Behind its DLC microtransactions, Dragon’s Dogma 2’s most divisive component is arguably Dragonsplague, the pawn-infecting illness that your AI companions can catch whereas questing on-line and should ultimately drive them to homicide whole settlements’ price of NPCs.
The pawn pox is fortunately pretty uncommon – I’m but to come across it in my 40-odd hours of enjoying, regardless of sending my pawn far and huge to rack up badges on-line – but it surely’s a key a part of the sport. Your pawns will often comment on the rumoured risk, noting that it will possibly trigger the loyal followers to lose their senses – realised most starkly within the probability of your devoted warrior/wizard/ranger/no matter filling up one of many world’s in-game morgues with the residents of a city.
What makes Dragonsplague particularly jarring for some gamers is that it may be tough to identify – glowing pink eyes are a telltale signal, and gamers have began gifting rotten meals with pawns as a warning that they’ve caught the murder-ick. Nonetheless, should you’re not gazing lovingly into your followers’ eyes on the common, you may fail to see it in time.
Whereas I’d argue that it’s all a part of the sport as meant – particularly in a sport that doesn’t hesitate to autosave its single save slot after each occasion, good or unhealthy (RIP, the particular person I failed to save lots of from an murderer) – and shouldn’t be touched, you might really feel in a different way as you dutifully collect wakestones to attempt to repopulate a pleasant village slaughtered by a red-eyed pawn.
If that’s the case, there’s now a treatment for Dragonsplague: mods! As noticed by VG247, a number of modders have give you methods of creating Dragonsplague a bit simpler to trace – or eliminating it completely, should you choose.
For the previous, there’s the distinctly unsubtle Dragonsplague Counter mod, which sticks an enormous pink quantity from 1 to 10 in your pawns’ heads to point their present stage of an infection. (Pink eyes manifest at 7, should you’re questioning.) Whereas a glowing pink quantity plastered on their brow is about so far as you may get from the extra immersive world that Dragon’s Dogma 2 conjures, there ought to not less than be no approach you miss somebody about to succumb to the pox.
Different mods affords methods to treatment all pawns of the illness and forestall the danger of everlasting plague and even simply take away the system from the sport completely, which works by apparently swapping the hidden counter to a different member of your social gathering and successfully telling the sport that plague pawns shouldn’t homicide everybody they see. All the time reassuring to know, I suppose.
So there, you go: there’s a treatment for Dragonsplague if you’d like it. For me, not less than, I’ll proceed to journey throughout the lands and danger what could come – perhaps I’ll change my thoughts if it lastly claims my beloved sorcerer companion Tonii Tiger, although.
