Dragon’s Dogma 2 obtained its first correct patch earlier right this moment, following its common but controversial launch final week. It is a small replace that seemingly will not do a lot to quell the intensive reviews of efficiency points with the PC model, but it surely nonetheless makes a couple of notable enhancements to Capcom’s eccentric fantasy RPG.
The headline change is the introduction of a brand new ‘New Sport’ choice, which lets gamers “begin a brand new recreation when save information already exists”. It’s, frankly, wild that Dragon’s Dogma 2 launched with out this function. Restarting an RPG a couple of hours in to tweak your character and sophistication is virtually a practice at this level. However higher late than by no means, I suppose.
After this, an important change makes “the hunt that permits gamers to accumulate their very own dwelling (the place they’ll save and relaxation) obtainable earlier within the recreation.” Purely on precept, I am all for making it simpler for individuals to personal their very own home. Presumably although, the explanation for that is much less to do with progressive housing coverage, and extra that gamers have been getting pissed off on the size of time they’d wait earlier than having management over their very own saving.
Other than this, Capcom has tweaked the supply of “Artwork of Metamorphosis” objects at Pawn Guilds, rising the purchasable quantity to 99. These things are used to change the looks of characters. Given how intensive the sport’s character creator is (and the actual fact you’ll be able to customise pawns) I think about these have been promoting out quicker than half-price Steam Decks.
The patch notes additionally checklist fixes to “miscellaneous” bugs and textual content show points, in addition to a particular difficulty “associated to the show of fashions underneath some particular settings” and an enchancment to visible high quality when DLSS Tremendous Decision is enabled.”
You’ll be able to learn the complete patch notes right here. All these modifications are welcome, however they’re unlikely to do a lot to shift Dragon’s Dogma 2 away from its present “combined” score on Steam. Whereas a few of these damaging opinions stem from a barely overblown response to the sport’s intensive, however largely innocuous checklist of launch DLC, the larger difficulty is the sport’s efficiency. In a separate announcement, Capcom defined that the framerate points many gamers are experiencing derive from heavy CPU load, as “a considerable amount of CPU utilization is allotted to every character and calculating the influence of their bodily presence in numerous areas”. However this does not change the truth that it is an issue to which Capcom at the moment lacks an answer. Nonetheless, the studio says it’s “trying into methods to enhance efficiency sooner or later.” Let’s hope these enhancements arrive quickly.