Dragon’s Dogma 2 has dropped its first replace, addressing one of many fantasy action-RPG’s most baffling choices – the shortcoming to begin a brand new sport when you’ve begun your first journey – and letting you purchase a house of your personal earlier, offering a dependable place to relaxation and save. There are another small tweaks too, whereas Capcom dare to lift the query about future DLC within the wake of the sport’s controversial microtransactions.
First, the patch! The now-live replace provides a New Recreation choice to the primary menu, which means you possibly can simply restart the marketing campaign in the event you actually need to – one thing that wasn’t potential from inside the sport itself beforehand, on condition that it solely provides a single save slot and autosaves often earlier than and after pretty main occasions, a la Darkish Souls.
Including to the slight softening of the sport’s divisive issue and sometimes unforgiving nature – the place fast-travel is extraordinarily restricted and demise is frequent – is a change to a quest that unlocks a private dwelling for the participant’s character. Your Arisen will now have the ability to entry the search that offers you a house earlier within the story, letting you safe someplace the place you possibly can relaxation as much as recuperate well being and save.
Elsewhere, the variety of Artwork of Metamorphosis tomes out there at Pawn Guilds has been elevated as much as 99, supplying you with the possibility to replenish on the gadgets used to edit your character’s look previous preliminary character creation. (Modders had already made their very own adjustments to make discovering the books simpler, which could be purchased in-game for Rift Crystals however are additionally one of many bits of paid DLC that had stirred up gamers’ ire and dropped Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Steam rankings to unfavorable – since recovering to ‘Combined’ – regardless of being a rattling positive online game.)
Smaller tweaks beneath the headline additions and adjustments embrace higher high quality when utilizing the DLSS Tremendous Decision graphics setting, and fixing issues with rendering fashions, displaying textual content and different bugs. Whereas Capcom have stated they’re engaged on the sport’s very iffy PC efficiency – don’t play it on a Steam Deck! – this primary patch doesn’t make any notable efficiency enhancements but.
Talking of DLC, regardless of the barrage of complaints in regards to the paid DLC out there from launch (which actually isn’t as unhealthy because the web would have you ever consider), Capcom have dared to swiftly problem a separate consumer survey to ask about future DLC for the sport.
For now, the survey merely asks whether or not gamers can be keen on paying for future DLC – or whether or not that call may rely upon its value – however has sparked numerous conversations in the neighborhood about what expansions may supply. New areas? Extra pawn choices? Additional vocations? Romance? Expanded endgame content material? What would you wish to see?
