I excluded this on purpose, hoping you wouldn't reply with this, because it's not, it's still wasting server time, pawns don't get updated for players in real time, the server is still tracking everything they are doing for other players to reward rc and knowledge and gifts; pawn gets sent back, whoops that pawn doesn't exist anymore, guess the server will just toss all the information it was tracking into the ether and that pawn gains nothing.
I understand the mechanics. However, the server isn’t constantly being bombarded with the pawn’s exploits moment to moment by every player akin to the activity of any MMO. The server is updated with data to determine RC rewards, how it was rated, and potential gifts when the pawn is dismissed.
I didn't say so, I said it's wasting server time, which it does; it doesn't just happen on dismissal, but also on death, a pawn that gets brined by accident or simply because it wasn't strong enough also gets its tracked information synchronised right away. But now your pawn doesn't exist anymore and the server has to decide what to do with it, which would be to get rid of it; end result is the pawn gets nothing.
...it's not a problem with the original game because you aren't locked into any class and the world is on a loop so you can't really miss anything, that aside, people aren't just casually deleting all their progress either, heck fluffyquack got the go ahead from capcom/wbacon for his save transfer tool because that was the number one question about the pc version of the game, can I transfer my save somehow?
Dragon's dogma is literally 'Replay: The Game' lol
So?
So?
Actually, it is. On my second playthrough, I created a brand new character because I wanted to experience hard mode with a fresh level 1 character, and not my decked out almost triple digit character full of dragonforged gear. Plenty of others have done so as well, evidenced by discussions throughout the years on how it is incredibly easy to get one-shot in the early game by bandit arrows on a fresh character in hard mode. My pawn was regularly recruited as I had insane amounts of rift crystals, and once my hard mode character was created, anyone that still had my original pawn hired before I restarted ”wasted the server’s time”. Servers were fine, BTW.
I like how your manufactured “problem” with save files, pawns, and servers is suddenly not a problem anymore in this sentence.
it's clearly not worth it for capcom
sure, let's have a system that rewards the hiring of a core aspect of the game, but just ignore it because meicyn doesn't care.
of course they were, it's still factually a waste of server time, and also players like you were the vast minority.
...why would it be? The tool transfered the save from console to pc, they aren't on the same server.
Some of the reception here regarding this news of one save file only suggests that maybe it might have been worth their time. Money talks after all, it’s a miracle we’re getting a sequel in the first place. I sincerely hope the game does well, but design decisions like this is already having a negative result.
Um, what? If the pawn is deleted, of course it’s going to get nothing. Hence why I said “so” in the interrogative. It’s not a comment about the pawn system, it’s a comment that your concerns about what a deleted pawn receives or doesn’t receive is irrelevant because the pawn no longer exists.
Okay, so we’re doing an unironic ACKSHUALLY now. Cool.
But does it delete the pawn from the console edition’s server? We wouldn’t want to waste the server’s precious resources, after all.
So it's a waste of time for the server asking to synchronise and it's ignoring the entire point of the pawn system because who cares, just delete all the information and gifts they've gathered; might as well have an option to not create a pawn at all, but then why even play DD.
Don't be silly, the console version didn't stop existing after the pc launch, it still needs to function status quo.
I'm not white whatevering anything, you just very cavalier have all the simple solutions that capcom was incapable of thinking of apparently. I provided one of the technical reasons they didn't go the multiple pawns route in the first game and if they don't want to do it for the second game either, it's just clearly not worth it to them, for whatever extra technical or design reasons.
All it needs to be is DD 1.5 and have a kick ass title song:
Thats literally WHY this kind of quest design is how it should be, the fact you can say ‘interfere in a duel’ but the game doesnt explicitly tell you just gives you the player more agency. Especially since that duel in question involved one of your love interests against a considerably stronger opponent.
Sorry but you can’t claim it as ‘excuses’ when your pushing your view on something as subjective as the design choices.
One autosaving save file is a terrible thing tbh, means you have one attempt, everything needs to be cleared the first time. dice roll mechanics and action sequences. A game without at least one manual save needs to be structured perfectly to not lead to frustration or be short enough like old games so you can kinda accept to replay.
Huh? MHW has 3 save slots.
That sounds fun on paper but I feel like it would just get frustrating.
I can I agree with that, like or not Devs have every right to design their games however they want and Dragon Dogma got its cult following exactly because it played very different than any RPG out there.
Let me clarify: Dragon’s Dogma doesn’t allow you to have more than one character. If you want to play a character with a fresh new start at level 1 again like in every other RPG, you can’t unless you delete your existing character. Why? Because fuck you. Capcom knows better.
Well yea, 1 per character, 3 character slots. I consider each character a "save file".
I guess it depends on your mindset going into the game. A lot of people rightfully play games solely to "beat" them, but I think DD2 might be a game that it's totally fine to just play by immersion and consider the journey the real experience. The way that Itsuno has been talking things up like "making travel worthwhile" and unscripted and unplanned events making the dev team happy, I could see myself playing it like Skyrim where I don't really have any particular goal in mind, and just go exploring. In that aspect, I think Permadeath could be fun. Really make you prepare for every outing, really make you consider your decisions instead of just running in head first as many times as it takes to win (ala Dark Souls style).
Yeah, except that's not how it works. That's not how all decisions play out, sometimes it's that way and sometimes not and the game doesn't even hint to you how you an effect the storyline and when. If it was better designed around player decisions and could even hint in subtle ways to the player(even during normal conversations before events happen) as to how their decisions can do and how they can effect change, then that'd be one thing. Hell, you don't even know how much someone is becoming your beloved unless you specifically go out of your way to choose one, lest the game figures, "well, he's been interacting with this shop vendor a lot so, he must of course be in love with them".
Until your save is corrupted because a bug. lol
There is a way , a little complicated but You can have at least another save in the cloud.
We just cant find a middle ground here, but I will concede that they should design choices etc in a more obvious way or at least telegraphed in a more accessible way.
That's not true, once you get to a certain point in the game you can use it an unlimited amount.
Dragon Dogma 2:I fully expect a "dragon dogam 2 fucks your mom while you play" news during this week if the last days are anything to go by
Oh, I don't remember that. Nice.
nope, but tbf there's nothing in the game that would even remotely require optimal stat growth, you can always change your vocation and have a great time with it.
I suspect more people save scum in that game than not. It’s like how the majority of people playing the Sims use a money cheat.Larian:
In Dark Souls(in PC) you can start multiple playthroughs and save them in different slots. In DD you always had one slot. If you press "New Game", all your progress will be gone forever.
The moment you press "New Game" on DD on Xbox 360 it will update your save file backed up in cloud to new game.
There's no respec because there's nothing to respec. You don't allocate stats, you gain them naturally based on what class you were at the time of level up. It's just an extension of choices and consequences that the game emphasizes. Someone that leveled as a warrior shouldn't expect to be as good a caster as someone that switched to sorcerer as soon as they can.
