Dragon Age - Discussion Thread
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Since I've decided to bite the bullet and loose 60+hrs of gameplay to fix that Cullen quest bug, I thought I might as well take the opportunity to take another run at recreating my Hawke since I botched it quite badly the first time (going off memory and in a rush!)
Three attempts later and It still doesn't look right! Anyone care to critique where I'm going wrong? It seems to match in the CC, but then as soon as the cutscene starts it all goes horribly wrong!
Eyes too small? I keep fiddling, but it only seems to get worse. Perhaps I'm using the wrong face shape....
Three attempts later and It still doesn't look right! Anyone care to critique where I'm going wrong? It seems to match in the CC, but then as soon as the cutscene starts it all goes horribly wrong!
Eyes too small? I keep fiddling, but it only seems to get worse. Perhaps I'm using the wrong face shape....
Yeah I spent almost my entire playthrough of DA2 tweaking my Hawke with the mirror (mostly getting the makeup so it doesn't look like a paint factory exploded in her face under the wrong lighting) so I'm probably overly sensitive about it not looking right in DAI.
The goal was to make her actually look like Bethany's sister, which I never felt the default design really captured. Weird, you'd think they'd design the rest of the Hawke family as a unit. Granted, Carver looks a bit more like the default male Hawke and most versions of Bethany look like Leandra, but for some reason I felt like default female Hawke didn't really fit in.
The goal was to make her actually look like Bethany's sister, which I never felt the default design really captured. Weird, you'd think they'd design the rest of the Hawke family as a unit. Granted, Carver looks a bit more like the default male Hawke and most versions of Bethany look like Leandra, but for some reason I felt like default female Hawke didn't really fit in.
Hmm, now that you mention it, they don't look very cohesive as siblings go, it's true. Maybe they came more after one parent and player-Hawke more after the other? 
I don't know, I liked the default FemHawke (MaleHawke was alright as well) in DA2.
I don't know, I liked the default FemHawke (MaleHawke was alright as well) in DA2.
I think they did a decent job aging the default FemHawke for Inquisition. Haven't seen MaleHawke yet.
I suspect that may have been on the table at some point (the game has been in development since before ME3 came out after all) but lately EA seems to be backpeddling on a number of fronts based on negative consumer reaction.
Speaking of, has anyone tried the MP yet? I've put a few hours in and while it's not terrible....it's nowhere near as much fun as the ME3MP was. Seems to be a lot more grinding and a lot less variety (even compared to ME3 at launch) which is odd since ME3 had a handful of fixed area maps while DAI's appear to be semi-procedurally generated dungeon crawls.
Speaking of, has anyone tried the MP yet? I've put a few hours in and while it's not terrible....it's nowhere near as much fun as the ME3MP was. Seems to be a lot more grinding and a lot less variety (even compared to ME3 at launch) which is odd since ME3 had a handful of fixed area maps while DAI's appear to be semi-procedurally generated dungeon crawls.
I figured I'd wait for today's patch before trying multiplayer.
Here's my current blond haired, blue eyed, Chantry-supporting, Cullen-romancing, Mary Sue knight-enchanter who takes all the upper right dialogue options.
The KE specialization is just STOOOPIDLY overpowered. killing a dragon basically just involves running up to it and whacking it over and over again with your spirit blade until it dies. Since the blade regenerates your barrier with each hit, you never take any damage. Stick a generate guard on hit enchantment on your staff and/or armor and you may as well be playing with god mode turned on.
Here's my current blond haired, blue eyed, Chantry-supporting, Cullen-romancing, Mary Sue knight-enchanter who takes all the upper right dialogue options.
The KE specialization is just STOOOPIDLY overpowered. killing a dragon basically just involves running up to it and whacking it over and over again with your spirit blade until it dies. Since the blade regenerates your barrier with each hit, you never take any damage. Stick a generate guard on hit enchantment on your staff and/or armor and you may as well be playing with god mode turned on.
Apparently they're calling the multiplayer "DAMP" internally
Haven't gotten around to trying it out - for DAMP, they're actually developing a companion app, Iquisition HQ:
Don't think it's a standalone app so much as a website, like the old N7HQ. Not much functionality yet, though I'm sure they'll be updating things on the go.
Yeah, I really dislike that particular trend of calling everything an app. Technically of course you can describe it as a web application, but let's not fuck around here, it's a fucking website guys. Well, at least at this point, they have been being intentionally vague about it coming out as an actual app later.
Finally the fixed the Hawke bug and I can continue. Had to put up with shiny hair yesterday but amazingly they fixed it pretty much straight away.
However, I'm not so sure that they have made it more stable as they claim. I've had 4 CTDs since the patch, the first two in the within the first 15 minutes of playing after it was patched.
At least now I can go around and do the Crestwell stuff and move whatever that Hawke quest is called forward.
A tangent, but I wonder how much DAI's launch has influenced in getting the Witcher 3 pushed back by 3 months. Not just in its critical acclaim, but the somewhat more mixed player responses, if that hasn't spooked them a bit.
However, I'm not so sure that they have made it more stable as they claim. I've had 4 CTDs since the patch, the first two in the within the first 15 minutes of playing after it was patched.
At least now I can go around and do the Crestwell stuff and move whatever that Hawke quest is called forward.
A tangent, but I wonder how much DAI's launch has influenced in getting the Witcher 3 pushed back by 3 months. Not just in its critical acclaim, but the somewhat more mixed player responses, if that hasn't spooked them a bit.
Knight-Enchanter in a nutshell. I'm level 16 and my party members have been unconscious for about 10 minutes now.
Thats a big dragon, why can't there be nice dragons?
Well that was stressful. Still not caught up to where I was before reloading, but I just got done with the Winter Palace and I was struggling to remember what I did the first time around. I want to preserve my initial decisions, and that one felt very complex the second time around!
I'm about three quarters of the way through my knight-enchanter playthrough but decided today to start up a rift mage elf playthrough on the side, just to see how it goes. So far it feels a lot richer from a roleplaying perspective, since so many people call you out on being an elf. Gives you a good excuse to pick the lower right dialogue options sometimes. Oh, you're going to be a jerk to me because of my race? Fine, I'll be a jerk to you right back. Sort of diametrically opposed to my KE as well since being Dalish, she obviously doesn't give a flying fuck about Andraste.
I'm torn as to whether my Mage playthrough should be a Dalish or a Vashoth. On the one hand a Dalish apostate comes front loaded with a bunch of issues directly tied to the plot.
On the other I don't really want to do a Qunari Warrior as that feels a bit too obvious and I like the idea of recreating my 2H female city elf warrior. The image of a huge sword on such a petite frame is just too novel to pass up.
If I do an archer it''l probably be Dwarven since again, sword & board is the more obvious choice and DW rogue is already taken.
I suppose I could just roll two mage playthroughs, but it'll be a long while before I get to the second one.
Oh, speaking of, has anyone seen Sera's reaction to meeting a female Qunari inquisitor yet?
On the other I don't really want to do a Qunari Warrior as that feels a bit too obvious and I like the idea of recreating my 2H female city elf warrior. The image of a huge sword on such a petite frame is just too novel to pass up.
If I do an archer it''l probably be Dwarven since again, sword & board is the more obvious choice and DW rogue is already taken.
I suppose I could just roll two mage playthroughs, but it'll be a long while before I get to the second one.
Oh, speaking of, has anyone seen Sera's reaction to meeting a female Qunari inquisitor yet?
You should probably do Dalish, much more immersive, and I've heard there isn't much in the way of race-specific content for the Qunari. Heck, they don't even get race-specific armor (beyond the vitaar) like elves and dwarves do. As soon as I get Skyhold I'm headed to the Exalted Plains for some keeper armor. 