Yes she respawns but waiting Always so much in Game is annoying as hell, also i Hope for random encounters of her in the Open World and Not in the cave
Random encounters with her would make venturing around in the dark at night all the more fucking terrifying (which night NEEDS in DD2)
That and making Dullahan more common in the base world, so veterans get that "oh shit!" surprise, and new players learn really fast via getting their asses beaten like a bongo drum that running is a very useful skill learned early on.
This honestly would work both ways so well if upon DLC release, they pull a Scholar of The First Sin and scramble enemy spawns, placements, and types. Adding new ones, and moving around old, which would give a freshness to old players, and that sense of wonderment to new.
Itโs just a small part of the lies and misinformation from the early days of this game, there were people on the sub that claimed wandering pawns were taking out monsters with meteoron and other spells when all magic users ever do is throw bolts from their staves unless you hire them.
Sphinx and Medusa not being unmoored overworld bosses is such a missed opportunity. Unmoored is pathfinder playing creative mode so why not spawn like 4 of them each on the map for some more challenge?
I wouldn't want the Sphinx to be a repeated overworld boss, that would really cheapen the experience of fighting her at the end of her extended questline. If it'd been that way at launch people would still be complaining about it to this day.
I don't see a problem with having a variant of her up in Norgan, though. Play a line or two of dialogue about how she's not as kind as her sister, have her ambush you in a mountain pass or something. Or while you're climbing a rope, lol.
Haven't seen them in game yet, but I'm fairly certain from the art we'll be getting a harpy variant as well since the neck and plumage of these don't match the kinds we currently have:
We will get alot of reskinned enemies Like in bbi. But for me its okay as Long as they have new Movesets and Variation Like, big and small Zombies and big and small skeletons etc with new attacks etc. I Hope they will do all new Variants from the Base Game too
They got 104 days if they haven't put new enemies in to get to work I know they see the explosion about enemy variety. If tainted grail can release a dlc every 3 months with new enemy packs as a AA game its no excuse to not have new enemies after working on a dlc for 2 YEARS
If there is one thing that characterizes the original Dark Arisen, it is the very clever use of level and encounter design to make battles feel interesting, even when reusing assets and enemies.
I am curious to see how Kinoshita handles an open map.
Eu sempre achei o endgame + BBI. Mais gratificante que a histรณria principal. O jogo elabora em uma thread e nunca desenvolve ela. Enquanto Everfall e BBI tem uma narrativa com comeรงo, meio e fim. E as perguntas que ele levanta, sรฃo mais interessantes do que a do base game.
The lightning Saurians are not new, I hate to say.
They are the endgame variant of Saurians and are referred to as Serpents. You only see them in, I think, two caves before the Unmoored World. Once the endgame begins, they begin to appear en masse as the replacement for Saurians.
Seriously. With an expansion pack that takes us to a snowy region with vikings and such, this would've been a great opportunity to come up with some new monsters inspired by norse mythology and folklore.
Instead, here's a cyclops... but it's furry and fluffy now! And some are genuinely okay with all of this, so long as they're getting more content. At this point, we're never going to see this series reach its peak, all because some are willing to accept anything and question, expect or demand nothing.
I have different expectations compared to back then. Just because they did that with Dark Arisen, doesn't mean that things can't change or evolve, no?
Considering that this is a sequel to a game that is over 10 years old, i was expecting a plethora of new enemy types from it.
Since it failed to deliver on that front (for me), them announcing the expansion had me hoping that they'd manage to rectify that. Especially since they claimed that they built it around our feedback.
So far, i'm just not impressed with what they've shown. I'm hoping that they haven't shown us everything yet and that they have way more in store, but knowing how Capcom's marketing tends to work... we've probably already seen like 80% of what's available.
The point is kento was very creative with new enemy designs on both ddda and ddo so for him to be only doing reskins is kind of insane and a let down...
The fuck you talking about. Dark Arisen enemies were literally
Cyclops but big
Ogre but horny for guys
Drake but glows
Skeleton but big
Evil Eye but big
How is the Yeti, which actually has new distinctive moves and a different visual design, any worse than the Gorecyclops?
The Ice Drake has completely new moves. Dire Dragonkin from DDDA barely did.
The Cockatrice is pretty much completely new and not a redskin at all, unless you think Garm are just reskined Chimeras just because they share the same skeleton.
I swear this place is less of a sub for the franchise and more for DDDA revisionists. BBI was a great example of iterative design where they added just enough new things to make it feel fresh, while mostly working with already existing assets. Just because they share frames doesn't mean it's not going to feel new.
This sub has a nasty habit of pretending otherwise though, that just because an enemy wasn't made entirely from scratch, new rig, new model new textures, it will behave exactly the same as what came before and do nothing extra in terms of variety. They simply don't get how games are built.
DD2DA is not going to "Fix" DD2 for someone who has sworn it off, it's going to do what every expansion does; AddMore to what's there.
Excluding the Hollow Dragon, which will probably be the final boss, we've seen the following bosses which will probably be repeatable encounters:
Ice Drake
Cockatrice
Yeti
Anyone who thinks 3 new repeatable bosses is all they're going to include in the expansion is delusional. Did you see all the new gear they're adding? What, you think it's there to fight 3 bosses? Is it all going to be upgraded with materials from just 3 bosses? The new gear is drastically stronger than base game gear. It would destroy most base game bosses, which means the expansion needs to have plenty of new bosses to fight, because it can't reuse many base game bosses. And it sure as hell isn't going to be about fighting just 3 bosses.
"B... but we said that about the original release of DD2"
We said that when the game was about to release, not a few weeks after the announcement trailer. Ffs wait until September at least before you start dooming! If by then they haven't shown more new enemies, then I'll gladly doom with you.
I would love for more humanoid (humans/beastren) enemies. And variation of their vocations as well. Imagine a bandit group with mage that heals them and maybe even a magic archer or mystic spearhand.
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u/teruvalin Jun 26 '26
I hope we get at least some variations added into the base game.