Professor Lich
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Well, I'll just try to keep getting better then! Thanks again DogmaGAF, I'll see what I can do.
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen PC |OT| Wolves hunt in 4K
- Thread starter Grief.exe
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(Totally an endgame spoiler, perhaps even THE endgame spoiler, do not click unless you're in the know
You know, Grigori, God's chosen messenger and the chooser of his successor. He is, essentially, an angel, much like his name would suggest.
Oh! I never would've thought to use darkness there. Huh. Makes sense, though.
SlasherJPC
Banned
First time I played this I was a strider and had a blast. Started a mage on pc version and not sure I'm feeling it early on. Is this a case of starting out weak and destroying later on?
The spell effects are awesome, and you definitely wreck shit... But you probably won't get the satisfaction of the kind of high level engagement you get with strider/ranger.
Get a sorcerer pawn instead
Dre_G_Writer
Member
yup.
But mage is more of a support class than actual damage dealer though. So if thats not something you wanna do a lot, then you may not find the class all that great.
LurkerPrime
Member
Great. Runs well and KB&M is a fine way to play.
SlasherJPC
Banned
The spell effects are awesome, and you definitely wreck shit... But you probably won't get the satisfaction of the kind of high level engagement you get with strider/ranger.
Get a sorcerer pawn instead
Thanks folks. Can I switch at a certain point? Or need to start over?
Why are you surprised, its a capcom game, they are known for great ports since DMC4
I'll just use XB1 pad but cool
PC ports are always a gamble regardless of developer/publisher.
Dre_G_Writer
Member
Nah, you can switch right now, right at the start of the game. if you go to the DLC island, you can talk to the woman and she can swap your classes right there.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Thanks.
Also, do I have to turn off any of the graphics settings in-game like FXAA and HDR to make SweetFX work properly?
I think Capcom put those enemies there to encourage the player to try something different, and become aware you can easily go the wrong way to encounter enemies which are above your level. I think the easiest way to get past them is to go there during night time. Then you'll fight wolves instead of bandits, and they're much easier to handle.
LurkerPrime
Member
I'd believe it. The game is constantly reminding you that it's TOTALLY OK to flee from battle, from tutorials and loading screen hints to pawn banter.
Giving the game that kind of oppressive freedom lets them do some cool stuff. Like surprise dragons!
texhnolyze
Banned
You may want to turn in-game AA off, as most presets already have AA injected, mostly SMAA.
You may have noticed that his other dialog option is that he offers to make forgeries of any item for you...
LurkerPrime
Member
Oh so they aren't the real deal?
DaciaJC
Gold Member
*sigh*
Fuck Hard mode. It's fine for NG+, even in BBI, but I wasn't expecting nearly this high a frequency of one-shot deaths in NG. I don't even mind the increased stamina costs, in fact I kinda prefer it that way, but getting killed in an instant by these bandits even at level 30 is goddamned infuriating.
Fuck Hard mode. It's fine for NG+, even in BBI, but I wasn't expecting nearly this high a frequency of one-shot deaths in NG. I don't even mind the increased stamina costs, in fact I kinda prefer it that way, but getting killed in an instant by these bandits even at level 30 is goddamned infuriating.
RockTurtle
Member
How do i make money at the beginning?
i wanna be decked out in strong slutty armor
i wanna be decked out in strong slutty armor
flaxknuckles
Member
My companions are so bad at fleeing battle. They always gets their asses torn up no matter how much I mash "Come". Someone needs to mod this game so I can store my pawns in pokeballs and zap their asses back in their containers when we are getting thrashed.
The Silver
Member
Primethius
Banned
How do i make money at the beginning?
i wanna be decked out in strong slutty armor
Sell the armor pieces you have in your storage. One of them nets you about 300k.
I think DD is using a slightly different character model for casting shadows...
What are you talking about, that shadow clearly belongs to a low poly gynecologist.
I think DD is using a slightly different character model for casting shadows...
hahaha, when my character was wearing Madeleine's outfit the shadow was COMPLETELY wrong.
KCroxtonJr
Member
Yep, this has bothered me since i played on ps3, one of the things i REALLY wanted fixed in the pc port (even tried pming wbacon about it lol, no reply). the crazy thing is they have proper shadows in big cutscenes like at the start when the dragon comes to the village, so it seems like it should just be a switch...I think DD is using a slightly different character model for casting shadows...
I also tried asking ENB creator if he could fix , no reply either.
That seems like something that would be hard coded into the game, not an easy shader fix.
johndoe11235
Member
There is a slight shortcut to quicksaving. Hit Esc then hit I. The game will ask if you wanna save and continue.
This is pretty much the same predicament I am in. I am thinking about switching to Assassin or Mystic Knight instead since I am not using the archery much with how weak it feels like you mentioned.
Snacks the sober sea lion
Member
How do I get my pawn to stop casting lightning? When we fight an ogre it's just 2 minutes of hacking away because my pawn spams lightning spells and it's always stunned.
It seems to be just shadows cast from lanterns that look so low poly
Don't equip lightning as one of their abilities.
texhnolyze
Banned
Three buttons pressing in total, not as quick as the true quick save button.
I don't really mind it personally, but I understand the complaints.
It only becomes really frustrating when you realize you've been roaming around the world for 45 minutes and haven't hit a save point because of it. Then you die. And lose all that progress.
It's most frustrating because the save option isn't just some checkpoint save, it saves your progress and where you are, so its basically a quick save already. It just isn't mapped to a button, there aren't multiple saves, and it doesn't work in the background while the game continues.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
I found mapping it to LT works better for my muscle memory (setup 2 in the controller options for X360 controller).
I shot to level 22 without even trying, this game really gets it's hooks into you... played till 5am on a work day, jeepers
.don't equip lightning? i mean... cmon...
are you that used in getting your hand held in a game?
KCroxtonJr
Member
Nope, its all shadows, even from the sun. No armor casts any shadows, no capes, scarfs, etc, no hair. Only weapons, and what im guessing is an invisible low poly character model, casts shadows.
What im saying is that if proper shadows are being rendered in those cutscenes, which are real time and not pre-rendered, then that means the engine is switching between the two versions of character shadows in real time, so maybe there is a setting or some code somewhere that could be taken advantage of to tell the engine to render full shadows during gameplay as welll.
It might be more complicated than that, but it cant be TOO hard, since the engine is already capable of rendering full shadows, they just chose not to for performance reasons, which made sense on consoles since they struggled to even reach 30fps.
What?!!!???
*Rushes over to game case, unlocks it, pulls out DD game case, and opens it*
Oh thank God, it will always still be there.
Seriously though, that sucks.