Addressing the Controversy: Introducing the Latest Update

Dragon's Dogma 2 will soon receive a well-rounded patch with several welcome changes. One of them could even save your game from a particularly dire fate.

A month after its release, Dragon's Dogma 2 continues on its merry way. Capcom regularly updates its game and has just announced a particularly comprehensive new patch. This generally aims to improve the overall gaming experience, and could even prove saving in a very specific case.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 receives a new patch to recover health

After a mixed start due to controversy over the addition of microtransactions and performance problems, Dragon's Dogma 2 continues its adventure. Capcom continues to refine its open world RPG at its own pace. So here comes a new patch targeting all platforms, but not bringing any changes to performance. To do this, console and PC players will unfortunately have to come back later. Regarding the patch that interests us here, it should be deployed on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series individually “ when he is ready », Tells us the Japanese studio.

Besides that, this new patch is particularly comprehensive and aims to improve the overall gaming experience. Some of the more notable items include a hotfix that could prevent your game from literally being destroyed. We are of course talking about the terrible and unpredictable dragon plague. The apothecaries seem to have found a solution so that the Pawns contract it less easily, or in any case the infection is much more visible. The Pawns also receive numerous improvements in terms of their behavior and the relevance of their oral interventions. You will find the full notes for this new Dragon's Dogma 2 patch below, translated from English by us.

You should now have a better chance of avoiding this absolute scourge of Dragon's Dogma 2. © Geralt de Reeves for Gameblog

Full notes for the upcoming patch

PC, PS5 and Xbox Series versions of Dragon's Dogma 2

  • Reduced the frequency of Draconic Plague infection in Dragon's Dogma 2 and adjusted the signs of infected Pawns to be more visible.
    • For example, if there is an infection, shiny eyes will be more visible.
  • Added the ability to zoom in on the faces of Insurgents and Pawns in the status screen, shops, etc.
  • Fixed some issues and implemented adjustments related to the minimap.
    • Treasure chests already acquired will not be displayed on the mini-map.
  • Adjustments to Pawn behavior and dialogue.
    • Fixed issues where the player could sometimes not top the Pawns hand.
    • Fixed issues where Pawns would not start pointing the way after being prompted to do so
    • Pawns will be less likely to fall off cliffs.
    • Reduced the frequency of certain Pawn lines of dialogue.
    • Improved Pawn dialogue lines to better match the circumstances.
    • Fixed some issues where Pawns would stop talking outside of combat.
    • Fixed some issues where the Primary Pawn uses lines of dialogue from a Secondary Pawn.
    • Pawns will be more likely to help Insurgents if the Insurgents order them to help while being held by enemies.
    • Reduced the frequency of Pawns offering to be hired by the player on the roads.
  • Fixed issues where escort quests were sometimes considered failed when entering character editing or other special situations.
  • Fixed issues where the player could become imprisoned when fighting monsters in town.
  • Fixed some crashes and freezes in specific circumstances.
  • Various bug fixes.

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