Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen : "You've seen a ghost before blacking out anon what's wro-" Limited Edition
Hard difficulty feels proper and fun
which DD combat mechanics would you like to see more action-adventure games adapt?
>>750156626embrace clipping for combat
>>750156626The freedom of it. You can move and jump everywhere and you are generally not locked into attacks unless they have a charge up
Trickster with a battle frenzy censer, battle frenzy pawns, and both buff skills is stupidly powerful.
Just killed the Drake at the battlefield as a lv32 warrior and the BLack Matter hammer on hard mode. This fucker took a while to go down and took 50% of my loss gauge because Warrior is too slow to react to an attack once you press a button lmao, especially the jump attack the dragon does.
>>750156895Has anyone ever shot it with that huge ballista on top of the castle? How much damage does that do
>>750156750Trickster+3 archers is powerful and great to play once you get around it
>>750156702What do you mean? I can't parse your post.
>>750156626soft-targeting for projectiles
>>750157131I bet five testicles that he meant to say climbing.
>>750157131How the game is not shy to just let your sword (and arm) from burst strike to just clip through enemies + hit stop effects. Some say its old fashion but I really like it
Can any of you gigachads tell me what song is playing here? This is the ending sequence of the first game: https://youtu.be/C3WXNhnFSFM?t=658
Noooo my balls!
>>750157234damn bro lost 5 testis and only had 2
>>750157405https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQkkVTsayko
>>750157557holy fuck I am retarded... how could I forget about this...
Should I buy the 300k Battahl house or the Vensworth one is cooler
>>750157756>300k Battahl house???
>>750156279garbage downgrade sequel, fuck shitsuno, not buying the dlc for this trash game that has a bigger world than dd1 but half the content
>>750157947Ok
>>750157947As ninety-nine ripened figs go by
>>750157839>he doesn't knowHint; its someone at the temple
>>750158007>>750158027cope with your 10% playerbase compared to launch, still no level cap, completely separate dlc area making the base game map still shit, pawn ai being garbage because of the performance downgrade, missing debilitation weapons from dd1 still, missing ur dragon still, etc etc etcgarbage game, dd1 base game was better than bbi but dd2 is just fully shit
>>750158242Alright?
>>750158242
>>750157557better than into free
>>750158242Haha he got filtered! Thank goodness, now you can fuck off and die discordtroon!
Motherfucker refused to go down, but in the end he fell.
>>750158242We hear you. Thanks for coming by
>>750156279>Bow with battle frenzy 4 one shots necromancers with heavenly shotTeleport now, you faggots
>>750158307>Alright?t. pic rel>>750158396>niggertourists filter everyone>wtf why is this site dead??kill yourself safespace faggot
>>750158538Cool.
>>750158538Calm down before you ack yourself, xister
pic rel average dd2 enjoyers
>>750156279Really liked that a Sphinx was pretty involved with the story of the DLC. The ride on its back towards the end was actually a pretty good inclusion imo.
>>750158538Anon there was black people in the first game, a lot of them. Fake fan.
>>750158714>characters like mason and mountebank are the same as dd2's ugly broccoli haired niggersyeah no shut the fuck up faggot, mason is mysterious and stoic, the zoomer rival has no build up, is written completely shit, is voice acted by some gay faggot, etc etc
>>750158672I liked that there's a guaranteed Sphinx fight in the final Rite dungeon. I feel like most people never fought her.
>>750158714And one of them was based and the other one was the hottest character in the game
>>750158706Didn't I tell you to calm down?
>>750158803>moves goalpostsKek why are you here? Gotta get that (You) hit? DD1 is bringing out the troons lately my goodness
>>750158803What about brant though
I love how the solution to DD2's ills was merely "Skyrim"
>>750158803Hes a nigger from a desert region though which seems fairly accurate
>>750158884It doesn’t count bc it’s not conducive to his nonexistent point
>>750158880>>moves goalpostsshow me the goalposts i set you stupid faggot nigger, go fucking tie a rope around your neck and die faggot, light yourself on fire like that other troon
>>750158803Who said anything about Mason you faggot.
>>750158714Mason literally tells you his nigger face makes it hard for others to even speak to him. Brant is the most black ass fucker out of Detroit and he's the captain of the guard.
>>750158965Yawn, I’m better than you btw
>>750158884>What about brant thoughWHAT ABOUT HIM??? you think he was memorable??? he sounds like one of the niggers who acts white, okay what else? there's NOTHING else to his character, at least the dd1 blacks had good voice acting
>>750158538At some point you will have to just accept it that it’s okay when Capcom does it. You cannot keep on seething like this, and I say this for your own well being.
>>750159042so you did remember him?
>>750159015uhuh. When was the last time you guys actually played DD1, because there was more than just Mason.
>>750159059>At some point you will have to just accept it that it’s okay when Capcom does it.i'm glad i skipped wilds purely because of the jeet and i am 100% vindicated, eat shit and die jeet gameand i will keep seething fuck you, i'll be seething 5 years from now if i'm not dead because dd2 being shit ruined my decade
>>750158631Pic real average dd2 shitposters
>>750159175>least ugly dd2 npcs
>>750159167>I will keep on seethinggood, good.
>>750159167Not seething hard enough, next step is to self immolate on your troonstream, can’t wait!
>>750159015They call it "little chic-a-go" around Vensworth's bar. Crazy stuff
>>750159006holy shit learn to read niggerwhat's the first 2 words of that post??? characters likeit's called an example you illiterate fucking nigger dd2 enjoyer
>>750159230>troonanons reflection when xhe turns xher monitor on to jerk off to lolis xhe can’t make in DD2
>>750159015Woah the captain of the guard? Dang whitebois need to step they game up bruh
>>750159349these dd2 npcs are pretty repulsive ngl
>>750159015There's also the black hairstylist chick and Meredith (a dude) who both call Mason weird (kind of an understatement since he's an actual sociopath). There's Mercedes (i.e. my Beloved plapmeat drunkard tombot tradwife or not Casca), the two guards on the north gate, Ser Dario and Quince.No one cared at the time because it wasn't that big a deal. Even the shitshow about the black Muslim in KCD2 made more sense (and was still kinda overblown compared to making Henry a fag in one ending) than malding about a fictional universe having black people. Are you gonna seethe that the Elder Scrolls games has Redguards like a bitch?
>>750159242>next step is to self immolate on your troonstreamalready made that joke retard good one >>750158965>light yourself on fire like that other troon
>>750159305you seem really angry bro. this is a video game board, maybe consider steering your seething towards the root cause of your misery otherwise youre just farting at the wind bro, we here just wanna play some good fun and based af vidya like DD2. feels me?
>can't even have a DD thread anymore because of some retarded jeet culture warrior spergsGrim. Site should have stayed dead.
>>750157450>he doesn't have treasure chest full of testicles for gamblingngmi
>nooo I cant go slay a northen dragon because africa exist somewherekek
>>750159460Take it easy on the shota threads anon, that’s a picture of you silly!
>>750159542>you seem really angry bro. this is a video game boardyeah so i'm going to discuss when a sequel comes out and it's a complete garbage downgrade faggot, cope with your literal faggot-looking budget loki nigger, you can't stop me from telling the truth about how dd2 increased the world size compared to dd1 while cutting back content in every way like monster and weapon/armor variety
>>750159536Wasnt a joke it was genuine advice though? How are you typing while enflamed anyways?
>>750159305What ethnicity are you?
>>750159305>>750159015So youre going to ignore the legion of other black people in DD1 because you liked Mason. Got it. Fake fans.Go back and play teh game for fuck sake, its as diverse as a fucking modern city, this was not a change brought in by DD2.
>>750159669>no rusted weapons>noooooo now I can’t run around with a log of shit on a stick on my back noooooo!Kek how mad do you think he can get?
>>750159669okay bro
>>750159305You sound extremely mad for someone who is insisting others are upset.
>>750159485Is Mercedes really considered black. She's more like a Hispanic and is overall a Frenchmen
>>750159692>nigger struggles with the concept of an anonymous image board because he can't picture an apple>>750159712>So youre going to ignore the legion of other black people in DD1>troon pretends to not understand
DD1 fags are really mad now that DA2 came out and turned out to be massively more Kino than DA1 huh?Cope.
>>750159818Almost like they never even actually liked DD to begin with lol
>>750159712>AYoOoOo ‘Risen!lmao, this gets me everytime man
>>750159815Indian, got it.
>>750159754>retard dd2 enjoyer is too nigger brained to understand that losing 3 whole status effects on weapons directly makes pawn variety worseokay retard we get it, you don't even like pawns you'd rather have co-opaverage dd2 nigger faggot enjoyer>>750159818nice playercount
>>750159815>troonAlready used that joke, use another one you unoriginal dweeb boy
>>750159905>seething on cooldownKek. Keep going
>>750159871>Almost like they never even actually liked DD to begin with lolpost hours you fucking NIGGER tourist>>750159941>Already used that jokeliteral nigger dd2 enjoyer doesn't know the difference between a joke and a slurkeep proving you're a retarded nigger-jeet
>>750159815Whats not to understand, you said you liked Mason, so that makes all the other black people stop existing apparently because he was a good representation, but that does not excuse all the BAD representation you absolute fucking spastic.What excuse do you have for all these black knights, I havent even started posting civilians in western clothing speaking with generic accents.
stop talking to the gay retard, you idiots.where do i find lesser dragons for the pawn badge? pity hires are my only way of farming these cunts
>>750159905>nice playercountYeah? Thanks. Bigger than DD1 ever had :^)
>>750159905>noooooo not my rusted weaponrinooo nooooooo>muh mystic knight why did you take my mystic kniiiiifht wahhhhhhh shitsunoooooooo!>the heckin story is poopy I need a good bedtime story to go sleepy byes it suuuucks nooooooo!
Stop replying to the malding tard, let him scream into the void.
>>750159759>>750159968>phonepostersi'm noticing dd2 enjoyers are phoneposting niggerjeetsnot surprising
>>750158805Aye. She was never hostile so it felt crappy just fighting her because we could.
>>750160028>AyyoOooOoO ‘Risen!!LMAOO
>>750160028>retard nigger tries to argue random background npcs with 1 line of dialogue that look normal is the same as brant and your rival both being shittily voice acted, awful written, awful designed (same nigger zoomer hair for the rival), etci literally never said anything about representation actually all i said was that dd2 had ugly fucking niggers
Y'all niggas know you can make friends without being annoying right
>>750160070whats wrong with phone postingbro? desu I barely sit in front of my pc, in fact its been days.
>>750160050it's funny posting this image when shitsuno got publicly raped and gaped for dishonoring the company
>>750160208Who cares the gameplay is fun
>>750160278>whats wrong with phone posting>bro? desu I barely sit in front of my pc,average dd2 fan
Finally found all the secret gear hidden under the water pre UW in the Lost Rites, there’s some good looking shit you can find in there and some of it seems to be on par and even better than some Norgan gear. How’s the post game after you kill the fallen dragon? Bretty good?
>>750160313culture war faggots never play games, they just get angry and blogpost about it because they're faggots
>>750160313>Who cares the gameplay is funi care because the gameplay is worse than 1 and that's unacceptable, it's this crazy concept called having standards instead of just throwing your arms up and accepting any fucking slop that comes your wayi didn't buy starfield either after fallout 4, try having standards nigger
>>750160350>secret gear hidden under the water pre UW in the Lost Riteshow do you get under water, arisen?
Holy shit Warrior is so bad. There is simply no way to react incoming attacks
>>750160280What’s even funnier is that never happening lol but then again I’m not a schizotroon that can’t do a set of ten push-ups
>>750160280aktually Itsuno san(may the Lord bless his soul) said in a based af interview and I quote “was not looking to making a game normiefaggots would enjoy…” so you see it makes perfect sense why you hate DD2 as much as you hate your brown and manlet father.
>>750160368>culture war faggots never play gamesliterally played more dd1 than you, almost definitely played more dd2 than you before the dlc launch because i'm not a phoneposting normalfaggot, literally play more games every week than you
>>750160441try the parry skill. also, warrior can tank just about anything anyway
>>750160441You should try pressing R1, cancels recovery frames right after attacks and can stagger enemies like the MH GS shoulder bash.
>>750160505>was not looking to making a game normiefaggots would enjoy>while making his world a bigger open world map for no reason, adding in literal eceleb official pawns, celebrity trailersactual lying jap rat
Convince me to splosh 30(thirty) eurodollars on the dlc
>>750160505Based, I thank Itsuno everyday for making limpdicks seethe forever, and all it took is him doing what he wanted
>>750160426>gameplay is worse than DD1It's a bit different but it's good to me. I enjoy the physics a lot. It's nice of you to share your opinion with us today
>>750159808The people of Cassardis are Hispanic equivalents and you can kinda see it in their names like Cortese, Benita, Quina and elvar etc.She and Mason come from the same country (Hearthstone) so it's not unreasonable to assume she's at least part black with that consideration or insinuation that the people of Hearthstone have darker skin. She definitely has a French flair considering her accent and how she's a mix of Casca and Joan of Arc, so I'm guessing her dad or mom is the Gransys equivalent of French or something like that. Again we don't know exactly what since the game never goes into detail about it and there's no follow up or further material to explain the racial makeup of the nations, but considering how she has blue eyes, it's fair to say Mercedes is definitely mixed to some degree. It really makes me wish we got the full version of DD1 where we would go to Hearthstone and win Mercedes' honor back after the Windbluff tower incident in front of her dad and all the nobles of that nation. Not to say that what we got was bad, but there are so many unanswered questions in DD1 that I wish had more definite answers.
>>750160208Hey, anon, noticed I never defended any of that shit. I did not enjoy DD1 because of Mason, I did not hate DD2 because of Brant. I like DD gameplay, not measuring how good looking the niggers are.Pointing out that there are black people in DD2 is fucking retarded if you liked DD1. Brant is the equivelent of a quest board, you barely interact with him.
>>750160596no, it's complete shit
>>750160345yea bro no wonder your so miserable, close twitter, close discord and stop listening to your xisters they are not good influence on you and for the time being seek to detox yourself man. when you come back we’ll continue talking bro.
>>750160550It cancels towards the enemy and I get yeeted.>>750160542My parry skill is level 1 is so hard to get right.
>>750160596It solidifies the game as one of the best action adventure rpgs ever. Very kino and got me to put another 100hrs into the game and counting, planning on doing another new character on Hard Mode again as well.
>>750160670>close twitter, close discordyou first you fucking nigger normalfag, fucking projecting out your ass faggot
>>750160596I'm level 999 and still not bored
>>750160208I thought it was already told in this thread that its literally unironically okay without a single shred of irony okay when capcom does it bro. did you not understand? wtf
>>750160507keep seethingi played dd1 before you ever knew what it was, and i remember uninstalling the update file on the original PS3 to farm money with ripening foods and hanging overnight on the wall outside the castle to farm disciplineyou are a tourist faggot and hate gamesyou've never liked games because you base your entire personality around what twitter wants to get you mad abouti have more hours in both 1 & 2 seperately than you have in both combined, and i play more games and more types of games than you per week.>cope>seethe>etc.but afterwards, at least leave the fucking thread you clearly arent enjoying
>>750160596me in the right
>>750160659Brant is literally just DD2's Maximilian. you interact with him to do the basic Wyrm Hunt/Sovran quests to move along the plot and then barely interact with him afterward. getting mad at Brant is fucking retarded since you don't see him after the coronation scene and you only need to do 2 or 3 of his quests to get there.
>>750160793god the dlc armors look like such fucking garbage, dd1 armors were so much better>inb4 some retarded illiterate nigger tells me the cyclops helm is in 2 and thinks that's some kinda win
>>750160716perfect times mighty swings help a lot and you’ll have to learn which moves give a good amount of super armor so you can trade blows while staggering the dickhead attacking you, perfect input charged basic attack has some solid stagger properties on it you can mix into your attacks while also giving you a lot of stagger resistance. With warrior you def wanna build as much knockdown power and stagger resistance as possible through your augments and gear. His springting square and jumping square are good, try not to over use his basic heavy attack unless you know for a fact you’re gonna land it
>>750160660Based gatekeeper
>>750160763bro I twitter and discord are fucking poison man, telling you bro you will start enjoying life a lot more once you get rid of all that shit>le normieare you serious bro? even my grandma is on fucking twitter ya mind shattered normienigger lmao
How many ways are there to enter NG+? I think I fucked up. What even carries over anyways?
>>750160915>samefag being this sad and obvious Lmaoooooooo
>>750160441the game is an RPG, not dark soulsthe defense formula is flat reduction, if you are getting knocked around you literally arent high enough level/high enough tier gear for the zonealso there are campsites fucking EVERYWHERE for you to regain your loss gauge, so tanking is a viable strategynot so much in the DLC but they give you a bunch of consumables to restore loss gauge there so its still not so bad
>>750160989>>750160660This fool has resorted to talking to xhimselfLOOOL
>>750161039everything except quest related items. where you at right now?
>>750160034You’re limited to 5 per playthrough without exploits (4 in unmoored 1 in Melve/tower) but iirc people say if you kill the Spearhand master before you kill the one at the tower for his quest it respawns
>>750161196Red shithole and I'm getting my ass absolutely kicked. Maybe I should get off Sorcerer.
>>750161039If you activate the last beam at the sea shrine you end the game. Most of things carry over>>750161167What ?
>>750161264Dragon's don't respawn? What if I "accidentally" used up or sold all my WLC? Do I soft-lock myself? IIRC one of the main quest requirements is getting a handful of them for the godsbane.
>>750161376Its a specific dragon anon
>>750161210
>>750161376dragons respawn, lesser dragons (the ones with aids) do not. you have to do several game cycles to get the pawn badge of killing like 15 or 25 of them or whateverit doesnt give any real bonus, just a little tick on a checklist, but it is technically content
I found this hooded faggot with a crystal staff I can't attack or interact and he makes my pawns stunned. He's fighting zombies at night lol
>>750161447>just a little tick on a checklistis it? i heard it does work similar to the 1 to 3 stars in dd1
>asmongold fan spamming nigger and jeetFuck off.Also Dd2 dark arisen is pretty good but same problems as base game that it repeats same enemies
>>750161460Wtf is this? I never found him in any previous run.
>>750161460Where at?
>Beat Satan>Farm for shit to make Satan stronger>Beat MEGASATAN>Just keep kicking off the apocalypse over and over to kill super Satan again and againAm I a villain?
>>750161592that's the phantom oxcart driver, isn't it? what is he doing without his carriage?
>>750161592I think this is the guy from the ghost carriage?
>>750161592Mason in this cycle obviously
>>750161592lol wtf that’s weird I’ve never seen him and he has the same staff as that slaver in the beginning
>>750161615>>750161651>>750161661>>750161663>>750161751Just googled and that's the guy from that quest. I've done it before but never saw him around.He was fighting zombies near the drake spawn in the way to Checkpoint Rest Town.ALso made the favor to make my Empyrean pawn useless.
>>750161910huh. did he get attacked by zombies and off the carriage? i don't think i've ever seen that happen. not even when they're toppled
>>750162038>Soulblightereveryone point and laugh at this chuuni motherfucker
>>750162038He was alone by the riverside, near the cliff view to the riverside cave in fact. I had just fought the drake but no sign of his oxcart anywhere.
>>750160989all i'm doing is telling the truth, this sequel is a downgrade
>>750162171he's my favorite character in one of my favorite games. i stand with my nigga
>>750161102Fought two drakes while traveling. The first one wasn't so bad, the second made me use a couple of wakestones and curatives. Most than 90% when I played it on Normal lolEven using the quick attack the end lag when you cancel is sometimes not enough to evade the plunge even when it's telegraphed.Pressing R1 to cancel would sometimes lock in into the head and get me burned instead of helping run away from the fire breath.It was effective to climb the head and keep lashing.
>There are people who give their pawns fucking Hawker with Orienteerexists
>>750162661is that her panties?
>>750162639yeah warrior has really long ending lagi've tried jumping out of it or sheathing out of it, but there's not a lot you can do to make it fasterthere might be some skills or something that arent so bad for it, but a lot of gameplay is either just tanking through stuff with the giga stagger resistance you get from the class or having to stop early so you dont get fucked
>>750162661you only need one orienteer, that's why i took it off my main pawn
Should I teach my pawn Aphonite? Will it get me pawn summons?Also do you run Warrior or Fighter tanks in the DLC?
>>750163363the ai can't use warrior at all. most of the time it's just going to swing impotently at the air and it's absolutely godawful at timing the parry skill. in comparison, fighter is solid as the parry is just a stance the ai can hold and all of fighter's skills are fast and/or have a lot of forward momentum. the only complaint i have about fighter pawns is that while the dlc maister skill is pretty good for the player, the ai is absolutely retarded at using it and most of the time it's just going to drain their stamina for dubious benefit
>>750163323Yes, but my mainpawn is a Magic Mommy, so she needs to cook.
>>750162401You're so good at hiding your game hehe. Keep it up
>>750162401well…personally I am having an absolute blast.
I have seen one (1) singular pawn in these threads that is female and not dressed like a $20 whore.Explain yourselves. Why aren't you making refined ladies?
I'm just happy that SHITsuno got the boot and we now have KINOshita redeeming DD2 with GOTY coded dlc
>>750163759My first arisen I ever did looker a bit like yours and I was so confuse when I met Phaseus lol
post your pawns and/or arisens
>>750162401some things are downgrades but the upgrades outweigh them imo
>>750163930Hibernal armor and Gown of the Matriarch aren't whore armors.
>>750164005My Arisen >>750162661This is my pawn
>IT'S TIME TO BURN THE SKY>BREAK THE LINE>MADE WITH HANDS OF TIME>NOW I MUST DENY THE THRONE DIVINE
>>750164005
>>750164051for me the main things are weapons, armors, and skills, and all 3 were worse than 1
>>750163986phaseus has the best hair
>>750164172yo what armor is that
Damn, the DLC is hella backloaded. The final few areas are really, really good. Gonna finish it tonight
>>750164005and this is my pawn gfPCZWV4Q8PM3ETN
>>750163930because i didn't care to get the dlc
Why the fuck was every fight I've participated in so far either me and my furry girls harem dominating everything without breaking a sweat or getting straight up one shot by some shitty drake or cracked enemies without additional bars
>>750163930I never get picked when dressing nice, but I flopped a tit out and get non-stop hires now.
>>750156279Both DD games feel like no one bothers to level up past 50 or so. I'm at 140 and the pawns I see are all CAPCOM made. My own pawn gets rare recruitments now too.
>>750165084/ddg/ is filled with level 200+ pawns
>>750165084What system are you on, I never see Capcom pawns and Im level 120 in the DLC after using a level cap, and still see peoples pawns and get taken on PC. Apparently the average level is around 200 now because XP in the DLC is huge.They really shouldve put a level cap at 200 so everyone has the same end point to reach, its Itsuno insanity that the level cap is 999, it just means there is gulf between the different pawn pool levels.
>>750164402nah, the combat is a huge upgrade over 11 is like DMClite combat. it has a bunch of totally irrelevant status effects and elements>poison>darkness>blindnessand several insanely overpowered ones>torpor>holyand that was like, the entire depth of the combatthere were a single digit number of enemies that really had a specific exploitable weakness (that did not fall in the grouping of "torpor + holy")the vast majority of skills, and regular attacks, and heavy attacks, and alternate attacks, and aerial attacks all just did one form of >do damage to a guyand the skills in dd2 are way more important and diverse>thundermine is super important for sorcerers getting to cast>tons of grapples to disable enemies>tons of enemies that are resistant/immune to physical damage>ranged attacks are now essentially archer locked so harpies are way more deliberate of a threat>party composition matters way more because of these reasons toolike, dont get me wrong, i do dislike some of the class choices they made>mystic spearhand isnt very fun at all>fighter skills are extremely samey, meister skill is just "hit a guy a lot">theif is the exception to all rules and gets their own private versions of elemental attacks, ranged attacks, faster climbing, parries, etc.>warfarer is a lame cop out>almost forgot about trickster, the devs did to because no obelisk of benediction or new skills. upgraded skills are and do nothingbut overall the incorporation of stuff like tusk toss and hundred kisses into base kit and generally making each skill way more important individually feels way better than sorc having 4 tiers of "hit a guy with a blue popsickle" or magic archer having half a dozen worthless skills because you start with three fold and almost instantly upgrade to sixfold/unlock ricochet seeker
>check what quests get locked out by doing Feast of Deception>there's literally shit in the next area that I don't officially have access toDiabolical.
>>750165234>almost forgot about trickster, the devs did to because no obelisk of benediction or new skills. upgraded skills are and do nothingWhy are you fags so fucking desperate to shitpost
>No lolis on the moonDeath to Crapcom!
>>750165629would both
>Spent 7 fucking hours doing rancors trying to kill death>Only ran in to him like 3 times>Every time I did my pawns all suddenly decided they only wanted to stand around doing nothing waiting for the scytheIs there a mod that makes death's spawn rate 100% and disables him from fleeing? I'm so sick of fighting Fimbls.
>keep seeing talk about a quest where you kill a fimbl over the lake>beat the dlc>no such quest in sight>look it up online>it was the tailoring book quest>i just glitched through the gate during my first hours in the dlcDoes freezing the lake get you anything other than access to the cave?
>>750165234>1 is like DMClite combat.but i liked that>and the skills in dd2 are way more important and diverseidk at least for fighter and warrior the skills i had available in dd2 really didn't feel any more diverse than the skills i had available in 1, and i hear the blue vocations lost spells
>>750166109In BBI they kept jumping around Death just to get scyth'd.
man why did they drop the ball so bad
>>750166726Well now they seem genuinely afraid of him.I hired a super aggressive pawn with high damage that rips through everything but as soon as Death shows up he literally just stands still doing nothing every time. Infuriating.
>>750156419This. I went into the DLC at level 50 on hard. First couple fights are ballbreakers but once you unlock the blacksmith to craft welfare gear fights become very manageable. At T3 you can facetank several hits in melee so long you keep your Defense up.No clue why people are complaining about the difficulty, I swear 90% of players don't know how OP the Mettle augment is.
>>750166109should have used magick archer, its dlc super nuke move is holy damage
First DD was one of my favorite games of all the time. Replayed it like 5 times, finally got myself to play DD2. What a let down.There was a bunch of memorable moments in the first game, since the intro with chimera fight , the whole Grigori scene, tons of cool shit. Been playing for a while now and nothing has even come close to that. Makes me really sad
>>750156419Yeah. It's tough early on without proper gear, but after you get properly equipped you can melt the enemy in seconds. The best part is the challenge isn't gone, the enemies are also strong, so it's not completely boring. I can't imagine doing this in normal, must've been a snoozefest.
>>750167254people are generally retarded incompetent fools, anonsurprised you havent figured this out by now
did you bros notice this npc? hes new with the expansion and hes standing on a bridge near the griffon you ride to norgan. I missed him the first time I played through it and am seeing him for thr first time now.I think hes another hint at another DLCcoming based on the elven land.>speaks common tongue>unique armor no other character has>talking about norgan…why?
>>750156626Everything they did for the way Archer feels outside of manual aim mode.Melee combos having looping flowing attack sequences that contextually account for your footing, facing, incline, movement speed and the enemy's posture.Grabbing, carrying and throwing fuckers once they're down.
>>750165432>>750164619Sovran's Plate
>>750167254Most people still don't understand the core mechanics of 2 and are still trying to just spam skills, get hit from the side and get staggered to death
>>750168224why did you quote me?
>>750167375i agree about dd2 being a let down but i knew even before release that the dd2 story was always going to be worse than the dd1 story because of stuff like english VAs today being ass and such, but that rival plot is complete ass
>>750167375Base game DD2 is honestly horrible. They build this giant cool world begging you to explore, fun setpiece fights against big fantastical monsters and tons of vocations and skills to try out and the main story consists out of undercooked sneak missions into the SAME fucking castle for 80% of the main quest. It's honestly baffling, like they had their A team on everything and let the intern write the main quest.DD1's main quest was weird in its own right but had memorable characters and served as an excuse to go out an explore the corners of the world. During it you went from the Waterfall Alter to the Catacombs to the Goblin Fortress to the Great Wall.DD2DA is very good tho, it reminds me a lot of Icewind Dale.
>>750167254>browse pawns>level 170 warrior with 800 str>level 180 fighter with 700 defsometimes I wonder if people just don't care about learning how to play
Does anyone know if Crossing In Shadow is actually locked out by Feast of Deception? It sounds like a load of horseshit.
>>750167375Honestly exploring Waterfall Cave at night was pretty awesome. Main quest has been absolute shite but wander lusting around the map to uncover everything in Hard mode feels right.Probably sell most of the shit I pickup if I ever need dosh though since checkpoint gear early kind of breaks shit.
>>750168669The only quests that may be affected by that are the Melve/Harve/Ulrika ones and that one you talk with Sven.All this old info about DD2 is schizo.
DD3>directed by kino shit(a)>base world will be more like norgan and less like vernworth>all original DD1 skills will return>mystic knight is back>trickster removedPray arisens
>>750169209>no moon>no lolisNo thanks
>>750168997I'm going to explore battal anyway, the sculptor quest, repairing the sword for the castle, and sacred arbor quest seem like they could get fucked and if Feast just sends me to battal right after it doesn't matter anyway.Jolly exploration time, hard mode level 48 adventures, hopefully I don't get fucked.
>>750169209my number one biggest wish is the return of mystic knighti just dont love any of the dd2 vocations. spearhand is really neat conceptually but its not strong in practice and it has terrible knockdown resistance so you get ragdolled constantly.warrior has big meaty swings but is just slow as fuck even with swift strikes and shit like blood oath.fighter is probably the closest to what feels good to play for me but its damage is ass.i just want to have my big enchanted shield, swing my mace, cast great cannon and enchant my weapons to match elemental weaknesses. and i DONT want to play fucking wayfarer. id also like it if the big enchanted shield was on my arm instead of my back this time
>>750169209if this happens i'd coom and also i'd regret my words and deeds in these threads
Magick cannon is a boring skill.
>>750169532youre a boring person
>>750169651Magick cannon is a boring skill. If mystic knight comes back, magick cannon won't.
>>750169330>griffin flew past as I descended the waterfalls>literally a drake sitting at the bottom for me tooFoightin' around the world it is.
>>750156419once you get a level 4 weapon enemies start meltingthe game throws so many curatives and wakestones at you that it is pretty much impossible to die
>>750169330No they don't in my experience. But we're talking about Dragon's Dogma so you playing it safe is a better course of action.
>>750169209no reason to get rid of trickster. i dont use it but some people really like it But yeah, cant wait for him to shit out some more kino in DD3
>>750167254I never use mettle and still have no issue. the game shits out healing
>>750169532After getting post game skill I don't have a place for it. Honestly I would rather just clone + spam heavy attack/slam down attack than doing magic cannon.
>>750170190>but some people really like itLiterally nobody enjoys Trickster.
>>750169874>the drake ran away during our battlePussy ass bitch!
>>750165629bro's got a type
>>750170190Add a censor to your wayfarer kit with only the AoE smoke skill. Try to levitate and put your tank spirit to funny spots
>>750161443oh shit the dd1 reference flew right over my head
>>750170304I do. It's stronger than ever in the DLC. Illusion classes are based. It reminds me of Mesmer from Guild Wars.Only thing I would've done was make it into a DoT class where the censor distributes poison.
>>750170256clone?
>>750170304Bro has trickster derangement syndrome
>>750170496The poison would have to be pretty strong to be worth anything. Roided up pawns kill things so fast that a DoT effect wouldn't be useful at all.
>System pc>Pawn NameNadalee>Pawn LeveI211>Pawn VocationFighter>Pawn IDL80HAWXZQ2ZL>Optional Info (Boons, Inclinations, etc)Drow, arcanist
>>750156994It actually does pretty good damage, like 1 and a half bars i think. First thing he does after you nail him with it though is destroy it with a spell then he flys up there and its a pain in the ass fighting him up near that castle wall
I wish the Immolation skill returned in DD2, I loved that skill.
so I went into Niflhel and killed the goat man is there anything after that in the dlc or just repeating that for better loot?
>>750165407shitting on the class that does no damage, has no defenses and interacts with exactly NONE of the game is not shitpostingtrickster is the dumbest fucking idea for a class and regularly gets forgotten because its a meaningless piece of shit
>>750172160>has no defenseIts the best tank in the game lol
>>750172160be less upset
>>750172062you can re-open the endless night part and fight an enhanced version of the final DLC boss, and doing so rewards level 5 spoils
>>750172160Ok but it has an obelisk and it has new skills and upgraded skills so don’t be a fag
>>750166451fighter has the least number of diverse skills, but stuff like punishing counter, gouging stab and the jump slash are extremely good utility that all do different things, vs a similar comparison to dd1 air swipe, hindsight slash and compass slash all do extremely similar things of just "wack a thing nearby you"the tracking on the jump slash in dd2 is way harder and the reach goes way above normal jumping light attacks, as well as staggering far easier, which is way more important for harpies because they like to fly off out of reach, and staggering them stops thatwarrior in dd1 had by far the worst skillset out of any class and it really only had "sweep" "savage lash/arc of might" and "exodus slash" and that was ITwarrior in dd2 has regular charge skills (which can now clash with large monster attacks like a parry), grapples, launchers (which lead to the heavy execution attacks), an actual parry, build in pommel strike which also functions as a on demand poise boost and small DR boostmages "lost" spells, but like, none of the old spells would hold up and all of the new spells all function extremely well at all levels. stuff like silence on mages is worth slotting (and was even with only 4 slots) because you could cast it on flying dragons and it would dunk them like a flash bomb in monster hunter. sorcerers also now have a lot more utility with stuff like seism being a knock down/stagger and thundermine being a perfect "stay off me" pillar to protect your casts. mage gets a similar "protected casting" spell with the party wide shield that saves you from 3 hits. there's a ton more examples like this in dd2, but rarely does stuff like that come up with skills in dd1, even for ones that SHOULD matter, like skills like assassin's torpor arrow (it doesnt because rusty weapons can be 3*'ed from the beginning of the game and apply torpor AND poison WAY better)
>>750167375dd2 peaks when you go out and explore yourselfthe game never brings you to the medusa, the sphynx, the ancient battle ground, the misty bog, crossing the border with the griffon, chimera by the elves, etc. etc. etc.you unironically were handed a golden adventure on a silver platter and you only sat and sipped water because you only know how to eat chicken nuggets with a fork and knife
can pawns orgasm?
>>750173784yes but they only orgasm from when they or their arisen successfully slays a large monster or knocks one down
>>750173784only the ones with dragonaids
>mage will literally not cast a heal even if I'm at 10% health unless I use help command>use help command>"You needn't command me at every turn"
Just discovered my Pawn has jiggly tits.
>>750174496you fucked up with the inclination bruhdid you make her straightforward?
Which one?
>>750175187Hired pawn. It's only become an issue now because the game has been piss easy but now I'm playing hard mode in Norgan so I actually need heals. However I also stupidly didn't realize this bitch was wearing the default robes and staff so her dying quickly was also a problem. I sent her away with rotten meat as a gift.
>>750175220The 200% holy blade. Damn shame it doesn't have Tidal Rage.
What a fucking KINO fight. Why the FUCK was the base game not like this?
>>750175336Yeah ideally knockout strike or Titanic Cleave is replaced with Tidal Rage. Gives me something to farm for.
>>750164005I had this team for 21 days straight, kept giving the other two pawns the leftover relic gear that wasn't good for me or my pawn to keep them around longer
>>750175703>breaking news: fentanyl addiction strikes vernworth
>>750174223worth it
>>750175408Warriors have too many good weapon passives. I like Mighty Swing a lot because even the regular charged light attack is really good, so why not give it more damage? And it combos really well with the ring that restores stamina on light attack.On the topic of farming, would you recommend taking the rare drops ring off? I want a holy sword too, but tier 5s don't roll elements as far as I've been able to tell, so I need to drop down to 4 for that.
>>750165629right kinda reminds me of maelle from E33
>>750174959nice
>>750175832I didn't know there was a rare drops ring. I have a helm that gives me a chance to get more than 1 relic whenever I receive one (except treasure chests) but I'm not sure if it works for vortexes but I don't take it off just in case.
>>750176050I think I might be misremembering what it does, but it's the ring that you upgrade by refighting Satan-chan over and over.
what does sex with a cat woman feel like
>>750176124I totally forgot about that! I should go charge my JO crystal I mean ring.
>"Itsuno was sabotaged by Capcom! DD2 would have been kinoplex if it wasn't for their meddling!">DD2:DA ends up being kinoplexSomething isn't adding up here
>>750169209Trickster can stay but it needs to be more of an assassin archetype rather than a passive cuckold simulator
>>750176498Summoner where your smokemonkeys actually do damage would be fine too.
>>750176550I was thinking more of a draining/DoT thing where your illusions sap the life from whatever they latch onto. Also using your weapon to spread around poison smoke.
>tfw about to max 2 more vocations and enter the "Sorc and Mage" part of vocation leveling upAt least I'll get to pickup whatever gear battahl has so we're not under equipped. Like Hard mode but my XP is pretty high, what are you supposed to enter the DLC / endgame at usually?
It's Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Expansion gaming time.
>>750176887I went in at level 78 and got properly tossed around until I appraised a handful of relics and then the difficulty evened out on normal. It's definitely intended for endgame base game equipment but you can probably just run from monsters and scrounge in the dirt like a savage until you got stuff.
>>750156419>>750167254I would say same. The only thing that has really seemed jarring was fighting the Gagana, it just starting doing non stop fire spam. Like seriously just wouldn't story spewing fire at it's feet and I ended up having to really spam some healing items. I'm all for some kind of final death throes, but the enemy should have some stamina restraints like me. It was almost comical how it just wouldn't stop spitting fire.
>>750176887I think beyond 60, level doesn't really matter too much because your equipment will give you far more stats than levels will. I was 231 when I went to the DLC, and it was still pretty rough despite having, even with fully upgraded gear. Hell, even the Corrupted Chimera sneak peak we got a month before the DLC hit was kind of hard.
>>750164005Arisen left, pawn right.
>>750177065Handsome Pawn!
>>750177019yeah not a fan of "low HP monster has infinite stamina" phases in any game myself. Baphomets do that thing where they spam grabs and jumps non-stop too.
>>750176902can't believe they added that stupid nigg cut that's in everythinglike fucking whyjust as bad as the e-celeb pawns
>>750169209Rework trickster to work for your pawn. Some of the high level ideas aren't bad for the trickster, it's just I as a player don't want to play passively. But by all means a passive vocation perfect for a pawn to play, though.
>Finally got the 90 coin set, the ring, the passive skill book and the emblem that increases your obelisk drop length.>Finally take of Detection.>Still hear the noise at random.there's a coin in my brain I have to take it out
>>750164005>still no other char this handsomeyou guys suck
>>750176974>too difficult>on normalThat is...moderately concerning as blast Hard mode man.
Which one, Arisens?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7nNnSbxe9whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhloNzs7dPY
>>750177618It's a very equipment based level curve. Enjoy the difficulty while it lasts, it'll get easier and easier until the post-DLC challenges which can be a fun clusterfuck.
>>750177157Thanks. I wish people made more male pawns just so I could see more of the cool armours, the game has a lot of them. Im also sick of the female voices, they needed way more voice packs.
>>750177675Agreed on that.
>>750175873fag33 is a shit gamedont you ever mention that turd ever again in a DD2 thread, ya faggot.
>>750177738damn are browns seriously still seething over it?
What does Dark Arisen 2 actually add?
>>750174959post her ID, pinky promise I won't leave her in a stinky goblin cave
>>750161443I'm not going to lie, this fucker got me good the first time. By the time my pawns were screaming "Avalanche!" it was already too late.
>>750178867You better be nice to her!
>>750161443wait, the whiteout i fought him in wasn't scripted? i was popping hot rocks and blind dodging avalanches that entire fight. it was cinematic
>>750170408Oh wow lol you're right.
>>750178780Bunch of actual good bosses, a region that is much smaller than I expected, and a story that is mediocre but at the very least coherent and told in a way that is not retarded.
>>750177319If DD3 doesn't have all vocations working for all pawns it's a non-starter for me. I don't care how much extra work it is if you have other npcs using arisen-only vocations and skills then my pawns should be able to use them to. I don't care if you have to lock some skills to be arisen only even if the pawns are too retarded to use them but I'm sick of all the cool classes being locked out for pawns.
>>750179043hmm, she's not coming up for me sadly. are you on console?
>>750178780It's Dark Arisen but significantly bigger and better.
>>750178780for one the ability to have six actions on all jobsnot sure if that was a free update though but why the fuck wasn't that in the initial game FUCKNG
why are dogma lovers so cringe?
>>750179872I have 300 hours in dd2 and I have no idea who this faggot is.
>>750179930>dd2fake fan
>>750179958whats wrong with dd2? its an absolute blast!
>>750156279Trying to decide between MA, Warrior and Mystic Spearhand for the post DLC content. They all are pretty fun. Is the Spearhand second meister skill actually practical or does it just look retardedly cool?
i made it to battahl finally, its kind of aids.since I leveled fighter and warrior first should I even bother with other classes? I noticed the stats gained from leveling are affected by your vocation and it feels like mage is super weak because of it
>>750170576
>>750180183mage is good to get to at least rank 2 for the augment that boosts magic defense, its 30+ 30%sorcerer also has one for knockdown resistance, which is also goodthe offensive augments are extremely, extremely weak in dd2, never worth slotting
>>750164005Archer with immortality build so nothing short of brining can kill her, and a Battle Frenzy 4 bow so nothing can survive her
>>750180272please tell me more about this build
>>750180183Mage is a pawn vocation. You level it up to get the magic defense augment and then you switch to an actually fun vocation.The only reason I have it maxed is because playing as Warfarer passively levels every vocation you have unlocked.
>>750180183battahl is good for grinding DCP
>>750179958i have 500 hours in DD1300 in DD2.
>>7501803933 req's:1. Ring of Reversal from breaking lesser demon horns: all attacks heal you but you constantly lose health2. Ring of Rejuvenation from Wilhelmina quest in base game: gives temporary healing when you hit low health3. Achieve >4000 baseline max hp (use Norgan gear effects): the magic break even point where #2 outweighs the negative of #1With those, you cannot die from anything short of brine or cliffs/avalanches/etc.
>>750179672SHITsuno's vision, evidently.KINOshita knows what the fans want
>>750179304I wouldn't say the story is mediocre. It is pretty average. The base game's story is mediocre.
>>750177675>making a male pawnNo thanks. The lore heavily implies romantic interest between an Arisen and their pawn. An Arisen literally designs their ideal partner in their minds eye.What I wish was that people would make more interesting looking pawns. Every female is short and looks like the girl from high school that the player had a crush on. Every male is big ass muscle dude.
>Every DD2 NPC has a behavior schedule, affinity system and tracks each personal preference >This entire system has no point to existing nor is it relevant to the game at large outside of one extremely minor cutscene near the end of the game>Dark Arisen sees this, says "cuh-ringe!" and just does a kino RPG adventure instead
>>750181058>I wish was that people would make more interesting looking pawnsLike what, all the terrible OC pawns, joke designs that aren't funny or media references? Most pawns you find in the rift do look unique, they're just not something try hard.
>>750176550Monster summoner would be kino, especially with a mechanic where we can ride it to influence direct attacks, like making the Chimera use spells or melee attacks.
>>750158631>>750159175They're all me...
Finally finished all the DLC and my playthrough tonight. I still think DD1 did EVERYTHING better except the combat.
>>75015893450 years from now, we will still play Skyrim...
how do i get moneyi spent too much buying new gear for my pawn and buying the house in battahl that I neglected my guy
>>750172062there's a giant bird boss you can only find in vortexes and Death can randomly appear in them too
>>750181713it's sad that rpgs peaked here, don't tell me cyberpunk is better i tried that and the intro was slow and ass and no 3rd person camera is retarded
>>750160596I need your help to fund the next DLC. So consider buying if you like combat focus action RPG with randomized loot.
>>750180502didkt ask under 1000 pleb
>>750161210>>750161443Holy fuarking KIIIIIIINNNNOOOOOO
spaghetti gobbo
I hate how tusk toss has effectively been removed from the game because it's stuck in the shit damage core skill containment zone, riotous fury is his only """""okay"""" ground level boss damage dealer but it's way to janky and slow to use, using it on those blue spirit wolves and belly mouth giants is just gonna get you killed
>>750183237tusk toss is fantastic as a core skill, you get an on demand launcher for a staggered enemy. it does a ton of damage if you knock them up and they take fall damage and you get the executionthe DLC also has specific tusk toss boost skills that make it charge faster and do more damagethe compass slash upgrade also does a pretty good amount of damage, and spamming the upgraded cloudward slash is also great damage on most bosses.its not the best DPS class because theif, archer and mage exist, but its hardly that bad
Should I play this game if I played the first one a long time ago and basically don't remember anything? I see a lot of bitching about how 2 is worse than 1, but I probably won't care about that
>>750183343It has nothing to do with 1's storyAs to whether you should play it, you're the only one that can answer that for yourself, I'm ~60 hours in and at this point I'm just hoping it will be over soon since I'm really fucking tired of fighting bandits, goblins and lizards, so many fucking lizards
>>750183335>tusk toss is fantastic as a core skillIt's really not, sure it can finish a stray goblin but it used to be a boss killer in DD1, in dark arisen 2 it may deal 2% of a lesser demons health bar while airward slash does 20%>the DLC also has specific tusk toss boost skills that make it charge fasterTried it, sadly not worth it because why would you sacrifice good perks for a perk that charges a dogshit skill
>>750183343Dark Arisen 2 is doing a lot to quell the bitching, but it doesn't really go back and fix the base game's problems. If you liked the first game you should definitely play DD2+DA2.
I'm at level 20 and finally it just clicked and I'm having a blast, warrior was indeed the best choice of vocation, charging them shwings is satisfying as fuck. I'm gonna postpone dropping the game for now.
>>750160659I played DD1 for the first time right before playing DD2. There are way more niggers in DD2, and not only are they are offensively ugly with awful voice acting, there's also no in-universe explanation as to why there are so many niggers walking around.You can mostly handwave DD1's away because of Mason and Mercedes explicitly being foreigners, so the 2 or 3 background NPCs that blend in with the hundreds of other generic background NPCs are probably foreigners as well (and none of them hold a high office). DD2 doesn't have that, it does that modern woke game thing where it acts like the medieval european city is a modern melting pot even though no other nations are mentioned to exist, they seem culturally isolated, and there's no difference, as if sometimes white european people are just born black. It's very bad worldbuilding.
>>750182604s-stupid hyuman
is there a place you can find blackdogs consistently at night?
>>750183947Their most common spawn is just outside the settlement for me
>Finally reach dlc>First fight against BeorcansI've seen enough, give Kinoshita DD3 and it will be absolute kino.
>>750184060BEEOOOOORRROOOWOOOOORRRRRRH
>>750181920>don't tell me cyberpunk is betterI won't, I honestly believe that sandbox RPG peaked at Skyrim. No game can ever come close to top it.
>>750164005>hot male pawn is never the pawnREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
sharty lost.
>game recorded individual lines for common names
/v/-coded pawn
>>750184010north or south of it? seems like there's a spawn for them just below the beercan stronghold too
>>750183237There is a roll Breakneck toss for sword in DLC. It still not as strong as it was in DD1, but at least the charge time was shorten to be more acceptable (I still think it too slow, maybe cut it down to 0.2s or less)
>>750184465kek
>>750183343Bear in mind that most of that bitching was from a gaslighting campaign and retarded popular content creators attacking the sequel for lies like it having "microtransactions and pay 2win."There's no consensus on 2, despite what some anons and repeat posters on /v/ will claim.
absolute kino
>>750184418>no one else will make a fantasy rpg as immersive as skyrim>bethesda is literally incapable of doing it again (see: shartfield)at least in 5 years we'll have ai mashups of skyrim and a bunch of other games, i suppose that's good enough
>>750184610Consensus on 2 was that it was rushed and its priorities were misguided. It spread itself too thin trying to do too many things at once.
>>750180183>I noticed the stats gained from leveling are affected by your vocation and it feels like mage is super weak because of itBase stats increase per level, and are temporarily modified by your vocation. If you swap vocation your stats are the same as if you leveled as that vocation. Essentially, base stats and what you level at are irrelevant for "builds" unlike DD1. Mage sucks because Mage sucks; it's purely a support vocation. Try Sorcerer.
>>750184814That's not a critique of the game itself or a comparison to DD1 though, it's a criticism of the developers and/or being disappointed that the sequel fell into similar (but way shallower) pitfalls that the first game did.
>>750184610>Bear in mind that most of that bitching was from a gaslighting campaignno matter how many times you call me part of some retard discord it doesn't change that i'm just some retard that really loved dd1 who has many objective criticisms of 2
>>750164309that's the most jrpg party i've seen in a while
I kinda hate that the end-game is just gacha style mechanics and fighting the final boss and over and over and over again. I'm still having fun, but I'm starting to get burned out. The DLC itself was super fun though, got at least 50 hours out of it. I don't know how long I'll keep "grinding" before getting bored.
something small that bugs me is knowing that 99% of players will probably never notice that there's actually full matching sets at least in the base game and you can tell because they have matching elemental and debilitation resists, like pic rel
>>750185548>call me part of some retard discordI didn't say that, or even reply to you. Those people (along with general shitposters) do exist though, and they're constantly lying in these threads.>objective criticisms of 2There are definitely SUBJECTIVE criticisms of 2, but that's not what we're talking about here.
>>750180183The first time I got to Battahl I actually rage quit for like two hours because I got assraped by the wolves while my pawns did absolutely nothing to help me. Maybe I was underleveled at the time or something, but holy shit did they kick my ass.
>>750185773>I didn't say thatokay well my schizo moment then>There are definitely SUBJECTIVE criticisms of 2okay i get you mean that for most of them but things like the quality of the english voice acting or the weapon variety are objectively worse than 1 (fewer elemental weapons, no ur dragon light weapons for all vocations - think thief kept the daggers, missing debilitation weapons, etc) like it's not even on par with 1
Most of the complaints about the game I see in those threads can be fixed with mods btw
>>750185843>can be fixed with mods btwwhich is good but also mods doesn't stop me from shitting on devs for not having basic shit be in the vanilla game, like no i don't think kenshi or rimworld are phenomenal because 99% of the enjoyment comes from work put in by modders, not the devs
>>750185834>the quality of the english voice actingWell no, that's not an objective thing either. The voice actors in both games are good, so it comes down to what they're trying to portray and individual performances.>weapon variety are objectively worse than 1I mean sure, but even that's technically subjective. Those debilitation weapons were absolutely not fucking used except as memes or cheese tactics, for example. Losing them isn't really impactful to 99% of players.>But that's pedantic!No. People need to learn the difference between a subjective critique or opinion that is based on or supported by facts, and an objective critique or fact.
absolute cinedogma
>>750183947Ettam forest, on the way to the sorcerer obelisk.
What's dogma?
>>750185741it's a secret. DLC also has one if you complete all the hardest challenges for pre-unmoored, unmoored and norgan.
>>750187695DOMGA BALLS
>>750158490Battle Frenzy 4 + Demonic Counter 3 + Critical Hit = Lmaoooooo1shotting goatmen is hilarious. Archer is crazy strong cuz crit hit stacks with lethality. Slap two demonsbane rings and sebd giga satan flying.
>Start a new playthrough on hard>67h later still not done with the main game contentShould I just do the vanilla game + unmoored world then do DLC in NG+? How hard will I be raped? Just feels iffy doing unmoored after DLC since all the gear you get in unmoored will be worthless by that point.
>>750187989You can do DLC before Unmoored World gear, but it's going to be difficult and ruin the game balance because the DLC is the final content. Progression wise the DLC is after Unmoored World, so just do it in NG+ unless you're going to be doing multiple playthroughs.
>>750158490>>750187862I must admit that I was shocked at how strong Archer is. I hired an Archer pawn at end-game and he's doing really good damage, might do my own Archer build now just to play around with it. I have the vocation maxed out, even have a bow with critical shot and battle frenzy III, I think? I also want to try out Trickster with battle frenzy if it does what other anons have told me it does. I will say the Archer is actually outdamaging me and I'm Thief. The only way I keep up is if I use my battle frenzy IV dagger, but sometimes I don't like running battle frenzy on melee vocations as you will usually die much faster and take hits faster if you can't keep formless feint up. Archers have the advantage of attacking from a distance/backline. I personally love cataract shot or whatever. It's literally a machine gun of arrows like you just rapid fire 15 arrows and it feels fun to use.
>can't beat the corrupted chimera at the start of the DLC quest>level 55Is that not the start of the DLC? Am I being tricked?
>>750188272That's the start of lost rites trials not Norgan. Norgan stuff is harder btw.
>>750188272I entered Norgan at level 53 and got my shit kicked in. You will level up rapidly in Norgan though, so if you do a few big fights, you can easily go up 10-15 levels and Norgan equipment gives you a bigger power boost. You go into Norgan with base story equipment, which does nothing in Norgan's region. You might one shot everything in the base game, but in Norgan you'll do chip damage with base game equipment.
>>750188272It's notThe chimera is also kinda ass to fight since it constantly jumps around at a location that doesn't offer a lot of space to fight inJust play the base game until you get to the quest with "Guardian" in the name, finish it and then fuck off to the DLC and if you don't turn in the quest, it will disable fall damage for your character while it's still in your log
well glad am I that this game doth have an impressive character creation system
>>750188901If only the lighting wasn't so inconsistent. My arisen basically goes from Grug the retarded neanderthal to gigachad depending on it
>>750188901You need to work on your aura farming and picture taking skills.
>>750189115i will admit I'm lazy on the framing and timing and just take random indoor shotsthat's a really cool party though
>start first playthrough>65 hours later>40 of those hours are in norgan
>>750188901imagine the sex
>>750189226He has ridiculously small eyes, and kind of looks like Dean and Sam Winchester fused then cursed into doing an eternal Blue Steel.
>>750189350woman spotted!
>>750189350there are just lots of squinty scenes maybe im too used to my Highlander from FFXIV
>>750189381yeah small determined eyes are manlyshe just wants 2026 Wolverine puppy eyesprey eyes vs hunter eyes and all that jazz
>>750189350Viggo is disappoint
>>750189381Are you actually stupid enough to believe that women don't think Sam and Dean are attractive?>>750189394It's just the face. It doesn't look bad, but it does look like he's constantly putting on a face.
>>750156279I tried for the 3rd time to get into this game. 6 hours later and boring Vermund quests done, I'm filtered. Game's gorgeous. The castle and details are emaculate. Boring as all hell and the plot is talking to me like I'm a child. DD1 had me hooked from hour 1 I don't know why they went with this convoluted amnesia bullshit.
>>750189527i kinda see it though but i don't mindbut does it look as squinted here?
>>750189593>convoluted amnesia bullshitThis is relevant for like the first 5 quests or so and it never gets brought up again
>>750189621Much better here, yeah. Still looks like he's full of angst, but that's arguably a positive. I could totally see a crossover episode where Sam and Dean have to help the Arisen defeat a specific monster.
>>750187731oh yeah i think i saw that secret one, idk for me the best looking dd2 armor is the white snake toga set and i'm normally a heavy armor/plate guy
>>750189593>>750189804The amnesia stuff is a massive plot point in the game later, it's directly tied to everything that is going on.
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Sweet was just about to boot up the gameStill at the maingame thoughAnd im all out of cash to upgrade my gear
>>750189825>Still looks like he's full of angsthe's been holding in a fart ever since before fighting the dragon
>>750189887how many fucking mods are you there got installed
>>750189887>lock-on combat with dodge
>>750189825deep down he is worried about his pawn - it's a feeling he cannot shake, even in this delusion
>>750189887ur a faget
>>750189869No it isn't, after you get to vernworth your amnesia has no plot relevance at all
>>750189995The entire reason that you have amnesia is because the villain gave it to you for a reason, anon.
>>750189887These are my modsAlthough i dont use the shadow one
>>750189527no, i srsly believe only a woman would make that comparison in the first place.
>>750185741Not in shitsuno's vision, sorry...
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>He's just standing there... Menacingly!
>>750190140I am aware but just because he gave you amnesia so he can carry out his plan in peace doesn't mean it had any plot relevance past the beginning. It's not like you start piecing things you should know back together during the game. You never possessed any knowledge to begin with pre-amnesia. This whole "You are made to forget you are arisen" is undone in the first 15 minutes, before it's even revealed you have amnesia. They could've just made it so you got shipped off to a distant land somewhere without amnesia and it would've been the exact same plot. Its obvious itsuno vision entailed all these ideas that he implemented but never fleshed out>amnesia>political plot>beastren racism>lambent flame>pawn racism in battahl>and moreYou spent early to mid game uncovering this political conspiracy only for the game to say "actually fuck this political shit we are doing dragon now"The only convoluted plot point is the whole cycle thing. It's just vagueposting but only because itsuno vision doesn't offer a satisfying resolution to it
>>750187731>pre-unmooredWhich one is this?
>>750188901Virtually everyone bum rushed this hair and it's blunt banged variant. Long hair wins. They should more long, stylish styles in instead of short crap. Women want to look pretty and men want them to look that way so stop skimping on the long hair in the CC.
>>750187989NG+ doesn't actually make anything harder iirc, that's what hard mode was for
>>750185843The problem with mods fixing things is that that's great for narrow problems like bugs or number balancing, but much harder for broader ones or things dependent on assets a modder can't easily makeLike no, modders can't easily change every hand placed enemy spawn for the entire game map and make all the areas more openThat's why it's so important for even a heavily moddable game to make sure the foundations the game depends on are solid
Level 4 holy weapon or level 5 weapon or grind evil eye weapon?
>>750190980Lvl 5 weapon with boosted Battle Fury IV
>>750187989>doing unmoored after DLCWait. After? No you got it right the first time. Tthe correct playthrough was going into Unmoored World and then knocking out all of the Lost Rites trials and THEN going to Norgan. Because you can look at all the pretty Lost Rites equipment and farm the Evil Eye a little bit for the chests that can only be opened 3 times in a single playthrough (so you'd kill the Evil Eye and a get a key for a specific weapon for your desired vocation. "Absorb" the Evil Eye magic from killing it and it gets randomized Special Skills. You can then take these specific weapons and Dwarven Upgrade then to get about 1400~ in whatever your damage stat is which can comfortably carry you until you begin to get 4* and finally 5* equipment in Norgan.If you run through Norgan your equipment is going to take a fat dump on all of the mainland encounters to the point of lunacy. Which is funny. It's good to feel overpowered.
>>750191015why are people so obsessed with Battle Frenzy? The increase in damage isn't worth taking 2x more damage and running through all your curatives.
>>750191065>Taking 2x more damageThis nigga taking hits
>>750156750>>750157015does it come even remotely close to the OG busted classes, warrior and thief?
>>750190704>nude modsWhat is wrong with some of you
>>750190832The amnesia IS the political plot. The amnesia wasn't to get rid of you in terms of removing you from the city, it's to prevent you from becoming the Arisen at all and playing out the role.The Dragon is also intentionally summoned as part of the plan by the villain, it's the culmination of the plot that's been built up throughout the entire game. It's a direct through line from the pawn slave camp to the dragon encounter.I feel like you don't really remember the story too well, anon.
>>750191065Why are you taking hits my guy?
>>750191065Because they run it with the rings that double your health and junk. You're essentially turning yourself into a Glass Cannon and then the game rewards you for doing it.>Ring of BenevolenceYou get this from completing Wilhelmina's Side Quest in Vermund. Do it right after you're able to access the whorehouse.>The base-game ring provides a percentage-based health regeneration whenever you hit critical red health. Once your character hits a threshold of roughly 4,000 maximum HP, the passive healing tick from the Ring of Benevolence completely overrides and out-heals the steady health decay from the Ring of Reversal.By the time you're 2/3rds into Norgan you'll run into enemies that drop the materials needed for the second part of this build.>The Ring of Reversal: Causes all incoming enemy attacks to heal you instead of dealing damage. However, its massive drawback is that it rapidly and constantly drains your health pool while you are in combat.Get it? The +150% damage taken penalty from your weapon's Battle Frenzy IV relic effect is inverted. Because the Ring of Reversal turns incoming damage into healing, enemies hitting you actually heal you for 150% more. It's just enabling you to kill the final bosses faster so you can grind for the top gear you want so you can embarrass the challenge the game presents. The thread is no longer about what vocations are bad are not. People are holding onto a sense of superiority by simply going>grind for this thing that makes the difficulty irrelevant and if you don't you're badFun little build to dunk on the game with. That's it.
>Wow this loot system is gonna be so engaging>Pawn gets rewarded with level 2 ancient gear from a hire not long after I get my first level 1 gear>None of the spoils mean anything to me for hours, even the same level stuff is only worth looking at to see the variety of appearances and new traits/skills that I won't use>10 minutes into level 3 spoils being available, I get level 3 ancient stuff>By this point it's not even worth taking anything I find seriously, I know it's only gonna be a few hours until I get the next level up anyway>Nothing replaces this until I get level 4 ancient stuff>Not long after I get level 5 stuff, wow cool>Get handed level 5 ancient stuff 10 minutes after this>The only thing to do at this point is grind the exact same content looking for optimal sets, which doesn't appeal much>Lower tier spoils have basically no purpose but can technically be sold for rift crystals, which doesn't matter because kinoshitter can't balance an economy to save his life and you will never not have a massive surplus under any circumstance unless you straight up just stop engaging with that system at all and just discard everythingA loot progression system with nothing
>>750191106>>750191239i'm also on hard mode, so maybe you guys aren't.>>750191271thank god i'm not a meta-fag and don't do any of that stuff. I don't read into the meta stuff either and simply don't care.
>>750191271>The thread is no longer about what vocations are bad are not. People are holding onto a sense of superiority by simply going>grind for this thing that makes the difficulty irrelevant and if you don't you're bad>Fun little build to dunk on the game with. That's it.After they copied it from some YouTube video because retards in these threads are incapable of figuring all that out.
>>750190832the politics, amnesia and battahl plots all boil down to trying to sideline the arisen (and avert the cycle) to no avail>disa: i want my son to rule he would be really good at it>phaesus: i want the dragon to stop fucking us up every couple of years>lets work together to put the arisen in gay baby jail, replace him with a fake so people dont ask questions and use magic crystals to make the dragon fuck offmind i don't think it was executed very well but that's what they're going for
>>750191406In a sense that's funny because the Pathjanny is guiding the Arisen's ass all the way to make everybody miserable in the Brine Matrix.
can you only get lvl 5 gear from the end-game portal things? I find them boring to do, I want to go on road trips.Also, how big is the hard mode enemy stat bloat? I'm around lvl 200 on normal, and the end-game portal enemies can take a long time to go down. Especially the powered up version of the final boss. It's not making things difficult, just a slog. if it's like that on normal, what's it like on hard?
all these guys came to my camp and all I had to roast was rotten scrag meat.
>>750191331This is true. Getting lower tier spoils is same as getting garbage.
>>750191510I think the damage multiplier is 0.6x, no HP is affected and hitting weakspots cause major damage anyway.People melt these giganigga rifts in a couple of minutes even on hard so it's a question of how long you will suffer at first before getting your first optimal gear pieces.Grinding True Daimon was also a fucking slog if you didn't go for periaps + blast arrows/holy bolts. I like long fights but not when you're supposed to farm them efficiently.
>>750191353Good. It isn't necessary. It's just a >if you wanna keep playing the game then you may as well make the end-game loop fun for yourselfAnd then there's a bunch of videos growing on YouTube in the past week with people slapping the end-game boss down in 2 to 3 minutes across the various vocations. It's literally all just meta-fagging. It wouldn't be obnoxious if low effort-posting discourse around this game wasn't just people boring you with "Battle Frenzy IV" spam on top of the mini discord sessions that individuals with very little going on in their lives choose to engage with. Makes these threads tiring when you're here long enough. Don't make that mistake. There's not much else to talk about. >>750191404What does any of that have to do with how you enjoy the game?
>>750191627What any of that has to do with enjoying the game or not?Just a statement of fact.Some people would rather look for the best effects instead of suffering for hours mixing and matching.Others don't care and want to figure it out for themselves.Enjoyment comes in both ways.
>STILL no mod that makes the movement as snappy as DD1wtf
>>750191627yeah i don't engage with that trash at all. I just recently started browsing dd2 threads after almost wrapping my playthrough up. Been playing a hard mode run from level 1 with warfarer using mirror shield/devout offering for defense/crowd control and a selection of other skills and weapons for whatever the situation calls for. I'm in Unmoored right now finishing up the last of the Rites and getting all the unique armor sets.
>>750191173>I feel like you don't really remember the story too well, anonAre you sure you do? Because the amnesia is NOT the political plot per se>You are part of the melve guard>You become the arisen after defending melve>The consul is already in place>They catch wind of the dragon attack and a person that survived and had their heart taken by the dragon>Knowing they would have to give up power to you, as is vermund tradition, they decide to get rid of you and install a fake arisen>They can't outright kill you because eventually a new arisen will be madeThey have to install the fake arisen because at this point word is already out that a new arisen has been found so they have to install a puppet sovran to keep power. It's in the interest of phaeseus and disa because:>lord phaeseus is pulling the strings>His goal is to break the cycle>He needs vermunds resources to do so>disa goes along with this because release from the cycle would mean she, and as a result sven, would stay in power indefinitely>the palace is commissioning a research lab under battahl where phaeseus is studying the dragon and the cycle>Its also essential that you don't fight the dragon before phaeseus gets to do his thingHere's the thing you don't get: amnesia doesn't matter at all for any of this because itsuno decided to undo all of it at the start. If the plot was just>You get your existence scrubbed off the records and shipped off somewhere far away while you are still injured>You somehow find your way back>You now have to prove youre the real arisenIt would be the exact same plot. In fact it is. Amnesia is not a factor in it. Most of your amnesia is cured by the janny right at the start. Itsuno is just a schizo
>>750179043Bro...ur giga satan badge????
>>750191679Welcome to modern video games. I knew it was over the moment Nintendo added this shit to BOTW. Nothing is safe now.
Fellas, I'm never getting any hires, whenever I rest at the inn and my pawn's returned it's always AI arisens hiring her, what gives? Anything wrong with her?
>>750191942Nothing really. Prolly just bad luvk. Id replace Celerity with Halidom. You might wanna pick up a good dlc staff. Argent Duccor/Grand Halidom/ Fortified invocation is bredy good
>>750191942>no solemnity>elemental for no fucking reason>high celerity for no fucking reasonyeah, deserved. You're retarded.
>>750191769Sounds like the optimal way to play. I liked the Assassin class in DD1 but I wasn't in love with it enough to try and push the limits of DD2 to make the "class that can do everything" work seamlessly. Being gimped by Rearmament didn't look like fun though so I ran through the entire game like...two to three times now simply as a Wayfarer pretending to be a Fighter so I can level vocations I don't play. I beat the "story" of the DLC then found out I have rifts to destroy and aside from the curiousity of that I'm pretty done with the game. Maybe equip the rings that bolster Unarmed and see if I can body some quests in Vermund bareknuckled before never picking the game up again. I like(d) seeing numbers go up...but level-ups are meaningless in this game.I hope you enjoy this for what it is then put it down and go on to better things in your life. >>750191942>always AI arisensCapcom wants to throw you some bones because the game sees your play time and knows they need you on the hook + you need RC. And it's honestly a little demoralizing. But you have to understand something. After a while levels don't matter. I'm level 190+ and I keep pawns in my party until they whine and cry about the power gap via stats and even then, well, I have my favorites so they're stuck in it for the long haul.I'm sure there a ton of people operating the same way. It just...isn't necessary to hire certain pawns past a certain point. People are legit hiring their favorites (which keep leveling because the player keeps playing) and then just re-hiring them and never breaking up the party. Outside of that? Personally I tried to tailor my skills for what people might want. I searched the rift for same-vocation pawns and looked up what I considered my pawn to be lacking that others might go for.>High EmpyreanNiche tech that doesn't help with Norgan's final boss loop.>High Celerity Situational. My pawn never cast that where I could reach it.>CalmIsn't Sorcerer better?
sweaty sex with hired pawns. free use hired pawns in the wilderness. mating pressing hired pawns
>>750191839counterpoint: the amnesia allows for an immersive opening where both you and your character are thinking "where the fuck am i and what am i doing here". >it's like i'm really a lobotomized mute who was sent away to a labor camp!
>>750192093Soleminity is kinda useless in norgan. Used it on my pawn for a while and impact is minimum. I think Satan is immune to silence, and the Dementors tp too often for them to get hit.
>>750191942Level ranges get completely schizo around lv90+ so good luck. Normal and Hard mode players live in completely different realms now because of exp gains and even due to expansion exp gains it depends on how much you are playing the endgame.Just set up a pawn quest and be glad if capcom pity hires happen.Also Mages are the most common kind of pawn. That means:a) everybody has a huge pool to choose from;b) their main pawn is a mage, so they don't need another save party composition exceptions.Also that hair is overused af.
>>750191942>Anything wrong with her?Take this image to /vg/ and get butt rubs and headpats. I have nothing good to say but I know you'll get compliments and steady/viable information there. They'll even outright hire your pawn for you and gift you cool things. By nature of not having long sexy hair you stand out.
>>750191839You're mistaken about the premise, anon. The amnesia is not to remove you from power, it's to stop you from being the Arisen. Not in the political sense, in the literal sense. If you just got shipped off you'd still be doing the Arisen quest and facing the Dragon like normal. Phaesus is fighting against the laws of causality, not you.Sure if you want to get technical and be stupid about it, the amnesia itself isn't directly involved after the Vernworth arc. You're taking it further than that and claiming that it has no bearing on the story though.
>>750192221Kek I see what you mean and I figured already thats probably what itsuno vision™ saw but did anyone genuinely think that
>make tall dark elf looking mage>constantly gets hiredI think people are tired of the petite/loli mage pawns abd just want some variety.
>>750192093>>elemental for no fucking reasonWhat's wrong with elementals
>>750192343Kinda useless in Norgan
>>750192359Is it? I always do more damage when I'm doing elemental dmg, but then again I'm not at the end of the DLC
Just beat the magic goat guy at the end of the DLC. I guess no NPCs are going to acknowledge it, kind of weird.So is that it? Just a weapon and armour grind from beating him over and over if I can be bothered now?
>>750192319People need to make more chocolate elves
>>750192382You will be swimming in elemental weapons
>>750192093elemental is fine but he should use fire instead of ice
>>750192389>So is that it? Just a weapon and armour grind from beating him over and over if I can be bothered now?you can refight the corpse dragon via the big vortex top right of the map, there's a giant electric harpy boss that only shows up in vortexes randomly and Death can appearotherwise yeah you've seen most of the unique dlc content if you've beaten satan.
>>750192382>>750192428The Elemental Boons don't only give elemental effects, they're also damage buffs that add magick damage of that type on top of your normal damage.
>>750192343>>750192359 retards are unhelpful on purpose.AoE elemental buffs are useful in Norgan to a certain point but once you start dropping weapons with innate elemental properties, they become redundant as most minmaxxers still playing the game will roll for Holy damage and there's no buff for that in 2.Divine Bolt as a limited buff is a much better option.
Does anybody have a pawn with no Norgan gear they'd like hired? I want to finally start doing lost rite trials but I'd like to do them properly.
>>750192221I wonder how many retarded crimes were commited in the name of ((immersion)).
Does this actually work? Or this guy just a memelord?
my pawn is acting funny
>>750192698What works? You equip 1 skill, the pawn uses 1 skill. But it's nowhere near as relevant as in DD1.And Corkscrew Arrow is probably much, much better as a solo skill slot since special arrows are their own move now.
>>750192698cool augments
>>750192740It's Dragonsplague. Brine her immediately.
>>750192751I'm wondering if the pawn AI has cooldown logic that makes it pointless to limit skills you put on them.
>>750192698He's probably just leveling up and forget to change back.
>>750192785I think most people apply what they read/knew in DD1 & BBI to 2 but most times it's just a placebo.I don't check out specifics about game systems ever since actual augment bonuses were datamined back on release and back then nobody really knew the details of how pawns worked other than manually testing and checking results.And I still don't read specifics about it in these threads other than the general knowledge of pawns not being good at using warrior skills and straightforward being gung ho, so probably nobody still knows for sure.
anyone tried if the "deflect strike" from shields affect just one hit or does it count the whole string from tornadic strike as one "attack"?
>>750192272It's both, as I explained twice now. They need to stop you from taking on the dragon, they also need to stay in power. If you are around they can kiss goodbye to both. So you need to fuck off. However there is no amnesia needed to achieve any of this. Which means this isn't a convoluted amnesia plot at all. The amnesia also isn't the political plot like you said. Because the amnesia isn't relevant for any of this. If you just got captured and shipped to a gulag it would be the same outcome. >But the amnesia thing is important because it ensures you don't know you are arisen even if you break outIrrelevant. If you were to get out without the janny deus ex machina'ing you you'd end up in melve at some point regardless so it's the same outcome. In fact it would've probably been better if you come across melve semi-naturally and piece together that you are arisen instead of 5 people telling you beforehand. Because then it would've been an amnesia plot. This whole thing doesn't make sense anyway>Okay we absolutely can't kill the arisen so lets make him lose his memories and ship him off>Sure, where to your majesty?>To the mega nazi concentration death camp 5000
>playing the dlc on NG+>reach the "go to hell temple" quest>feels like the final quest>begin a new save on hard mode>been playing it instead of finishing the story
can someone gift my level 20 pawn something ridiculously OP
Sorry guys. But I need a new boots.>Unleash literal hell on earth.
>Rovall isn't an arisen anymore>Eir stays with himArisen x Pawn is truly the endgame huh
>>750192908>there is no amnesia needed to achieve any of this.There is, it's the only way to stop the Arisen from facing the Dragon and the Pawns heeding the call of the Arisen. Your logic makes absolutely zero sense. If the Arisen would always fulfill the role no matter what, then the Pathfinder wouldn't have intervened in the first place. I bet you'd also try to argue that's it's just for contrived fanservice reasons that the early game plays out like the first DD too.
>>750191052I see, I was just worried that unmoored would lock me out of the DLC but from what I've read, you can just teleport to Norgan during unmoored if you've been there already + have activated a portcrystal there. So I'll just play the game normal, activate the DLC before unmoored, do all the unmoored and lost relic stuff and then do Norgan last.>>750188130>>750190883Good to know that NG+ doesn't actually scale the game in any way. I think I'll do a heavily modded NG+ playthough at some point. Currently getting really fucking annoyed at the terrible goblin spam every 5 feet + no overworld enemy variety but I hear there are some mods that alleviate that. Also the movement in DD2 feels so imprecise, it feels like you aren't in control most of the time and the game just randomly decides to rip control away from you. Hope there are some mods to alleviate this, at least one that adds more mobility to your character. Sliding around and the pathetic jump height make me wish I was playing DD1 instead.
Lemme friend req you so i can hire you r lvl999 pawn senpai
>>750193545There are mods for enemy variety, but they're also ridiculously unbalanced mods that require other huge changes to the gameplay to be tolerable experiences. I'm not sure how effective they'd be if you're the type to categorize all the enemies in DD2 as the same though.
>Every single settlement in the entire game barring the slave camp has a portcrystal>Every important place in the game is a minute's walk from an ox cart stop>Even norgan, literally marketed on having denser and more vertical level design to make up for the size, is dotted with a ton of portcrystalsAfter all these years, they still want the skyrim audience, but have realized the real money is in the elden ring audience
>>750193527>If the arisen would always fulfill the role no matter whatThat's what the entire exposition dump at the end is about lmao
>>750194051The enemy variety doesn't warrant backtracking. Theres no real random events as well. I wouldn't want to go to the sage temple by foot a second time. The weather in norgan made it more fun but still. It's a blast going through it first time but afterwards its more of a chore
>>750194290You're definitely not paying attention during any of these games, that's for sure. They're both filled with tons of examples of Arisen who didn't do that, in fact that being untrue is quite literally the entire point of the narrative in both games.
>>750194528>quite literally the entire point of the narrative in both gamesYou really didn't get the cycle in DD1 and the significance of the arisen who failed there if you think they didn't fulfill their charge. So no wonder you are stunlocked by some arbitrary amnesia plotline that appears for 30 minutes total
>>750194971Feel free to argue that the Duke is actually a successful Arisen who was destined to defeat the Dragon then. Go ahead, it's so obvious after all.
>>750181058No it does not, the lore for pawns is that they are some aspect of yourself and its different from Arisen to Arisen. They are a reflection of you. The dragonforged pawn is his younger self, Savans pawn is his dad for example.BBI is what happens when you love your pawn, because it suggests there is nothing in the world for you and the aspect of yourself most lacking was love. Like the Arisen doesnt fight the dragon when their pawn is their lover, because if they win they lose their pawn, they LOSE their reason to fight for anything.
>>750194359The point of the level design should've been to make it interesting both ways, and that was also the point of things like camping or even just inventory weight limitsInstead none of it matters, the moving military campsite doesn't matter, the grappling hooks don't matter, all the shortcuts leading around the map and back into familiar places which literally create new paths don't matter
This guy would've been so cool if he did anything in the story and didn't look like a random homeless ghostThey never should've stopped taking inspiration from Berserk
setting interlaced mode on and then enabling DLSS later will make the status screen not succ up performance and extra vram as it cuts that res in half meanwhile your game still uses dlss normally at its intended render res, no need for meme mods
