salubrious brew just to have enough stamina to keep climbing.

Why are you lying? It was never an issue. It is like a shitty gimmick at this point.

Yeah but you're gonna have a hell of a time. First, make sure your stats are geared towards using the warrior class. You want high strength, HP, stamina, and physical defense. Next, you want to make sure you're at a reasonably high level, I'd say at least 150, if not higher. Then, you're gonna want to collect or craft a shit ton of conqueror's periapts and salubrious brew so you can increase your strength and keep your HP up. Try attacking the harder to access points on the body first if you're by yourself, or focus on the ones you can reach while having your pawns attack the distant ones. You can do it, but it takes some work. Additionally, you can increase the chances of success by making sure you're using Dragonforged, high level equipment, and liquid vim doesn't hurt either.

Alright, thanks for the tips. If I use your method, will the dragon get to run away, or will I have to whittle him down in one sitting? This was my first playthrough going blind, so I slapped on every strength aug I could and used my Dragon sword. I found that spamming jumping strong attacks worked really well and I had hit every weak point except the wings in 2 fights.

Only if you're a faggot with your gamma adjusted.

It's fucking dark at night in DD.

I don't mean that. I mean there is no real danger to it. It is very slow in decreasing and it is very easy to have enough oil to not care anyway. It is pointless as a game mechanic.

The dragon always flies away when he reaches a set amount of damage or when the timer runs out. While online, you'll do significantly less damage because he has a shit ton more health. It's like a pseudo raid boss because everyone else who is online is fighting the beast and contributing to his defeat. If you're playing offline, the game keeps track of the amount of damage you dealt, and next time he shows up you'll pick up from there. I'm not sure whether or not it's possible to beat him in one sitting, I'm sure people have tried and maybe you can search the web for better strategies that could help you do that.

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read fuckhead.

Alright, good, I thought I always somehow fucked up if the dragon got away. How long does it take until I get to retry the fight as soon as possible?

If he flies away, just go back to the pawn guild and rest, then go back to the chamber and he should come back.

I've wondering this for a while now:

How well optimized is Witcher 3? Because Witcher 2 had all those futuristic specs that didn't worked in any gear of it's time.

I came up with another question regarding the fight. If the dragon decides to go out of my reach on top of the tower to breather fireballs at me, is there anything that I can do to make it stop? It always takes so fucking long and I've searched the arena for anything resembling ballistas or catapults.

If you're expecting to run it on high on 60 fps on 780 or something, you won't.
But yeah it's pretty well optimized.

Well shit.

So I suppose my computer, who couldn't run Witcher 2 in medium at stable 30fps in some areas, will never be able to run it, right?

The amount of time he stays up there depends on how many people you have in your party. He will shoot four fireballs per person (e.g. if you have a full party of three pawns and yourself, he will shoot 16 fireballs), and then he'll come back down. If you're by yourself, and you have no projectile attacks, all you can do is run around the area and avoid his attacks until he's finished. If you've got pawns, make sure they can deal enough damage to one of his exposed weak points so that it will interrupt this attack pattern.

A lot of it is optional though. You can complete the main quest without ever going to the south-western part of Gransys or the Shadow Fort.

and you can do it without even seeing selene as well. could have sworn she was a part of the plot but I guess not.

The optimization is a fucking turd, what the fuck are you talking about? It is like they intentionally made the game just not be able to run at 60 on everything that is a not a 9**. On my gtx780 even on the lowest settings the game is making my gpu get to 72 degrees for no fucking reason, though I can run just fine on 30 with everything on max. The game runs like an ass. When they first said it is going to be optimized for 30 and then backed down from it they did not really back down. They did optimize it for 30.

Blame Nvidia Jeworks.

I still wonder what posessed me to buy a GTX 240 instead of a 680.

Probably price, but still I have some expendable income due to living with my parents.
Now I'm regretting it.

I never beat the second form of the final boss in Dark Arisen on hard mode. I just couldn't get a weapon to drop for my class, and I could barely even phase him with the weapon I was using.

Bitterblack Isle is the best part of the game IMO. Had more fun there than in the whole rest of the game.

Bitterblack tries too hard to be dark souls.

BBI is trash. It's tedious if you go through without exploiting the broken bits of the game, and still too easy if you are willing to use periapts or blast arrows. Also the "We want the MMO audience" loot system is totally out of place.

I heard you niggers are talking shit about my gamefu.

Fuck you all, you have shit taste.

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Just turn up the brightness.

The lighting in this game is weird, during the middle of a sunny day if you walk into the shadow of a tree you can't see shit. Shadows are way too dark in this game and they're not affected by the surrounding brightness.

I still haven't seen any mod to fix that shit.

Oh, also set HDR to low. Setting it to high gives everything too much glow making it harder to see at night due to the contrast.

Enjoy the game. Don't rush through it. Only thing I can say.
BBI is really good too. But once you start there, everything else becomes too easy. So do BBI when there is nothing else to do in game.

Still waiting for some leddit fag to upload the new client online somewhere. Downloading the 29GB patch at like 300 KB/s.

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So you didn't actually play the ending. I bet you didn't even go to BBI.

I've never actually beat this game. I love it and its fun as fuck, but I always get bored around the 60% mark and stop for a bit to the point it makes more sense to start a new character, which ends up the same ad nauseaum.

How? 60% through the main quest, you're usually equipped enough to just rush through the rest of the main quests with little work. Then you can have some fun dungeon crawlan' loot gettan' fun in the everfall and BBI.

pics

Yeah I know, I dont get it either. Im often at the point where nothing is much of a challenge and im about to go challenge grigori and I just…lose interest. Despite knowing about the everfall and when shit gets real. I dont know why it keeps happening. I end up resarting once every couple months cause it is pretty fucking fun to go through each of the classes.

you know I did have kinda the same problem but I never reset the game I just kinda pwered through the game and after the wyrm hunt was done shit got really fucking good. that was a while ago though when dark arisen came out.

so just keep going man, eventually you'll get the dragon.

Honestly I am sad that I didn't get to play while the threads were more active. I even got the game on (PC) release, I was just too autistic with other stuff to play.

Wow another game trying to cash in on the new stuck-in-an-mmo anime craze.

See oddly enough I enjoyed the wyvern hunt, despite how much I see people bash it. I actually enjoyed fighting the goblins, and the water temple and shit. It's never seemed to be a problem of the quests, maybe its just that I dont want the game to actually end, like a good book. So long as I keep replaying It's not technically done.

Back when this game was coming to PC, there was a lot of hype. People said it was a great game, and you would be sinking hours on top of hours into it. The webms and screenshots all looked nice. Then, a few days before the PC release, someone posted a version of the game that we were able to get early, and I sunk a whole weekend into it. Let me tell you, I did not get the hype. At all.

The combat was decent enough. I really, enjoyed making a qt loli pawn to be my healer, and I thought it was cute how she would get all worried when I got wounded in combat. Overall, it irked me how fucking much the pawns talked, but I didn't care that much overall. The world was pretty cool, but it wasn't really "open". As a matter of fact, it was pretty linear, all things considered. I didn't mind, the game seemed to be doing its own thing, and I was willing to see where it was going.

The issue was just how much of a slog it was to get through. Nothing really stuck out to me too much as "amazing". The world was pretty uninspired. The music wasn't memorable to me, and I typically pay a lot of attention to music in games. The combat was decent enough to carry things forward, but I never thought it was that great. In the end, I never got through that huge fucking escort mission with the wagon. It just bored me to tears, and believe me, I tried to get immersed. There were things I liked, but the overall product was just so fucking dull to me. Then when I posted my issues with the game in the threads, it was always met with "fuck off soulsfag", even though I never tried to draw comparisons to a souls game, and I judged the game on its own merits.

That being said, when I get back to my PC I want to give it another try. Can someone tell me what I was doing wrong? What should I be expecting going in? What's the most engaging, fast-paced class to play as?

Is Konosuba really an MMO? I watched the first couple of episodes and the guy never actually goes into a game, he just dies and gets sent to a world where everyone is an incompetent retard who functions by RPG rules.

They removed it from the PC version, fam

something about their license running out.

IF YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE, YOU LIVE IN THE GAME

well first of all play on hard mode and fucking stick with it for more than 2 hours.

Maybe you're just better suited to faster paced rpg types like the dragon age series. DDDA is more of an old styled rpg game like VTMB, where it takes a bit to truly get going and takes an appreciation for the slow boil and for exploration rather than instant gratification.

I still hate they removed the Berserk armors.

Try other classes. Every class plays completely differently.
Ranger is half medieval FPS, half climbing and stabbing. Assassin is all about the infinite dodge rolls, and climbing and stabbing weakspots. Mage/Sorc is about just channeling big spells for ages then watching your enemies get sucked up into a tornado or something. Mystic knight is enchanting your shield to make perfect blocks turn the game into a bullet hell. Magic Archers just layer debuffs on debuffs, otherwise ranger gameplay.
Warrior's my favourite, it's all about timing and positioning so you can land that charged attack onto a weakpoint for MASSIVE DAMAGE. For smaller enemies, warrior is super useful for knocking them down constantly. It's generally just fun swinging around a fuckoff huge sword and watching enemies go flying.

Wait wait wait, I missed
Nigger WHAT? Do you have ADHD? That's a fucking 10 minute quest that tops off the "tutorial area", like an hour into the game (an hour only if you do a bunch of side quests). You didn't even get to the fucking point where you CAN play non-basic classes. Shit, you haven't fought a single real boss yet (tutorial griffon is shit and doesn't count, hydra is even more tutorial-esque).

Nigga.

youtube.com/watch?v=2rUqSGzHiPU&t=2h7m12s

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Does this game get any harder? Do tougher monsters ever come out besides the drag temple? I'm lvl ~50 or 60 and bored the only thing that is a challenge is the mini dragon near shadow fort or the black chimera in the temple. Should I just go to Bitterback? I'm not ready for Grigori yet

The game is fun but you can tell it is unfinished there is not much to do after you get to the wall

I've been trying to reflect on what about this game just doesn't work. The more I thought about it, the more I realized it's the exact opposite of a game like morrowind. Morrowind is a game which constituent parts are all average or sometimes broken, but when you put it all together it makes an amazing game. DD feels like a game where no part of it is necessarily bad. Th opposite actually, each individual part is really good, but you put it all together and it makes a mediocre game.

The more you described dragons dogma on paper: the more it seems like it should be one of the best games ever made. The possibilities (and often realities) of emergent and unexpected things to happen is huge. The attention to detail in implications of actions or stats is also huge. Yet the whole thing gets bogged down by so many tiny problems that unless you are very motivated, it's going to be hard to power through them.

Which is funny since someone earlier pointed out, it is NOT an open world RPG. It's the Japanese version of diablo 2. Which is a far more apt comparison. I also think the major theme of a cyclical world actually ends up hurting the games narrative. It ultimately makes all your characters actions seem meaningless since the NG+ essentially establishes that your arisen just keeps the cycle going because they are bored(?).

Also, it tried to do that thing where it mixed action and RPG elements together, but got the worst of both worlds. It's like how Monster Hunter was able to mix the player skill and character progression together extremely satisfyingly where you get the benefits of both (the feeling of mastery as well as the feeling of immersion). In DD I never really felt connected to my character AND I never felt like my personal skill mattered at all the moment I fought something that I needed better gear for. I simply did no damage to it.

There were just too many offensive things happening too often to make me want to continue playing the game. Something which stuck out as "ok this isn't very fun at all". Shitty menus, strange pawn interactions, difficulty terrible (it's either mindlessly easy or just impossible because of inflated stats, the game never actually get's hard). I actually started making a list of things that made me go "that was terrible" as I went through the game because they stuck out so badly. I remember I started, you can't lose the tutorial fight, then you fight the dragon but it's INCREDIBLY obvious you are supposed to lose so there is no tension, then some random dialogue that has no follow up, then it won't stop harassing me to start (what I later learned was) the expansion content, then you can't lose the hydra fight (which I discovered when I noticed I was confused on what to do and stopped moving, then realized I was not in any actual danger), then a high level pawn joined me and was going legolas which killed everything making the game trivial, but I got rid of him and it was still trivial, then the ridiculous escort the hydra head quest which was egregiously boring. Then the city which has it's own problems, and so on… Then you switch to hard mode and it's not really harder, you just die in one hit now. It's more precarious but not harder.

Since most praise for the game goes hand in hand with the word "waifu", I am starting to wonder if that was the underlying reason so many people here praised the game so highly.

Just fight him you dope so you can get endgame enemies. Don't go BBI yet.

So there will be harder stuff once you beat him? what if you just let him kill your love interest, that I never romanced btw, instead of fighting him is that basically same thing?

I'm a dumbass and had Forneval imprisoned. I'm doing the post-game now and I really want to get some Conquerors Peripts; what's the easiest way to farm them?

Also, I'm level 135 and I still do minimal damage to Death. I have a the cursed light sword which should do considerable damage with the holy element.

If you let him kill your love interest you get a cutscene bad end then an option to restart at last checkpoint.

Go Strider until you get master thief and start robbing random pawns on roads.

nigga I did grigori as a mystic knight at like 45-50 you can do him at 50-60.

the game is definitely unfinished though I hope they make a sequel and give it the time and money this game deserves.

That's still basically part of the tutorial you pleb

The game is essentially one of the old party based games/CRPGs turned into an ARPG

Just think of it as the traditional dragon hunting quest

Those infinite run and no item burden were literally the first mods to be made, what the fuck is wrong with people? Why are you even playing the game if you don't like a big part of its gameplay, ie stamina?

I killed Grigori at 100, it was kind of a shit fight to be honest. Maybe it was because I was playing warrior, but all I had to do was get on his heart, drink some vim, and he was dead within a minute. There really aren't any other viable strategies for fighting Griggori as a warrior though.

i am thinking of buying dragons dogma
i just want a good rpg with lots of hack and slash or fist fighting (bonus points if i can fist fight from beginning to end)
would this game be suitable for that?

I dunno about fist fighting but all the other stuff is there.

I think some guy back on half chan had a dude going around fisting dragons when dark arisen came out but i haven't seen him since.

is it slow or fast paced? reading posts here it seems a mix of game ia great, has some weird bugs, or didnt bother finishing it

i just want to be an angry fist fighting monk type theres barely any games with a full fledged fist me daddy class anymore that i've seen.
ill put it on a playlist but not anytime soon then i guess

Grigori is a level 40 boss. Consider that BBI is level 70 content and that gives you a few levels to grind out a bit of good gear in the everfall.

What were you doing for 100 levels?!

If you want fists you'll be disappointed. You might enjoy dagger though. If there's a mod to make your weapons invisible it would be a pretty convincing compromise.

I killed him at 60 as a warrior without climbing and bashing his heart, and was pretty fun (the "main" ground fight, that is, all the scripted fight sequences, though nice looking, weren't much fun because little to no input).

There's a ring in Bitterblack Isle that lets you do good damage with fists, if I remember right. You just need to rush BBI early, rush in and grab chests and stuff and get lucky with the ring drop.

Completely depends on your class. Fisting kind of excludes most class skills, which sucks, but you can indeed do it. Go warrior/assassin to pump up strength, get strength boosting gear (baleful nails, etc.), and get the ring that doubles unarmed damage.

If you maximize strength you might be able to achieve something, but you are left only with basic punching for light attack and kicking for heavy attack. I guess grabbing opponents and throwing them as well. There is no system behind being without weapons though.

JAPANESE SKYRIM

Whoops.

What do you mean? I shot the guy, became the god, stabbed self, and the game restarts.
Didn't play much beyond that.

Tried to go to BBI a few times. Usually got decently far into the place before I got bored by the rather large amount of bosses that I was underleveled or some shit to face. Neat place, at least.

I felt the same about BBI. I really want to like the Dark Arisen part of DD, but both times I've tried its just a slog of damage sponges.

I did a lot of dicking around before I fought him. To put it in perspective, I had 50 hours and explored the entire map before I even fucked with getting the Hydra head to Gran Soren.

I feel like that would have taken years fighting him like that, would being on hard mode have something to do with it.

I think I finished this game 5 times. My biggest issue with it is the fact that I can't change my character's appearance anytime I want or create another save to play with other characters because of the stat growth thing played on the PS3.

I thought they give an item to do so after you beat the game

Wait, what? I don't remember anything about it maybe I didn't see.

You can buy a Secret of Metamorphosis after you beat Greg, which will let you remake the Arisen/Pawn when ever you want on the title screen. Just go to the fort where you fought the hydra, and talk to the merchant in the inn, where the rift stone is. Costs 10k rift crystals.

My fucking god, I can't believe I didn't know about this. Thank you, user.

You've never fought a grifin on the outer Gran Soren walls while being a level 20 strider.

It has some balance issues and grappling issues, but I love a RPG game that is not WoW or Skyrim. A solid RPG and I wished there was more games like that. Imagine how many RPG ideas are out there, a lot are bad, but it's easy to filter. Now look at all that wasted money and talent spend on "we want the Skyrim faggots" or "let's make an offline WoW!". All this could be spent on an idea a guy had ruminating for 20 years like they did with Dragon's Dogma. The game was quite satisfying despite the flaws, the unsatisfying part is not having the perfect sequel which should be perfectly doable and not out of this world.

The merchant at the encampment who sells pawn lobotomizing potions also sells the item that lets you change your appearance.

Forgot to add that there is a one-use item during NG and a new unlimited one in NG+. You can also unlock customization with cheatengine.

So what the fuck is this shit?
Am I supposed to git double gud?
Am I too far into the game?
I had no problems with random cyclops and zombies up to that point, so I assumed my level and gear are fine for the area.
Or should I need to just run past it?

Game has a lot of good things going for it, but this right there is a bad game design.

I'm already changing the characters here after the other user told me about it. To be honest, I never tried talking to this guy at the encampment before.
Finally being able to use different characters without needing to finish all those missions again and again. I have 5 Godsbanes.

It's a very flawed game. I almost dropped it after a few hours once it dumps you in the capital and leaves you with 2 quests on the other side of the map. I convinced myself to keep playing though. I'd probably give it a 7.

When are you supposed to do Bitterblack Isle? After handing in the 20 wakestones in Everfall or before?

Are you playing on hard mode, because that's the only reason I could see that happening. If you are, then switch to normal, hard mode is artifical difficulty mode.

Ogres are the first real difficulty spike, they'll fuck your shit up

Have you done the first part of the Everfall yet?

No I'm playing on normal.
I'm also playing strider -> assasin, but I refuse to use anything other than daggers and my healer pawn.
Don't fucking tell me you're supposed to shoot that thing from afar with arrows or magics.

No, I don't even know what Everfall is. I met first one in the quarry near the city, and then TWO of these motherfuckers in the wild.

The game is balanced around you having 2 others, if you want to do a self-imposed challenge that's fine but don't bitch about difficulty. Also that area's a bit higher level than I'm assuming you are.
Where all else fails find new allies. If that fails find new foes

you're probably too under leveled to take them on then, the game places obstacles like high level monsters as a sort of glass wall, until you can clear them out

just wait till you reach elder ogres fuckboi

I enjoyed the hell out of it enough to go through the game several times on my PS3 and PC. Magick Archer is too good in BBI and Warrior needs to be able to equip more than 3 skills.

Ogres are generally tough enemies that most people have trouble dealing with early on. God help you if/when you deal with two at once.

Whenever you want. I recommend going once you're around level 60 so you can handle the enemies without dying too easily.

I pirated this game, so is there a chance for me to get online pawns or I cant?

Also will I be able to get pawns that cost a lot of $? Since those tend to be better?

You won't be able to get online pawns. Pawns only cost riftbux as long as they are higher level than you, otherwise they are free. RC is hard to get without online, but there's really no use for it outside of BBI, and you'll do fine hiring pawns in your level range.

Also should I do black Isle in the beginning of the game or later in the game? Does it matter?

Im currently level 19-20.

Late game, it's balanced for level 60ish.

I'm beginning to think it was a terrible idea to do my first playthrough on hard mode. My pawn never got rented out because he was overleveled as shit with crap gear, and until you get that one augment that reduces physical damage you will be one-shotted by bats and other lowly creatures.
However, I'm thinking of restarting after doing the post-game content. Is normal mode retardedly easy? Or does it still provide some challenge?

Normal mode feels good until you hit around level 30, then becomes stupid easy until you get to postgame. Enemies don't drop retarded amounts of money like in hardmode so there is some challenge since you're stuck with shit gear, assuming you don't just sell the monocle.

>muh Nvidia card can't into The Way It's Meant to be plAyyed. game
Your card ought to have the same effective computing power as a 970, and minus the 3.5GB issue.
So, since it even runs well on my 390 (once hairworks is turned off), I'll give Nvidia the benefit of the doubt they don't deserve, and assume you have a poorfag CPU that's bottlenecking. I have hardware graphs open on my second monitor indefinitely - I've seen TW3 push my 4690K to 80% usage during gameplay. An i3 is probably not going to cut it.
Unless you're talking about Novigrad. That area is its own case- rapes every card I've seen with the sheer amount of tessellation + anti-aliasing that needs doing there.

Damn, I got tired of this game mostly because of the pawn learning.
My pawn just can't finish the learning of certain enemies from the island.
For some ungodly reason, I can master golden and silver knights, black bishop, banshees, poison undead and the fucking undead dragon. Everything else in thar island is mastered, even Damion, but these motherfucker are stucked in two stars forever. Hell, I already have 60 undead dragons killed, but it's not enough.
I just don't know what to do anymore.

Consult the wiki. Doesn't matter how many times you fight X monster if they don't exhibit certain abilities that cause the pawn to observe and adapt to. How can you hope to know what those behaviors are without following a guide? Sure, you can try to discover these things on your own, and that's fine, but you don't have to when there is already an online resource that indexes every single enemy in the game and their behaviors.

WHERE IS MY MA BROS AT ?

I i've been doing it for quite some time, and it really helped me in many cases. But for these monsters, there is something that just don't work. It seems like that some monsters don't register the actions necessary all the time. And you are never sure if you are doing something really right.
Godsbaning helped quite a bit in many cases, but, not always.

So I finally defeated Daimon that fucking bullet sponge. (still not as spongey as glowy eye dragons). Getting actual cool lvl 3 cursed shit now. Gunning for oblivion set of armour.

I'm new to the end-game meta of this game but played it a lot on ps3.

I like farming gold out of new game + goblin missions. The free-to-play gold boosters are cool.

I had to run Witcher 3 @ 720p to get 60fps and even then it sometimes went to 50ish.

i5-3570k

IIRC I usually ran DD at 4K with ENB & the framerate would drop into 50s so I just capped the framerate at 50 for consistency. More taxing ENB settings would only run smoothly at QHD. The game would not use SLI or Crossfire & I highly doubt that ever changed.

The ENB I settled on had toggleable DoF so I'd play the game normally & if I wanted a screenshot sometimes I'd switch on DoF. Because of the impact it had on framerate I could not run with DoF on all the time nor did I desire to.

Noice.

Downloading atm

you should have bought a 400 dollar gpu and 300 dollar cpu you dumb asshole jesus don't you know how much cheaper pc gaming is?

Witcher 2 had buzzwords, The Talos Principle has futuristic specs

shit taste nigga, selene best loli.

Magic Archers is too easy mode for me. Seriously, that class is so broken it's hilarious!

Don't fuck a pawn nigger, don't you know what happened to the last guy?

WHERE MY NORDIC GODS OF WISDOM NIGGAS AT?

No way in hell I'm finishing this ever.
Spoil me a story - what's up with huge ass dragon eating your heart, who is dark arisen and what's up with pawns?
Is there some huge ass twist? I bet there is, what is it?

it was lovely.

Witcher Wild 3 Hunt and The Evil Within are literally the only games that I need to lower the internal resolution of in order to get them to 60. Everything else I can manage to keep it 1080p and I usually strive for 120fps.

I've not many problems with DD although I only recently switched all graphics to max. Thinking of putting effects back to medium. I'm usually within 80-140fps and I dislike things tanking it. Fucking Death's sleep spell went to 20fps on one of his casts which makes no sense since all the other times it was fine. Perhaps I was looking at it too directly

DDO ded game

why even make DDO? I mean they could just have made dragons dogma 2 and put some co-op in it.

Microtransactions.

I didn't even know this was possible.

I thought the lion was the chimera and the other 2 just kinda tagged along.

you can kill the lion and not the goat or the snake? and while we are on the subject of body parts can you chop off the dragons tail?

No, only their horns and wings.

well fuck man.

There's a special trick to damaging death. You need to lure him to special torches and light them when he's close by then you have a limited window to do extra damage.

Do you like eating shit

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Yup

Does the health of Death reset when you start NG+?
Or does the damage you inflicted carry over?

Why cant i buy this on ps4?

Starting out as a mage turned sorceress, can you fam's give me some advice?

Of course, some fucking suit working capcom never thought the game would get popular or make profit which is why they cut dev time and made them to release the game early which cut out tons of fucking content. When the game released, Capcom was actually surprised that it sold great, it went past their expectations and the fucking suit that said the game would sell poorly and forced the devs to an early release was completely wrong but being a stubborn faggot he probably decided to kill the series with a mobile port and and an MMO.

You faggots want to know why the game felt lackluster? Because Capcom forced the devs to cut a shit ton of content and release an unfinished game.

gdcvault.com/play/1017869/Behind-the-Scenes-of-Dragon

link related, would have embedded but sony put a copyright on the video in jewtube

One thing I'm proud is the fact that I really don't have to care about my pawn anymore. Manage to have 100% resistance to pretty much everything that really matters.
It feels good.

Why would you want to?
You can set framerate limit to 30 in PC version too, if you want console experience so much.

is the wind currently pushing you, anons?

It's good that they removed it btw.

go be underage somewhere

Someone at Capcom must have it out for Hideaki Itsuno, this isn't the first time they pulled something like that on him and his team.

Help

get high comestion, its fucking great at everything.

also high bolide is the most awesome thing. can even hurt golems. also golems are pretty strong against magic so bring a fighter or a strider pawn with you.

wth is that from?

I honestly don't get what the hype is about. Most seem to just say that it's Monster Hunter and Skyrim combined but that's not much of a case. The creatures are awesome for the most part, but everything else is bland or feels tedious, but most everything can be forgiven except the horribly written story and mediocre ending that's on par with anything Final Fantasy has churned out for the last 2 decades.

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Hey I got Dragon's Dogma recently. What am I in for?

Pic unrelated

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is this better with a pad?

The port is good so it depends on what you are comfortable with. So I personally would say no. Of course if you are playing with a bow you would want a mouse.

Only while traveling to Bluemoon Tower.

Bit too late in your case, but just for people who want to minmax in general
If you weren't aware already, you can head to BBI after getting your pawn. You can class swap there and immediately head back to Cassardis or you can show off your big brass balls and steal some gear before you go and completely destroy any semblance of power progression the game had

Why not just gimp your progression by not taking all the sidequests beforehand? Rush the MQL and fight Grigori underlevelled, then hit up Everfall and BBI afterwards

You didn't even finish the tutorial
Get back in there, play Ranger or Assassin if you have the need for speed, or Mystic Knight if you want to be a bullet hell. If you want to be a true hero, play Warrior and get used to half the abilities, no block or dodge roll, and no ranged attacks.

Most of the good music is "boss" music, and you've only run into the Cyclops and Hydra. The world opens up after you leave the starting area and you get way more abilities as time goes on

Hard mode trivializes progression though. The beginning of the game is great and then you get over the hardmode speedbump and you breeze through everything else
Hardmode with regular progression (or slightly boosted progression) would be the best way to play it though

JESUS

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Wrong thread?

y-ye

I found this guide to how to play Dragons Dogma Online.

reddit.com/r/dragonsdogmaonline/comments/4qqh5v/dragons_dogma_online_20_installation_tutorial/

Yes its reddit but at least it works.

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that last ones pretty gud, would have gone with darker hair

unfortunately my only screenshots are from console version, haven't done a run on PC yet

whoops didn't mean to greentext anything there

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That's just to install it, what about playing it because last time I checked capcom put an IP block on it.

You just need a Japanese VPN

I thought the game was fucking with me until I saw that quest. I'd never run into it before, probably because I usually do BBI after everything else and typically boss rush to 200 and reroll after I complete it

Has anyone tried beating the game using their loli as a weapon?

Filthy mutie loving faggot.

That never gets old.

Have people found the model data that's been used in DOA5 and Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus?

Fastest way to level? I hear all the BBI stuff is locked to 50

Play solo in hardmode.
If your in post game you can also climb the wall outside the church with the guards permanently aggroed on you and let your pawns fight and kill them while you go AFK, for some reason the guards never stop spawning and can't climb the wall.

If I play in HM can I bump the difficulty down to Normal at any time?

Yes, but if you go from Normal mode to Hard mode the story is reset back to the start, you don't lose anything though besides story progress.

So as long as you dont hit New Game you can do as you please difficulty wise?

BEST FETISH.

Unrelated to DD, but I saw 5 pesos pedro in real life yesterday

Did you throw five yen his way?

I've given him 5 cents in change before.
It's the second time I've seen him, the first time was a couple years ago when I had a summer job at a burger place.

He came back up to the front and complained about his fries.

So im back and just started the gaem…

Not much questions but with games like these i have but one important one…
is there anything i should NOT do?

Will i regret making a short 127~ish character for first time playing?

Apparently you cant climb some ledges with shorties but is that really important?

Using a staff gives you a hover move and daggers give you a double jump. You should be fine if you have of those. Besides, I don't recall ever getting anything that good from a high cliff or a long jump.

Neat, i checked the classes out and surprisingly Assassin and even Strider seem like they could actually be a lot of fun even though i isually lean towards sword'n board gameplay but made my char bit too short play like that without suffering from autism.

Also how fucked am i that i accidentally attacked the brown slut at the start?

wew, the bosses in this game are terrible, too easy to dodge the attacks and they have to much health

My arisenfu had a hard life.

oh and also is there anywhere else i can buy weapons and armor? i have 240+k with me but i alredy bought all i could from the store in the capital

There is a store in the Mine passage between South and North Gransys and one in the Everfalls. Depending to whom you gave the golden idol you'll get better inventory from them.

im still trying to get the golden idol but for some reason the quest for it doesnt show up

I think you must do the eviction quest first.

but i alredy did that

Wiki says you have to boost your affinity with Fournival too but I don't remember having to do that once I did the eviction quest.

The wyrm hunt quest should have been started too and he would give me the quest in the morning near his house.

Damn little girl didnt give me a golden Idol.

Now I only have a silver Idol and can get a bronze.

What do I do? Does Silver not do anything and only gold?

Gold give the best. Silver will get you some nice things but the golden idol is required for some items to be sold.

You get the Silver Idol later through a board quest in the pawn guild.

Did you sleep at the inn and made a hard save beforehand? If not you have to wait for NG+ or someone to give you a Golden Idol online.

I got the pirate version, so all I got the silver one already, is there only 1 silver?

Who is it better to give it to? I did not realize that girl gave you a golden Idol until I needed to do that quest.

I like armor and never really bought anything from the girl merchant. He sells armor and weapons more right? The other girl hardly sells anything.

Masterworks guy sells armor and weapon, girl sells slutwear and magic stuff. Better give it to the guy.

Yes there is only one. So you need two games to give the Golden Idol to the 2 shopkeepers. You can't give a forgery, it will result in a bad outcome, though you can keep a forgery on you to still get the price decrease bonus.

Bought this today.

Any advice for becoming a human juggernaut?

Dont die.

Spec into Warrior

Don't ignore magic defense.

Anyone here playing DDO currently? I've been trying out warrior and it's pretty fun, though I'm struggling to build up revenge meter while in a party (every single other party member holds aggro better than I can for some reason, even sorceror pawns).

I dont know how to get a JAP vpn.

Fuck playing action games with VPN/Proxy.

softether.org/5-download
Install that shit and just choose a jap VPN with long uptime and high-ish bandwidth, and choose to use UDP (tends to work better for some reason).

You only need the VPN to log in. The game servers don't check your IP, so you just use VPN to log in while having an entry in your routing table pointing directly to the game servers, then once you're in game you can switch off VPN without disconnecting (since you're already using normal internet to connect to the game servers thanks to the route.
It can be a bit laggy when you party up, but solo it's perfectly fine and I've yet to see desync when solo.

To add: the "having an entry in your routing table" bit just means run this once;
route -p add 106.185.74.0 MASK 255.255.255.0
Replacing with your default gateway, obviously (if you're on a NAT it's probably something like 192.168.0.1).

This is the Holla Forums pawn sheet from earlier in the year when the PC Port just came out. If you want, add it to your OP's and filter by most recently modified to avoid pawns from inactive players.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-n50bJM4l1R-OtlqlMjXveGUAUrPutCU5cR8b_fxYCY/edit#gid=0

Anyone ever saw shit like this with this game? Makes playing at night a pain in the ass. It's not stopping me but I'd rather not have to deal with it.

A few more screenshots.

For me at least playing at night is much darker.

Also I dont understand this VPN shit, there a video tutorial to understand this?

There's a whole step-by-step instructional post on the DDO leddit, which I think was linked here.
I can sum it up, though:
1. Start downloading the latest (2.0.something) release from either the MEGA or the torrent somewhere on the DDO leddit. Here's a link that should be everything: mega.nz/#F!tx8ylCqL!bz1HfCnlBzjh70ynDChHCA

2. Download VPN thing I linked earlier (softether.org/5-download), choose a jap server after install, if connection works then go sign up for a COG account for DDO (here: capcom-onlinegames.jp/pc/regist). You need the VPN up for this to work. Semi-translated image of the signup form here (i.imgur.com/M30QTDI.png).

3. Run the installer downloaded from here: mega.nz/#F!Vl1GABbT!I78PHIInDb-Zmvg4SOpWLQ

4. Once installed, copy over the folder from the first giant MEGA download into your install directory.

5. Dump this shit into command prompt:
route -p add 106.185.74.0 MASK 255.255.255.0
With default gateway replaced with your default gateway (run ipconfig to find it).

6. While on VPN, log into the game's launcher. It'll verify files, then click green button to launch the game. Set up your settings/controls/etc, make a character, and once you're in-game you can disable your VPN safely. Just need to boot up VPN to log into launcher and launch the game.

If you want a translation patch, this is the most recent one, though it's mostly google translated by a russian, so it's terrible and oftentimes doesn't help much. Super useful with menus, though.
mediafire.com/download/js3bd56s9izfigr/DDON Translation Pack (patch version 02000005).7z

I got Dragons Dogma Online all I need to do is figure out the VPN and then making my account.

Though I already installed it and it worksDDO not the VPN. I'll check out the leddit VPN guide. Thanks!

Have you tried adjusting your monitor? I had those issues to begin with too but changing gamma and contrast settings seemed to at least make it less obvious

I'm more appalled at the fact that he's using a gold weapon.

You can kill only the lion. It has high physical defense though so try to magic its face down.

No I didn't since it's the only game that has ever done that to me and you don't screencap the monitor output as far as I know. But I'll try it out next time I play. Day and dusk are fine, it's just when it's pitch black that it becomes an issue.

So how vital is creating the most "optimal" pawn party setup anyway?
Like do you absolutely have to have your standard healer+ranged dps+2melee deeps kind of party or else you wont succeed?

I was initially about to go with tall amazon for my main pawn but nope.jpg'd on the muscles so went with shorter knight/paladin type instead.

You can beat the hard mode without any pawns with only fists.

Neat, though speaking of pawns.
I can have main pawn+2other pawns right totaling my "party" to 4persons rite?

Can i not edit/create the other pawns myself at all?
Reading:
steamcommunity.com/app/367500/discussions/0/451850468363360936/
And there's this:

You don't need a healer especially if you play it with an action game mindset to avoid taking damage. Pawns can be retarded as ranged DPS especially when it's needed (Metal Golem on certain maps). Generally there's monsters that are immune to physical and immune to magic, so your party overall should be able to cover those cases of damage.

The endgame dungeon has a bunch of riftstones at some intervals so you can always adjust your party and heal up pawns.

You can't edit other people's pawns. No.

Well that's what i thought but still sucks i cant just make the kind of party i really want to. Oh well maybe some not too weeby fagit will have some nice caster-loli somewhere around to join on… or not as what i saw immediately upon entering the rift thing was generic weeb pigtail garbageshit.

How does it work exactly though? Like if i find this one player-pawn i really like, can i use it for the whole game or will it eventually just fuck off or because it's another players pawn or end up being underleveled for your game eventually?

You can use another players pawn for as long as you want, but it won't level with you as you're playing. If the other player is still playing, their pawn will get updated and might level match with you, if you both are leveling at the same pace. So in some cases to avoid underleveling, you'd just need to rehire.

Wolves hunt in packs!

'Tis weak to fire!

You can use any team you want, you just need a pawn that knows how to play their vocation correctly.

Holy shit, I HATE guardian pawns. Why does literally every single pawn I try to summon have this shitty behavior? All guardians do is get in the fucking way

besides im already a sorcerer casting meteors everywhere.

Heal sluts are absolutely useless in this game once you reach Gran Soren

says you! I have been saving up on herbs and medicine to the point I got enough to fuck up constantly and still beat the undead dragon!

Can you get enough of these discipline points to learn ALL the skills?

of course!

Mystic Knight is the gayest shit ever. I should've known by how poor the warrior is that only the magic skills would be good (which is all the class adds anyway, I think). Not much of a "hybrid", so to speak, more of a mage that uses warrior gear for a reason unapparent to me. To top it off, the abilities aren't even fun to use. There is nothing more boring than laying down a magic cannon and spamming the attack button. The only fun part of the class is the ripostes. What a letdown.

I'm really hoping the rest of the classes are better than the others I've experienced so far save for the fighter.

They're good for keeping other pawns healed and for healing escorts, who can't be healed any other way.

Funnest classes are probably Assassin and Wizard tbh.

I gave her the bond, I gifted her like 20 cloudwines, I completed all of her quests and she was the last one I spoke with before the quest.

God dammit I just want a piece of that gyaru pussy, why is this so damn difficult?

Magic cannon is OP and gay.
I'm having plenty of fun using only the shield/weapons enchants and stone forest as magic and playing basically as a fighter.

The fact that I leveled up from 10 to 40 as warrior helped too.

Literally the japanese Skyrim

The Beloved system is shit. I ended up getting Valmiro when I played it despite not giving him anything.

I know people keep showing that one Daffy Duck bit but there's one song that will always be my go to tune for getting into the mood to Seism fuckers

There's an affection rating out of 1000, that you can fill by talking, giving gifts and doing quests. First NPC who gets to 1000 gets locked in as your Beloved, and any other NPC's rating is capped at 999.

In your case, you probably finished Valmiro's questline and raised his affection to max before anyone else, thus he got locked it. You can unfuck it, though that requires some CE fuckery.

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There's no way to have your pawn carry your shortstack around and over waters?
is there even a limit to how heavy pawns you can carry around?

How's the Assassin gameplay different from strider anyway?

Strider has heavy focus on mobility, but Assassin relies on knives and rolling. They have great STR growth, and a bunch of (formerly) OP augments that make them ideal for solo play. Also, Easy/Masterful Kill is the best skill to have. The only downside is that you'd be losing Cloudburst Volley.

How viable are short-lightweight fighters or warriors?

Lack of actual "connection" to my main pawn is killing me and this game seems to be perfect for going the "twins" route having pawn be almost exact copy of the mc.

Neat, unless the dodge roll and augments are something super-awesome i might just stay Strider instead.

You won't be able to go back, I guarantee it. It becomes a choice between Assassin and Ranger/Magic Archer, with strider's only plus being Cloudburst Volley.

Assassins can equip shields, swords, daggers, and bows. Notable skills are the damage buff, speed buff, and counterattacks.

Jesus Strider is literally the official CUHRAYZEE class of the game, how can anyone hate it?

Fracture Dart's missing an AOE indicator, but I give you soaring stone+skull splitter. It's just that I've always found Kisses+Gale Harness, or MA's flame buff more reliable, especially in light of armored Gorecyclops.

Don't use Fracture Dart for ground targets, you don't need it and it always flies in fixed, high arc. You should be using it as anti-air like Dragonrend

DO NOT FUCKING MENTION THOSE TWO IN THE SAME DAMN BREATH
In all seriousness, I tried, but it's a bit unpredictable even with the upgrades. I can beach anything with Lyncaen Sight or Comet Shot, so an AOE that might/might not hit seems like a waste of a skill slot. I'll try it out though.

Dragonrend got hyped up to be some amazing anti-dragon weapon, but wound up being just a shitty debuff. Don't put them in the same level, please.

Also, is there a way to check other pawns on the rift-menu without summoning them?

Here i was thinking "Kain" is going to be some scary looking bastard to use for few levels but instead it's just some generic bearded guy with a dull voice.

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Pick fighter to start with and get those good augs, then when you get to gran soren pick mystic knight, make sure to upgrade your armor, and when you reach rank 9 of MK and get the augment you will become completely immortal once low on health. I take about 40 damage whenever Daimon does a melee attack at me while low on health, pretty much anyone else just does 1 damage. I don't even want to know what would happen if I popped a periapt.

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What are good ways to level up to grind for second form Daimon and all the fuckery in Bitterblack the second time around?

I killed Daimon with a some effort (fun fight, honestly), but then when I went back an emerald drake was in the courtyard and started a fucking war with my party.

So yeah, where's a good, fast place to level up, post 1st Daimon?

What the fuck is wrong with your arisen and pawn?

Ur-Dragon with weal.

Shut opinions, man. Brainsplitter is like the single best move in the game.

What the fuck? I did it around level 50.

Halfling/midget/lolis or whatever, take your pick.

They didn't eat their veggies

Beat reynard's bullshit escort mission at level 10 as a fucking strider.

Now I'm level 21 and weilding that dope ass hunters bow. FUCK YOU REYNARD!

That's the one taking you to the great wall right?

Yeah. Fucking ran from two Chimeras. Killed a bunch of Harpies.

Got killed by a troll,
TONS OF AMAZONS,
SWAMPS AND GOBLINS,
AND A CHIMERA.

But I got Sweet revenged
Oh and the hunter bow ended up helping me a lot

I killed two fucking cyclopes on my way there, but fuck this game seriously.

In the end I made it to the great wall. I had to trek all the way back, but I was able to level up a bunch in strider and commence to fuck up most of the things hat had killed me.

The problem is I ran into the Undead Knights. With huge swords. Also Combos of other deadly creatures.

I'm really amazed I made it back. But holy fuck is that quest a fucking haul for the uninitiated. This game really needed a horse at some point.

Sorry I'm completely new to this game I've played maybe ten hours.

dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/The_Peddler's_Petition

Ok it wasn't a troll It was an ogre I think. It's the thing that's about as tall as a cyclopes but has horns on it's back.

Yeah I made the same mistake of taking it on my first playthrough too and get stuck with it, it was a real adventure.
I couldn't keep Jewnard alive and fight the cyclop at the same time, haven't seen any undead knight though. It really was the kind of thing that was both great while stil leaving you with a "never again" type of feeling.

does anyone have the webm where the guy tries to kill the birds and fails?

Look through the thread