Before and after

60.5 GB on steam

Game is 10 out of 10 now.

Writing this as of September 9th, 9:55PM EST

1. REFramework

• It needs to be updated by the author. Right now, no REF version will work and after initializing, it will crash your game. Wait patiently for praydog to release the next nightly build to fix this.
• Once REF itself is fixed, mod authors will investigate if their own mods still work. None of us can do that currently because of the first point.

2. Mods in .pak format

• This is the huge one: no .pak mods work anymore because Capcom has completely changed the way the game reads pak files.
  • Previously, new official content gets added as pak files, with the June update bringing it to re_chunk_000.pak.patch_015.pak
  • However, as of today, everything's bundled up into a single huge pak file, which is re_chunk_000.pak, while making everything that followed into empty, dummy files. This is why the update is 60GB because they recompiled everything into one file. The header picture shows that fact: the first file is around 64GB while the rest are only 1kb.
• This change makes it so that the game will not read any pak files passed re_chunk_000.pak, which is a massive change to how mods have worked for DD2 in the past 2 years
  • The way Fluffy Mod Manager installs mods is by adding additional pak files and automatically ordering them for the game to read
  • Now that the game won't read additional pak files, no mods installed this way will work anymore. It won't cause black screen, but that's because they are skipped completely.
  • Fluffy may need to find a way to make this work again, but I'm not knowledgeable to know how

3. Reshade

• It needs to be updated by the creator of Reshade because the main file, dxgi.dll, causes the game to crash on startup.

So for now, we play vanilla, unmodded, until this can be resolved. If my understanding is correct, REF will likely be easier to update to the latest version, but the .pak files issue is such a huge change that it may take a while for that to be resolved.

Hope this helps for any mod users out there and maybe some mod authors who are working on their mods!

EDIT: Shadow found out that there's a new pak flag. I think this is a nice step towards a solution. Let's all be patient and wait!

Before I had 30fps barely in cities and that was on low, pop the game open after the update and boom go on high and consistent 60, Capcom I applaud you

Can't be your own friend haha

You have to summon by pawn ID

Did you guys ever see this ? Lol it's so cutee

Tested! You can see the health bar has not decreased and you can see the animation in slow motion. I tested it multiple times and there was no health loss.

Yeah having six skills is cool especially for the mage but I want more interactions with my pawn!

When sprinting you can jump in any direction within roughly 90° of where you are facing. This has always been the case but the actual movement start up has been sped up by a lot. This feels much better than the heavy feeling before. I’m still experimenting to try different stuff. Looking at it, the recovery on landing before you can jump again seems to have been shortened as well.