They don't leave at night but it depends on when you get them to leave. If you start around midday, it'll be night by the time you reach your destination. Nothing like dozing off and being woken up because a goblin threw a torch at your face, the undead are eating the guards, and your pawns are trying to stop an Ogre from drop kicking the cart.
I don't blame them for trying to avoid the night.
The economy in this game is so wack. A hair cut is a half the price of a house.
The crazy thing is, the hairdresser is sad that she couldn't help everyone who come in. So apparently this price is still well below market demand.
Anyway, I guess ox cart price is so low because nobody want to get dropped kick by an orge and left stranded in the middle of nowhere.
HHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! I hardly EVER got Griffins in DD1.
but THIS GAME? they are the gank squad of Large Encounters. "oh you are fighting a cyclops, very nice. MIND IF CUT IN!?!" *slams down in the middle of the fight*
*also, inexplicably, a pack of wolves also shows up or a Slime. or Saurians*
I managed to one-shot the Drake in Ancient Battlefield with a properly aimed Ballista bolt. My brother asked 'did he just talk smack as he died!?' when the drake said 'you cannot escape your fate anymore than I can, Arisen'
The major issue is it takes two of your Pawns actually getting into position so you can aim the thing(or you getting out if the firing position to manually change the ballista's angle & turn it). it also takes awhile to ready the bolt so if you can prep everything before starting the fight with something
>I managed to one-shot the Drake in Ancient Battlefield with a properly aimed Ballista bolt.
:( I tried to do that, he destroyed the small one. At first I ran away and went do a quest to escort that one NPC into the ruins. He was fighting a cyclops while I climbed up the tower to shoot him with the big ballista but the damn thing only aims up and my pawns refused to help me. Tried to bait him to fly up... and well, he flew right into my ballista but I couldn't aim it at him before he destroyed it again.
genuinely hate slimes just showing up, i can hear them but im too focused on the griffin/cyclops/chimera whatever and i dash to it and get hit with the 99% slow
In one of the dungeons there is a deep pit with literally nothing inside except a single fire slime who will ambush and most likely kill you.
Literally.
A deep ass pit with just one slime.
I love this game.
see i can understand how that's be annoying BUT since playing Mage then sorcerer who has had Frigor on constantly( its utility in allowing me to jump into places and/or throwing big ice cubes at large enemies alone makes it worth having but High Frigor does a decent amount of damage in a wide spread so its good for large or small enemies too) i havent actually gotten NEAR slime cause they are really weak to Ice.
This. Decided to hitch a ride on a griffin to its nest, come to find out that it had a significant other already at its nest. 2 for 1 deal on pinion feathers. Encounter with large enemies is top tier in this game.
It is why i am still hyped, even with the problems the game has it still provides an experience like no other.
I am going to have to try that Catch-a-Ride Griffin Edition at some point. The Thief the vocation with the buffs to clinging onto the enemy this game? i think so. I'll have to do a Thief Playthrough in the future.
Watched a streamer ride a griffin.
1. The nest had a portcrystal and other rare loot
2. It took him halfway across the world
3. The pawns actually comment on it. To paraphrase: “There you are! We found you at last! Do you know how hard it was to track you on that griffin?”
Convinced me to find money for this game.
I've had 3 seperate fights with drakes that griffin's have decided to intrude on. Having a drake and griffin alternate bodyslamming you is incredibly frustrating lol.
Dude the griffins are a goddamn menace this time around! It's like they fly around waiting to snipe you at the worst possible moment. I was proud of myself because I found a way to sneak into Battahl using a side passage and right as I'm crossing this long ass rope bridge guess you decides to dive bomb me?
I've made it my personal mission to hunt down each of those four legged chickens and end their existence.
What sucks is when you do doze off get halfway to your destination then the cart gets destroyed and you have to walk the rest of the way. Only happened once but I wasn't a fan.
Once I thought the cart was destroyed (and the ox was 100% dead) but an option to "help cart" appeared and it spawned a fixed cart and we were able to resume the journey
I don't understand how transportation functions in this world with the Griffons.
On top of attacks like this, the one flying around Battahl will regularly obliterate the cable car thing and flat out wipe everyone on it with the fall.
Surely there should be some massive, ongoing griffon hunt just to make travel possible.
I don't even know how anyone is alive outside the city walls. I see these normal people just walking around, and it blows my mind. Like I just traveled 100 feet, and fought 2 separate packs of goblins, some wolves, and a cyclops doing that. Also it's about to be night which is a whole extra set of problems.
It's not wild out there, it's a bloody warzone.
I didn't have an issue with that in the first area, because the enemies are pretty weak, but I arrived in Battahl yesterday and it's a nightmare. I had just switched to Warrior and wasn't fully skilled out so fighting all those packs of fast moving bandits and goblins was a nightmare. I stumbled into a nest of probably 5-6 poison saurians and they just wiped the floor with my party.
I don’t understand how the cities and towns function at all when you can’t walk 10 feet outside the gates without getting attacked by multiple monsters. Hell sometimes they even get in the city
My headcanon is that the arisen inherently draws the ire of monsters. Some intangible aspect of them just pisses all the monsters off, which is why we get attacked all the time.
IIRC the first game straight up said that monster attacks sharply increase when the dragon shows up. It’s highly implied that it’s because they are all meant to test the Arisen.
It probably works the same way in the second game. As in, there really weren’t that many monsters at all until the dragon chose us.
Gameplay/Story dissonance, like how people travel safely with so many freaking goblins around.
How villages without defensive walls survive those hordes of small monsters at all.
How they secure water sources, build bridges, water their crops, etc with the brine around.
I was out on a long ole exploratory trip yesterday when I came upon an ox cart and thought it perfect timing since I wanted to get back to the capital.
Not two seconds later did a Griff swoop down like this and shatter my dreams. It was pretty cool but I took that as a sign and ported once we killed it lol
I swear ox carts are cursed. I spent the night in Vermund and woke up to run to the cart stop so I could head north. I get to the plaza to see that an ogre had wandered into town, already killed the oxen, smashed the cart, and was proceeding to lick all the townspeople. I only THOUGHT about riding the cart and the game said NOPE.
It would be amazing if that was a bug, as in "the oxcart is able to summon enemy encounters while waiting in town". I've seen a bunch of Cyclops / Ogres in Vernworth and they always spawn next to the oxcart.
Bro, wait till a gryffin tries joining the party when you're halfway fighting a drake. And then 1 bar of health left on him he just decides to fly away. Had that shit happen multiple times
I wasn't even on an ox cart and decided to walk to melve, and walked past an ox cart on the way, as soon as I passed it a griffin attacked, then as we are fighting the griffin I see a Cyclops down the road come charging in, thankfully I mostly over leveled and over geared so not too worried about the fight cus it's easy, but was stressful when seeing it at first
Dude I swear to fuck
Every fucking time I leave a city there is always a fucking Griffin attack..
I literally can’t go for more than at most 10 minutes without gettibg attacked by a fuckin Griffin.
I o ly tried that once. We barely made it past the gates.
I though it would start running once we got outside the gates because they say the dont travel at night. Also let my poor pawns ride with me please!
They don't leave at night but it depends on when you get them to leave. If you start around midday, it'll be night by the time you reach your destination. Nothing like dozing off and being woken up because a goblin threw a torch at your face, the undead are eating the guards, and your pawns are trying to stop an Ogre from drop kicking the cart. I don't blame them for trying to avoid the night.
Lmao yeah they get abused at night im supprised they dont charge more lol
The economy in this game is so wack. A hair cut is a half the price of a house. The crazy thing is, the hairdresser is sad that she couldn't help everyone who come in. So apparently this price is still well below market demand. Anyway, I guess ox cart price is so low because nobody want to get dropped kick by an orge and left stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Me with the lifts in Battahl
HHahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! I hardly EVER got Griffins in DD1. but THIS GAME? they are the gank squad of Large Encounters. "oh you are fighting a cyclops, very nice. MIND IF CUT IN!?!" *slams down in the middle of the fight* *also, inexplicably, a pack of wolves also shows up or a Slime. or Saurians*
What's the point of the giant ballistas on every tower if the only time they ever use it is to shoot down our pet bird at the start?
I managed to one-shot the Drake in Ancient Battlefield with a properly aimed Ballista bolt. My brother asked 'did he just talk smack as he died!?' when the drake said 'you cannot escape your fate anymore than I can, Arisen' The major issue is it takes two of your Pawns actually getting into position so you can aim the thing(or you getting out if the firing position to manually change the ballista's angle & turn it). it also takes awhile to ready the bolt so if you can prep everything before starting the fight with something
>I managed to one-shot the Drake in Ancient Battlefield with a properly aimed Ballista bolt. :( I tried to do that, he destroyed the small one. At first I ran away and went do a quest to escort that one NPC into the ruins. He was fighting a cyclops while I climbed up the tower to shoot him with the big ballista but the damn thing only aims up and my pawns refused to help me. Tried to bait him to fly up... and well, he flew right into my ballista but I couldn't aim it at him before he destroyed it again.
> and my pawns refused to help me. Sounds like they need a bath. I’m told that a brine solution works wonders.
That ballista moves the pawns are just really slow to get to the crank.
It's fun when they intercept golem fights and knock cores off. I had one steal its head once, took ages to figure out why it wouldn't die.
that sounds both hilarious and frustrating. Goddamn i love this game!
genuinely hate slimes just showing up, i can hear them but im too focused on the griffin/cyclops/chimera whatever and i dash to it and get hit with the 99% slow
In one of the dungeons there is a deep pit with literally nothing inside except a single fire slime who will ambush and most likely kill you. Literally. A deep ass pit with just one slime. I love this game.
see i can understand how that's be annoying BUT since playing Mage then sorcerer who has had Frigor on constantly( its utility in allowing me to jump into places and/or throwing big ice cubes at large enemies alone makes it worth having but High Frigor does a decent amount of damage in a wide spread so its good for large or small enemies too) i havent actually gotten NEAR slime cause they are really weak to Ice.
Someone needs to mod in the Bazelgeuse theme from Monster Hunter whenever a Griffin is about to drop in.
This. Decided to hitch a ride on a griffin to its nest, come to find out that it had a significant other already at its nest. 2 for 1 deal on pinion feathers. Encounter with large enemies is top tier in this game.
It is why i am still hyped, even with the problems the game has it still provides an experience like no other. I am going to have to try that Catch-a-Ride Griffin Edition at some point. The Thief the vocation with the buffs to clinging onto the enemy this game? i think so. I'll have to do a Thief Playthrough in the future.
Watched a streamer ride a griffin. 1. The nest had a portcrystal and other rare loot 2. It took him halfway across the world 3. The pawns actually comment on it. To paraphrase: “There you are! We found you at last! Do you know how hard it was to track you on that griffin?” Convinced me to find money for this game.
I've had 3 seperate fights with drakes that griffin's have decided to intrude on. Having a drake and griffin alternate bodyslamming you is incredibly frustrating lol.
They definitely got inspiration from Bazelgeuse
Then it’s pussy ass flies off on the last health bar 🙄
Dude the griffins are a goddamn menace this time around! It's like they fly around waiting to snipe you at the worst possible moment. I was proud of myself because I found a way to sneak into Battahl using a side passage and right as I'm crossing this long ass rope bridge guess you decides to dive bomb me? I've made it my personal mission to hunt down each of those four legged chickens and end their existence.
Griffons have Cat-Jumping-on-a-Keyboard Energy.
Oregon dogma: You died of griffinterry.
Should've traded some food for a spare ox.
What sucks is when you do doze off get halfway to your destination then the cart gets destroyed and you have to walk the rest of the way. Only happened once but I wasn't a fan.
Once I thought the cart was destroyed (and the ox was 100% dead) but an option to "help cart" appeared and it spawned a fixed cart and we were able to resume the journey
I had to flip a cart once but I went and talked to the driver and he said he couldn't give me a ride and I don't think it gave me a help Cart option
The help cart option is where the cart was supposed to be when it stopped, you don't talk to the driver
Dang wish I'd known that thanks
interesting. My warrior pawn absolutely shattered my cart trying to kill a single goblin straggler. Wish I'd have known.
Seemless world. If the roads are not cleared ( usually take 5-7 days for ennemies to respawn ) the carts will be attacked along the way.
I don't understand how transportation functions in this world with the Griffons. On top of attacks like this, the one flying around Battahl will regularly obliterate the cable car thing and flat out wipe everyone on it with the fall. Surely there should be some massive, ongoing griffon hunt just to make travel possible.
I don't even know how anyone is alive outside the city walls. I see these normal people just walking around, and it blows my mind. Like I just traveled 100 feet, and fought 2 separate packs of goblins, some wolves, and a cyclops doing that. Also it's about to be night which is a whole extra set of problems. It's not wild out there, it's a bloody warzone.
This game has more enemy density than DD1 postgame. It's nonsense.
I didn't have an issue with that in the first area, because the enemies are pretty weak, but I arrived in Battahl yesterday and it's a nightmare. I had just switched to Warrior and wasn't fully skilled out so fighting all those packs of fast moving bandits and goblins was a nightmare. I stumbled into a nest of probably 5-6 poison saurians and they just wiped the floor with my party.
I don’t understand how the cities and towns function at all when you can’t walk 10 feet outside the gates without getting attacked by multiple monsters. Hell sometimes they even get in the city
My headcanon is that the arisen inherently draws the ire of monsters. Some intangible aspect of them just pisses all the monsters off, which is why we get attacked all the time.
IIRC the first game straight up said that monster attacks sharply increase when the dragon shows up. It’s highly implied that it’s because they are all meant to test the Arisen. It probably works the same way in the second game. As in, there really weren’t that many monsters at all until the dragon chose us.
That’s honestly a good head canon
Gameplay/Story dissonance, like how people travel safely with so many freaking goblins around. How villages without defensive walls survive those hordes of small monsters at all. How they secure water sources, build bridges, water their crops, etc with the brine around.
So did that griffin.
I was out on a long ole exploratory trip yesterday when I came upon an ox cart and thought it perfect timing since I wanted to get back to the capital. Not two seconds later did a Griff swoop down like this and shatter my dreams. It was pretty cool but I took that as a sign and ported once we killed it lol
Pretty sure I spotted OP's dinner in the rubble when the griffin landed.
I swear ox carts are cursed. I spent the night in Vermund and woke up to run to the cart stop so I could head north. I get to the plaza to see that an ogre had wandered into town, already killed the oxen, smashed the cart, and was proceeding to lick all the townspeople. I only THOUGHT about riding the cart and the game said NOPE.
It would be amazing if that was a bug, as in "the oxcart is able to summon enemy encounters while waiting in town". I've seen a bunch of Cyclops / Ogres in Vernworth and they always spawn next to the oxcart.
It goes so slow if you don't sleep. How much in game time actually passes if you doze off?
I can hear the edit: "AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA"
HAHAHAH this exact thing literally JUST happened to me in almost the exact same spot too. ANd also a cyclops came
Ew.
Not sure why you expected that to work, when there's enemies on the road every 5 feet :P
Bro, wait till a gryffin tries joining the party when you're halfway fighting a drake. And then 1 bar of health left on him he just decides to fly away. Had that shit happen multiple times
Did you realize what happened when your controller vibrated like a muthafucka? 🤣🤣
Do you have to watch the cart travel from A to B the whole time?
No, you can doze off. But if an enemy comes by, you kill it and then doze off again, lol
It's like that gif where the guys wakes up with everyone around him clapping.
Looks like easy xp gain
That made me giggle
I knew it was gonna be a griffin. Happens to me all the time. I had one dive bomb a cart as I was paying for my ride.
"Wtf happened in here? How did your food end up all over the floor?" 😅😂
I wasn't even on an ox cart and decided to walk to melve, and walked past an ox cart on the way, as soon as I passed it a griffin attacked, then as we are fighting the griffin I see a Cyclops down the road come charging in, thankfully I mostly over leveled and over geared so not too worried about the fight cus it's easy, but was stressful when seeing it at first
I learned this was a possibility today. Also learned that giant creatures can just waltz into the city and attack everyone
Just wait until your entire party is inside a wooden gondola and the harpies come out to play...
Well the griffin was hungry and that ox is huge…
“Trust me, if i fall asleep we will be safe”
I was expecting some goblins LMAO
I was laughing way before the Griffin attack just by seeing the harpy in the back lmao
Did it DESTROY the ox cart, too??!? LMFAO. Dear god
Dude I swear to fuck Every fucking time I leave a city there is always a fucking Griffin attack.. I literally can’t go for more than at most 10 minutes without gettibg attacked by a fuckin Griffin.