free teleport?

[ShadDark]

is there free teleport in the game yet?
Should I wait to buy?

[Rubinstein]

No, there are ox carts here. Not that newfangled stuff.

No, seriously now. I found the "free teleport" in DDDA just another form of "how do I shoot a good game design in the knee". The lack of free teleport is a typical problem of modern players. Once they add free teleport to DD2, I'll know they're starting to cave to the mainstream.

[Migromul]

You can teleport to designated locations. Some are fixed, most need to be placed first. You need recourses for that, though. They're theoretically infinite, but you only can buy 3 at once at a time. and each of them cost 10.000 gold. You will get those "ferrystones" also via quests and finding them in chests or even as drops. Every porting costs one of those ferrystones.

Setting a destination needs a so-called "portcystal". You will get a few thoruout the game. One can be baought (although not for gold...), most are gotten through side-quests and one is gotten through the main questline.
And one can be bought for real money (3 €).

Pportcrystals are mobile. If you have one with you, you can set it, use a ferrystone to a city. do what you want there, and use another to get back. Then you can pickup the portcrystal again.

You can get at least one additional with every NG+ through a special quest-reward. I'm not sure, if you will get them as normal rewards again, though.

[Rubinstein]

There is an infinite ferrystone in DDDA, which practically is free teleport.
I thought something like that was what the OP had in mind. As far as I know there is no such thing in DD2. I certainly don't miss it.

[PeaceMaker]

Originally posted by ShadDark:

is there free teleport in the game yet?
Should I wait to buy?

Ugh. Free teleport I hate. I never used it in Skyrim or Fallout. It makes people lazy. I used the horse or vertibird. Point is it needs a `non-free` decent reason, cos it means something.

Teleport in DD is good cos there's a cost, a mechanic that works and feels more `real` because it is not free.
But yea, you and many like you don't care. I get it.

[Rubinstein]

Something like free teleport only makes sense if there is nothing worth seeing outside certain hotspots. However, this is not the case at all in DD2 and the game should instead motivate the player to explore on their own. Free teleport would only be counterproductive in this context.

[Elder Borjoyzee]

Instead of infinite ferry stone, I would like the option to set a waypoint for the oxcart to stop on its original path and when you select the skip button, the driver will wake you up at the waypoint.

Not asking the cart go off its original path, just the option to stop at a waypoint along it if you use the option to skip.

[Rubinstein]

Originally posted by Elder Borjoyzee:

Instead of infinite ferry stone, I would like the option to set a waypoint for the oxcart to stop on its original path and when you select the skip button, the driver will wake you up at the waypoint.

Not asking the cart go off its original path, just the option to stop at a waypoint along it if you use the option to skip.

Good idea!

[rane]

Casual reminder that eternal ferrystone was actual bad MTX example in Dogma 1. It should never have been rolled into DA.

[ShadDark]

For everyone.
I accept that you play differently.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to play.
I want to enjoy it.
To have fun, to play, to be happy.
Not working. That's where the workplace is :)

[Happy Helldiver]

Funny everyone is using the eternal ferrystone from the first game as an example of something bad, even though it wasn't even in the game originally and was added at the communities request. Like OVERWHELMING requests. If you have a vendetta against fast traveling that's fine, but you're the outlier in this franchise and you look ridiculous... all of you :P

I'll admit before dark arisen it was only one portcrystal and ferrystones costed an arm and a leg, so eternal ferrystones made much more sense there. But this "lazy gamer" narrative is boring and drawn out.

[Rubinstein]

Originally posted by ShadDark:

For everyone.
I accept that you play differently.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to play.
I want to enjoy it.
To have fun, to play, to be happy.
Not working. That's where the workplace is :)

Are we still talking about DD2? Because if you think that traveling in DD2 is no fun and feels like work, then you are definitely sitting in the wrong train. Because exploration is the outstanding strength of this game, everything else is mediocre at best. And fast traveling undermines any motivation to engage with the best part of the game.

Again, it's not the story and quests that make this game exceptional. And the existing Ferrystones are well balanced, both in terms of number and price. Ignoring that would be like playing chess without knowing the rules, or complaining that the rook can't move like the queen. Or to ignore, that a good game needs strong rules.

By the way, game communities are the very worst (thankfully not real) wannabe game developers. Of course, you would never hear such a statement from a developer or publisher - for obvious reasons. The old doctrine still applies: customer is king. And the same customer seems to want to exploit this privilege to the point of absurdity.

[Happy Helldiver]

Originally posted by Rubinstein:

Originally posted by ShadDark:

For everyone.
I accept that you play differently.
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to play.
I want to enjoy it.
To have fun, to play, to be happy.
Not working. That's where the workplace is :)

Are we still talking about DD2? Because if you think that traveling in DD2 is no fun and feels like work, then you are definitely sitting in the wrong train. Because exploration is the outstanding strength of this game, everything else is mediocre at best. And fast traveling undermines any motivation to engage with the best part of the game.

Again, it's not the story and quests that make this game exceptional. And the existing Ferrystones are well balanced, both in terms of number and price. Ignoring that would be like playing chess without knowing the rules, or complaining that the rook can't move like the queen. Or to ignore, that a good game needs strong rules.

By the way, game communities are the very worst (thankfully not real) wannabe game developers. Of course, you would never hear such a statement from a developer or publisher - for obvious reasons. The old doctrine still applies: customer is king. And the same customer seems to want to exploit this privilege to the point of absurdity.

Again this guy with his psuedo-gamedev takes. You are the minority, you will forever be the minority. ESPECIALLY in this franchise. How does that make you feel, Mr. Wannabe Dev?

[Rubinstein]

There are plenty of casual games for casual gamers. Not every game can be a casual game, which DD2 certainly is not. Casual gamers this way, please ->

[AH-1 Cobra]

Originally posted by ShadDark:

is there free teleport in the game yet?
Should I wait to buy?

You can mod that into the game.

[Raven]

They should have had a port crystal in every town and city. imho