Because the launch of Dragon’s Dogma 2, Capcom’s friction-filled motion RPG, gamers have been gripped by concern due to Dragonsplague. The in-game virus spreads between Pawns (NPC celebration members gamers can lease from one another on-line) and if not dealt with correctly, can wipe out the inhabitants of whole in-game cities. What makes Dragonsplague particularly tough is that the sport solely warns you if a Pawn is contaminated by means of refined modifications of their actions. Although one merchandise may be the important thing to recognizing the virus early—rotten meals.
Dragonsplague can’t infect meals and make it rotten, however it’s change into a sign amongst the Dragon’s Dogma 2 neighborhood that warns of the infectious illness. All Pawns are made by gamers after which despatched off into the sport’s on-line community the place they are often rented by others. The thought was first broached in a Steam Neighborhood thread titled “Dragonsplague – The right way to Warn Different Gamers,” the place customers instructed rotten meals be used as a common signal {that a} Pawn has been contaminated, together with ranking the Pawn with a coronary heart or thumbs up.
“You implicate that you simply have been happy with the Pawn (therefore, the center or thumbs up) however one thing is flawed with it. (therefore the rotten meals.),” writes the consumer. Rotten meals is fairly low cost and simple to return purchase as you’ll find it on the planet, or await any meals you need to rot after a given quantity of in-game time. When you rent an contaminated Pawn, dismissing them shortly will preserve the remainder of your celebration from being contaminated, however it gained’t remedy the contaminated Pawn. The one strategy to take away Dragonsplague from a Pawn utterly is for his or her creator to kill (after which re-summon) them in their very own recreation. That is why rotten meals is a vital reward. It warns a participant that their major Pawn is spreading the illness, and permits for the neighborhood to collectively quell the virus by encouraging gamers to rid their Pawns of Dragonsplague.
After all, PC gamers have provide you with one other strategy to take care of Dragonsplague—take away it fully. It’s no shock that mods to let gamers choose out of the controversial characteristic have popped up. Along with a mod that turns the virus off fully, different gamers have taken a extra measured method. There’s a mod to remedy Pawns who’re contaminated, and one other that provides gamers an in-game counter measuring how contaminated a Pawn is. When a Pawn reaches stage 10, they’ve terminal Dragonsplague.
The modding method does have the danger of erasing the meant expertise of the sport, however for gamers who really feel the characteristic is too tense or unfair then the choice is there. Nonetheless the neighborhood method is extra elegant and embraces the sport’s design, utilizing the gifting system to encourage participant cooperation.
So when you obtain rotten meals as a present in Dragon’s Dogma 2, any individual may be attempting to inform you one thing. Or they’re simply utilizing your Pawn as their very own private trash can. However it nonetheless by no means hurts to test your Pawn for Dragonsplague.
