FunkyMunkey
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whelp just grabbed this game and diving in completely blind. can't wait B)
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen PC |OT| Wolves hunt in 4K
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artsi
Member
Anyone else get weird circular banding at night?
Yeah, it seems to be a feature. Horrible one, try equipping a lantern and not to see a ball of light around you.
Anyone else get weird circular banding at night?
Get on that deband shader, breh.
SixMachine
Member
If someone hit level 200 they get the infinity symbol next to their level. Those people probably imported their save.
Francokid1
Member
Which one of you has a lvl 54 pawn?
Oh so you just don't enjoy melee combat in general?
How do I get those classes?
Krusenstern
Banned
Alright, I did something stupid and ended up in prison. Is there a way to get out of there without bribing the guard?
Dick Justice
Banned
I'm assuming I need Gedosato for that?
Really what ever role you want to play as for the bulk of the game is not how you want to roll your character from the start. For example I plan on going Sword and Shield Mystic Knight but started as Strider to get the stamina gains for the first 10 levels. Then I'll do 10 levels as a Mage to get my magic up and then swap over to Assassin because there's some augments I want from that vocation. And I'll play that until about level 35-40 where I'll go into Mystic Knight with a foundation of skills, stats and augments from other vocations. Still it is nice to just play the game once to figure out what you like from each vocation before planing out your ideal build the next time through.
You went down the well early on? Braver than me but then again I got fucked up by what was down there my first time through and always went in there a bit overleveled ever since.
Just finished my first session. Like it quite a lot so far, though not quite at the "OMG best game ever" level people hyped it to. We'll see what the future holds, certainly seems like a huge game.
You went down the well early on? Braver than me but then again I got fucked up by what was down there my first time through and always went in there a bit overleveled ever since.
fluffydelusions
Member
Peak today
Enjoying it a lot. I'm doing the long ass escort mission to gran soren and kicking the animal to make it move faster at night lol.
ah okay, some people in the steam group have pawns at that level lol.
DeadbeatCassanova
Member
Anyone know of a fix for the UI. Running at 2560x1080 resolution and the bottom of the UI gets cut off.
Reshade, actually. Alooo81 just implemented into Gedosato though.
21:9 resolutions don't work. Run at 1920x1080 (or your 16:9 resolution of choice) and set your monitor/windows/your GPU settings put black bars on the side.
Anyone else get weird circular banding at night?
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I've got the deband shader implemented in GeDoSaTo and boy howdy does it help a bunch.
This example is using higher contrast post processing than vanilla, and shows off how great the Deband is.
I put the pull request in, but if you don't want to wait until then you can pull the raw post.fx file from here, add it to DDDA's config folder in GeDo, enable Deband shader, and enable postprocessing in the GeDo settings.
Alternatively, you can just use Reshade, but Reshade still applys post processing to the HUD.
You will get access to them once your character hits level 10 iirc.
DeadbeatCassanova
Member
Ah, bummer. Thanks though. I'm sure a mod will come out eventually.
Zomba13
Member
Mages get some sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet magic later on. Like, reeeeeeeal sweet.
What are your thoughts on combat so far?
I've seen gifs of someone shooting a dark magic with arrow or something. that shit is jaw dropping.
I am enthralled by the concept of accomplishing heroic feats and defeating enemies by pure force of will and intellect.
So I prefer leaving smashing things with blunt implements or cutting them up to lesser adventurers.
I went down there right after returning to the starting city from the encampment. The foreshadowing made me expect the worst,
so I stayed up there while my pawns fought below, and we managed to kill 3 of the lizard guys before pulling any of the others.
I like it. Especially the verticality, the mobility and the fact that even starter spells feel like they have impact (which they do, as a tradeoff for charging up).
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
I feel like they really put some work into this PC port which is great. It looks like it's paying off for them as well. Shame I can't play for a few more days though.
You could quite easily go through the game as just a base vocation and have a blast whilst tricking out your Pawn party to make up for any deficiencies for certain encounters. Plus they're mindless clumsy bastards at the best of times and happiest when smashing things, especially storage boxes instead of enemies whilst in the heat of battle.
LurkerPrime
Member
Behold my prime pawn, Irval.
(I haven't found an armour vendor yet so plss forgive his peasant-clothes.)
Being a Strider is basically this
except I don't do any damage with the weapons.
...But then, I haven't found a weapon vendor either so I'm killing monsters the old-fashioned way... with a rusty, cracked, broken dagger or two... and infinite arrows.
Edit: And I cleared the well like this. Believe it!
(I haven't found an armour vendor yet so plss forgive his peasant-clothes.)
He is the best and if you don't hire him, well... just be glad he doesn't have feelings, because you don't want to be on his bad side.
Being a Strider is basically this
except I don't do any damage with the weapons.
...But then, I haven't found a weapon vendor either so I'm killing monsters the old-fashioned way... with a rusty, cracked, broken dagger or two... and infinite arrows.
Edit: And I cleared the well like this. Believe it!
Admiral Woofington
Member
fyi there's a screenshot watermark removal mod in nexusmod already.
UnrealEck
Member
Ran into FPS problems inside and just outside of Gran Soren (drops to 40-45fps). Tried different settings out, and turning distance scaling from 'high' to 'low' solved the problem completely. Weird.
The pop-in now is pretty criminal though
GTX 970
i5-3570k
Shit CPU utilisation.
It happens to me and I have a 6700K.
Hey guys, I've played Dragon's Dogma back then on the Xbox 360 but just for a couple of hours. The blurry and specifically bad image quality (along with the letterboxes) made me stop playing the game. After the announcement of the PC release I got excited again (yay, 4k! Proper AF and AA!) but remembered another thing I was bothered with:
The combat mechanics. I've found them, apart from the cool boss fights, very repetitive (and the feedback of hitting is a bit awkward... strikes don't feel very powerful). The fixed amount of available special attacks was sort of a lackluster because the game didn't offer any other special mechanics like combos (I think they were like two? When you wait for short period of time after the second strike before attacking with the third) and the features it DOES offer (like throwing oil and burning enemies) isn't really comfortable to use.
It definitely looks interesting and I always try out games where you can create your own characters. But story telling and presentation is pretty flat, environment isn't as lively as I'm used to (Risen, The Witcher) and is missing some incredible structures or architecture (e.g. Bloodborne). I know, Dragon's Dogma is much older, but even the old Soul Reaver or Prince of Persia games managed to offer great architecture.
Does the story gets better, more exciting and does combat mechanics evolve later on? I've played up to the point I've reach the big city after I've had killed the Hydra and escorted the group to the city. (did some side–quests, though, after that).
The combat mechanics. I've found them, apart from the cool boss fights, very repetitive (and the feedback of hitting is a bit awkward... strikes don't feel very powerful). The fixed amount of available special attacks was sort of a lackluster because the game didn't offer any other special mechanics like combos (I think they were like two? When you wait for short period of time after the second strike before attacking with the third) and the features it DOES offer (like throwing oil and burning enemies) isn't really comfortable to use.
It definitely looks interesting and I always try out games where you can create your own characters. But story telling and presentation is pretty flat, environment isn't as lively as I'm used to (Risen, The Witcher) and is missing some incredible structures or architecture (e.g. Bloodborne). I know, Dragon's Dogma is much older, but even the old Soul Reaver or Prince of Persia games managed to offer great architecture.
Does the story gets better, more exciting and does combat mechanics evolve later on? I've played up to the point I've reach the big city after I've had killed the Hydra and escorted the group to the city. (did some side–quests, though, after that).
LurkerPrime
Member
Watermark? I guess that's only in photo mode, huh.
Admiral Woofington
Member
What are you using? That second picture is unreal.
You get it in Gran Soren at the inn.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Something I should have mentioned in my FAQ (Grief, can you add it please?): Turn off the cinematic camera.
You can roll.
In item storage at the inn.
Well, it still needs a lot of work (blacks, bloom, gamma etc...), but I"m starting to get something off my ENB preset. Pretty happy about the DOF, low profile and not triggering on each things I'm focusing.
Anyway, I better should start playing for real,
and I already have over 4 hours of gametime.
Anyway, I better should start playing for real,
I still didn't fought the Hydra
artsi
Member
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
It is designed to let you switch it all the time, there's no penalty.