still not as good as 1
yeah unfortunately
>>747547210dd2 does too many little things worse for me to like it as much as dd1
>>747547210Base dd1 wasn't that great either. DD2 DA will turn this game legendary.
I like it more than 1 simply because the open world is better. Don't see much difference with the rest.
>>747547210They explicitly removed loli pawns so it's objectively worse
if the cat people had cat ears and tails the game would immediately go from 7/10 to 8/10
>completely butchered the armor system from dd1>completely butchered yellow vocations to make thief and archer>archer is utter dogshit with half its skills being the ability to use special arrows despite this being an automated process in dd1>thief is retarded OP that got all the good skills from strider/assassin>magick archer feels neutered because no daggers>trickster is a literal waste of a vocation>warfarer exists solely to circumvent the shit armor system that somehow offers less armor on average while having more egregious vocation locking>several types of weapon upgrade paths but then dwarven is just significantly better than all the others>armor warps to your character's body proportions which wasn't a thing in dd1>all capes look like they just float on your character rather than it looking like your character is wearing a capei like dd2 but god damn does it suffer from some absolutely retarded decision from POTENTIAL DEVELOPER
>>7475472101 is a 9/102 is a 8/10
>>747547210is it really that bad? thinking about getting it when it cums to switch 2
>>747548912it's not bad, but it just makes many baffling decisions that make some parts feel worse than the first game's. things that should have been easy wins were not taken. where a sequel should feel like a direct upgrade to the original it feels more like a side-grade. some good things, some great things - but makes enough odd choices to somewhat bring the experience down if you've played dd1 alot.
>>747548912It is fun but a lot of people are just shitposting or nostalgia tarding.
Post pawns. Let's do some bossing before the weekend's over.
>>747549039>>747549056i played DD1 for the first time when it came to switch 1 and ever since ive been chasing and looking for a game that scratches the same itch, it isn't until now like 8 years later that im playing Elden Ring on my switch 2 that i finally feel like im playing something in the same ballpark. all the opinions i see on DD2 are all over the place but if it's just more of the same with better graphics then that's fine.
>>747548912its overhated, since the first game was unfinished a bit jank they expected the sequel to be more polished. It's good but its less polished then the first game, plus it has a lot of microtransactions (completely playable without spending money) and denuvo which led to more negativity towards the game.
>>747549279Is it your first time playing Elden Ring? I play both series and feel that Elden Ring is about 25% larger than DD2's map (first form) when walking on foot. Some sections of Elden Ring can't be accessed without certain requirements being met, But DD2's main map is very generous allowing you to walk to the late-game sections from the start if you want to without touching the story outside of the first hour of playing. Bosses respawn over time so you always have boss fights to do if you play these types of games for the combat, and enemy spawn rates are infamously high in DD2. 40 minutes of walking in Elden Ring has about the same amount of enemies as 6 minutes of DD2.
>>747549335>a lotcopy and paste the list and post it here
>>747549335>plus it has a lot of microtransactionsWe're still dealing with these shitposters, I see.
>>747547210tbf it doesn't have its expansion yet but the fact that the music is forgettable means it won't ever stand on equal footing with DDDA.
>>747550320it did have a lot of the typical crapcom microtransactions on release. and they were removed due to the huge backlash the game received. how is it shitposting to state facts?
It has better open world adventure and cool physics based combat still inferior to dd1 but for me personally i like 2 more than 1 Both are great game and there's nothing like it
>>747550484>and they were removedSo it doesn't have them anymore then and you were just lying before. Even if it did have them on release it's still an intentionally misleading point. The series has always had microtransactions since the first ever release, it even locked actual content and equipment behind them in base DD and also Dark Arisen. If you were remotely honest you'd point out that DD2 removed a lot microtransactions from the franchise and then eventually removed all of them except the pointless lighter camping kit. That's a positive aspect of the second game and the developers listening to the fans, yet shitposters like you were lying by claiming they were all pay to win transactions.
>>747547589Base dd1 was great and dark arisen only added a endgame gacha dungeon and added nothing to base overworld except for few "qol" shit to make game more casualDo people just skip whole base game and play bbi?
>>747551057they removed them like few months ago. the game had microtransactions for like 2 years. I'm sorry I was off by few months.
>>747547589>DD2 DA will turn this game legendary.How when the base game is untouched?
>>747551057DD2's microtransactions were a total nothingburger and it's funny that RE and DMC games got a free pass for including pay 2 win bullshit when all DD2 had was one extra portcrystal lmao
>>747551232That was the way people recommended it on /v/, saying to skip straight into bbi because the base game sucks. It's no wonder they have no idea it didn't change much when they never played the game in the first place.
>>747551573>it's funny that RE and DMCpeople bitched and moaned about DMC5's dlc on release too.
>>747547210>still not as good as 1it is now
>>747552369I'm still waiting for Pawn Companion to get updated.
>>747552369If we're including mods 2 is just way better than DA, man.
>>747547210It has a better more dynamic open world and while it does somethings worse than DD1, they aren't so bad as to truly ruin the experience or even mar it that badly at all. Honestly, I kinda prefer it to 1 just for the sole fact that there's more places to explore, more enemies to fight and more to do in Batthal and Vermund than there was in Gran Soren.Plus, while Mercedes is best girl in 1, she gets utterly femmoged by Ulrika. She's just too cute bros.>>747551995The base is better than BBI by a wide margin. WHy are you listening to the retards on /v/ that play games in the most ass-backwards way possible? BBI would've been a lot better if it were structured like the main game instead of being a raw dungeon crawler with not much going in the way of actual landmarks, NPCs and general life to the place. Not horrible, but it really suffers for it.>>747548912It's pretty good albeit somewhat unfinished but not abhorrently so, especially now that the framerate issues are fixed. Not the most polished game but I think it accomplishes the open world aspect better than the first game.
>>747552473DD2 has better and more extensive mod support than DDA.
>>747547210I liked DD I, ut like 16 hours in the questline completely bugged out effectively bricking my whole game. Don't remember what it was exactly as it was a long time ago, but it was about going into the inner castle and talking/handling over to the king or some shit like that, the prompt would just not show up lol.
>>747551232I did that accidentally on my first play, realised I wasn't supposed to go there when the reaper came along and pulled my anus out of my body.
>>747553228i believe you're agreeing with him
>>747547210Its just as shit as the finish product monster hunter Wilds.
>>747551232base game is awesome and people that only like bbi is retarded
>>747547210THE MUSICTHEY FUCKING DROPPED THE BALLDD1 MUSIC WAS FUCKING INSANEI'M STILL MADI WILL NEVER NOT BE MADhttps://youtu.be/OTNfuztCMgM
>>747554118I liked the Dullahan and Griffin boss songs. Thats about it though nothing else really stood out.
Time to get ready for DDDA2
>>747548696I like that they removed the secondary weapons from the yellow classes, but with a bunch of asterixis. Thief is way too good, strider/assassin was in 1 too, but nothing like this. Kicking is cool as an archer, but they should have made some special skills for it, even some jump-kick backflip dodge-move. They shouldn't need to use crafted arrows, I get the idea that crafting specialist arrows is a neat idea, but inventory management have always been ass in DDWarrior and Spearhand have to much locked animations after some of their moves, which makes it feel, for me at least, bad to play. And monster HP feels weird now, I go from slashing doing little damage to suddenly instakilling smaller foes still when theyre at 90% health. Same goes for monsters, you chip away at them, then suddenly the third time they fall down they lose 2 healthbar in 10 seconds
>>747554845>And monster HP feels weird nowenemies take more damage when staggered or frightened.
>>747554118>>747554206The kingdom hearts song that plays during the Purgener fights was kino too.
>>747548912yes and it'll look fucking horrible on switch 2 lmao
>>747552473>>747552369Mods do not improve the game much and DD1 is still miles better even without any mods.
>>747556124and i say mods improve the game a significant amount, to the point where it becomes a much better experience than 1 after mods.DD1 story presentation/characters still shit on 2 though, no fixing that.
>>747556451Then you're completely retarded I'm afraid.
>>747556124BBI is a mediocre and lazily made dungeon, with very little exaggeration it is one small dungeon copy pasted four times. If they dared to release such a lackluster dlc for DD2 it would rightfully be review bombed into the ninth circle of hell. Not only that, but the consensus back then when people actually played DD1 instead of parroting opinions was that the base game was a disappointing unfinished mess with barely anything in it. People don't praise the highlights because the game was a masterpiece with so many highs and lows, the parts spoken still about online were the only parts of it worth mentioning. This constant revisionism is really tiring.
>>747547210still better than anything else since Noita
>>747556760>you're wrong because you're not rightok
>>747557210>BBI is a mediocre and lazily made dungeonI have to agree that it's way too small. you have seen everything in a couple hours
>>747557210You're completely right and it truly bewilders me how I see people present DD1 as some bespoke masterpiece these days when we just kind of accepted it as a very rough, unfinished gem back in the day on /v/ (before /vg/ was even made). I don't know if it's revisionism or just newfags hopping on the contrarian train, but DD1 is unfinished in a lot of the same ways DD2 is. DD2 does certainly regress and walk back some weird things like the armor/clothing layering, but is that really something preventing people from enjoying the game at all considering they claim to love DD1? I don't think so.The most valid complaints IMO are enemy variety, the casters losing spells, and the music being overall worse. Music is still good, but DD:DA's OST is legendary levels of good. Personally I also liked the leveling of DD1, you really didn't need to minmax and I liked being able to grind levels on Ur-Dragon and Death, but ultimately that's just a flavor thing for me and not a big deal. None of those prevent me from loving the game.
DD1 is a really fucking good 7/10 game, DD2 is a kinda bad 8/10 game
>>747557518>The most valid complaints IMOAbout DD2, I should clarify. 2nd paragraph is about DD2 not 1.
>>747547210I was told that the first half of dragons dog 2 was just dragons dog 1.
>>747557778It has vaguely similar story structure/beats at the start, but the actual details and game are all quite different
>>7475472101 was not good eitherit's literally just praised on this boardit's an average rpg with 3 types of enemies
>>747557518Enemy variety is debatable too since DD1fags will try to claim Hellhounds, Succubi and Sulfur Saurians are new enemy types despite only adding a fireball equivalent to two of their movesets. Then go on to pretend all the goblins with entirely different movesets and AI are exactly the same.
>>747558090Enemy variety in the open world, for sure. I don't think DD1 really tops DD2 in that regard. But DD1 does have some more interesting big monsters to seek out, although they're pretty much all locked to post-game.
>>747547210>still not as good as 1True, and yet it's still one of the best games I've played this decade.Who's starting a new new run with their extra save slots.
>>747554118The only good new tracks are remixes of DD1 tracks. I bought the deluxe edition though, so half the music in the game is DD1 music for me.
>>747552369>Beastiary is backNoice
>custom difficulty now has a AI-aggression slider and a pawn-intelligence slider>try tinkering with pawn-intelligence>no noticable difference>if anything my pawns seem even more retarded with the mod installed>turn up AI-aggression to max (x3)>drake just keeps doing the fly up and drop down attack>didn't even try to meteor shower onceWell it did say it was experimental, but I'll be using simple difficulty tweaks instead. My pawns are plenty lobotomized as is thank you.
>>747554118Wrong.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uwhijBpDP4
>>747559327https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbVKjeu9Dd0
>>747559527https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvEkcseJlA4
>>747559562https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59IOYsXK0ko
>>747559681https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIF-XiRympc
>>747559803https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA4yG2G7BKs
2's is not bad at all it's just that 1's is simply divine. I mean you just can't beat this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKr9zwS41Mshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz1gqx0uRbQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcoLNTG1tToDD2 has some great ones but they're in rarer spots and the ones you run into more often are the ones that lack so people skew 1
>>747552369>>747559028Is Bestiary up somewhere other than Nexus? I'm not finding it.
>>747559256The official hard mode is apparently altering enemy AI so hopefully they actually commit to it.
>>747560128bestiary + patch that fixes bestiary for the sept update>>>/vm/2934595>>>/vm/2934780
>>747559882Yeah that's fair. Dragon's Dogma 1's entire mood is roughly "Arisen is just some guy from a small town forced to improvise every step of the way."He doesn't even know how to really use weapons, but he figures it out over the course of his journey by basically doing errands.That's why when the dragon shows up, the dragon is almost like "Hey wait a second, this guy is serious?" and is almost happy to have someone not flee for once.Contrast Dragon's Dogma 2. Arisen here is just some guy doing his job. It makes more sense there's less of a panic and he's just going through motions. If not for being Arisen, he'd probably just be guarding oxcart passengers, maybe become a castle guard or train recruits or something instead. Even the dragon here is like "Listen, I made you Arisen because this is bullshit. Everything is bullshit. I can't tell you what to do, but this world is not real." And is basically redpilling Arisen due to hating this job so much.>the delightful and ever-novel pleasure of a useless occupation (DD1)>conviction is the human will that reaches its greatest power. (DD2)In DD1 the Arisen is arguably the most important person in the world just for being Arisen. He does all that just to sit in the Dark Souls 2 chair.In DD2 the Arisen is a disposable security guard that no one believes is anything important. He has every reason to better his circumstance.>TL;DR "it's bad on purpose"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywlMg_xm-MM
>>747561075>In DD2 the Arisen is a disposable security guard that no one believes is anything important. He has every reason to better his circumstance.The Arisen is treated as the default ruler of the fucking land. Hello?
>>747561770The DD2 Arisen is one nondescript knight in a pile of nondescript knights, yes he becomes Arisen, but it doesn't matter in DD2, because the establishment has decided it doesn't matter. So the Arisen is now a "False Arisen" that has to do errands to basically convince everyone of what was the truth the entire time, clearing his name so he can actually be main character for once.
>>747561997>because the establishment has decided it doesn't matterNo, that you as the Arisen has been deposed from your THRONE is very fucking important because it's the driving force of the plot for most of the game. You being Arisen matters as much as in 1 if not moreso because it automatically means you should be ruling the land.You're saying that the PC is an important person in the world of 1 but not in 2 and that's just a really bizarre thing to say because if anything the Arisen in 2 is MORE important, so important that the primary conflict is that somebody has secretly deposed and is pretending to be you.
>>747561997Did you just watch some brainrot summary on x2 speed?
>>747548696>>archer is utter dogshitYou mean it's utterly boring to play when you can kill everything by spamming the homing normal attack? And the bosses are too dumb to ever target you or chase you down, so you just spam some big damage arrow over and over?
I think I'm almost at the end.I just don't understand why I would want to give the evil guy the magical macguffin.
>>747563103Because he's about to try and control The Dragon true with an inferior will and you're currently holding the key. Go catch him dude. Maybe you can talk some sense into him.
>>747550484>removed due to backlashThey were removed because they served their purpose. Dragons Dogma had the same and similar other microtransactions, which were also removed with the DD:DA release.You're both retarded.
>>747559256>sweet tooth>no candy in the entire gamePawns really are kinda 'tarded huh.
>>747547210With mods is far better than 1. I feel bad for console cucks.
>>747562282In DD1, you are unimportant until the *exact* moment you slay the hydra. Assuming DD2 is "the same story" as DD1, then the establishment of DD1 also dislikes you, even Mercedes, who takes you there, does not even think you are arisen, just some brave fighter. The establishment in DD1 keeps giving you "suicide missions" and are increasingly upset you are not dying until they eventually just turn on you outright at post-dragon. Lucien who seems to be a part of the Salvation cult, is also in the court, and salvation is the one that gives you the bullshit quest that results in the cockatrice attacking Gran Soren.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b482QVddye4In case you're unaware, the scene at the *start* of DD2, in the royal court, takes place at the *end* of DD2. The actual timeline is that the "exact" moment you became arisen, you were all charred up, similar to DD1 Arisen. Not everyone in-universe knows arisen lore, some people do, some people don't. Knights somehow found out you were Arisen, warned the establishment, and then they sent you to Pawn Gulag.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KUXpxwx19k>>747562324No?
>>747562282sure, technically thats true, but the game never made me give enough of a fuck about the story to care. The characters and the world and the entire adventure of 2 isn't as immersive for me as 1
>>747563881Well then you simply have no excuse for being retarded. What a shame.
>>747547210>still not as good as 1true!
>>747564238Holy fuck 1 actually looks like pure dogshit. Nostalgia goggles are real...
aside from the usual>removed mystic knight, crap item selection compared to dd1 including armor slots and debilitation weapons, missing monsters, npcs are generic and ugly, story is butts, etc etci'm also assmad that the pawn system isn't way more fleshed out with more personalities, specializations, and even voices (like some weird echo voices for all the people that make zombies and ghouls and shit in dd1/2)
>>747564215Literally nothing I said was retarded. Pseuds always call someone dumb instead of clear things up. It's a move that makes you seem insecure, at least articulate yourself then I can clear things up. Too low-effort.
>>747564316>graphicsfagyou're the reason we can't have actual huge open worlds that feel alive, because you NEED muh raytracing and shit - and yet even background npcs in 1 are cuter than ugly npcs in 2
>>747554118>picso many good voice lines in 1 and the way they all speak so theatrically (kinda like a westernized version of anime dialogue?) is fantastic, i know the grigori va has other work as dragons in like eso and shit did the other VAs all retire or die?
>>747558808cheeto sex
>>747562282The Arisen never made it to Vernworth at the start; Ulrika helped him recover for a day, then Dina shipped him off to the slave camp.Despite the implication that the Arisen is really important and should be King, few believe that (You) are the true Arisen. That's why you're doing spy shit with Brant.The people of Vermund believe some imposter is the Arisen, and many do shit to get in your way.The cats of Bakbattahl don't give a fuck about the Arisen. Forbidden Magick guys are trying to fuck up the Cycle themselves, so they impede you.Once you do fuck up the dragon, even when the world goes to shit because you broke the Cycle, everyone has your back.In 1, most people recognize you as the Arisen and are willing to help you along almost as soon as you leave the village.Even the Duke, who fears you succeeding may strip him of power and suggests you give up, still helps you a little bit.Ironically, the circumstances flip once you fuck the Cycle, and people are losing faith because everything gets worse.It's a reversal in that most people in 1 have implicit trust in the Arisen and they know you're the Arisen.In 2, it's the opposite, the Arisen is met with much more distrust, hostility or mere disinterest.It's less that "the Arisen is unimportant" as the other anon put it, rather the Arisen is in the middle of an eroding Cycle in which a lot of people are far more complacent or seeking their own means to influence the Cycle, so being the Arisen doesn't matter to a lot of them.
>>747548225>Modders can add fully modeled dicks with physics>Somehow tails still aren't a thingI'm glad modders have their priorities set.
>>747564482>and yet even background npcs in 1 are cuter than ugly npcs in 2The main NPCs are all mid at best, but there are some cute background NPCs like the hair stylist, violinist and fortune teller.
>>747547210The biggest flaw DD2 has is that it has too many of the same flaws as the first game, and doesn't have a BBI equivalent.Both games are trying to make the journey interesting when traveling but both fail at it miserably because of repetitive mob encounters and pawn behaviour.
>>747556124>Mods do not improve the game muchYes they do
>>747552369The skimpy apparel mod is not updated so the game is currently unplayable.
>>747570046Does it.. work for males?
>>747570795Females only, but it hasn't been updated for the latest patch.https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonsdogma2/mods/5?tab=files
>>747563548>I feel bad for console cucks.No you don't.
>>747556124>Mods do not improve the game muchYes, they do.
>>747567407yeah she's cute
>>747547210It's going to be better in about 3 weeks
>>747571353It was such a pain in the ass to set up, but I liked this one the most. The wide variety of armor options was really neat. You could go super skimpy with the unmentionables hanging out, or just slightly altered to add a little spice.
>>747567407My wife Disa is also very cute.
>>747570046>The skimpy apparel modThere's like 10,000 of those.
>>747563206nah, he just summoned an ugly ass mutant dragon. what a jerk
>>747551232I think people prefer BBI to base because base lacks any kind of challenge
>>747572825Because you were 2slow (and because his will is SHIT)! Next cycle will be better for realsies.
>>747572761For Skyrim, maybe.
>>747571609I do though. I'm compassionate.
>>747560286If it was so straightforward to make the mods compatible, I wonder what's taking so long for the "official" mod update. Mod guy must be trying to pack in tons of extra shit to go alongside the compatibility fix.
>>747554118The credits version of the main theme and Letter to no One are good but the rest is literally forgettable garbage.The main theme credits version is really fucking good though. The title theme being bland is also a sin
>>747554118really? playing through DD2 atm, I think there are some really sweet tracks.
>>747567407>The main NPCs are all mid at bestWRONG. Ulrika is the best girl and nothing you say can change the truth of the matter about how cute she is.
Reminder, if your wanting to farm Wyrmslife Crystals in preparation for the DLC you can easily farm 999 for yourself and any pawn for a total of 3996. Get Bump and Lift, be Thief of Warefarer, equip Ring of Derision and hit the glowing weakpoints of the Red Beacon enemies in the Unmoored. You should get 4 opportunities if you didn't beat Talos and let him die. Only problem is that Ring of Derision I believe in one time per playthrough and can't be forged.
>>747569443but 2 has cool physics which makes every encounter very randomit just need more enemies with bigger health and aggression
Blast havers, should i start another playthrough now or wait for the DLC?Also, have the mods updated yet?
>>747577915love her tits i found her dress for my pawn so bad
>>747578515start now and don't rushi don't think dlc is going to add much to the base world
>>747578515Mods are getting fixed but a lot of them get multiple new versions per day. I'll update a bunch and the game will crash, then I'll have to decide whether to binary-search for the breaking mod or just to wait a few hours until whatever mod it is gets updated again.Or I could just start the game and load a save ever time I update a single mod. Pick your poison.
>>747578556She has a nice shapely ass too.
>>747578515I would wait, mods are getting updated but not some of the really game-changing ones, such as bestiary.
>>747547210Ok.
>>747579635She looks like a gross 70's hippy turned drunk wine aunt who doesn't believe in bathing.
>>747579836So you are saying I nailed the look, then?
>>747547210Sure, with a gameplay loop Im hoping that improves. I didnt hate DD I was just left wondering why the for every step forward they took one backwards. Noone who wanted a sequel wanted stuff like BBI removed and no difficulty options, so Im hoping the expansion at least course corrects if they move forward.
>>747579952You are an artist like Michelangelo for being able to capture the spirit of ugly in such a detailed way.
>ERM why do people only say it got great with DA?? The base game was good you know!! All that DA added was a gacha dungeon...retarded consolefag revisionism copeThe base game without DA is even worse, it really needed all the rebalances and augment overhauls and the few tid bits of actually interesting gear. Among other improvements!DD2:DA wont improve anything tho
Two extra skill slots was neat. I'd like two more, though. They could be hot-keyed to L3/R3 unless those functions are for something else entirely. Skill variety aside it unironically sucks running into hordes upon hordes of goblins. Game really could've used giant enemy insects at the very least. Evil spiders roaming about should be a given in these types of settings at the very least.
>kill warg with big hit>it fucking flies halfway across the continentI need more physics jank.
>>747580054>noone who wanted a sequel wanted stuff like BBI removed and no difficulty options,literally me. bbi has nothing to do with the original vision it's nothing but kinoshitas fanfiction and difficulty options are a meme.
>>747584973hard disagree. The games get way too easy too fast and you start ignoring mechanics, the same mechanics that make this game stand apart from other RPGs.
DD2 is missing its everfall. unmoored world was lame. also cutscene last boss lmao
Are we getting an Evil Eye boss for DDDA2? Please say yes, please.
>>747578515i'd wait for the dlc, but if you want to start now there's no shame in that. grab a mod that slows XP gain and you'll be fine
>change appearance>hmmmmmm>change appearanace>hmmmmmmmmmm>change appearananace>hmmmmmmmmmmmmI need more RC bros.. for books. Lots of books.
>>747586142Does the mod for them to be in the shop for gold not work?
>>747586142I'd save your RC bro for appraising relics in the DLC. There will probably be options to farm RC in the DLC anyway.
>>747586142>Appearance looks good in the editor, even in the different lighting options>Appearance looks shit in every possible lighting condition in the worldcan't win
>>747585661It's funny because if you look at the model for Giga Grigori in a model viewer I'm pretty sure it had tons of unused animations ectI think The Rift did a video on it. I'm convinced alongside the mission where you don't even fight or try to stop the false arisen is signs of cut content.
>>747586198NTA but according to a lot of the comments on the nexus page it's not working anymore as of the last patch, now I regret not stocking up on a bunch of those with the mod.
>>747586564>run around in kittyland where the light is warm>all is good>come back to vermund where the light is more flat and dull>realize I've been running around with la creatura
>>747586142Sleep in a bed to save before you edit your character so you can load it and get the RC back if you wanna redo it.
>>747587021Oh?I thought it "deep saved" whenever you hit "finalize".
>>747586909My pawn may look like a creatura, but she is MY creatura and I will marry her.
>>747586142>begin editing>stare myself blind>completely fuck up the editSometimes I think I'm face-blind.
>face looks great>turn camera slightly
I prefer DD2 overall. I wish it had lots of proper dungeons rather than small caves to explore
>>747588038I think just two more Waterfall Cave style of dungeons would've been incredible. I'm not expecting the DLC's 12 additional dungeons to be all that expansive, so we're gonna have to wait for the BBI equivalent to get anything substantial in terms of exploring.
>>747588038I wonder what beastren faces look like with dlss5. Like actual cats maybe?
>>747547210>Heavily hyped performance patch finally drops>No change>If anything my fps is cut in half if I swing the cameraIs this just me?
>>747588847Yes, I got like 30 FPS boost just from the update. Whatever they did worked.
>>747588847Yeah.The update did add a number of new graphics settings, and it changed some existing ones to a new default. Could be something fucking with your settings.
>>747588207I genuinely cannot tell if this is actually DLSS5 or a meme at this point.
>>747588981What are some particularly performance-heavy settings? My frame rate has gotten a lot more stable, but I wouldn't mind turning down some stuff so my fps gets smoother.
>>747588949>>747588981Hmm ty. I don't mind the performance being the same, I just have no idea what's causing my FPS to half if I quickly turn the camera. Apparently it's something to do with the engine and can happen in MH Wilds? Guess I'll try to find a mod for this.
>>747547210DD1 was borderline unplayable with its garbage controls. Honestly some of the worst of its generation.
>>747588784
>>747557210Who said anything about BBI? DD1 without its expansion mogs modded DD2.
>>747588847I did get more fps, but I also get insane fps-drops when browsing my inventory and when swapping equipment.I would much rather they revert the changes as I haven't benefitted much from the increased fps while I suffer greatly from the stutters whenever I use my inventory.
>>747569582>>747571813No they don't.>enemy AI is still shitty>world design is still bad>visuals are still mostly ugly>gear system is still inferior to the first game>music is still bad>pawns are still annoyingWhat do the mods improve so much? Oh right, nothing. The most impactful mods just turn you into an anime hero that dies in one hit to retuned enemies lmao. Fucking dumbasses.
Are casters as boring to play as in 1?
>>747590317It's faster but easier and less flashy so I would say it's more boring.
>>747590430Less flashy? Did they remove some spells or just made them less impressive?
>>747590515Toned them down so they're less of a spectacle.
>>747590515They look and sound worse. They did remove some but some others were added, I dunno which game has more magic. One thing that really annoyed me was that they removed the melee staff attacks.
>>747590602Is mystic spearhand fun at least?
>>747590602I find they're plenty spectacular.I avoid most offensive spells because they make it impossible to see what's going on if you're anywhere near the impact zone.
>>747590006I look like this irl.
>>747590203You can put the fucking DD1 music with the DLC or just a mod, pawns are less annoying than the first one and even then nigger is dragons dogma they are supposed to be annoying, AI was always shit, Cursed Dragons were so braindead that a level 1 mage could kill them thanks to stunlock them to their basic braindead pattern, visuals are better in every sense and that's without any mod.The only thing to complain is the armor part and lack of dungeons.
When's the DLC releasing again
>>747591464next month
Am I better off waiting until the advanced vocations to play a caster? I feel like the early game as a mage is just slow and difficult.
>>747590823>>747591525>game just becomes a "wait for the sorcerer to finish casting"I just don't get the appeal.
>>747591445>with the DLCThe absolute state of you, but no it's just a few tracks.>pawns are less annoying than the first one(you)stopped reding here
>>747590756If you want to go fast and do some crazy anime bullshit, then yeah.
How to Warfarer?I've been trying it out and so far it seems like the optimal way to use it is to just keep being a warrior, but now one of my skill slots is a mage staff for niche utility stuff.What do people use this vocation for aside from pretending strider is still in the game?
>>747592515I just use it for drip so I can look like a fag while being 100% fighter.
>>747592515I like thief + sorcerer as warfarer.
>>747590317Mages are a bit better in terms of feel. Overall faster spellcasting, especially for the lower tier spells.You can also shoot bolts and begin casting while levitating, so you can get some extra mobility into your casting.Weak little staff swing replaced by dedicated Mage Anodyne and a new Sorcerer spell to rapidly recover stamina, so the former always has recovery ready, and the latter can magdump big spells and reload quick.Not sure what the others are talking about, 2's spells are much meatier, least the heavy duty ones like Meteor/Bolide and Maelstrom. Some of the lesser spells may have more transparent particle effects for the sake of visibility, but most of the spells will still flashbang you up close and DD2's HDR makes the screen go real dark in contrast when fire or lightning are used anywhere other than daytime outdoors.
>>747591814Try to play the original dragons dogma before entering a thread about the game
>>747547210>height limitLOL LMAO TRASH
>>747592924The magic just looks and sounds much worse. anodyne being a perfect example of that. It's hideous in 2 but looks cool in 1.
>>747592515I like to use all-martial Pawns, no mages, so I use an alternating melee/ranged arsenal to cover the utilities.Mace+Shield with Shield Pummel and Vengeful Slash, main fighting weaponLongbow with Deathly Arrow for snipingGreatsword for Core Skills and Timed Swings to sweep through small mobsStaff just for Anodyne and LevitateDaggers just to have Heaven's Key equipped for the Holy elementSpellbow with Recovery Arrow to heal from a distance, and Canescent Orb for illumination and a bit of a DOT
>>747590006The end result of Khajit-Nord racemixing
>>747590006So, this is the power of DLSS5...
>>747591603>game just becomes slap the monster with a sword shaped wifflebat 10000 times
>>747592515I use it as the ultimate traversal classdouble jump, staff hover/glide, the ice pillar spellI can parkour my way pretty much anywhere I want, for example I managed to get to the top of the plateau in the desert (obviously there's nothing up there but it was still cool)
>>747592515step 1: get the sorc skill "augural flare"step 2: unlock magick archer and the skills that let you aim multiple arrows at one specific targetstep 4: cast augural flare, then switch weapons and focus that body part with the magick arrows???PROFIT!!!
>>747600004>defeats enemies by waving his staff around>gay>defeats enemies by swinging sword>chadShrimple really.
>>747547210Didn't most people say the that DD was meh until BBI?Will this happen to DD2 with the new DLC?
>>747592924They kind of do, mostly because of the range maybe. Maelstrom range is so tiny compared to before where you can just sweep an entire pack of enemies. Add that you can't manual aim it now and control where you want to drop it for max aoe too. Seism looks and is just a tiny ground fart now. Bolide likes to get stuck on mountains too. Sending a pack of gobbos flying and ragdolling with Frigor never gets old though.I know these are for balancing but it still feels less impactful overall to me. Unrelated but I also just wanted to say spellhold should have been a core skill.
>>747547210true but i enjoyed it more than 1 ngl
>>747604073>Didn't most people say the that DD was meh until BBI?No. Most DD1 fans haven't even played BBI.
>>747588038> A Polish MC and his Slovenian twink main pawn.Odd, but I respect that, Tadeusz.
>>747591603>Not understanding the appeal of some sartsfyingly explosive climax.Anon, I...
>>747604589why?
>>747605335I'll give you a satisfying explosive climax, cos.
>>747605405because you had to rebuy the game to get access to it so most people didn't do thatthen you had to actually go there and most people didn't
i want Diana and Emily slides
>>747547210Any mod to get rid of all the niggers and bring back lolis?
>>747604589>No. Most DD1 fans haven't even played BBI.Adunbeleefit.mp3>>747605405BBI is a gauntlet. Difficult, with managable with a well leveled character. Rushing through the base game usually leaves you underleveled.Farm the Everfall, go drake-hunting to get your favourite equipment dragonforged as much as you can do it and then you'll be ready.I hate Eliminators so fucking much, thier QTE is absolutetly impossible.
>>747606268>Rushing through the base game usually leaves you underleveledThere’s no such thing as being underleveledYou can conquer BBI by going there at level 1
>>747606268You can look up achievement data on every platform the game is on to see for yourself. The idea that DD1 was only good because of DA is fucking baseless and retarded, practically no one even cares about BBI.This idea came from shitposters grasping at straws.
>>747606393>You can conquer BBI by going there at level 1Shush you Gamer God, I am talking to some fellow mortal.
>>747606572On Steam>Only 12,4% have beaten the Gazer.>Only 10,2% vanquished the Dark Bishop>Only 8,5% have bested Daimon once.Holy, alright I concede.
>>747606718no no, it's really easyjust buy some Throwblast after selling monoclekill some monster in bbi to lvel up and pic Magick Archer with Magick rebalancer + the fire, electric and ice skills do the trick
>>747606268>Rushing through the base game usually leaves you underleveled.the strat is hard mode + selling all the shit they give you to buy throwblaststhat cyclops? throwblast. those well saurians? throwblasts, cunny passage boulder bandit? throwblasts.t. i just hit 200 on a new dd1 character today after starting like a week ago
I trust DA will save the game but I can't make up my mind if I'd rather start over or continue on my preexisting DD2 character when it comes out. Guess it depends on whether Hard Mode is actually good or not maybe
>looking up videos of dd1 voice acting>one of the first results is some FUCK from 14 years ago calling this voice acting badhttps://youtu.be/0kTQKFpXFxIwtf bros
>>747609409you slew the hydra? for truth?
Will NotDaimon's theme in Dark Arisen 2 top Coils of Light, tho
>>747609407My main save is ready to start from a new cycle.Thanks to the extra two save slots, I'm doing a fresh run with a newly created Arisen now.Once DA is out, I'll use the third save slot for a dedicated Hard Mode Arisen.I kind of expect Hard Mode to turn out the same way as DD1, a hassle at the beginning, but ultimately easier because of the higher rewards letting me buy endgame gear sooner.
>>747609526the voices are just so good, and now western va is like what? pic rel?
>>747610039>which way western man>hollywood celeb VA or eceleb VA there are no other choices
>>747610148i'm going to gamble on ai digital necromancy to recreate the old good voice actors since some of those guys are pretty old now
>>747585925They haven't said anything about nor shown anything of Evil Eyes, no. Don't get your hopes up.
Saw you can use Emote Dogma mod's "cancel all animations" hotkey to basically have Instant Reset from part 1.I saw a basic 3 piece combo macro, but you can get more creative of course since you can call any move, assign it to a hotkey, and it does actual damage.You can even make pawns and NPC repeat moves so use the teleport mod and all 4 can do a group attack on one spot.
idk why you guys are burning yourselves out on whole runs, even modded, when the whole DLC + dungeons + hard mode is literally right around the corner. Idiots.
>>747611986no burningonly blasting
>>747612281>he isn't saving his blast fuel
>>747590515There's no Gicel, which I lament every day. I can only pray for the DLC, but I'm not holding my breath.
>>747612521So far they only showed Brontide which is nice but I also do miss Gicel, it was so satisfying.
>>747606572>The idea that DD1 was only good because of DA is fucking baseless and retarded, practically no one even cares about BBI.If you're looking at achievement data doesn't all that mean that most people didn't REACH BBI? As in, they got filtered by the base game? Doesn't that SUPPORT the argument that the base game kind of sucks?
>>747579635>>747579836John Lennon in drag
DD1 w/ DA > DD2 base > DD1 base
>>747613104No you disingenuous retard. Most user reviews are positive and most users didn't do BBI.
>>747547210I never played the first game
>>747613703That's bad, you should! It's really good.
>>747551232the problem with the base game is that you dont have to skip it, it barely exists. its one tiny instance that you back track over a couple times. theres basically nothing to do or see and youve already seen most of the base game by the time you get to the main city for the first time
>>747613582I see this shit in these threads all the time and I dont get it. You could never touch BBI and still have a superior experience to DD2Is it just shills copy/pasting the same talking points over and over
>>747547210Never played 1 but I'm having a blast collecting everything before the DLC comes out. Just started NG+ and almost had enough wyrmslife stones to get everything I needed for the classes I play.
>>747613963You don't get it cause you never played the games I guess? What's not to get?
>>747591603Stop using sorcerer and start using Warfarer with mage/fighter/archer.
>>747571353Just watch porn on your second monitor gooner.
>>747558808Can you use your alt's pawns on your main I feel like that would be pretty cool to have a full team of all of your pawns.
>>747591585Unless you want to be a support bitch, the only reason to play Mage is to get the augments if you want them.Sorceror and Magick Archer are where the fun/powerful spells are.
>>747613645>disingenuousRelax.>Most user reviews are positive and most users didn't do BBI.Most users didn't even hire a single fucking pawn. Or ever change their main pawn's class. Or even get past the wyrm hunt quests. This is just a silly argument to make.17% of owners on steam have the achievement for jumping into the Everfall. That means less than 1/5th of people who own the game on steam beat the dragon. If most people didn't even get to that point yet most of those people who did beat Gazer doesn't that tell you that the main game is the filter, not BBI?
>>747614868How is it silly to say people had fun? It doesn't matter what they did, they rated the game highly. What matters is what they DIDNT do.
>>747615190>How is it silly to say people had fun?Please don't argue with a straw man. I'm clearly saying that relying on achievement statistics to argue that nobody played BBI is silly, since they work against your claim. Since 17% of people beat Grigori and 16.5% of people beat Gazer, that means that over 90% of people who beat Grigori beat Gazer. Which certainly seems to indicate that almost everybody who played to that point played a good chunk of BBI.Pretty much half of people who beat Grigori also beat Daimon 1, which is about the ratio of people who own the game and got to Gran Soren or crafted a fucking item. This would suggest filters earlier in the game. Which it famously has.
>>747615825You're literally proving my point and you're still being disingenuous because DD1 without BBI exists and you're conveniently ignoring that.
>>747616818My man YOU said to look at achievement data, now you're saying nono don't look at the achievement data. Either argue your point yourself or stop directing people to look at the stats that directly work against your own argument. Done with you.
I don't know what to play while I wait for the DLC, it's a full ass month...
>>747547210Quiet, all of you! I have a serious question. If I haven't played the game for a week and chiefly not refreshed my pawn at an Inn to get their server pay, but I load immediately into a save at previous Inn rest save, will they then get paid for their rental this past week at all? I'm loading into such an extreme option because last I played I was dicking around burning wakestones to get some shitass escort mission completed and I want to load from Inn to get them back. I'll lose like a 2hr play session, but it was mostly goofing off while I collected coins. I am certain I didn't refresh at inn at all so my pawn has yet to be compensated for servicing others.
>>747590823I completely forgot meteoron gibs monsters in DD2.
>>747558808I'm just playing on my original save. I like starting from the bottom normally but I don't see the need for it; I much prefer having the option to swap to any full leveled class when I need gameplay variety
>>747618251servers typically compare whatever they have on file against the last time you were *online*. the week is just a timer, it's so players don't spam the server.that said i have no idea if capcom is doing this or not
>>747614624You could but it might look like this. It should be fine if you keep the levels controlled on both ends.
>>747618251the inn update only cares about what hires and returns happened between the last time you did it and the next, it doesn't keep track of what you personally do
>>747617565You didn't look at it, you looked at some of it and you know it.
>>747614624you can hire for free anything that's a lower level, you can only freely hire higher level pawns if the owner is in your friends list.
