First reported by Eurogamer, a few modders on the Nexus have already began discovering methods to curtail the Dragonsplague in Dragon’s Dogma 2, with treatments starting from clearer indicators of the illness to out and out eradicating it from the sport.
For the uninitiated, the Dragonsplague spreads by means of Dragon’s Dogma 2’s pawns, the little henchmen you may create, decide up, or commerce through asynchronous multiplayer. Typically you will discover a pawn has a headache and glowing crimson eyes—from there it is only a hop skip and a soar to them turning right into a dragon and murdering NPC quest givers. One contaminated pawn can unfold it amongst your crew, who can then take it to different gamers’ worlds by means of the net sharing system.
It is a genuinely scary, revolutionary simulation of a illness’s unfold, full with a way of dread and incomplete information as to who’s contaminated or not. Coping with Dragonsplague requires purging your pawns with excessive prejudice, kicking them out of your celebration, killing your predominant pawn—it jogs my memory of the quarantine platform bit from MGSV. Some gamers have even tried devising methods of signaling that their pawns are contaminated.
However as an instance you are not into all that. On the lighter contact finish of the mod spectrum, rthomasv3 over on NexusMods created a counter system that exhibits up on pawns’ foreheads to extra clearly talk if they’ve Dragonsplague and the way shut they’re to slaughtering a city. In the meantime, the questionably-named MrBoobieBuyer has a Dragonsplague treatment mod that communicates the illness’s standing by means of the in recreation UI, whereas additionally offering a hotkey to immediately treatment your pawns. The imitable MrBoobieBuyer additionally has an “immersive” model that makes the treatment an in-game consumable.
Do not wish to fiddle with Dragonsplague in any respect? Effectively rthomasv3 additionally has a mod that simply fully excises the system from the sport—no muss, no fuss.
I gotta say that I am nonetheless group Dragonsplague: high-friction, shocking techniques like this really feel particular in an age of reside service transparency and excellent esports stability—see additionally how cheats and datamining can take the magic out of Helldivers 2. All the identical, the truth that these modders managed to crank out options so rapidly is damned spectacular, and who am I to let you know that you’re required to take pleasure in a lethal epidemic simulation in your free time?
