I just got the ultimate spells for Sorcerer that both explicitly say “Quickspell does not work on this”… but that made me realize the utility of the “hold a charged spell for later” skill…
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i love using throwing it out and having a harpy just crash into the earth like a rock lmao
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Oh damn, I haven’t gotten that skill yet, that fucks.
Man, I made the mistake of venturing out into other social media, and immediately got exposed to Discourse™ about this game lmao. Imma vent a lil bit behind the arrow, so feel free to not click it.
discourse
As far as I can TELL the current state is that the (factually correct) argument of “mtx in single player games is bad” fused with the (factually incorrect) argument of “dragon’s dogma 2 is inconvenient on purpose to incentivize mtx” to form some unholy monster in the form of “all inconvenience in video games is automatically bad and if you defend it, you’re predating on people who are susceptible to mtx”.
I can see how it happened; if, as a fan of the game, you are met with “dd2 is inconvenient on purpose to incentivize mtx”, the response of “the mtx is irrelevant” is a perfectly fine response that addresses the accusation. But instead of as a response to the (bad faith) argument it is (bad faithedly) taken as an endorsement of the mtx, and escalates from there. And that, uh, sucks.
It’s such a fucked up confluence of factors. A game with possibly the clearest creative vision in years, and that’s what it gets in response. I wasn’t even a fan of Dragon’s Dogma before this! I bounced off the first game because it was too obtuse and inconvenient for me at the time.
And of course people just, like, constantly lie about the game to make it look worse. My favourite was “she costs more than the whole game” showing a lv55 pawn’s RC cost juxtaposed with one of the RC packs from the store. That’s just incredibly bad faith, right? It’s not just me?
And you can’t defend the game at all because you’ll get hit with the almighty cudgel of “oh so you’re defending the mtx”. NO, you’re just being disingenuous about gestures vaguely EVERYTHING and it annoys me. I wish the mtx wasn’t there! But also I wish you weren’t lying about a game just because it asks you to walk places!
Anyway, back to enjoying it instead! I had a really fun encounter yesterday where I was fighting a griffin and golem at the same time, but then climbed on the griffin and it… just flew away with me. I kept hitting it in the head until it staggered… right above the ocean. Poor planning on my part! This game is so good lmao.
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i believe i now have every vocation (unless there is a secret one they never announced but i feel like i’d have heard about that by now)
Battahl Exploration Spoiler I have found two paths that circumvent the checkpoint between Vermund and Battahl. Both are a slog to go through!
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Still haven’t found any extra vocations aside from Warrior/Sorcerer but I also haven’t gone into Battahl at all, so.
I’m at about 20 hours now, and I finally found a complaint I have about this game
why is interact ALSO mapped to dash with no way to turn it off
I wanted to pick up that fucking potato, not toggle my movement speed
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i went to open a chest once and threw myself off a cliff. it’s really not ideal lol. reminds of how originally FFXV made the interact button the same as the jump button.
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I’m pretty sure you can turn this off, at least I remember an “interact only” setting when I was skimming the controls.
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oh hell yeah, i’ll check that out tonight. thank you gamer!
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I just assumed that was a comedy maximization choice.
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Ok, so you can set the run button to be “hold” instead of “toggle”; and it only affects the face button. Clicking left stick still toggles. That more or less solves my issues!
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Has anyone else been trying out Mystic Spearhand? I like the stun but I’m so jealous watching my pawn climb onto a big monster to stab at its eyes.
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yeah it’s my fave class so far. you can get a teleporting downward stab that will literally just put you on a monster’s back too. i’ve done it ogres, minotaurs and gryphons. cyclopses too, but those are a bit more hit or miss
probably my favorite class at this point, though i’m fascinated at how they made a tank class in an action game with trickster
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I’ve had just the one portcrystal for days and now I suddenly have five which feels completely wild to me
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Was not expecting to just kind of be given Mystic Spearhand out of nowhere, haha. It’s neat though.
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Went on an archery date. I’m surprised by how slick archery is!
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Archer is surprisingly fun and that jump-kick is fantastic, I wish every class had it.
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