Dragon's Dogma 2 - WARNING: This RUINS Your Game - Dragonsplague Pawn Guide - How to Stop It & More!
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My pawn told me she acts on her own accord when commanding her earlier today. I turned around and threw her off a cliff. Crisis averted.
suddenly all arisens are just parents.
me: now I know I didn't just hear some backtalk, uh uh, baby. get in this brine.
I like how this is the solution. 😂 Pawn acts unruly? Okay. Yeets them off a cliff into deadly brine.
Mishima Parenting Style, Form 1: Cliff Drop
We are damn lucky there isn't a reputation system associated with pawns, because our only option being the nuclear option can emotionally suck for some of us.
@@samujaakkola4531 A Dragon's Dogma classic.
The Brine demands blood. We must feed our corrupted pawns to the Brine. Praise the Brine.
The brine yerns for the pawns
@@cjloha91 And thus we must feed the Brine. Rook was the first and shall not be the last.
I have lost a Pawn today, but still… the Brine demands more.
Funnily enough, I ran into an old crazy guy in game who seemed to suggest that the talos giant is made by the brine to put the dragon in its place should it get too uppity.
@@Sly_can_of_cheese Wait fr? That's amazing 😂 I started telling people in the Dragon's Dogma discord that I'm gonna bring back the Salvation cult but instead of serving Grigori we Praise the Brine 😂🤣
Yesterday my main pawn came back from adventures with other players, and said "There is a rumor that a strange plague raises among the pawns and turn them into madness", then the other pawn said "that can't be true, if that's true, we are in great danger". Such comments between the pawns (even mentioning of the plague) are epic 🤩
This is confirmed to not brick your save, if you rest or pass time for a week, essential NPC's and side quest NPC's will respawn in the towns so this isn't a permanent death with exception to a few NPC's that aren't THAT important overall, but in general this does not ruin your playthrough, it just creates a unique situation of being unable to turn in/start the quests until the NPC's respawn.
Yes, confirmed happened to me too and after an in game week the NPCs came back. Not the end all, be All. Just slay more mobs till the NPCs come back.
That's good to know
I had wondered why they had a mass respawn mechanic like that. I asked 'what do they expect to otherwise brick peoples games?' and now I know.
I'm not sure how to feel about this.
Whats the point of a dragons plague nuke if the npcs just respawn anyways?
Kind of takes all of the seriousness and gravity out of it.
I get not wanting to brick a save, but at the same time, having to deal with serious consequences in-game makes it feel so much more important.
Kind of like death/getting cursed in darksouls in a way.
Personally, I like the idea I saw other people pitching where instead of just an insta-kill dragon nuke, the pawn turns into a monster and becomes a boss fight.
That happening in the middle of the night, in town where npc deaths could happen ,would have been such a better way to introduce dragons plague.
I noticed that Brant doesn't respawn from Dragonsplague after the city recovers. I have no idea how the game is supposed to nudge you along the main story for your first time without his guidance.
I almost summoned a pawn with glowing eyes as i thought it looked cool. Disaster avoided.
Edit: For comments implying you can't tell within the rift, you absolutely can. When you talk to a pawn it's eyes will be their created colour, however if you stand near them and orient the camera to their face, it's possible to see if their eyes are glowing. I've seen quite a few infected in the smaller rifts with limited selection. This is dependent on how far along their infection has progressed.
Wait so you can see the signs in the rift when choosing them?
@@dra6o0n yea, just talk to them to zoom in
Oh so that's why that pawn had those glowing red eyes.
It’s like an std on their face
Omg, I was going to do the same. 😅 It's a good thing I was being very picky with the skills I wanted them to have. 😂
I was gonna skip this video to avoid spoilers, but holy hell am I glad I watched it
I've heard rumours of a pawn-specific disease, but never thought for a second that it would wipe out an entire town if it got serious
Yeah, ever since I heard about Dragonsplague prior to release, I've been constantly on watch for signs of Dragonsplague. I knew from the start that two of the warning signs were the glowing red eyes and them being more combative/rebellious when you give them orders. The only symptom I wasn't aware of was them holding their head (but I likely would have picked up on that symptom very quickly as well). The instant I find that one of my Pawns has Dragonsplague, they're getting fed to the Brine ASAP. Not sure if making them forfeit cures Support Pawns or only your Main Pawn though.
@gamester512 hey bruh at least you can be guilt free. You tried to rid the disease by sending them to meet Jesus instead of just sending them back to the rift and being like, "well next dudes screwed". 😂
anyone goes all glowy eyed or needs a tylenol they're going right back where they came from
and if Lucia starts exhibiting symptoms she is getting yeeted in the river at the speed of light@@gamester512
This was their only video I watched about DD2 so far because I needed to know what "disastrous consequences" were.
So glad I watched.
"how disastrous could they be? they're probably overreact- oh"@@snazzydrew
I don’t even want to play anymore now
Because Dragon's Dogma 2 is basically a one save game this is very interesting and also a little anxiety inducing. Thank you for the tips. I'll be sure to pay attention.
FYI just to really clarify. Offline mode wont avoid this, the random pawns can also have it. I got my notification when i hired a pawn that happened to have the plague.
That's why I check each pawn in the rift before i hire them and make sure no glowey red eyes 😂
You can't do that, it only shows up once you're back in your world.@@regulator18E
Can confirm. Was in a bad spot when my Mage pawn died and I had a ways to go to finish an important quest. "Luckily" an official CAPCOM Mage pawn happened by, so I hired them only to get the popup of Doom™
Quitting out won't work either. It saves the moment the popup comes up, so you either have to reload from the inn, or just accept it. -_-
Just accept it and throw them off a cliff later, if I recall right the plague makes them stronger for a bit so just use them to get out of a tight spot and yeet them first chance you get.@@Maken-X
I was using an infected archer and they seemed to be doing really well, but unfortunately for me they fell off a cyclops into the brine before I could see the later stages of the plague.
@@Maken-X brah you just kill the pawn and it gets rid of the disease. If youd read the notification.
One of my pawns were being randomly sassy with me so i naturally threw him off cliffs and and just abused him. I eventually threw him to the brine and its good to know now that i just actually saved my game
Edit: (swear guys I'm not abusive, he was genuinely tweaking)
To save the world ,one must indulge their inner asshole
You are truly insightful Arisen, may thy good deeds spread across the lands.
Damn, one of the few times abuse works!
I mean sometimes they do give sassy answers or reactions without it, i hired one of the official Pawns in the beginning, a thief named Cap and he was always complainign about being tired to do shit like walking and stuff, but also did enjoy fighting however and was always joyful about it, but also disappointed when they were over xD
So it's not always necessarily the plague, since as far as i know Pawns also can kind of "acquire" other personalities from NPCs and maybe one of your pawns actually "changed" like that or something idk xD
*abuses Pawn and drowns them for talking back* Congratulations! You saved an entire city!
I have some really important information about the plague for you guys, as someone who has over 70 hours in game by now and had at last 5 dragon plagued pawns - first of all you either get sick pawns from rift or after a dragon fight, not sure if drake can actually infest your pawn, of all the cases all seems to be from dragon. Another thing is with which im not sure what exacly happened but it looks like the diesese can actually go to random pawns you meet on the road too. Two times my sick pawns actually got cured and for sure they didnt pass the sickness to any other party member and im also 100% sure they were sick - its easy to see after you know the symptoms - they are checking their head for temperature (they have fiver), they spit a lot and a lot of times they dont listen to you at all. Dont throw your pawns off the bridges the moment you think they are sick. They not gonna ruin your game right away, it takes time for the plague to take effect so stop killing poor pawns. Thanks.
Drakes have a rare attack where they grab a pawn and dominate them. I've only seen this once, in a video, but I believe that's how they infect them
@@vynegar_ haha if that was the case it would be pointless to even add the plague, everyone would throw pawns to water right after they are grabbed. No.
I think they may contract it when a dragon takes control of them during a fight.
And even if the plague destroys the town you sleep in, just sleep for a couple days and EVERYONE respawns
for me ambriousus died and wont show up in morgue now, anyone know what to do
There needs to be a patch that fixes the "ruins your entire game" thing. you should be able to load your last manual save anytime you want.
Apparently if you let an in game week pass the NPC's respawn.
@@wtfserpicotested and no they don’t. The game repopulates towns with new NPCs but the ones who were already there stay dead
come on, that's like saying " I want another roll, this one doesn't count!! " when you rolled a "1" on your D20.
@Gooshieooshie5000 it does respawn essential NPCs for the story but not always ones that have random quests or that you can't even do anything with
@@themuffinprincesa21 It doesn’t, and i’ve clocked like 80 hours. The mechanic was so tedious that it ended up being patched to make the plague more visible
All I'm hearing from this video is..."Everytime you go back to town to sleep, throw your pawn off a bridge and desummon all support pawns. Just in case..." lol
Yeah what a weird mechanic. Haha
Ya that’s what I’m thinking. Who tf at Capcom signed off on that?
Well they sell wakestone 1 dollar each in the store, they are needed to revive npc... so thats the reason@@TheRealChacorta
@@TheRealChacorta the one that decided to sell wake stones for 0.99 a pop. Oh dragon’s plague nuked a town and bricked your game? For a low price of $0.99 you can now unbrick your game!
@@TheRealChacortathe main idea on this is to make sure we are not using just the same pawns through the entire game, it is meant to encourage us to swap pawns regularly.
Say you have 2 friendlisted people who have very high level pawns, fully decked out with your friends already in NG+. You could in theory keep them through the entire game and never look back.
Dragonsplague says "no, you need to swap pawns regularly, the system is meant for you to employ dozens of different pawns from dozens of different players".
So I didn't realize this with dragon's plague. I haven't seen the cutscene yet so I can prevent it now. But I honestly thought dragon's plague just made drakes more likely to attack the town or you in general as the pawn unknowingly communicates information about you, because ever since I saw that pop up I've encountered a lot of dragons and the pawn with dragon's plague even lead me to one in an explicitly strange way, going off the main path and make me climb ledges tight into a drake. So maybe that's also a thing. If so there could be a mild benefit assuming you're capable of fighting and killing a drake and need the resources. I'll still get rid of it though
It was in the first game as a 'possession' condition on your pawns, where Dragons catches them and mind controls them.
This time around it also infects them without you knowing. Because when a Drake (it's actually a dragon but whatever) grabs your pawn it's actually doing that same 'mind control' thing so if you let it happen, they are both infected, and become hostile to you. Just don't revive them and let them say down.
Also if the drake grabs the player, note how he stares at you for a bit then go "Wait this isn't a pawn!" and annoyingly slams you into the ground.
@dra6o0n I think if you down your pawn fast enough, they don't get infected. I had a pawn get controlled and immediately killed them and revived them. They never got the plague. That or it's % chance thing.
@@dra6o0n Good observations.
@@dra6o0nDrakes did that in dragons dogma 1 too, and man that slam did a lotof damage
@@dra6o0n
The 'posession' mechanic was fine.
Just 'down' the affected pawn and revive them. The problem was gone then.
This is a stupid idea that can screw a playthrough and make players abandon the game!
Hopefully, they will fix this in a patch.
I get the idea of a PIA pawn that doesn't follow orders but why also include a nuke that screws a playthorough?!!
Thank you so much for this video guys it really helped are they realize my pawn had red eyes till I was changing her equipment and I noticed they were glowing and then she kept saying that she needed rest and then I looked it up and your guys's video came up I was very grateful cuz I went and dropped her no water immediately and then she came back and apologized for all the misbehavior so I'm very grateful for your help thank you
If you happen to miss it in the future it doesn’t break your save, npcs respawn after like 3-7 days in game. Source:me I’ve gotten it twice, second time intentionally to mass revive for achievement
I just got the notification the other night. Thankfully I’ve only slept at an inn once (at the beginning of the game when you’re basically forced to), and just mostly camp. Immediately de summoned and gently pushed my main pawn off a cliff
so remember to wear protection when summoning pawns from the rift! XD
At least its not COVlD!
Use protection every time when you come inside the rift!
Many of us have been calling this Dragon Herpes since before release. 🙃
Dragon aids
i want all my 3 pawns to have red glowy eyes, how will this play out
The only real issue I have with this is that the main solution to fixing this problem is to kill and resummon your pawn. Like wtf...there should be a better solution to this.
There could have been a quest, or a rare material that only certain bosses drop which cures them.
I dunno. Seems half baked.
Edit: even a quest to cleanse them would have been cooler. Say you had to escort the pawn to sacrificial altars where by driving a knife through their heart, you cleanse the curse.
@@phant0mdummyYea anything immersive would have been nice. Instead the solution is so "gamey". "Use purely non-immersive gameplay mechanics that should realistically be discouraged, to cure it" just feels...bad...
@@Sanquinity Not to mention, how does it even fix anything? Freshly summoned pawns can have it too, so how is sending them back to the Rift even do anything?
@@LecherousLizardProbably just puts it back to the earliest stage
@@gottakilldemall So now you have to kill your main pawn every 3 or so days?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that it completely removes the debuff.
This kinda adds another layer to the game once you are aware of how it works. Got me checking my pawns eyes on a regular basis and listening to the things they say. Got me wondering if all these drakes are transformed pawns.
they are! The Arisen, the pawns, we're all destined to become dragons. In the case of dragons plague, it's implied to be temporary possession. But it can become a full transformation for either. The Pawn becomes a drake, lesser dragon, but the Arisen was effected by Grigori himself. So what does that make you? Why does the cycle constantly repeat? The Arisen slays the dragon, the Arisen becomes the dragon. A cycle of endless renewal
BRUTAL LOL
just got the pop literally an hour ago... XD
didn't see this one coming at all, good thing the vid popped on my feed (maybe the dragon gods are somewhat benevolent) now I've got to learn how to back-up save files I guess... until then, will have to be very careful... also, game says it's contagious... wonder if you can have more than one w/ the disease @ the same time, since game says the only way to get rid of your own is to pass to another pawn (not sure how that would work tho, since folks picking up you pawn is based on luck more than anything lol)
The river is about to see a lot of pawns taking a dive.
Yeah i knew there was something like this. My pawn kept talking about how pawns can develop terrible diseases and how it can inflict everyone
same my pawns would mention the disease but i thought they were just saying this stuff for flavor/immersion. im so glad my curiosity got the best of me and i looked it up
Well what if they talk about it
@@sgoutaras if they talk about it... its real.
@@aldoardYup, everything the pawns talk about is quest or lore related.
Im pretty sure one of my pawns has it, but i never got the "tutorial" notification. He grabs his head frequently and also shows a "I am gonna cut your throat" gesture. I really wanna rest and check if he really is sick 😂 but im scared to fck up the whole Batthal capital
Interesting. I had a pawn once telling me about "something" that pawns can take with them through the rift. It was described as kind of an illness. I suppose that is what the pawn was talking about. I thought first a kind of pokerus thing, but this is way cooler- just also way more dangerous
When I got received the Dragonsplague message for the first time I knew the pawn I just hired was infected so I dismissed them quickly.
Now I watch out for the three signs pulsing red eyes, complaining about giving them commands and grab their forehead.
Soon you see any of them dismiss them OR if it's your own pawn throw them in the water or down something.
I suggest not having Pawns that has their entire face covered up so you can keep a eye on their eyes.
Myself I created a .BAT file that copy's the entire save folder to my Download folder. That way I can very easy make a copy of it at any time I so wish too.
If a dragon grabs my pawns I’m chucking them in the river
Same here not even worth the risk. ASAP imma just dismiss the other two. Then throw my main pawn in the river.
Just set them out into the main town to gain 90 FPS until the NPCs revive in a few days. Sounds like a win. You get a sassy pawn with glowing eyes AND double your FPS in towns.
Honestly I thought it was just a misdirection. That there would be something else that turn your pawns against you, and they talking about a plague was just foreshadowing that.
It seems like a really interesting mechanic. But yeah, the pawn turning evil could be done better.
Maybe sometime after all the symptoms manifest, the pawn starts attacking and killing npc's or even attacking you, so you have to kill them. That would make it cooler and would fit better as a dragon's dogma mechanic.
Yeah when I 1st heard the pawns talking about it I just assumed they were talking about dragon possession like in the 1st game
Also while it's a sstrange way to do that, I would prefer if it was implied that when you slept, the pawn was just killing NPCs randomly and there were rumors of murder
Something like that wouldve made more sense imo
I honestly would've preferred it if the plagued pawn just resorted to killing you instead of the npcs in town. It could be an interesting fight especially since they're basically capable of anything the Arisen is capable of. Or if the targets have to be npcs, you should at least be allowed to defend them against your pawn.
@@notrelatedtobacon1282 that whole rumer of murder idea sounds like it could be really cool. your other pawns could mention noticing one of your pawns going off whilst your sleeping or even the innkeeper. Maby notice blood on them or their weapon. Npc chatting about notice a strange figure which they'll than mention a detail your pawn has etc.
@@Willow4526you got my idea exactly, use the ingame chatter that is meant to provide insight and passively raise the question....
Wait...that sounds alot like a certain pawn ik
Ultimately it think that if you let it go far enough then the pawn just straight up attacks you with moldly amped stats to make a it more interesting mechanic
Agreed. A mini-boss battle with your own pawns looks like a cool thing to have in the game. Especially if you don't expect it. Definitely better than a cutscene, and it feels more personal too. Doesn't affect the savegame either, that's good as well.
Funny enough, I learned about this mechanic by recruiting a Pawn from the Rift. After traveling with them for some time, they were telling stories about Masters they served a while back and mentioned about a horrible sickness that erodes the loyalty of a Pawn towards the Arisen. Had a raised eyebrow moment, then my main Pawn said that it would be best to watch out for them… Guess you don’t have to fight a Drake to know, Pawns are swapping information when they come in n out of worlds - they’re like a network lol
Mine constantly yeets himself off things he will never live long enough to get it
I wish it to be more. Maybe make the pawn transformed into a monster and you have to fight and kill it. Not just a dumb cut scene.
I would be happy with that!
That's what i thought it was before seeing this lol
Theres even president for this from dark arisen
I know that Damien was a arisen not a pawn but he became corrupted by the dragon and became a monster 🤷
I would like this to happen, I actually prefer this to the current way the game handles it. Kind of the pawn treating you like a false Arisen, eventually becoming hostile. It could be quite personal, having your favourite pawn attack you. A boss battle of sorts.
Also wish there was a way to let the creator of the pawn know that this pawn has dragon's plague. Preventing/vaccinating a plague often needs to start with "patient zero", meaning the first victim of the illness. The devs could potentially do this by adding a warning/limitation to the pawn creation, reading something like: "This pawn is affected by dragon's plague. This can have lethal effects. Are you sure you want to make this pawn?" Or making it impossible to share the pawn until it has been cured of the plague.
could even become a drake as they are lesser dragons and with what dragons actually are if you know@@basvanheumen4231
Maxed out my thief, working on the sorcerer now. The game is absolutely incredible, having been this invested since Elden Ring.
its a remake of the first one. minus BBL and Everfall.. Literally nothing to do when the story ends.
@pivotomega you can go around and kill shit, you don't always need a reward or new quest
@@pivotomegaThe fact that most of the stuff I'm currently doing in the game has nothing to do with the story and yet I'm still having fun proves this wrong. For me at least, perhaps it's different for other people
@@pivotomega How is it a remake without the original cast and towns? How is it a remake without the Ranger, Assassin or Mystic Knight vocations? And then you mentioned the DLC! Yeah, you’re a casual and a negative Nancy. You should catch Dragons plague and give it to your entire family.
@@brownbeastoftheleaf3215 While i agree with you at first, the end was not needed, dial it down.
I feel like this is such a cool concept, but having everyone die in a cutscene is kind of lame and honestly just makes me paranoid to sleep at inns
So got a question i saw a pawn i hired holding her head so i immediately dismissed and got a new one but once i added the one in then it popped about dragons plague so does the new one have it which isn't showing signs or was it a delayed pop up for the one i dismissed..... Help i don't want a village to get wiped out 😂
Damn. Randomly poped up in my feed, I had the tutorial about dragonblighr earlier today but didn't know how to notice it. After watching the vid I checked upon my pawns and noticed red blinking eyes on one of them. Great video, thank you
its a tweak (worse imo but only bc of what it can do) of the first game, the drakes in the first game could grab your pawns and control them until you knock sense into them. they could also roar and insta kill all pawns but that was never a problem bc you could tap to rez super fast and easy.
As much as it annoys me permanent damage unless you sleep and slow res times on Pawns absolutely balances out you needing to lame out a fight to win.
My pawn was showing all of the these signs luckily I saw this video before resting at another inn lmao, I didn't notice the flashing red eyes because I made my pawn's eyes red like a vampire the main thing I noticed was it telling me not to command it in battle
The funny thing was that it wasn't any of the pawns that I hired, it was my pawn who got infected and how I found out his behavior changed. He started to respond to me, aggressively won’t listen when I gave a command, I realized that his eyes were red, I never created him with a red eye, so what I did was I went outside the city and I threw him off a bridge..
Well this is scary. My pawn is been doing this odd conversation with the other ones "have you hear the rumors about pawns behaving weird"
This is the conversation to tell you about that. Nothing to worry about 😅 had this conversation multiple times and nothing happens 😊
This line is so annoying my pawn repeats it nonstop lmao
@@Xheuzwolves hunt in packs
Just re summon all your pawns just to be safe
So they put Covid in the game?
the pawns need to stay 6 feet from each other
😂😂😂😂
More like bath salts
Yeah, but if Covid was actually deadly
No, Dragon’s Plague actually does something.
Ahhhhh. I checked after this video and my pawn had the eyes lmao. Was very lucky i was next to the ocean. He got yeated so quick. Ty so much. I know who gave him it. Was that damn sassy sorceror Ethan!
So barely noticeable tells aside, this mechanic sounds very cool. It is an incentive to check up on your pawns, treat them like you would your favourite NPC, and as a leader making a tough call, take them out for the sake of the many. Gameplay wise it helps with experiencing new compositions as your best wizard has to be thrown into the brine.
Will agree though, they need better tells for when the pawn has it. Maybe a dark aura effect surrounding them, and their skin becomes scaley like a dragon.
I recreated Astarion, he has red eyes...There go my chances of folks hiring him.
People only hires female pawns anyway 😂😂
Just change the eyes to a different color. Spent 500 Rift Coins to buy that makeover book and go .
My pawn Megumin also has red eyes😂
Red eyes really arent an issue. If a pawn stops obeying my "come here command" i yeet them. Thats it, has happend 3 times now. Also when you pick them up they get reaaaal sassy with you.
@@TheRico725my elven archer, Sumire ALSO has red eyes lmao😂
Holy Crap, I think I just released a pawn with glowing red eyes. Thought to myself how cool the design was, but didn't think more about it. Now I have to check the rest of my party. I'm fairly at the beginning of the game, I can't risk to wipe out Vernworth. Damn that's a crazy mechanic.
Reminds me of a plague bug in WOW where you character could get infected and it would kill all the NPC you came in contact with.
I kept wondering why one of my pawns kept sitting down and talking shit when I gave commands. So glad I came across this video.
I knew about the glowing eyes and grabbing the head portion of it, but never knew about the back talk, and thought it was to a specific attitude you can give pawns; I heard one of my hired pawns back talk me during one of the last fights in my second playthrough and didn't think to much about it as I was essentially spamming commands constantly, i.e. Help, Go, etc. I beat the game then before resting, thankfully without getting an entire capital wiped lol.
I wish there was a better way to deal with it than death or refund. Kind of like in Rising of the Shield Hero when Raftalia gets cursed by the zombie dragon so she needed a lot of treatments of holy water from the currupt church. Sounds like a much kinder (albeit annoying) and more story driven way of dealing with it.
yeah but that wouldn't really make sense... pawns are immortal beings and cannot die why would you waste medicine on something that cannot die instead of just "killing" it and resummoning it for free for no cost.
Yeah i was curious what would happen thinking I’d just have to fight my pawn now I’ve just quit the game for the foreseeable future.
@@arcanumelite4853 "killing" them despite them being immortal really shouldn't than remove the plague, as death doesn't normally cause permanent change to them. That implies it's not exactly them that's coming back or that the rift cures them somehow which it clearly can't.
@@obwolf You shouldnt worry as much as if this does happen you can either use a wakestone or instead opt to just wait a week or two for the city to repopulate and quest npcs and vendors to respawn
@@spac3dout320 Quest giving npc’s don’t respawn and I want to make sure I keep them all alive. Effectively cleaning up the aftermath of the dragons plague is such a hassle that I’ve stopped playing for the moment because it was feeling more like a chore than a game meant to enjoy.
Thank you for this information. I do agree that dragons plague does seem to be much more overturned fhan it should, as it's results xan be catastrophic if a player does not know. (And many players are new). I also believe that it should be recognizable in the rift, especiallly the glowing red eyes, and fhat the pawns should be more vocal about it. Including the other pawns asking the pawn if they're okay. The day before tranformation especially, the pawn should be especially vocal and even verbally hostile towads the arisen, indicating something is desperately wrong with the pawn. I realize this makes things more avoidable, but that's the goal.
I also feel that the plague shouldn't just be a "Wham! Everyone around you is just dead", but moreso a shadow drake attack that you now have to battle.
It also shouldn't be only in rhe city, but also campsite in case a player want to trigger without it being in the city.
And there should be a way to treat this, other than..... Loved and cared about pawn being forced to drown, fall from a fatal height or getting killed in battle. There really should be a way to treat this.
I agree, It would have been so much better if this were a hidden surprise boss fight!
I do disagree about it not being in town though. Having serious consequences in-game is something they were shooting for as a design decision when they made it possible for monsters to charge into town and attack npcs, and I agree with their vision as it makes the world feel more immersive and your ability to "save lives" much more important and impactful.
Trying to be the hero by drawing and holding this hypothetical boss's attention while the npcs try to get away just sounds incredibly climactic and fun.
Yeah. You’re telling me the arisen just slept through all this while the town just dies? Shoulda been a boss.
unfortunately even with the most advanced plague the eyes don't glow until you leave the rift.
@Viktoria_Thaelin I've only seen one pawn so far with it. And it was actually kind of spooky.
Just a lone pawn walking down a rainy mountain trail I encountered and was going to hire, when I noticed the eyes.
I noped on out of there as fast as I could
“loved and cared pawn” they’re not only video game npcs, they’re soulless husks in the lore of the world anyway. the treatment is the brine. sorry you don’t like it, but there it is 🤷♂️
(6:04) Just imagine. Looking at a Pawn and just thinking "oh cool, glowing eyes. maybe they're more powerful now" and then they started getting sassy. And then you think, "Maybe they need a nap?" go to a place to rest and BAM...
Haven't run into this, pawns keep falling off cliffs on their own.
I understand the idea of Dragonsplague. It is meant to avoid you hiring say two high level friendlist pawns and stick with them for the entire playthrough. It is meant to force you to regularly swap pawns.
I just wish the signs were a bit clearer and the timeline somewhat more predictable, so we could safely say "swap pawns every X number of days and you should be good".
As of now, I'm still paranoid and terrified. If any pawn dares to talk back to me, he's get yeeted from a cliff, I don't give a damn and I'm not taking any chances.
I just meet them all before I rest
The high resource cost for over leveled pawns and the fact that they dont level with you deters you from doing that. Dragonsplague doesnt
If you are still terified and paranoid it probably means mechanic works successfully
@@STNJ_YT If they are on your friends list there is no cost
I would think it’s the opposite. This mechanic forces u to only play with ur friends pawns, as u know they don’t have it and ur friends would tell u if their pawn caught it. If you play with a bunch of randoms, that seems to be riskier.
I did see a reddit post from someone who had this happen, and also said that most of the NPCs in Bakbattahl were alive again after about a week, including shopkeepers. They said that there were still people in the morgue, but no named NPCs. However, in the same thread, it was also said that named NPCs can still end up in the morgue, and death/resurrection can still break quest givers. So... hopefully we'll get some more research and confirmation over time.
Quest NPCs also dies and end up at the morgue. In my game, Brant, Sven and Waldhar were dead and I had to rez to complete the main quest.
You honestly mightve just saved me😂 was so confused when my pawns suddenly started holding their heads
Perfect timing on the vid, my pawn just started to become sassy with red eyes. I guess it’s time for a brine bath 😂
This makes me really paranoid now. Always always always check your pawns before resting at an inn
Friend gave me like 30 bucks to confirm it so i might aswell share it with everyone.You can only buy 5 extra wakestones. Every dlc is single purchase, you cannot buy more. Anyone who says otherwise is lying or misinformed.
U wasted 30 bucks on something u could search online? 😂😂
Ya it's all the stuff thats sold in the deluxe version for those who didn't buy deluxe can buy the items seperately. They just have additional wake stones and RC.
You find them in the overworld and in towns with a quest reward that shows every wakestone near you or in a town. It's pretty useful, but idk if the wakestone shards are limited. If it is, the MTX is actually BS considering that they probably had that in mind.
@@CarlosRivera-cg4cs I didn't. Friend wanted to know. I only used 15 and kept the rest. Far as I know I got some free dlc and 15 dollars in exchange XD
I mean the eternal wakestone exists so that can just fix everything so it isn’t a problem
One of my pawns had Dragons plague and I completely missed the signs. When I rested at the inn within vernsworth my game black screened and wouldn’t load any further so I closed and reopened the game and that’s when I realised everyone within the city was dead, I laughed, re-summoned my pawns and then saved and quit. When I loaded up the game the next morning EVERYONE was alive again.
If you have it this is what an eternal wakestone is for. Despite the name it is a consumable item, but it's an item meant to be used to revive a bunch of people, just know that you only get one per playthrough from the sphinx. That being said, as others have pointed out resting a week all essential NPCs will come back regardless, so maybe this is a way to boost performance in cities?
The things we do for extra fps in town XD
xD
Now I'm kinda worried cause I chose the sassiest pawn I could and gave her bright red eyes. Sure they don't glow but I'll bet she gets summoned less for it
Yea I'll admit I've been eye color discriminatory every time I hire a pawn. Anything near red, we dont chance it 😂
You can you change eye colour at the barbarie via the Art of Metamorphosis, which you can buy for 500RC
@@soundfx68 I had just bought it 4 hours before commenting, and made them red instead of green. Now I have buyers remorse
Yeah sorry. If a pawn has red eyes, I am very cautious about hiring them. I still with those because I stare them down for awhile before deciding and I just watch them harder than my other pawns.
She does😂😂😂😂
Really appreciate this video mate! I just got the message pop up, but now I’m informed on how to handle it, hopefully not too many casualties 😅
I always dismiss my hired pawns if Im gonna rest at an inn or my house, just in case i missed the red eyes. And from time to time and if I see my main pawn was hired multiple times, I toss her into deep waters, just to be safe.
thx for making a video about this might have gotten blindsided without this
I feel like this could be better if they implemented it in late game or ng+ or second play through after getting enough gold and experience and resources to make it easier to get wake stones but having the possibility to happen early game it might cause people to completely give up on the game because they have to micro manage it or because they don’t have enough resources at the time.
Imagine you just bought the game and progress enough early game and you decide to switch a pawn out and all of a sudden melve is completely wiped out and you have no idea how to fix it lol then you look it up online and it turns out you have to look for this very specific hidden creature or try to reload your save which might not even fix the issue because if your auto save and your rest save are after the town is wiped out then you have no choice but to try to get enough wake stones or find the sphinx.
It wouldn’t be a issue if the quest npcs didn’t break but I’ve read that the event can break quest npcs after you revive them so it’s literally just another way to pretty much brick your save and I’m pretty sure no one wants that, I feel like after a while it’ll get annoying quick.
If your whole village is dead just take a seat somewhere and spam that Nodding off button 3 times is 1 Day, and in 4-5 Days all the ppl in the village just respawn, and also my beautiful ppl mops and bosses spawn again after 7 Days of resting, mean actually you can insta farm All Mini-boses by resting for 7 Days or Napping on a seat 24 times = 7 Days, you don’t have to stand up and take a seat again, just spam the nap button right after he wakes up from the Nap
I had a pawn i summoned that kept sitting down even in the middle of fights. One of the other pawns fussed at the one in particular for disobeying the Arisen. I instantly threw all three off into the brine.
God, thanks for the notice. Wanted to avoid any spoiler but i am glad to be spoiled on this mechanics.
Definitely feels like it should be a boss that spawns or even your pawn that you need to fight & kill or something, so you have more agency over the situation. Like they start running around town fighting & killing NPCs & you can give chase to defeat them, with guards rushing in being a buffer for the other npcs, with it being on you to be strong enough to save your pawn/friend from themselves. Also my pawn already has purple eyes, its going to be hard telling 😅.
Well thanks Capcom. You gave me a pre set option for red eyes and now i know why nobody hired my pawn yet THANKS!!
I noticed all 3 of my pawns were always holding their head in pain and not following me when I told them to.. so I drowned them all. Got 2 new ones and everything is fine. Thanks for the heads up! Bit none of them had glowing red eyes
You can manipulate the saves on PS5 by turning off the auto cloud and then manually uploading it… it has saved me a few times it’s annoying to do it every few hours but so worth it
How do U do it plz?
Funny how someone got permabanned trying to do that on Pc.
@@DarthAssViolater ikr
I hired a pawn for 10k RC to help me. It was dragon plauged 😢. Had to throw then off the cliff once their eyes started glowing... just got the eternal wakestone tho for the future
10k rc? How do you even have that much
10k rc pawn? what lvl what this pawn? you capping big time
Just keep in mind that is not an infinite item like some people are saying.
@waterw0rld1 I was like level 30 and the pawn was 50ish?
@multiact8800 never hiring pawns unless free. I went to level 30 without paying for them. I also grinded the liches at night, which give around 200 rc per kill
I had all 3 pawns I was with (both support pawns and my main pawn) not only grabbed, but grabbed and mind controlled to the point they attacked me, multiple times during the fight, and none of them caught it. Slept in inns multiple times, I watched for the signs, but no dragon’s plague.
So it’s not exactly a guarantee that the grab + mind control passes it on. It actually seems like a completely random chance it will happen. I fought that dude for like a full day (this is the second drake that I ran into immediately after switching to a new vocation) and it was freaking me out afterwards that they all got bullied like that. Ultimately though it seems like either it’s a pretty low chance or I got really, really lucky.
Ty cause we wll would have died and All the kids survive the plague?
Does it show up as a status effect in the menu?
I was curious about this cause new pawns are always talking about it when they come out of the rift. Thx!!
Thanks for making this video! I hope tons of people see it and spread it so they can stop panicking about it. Theres been so much misinformation going around, this video will be a good resource to send people so they stop freaking out and saying its unavoidable.
I commented about this yesterday, two words: Red Eyes. Check ALL your Pawn's Eyes; if their eyes are Red, Dismiss them ASAP.
When you rest at an Inn and it activates it - does this count if you rest in a player owned home? I assume so as Inn and player home work as the same thing minus the whole save at inn thing
Ya feels like this should have been a boss fight rather than a bio terrorism lol. Like if you fail then everyone in town dies, the pawn should turn into a dragon/drake and you have to fight it and if its your main pawn you get an emotional cutscene of you ending your own pawn and you have to make a new one ( if the devs want to be really evil they lose all their skills etc but they level up faster or something)
It's to force the cash-shop wake stones are for sale in there for this reason
@vindurza no..... it's like what 3 stones? Still ain't saving your game
Edit its 5 stone you can buy in the store ya it wasn't put there for that lol nice try. I get mtx bad but you are hurting your cause by shooting out bad faith arguments
@@vindurza truly? i thought same level pawn cost 0 RC? also for main pawn you can just drown them and resummon back. Support pawns just go offline mode and pick your cherry
@@vindurza 5 Wakestones that you can only purchase once. Good luck reviving a town with a population of over 40 NPCs with that, buddy.
There's an item in the game that can revive an entire town. Infinitely more useful than the MTX shop's 5 Wakestones. You'd know if you played the game.
This would definitely be better imo. Maybe make it curable/preventable at the early stage/pre symptomatic. You just hired a support pawn with it, so you dispose of them and buy a potion for like 10k for your main pawn to cure it/vaccinate them for x days. You could risk not curing them, but by the time they start showing signs, it’s too late.
There either needs to be a better way of dealing with it like slaying the dragon that gave it to the pawn or it just shouldn't be in the game. It feels really punishing for no reason.
it would be far more interesting, if it turned the town into a dungeon, and you had to kill the pawn as it turns into a drake, to turn it back to normal.
The concept of it is interesting if instead of random slaughter the infected pawns turn on you and backstab you during a big combat. My pawn can possibly get bodied by a 4 foot drop, how do they somehow slaughter an entire city full of guards? This mechanic needs to be disabled asap considering the forced 1 save slot. This feels like it was made to break saves and make you start over to pad game time, but it will just make people quit.
You can beat the game with literally every NPC in the game dead from what I know, then just slide into NG+. Everything fixed. You can also kill the Sphinx after doing her riddles and get the Eternal Wakestone that will revive an entire city.
I do agree there should be more preventative measures, but it doesn't brick your save. The game is all about the consequences of your actions... Well... There you go. A good idea is turn off the cloud save sync, then every day upload data to have a save to go back to.
@@SpacePirateLord Im sorry that I dont subscribe to the same kind of torture porn you do, but killing off a whole village and not having a way to stop it or go back is actually insane, why am I punished for missing the smallest of things, why does the game save as it happens, this is not fun at all, I dont wanna have to go speed run to get an item to revive someone, it should never happen, the 1 save only needs to go
@Zakharon From what I read online the people slowly return to life after a week as well. Seems the Seneschal doesn't allow the Arisen's path to stay messed up forever. So there's another option.
@@SpacePirateLord Side quests too?
@Zakharon From what Reddit said, yes. Cannot confirm it myself though. I am checking eyes and watching Pawns closely myself.
So this is what that one NPC was talking about in the CHECKPOINT REST TOWN. When he said everyone in the village to the north died mysteriously.
You used my clip!!!!!! REEEEEE
Thanks for clarifying a lot more about how to spot the eyes. My OBS settings need tweaked and I didn't think to talk to the pawns to see if the eye glow was present.
If you order them to wait you can talk to them using that dialogue. Normally they might not allow you to talk to them if they are constantly on the move.
My pawns go down enough you know falling off cliffs and what not so I don't have worry about this
On one hand the one save file thing comes to bite you in the ass once again, but on the other, my pawn which I named and made look like Thanos can finally do what he's destined to. He's inevitable 😂
Just saw the Dragonsplague explainer screen yesterday when I re-hired a pawn who walked off mountain path (happens more often than I'd like) and thought uh-oh. Going to banish them as soon as I get back from work this evening......!
Even when the Dragons Dogma logo comes up on screen the eyes of the dragon pops up first then the logo. So I think Capcom may have more in store for us with this.
This shit happened in Bakbattahl, happened to kill everyone up to the palace and down to the vendors...why is this a mechanic?
Can the vendors and kwy npc come back after a while?
@@CarlosRivera-cg4csas far as I know, only the venders respawn. Everyone else you need to wakestone.
@@hunterwilliams2833 what about quest npc, are u ruined in that?
@@CarlosRivera-cg4cs It happened to me in the elf village. Merchant NPCs are replaced, important/quest ones need to be revived in a graveyard. I was going to do the elf archer mission and he died. I resurrected him in the cemetery, but the mission doesn't continue... he would need to guide me to start target shooting and he doesn't guide me, he stays in place.
Because if anyone dares criticize Itsuno's "vision" they get nothing but hate in response.
If you let this happen then you really are oblivious.
And here I thought I was kinda stupid for not realizing I had to do something specific during the fight with the Red Dragon.
There is multiple ways to deal with the Dragon's Plague before it really becomes a problem.
Pawns eyes will start to glow red and they will start ignoring commands such as follow and like they mention themselves they will start to behave iratical and you will hear that in their voice lines.
I actually haven't let any Pawns go beyond this state, It is as simple as picking them up and throwing them.
After which they will say 'Are you dissapointed in me, Master?'
You are good after that.
Okay theoreticaly: pawn from a friend infected....(changed eyecolor and soft blinky eyes, touches head): so i gave him a bath and re- summon..but not healed still infected.. does this mean i can't hire my friends pawn anymore if i dont wanna risk to infect his mainpawn too?
So as sleeping in your own home counts as sleeping in an inn when it comes to "loading last inn save"...does that also go for the "plague sleeping at in might cause apocalypse" part?
And "brine bath" = litteraly healing or just "reset timer to apocalypse"?
If anyone has answer..let me know pls.
it really is a "are you actually paying attention to the game?" type of mechanic, the game does warn you even before you ever enconter the plague. i just feel like killing everyone is a bit much, maybe if it was capped at 10 npcs it would be better
Nahh, it should wipe out the whole map from all npc's for 1 week or 2 and no option to camp or sleep . If you reach the resurrection date, you're good. If not, you'll die and need a new save. "Masochistic mode activated" :P
@@Antidepressiva1980I hope this happens to you every play through.
I have 26 hours in the game and was at least level 40 I was having lots of fun and I noticed my main pawn probably had dragons plague so I decided to see what would happen thinking it would turn into a drake or something and I’d have to fight it in town. Now Vernworth has no living npc’s and I’ve dropped the game my first playthrough has been ruined because of slight curiosity. I might come back at some point but for now this killed all the excitement I had to play.
And you have every right to feel that way. I see a lot of people coming after folks who got frustrated when this happened to them and they quit. I'm a full time worker and soon to be parent, I have time to adventure and take my time with this game here and there. I do not have time to have my 30 hour save nuked by a half baked mechanic. I will be on the watch for the signs in my game but if I miss it and it happens to me, I'll quit too.
@cultofpersonality1145 congrats and prepare to have that here and there game time cut to "never here and every other there". Lol. Got a 7mo old and we jokingly call her assassin of sleep and destroyer of free time 😂
@gravdigr27 Haha thanks. Yeah I'm fairly sure that's gonna be the truth of it.
The npcs will respawn automatically after 1 week. You can just play and do quests elsewhere or rest 7 times. There is also an in game solution which involves the sphinx. Your save isn't ruined.
@@stanthechanman The Sphinx Item has a range I’m almost positive it won’t reach everyone in Vernworth so until I hear for certain otherwise I’m not wasting my one use of it furthermore unless you’ve seen every npc respawn personally I’ve seen people saying the opposite of what you say about the respawns I’m going to wait till there’s more info and solid proof before I start playing again.
So thats what it was. One of the pawn I had spoke wrong against me so I had him thrown across a bridge. I did not know that saved my gameplay
i just wanna share ive had this happen twice in a row today while resting in the inn by Checkpoint Rest Town (the one next to the Oxcart that goes to Battahl). I was so annoyed that it killed everyone in the city but what i just discovered is that when I went to Vermund Funeral (where you revive NPCs) went to look for a body (did not actually choose anyone), and upon going back to Checkpoint Rest Town by oxcart from Vermund, everyone freaking came back to life. I confirmed i was able to do this twice today when dragonsplague happened. So I'm not sure if it only applies to Checkpoint Rest Town
Everyone playing needs this information lol thankyou for this I was wondering what would be happening
Sounds like a half-baked feature if a cure is dying and the culmination is a short cutscene, disaster strikes and arisen sleeps while the pawn goes on a happy murder spree? Doesn't make sense that they took away player agency on this.. 😢
kinda does to me. this game can be quite sadistic. x_x
Yep the lack of agency is what seems like the main problem with this. Like even once you know the signs, there's no guarantee you can avoid it.
@@Willow4526 the video seems to say that it is really easy to avoid by just killing your pawn/unsummoning.
The key here people are missing is that it doesnt matter how long they have it and who they spread it to, as long as one does not sleep at an inn, one will be fine. Realistically, sleeping at an inn does nothing profound enough to even have to do it. It's expensive and you cannot get cooking buffs. Camp sites are littered everywhere and mostly close to inns anyway. I'll still keep an eye out and eradicate the disease when needed. 👌
@@snazzydrew no no, you miss understand. I'm not saying once you've noticed the signs in a pawn there nothing you can do.
I'm saying even once you learn what the signs are, there's no guarantee you'll ever spot the signs before they progress to completion & if you do happen to miss them, let's say you disable the settings for voice lines, pawn wears a helmet or just that unlucky, the plague will trigger & all you can do or anyone say is "better luck next time", which means you have no/next to no agency, if there was an active mechanic you could interact with after the plague triggers to help prevent deaths, than you'd have agency.
This is a really WTF mechanic in the game making your pawns go dark urge and murder everyone in the town you slept at.
to me it happened in the restpoint outpost. i ended up reviving 3 ppl and left the others dead. after that i noticed a pawn in the rift squirming in pain and then acting like nothing happened, so i immediately threw her out of the party again before i left the rift
So if it is your main pawn and you throw them in the brine how do you get them back?
From any riftstone
Any Riftstone summons them back
@RageGamingVideos does it respawn them with the same level and gear or do you have start over from scratch?
@@justinadams5845 You lose nothing from doing it
@@justinadams5845it's like nothing happened so your pawn is still the same with gear and levels. There's no way for your pawn to get reset to zero even if they die, just bring them back at a rift crystal
Punishing players for taking part in a core mechanic and feature of this game baffles me.
Makes you more involved in the game. Immersion baby!
Agreed. Stupid when you cannot just start a new game. But wait, they sell wakestones....sigh.
The sell only 5 wakestones so really not a solution
I disagree with you
@@karygreene471you are wrong
Thanks man I got the prompt when I summoned some pawns, didn’t know what to do so I got new ones, and now I know what I’m looking for. That massacre is cool but would be annoying at the same time
These signs were happening with my main a few days ago and I didn’t have a clue (except for his attitude). Fortunately, I was fighting a griffin next to the ocean and it swooped in grabbing my main and then somehow ended up in the ocean killing itself and my main pawn. Upon reviving, the main said something that I thought was snarky and sarcastic but I now know was a genuine remark showing genuine gratitude lol.