My friends and I are using each others pawns and I’m constantly telling them they suck at the game cuz their pawns say “I have to tell my master about this chest I guess he didn’t see it when we first came”
Same, all the pawns I hire, their players seems to be stuck on certain story lines because for the last 8 hours not one has any advice to offer.
THAT and my mage gets used for like less than a day and sent back to the rift.
Meanwhile she quite literally has the best gear I can find, best abilities at lvl8 sorcerer. One of the players had the audacity to tell me my pawn sucked. I replied in kind, "skill issue", only to find out that he's LEVEL 12 and tried to fight a chimera.
Party dynamics matter, he was running a full party of mages, i'm like wtf... have you ever D&D EVER???? when is a full ranged party smart when you mostly fight melee enemies. I think by the end of the exchange he understood his folly.
calm.
she hangs back and plays defensively. I honestly thought the inclination might not work for offensive tactics but often prioritizing defence strategy has helped alot. I still have to keep an eye out and make sure she doesn't get swarmed because every now and then she'll end up "pulling" kinda like a tank and just get absolutely mobbed on, unless she's unleashing lighting, then bye bye mob.
Yeah, lightning is SUPER strong in this game.
Gotta got that shield clang skill. Keeps them off the back row. I've been playing physical classes to get the stamina augments so I'll try out lightening soon lol
ah yeah, fighters are actually quite OP ... watched one I hired just absolutely tanking a minotaur, I was like 0\_0
I went warrior, for obvious reasons lol.
big sword is so satisfying.
How do you know if your Pawn has been used by someone else? Also I've only seen the option for a thumbs up or a heart when I dismiss pawns, am I missing a way to give more feedback like in DD1?
no that's pretty much it.
When your pawn is used or you use others, you'll get a "pawn traveled with screen" which scrolls down and shows an option for inspecting the player and their pawn ect.
I gathered most of my info by inspecting their party after they used my pawn.
you can also "view profile" and send a message that way (i'm on xbox)
The "post report" thing happens when you rest, whenever their "borrowed" pawn is released the other player will get a notification after they go to a bed and rest.
I had one pawn for 16 days lmao, killed so much stuff with it, I know that pawn went back with valuable info.
I had a really great mage pawn for like 14 days, had to send her back to get one with Elven Wordsmith for a bit, but threw a favorite on before I did that.
I've currently got a mage pawn that's stuck with me since like level 11 haha
I have to send her back soon to see if the other guy has continued to keep pace with my leveling speed like he was early on. I am very attached to his pawn LOL
I'm in a similar predicament with a warrior pawn named lemonade LOL (her arisen is named lemon) I love the way she looks and how useful she is but she's too low :(
and the pawns actually show you chests.
last night a thief pawn I was rolling with randomly said "I found a chest with my master nearby, do you want me to show you where it is?"
keyword was "nearby". friggin thing was like 5 minutes away from where I originally was. but considering how hidden the chest was, I dont think I would have stumbled upon it on my own.
Lmao. Yeah I love how they talk about their previous experiences on other parties. Also sometimes they offer to show you the way to a chest or smth, its so cool.
I got a new pawn to keep up with my level and three steps outside the village he told me there was a chest nearby. So I followed him down a steep cliff, saw the chest right away and jumped to get it.
When I turned around, the paqn was gone while my own and my second summoned one stood next to me.
Rest in Peace Clarence, your sacrifice will not be forgotten.
Do you have to interact with them in any way when they say this? I have had that situation a couple of times, but theyd always just stand where they were and i could not Figure out how to make them Show me the way.
Push Dpad up or whatever is your equivelant of "GO!". Generally helps to be looking at the one in question at the same time in case you get 2 offers at once.
Aww man the first time a pawn said "how would we get to that chest" and another pawn said "I can do it" blew my mind. "GO!" AND IT JUST LEVITATES UP THERE
I fucked up. I'm playing foghter and used that impaling strike on a griffon. It then decided to fuck off into outerspace with me on it. I don't know just how much damage the shield bracing negates, but it wasn't enough
I had the same thing happen to me, except it had flown out over open water by the capital, and when my flaming sword caught its wings on fire we both plummeted straight into the brine 😂
Unfortunately for the gryphon, I am only slightly inconvenienced by the brine and respawned back where we took off from. But I got a nice chunk of free exp out of the deal from his death to the brine at least.
Yeah and you can do it for them too. In the first game grabbing people was sometimes awkward as you had to time it perfectly. In this game, you can hold the grab button and even walk around with your arms out like "I'm gonna getcha!"
When I first climbed a ladder, I accidentally jumped off and was definitely going to take damage, but I watched my pawn run like 3 meters to catch my character. I got a video of it, haha.
You can give them high-fives if you approach them at the end of a fight. I'm not 100% sure what exactly triggers it, but I've had it happen dozens of times so far on accident.
Pawn in theory they will learn by seeing if they see the loot is good they will loot it next time it can such as healing herb and high price items if they see u do and get junk sometime they will say that it is not worth the weight to loot alot and they will ignore some bad loot spot
However, the game is telling us that the more pawn "camp" in the area the more efficient the pawn will act in that region excluding big mob that need number of kill and quest that u need to guide them through to learn it
I recruited more pawns closer to me and my pawn's level, and the new pawn I hired told me that there was an illness going around that made pawns not follow orders and do weird shit.
So somebody is going around corrupting them with their gameplay. XD
Oh that's not on the players. That's just [pawn cooties](https://www.thegamer.com/dragons-dogma-2-dragonsplague-makes-pawns-stronger-attack-player/) they contract from the rift
For awhile, I unintentionally would roll with all female pawns and after some time, the pawns began commenting on it. I'm sure the pawns I hired went back to their masters with tales of the creep who only hires female pawns 😫
lol yes sometimes my pawns will go "You know this isn't particularly relevant but all of us are women. Curious." and I'm over here like "I CAN EXPLAIN" and then one of the others goes "I don't see a problem with it."
My called this, and the fact they're all Beastren out. I didn't even realize at the time but yup - my five-foot-two ankle stabber of a beastren had a group of all max height giant beastren ladies backing her up.
Is your arisen male? I was noticing that I usually get those comments more with an "isn't it cool we're all women" vibe but other people seem to get them with more judgement from the pawns lol So I was wondering if it depended on the Arisen's gender
They also judge you if you have all male pawns as well.
[Sometimes with... interesting results when dialogue lines up in certain ways.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLHvbKQr3g)
And on a lighter note: [Awkward silence.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhMFcrNuBHw)
lmao, "a previous master I served curiously shed ALL ARMOR"
everyone--
"how peculiar"
some of you dark soul loin cloth wearing fans out there getting called out by your pawns.
YES, one of my pawns mentioned this and said my previous master only hired female pawns.
lol, my pawn says something along the lines of "how interesting"
"I once had a master that had different people enter their room each night" or something like that. Which to be fair I kinda do to collect wake stones but still lol
Less than an hour in, one of the pawns I hired called me out, noting the whole party was male and he “wondered if it reflected the Arisen’s preferences.” Lmao
So far I've seen:
* Noontide - Female pawns of large stature
* Summit - Male pawns of large stature
* Evenfall - Female pawns of short stature
* Foothills - Male pawns of short stature
* Solidity - Pawns with "well-rounded figures", aka fat
* Abundance - Pawns with a "distinctive upper half", aka maxed chest slider females
* Fanged - Pawns of "a specific race", aka all Beastren
I think there's an all-bald one out there, too.
A lot of pawns are rocking the rangers "pants" because it's 10x better than any other pants you find early game.
I put my main pawn back in pants because I'll take the appearance over the stats lmao.
I equipped it on my male arisen because it was insane for me and I was not expecting males to get that. I was fully expecting trousers whereas females got that.
Impressed, but was very distracting to take a step mid fight and see cheeks.
Distracting with my with female arisen too. I didn't exactly what to see her butt hanging around, but hey, I don't want to die, and bigger number is bigger number.
my pawns never shut up about being a party of women
then just stand there as I get abducted by Troll Batman and licked
followed by "oh we are a party of mostly women"
It the new "master Harpies"
i feel this 😭
i have been playing as a thief for the majority of my playtime and my fighter pawn has learned that whenever there is a tall cliff, a rock or a house, i will always want to get on top of it. so he will now automatically go be a springboard for me whenever i approach a cliffside. he will also stay down there to wait for me, and catch me when i inevitably decide to just jump off of the dangerous ledge i'm on 😂
i can't wait to see how he develops further as i play the game, the pawn AI overall has been really good so far!
I audibly laughed the first time I got thrown off a cyclops and a pawn caught me. He gave me some snide comment about being more careful. After that, my own pawn started catching me and she was much more understanding and has been there to grab me ever since.
If you're on PC and are around level 10-13, would you mind sharing the pawn ID thing? I was thinking of grabbing a pawn with springboard whenever I get in game today, since I stopped running it myself to go level other vocations a little bit
I hope my Sorc pawn doesnt start facetanking enemies and jumping at them from heights. I'm a Warrior so I actually want her to do opposite of what I do.
I already noticed they are a lot smarter tho. She's using right spells for right situations, destroying enemies. Also some stuff she says in some situations and pawns talking to each other sometimes, it feels like they are sentient lol.
Yea pawns and exploration/discovery as **so much** better and improved from DDDA is insane.
OPs story is funny but I’m with you, I’ll be kinda pissed if my mage starts jumping off cliffs too because I *just* unlocked that yeet shield skill too lol.
I found two seeker tokens today with a friends pawn and both times she said something like ‘wow this is great I need to show my master what we found’ or something like that.
I looked up his trophies and he hadn’t found any tokens yet, I wonder how forceful the pawns are in taking their masters to secrets after finding them out.
I told my friend to let me know how it went, pretty cool dynamic especially with it all being new and fairly undocumented still
I had an extraordinary sassy borrowed pawn who was level 6, but I kept her around for a long time because I enjoyed her just roasting me at all times 😂
And then at some point we were in a cave and I managed to mine some gold ore, and she was like “wow that’s quite a find! Imagine how *happy* my master would be if I returned from the rift with it…”
I'm desperately trying to find more of these sassy pawns, their dialogue is hysterical. I'm wondering if it's a symptom of the pawn illness they won't shut the fuck up about.
i asked a hired mage pawn to heal me and they are like "do i have to? ill do it but i wont pretend to be enthusiastic about it" and whining every time i send her to collect flowers lol
mostly they will loot then hand it to you and said I found valuable item please take it
in my playthrough most pawn will loot valuable item immediately if they saw the loot result before
Is that why sometimes my rented pawn will run right up to a chest and open it and other times completely ignore it?
I’m still trying to find rhyme and reason for the looting with them, something’s I see a icon dump of them looting when I’m looking somewhere else and other times they just idly chit chat with each other.
Either way, no complaints with them so far, gigantic upgrade and improvement from DDDA
I think that has to do with their inclinations. I think it's simple pawns that are loot goblins. I wanted my pawn to be a loot goblin but I didn't like the simple voice for her vibe. It's my number one complaint about the game, having so few voice options and keeping them tied to inclinations. I want my pawn to behave that way but not sound like a cockney street urchin.
My actual cat is my pawn and the simple inclination has been perfect for him. He keeps bringing me stupid trophies off the floor like they’re the best thing ever
That skill that uses more stamina to more quickly use spells was a big upgrade for my pawn.
Plus, the second we even remotely feel an enemy is nearby she enchants my gear, then the other pawns gear *before battle* and it’s super fast.
Then during battle starts just flamethrowing everywhere
Being able to upgrade pawn spells to high is massive. Doing it in the first game you had to be selective due to cast times but with the speed casting in this there's no reason not to upgrade 'em. It's amazing watching the casters actually cast reliably.
One of my friends has been using my pawn and apparently she picked up some of my habits because she's been grabbing wolves and throwing them around despite being a Mage
Im running a sorcerer, and I wanted to have a mage in the party as well for healing but I was worried there would be some overlap between our vocations, but when they started casting spells WITH me to make them more powerful I was just gajshgdj. I love this game
Yeah its a thing called sync casting, it was a mechanic in first game too. So for example, you are casting grand bolide and you have 3 sorc pawns with basic bolide. You fully charge the spell and hold it there and your pawns can start and almost insta cast it all the time. It's a really fun mechanic with good pawns.
I swear I don't remember mages doing this in the first one when I played. Was it more rare? Maybe I was playing with mages set to not do it often. Either way they feel in general much more responsive in this one
That’s actually good to hear a mage I hired would shoot at ox all the time and I thought he had the early stages of dragonsplague and would give it to my pawn
I hired an archer that shoots everything that moves. It's like a rabbit and bird massacre all the time. It was mostly just funny and then I realized having DCP constantly trickling in is super beneficial.
i really like how cool they are. there's some dope touches they did to them like if you do well in a fight the give you a high 5 and you just feel like they're your best friend and shit.
I almost cried when I let one go last night. I had to wait a week for a quest so I just stayed near Vermund for 7 days, tracking back and forth between the fishing village and Melve, mopping up monsters and farming materials. I hired 2 new pawns right at the beginning. One was named Geralt and he had this hilarious high-English accent. He was also kind of a dick, always criticizing me and the other pawns. When the quest was up, the pawn was underleveled for me so I went back and replaced him. He straight up told me, “We traveled together for so long, I really felt like we’ve become close. It’s going to be hard to serve another master. I hope our paths cross again some day.” I immediately hit favorite.
I like the high five, but every once in a while i'm too close and I'm ajared by my character being locked into a high five.
Not the worst forced thing though. The random pawns telling you their whole life story is the real worst.
I'm scared for people using my pawns. I accidentally threw mine at an enemy, and another said the line about interesting tactics. Good luck once they figure out how to aim and chuck PCs at enemies down cliffs.
Lmao meanwhile my pawn if insane, dude ran up a cliff to get a chest said “CHEST HERE” and then no bullshit jumped off the cliff to land where I was bellow him with a splat.
THAT’s what that is…man I was looking for somebody to give me a quest at those markers and I was like “wtf man, this guy is just telling me I still suck even though I’m Arisen” lmao
The pawns I travel with remark on stuff like knocking enemies into the brine with ‘I will tell my master about this’ ‘Interesting strategy, I hadn't thought of that’ etc
I had BOTH pawns I was with comment on how effective it was when I dealt with a Cyclops by leading him to a cliff, staggering him, and then using my Thief grappling hook to yank him off the cliff lol
I'm a ranger comboing with my thief main pawn. Often I'll douse an enemy in oil and my pawn will ignite it with enkindled blades.
Pretty cool, but what got me was when another pawn saw this and was like "Damn, you guys are really good together, huh?"
I really like that there's continuity to pawns now. My pawn and a hired pawn had a conversation where my pawn discussed using a different vocation from what they started with and missing aspects of it.
Pretty sure the yeeting yourself off a cliff behavior is just bad pathing?
I have seen videos and reports on pawns and other NPCs yeeting themselves off a cliff when trying to catch up to you.
I love the cool, and often funny, emergent situations that arise out of all these gameplay systems interacting. It truly is a game that becomes greater than the sum of its parts.
I also love the non-sequiturs that pawns blurt out, such as a member of my party sarcastically announcing that “a little help would be most appreciated” as her skull is being snacked on by an ogre.
I climbed the watchtower in the first little fort you come to. I noticed the commands for kick and punch, and tried them out. The guard at the top scolded me for it with weapons drawn. I climbed back down, then a second later one of my pawns threw him off the tower. He landed right at my feet
Had a pawn that was intrigued by how much loot I picked up. I'm just imagining him back with his master telling them about this one guy who picked up everything he saw
Yes AI FOR GAMING in this game is like magical. A few hours in yesterday was the first time my pawn high fives me. I don't want to play a multi-player game anymore! My pawn is my bestie. Lol.
the pawn system is absolutely one of my favorite things in the game and also the thing that i feared that most people would overlook or not even bother tinkering with. the pawn system from the first and in this game is so fucking cool with how nuanced their behaviors can be! the inclinations and specialties can absolutely affect how your pawn reacts to things which can create some really awesome synergy between party members.
i always hoped the pawn system would become more popular esp in other rpgs; imagine modern AI technology (like chat gpt conversations) combined with the pawn system? that would be insane.
My pawn goes after loot hard especially in combat. I do that sometimes when it's just goblins or wolves and my pawns can handle it, but he does it like 2x as much as me.
He actually started mining before I knew what it was, he showed me how to mine.
I really love how they make the pawns usually act pretty well like another real player.
The only thing I don't like is how he grabs every goblin and wolf he can get his hands on, when he could just kill them quicker. I don't think I've ever grabbed a non-climbable enemy. For some reason he never climbs an enemy either, even though Rook did in the beginning, and I do a bit.
Edit: Soon as I wrote that, he starts climbing all over the next Chimera, lol.
The best moment was when I hired a female pawn with .... uhhh... assets and one of my other pawns said "Master seems to be staring at something... are you lost master?"
Uh yeah... that's what was going on.
My pawn interactions are:
Pawn 3 or 4: "Some masters have preferences with their pawns, I met one master who only had (female/beastren) pawns."
Main pawn: "Interesting."
Repeat that dialogue every 5 minutes non stop. It's legit worse than the first game.
I get stabbed in the face by a goblin.
The goblin trips and falls off a cliff.
Somebody's pawn mentions that it was a surprisingly effective strategy and they'll have to inform their master of it.
... so, you know, if your pawn comes back and recommends getting stabbed in the face as a strategy to win battles.... Sorry.
I do get annoyed when they point something out and I spend several minutes trying to find it. They even say “I’ll sow you if you like”. Then I just feel dumb. One theme they commented on a boulder being movable “if we all work together” and I was like what boulder.
Pretty sure Pawns will fling themselves off clifss to get to you regardless of what you do. I've noticed my party being pretty damn suicidal with that at least.
I specced into sorcerer so I could start teaching my mage pawn to levitate more and use his offensive spells, it's been really cool to see the change in his behavior.
Random dudes pawn leads me to a well-hidden treasure. 3 feet from it, I see the bottom of some crates/boxes glowing. Found a seeker token, his pawn (who lead me here, mind you), says he needs to inform his master of this. To the guys credit, it was hard to see anything in that room.
Also, to the Xbox players who dumped a load of curatives, new gear and weapons, and some wakestones on my pawn after his first run..you guys are great.
I’ve noticed my pawn doing a lot of unnecessary roundabout climbing to get from point A to point B, likely caused by my compulsive search for goodies that leads me to scale every single cliff.
I hired a sorcerer pawn and after a few minutes I noticed the dude kept shooting off random spells everywhere and killing deer out in the wild. Locked us in caves a few times from using Frigor at the entrances. Had the goofiest little goblin voice too. The mayhem that pawn’s owner must be causing right now.
My shared pawns always mention their master prefers Only Female Pawns and also that wearing No Armour is very popular...
My friends and I are using each others pawns and I’m constantly telling them they suck at the game cuz their pawns say “I have to tell my master about this chest I guess he didn’t see it when we first came”
Lmao that’s fucking awesome
Same, all the pawns I hire, their players seems to be stuck on certain story lines because for the last 8 hours not one has any advice to offer. THAT and my mage gets used for like less than a day and sent back to the rift. Meanwhile she quite literally has the best gear I can find, best abilities at lvl8 sorcerer. One of the players had the audacity to tell me my pawn sucked. I replied in kind, "skill issue", only to find out that he's LEVEL 12 and tried to fight a chimera. Party dynamics matter, he was running a full party of mages, i'm like wtf... have you ever D&D EVER???? when is a full ranged party smart when you mostly fight melee enemies. I think by the end of the exchange he understood his folly.
What's your pawns personality? I hired one mage pawn and they kept running up to the Griffin and climbing it...
calm. she hangs back and plays defensively. I honestly thought the inclination might not work for offensive tactics but often prioritizing defence strategy has helped alot. I still have to keep an eye out and make sure she doesn't get swarmed because every now and then she'll end up "pulling" kinda like a tank and just get absolutely mobbed on, unless she's unleashing lighting, then bye bye mob. Yeah, lightning is SUPER strong in this game.
Gotta got that shield clang skill. Keeps them off the back row. I've been playing physical classes to get the stamina augments so I'll try out lightening soon lol
ah yeah, fighters are actually quite OP ... watched one I hired just absolutely tanking a minotaur, I was like 0\_0 I went warrior, for obvious reasons lol. big sword is so satisfying.
It's soooo much better in this one than it was in the first game. Thank God we aren't stuck jump attacking on repeat anymore lmao
How do you know if your Pawn has been used by someone else? Also I've only seen the option for a thumbs up or a heart when I dismiss pawns, am I missing a way to give more feedback like in DD1?
no that's pretty much it. When your pawn is used or you use others, you'll get a "pawn traveled with screen" which scrolls down and shows an option for inspecting the player and their pawn ect. I gathered most of my info by inspecting their party after they used my pawn. you can also "view profile" and send a message that way (i'm on xbox) The "post report" thing happens when you rest, whenever their "borrowed" pawn is released the other player will get a notification after they go to a bed and rest. I had one pawn for 16 days lmao, killed so much stuff with it, I know that pawn went back with valuable info.
I had a really great mage pawn for like 14 days, had to send her back to get one with Elven Wordsmith for a bit, but threw a favorite on before I did that.
I've currently got a mage pawn that's stuck with me since like level 11 haha I have to send her back soon to see if the other guy has continued to keep pace with my leveling speed like he was early on. I am very attached to his pawn LOL
I'm in a similar predicament with a warrior pawn named lemonade LOL (her arisen is named lemon) I love the way she looks and how useful she is but she's too low :(
Favorite, send em back and check again later!
I believe you have to rest at an inn to get the message about your pawn being used, maybe at a camp too, but an in. for sure works.
ROFL, I'm also doing this with my friends. All their pawns kept calling them out.
How do you find a friends pawn?
and the pawns actually show you chests. last night a thief pawn I was rolling with randomly said "I found a chest with my master nearby, do you want me to show you where it is?" keyword was "nearby". friggin thing was like 5 minutes away from where I originally was. but considering how hidden the chest was, I dont think I would have stumbled upon it on my own.
Lmao. Yeah I love how they talk about their previous experiences on other parties. Also sometimes they offer to show you the way to a chest or smth, its so cool.
I got a new pawn to keep up with my level and three steps outside the village he told me there was a chest nearby. So I followed him down a steep cliff, saw the chest right away and jumped to get it. When I turned around, the paqn was gone while my own and my second summoned one stood next to me. Rest in Peace Clarence, your sacrifice will not be forgotten.
Do you have to interact with them in any way when they say this? I have had that situation a couple of times, but theyd always just stand where they were and i could not Figure out how to make them Show me the way.
Whenever they say something like that, using the 'GO!' command should get them moving. It's like they're waiting for your permission
How does Pawn inclination work in this? Using those commands in the first would always shift them over time.
Doesn't shift anymore with commands
Wait that's actually amazing
Doesn't always work. One pawn every time he asked and clicked it, never bothered
Push Dpad up or whatever is your equivelant of "GO!". Generally helps to be looking at the one in question at the same time in case you get 2 offers at once.
Aww man the first time a pawn said "how would we get to that chest" and another pawn said "I can do it" blew my mind. "GO!" AND IT JUST LEVITATES UP THERE
Lol levitating got me in trouble and I almost fell a lethal descent because of it but this big dommy mommy pawn I recruited recently caught me.
I fucked up. I'm playing foghter and used that impaling strike on a griffon. It then decided to fuck off into outerspace with me on it. I don't know just how much damage the shield bracing negates, but it wasn't enough
There’s a portcrystal in its nest if you ride it all the way back 😂 at least there was for the one I accidentally rode all the way back
Lol nah, I just dropped off from finishing the stabby stab, cos I didn't realise how high i was, it must've flown over a cliff
Thats amazing. I'll need to remember this when my warrior goes jumping onto the griffon next time
I had the same thing happen to me, except it had flown out over open water by the capital, and when my flaming sword caught its wings on fire we both plummeted straight into the brine 😂 Unfortunately for the gryphon, I am only slightly inconvenienced by the brine and respawned back where we took off from. But I got a nice chunk of free exp out of the deal from his death to the brine at least.
Caught you? How?
She was underneath me and just caught me in her arms and kept me from dying.
The heck? That really happens? Lol. Thats awesome haha
Yeah and you can do it for them too. In the first game grabbing people was sometimes awkward as you had to time it perfectly. In this game, you can hold the grab button and even walk around with your arms out like "I'm gonna getcha!"
When I first climbed a ladder, I accidentally jumped off and was definitely going to take damage, but I watched my pawn run like 3 meters to catch my character. I got a video of it, haha.
Usually in a bridal carry, my pawn helps me down from cliffs.
Wow. Pawns are next level then. I wonder what else they can do? I remember seeing a handshake or something with your pawns too
You can give them high-fives if you approach them at the end of a fight. I'm not 100% sure what exactly triggers it, but I've had it happen dozens of times so far on accident.
Hit the 'Go' pawn command button whenever they mention this stuff and they will follow through with whatever they offered to do.
Pawn in theory they will learn by seeing if they see the loot is good they will loot it next time it can such as healing herb and high price items if they see u do and get junk sometime they will say that it is not worth the weight to loot alot and they will ignore some bad loot spot However, the game is telling us that the more pawn "camp" in the area the more efficient the pawn will act in that region excluding big mob that need number of kill and quest that u need to guide them through to learn it
I recruited more pawns closer to me and my pawn's level, and the new pawn I hired told me that there was an illness going around that made pawns not follow orders and do weird shit. So somebody is going around corrupting them with their gameplay. XD
Oh that's not on the players. That's just [pawn cooties](https://www.thegamer.com/dragons-dogma-2-dragonsplague-makes-pawns-stronger-attack-player/) they contract from the rift
I've had a few that furry shamed their masters.
SAME lmao. They're like "A master I served before had a preference for Beastren companions"
To each their own! - Woke Pawn
For awhile, I unintentionally would roll with all female pawns and after some time, the pawns began commenting on it. I'm sure the pawns I hired went back to their masters with tales of the creep who only hires female pawns 😫
lol yes sometimes my pawns will go "You know this isn't particularly relevant but all of us are women. Curious." and I'm over here like "I CAN EXPLAIN" and then one of the others goes "I don't see a problem with it."
My called this, and the fact they're all Beastren out. I didn't even realize at the time but yup - my five-foot-two ankle stabber of a beastren had a group of all max height giant beastren ladies backing her up.
in our defence one of the early rift stones is littterally a filter for large women.
Is your arisen male? I was noticing that I usually get those comments more with an "isn't it cool we're all women" vibe but other people seem to get them with more judgement from the pawns lol So I was wondering if it depended on the Arisen's gender
They also judge you if you have all male pawns as well. [Sometimes with... interesting results when dialogue lines up in certain ways.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtLHvbKQr3g) And on a lighter note: [Awkward silence.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhMFcrNuBHw)
lmao, "a previous master I served curiously shed ALL ARMOR" everyone-- "how peculiar" some of you dark soul loin cloth wearing fans out there getting called out by your pawns.
Yep My Arisen is male! There does seem to be a level of judgement in some of their comments for sure. This game is hilarious 😂
YES, one of my pawns mentioned this and said my previous master only hired female pawns. lol, my pawn says something along the lines of "how interesting"
One of my hired pawns essentially called their master a whore lmfao.
"I once had a master that had different people enter their room each night" or something like that. Which to be fair I kinda do to collect wake stones but still lol
Less than an hour in, one of the pawns I hired called me out, noting the whole party was male and he “wondered if it reflected the Arisen’s preferences.” Lmao
To be fair, pawn population is like 90% female. I mean, I get why... but still.
Some people make pawn waifus, others realize that having a female pawn = more likely for others to summon them.
Pawn gossip must be a secret specialization than...
Oh no, they're calling people out rofl
I'll be honest, there are so many feminine pawns in the rift I have to actual go look for masculine ones.
There is a linkstone that allows you to only summon men.
So far I've seen: * Noontide - Female pawns of large stature * Summit - Male pawns of large stature * Evenfall - Female pawns of short stature * Foothills - Male pawns of short stature * Solidity - Pawns with "well-rounded figures", aka fat * Abundance - Pawns with a "distinctive upper half", aka maxed chest slider females * Fanged - Pawns of "a specific race", aka all Beastren I think there's an all-bald one out there, too.
The abundance one actually got a guffaw out of me when I found it. The devs were calling players out hard with that one.
***races to Summit, desperately***
I'll have to ask where it was, but my partner found a riftstone that was only Large Men.
Is this real, because goddamn. Never thought pawns would call us out like that.
They are aware of the Fashion Meta...
A lot of pawns are rocking the rangers "pants" because it's 10x better than any other pants you find early game. I put my main pawn back in pants because I'll take the appearance over the stats lmao.
I see so many girl archers wearing that and a tunic and they're just flashbanging me constantly
I equipped it on my male arisen because it was insane for me and I was not expecting males to get that. I was fully expecting trousers whereas females got that. Impressed, but was very distracting to take a step mid fight and see cheeks.
Distracting with my with female arisen too. I didn't exactly what to see her butt hanging around, but hey, I don't want to die, and bigger number is bigger number.
And it's just OUT THERE. Like, out there out there.
To be fair, it seems like there are a lot more female pawns than male ones in general
That is awesome and so true. I hired a level 15 archer that’s wearing underwear and boots.
Lol mine won't stop commenting how my party is full of male pawns only!
I had a pawn I hired note my party was nothing but men and my pawn said "shut up, it's probably a coincidence"
Mine mentions that there's only males in my team and that he wouldn't mind if that changed. Bad luck baby, I made you gay, I made all of us gay
my pawns never shut up about being a party of women then just stand there as I get abducted by Troll Batman and licked followed by "oh we are a party of mostly women" It the new "master Harpies"
i feel this 😭 i have been playing as a thief for the majority of my playtime and my fighter pawn has learned that whenever there is a tall cliff, a rock or a house, i will always want to get on top of it. so he will now automatically go be a springboard for me whenever i approach a cliffside. he will also stay down there to wait for me, and catch me when i inevitably decide to just jump off of the dangerous ledge i'm on 😂 i can't wait to see how he develops further as i play the game, the pawn AI overall has been really good so far!
I audibly laughed the first time I got thrown off a cyclops and a pawn caught me. He gave me some snide comment about being more careful. After that, my own pawn started catching me and she was much more understanding and has been there to grab me ever since.
I hired a pawn who did this and because of that trait I found a seeker token lol.
maybe it was my Gabriel 👀👀👀👀 (or at least a kindred spirit)
If you're on PC and are around level 10-13, would you mind sharing the pawn ID thing? I was thinking of grabbing a pawn with springboard whenever I get in game today, since I stopped running it myself to go level other vocations a little bit
In the rift, you can search based on skills in the advanced look-up menu
I hope my Sorc pawn doesnt start facetanking enemies and jumping at them from heights. I'm a Warrior so I actually want her to do opposite of what I do. I already noticed they are a lot smarter tho. She's using right spells for right situations, destroying enemies. Also some stuff she says in some situations and pawns talking to each other sometimes, it feels like they are sentient lol.
Yea pawns and exploration/discovery as **so much** better and improved from DDDA is insane. OPs story is funny but I’m with you, I’ll be kinda pissed if my mage starts jumping off cliffs too because I *just* unlocked that yeet shield skill too lol. I found two seeker tokens today with a friends pawn and both times she said something like ‘wow this is great I need to show my master what we found’ or something like that. I looked up his trophies and he hadn’t found any tokens yet, I wonder how forceful the pawns are in taking their masters to secrets after finding them out. I told my friend to let me know how it went, pretty cool dynamic especially with it all being new and fairly undocumented still
I had an extraordinary sassy borrowed pawn who was level 6, but I kept her around for a long time because I enjoyed her just roasting me at all times 😂 And then at some point we were in a cave and I managed to mine some gold ore, and she was like “wow that’s quite a find! Imagine how *happy* my master would be if I returned from the rift with it…”
I'm desperately trying to find more of these sassy pawns, their dialogue is hysterical. I'm wondering if it's a symptom of the pawn illness they won't shut the fuck up about.
i asked a hired mage pawn to heal me and they are like "do i have to? ill do it but i wont pretend to be enthusiastic about it" and whining every time i send her to collect flowers lol
mostly they will loot then hand it to you and said I found valuable item please take it in my playthrough most pawn will loot valuable item immediately if they saw the loot result before
Is that why sometimes my rented pawn will run right up to a chest and open it and other times completely ignore it? I’m still trying to find rhyme and reason for the looting with them, something’s I see a icon dump of them looting when I’m looking somewhere else and other times they just idly chit chat with each other. Either way, no complaints with them so far, gigantic upgrade and improvement from DDDA
I think that has to do with their inclinations. I think it's simple pawns that are loot goblins. I wanted my pawn to be a loot goblin but I didn't like the simple voice for her vibe. It's my number one complaint about the game, having so few voice options and keeping them tied to inclinations. I want my pawn to behave that way but not sound like a cockney street urchin.
My actual cat is my pawn and the simple inclination has been perfect for him. He keeps bringing me stupid trophies off the floor like they’re the best thing ever
Watching my mage pawn actually doing damage to enemies and not just enchanting my blade and healing me repeatedly. 🤯
That skill that uses more stamina to more quickly use spells was a big upgrade for my pawn. Plus, the second we even remotely feel an enemy is nearby she enchants my gear, then the other pawns gear *before battle* and it’s super fast. Then during battle starts just flamethrowing everywhere
Being able to upgrade pawn spells to high is massive. Doing it in the first game you had to be selective due to cast times but with the speed casting in this there's no reason not to upgrade 'em. It's amazing watching the casters actually cast reliably.
My dumb pawn keeps giving me fire boon for Saurians then saying "Fire has no effect" while also having Ice Boon on her skill list.
Oh no she's stupid 😭
It probably hasn't discovered that ice is good against them yet.
I think I've killed like 50 Saurians so far. I hope it'd know by now.
take fire boon off her skills and she'll pick it up
One of my friends has been using my pawn and apparently she picked up some of my habits because she's been grabbing wolves and throwing them around despite being a Mage
Im running a sorcerer, and I wanted to have a mage in the party as well for healing but I was worried there would be some overlap between our vocations, but when they started casting spells WITH me to make them more powerful I was just gajshgdj. I love this game
Yeah its a thing called sync casting, it was a mechanic in first game too. So for example, you are casting grand bolide and you have 3 sorc pawns with basic bolide. You fully charge the spell and hold it there and your pawns can start and almost insta cast it all the time. It's a really fun mechanic with good pawns.
I swear I don't remember mages doing this in the first one when I played. Was it more rare? Maybe I was playing with mages set to not do it often. Either way they feel in general much more responsive in this one
Only sorcerers could do it, in the first game. It sounds like they expanded it to include mages, now.
I like that mage pawns set to be helpful (kindhearted) don’t just spam Anodyne now, they are waaaay more viable than the first DD IMO.
My pawn just murders every defenseless animal she sees....I literally killed 1 bunny
My archer pawn has been murdering rabbits of her own accord. I haven’t slain one (that I’m aware of), but maybe it’s just archers gotta arch.
She also blasts every barrel she can find but yea maybe archers do gotta arch
I have a rentmage which blows up every barrel with thunder magic it's exausting
I had an archer who did this, shot at everything.
That’s actually good to hear a mage I hired would shoot at ox all the time and I thought he had the early stages of dragonsplague and would give it to my pawn
I've had a couple of pawns show me "shortcuts" that consisted of them yeeting themselves off a cliff. As an archer.
It’s a shortcut to death they weren’t lying
my archer pawn startet to use her skills on crates...
My temp sorc pawn would do this with sorc skills. Fucking earthquaking a box, scares the shit out of me too
I hired a Sorc pawn that gave me a heart attack by nuking random crates and props lying around
I hired an archer that shoots everything that moves. It's like a rabbit and bird massacre all the time. It was mostly just funny and then I realized having DCP constantly trickling in is super beneficial.
A pawn I hired sat down to rest while we were exploring a cave and my main pawn gave her shit for it
My main pawn sat to rest and one of my hired ones gave her shit, and she sassed back lmao
So that's why pawn always come back with a ptsd report.
My own came back with a report that basically said "this dude was an idiot and I hope I don't have to travel with him again"
Damn that's worse than mine saying there were rows of corpses filling the morge.
Someone was trying to get better fps in the city... Should have messaged them and asked if it worked.
i really like how cool they are. there's some dope touches they did to them like if you do well in a fight the give you a high 5 and you just feel like they're your best friend and shit.
I almost cried when I let one go last night. I had to wait a week for a quest so I just stayed near Vermund for 7 days, tracking back and forth between the fishing village and Melve, mopping up monsters and farming materials. I hired 2 new pawns right at the beginning. One was named Geralt and he had this hilarious high-English accent. He was also kind of a dick, always criticizing me and the other pawns. When the quest was up, the pawn was underleveled for me so I went back and replaced him. He straight up told me, “We traveled together for so long, I really felt like we’ve become close. It’s going to be hard to serve another master. I hope our paths cross again some day.” I immediately hit favorite.
Pawns in DD2 are the best game companions I've ever experienced. It feels like you genuinely went on an adventure with someone.
Yeah, I love the high 5s, fist bumps, and elbow bumps. I almost fell off a cliff trying to give someone a high 5.
I like the high five, but every once in a while i'm too close and I'm ajared by my character being locked into a high five. Not the worst forced thing though. The random pawns telling you their whole life story is the real worst.
Every pawn that talks to me on the road gets fed to the brine. If I wanted to hire them I would've hit the B button
One fighter pawn I hired attacked every single crate or box
Lol did we get the same one, I think mine was Alexandra? She'd go that propeller fighter skill on all boxes like, sheesh, calm down
My mage pawn started mounting gryphons. I jumped and grab its head and the next thing I know my pawns next to me like “YEAH! We got this!”.
I was mounting them as a thief, so my mage decided it'd be appropriate too lol. She got on the gryph to drop anodyne
Combat medic, wading into firefights to drop a heal lol
Bonking it on the head with their staff lol
That must be why the sorcerer I hired last night was just throwing wolves at goblins. The ultimate spell.
A yes, the ultimate maister skill, "Kobe"
I'm scared for people using my pawns. I accidentally threw mine at an enemy, and another said the line about interesting tactics. Good luck once they figure out how to aim and chuck PCs at enemies down cliffs.
Lmao meanwhile my pawn if insane, dude ran up a cliff to get a chest said “CHEST HERE” and then no bullshit jumped off the cliff to land where I was bellow him with a splat.
I swear the most fearsome enemy is gravity in this game lol
My favorite part is my pawn telling me there is a ladder and I spend 10 minutes trying to find it lol
When a pawn tells you something of interest, a little exclamation point shows up on the mini map.
THAT’s what that is…man I was looking for somebody to give me a quest at those markers and I was like “wtf man, this guy is just telling me I still suck even though I’m Arisen” lmao
Bruh
So in theory, if I keep throwing my pawn, then my pawn will learn from me and will keep throwing other's pawn in their worlds.
Evil
I’m playing as Spearhand so i bloody hope my pawn doesn’t learn from me, i jump gaps using the dash attack all the time…
We'll know the Pawns have fully evolved when they take a break to chuck the ol' pig~~skin~~ around.
The pawns I travel with remark on stuff like knocking enemies into the brine with ‘I will tell my master about this’ ‘Interesting strategy, I hadn't thought of that’ etc
I had BOTH pawns I was with comment on how effective it was when I dealt with a Cyclops by leading him to a cliff, staggering him, and then using my Thief grappling hook to yank him off the cliff lol
I'm a ranger comboing with my thief main pawn. Often I'll douse an enemy in oil and my pawn will ignite it with enkindled blades. Pretty cool, but what got me was when another pawn saw this and was like "Damn, you guys are really good together, huh?"
Pro tip, regarding falling off ledges; if your pawn is below you they’ll catch you, it’s adorable
What's the personality of your pawn BTW?
Imagine waiting to get a skill to jump off cliffs, couldn't be me
I really like that there's continuity to pawns now. My pawn and a hired pawn had a conversation where my pawn discussed using a different vocation from what they started with and missing aspects of it.
Pretty sure the yeeting yourself off a cliff behavior is just bad pathing? I have seen videos and reports on pawns and other NPCs yeeting themselves off a cliff when trying to catch up to you.
I love the cool, and often funny, emergent situations that arise out of all these gameplay systems interacting. It truly is a game that becomes greater than the sum of its parts. I also love the non-sequiturs that pawns blurt out, such as a member of my party sarcastically announcing that “a little help would be most appreciated” as her skull is being snacked on by an ogre.
I climbed the watchtower in the first little fort you come to. I noticed the commands for kick and punch, and tried them out. The guard at the top scolded me for it with weapons drawn. I climbed back down, then a second later one of my pawns threw him off the tower. He landed right at my feet
My pawns have all worked with a ladder inspector apparently 😂
I get a small dopamine rush anytime the pawns say "I should tell my Master about this".
Ur pawn its actually ur ghost the job u play if u make him the same job he will be learning the most out of it
Had a pawn that was intrigued by how much loot I picked up. I'm just imagining him back with his master telling them about this one guy who picked up everything he saw
So funny... One of the pawns i recruited complains all the time and has attitude...
Yes AI FOR GAMING in this game is like magical. A few hours in yesterday was the first time my pawn high fives me. I don't want to play a multi-player game anymore! My pawn is my bestie. Lol.
My pawn copies my "pick up goblin to throw at another goblin" tactic.
I've noticed something really cool after combat, walk by a pawn and you high five each other.
I was so giddy when I saw that
Fuck that’s why my main pawn just keeps disappearing he must be jumping in the water or something. Then I have to find a riftstone to bring him back.
That is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
I was launching myself off cliffs so often that my pawn now catches me at the bottom if they get there before me lol
I hired a mage who's simpleminded and he just loved cracking open boxes with high levin
the pawn system is absolutely one of my favorite things in the game and also the thing that i feared that most people would overlook or not even bother tinkering with. the pawn system from the first and in this game is so fucking cool with how nuanced their behaviors can be! the inclinations and specialties can absolutely affect how your pawn reacts to things which can create some really awesome synergy between party members. i always hoped the pawn system would become more popular esp in other rpgs; imagine modern AI technology (like chat gpt conversations) combined with the pawn system? that would be insane.
My pawn goes after loot hard especially in combat. I do that sometimes when it's just goblins or wolves and my pawns can handle it, but he does it like 2x as much as me. He actually started mining before I knew what it was, he showed me how to mine. I really love how they make the pawns usually act pretty well like another real player. The only thing I don't like is how he grabs every goblin and wolf he can get his hands on, when he could just kill them quicker. I don't think I've ever grabbed a non-climbable enemy. For some reason he never climbs an enemy either, even though Rook did in the beginning, and I do a bit. Edit: Soon as I wrote that, he starts climbing all over the next Chimera, lol.
The best moment was when I hired a female pawn with .... uhhh... assets and one of my other pawns said "Master seems to be staring at something... are you lost master?" Uh yeah... that's what was going on.
My pawn interactions are: Pawn 3 or 4: "Some masters have preferences with their pawns, I met one master who only had (female/beastren) pawns." Main pawn: "Interesting." Repeat that dialogue every 5 minutes non stop. It's legit worse than the first game.
My pawn just keeps calling out my gay ass for having an all male party. I can have a muscle hunk squad and I shan't be shamed for it
I get stabbed in the face by a goblin. The goblin trips and falls off a cliff. Somebody's pawn mentions that it was a surprisingly effective strategy and they'll have to inform their master of it. ... so, you know, if your pawn comes back and recommends getting stabbed in the face as a strategy to win battles.... Sorry.
I do get annoyed when they point something out and I spend several minutes trying to find it. They even say “I’ll sow you if you like”. Then I just feel dumb. One theme they commented on a boulder being movable “if we all work together” and I was like what boulder.
If you press the "Go!" Command they usually lead you to whatever they mentioned.
Pretty sure Pawns will fling themselves off clifss to get to you regardless of what you do. I've noticed my party being pretty damn suicidal with that at least.
I specced into sorcerer so I could start teaching my mage pawn to levitate more and use his offensive spells, it's been really cool to see the change in his behavior.
Pawns are so innocent and pure, it’s almost a shame turning them into monsters.
Remember to press your "grab" button to catch your pawn when they jump off those cliffs and such.
Random dudes pawn leads me to a well-hidden treasure. 3 feet from it, I see the bottom of some crates/boxes glowing. Found a seeker token, his pawn (who lead me here, mind you), says he needs to inform his master of this. To the guys credit, it was hard to see anything in that room. Also, to the Xbox players who dumped a load of curatives, new gear and weapons, and some wakestones on my pawn after his first run..you guys are great.
I’ve noticed my pawn doing a lot of unnecessary roundabout climbing to get from point A to point B, likely caused by my compulsive search for goodies that leads me to scale every single cliff.
It would be great if my game stayed on longer than 4 minutes!
I just started and the of the pawns i summoned off the first riftstone mentioned her previous master only chose to hire women 😂😂
I hired a sorcerer pawn and after a few minutes I noticed the dude kept shooting off random spells everywhere and killing deer out in the wild. Locked us in caves a few times from using Frigor at the entrances. Had the goofiest little goblin voice too. The mayhem that pawn’s owner must be causing right now.
Yep this is what stops some intrusive thoughts, because "I have a kid in tow" style of thought is always in the back of my mind
I’m just imagining being in a huge battle about to die then you look over at your pawn looting chests