Future Dragon's Dogma 2 Update Will Nerf Its Coolest Mechanic

Boo!

One thing I wanted to experience before hanging up the game for good is some proper dragons plague, and I've barely seen a sniff of it as it is.

I think one time a pawn was being properly arsey and I sent them away, and the only other instance was with @apostatemage pawn and another random one, but they both fell into a ravine on top of a cyclops at the same time, so that got instantly wiped out of the party and it never developed into anything interesting 😂

No longer leaving your Pawns hanging on a high five is the biggest fix.

Walking across a rock slab, 2 death alarms go off. Seriously, I’ve seen pawns jump off cliffs and completely miss the landing.

Also can we fix the pawns getting stuck on everything? Walls, supports, rocks, hell even seen them stuck on nothing.

The best is them getting stuck on being unable to help in this quest, repeating it continuously. Gave my pawn the silence specialization. A real thing amazingly.

I'm sure the guy I sold this game to will enjoy this

Awww that sucks! I don't understand why so many complained about this even though it's a very rare in-game occurrence that they probably didn't even experience. Dragon's Dogma is one of those games where you need to be fearless with repercussions like this. It's what makes the game great - all that risk. I've seen the classic "vocal minority" complaints of enemy placements too, along with other things. I really hope Capcom don't give in and water down the experience.

After 150hrs I unknowingly hired a pawn who had the plague and they wiped out the entire checkpoint town 😫 Hoard those Eternal Wakestones, people! You can duplicate working versions, unlike the normal ones.

This game has been so incredibly deep. I'm still discovering new places and tactics. A true, epic adventure ❤️

@Splat This. I've felt some serious guilt from those hanging high-fives 😔 gotta appreciate your pawn's hard work!

Kind of a shame the game doesn't make you kill your Pawn to stop the spread.

I understand it's a video game and goes by video logic, but it would be pretty awesome if "dismissing" the Pawn with the disease causes random chaos nearby - since, you know...an infected person is literally just roaming the wild.

I have to echo everyone's sentiments here. The plague is an interesting idea the should be further developed, not cut back on.
Also reducing pawn dialogue should be an option, not a fix. I like my pawns chatty, it gives them personality.

Are they gonna reduce the frequency of pawns references to ladders?!? 😉 Re dragonsplague - fortunately I haven’t seen it yet in my game. Can it affect your main pawn? Or just hired pawns?

Frustrating that they’re removing the dangers of a cool mechanic like this instead of fixing performance issues. Glad we’ve got plenty of good games the next couple months, just hope Capcom doesn’t give this game the Dead Island 2 treatment.

@Loamy my first playthrough I barely saw it however
In ng+ I had it constantly it was more annoying that anything

My pawn once had red glowing eyes and kept clutching her head. I wanted to see what happened but it was killing me that she wasn't herself so in the Brine she went.

• Reducing the frequency of pawns offering to be hired while in the field

Yes finally! I no longer have to swerve them if I see them coming up the road 😄

@Nalodart sounds like rather than reducing the initial likelihood of infection maybe they should make it so the chance decreases each time you encounter it? To be honest it just sounds like you were very unlucky 😂

dumbing down feature because of a vocal minority shouldn't happen.
i'm on my 3rd playthrough and haven't encountered dragonsplague yet (had the tutorial pop up though) .

I still haven't encountered this so that's unfortunate that it is being nerfed. :/
Although if there is one good change that is the frequency reduction on pawns asking to be hired, that crap was annoying when exploring.

Empty chests no longer appear on the mini map, finally

Please patch the performance capcom I'm begging you

I've just started Dragons Dogma 1 on PC (runs very well at 4k/60fps) and OMG what an amazing game.
I'm looking forward to playing Dragons Dogma 2 in about 5 years when it runs properly.

Spoiler alert! Would have been nice.

Noooooo! Granted I only really got it when it was scripted. If you just pay attention it’s super obvious when pawns have it. Granted I am on my 3rd playthrough so I don’t care too much.

I got it once during the endgame when I hired a pawn so immediately dismissed my 2 hired pawns. I took a chance on my main pawn though. There's a chance I finished the game with an infected pawn

@SgtTruth same

I never noticed the plague ever being that bad. If I did things correctly, if my pawn's misbehaved and their eyes went red, I just got their HP to zero by throwing them off a ledge and reviving them. Seemed to fix any bad plague related behaviour

Looking forward to it being nerfed personally.
It's not hard to avoid once you know about it, but I can't see a single positive it brings to the game.

Just tedious busy work monitoring pawns to avoid a cutscene and then having to waste a load of wakestones or an eternal wakestone. Nothing about it was fun.

Any news on "we come around to optimise our code and increase FPS" update yet? That's the only thing keeping me from buying the game.

@Nightcrawler71 any pawn can get it. The rate supposedly goes up if you fight dragons or your pawn gets controlled by one. That being said you can sleep at camps and pass it to another pawn in your party or of course dismiss the infected pawn. The progression is super obvious (they get arrogant and combative, sit down during idle and bicker with the party, they ignore commands and eventually their eyes glow red) but if you make it to the post dragon aspect of the game it is scripted that all pawns get it to push the urgency of the end game. But honestly if you play well you don’t need to sleep much during that time so there is usually no impact. It’s really there to keep you invested/paying attention and to keep folks from camping on pawns (granted I never got to the point where the infection was dangerous). Personally i think there should be more consequences but that’s just me.

Seems reasonable. After all, it would be pretty easy to see someone with glowing eyes in reality. The idea that, previously, it could happen yet the player be totally unaware just seems strange. Being more noticeable logically means it wouldn’t spread as much…

Then again, I’ve not played the game. Maybe it’s already a rarity.

To me the idea of important NPCs dying is something that would just annoy me and make me feel like I was missing out.

Again though, not played it, maybe anything important would just move to a different NPC.

@Ryu_Niiyama good to know, thanks 👍 I’ve fought 2 dragons so far, one in Melve and another somewhere else. Both times the dragons buggered off halfway through the encounter!