Does the DLC expand the map?

[Decepticron]

Love the game, just hate how limited it feels in some areas traveling wise. Does the DLC expand how far you can travel? like can yo go from Shelter to the Brass desert or is it like a region locked story where you can only travel in that one specific region when playing the dlc?

[Wlerin]

Sort of? You can travel back and forth but it's via a "realm gate" or portal rather than just walking across lethally dangerous sands.

Maybe at some point in the future there will be an overland connection, but there's some major obstacles in the way that would need to be made safe(r) first.

[brown29knight]

You can go back and forth between the two areas at will, but there are limits to the size of your caravan, (severe at the start, ending at 60 total companions/crew/passengers/beasts/mounts.) and limits to how many days must pass before you can cross again. (60 days wait per 1 way trip, you can pay to remove the limit for your current trip timer.)

[greegarak]

Originally posted by brown29knight:

You can go back and forth between the two areas at will, but there are limits to the size of your caravan, (severe at the start, ending at 60 total companions/crew/passengers/beasts/mounts.) .....

One question about this number - total 60.
Does 1*outrider is counted as 1 of 60, and 1*mount + 1*fighter as 2 of 60?

[brown29knight]

Correct. You, + companions, + fighters + mounts + scouts + slaves + beasts of burden + passengers must be =< 60 at the max gate level. Outriders count as both fighter and mount. So do you and your companions if you are fully mounted.

Before max level, it is even more restrictive, with both a smaller number, and banning mounts and beasts of burden completely.

Note this is only traveling to or from the DLC area to the pocket plane. Travel between the main game area and the pocket plane is unlimited from the start. (Travel goes: Main game<-->Pocket plane<-->DLC, and in the pocket plane you have a place you can drop off extra crew and animals, so the restriction is felt hardest when you are on the DLC side trying to come back to the main game.)

[greegarak]

Originally posted by brown29knight:

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Before max level, it is even more restrictive, with both a smaller number, and banning mounts and beasts of burden completely.....

Is this mean that on first travel to Bronze Desert, yrgs are not accessible to comitatus among 3 types of transport?

[brown29knight]

yep. You will have a place to store them, so you will not lose them, but first trip to the bronze desert will be on foot. No mounts of any kind, and no beasts either.

Once you get to a city, you can buy mounts, but until YOU spread Yrgs up there, it'll have to be horses or lizards.

[greegarak]

Originally posted by brown29knight:

yep. You will have a place to store them...

I suppose that Passengers can't be left (don't want to lose 10 abolitionist workers and 9 varukai slaves from Ren's quest)?

[brown29knight]

passengers no, crew yes. With that many passengers, you would not be able to go all the way to the Bronze desert... but the first time through the realmgate you cannot get to the bronze desert anyway, so no worries if you are at the crossroads for the first time since it became a realmgate.

For the second time through the realmgate (the one where you will actually go to the bronze desert) you will want to have no passengers at all with you.

[greegarak]

Seems that Dlc prefer small comitatus. No more of strategy with "every passenger on board" using yrgs.
Or maybe just starting new play through and doing Dlc before yrgs' propagation is a better solution.
Sth usefull for this is Crumbling crew
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