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Dragon's Dogma 2 (2024)

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Started playing this a month ago switching off with another Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough.
So far it's good, I'm enjoying it even though they make fast travel difficult, port crystals, and I think specific places to port to. That's ok I guess, I like traveling with 3 companions, playing as a Mage, here is a lot to know. Here's one example:
Party
  • Pawns you hire do not level. They will frequently be needed to be traded in. Hired Pawns can exist in the world, or if you have set your game to access the online nebulous, you can go into the Rift, via a Rift stone and other players will rent there's out for various Rift Crystal prices. Thee is no other player interaction, you just see Pawns standing around, with prices floating my them. It's usually an easy way to trade up, just don't pay too much in RCs. The ones in the world I've crossed paths with are usually 0-RC.
  • Your main pawn levels with you the entire game. If it dies in battle, it can be brought back from the Rift, easily enough if there is a Rift stone close by.
  • TO CHANGE YOUR MAIN PAWN-If you made a bad choice by creating Lion type to be your companion, and are tired of getting flea bites, the lions are nice enough, but you may tire of them as I did.There is a remedy! 😜 Now I've got a hot elf fighter following me around.
  • Barber Shops in major towns and cities allow you to change your Main Pawn's appearance. You can simply pay a hefty sum of money to change your hairstyle, makeup, and markings.
    • It is also possible to change your main pawn's overall appearance and basically redo character creation by obtaining an Art of Metamorphosis and choosing Modify Appearance. https://game8.co/games/Dragons-Dogma-2/archives/449595
    • You can buy an Art of Metamorphosis at Pawn Guild Vendors for 500 RC (Rift Crystals) each. You can buy up to 99 Art of Metamorphosis in one playthrough from the Pawn Guild Vendors. Once purchased, your Rift Crystal total goes down 500RC, but the item will not appear in your inventory.
    • https://game8.co/games/Dragons-Dogma-2/archives/448513
    • Reccommended before you start, before you buy the AoM, you turn off Steam Cloud Save, do a manual save and then backup the save folder, copy/paste it outside the game directory. See Save info above. This is vital incase you mess things up. As I did- see last step!
    • Proceed to the Barber’s.
    • For your Pawn and Yourself it’s one or the other per Art of Metamporphosis. One Change per Art of Metamprphosis, so it’s reccomended that you manually save your game before you start this. There will be an option to change the appearance of your character or your Main Pawn (primary servant).
    • Don’t forget the Voice!, Nothing worse than a masculine voice on a female or vice a versa, my god...! :oops:
Hired Pawns
  • If a Pawn is dismissed or dies in Dragon's Dogma 2, anything they have in their inventory will simply appear in the player's storage.
  • If the Arisen finds something interesting, but doesn't expect to use it any time soon, they can toss it in storage. For more immediate needs, they're better off with Pawns.
  • Players can't change their equipped weapons, armor, or vocations, and they won't use most items they're given.
 
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I hate having to run up to strangers and have to ask them who they are... It really comes into play when you are looking for someone specific in town. I mitigated this via a mod, which show characters names when you get close to them.
8Jun25- I tried to install Dragon’s Dogma 2 Mods with Vortex. Vortex had me install:
  • Ref Framework
  • Fluffy Mod Manager- a separate mod manager, was installed via Vortex.
  • Then Fluffy Mod Managerstarted and I’m supposed to use it to install the:
    • Show Favorability Mod
    • ShowName-V2 mod.
    • Which I did by simply dragging the Zip files into the Fluffy Interface, where they then appeared as mods, when “mods” selected, but you have to click them to activate each one.
  • The Ref Framework was downloaded via Vortex- not sure if it’s in both places or vortex put it in fluffy and fluffy installed? Don’t know. But it shows in the Fluffy interface and must be activated there.
  • I keep these other 2 mods I used Fluffly and in the Fluffy Interface, just dragged their Zip files to it. Note, this removed these files from my Mod Folder. Maybe because same drive? Anyway I put spare copies of these 2 from Downloads into the Dragons Dogma 3 Folder in Mods on M drive.
  • Now I try it. The goal is not to see “Hail” above people’s head, but their names and favorability rating. It Works!! :)
 
Some things are enjoyable and some aren’t,

The Save scheme in this game, after every major event if you want to have any chance a returning to repeat something, to try something different or maybe do it better there’s absolutely no way without doing manual saves before, and after every major event or quest where you enter into a unique location, set up. Well, maybe if you die…

Specifying the active quest is not intuitive at all. You just can’t click on a quest and have it say active You can pull up the quest list, you can click on a quest and even though the map might update to show a quest location, whatever the game thinks is the current quest stays illuminated. At one point, I did see a message about hitting the “tab” to set a quest but so far I haven’t gotten that to work reliably.

The palace intrigued could be good except navigating your way around the palace can be tedious and if you’re not supposed to be there, and get caught you get thrown in the dungeon, the game auto saves, and youhave to work your way out of there by paying some kind of a fine or bribing somebody. My personal preference is to reload a previous save and that’s not gonna happen unless you made a manual save before you entered the palace or revert to a previous manual save which might mean you lose significant progress.

My merry crew of adventurers are tone deft constantly making suggestions to go do stuff when I’m in the middle of an important mission. I can’t say “be quiet” or “people, this is what we are doing!”

“No, Reginald, I’m not going see the guy who owes me money right now when I’m about to step into the castle to infiltrate the Queen‘s nefarious schemes!” 😐 Finally they say something like “the Arisen knows best, or shan’t be rushed”, Jesus….I just wish I could communicate with them like I anticipate will happen soon, when AI is instituted in these games.

That said, I’m still having a good time playing it despite its primitive nature in some areas. I’ll post some screenshots soon. I know you can’t wait.😜

Tomorrow I plan on following a quest chain that gets me to the Elven village for the best magic armor available.
 
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This is one of those games that I started when it came out, then got frustrated with. I don't actually remember the specifics, but I think I started a quest, ended up in a narrow valley, triggered an event, and then kept dying while trying to fight my way back out. I don't think I did the whole "multiple saves" thing, so if I recall correctly, I'm a bit stuck.

Maybe one day I'll revisit it (I did finish the first DD back in the day) but for now it's back on the shelf.
 
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This is one of those games that I started when it came out, then got frustrated with. I don't actually remember the specifics, but I think I started a quest, ended up in a narrow valley, triggered an event, and then kept dying while trying to fight my way back out. I don't think I did the whole "multiple saves" thing, so if I recall correctly, I'm a bit stuck.

Maybe one day I'll revisit it (I did finish the first DD back in the day) but for now it's back on the shelf.
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I think gamers all go through a period of gettingacclimated into a game environment and we’re either grabbed it or not.

I’ll may turn on cloud saves again, but I’m concerned about an older cloud save overwriting a current game save, although my impression is that’s not supposed to happen. I’m still be doing the manual saves.*
They just doesn’t seem to be much point in having cloud saved for this and even with manual save sometimes you can get caught when unexpected happens and there isn’t a manual save and you’re basically stuck with whatever the outcome is unless you want to roll back to your last actual manual save. That’s if you took the time to make manual saves.🙃

* for anyone not sure what I’m talking about, a manual save is when I open the game’s safe folder, make a copy of it and move it to a dedicated game save folder on a different hard drive. I have two monitors on my PC and the next time I play what I plan on doing is opening the master game safe folder and having it sit on my second monitor so when something happens that I wanna save, I can simply tab out of the game and then do the copy paste and return to the game without taking the time to shut it down and then start it back up.
 
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