Studies of a mysterious affliction infecting the Pawns of Dragon’s Dogma 2 gamers, the AI-assisted NPC companion every participant creates, have begun to trickle in. This sinister illness is named Dragonsplague and affected Pawns will exhibit purple glowing eyes, incoherent speech, disobedience, and elevated aggression. Letting one into your get together can have catastrophic, everlasting penalties to your sport world and inadvertently unfold to others. That is an evolving scenario. Obscure mechanical spoilers for Dragon’s Dogma 2 to observe!
In keeping with IGN, presently, there is not any strategy to inform if a Pawn is contaminated earlier than hiring them inside the Rift, the place the Pawns of different gamers collect, however the indicators above will shortly change into identified upon hiring. If left unchecked, resting in an inn may end up in the contaminated Pawn reworking into some form of shadow dragon and destroying the settlement, probably offing some still-useful regular NPCs. It sounds fairly draconian to us (in the event you’ll pardon the pun), however it’s an extremely cool addition to an already compelling, emergant sport.
The excellent news is that Dragonsplague is simple to take care of—supplied it is not your Pawn contaminated and you see the early warning indicators. A tutorial field will pop up the primary time you encounter a Pawn troubled with the mechanic, and from that time, you will have just a few in-game days to dismiss them, drawback solved. The dragon cutscene can solely set off when resting in an inn, so sleep tough till you get it sorted.
Grimly, you can’t dismiss your Pawn, so extra drastic measures are required in case your private Samwise comes down with the illness. Thus far, the brightest minds within the Dragon’s Dogma 2 group have discovered solely a single, admittedly hardline remedy to cease the insidious unfold of Dragonsplague: Dying by drowning. Push your Pawn into a big physique of water, wash them clear of illness, and return to a Riftstone to re-summon them, freed from taint.