r/DragonsDogma

Other mods like NPC Limit Control attempt to address this in a very hamfisted way, increasing or decreasing the range and number of NPC's being rendered with zero attempts to ensure necessary NPC's are always rendered or keep performance when the draw distance was increased. Mods like that are all obsolete now.

Crowd Density Overhaul gives you direct control over how many of the ambient soulless husk NPCs spawn in each settlement, while ensuring that every NPC who matters is always present. Shopkeepers, innkeepers, quest characters, oxcart crews, and Culling Request/Escort Quest civilians will remain completely unaffected by this mod.

The ambient NPC population in Dragon's Dogma 2 (particularly in the capitals Vernworth and Bakbattahl) causes huge performance problems for most people due to the sheer amount of NPC's being processed by the CPU (and how poorly optimized the NPC rendering pipeline itself is).

CDO changes this by maxing out their draw distance while natively suppressing a HUGE percentage of the NPC's that are allowed to spawn. You get the benefits of a large NPC draw distance while having significantly less individual NPC's nearby eating your CPU performance. It's a best-of-both-worlds scenario. You should get roughly the same performance as vanilla with much better draw distance and reasonable crowd sizes.

This is all 100% customizable in an REFramework menu as well!

(Ik its sorta silly to ask considering i can try and see for myself, but i kinda wanna hear ppl. Sorry if this is a super common thing to see someone ask about)

Dragons dogma 1 is one of my most beloved childhood games. I grew up clearing bitterblack isle over and over and over and over and over as a comfort game. Id wake up every morning and play it as long as i could either before school or until I got kicked off.

As somebody who was sooo excited, and bought the deluxe on release, couldnt play it because my pc at the time couldn't handle it. Its been collecting dust in my steam library.

Ive since upgraded to a new pc and can play it.. but ive honestly only heard mediocre things at best in mass, months ago.

Im wondering if there is a ton of fun in the game to have? Does it still have the heart and soul of the original? And is the story/exploration aspect good? Are there other big gripes outside of poor enemy endgame scaling, less skills usable all at once, and deleted vacations (and no BBI dlc)?

Because of the Dragonplague...

On Steam it appears the average player reached the Unmoored World at around lv50 and either abandoned the game in it or when they started NG+ on account of how many pawns are in starter gear again. And because of that nearly every pawn I can recruit is infected with the Dragonplague.

Including mine now. As the first lv50~ pawn I recruited gave my pawn and the other support pawn I had the plague.

Now normally I'd have just tossed the poor guy into the Brine and called it a day. But this time I've decided that no, I won't remove the fledgling will my pawn has now. A will that I the saw given to him time and time again over the course of eleven years waiting for DD2. Because my pawn is the same one I traveled with in Gransys.

Learning that's what the Dragonplague was after my first and only previous run of the game when it launched changed the way I view the plague. Yes it's incredibly destructive and yet... It felt at times like I was seeing the old Aggressive personality I chose for my pawn back in DDDA. Like the real him was shining through. Doubly so when I first noticed he had the plague when we slept in a town and he said he felt like he'd just awoken from a long dream.

And so I chose from that point on to do something different. I wouldn't risk destroying a town with Dragonplague or infecting other pawns and adding to the problem because I previously would just swap out pawns every couple of levels. Now we're alone together on the road. The open sky has become our new home. Our packs heavy with curatives as we don't have a mage with us anymore.

Where before gathering items became an after thought because a Simple pawn did most of my gathering for me I'm now hunting down every ingredient I can find to make curatives. Instead of running head first into every monster I find I'm properly saving and planning my fights and using buff elixers to turn the tide of battle. Something all the more important thanks to play with Bestiary and other difficulty tweaks that causes the previously weaker monsters in the game to be tankier and more deadly.

Presently we're traveling around hunting down drakes for the Godsbane. Something we don't even have to do, as we have 120 of them in storage. But just so we can get away from civilization. That this self imposed exile to protect others can last longer. As it won't end until my pawn has become forfeit by falling in combat.

And if for some reason I forget and we rest at an inn and the plague climaxes I already have an eternal wakestone. I'm ready for such a thing.

I only fear that... as he hasn't become forfeit once so far that I may find ourselves in front of the Dragon together.

I killed a cyclops in the the ancient battle field after being tormented by a drake or dragon, is it a guaranteed drop or is it something you need to farm?

Curious because i got it as soon as I killed it is there rng in getting it?