Help me understand what DLC I should buy??

[Joris]

Hey everyone,

the game is on sale so I might get it. But I'm overwhelmed by the DLC. Can someone please explain to me what is what?? I believe you can get some of these things in game without buying the DLC anyway? I am so confused...

I suppose these are cosmetics? Do they have another function? Those who bought it, do you use it? Do they look good or do you prefer vanilla?

All Casual Clothes
All Ride-Alongs
All Accessories
All Glasses
All Arcus Covers
Unspeakable Costumes

No idea what this is....

Shining Pom Bait Set 1
Shining Pom Bait Set 2
Shining Pom Bait Set 3
Shining Pom Bait Set 4
Shining Pom Bait Set 5
Shining Pom Bait Value Set 1
Shining Pom Bait Value Set 2

Thank you!

[Stabbey]

The same answers apply here that they did in the CS 1 thread.

All DLC is optional, costumes, accessories, and glasses are cosmetics that change a character's look.

Ride-alongs are little plush things which attach to a characters arm. Also a cosmetic. Arcus covers are useless cosmetics which appear in a menu..

[Dragon]

I use all the casual clothes constantly, except for a couple of characters for who I don't like how they look. The casual clothes is the most essential DLC to buy IMO.

I'd also get the all accessories one so you can give the characters cat and bunny ears and tails who you want to have those things. I use those all the time too.

I use Alisa's Unspeakable costume, but never Rean's.

None of the Shining Pom sets are worth buying, nor are the Arcus covers. Don't bother with those ones.

Glasses and ride-alongs...that depends on whether you like them or not. Personally I usually like to keep my characters with no glasses or ride-alongs so I don't use those DLCs. But if you like those things on your characters, then you should buy them.

And you can also use your clothing DLCs from CS 1 in CS 2. So that's what I do for some characters for who I like the CS 1 clothing more.

[Koby]

If you catch a sale... you can get ALL the DLC for about $9 or so. Considering you can also catch the game on sale for under $20 at times... you could get the game + all DLC for less than $30. So not bad imo.

As for the poms. They're not needed, but if you intend to max level, they're practically the only way it's possible. Else you'll stop level with roughly 40-50 levels left to go.

[Stabbey]

But getting to max level doesn't actually matter unless you desperately want a challenge-free final boss.

[Joris]

It has no influence on porting the save to the next game or something?

[Shunsatsu]

Originally posted by Joris & Scrolls:

It has no influence on porting the save to the next game or something?

There sadly isn't any since they were made for different platfroms. The first two games were on PS3 and PSVita, while the third game was on PS4, so there wasn't any way for a PS4 game to read a save file from PS3 or Vita. The first two games do have PS4 ports now, but they came after CS3 was released.

[Dragon]

Originally posted by Joris & Scrolls:

It has no influence on porting the save to the next game or something?

There is zero point whatsoever in getting to the max level in either CS 1 or in CS 2.

Because:

a) CS 2 automatically nerfs your level down to a much lower level than you ended CS 1 at. And you get the same exact drastic nerf of your character level regardless of how high you leveled up. You don't get less of a nerf if you reach the max level.

So therefore, reaching max level is a huge waste of your time and/or money (waste of money is for if you reached max level via buying Shining Pom DLCS).

b) CS 3 has no save port from CS 1 and/or CS 2, so there is also no point whatsoever in reaching max level in CS 2.

[Joris]

Thank you for all the help! :-)