One Dragon's Dogma 2 Technique Is A Clever Solution To Fall Damage

Summary

Pawns can prevent fall damage in Dragon’s Dogma 2 by catching players falling from heights, offering a creative solution to a common problem.
The “yeet and catch” technique involves throwing pawns into dangerous areas, healing them with magic, and then having them catch the player.
Harming another player’s pawn can result in scars that need to be fixed by visiting volcanic hot springs, so be cautious when using this technique.

Some players have discovered a clever technique to avoid fall damage in Dragon’s Dogma 2. As is the case with many games, while small drops don’t cause harm, players will lose health or die depending on the height at which they fall in the game. Fortunately, the game’s pawn system – which grants players the option to have their friends’ custom characters used to form a party despite the game being a single-player adventure – seems to have come to the rescue.

Fall damage doesn’t seem to change regardless of how much armor a player has equipped, and is entirely dependent on the height to which they’ve fallen.

As pointed out by Calcifiera on the Dragon’s Dogma 2 subreddit, pawns can catch players should they fall from a height in their direction. Calcifiera describes their accidental discovery of this by saying about how they were playing as a lady sorcerer levitating around and fell straight into the arms of their boyfriend’s pawn, who they described as a “tall hunky elf man fighter“, resulting in what they called “a stereotypical straight teen girl’s dreamy boy situation“.

Ulrika, an NPC from Dragon's Dogma 2, and several characters surrounding a blue-glowing Riftstone.

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Some More Devious Players Are Using This Feature To Their Advantage

Deeming It The “Yeet And Catch” Technique

Dragon's Dogma 2 Warfarer vocation class characters with various weapons of multiple archetypes — Custom Image by Debanjana Chowdhury

Some more devious Dragon’s Dogma 2 players have begun using this feature to their advantage through what they’ve described as the “yeet and catch” technique. As pointed out by Redditor Background-Wear-1626, this sees players throwing pawns into areas that would normally cause fall damage, healing them with magic, and then jumping in afterward, only for the pawn to safely catch the player and gently place them on the ground.

Many other Redditors took to Background-Wear-1626’s post, which included a video of the technique in action, to quote and paraphrase an often repeated line from pawns in the game, “I suffered many injustices under this Arisen’s hands“. It’s worth noting, however, that harming another person’s pawn can scar them, something that they will need to then fix by paying 1000 in gold to visit the volcanic hot springs, as pointed out by upuaut2 on the Steam Community page for the game, so players should only try the “yeet and catch” technique on pawns whose owners they don’t mind annoying, or their own creations.

Considering the size of the game’s map it’s understandable why some have turned to the “yeet and catch” technique to help traverse areas fairly quickly. Regardless of how morally dubious it may be, it is certainly a clever workaround to Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s fall damage.

Sources: Calcifiera/Reddit, Background-Wear-1626/Reddit, upuaut2/Steam