Fantasy action-RPG Dragon's Dogma 2 has had a tumultuous launch week: praised by reviewers, slated for its performance issues, and berated for its (pretty inconsequential) microtransactions. Now begins the labour of patching the game. Capcom have released a few hints about forthcoming Dragon's Dogma 2 updates. Their plans for the PC version include letting players acquire dwellings earlier on in the story, improving quality when DLSS super resolution is enabled, and adding the option to start a new game when save data already exists.
All this comes from the below tweet, which follows a Steam post last Friday in which Capcom acknowledge the aforesaid performance problems.
To all Dragon's Dogma 2 players!
We're planning to release patches including the following updates and fixes in the near future, and will release them as soon as they are ready for distribution on each platform.
Thank you for your patience and support! pic.twitter.com/aQoV3URH4C
There are no update release timings as yet, but the developers have already made some adjustments to the game's buggy pawn search feature, following player complaints. "We have finished work on the pawn search feature, and now pawn searches, including those with the Quest Knowledge criteria, should be working properly," reads another tweet from this morning. "We apologize for the inconvenience and hope the pawn search serves you well as you play."
Our hardware editor James (Magick) Archer had many thoughts about Dragon's Dogma 2 PC performance last week. Here's an excerpt from his write-up: "Dragon's Dogma 2 suffers a performance collapse every time you go near a settlement, likely doesn't make the most of your hardware, and allows for only small framerate improvements by dropping the quality settings. Oh, and I perhaps being overly kind when I said it runs mostly fine in the wilds, as there's an ever-present risk of smaller stuttering that (as far as I can tell) can't be fixed on the player's end."
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