In many games you must always be aware of your surroundings and what recently happened to a Dragon's Dogma 2 player is the best example of that. While in many open world RPGs you can rest, trade or have a beer, it seems you shouldn't get too confident in this game. This is because according to what he says, while he was sleeping peacefully, a murderous vassal killed half of the NPCs in a city, including some essential for certain missions.
A story that we must tell with a spoiler warning, as we have to reveal a vassal mechanic that you may not know if you are just starting to play Dragon's Dogma 2 or are not familiar with it. Game that arrived on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series Reception that is due in part to his world, which as this player discovered, is full of surprises.
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This user relates his experience in a post, saying that while he was sleeping peacefully, a murderous vassal wiped out half of Vernworth, one of the two great cities in Dragon's Dogma 2. And as I mentioned, among the victims were characters essential for the missions main and secondary. In theory, vassals should be your loyal servants, always willing to help you, and removing important NPCs from quests doesn't seem like normal behavior.
However, this seemingly senseless attack is not a mistake and the cause would be a disease that vassals can contract. If they get infected, they slowly go crazy and can commit terrible acts like this. In fact, sometimes vassals themselves warn you that they have heard rumors about the disease.
Finally, in his post he says that to prevent this from happening to other players, he recommends paying attention to the following symptoms: The vassal's eyes become red and shiny, and the color intensifies over time, the vassal takes the hands to his head as if he is in pain, he becomes rude to you. If you observe these symptoms, you must dismiss your vassal immediately and if the affected person is your main vassal, you will have to throw him into the water and let the monsters that live there eat him.
In addition, we recommend something that is normal in almost all games, especially RPGs, and that is to constantly save the game manually. So if you wake up and find these types of surprises, you can retrace your steps and take action before the same thing happens again.
Capcom apologizes for the problems with the PC port, but confirms that it will maintain microtransactions
Although Dragon's Dogma 2 has been hailed by many as one of the best games of the year, its reception on PC has been quite poor and receiving waves of negative reviews. After performance problems and the implementation of unexpected microtransactions, Capcom has taken up the gauntlet and given its position on the criticism, leaving behind some apologies.
In response to the criticism, Capcom posted a statement on Steam apologizing for the inconvenience caused and addressing the community's main points of concern. According to what they indicate, bugs and crashes are a priority for the development team and they are working on them, in addition to referring to the criticized impossibility of starting a new game. Regarding this, Capcom assures that they are looking for a way to make this possible on Steam, so they will deliver the solution when they have it.
They also mention the framerate problems in the PC version, saying that they are working on improving the performance of Dragon's Dogma 2. And finally, they reiterate that all the objects in the game can be obtained without the need for micropayments and making it clear that the will be maintained despite their poor reception.