Open-world Korean action RPG by Hound13 launched July 23rd.• Buy-to-play for $30, gacha removed• From devs of Dragon Nest and Hundred Soul• Explore Orbis and find chests/puzzles/quests/etc.• Recruit and build a party of mercenaries from 19 characters• Swap characters and trigger tag-team combos with status effects• Single-player campaign with optional co-op raids/dungeons/hunts>OfficialSteam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4570720/DragonSword__Awakening/Discord: https://discord.gg/CzZ5ddkMVgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DragonSwordAwakeningX: https://x.com/DSAwakening>Is it a gacha?No. Characters+items are unlocked through story quests and normal gameplay. There are paid DLC costumes and familiars (mounts). Currencies previously associated with the live service's gacha system are now earned through gameplay with no gambling, stamina, time gating (except minor daily world bosses tied to PC time), or battle pass.>Wasn't it launched as a live service gacha before?Yes, in Korea 1/21/26 by publisher Webzen. Webzen missed a payment to Hound13, who then accused them of not marketing the game enough and conspiring to buy them out, resulting in Hound13 considering their contract terminated and launching the game as a premium title self-published on Steam. Webzen tried to block the Steam release but failed.https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/24053/webzens-injunction-request-denied-dragon-sword-awakening-to-launch-on-the-23rd>Can I unlock all characters without paying?Yes. Playable characters are earned through gameplay only.>Will the game be updated and get new content?Yes, see the roadmap: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4570720/view/678501715215911876>Seems too good to be true, what's the catch?Steam reviews are close to Overwhelmingly Positive, but the most common complaint is voices being Korean only and some text being AI translated.
First for these idiots
I'm lost. The game is too big and there are too many characters to decide on a team. This is exactly what I wanted
It's a singleplayer rpg. Why does it need a general?
Landing Kalsion's Explosion is so satisfying, it melts bosses
>>575380452Why are you asking here and not the approximately 40 other generals for single player RPGs?
Genuine question, is there like an "endgame" of a sort or does game outright end with a final boss?
>>575381593There's a typical spiral abyss type of dungeon, but I think even that is something you're just done with after finishing it (as in, it doesn't rotate out floors like hoyo games).
>>575381451Because this one is as dead as it can be and has a /v/ thread where I'm actually having a discussion about it.
>>575381859>and has a /v/ threadHAD
Do you get a way to fly with these items later?
>>575384024nope but you can sprint while carrying them if you press ctrl
I'LL DO IT
>>575381408I haven't gotten into any endgame stuff yet, but so far he's been the comfiest character for clearing out random overworld shit. You can't beat a grouping character when it comes to dabbing on low-level hilichurls.
One tower down, 2 leftthe last boss of this tower was Ropie
>>575381859Koreans are asleep please understand.
Are there any clear 4* characters or are they all pretty much viable with similar fledged out kits?
They should add more animations in the future. Supposedly this guard fainted but he's still standing in front of me.
>>575394102Bart animations are probably not the top priority
Lute is such a plappable boi slut
>>575374531In short, just pick characters that all deal at least one of the same status. It's just preference for most of the game until certain endgame challenges demand specific ones.
>>575394285There are THOUSANDS of Bart fans waiting to whale on his banner. Hound13 is leaving money on the table.
>>575381859Most of that "discussion" was just shills on both sides shit flinging at each other.
I like Eileen a lot
If you want to breeze thro the Tower of Trials just use the Frost team it's braindead https://streamable.com/q7134y
I got a fire karma from a marmot minigame here
>>575400748How easy is it to level an alt team if you ran through the story with a different one?
>>575402192You can do it pretty quickly once you reach a high enough level with your main team, it just depends on how fast you can spam the dungeons needed to level your team
So Ysera is permanently dead?
Best way to farm squirrels?
getting ready for my first hunt; wish me luck bros>>575402516no one in asian fiction dies forever
>>575402516She did have a full kit for the 2 minutes you got to play her. Not sure if it was a just an ice reskin of Ornette's kit though.
>found only burn and shock karmas>i dont play those teamskill me
>>575403870when do you start finding karmas? i'm starting chapter 3 and still running without any
>>575404030Treasure maps and world bosses are the main source of "4*" karmas. Sometimes you just get them out of random chests too. The signature karmas require farming the endgame tower, so you don't get easy access to them for a while.
>>575404030you can try this >>575401045 to see if it gives you a karma too
>>575404256>>575404328thanksnone of those marmot games have given me anything worthwhile but they're fun
wat is happening
This game is max comfy im impressed
Anyone wants to farm some endgame runes?Code: 0DNC1B
>>575400748When do I unlock Othello?
>>575406196Main quest 50
This game is too hard I can’t beat the second phase boss in the level 20 dungeon
Wait...does the mercenary corp name = your actual username?
>>575406490Yep, but it doesn't really have any use
>>575406595well dang now mine is going to look cringe as fuck then online lmfao
>>575402843cerese charge shots have been my personal squirrel annihilator
>>575406757I wanted to use the Orbis smith's name from Dragon Nest but couldn't remember it so I settled for a random name.
>>575402843You'll get there, you can easily find 1 per minute if you want to farm. Just run around the starting area
>>575402843Ranged atacker and go behind Orbis near the abandoned farm
>>575407092Saint Haven* forgot Orbis used to be the name of the continent in DN.
We should be able to sail boats.
>>575407092>>575408047Either Merlin or Berlin
I can see why this failed as a gacha game. Imagine getting a character you like and can't really use her because her doesn't she doesn't fit into any teams you can make.
>>575409683That's exactly how gachas works...
>>575409683That's not the reason it's not a gacha tho.
>>575404850Manly fighting
>>575410426Most gachas you can make a team work if you have a good support or a strong on field character. This game, if you don't have at least 2 people who can feed each other swap skills it's a shit show.>>575410435It failed as a gacha in korea.
I finally discovered why Aria has one breast unprotected. It's so she can quickly unbutton her blouse when a party member wants to suck her left tit.
How do I prevent Johnny from randomly launching halfway across the map with no way to interrupt?
Advice for 29? First time I've wiped.
>>575418932Nvm, got it.That whole section was kino, best part of the story so far
https://x.com/DSAwakening/status/2081573803482886267Free Wolf
When is the second half of this year? Because technically it started 27 days ago.
>>575409228Why is she just standing there menacingly?
been using lute and theresia to stun and sweep; who should i run as third?
uh oh
>>575426842Castella, Roxy, or Kalien.
>>575426992shiiieeeeet
>>575427089roxy is the arbalest right? yeah she does a fantastic job; i've been using her with them for awhile now, but now that i have another invite i'm wondering who my next character should bekalien looks great but he doesn't come until much later
but of a silly question but how do i do specials? i got the ninja girl and sometime i izuna drop without knowing how
>>575427514No she's the red headed bleed bow.
>>575427898oh, from red fox company right? i feel like i can't remember anyone's name for some reasonyeah her bleed combined with theresa's would probably jsut shred everything; thanks
>>575427873Go to the skill screen, go to the 2 skills on the bottom right, scroll down to see how they are activated. It doesn't matter who procs the status as long as the status gets activated you can use it. I would say you can do it from the codex screen but you can't scroll for some reason.
>>575428269thx
Ellies milk...
I a fiend.
>>575417554Don't miss Venom Cutter.
Johnny/Charlotte/Reina is fun as hell. Air combos all day.
>>575434296johnny's rapid dashes and charlotte's izuna drop feel great
Building up airborne stacks takes priority when you're running all three fire characters which feels bad when you're playing Kalien, you're just throwing her foxes out which leaves the other two behind when Aria doesn't proc off burn. But there's also the problem where the airborne status doesn't build up against enemies with super armor so I have to rethink this setup.
>>575437148yeah physical statuses are hard to inflict when enemies have super armor, but if an enemy is burning then their super armor should break faster. Castella breaks armor pretty well and has access to airborne against knocked down targets.
>>575438013If I'm taking Castella I need to take another character that applies knockdown then I'm not running a fire team anymore
>>575438578well castella can apply her own knockdown with her first awakening. alternatively you could try astria, she also breaks super armor well and only wants stun. she applies some burning with her awakening as a bonus.
Genshin won
>>575439381I sorted it out, it isn't stated in their skill descriptions, but they're all break characters as the icons display next to their names.
What are the best characters for the tower of trials? most I've tried suck
>>575446212me in the middle
Has anyone gone data mined all the recipes yet?
>>575446212That's what I use, you won't get to trigger airborne against bosses that often but when you do Kalsion deletes whatever was infront of you.>>575448862this >>575400748
>>575469550I'm stacking break damage on that team now which ends up wiping out the level 90 raid bosses as soon as the bar depletes once, you just need an opening and they're pumping out millions of damage which nothing in the game has enough HP to survive right now
>>575470187but their break bars stay broken for 3 seconds top
>>575430495He literally dashed from the top of the mountain where the lv30 story boss fight is to the next island at sea level and I had to run all the way back up.
>>575478134yeah i had him sleek me off of the same mountain
>Page 10I'll repost this here.Viola over Lute (full swap, not a model swap; don't be retarded and make sure to back up your save):https://litter.catbox.moe/o6sy1b.pakAppend _P to the filename.Fairly useless since the game has a force close check that's triggering after a few minutes when you use unowned characters.
>>575491968>the game has a force close check that's triggering after a few minutes when you use unowned charactersThis is not fair.
>>575491968Probably a remnant from the live service days. There's a lot of that in the game.
How are there people that hate johnny?
>>575493707I was indifferent at first but the way he just launched himself at the origin dragon was badass.
>>575493707His shtick gets really old. He's supposed to be a Kamina type older bro but he's not likable enough. Also I think it's implied he has some backstory and his wackiness is supposed to hide it but I'm really not feeling it.
>>575494824It gets old until multiple times in just 3 chapters he's proven to be the most honorable person in the game.
>>575493707I don't like his scar and tribal tattoos, it's extremely dated in a bad way. Aside from that he's fine, it's like conscripting a guy who dresses like picrel in real life in your party.
>>575493352That was my first thought, but it's actually part of the DLC check that was causing problems day 1. When they fixed that, the only thing that got updated was the .exe, no .pak files, so it might need an .exe patch, ue4ss script, or cheat table to disable. Barring that, the save would need to be decrypted to add ownership of the character directly. Hopefully there's someone who knows how to do that kind of stuff interested in this game.Ironically, the DLC check does nothing to stop actual piracy of the DLC so far.
>>575497679I doubt they can invest on anti-piracy measures at the moment
>>575497056for me i think it made him more interesting when the guy who looks and acts like a total goober actually ends up being a legit ride or die homie
So it looks like a gacha, plays like a gacha, but isn't a gacha? How sexo are the foids?>voices being korean onlyI knew it was too good to be true.
>>575493707He's the MC imo
>>575505752Female korean voices are hot. I love korean sluts.
>>575514009And the men have more personality than>young guy>old guy>bishonen faggot guy
I want to use all of the Johnny Mercenaries in two teams. First one is going to be Johnny/Aria/Eileen.Second one Lute and Castella...plus I'm thinking maybe Dana or Astria?
>>575514318True. The characters are fun overall.
>>575373879Is this game gud? I play Wuthering Impact
>>575514897Yes
>>575514897I wouldn't say it's exactly the same as those two even though it has a lot of similarities.The story is better structured imo.
>>575514504It's kinda sad that Aria isn't that much of a DPS. I don't like when some characters are objectively better than others (unless it's someone important like a god).
>>575517882works on my machine
>>575517882She is good DPS though? Not sure why you think that.
considering how this game released, are they still going to add much/any content from now on? any idea if other voice languages are likely?
>>575518330No.Take her Q spell. It hits once for X damage.Now take Ornette. Her Q spell hits multiple times, and the first hit, even at equal gear and stats as Aria, hits HARDER.Funny, that.
>>575518603Aria's is ranged, has a large AoE and inflicts both airborne and burn. It's apples to oranges anyway.
Unlocked Theresia first, so paired her with Lute and the game recommended Astria. The team seemed underwhelming so I got Roxy to replace Astria. huge W. this team is crazy strong
>>575521323You can also use Castella instead of Lute for a more aggressive playstile
>>575493707He proves himself to be a solid guy later on, but the first impression is real sour when he pretty much press-gangs Lute into the group. Also his intended portrayal of being bombastic but secretly pretty clever isn't consistent either and sometimes he really does just do stupid shit; like poisoning Bart (almost twice) because he got lazy with identifying ingredients.
Eileen is cute.
>>575525061I like how slutty she is.
Who pairs best with Kalsion? His black hole move seems cool.
>randomly unlock this guy without having ever even seen him beforeUh okay welcome to the crew i guess
Finally she appears in the story!
>>575534927Seems like big titty fire fox or anyone that procs airborne.
Game has everything.
Astria is fun wtf
no knife ears
>>575534927Kalien is just overall a really good partner for anyone doing fire or stun since she stacks both effects really fast with pretty easy team agnostic signal conditions.
anyone want to take a crack at the first lvl 50 raid? i suppose cheaters and lvl 50+ are welcome too.M87GUN
■ Future PlansQ. Will Steam Workshop be supported?Steam Workshop support is currently under review. We will share details on the scope and timing once decisions are finalized.Q. Will the Sky Island (Floating Island) be a free update? If paid, how much will it cost?Nothing has been finalized yet. We will announce details separately as they are confirmed.Q. I'd like to chat with other players in the town.This feature is currently under planning and development review.
>>575557212>I'd like to chat with other players in the town.people really want this game to be the next dragon nest, don't they?
>>575559216can you blame them for wanting more dragon nest from the dragon nest devs?
is this game good? what's the gameplay like?I'm tired of damage sponge enemies in games, how bad is this game?Is it like a gacha where you need to upgrade and do dailies and get new characters, or else it's insanely hard to clear?
also >>575572328do i need to farm or grind dailies for stuff?like in genshin you have artifacts and you need to gamble for good stuff, does this game have that?
>>575572410There's some grind from what I've seen but it's not time-gated.
>>575572410Not really any dailies except some bosses and dynamic quests respawn daily. There is some RNG loot similar to genshin's artifact system, but you have infinite stamina to grind for them, along with plenty of substat reroll items.
>>575572410>>575572328I've been fighting things 20 levels under to actually have a challenge but I'm not in end game yet. It's a gacha where you essentially have access to everything and there's no stamina. There are some daily quests but they're pretty worthless. And there is equipment grind but it's not hard to get best in slot and there's no stamina blocking you from the little bit of grinding that you need.
>>575540359But players...
Apparently there have been people stuck at the tree when you start the game because it was included in the new FAQ lmao https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4570720/view/668371786222537656?l=english
We should set up a steam group for coop.
>>575600971The one that says go up to the tree and press the action button?
>>575602959yep
>>575603142I wish gaming was a niche hobby again.
>>575600971>>575603142DragonSword needs its own Paimon
We need more hot lolis. Steam can't ban the game now.
>>575603506We get johnny. Which is better.
>>575603506There's already a midget in the game
I want to work for the trading company.
>>575623090I love her shiny tits
>>575611915Yeah tarte and ninian are adorable but we need a lot more
>>575623090I want to work Lyn
>>575635120You're too poor.
Omg a general!! Hai guys i just took a day and half off to continue playing. I LOVE BROWN ELVES
Me and my wife
Anyone know where the best spot is for potatoes?
>>575639658Then, rape it is
Johnny should not be in a party without Charlotte. Change my mind.
does the story get good? I played demo like whenever the demo dropped, I hated both the combat and story.I hear they actually reworked combat so it must've gotten better, but did they fix the flow of the story too or do you still have to play fetch quests for hours?
They knew it
