Challenge Pack: A Trial for Adventurers

A Trial for Adventures is a free DLC available for Dragon's Dogma. It was released by Capcom on the Xbox 360 and PS3 on Tuesday Dec 4th, 2012. The DLC includes two game modes Hard Mode and Speedrun Mode.

Speedrun Mode
Overview

Speed Run Mode is one of the two feature modes available.

In Speed Run Mode, player races against the clock to get the fastest time possible to beat the game.



Beating speed mode under a certain time limit nets two rewards.. (Actual time needs confirmation). Rewards Completion of the Speed Run feature grants the following rewards: 
 * You cannot save during speed run, you have to complete everything in one sitting.
 * All of your inventory from your main game is available at your disposal, including items, money, ferrystones, portcrystals ,ect.
 * You and your pawn retain all of the stats you have in the main game.
 * There is a counter on the side of the screen that counts when you control your character. The counter stops during cutscenes, in your inventory and in the rift.
 * You cannot access online pawns, only use the prebuilt Capcom ones.
 * Difficulty is set to normal and cannot be switched.
 * Pausing the game pauses the timer allowing to take breaks if needed.Selene.jpg
 * It is advisable to turn off tutorials in the menu as they will all reset in speed run mode, which interferes with the playing process way to much.
 * Selene's Outfit
 * Barnaby's Outfit

Hard Mode
Overview Hard Mode is the other feature mode available.



In Hard Mode, players and pawns takes more damage and add an increase in stamina usage, hence the name Hard Mode. Rewards Completion of the Hard Mode feature grants the following rewards:
 * There are significant increases in gold drop rates, even the basic enemies can drop the 10000 gold bags with ease.
 * Additionally the XP rate is increased (2 times? Needs confirmation.) however i am not certain if the vocation leveling is increased.
 * All NG+ data can be safely transferred if you wish to retain all of your items by simply picking hard difficulty when you load your save file.012831.jpg
 * The mob HP remains unchanged.
 * There does not seem to be any changes done to the enemy AI either.
 * Rumors speculate that the enemy stagger limit is increased. (Need confirmation).
 * Abyssinal Outfit
 * Duke's Armor

