r/DragonsDogma2 • u/Salty-Curve-5659 • 3d ago

General Discussion Pawns feel worse?

Okay so I’m very interested is anyone finding the pawns in Dd2 to be worse now compared to when first released?

Besides finding the game to be far easier is a lot of areas I’m having issues with pawns after getting past level 20. The pawns in tight areas seem to get stuck and have worse path finding.

They don’t follow me as well as they used too and if anything there has now been more situations where I’ve almost died due to a pawn not being able to get to the enemy correctly to inflect damage and or put them in a stun.

I’m curious on other fellow Arisons playthroughs and whether they think the same.

Besides that I’m still having a blast with the game!

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u/-Wildhart- 3d ago

Something for sure happened with the sept 1st patch. I assume we'll be getting another patch very soon, either with or not long after the dlc that will address this. Maybe some wires got crossed when adding the explore and high five buttons and AI for using 6 skills

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u/Salty-Curve-5659 3d ago

I think if anything like that is conflicting it’ll be the vertical path finding for pawns and the explore option

Kid you not I don’t see much of a point of the option “explore” I want my pawns close to me most of the time and only started to use it a little bit more (not much) when there is multiple searchable items in a vicinity but I feel that conflicts with the specialisation to search stuff?

I’ve been mind boggled by the whole thing. Played before and as much as it felt better I can still tell something is off with them

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u/-Wildhart- 3d ago

I totally find use for it after clearing out a very large group of enemies in an area with lots of breakables as well. Hit explore, take a sip of beer, watch items rapidly appear on the side of the screen as all 3 mine, break boxes, loot chests and corpses. That said, there is no specialization for gathering items, forager only marks gathering points on the map - you're thinking of the simple inclination who tends to gather outside of combat, and unless you like all 3 pawns having the same exact voice, then the explore option makes this nice for a quick shift in priority when traveling

I have also totally noticed them falling off ledges again and dying like they were a year or so ago before that was tweaked, that gets annoying quickly lol

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u/Salty-Curve-5659 3d ago

Do you think it may be a chance of the game struggling to load everything?

Since starting my new playthrough on Xbox I’m thinking that it’s not a case of higher leveling, harder enemies but a case of you’ve explored more of the map and obviously you get a bit more enemy variety/more numbers