The Dragon's Dogma 2 Thread

[Ratcatcher]

Support is doing gay **** to buff up the people doing the actual job.
Healer is going gay **** to patch up the people doing the actual job.

Those same people are usually too polite to ask you why are you gay.

[rusty_shackleford]

Support is a force multiplier, healers are kinda gay.

[Lich]

Anything that doesn't directly deal damage is gay.

[revenant]

Tank and healer are both support roles, DPS is the "main" manly role.

People saying playing the healer is easy and designated for incompetent types only are very wrong since a healer's mistake can very easily cause a wipe while DPS' mistake merely means completing the encounter slower unless there is some kind of a DPS check

[The_Mask]

Healers are just smart people that use the boss' damage to destroy people that annoy them.

People that buff are gay.

Tanks are honourable men.

Controllers are closeted narcissists.

Any pure DPS, especially 2-handed warriors, are men of characters and prestige.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

healer isn't support, support is support, healer is healer

Depends on the game itself
Support and healers are overlapping very often, especially in MMOs

For most popular example, Overwatch classified Mercy and Symmetra as supports
Only Mercy healed, Symmetra provided shields

Considering my gameplay in Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, I was playing healer, support (enchanting weapons), and bit of AoE damage
I had an identity crisis for a while, switching vocations every couple of hours
Magick Srcher had an amazing healing bow
Sorcerer had destructive power I liked
Mage had access to heals
Magick Knight had some fun shenanigans with counters

Healers are just smart people that use the boss' damage to destroy people that annoy them.

Guilty as charged of this practice

Controllers are closeted narcissists.

If we are talking about debuff/cc - yeah, this also applies to me

People that buff are gay.

You know it

Come to think of it, I play every role that isn't a tank, melee dps and archer-type ranged dps
Gimme magic, let me cast spells, and be a hindrance to society

[Rand]

The core of the discussion was "playing support is gay".

Maybe, but for me it was the waving the dangly smoke-thing and dancing around the enemies that seemed un-warrior-like.

Now, if instead the caster was wrestling with summoned burning infernal smoke and struggling to physically/magically gather and control it, then using the giant form as a direct avatar to smash and burn the enemies as a big smoke monster like the balrog from the LOTR movie, that would be better, imo.

[Rand]

Come to think of it, I play every role that isn't a tank, melee dps and archer-type ranged dps
Gimme magic, let me cast spells, and be a hindrance to society

In Dragon's Dogma, I want to be the one getting up on the monster and wailing on it. Most fun.

[Rand]

Here's the pawn I made. Not as hot an elf-chick as I would like, but I couldn't do better with the creator.

[wndrbr]

My pawns were always 7ft tall muscular dommy-mommies, cuz i wanted them to have a high carrying capacity.

[Breathe]

dommy-mommies

[Vergil]

Come to think of it, I play every role that isn't a tank, melee dps and archer-type ranged dps
Gimme magic, let me cast spells, and be a hindrance to society

Maybe you're just a bottom

dommy-mommies

The *** comes off as less gay than this kinda ****

[DJOGamer]

Posted this in the Codex
Here's a collection of confirmed info on gameplay additions and changes:

VOCATIONS
> Magick Archer seems daggerless
> Strider and Ranger no longer exist, instead two new vocations have been created - Archer (bows) ; Thief (daggers
> each Vocation has a unique Weapon action (R1)
> all vocations now have a dodge move of sorts, called 'dash', tied to the same button as 'examine' (circle/B) - just like [jump] it may be followed up with specific light or heavy attacks
> Core Skills have been expanded, adding what were previously Weapon Skills to the Core Moveset
> auto targeting for physical bow attacks has been introduced - manual aiming can still be done
> Weapon Skills are linked to one weapon or set of weapons (with 4 slots), rather than being split between the left and right hand
> levelling and stat growths have changed, and carrying capacity can now improve with level

WORLD
> terrain and environmental structures can now be altered or broken, for example: dams holding back water can now unleash floods (similar those found in Monster Hunter World)
> roving parties of adventurers may now be found through the land (they may be hostile or helpful)
> in addition to travel with ferrystones, it's now possible to ride by ox cart (which includes a fast travel option), although one may be ambushed en route
> campfire locations allow the Arisen to set up camp during the night.
> spells and other effects can influence the environment, repair structures, or create throwable objects to use
> loading screen transitions have been eliminated when traversing areas and regions

COMBAT
> a 'downed' state has been added, much like a prolonged out of stamina knockdown
> a finishing blow may be struck to foes with low health using a heavy attack
> pawn revival from the unconscious state now takes longer and instead restores them to the same health as the Arisen
> foes from the original have gained some new attacks and actions
> items no longer restore health to full, making expeditions riskier as they continue - sleeping at campfires or inns is required to fully restore health
> in addition to climbing monsters, it is now possible to stand on them and use skills as if on solid ground
(this last thing imo is an awesome change, as imo the problem with climbing was that all the complexity and diversity of "ground" combat vanishes once you're hanging on to monsters - as the player's only attack options are reduced to which spot you want to boringly whack and the main concern/danger becomes the stamina bar)




The following image though, is pure speculation on the remaining not yet revealed Vocations:



Some of these Vocations were actually present in DDO - namely Alchemist, Priest, Shield Sage, Spirit Lancer and High Scepter
The wiki is a bit incomplete on these, but from what I gathered so far - High Scepter is essentially a spellbalde and Spirit Lancer is a mix of shaman and dragoon

[rusty_shackleford]

> items no longer restore health to full, making expeditions riskier as they continue - sleeping at campfires or inns is required to fully restore health

nice

[The_Mask]

So Drakes are obviously going to be in the game.

A monster of the dragon family, the Drake spits out powerful flames and possesses the intelligence to skillfully manipulate magick.

If you encounter one, be prepared for an all-out battle.

[Breathe]

> items no longer restore health to full, making expeditions riskier as they continue - sleeping at campfires or inns is required to fully restore health

nice

Like FF1, which I'm currently playing for the first time. Hard as balls.

[Slavic Sorcerer]

Maybe you're just a bottom

I actually am

[Vergil]

Maybe you're just a bottom

I actually am

I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

[The_Mask]

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The Mask's Note: the survey is pure commercial stuff and platform sale questions. It has nothing to do with gameplay, narrative or any component of the game.

Here's the wallpaper:

[The_Mask]

A brand new mechanic added to Pawns: the ability to comprehend and interpret languages for the Arisen.

Pawns have unique abilities called specializations. The ability to understand Elvish, Woodland Wordsmith, is one of these. There are many more specializations to discover in Dragon's Dogma 2 to make each Pawn feel more unique.

[Lich]

Looks terrible.

[wndrbr]

Idk, looks like the first game, but with better graphics and a bunch of new abilities.

[wndrbr]

Aw crap, they kept the "open inventory in the middle of combat and pop a healing item while the game is paused" from the original. It was probably the main thing they had to fix (along with the stupid armor system that made high-level enemies nigh-invulnerable if you're not using a high-end weapon).

[The_Mask]

It's not an illusion ahead...it's gameplay of the new Trickster vocation conjured up by @IGN!

Learn all about the unique playstyle of using illusions to trick and defeat foes, or in some cases, trick them into defeating themselves.

[Cretin]

legit the only game im looking forward to

[Boontaker]

Is dd2 going to have true multiplayer or is it still solo pawn ****? I just want to grab on to a rampaging dragon with my bros

[Mortmal]

Same here, it's the only game I am looking forward to, besides many early access titles that I hope could be finished one day. My only worry could be the optimization of the PC version. The first one was a PS3 game, and now it states "1080p/30fps. Framerate might drop in graphics-intensive scenes." for its minimum specs, for a game that doesn't look that much better in my opinion.

[Ratcatcher]

I'm pretty sure this will be ****. It's the only title I've been mildly excited about (even checking news about it, from time to time) in the last 10 years or so and at this point in my life I'm pretty sure I'm all out of nice things I can have.

Sorry guys, I'm not the one making the rules. Maybe you're lucky and I croak before it's released, freeing you from the curse of years.

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this is a joke, I'm not depressed or seeking death

[The_Mask]

I think it's funny they included a feminist as a boss in the game.

Meet the legendary Sphinx: a new, completely optional monster that presents a one-of-a-kind challenge in the open world of Dragon's Dogma 2.

[Goth-Girl-Supremacy]

Apparently Capcom is cracking down on mods and implementing some "Enigma" security program in their games to make modding them impossible. There's speculation this happened because a Street Fighter 6 tournament had the guy running it forget to disable his mods and treated thousands of viewers to a nude Chun-Li skin. Which is gay because Cammy is superior.

Anyways if this ends up being the case it unfortunately means Capcom is returning back to their early 2010s being dogshit arc and DD2 is likely going to be saddled with this so prepare for that shitstorm of reviewbombing. They've already started adding this in to older games like RE5, Revelations 1, Mega Man games and there's other titles slated to be updated with it as well.

Also it's important to note Capcom for some reason has some of the most skilled dickriders in the industry so if you read any defense of this or how it doesn't actually exist and you're imagining things take it with a grain of salt. Remember, you're dealing with people who think SF is better than KOF. They're clearly insane.