Dragon Age 3: Inquisition announced

[bystander36]

You know I had an issue at first. For the first month, it seemed nothing I did in the dragonagekeep, made a difference in the game. It turned out I had signed in on the wrong account.

 

[Mem]

You know I had an issue at first. For the first month, it seemed nothing I did in the dragonagekeep, made a difference in the game. It turned out I had signed in on the wrong account.

I only have one account,not really bothered to be honest since I like the decision I did later for him anyway .

Btw went solo in MP to get my 100 sword kills, so had no high level players stealing my kills hehe,got my free commendation chest .

 

[bystander36]

I didn't know I had two accounts. It was something I created for some game that used Origin years ago, but it was not the account I created to buy Origin games.

 

[Mem]

Here is my reason for Hawke,

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I felt Stroud was more important to stay alive so he could stabilize the Grey Wardens and he was somebody they looked up to,Hawke was not that important in DA:I, the Grey Wardens needed somebody so was an easy choice in the end.Btw part of me will always be a Grey Warden due to DAO .

 

[Red Hawk]

I imported my DA2 and Origins into the Keep and his gotten most other things correct. It just seems to happen:
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/524689-wrong-gender-imported/

Does not matter now.

KT

Hmm. Well if you had noticed this apparent glitch with importing to the Keep, you could have changed it in the Keep to a Hawke with your gender/class combination, the only difference being that she'd have the default first name (Marian). The game needs to know from the start what gender and class Hawke is; if you haven't noticed, your game's been referring to Hawke as "he". It wouldn't make much sense to suddenly be able to change that when you meet him/her.

But yeah, too late now.

 

[zinfamous]

Did you use the Dragon Age Keep to create a world state, and did you import your Dragon Age 2 profile into the Keep?

It's an actual problem with the Keep, that happens to people. I had issues importing DAO story stuff.

 

[zinfamous]

Here is my reason for Hawke,

Spoiler

I felt Stroud was more important to stay alive so he could stabilize the Grey Wardens and he was somebody they looked up to,Hawke was not that important in DA:I, the Grey Wardens needed somebody so was an easy choice in the end.Btw part of me will always be a Grey Warden due to DAO .

I felt the same way, and made the same decision, but:

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The Grey Wardens are almost completely removed as an entity from the game at exactly that point, in a manner that you can't control, so it makes that decision essentially meaningless. So stupid. Still glad I killed Hawke, though. Don't even know who he is/was; but he looked like a super douche

 

[cmdrdredd]

Yeah I thought some of your decisions that ended up not having any effect at all was super lame. There are parts of the ending that I was forcing one way with my conversational answers and decisions that went completely a direction I could never have guessed. Pissed me off.

 

[escrow4]

I felt the same way, and made the same decision, but:

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The Grey Wardens are almost completely removed as an entity from the game at exactly that point, in a manner that you can't control, so it makes that decision essentially meaningless. So stupid. Still glad I killed Hawke, though. Don't even know who he is/was; but he looked like a super douche

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Pffft. Hawke is a legend. Stroud was some random 15th century medieval french knockoff. The Wardens are over anyway. Their fault.

 

[escrow4]

Yeah I thought some of your decisions that ended up not having any effect at all was super lame. There are parts of the ending that I was forcing one way with my conversational answers and decisions that went completely a direction I could never have guessed. Pissed me off.

Precisely why this didn't really feel epic. You were a figurehead. The war table was never fully utilised. You never really made any decisions. You didn't plan or setup supply routes or forts say via that table, you never visited any other dignitaries beyond the one (what about the just as important local lieges?), you never had a plan in mind. Stuff happened, "choose" this, and meh.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Precisely why this didn't really feel epic. You were a figurehead. The war table was never fully utilised. You never really made any decisions. You didn't plan or setup supply routes or forts say via that table, you never visited any other dignitaries beyond the one (what about the just as important local lieges?), you never had a plan in mind. Stuff happened, "choose" this, and meh.

Yeah, I liked the game and still will play through a second time, but I felt that if I wanted something to happen a certain way and did what I could to make it so that it should happen the way I tried to set in motion. Not throw something in from left field that wasn't even mentioned at all.

 

[Mem]

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Pffft. Hawke is a legend. Stroud was some random 15th century medieval french knockoff. The Wardens are over anyway. Their fault.

I would not call him a

Spoiler

legend,Grey Wardens are important for future darkspawn and archdemon attacks,not to mention their treaty with all nations,Hawke's time has been and gone

.

 

[Blanky]

I put some ointment on my butthurt and decided to get back to the game. I'll be damned if I didn't nearly just rip my controller apart during a fight last night though due to the incessant disobedience of my fighters. I habitually say "attack my target" and they often work and they often don't. Sometimes Iron bull will hit it once then f**k of to something else.

Also the loading times on the PS4 suck. 40 seconds (I timed it) to load skyhold, I crap you not.

Anyway, I'm still playing because I am overall enjoying it again

 

[frozentundra123456]

I put some ointment on my butthurt and decided to get back to the game. I'll be damned if I didn't nearly just rip my controller apart during a fight last night though due to the incessant disobedience of my fighters. I habitually say "attack my target" and they often work and they often don't. Sometimes Iron bull will hit it once then f**k of to something else.

Also the loading times on the PS4 suck. 40 seconds (I timed it) to load skyhold, I crap you not.

Anyway, I'm still playing because I am overall enjoying it again

I have an i5 and a HD7770, and the loading times are atrocious as well. And no, i dont have an ssd, but no other games I play have loading times anywhere close to this game. I think some of them could be a minute or more. The first few times i played i thought the game had crashed it took so long to load. I was hoping this would improve with patches, but it hasnt seemed to.

 

[bystander36]

I put some ointment on my butthurt and decided to get back to the game. I'll be damned if I didn't nearly just rip my controller apart during a fight last night though due to the incessant disobedience of my fighters. I habitually say "attack my target" and they often work and they often don't. Sometimes Iron bull will hit it once then f**k of to something else.

Also the loading times on the PS4 suck. 40 seconds (I timed it) to load skyhold, I crap you not.

Anyway, I'm still playing because I am overall enjoying it again

There are only a couple reasons they'd stop attacking what you tell them too.
1) In the behavior settings, you have them set to defend, rather than follow.
2) The person they are set to follow is attacking something else.
3) In Tactical mode, they follow your target by default.

That said, the inability to tell targets to do something on their own, is very annoying.

With an HDD, load times are about 15-20 seconds for me, with an SDD it is about 5-10 seconds to load a new area.

EDIT:
I think I know a fix to your party not staying on their targets. In the behavior settings, set them to follow themselves, rather than you or controlled character. If they are set to follow themselves, they'll stay on what ever target they are on.

 

[KeithTalent]

Never really noticed any loading time issues. I'm on an ssd though so that probably helps.

KT

 

[escrow4]

Never really noticed any loading time issues. I'm on an ssd though so that probably helps.

KT

I only have an SSD in my gaming box now. Dead silence is nice too. From the HDD anyway.

 

[you2]

One thing I've noticed is that if I take control of the thief (cole/sera) or Bull when fighting dragons I do significantly more damage than if the AI controls them. It make me wonder how much easier dragons fight would be if humans were controlling them than AI (my main character is a mage; who does better if I let Ai control during dragon fight since AI can place barrier better than I can).

 

[psychosiz]

One thing I've noticed is that if I take control of the thief (cole/sera) or Bull when fighting dragons I do significantly more damage than if the AI controls them. It make me wonder how much easier dragons fight would be if humans were controlling them than AI (my main character is a mage; who does better if I let Ai control during dragon fight since AI can place barrier better than I can).

I agree, I often switch between my characters on the fly and find its easier to beat dragons this way. By using their skills, dragons go down much faster.

 

[frozentundra123456]

One thing I've noticed is that if I take control of the thief (cole/sera) or Bull when fighting dragons I do significantly more damage than if the AI controls them. It make me wonder how much easier dragons fight would be if humans were controlling them than AI (my main character is a mage; who does better if I let Ai control during dragon fight since AI can place barrier better than I can).

yea, i noticed this too. i am a mage, but keep a second mage in my party. when she casts barrier it is much more effective than when i do. i am using vivenne, bull and blackwall in my party now, and it works well. i wanted to use a dual weilding rogue for high damage, but she takes too much damage and quickly uses up too many of the health potions.

 

[Blanky]

I just got through the wicked eyes and hearts quest. It took at least an hour and a half despite mashing skip on all the cut scenes.

I won't belabor the point, but it was the worst 90 minutes of gaming I've had in years. It was magically, majestically, spectacularly tedious. It was terrible in a multitude of ways. Are there other quests like this in the game? I haven't had these many mixed feelings on a video game possibly ever. I know I'm suffering from sunk cost fallacy at this point. I just want this game finished.

 

[StinkyPinky]

The Wardens really do seem like an incompetent outfit. Most of them missed the blight (you know, their reason for existing), then most of them seem to self destruct over the following decade. Kinda makes the entire "You are an awesome and legendary Grey Warden" from the first game seem a bit lame. The Hero of Feraldan must be pissed.

 

[Red Hawk]

The Wardens really do seem like an incompetent outfit. Most of them missed the blight (you know, their reason for existing), then most of them seem to self destruct over the following decade. Kinda makes the entire "You are an awesome and legendary Grey Warden" from the first game seem a bit lame. The Hero of Feraldan must be pissed.

Most of them missed the Blight because a certain teyrn didn't let them come help...

 

[frozentundra123456]

Finally finished the game. I must say, I was surprised by the ending. It was one of the better endings to a Bioware game, probably the best since KOTOR 1.

As for the wicked eyes and hearts quest, yes it was annoying, but pretty much every Bioware game has an event like this. My biggest problem was finding some of the items, a key or something I think. I also didnt like the way the approval rating basically forced you to use certain dialog options. But overall, it didnt spoil the game for me.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Finally finished the game. I must say, I was surprised by the ending. It was one of the better endings to a Bioware game, probably the best since KOTOR 1.

As for the wicked eyes and hearts quest, yes it was annoying, but pretty much every Bioware game has an event like this. My biggest problem was finding some of the items, a key or something I think. I also didnt like the way the approval rating basically forced you to use certain dialog options. But overall, it didnt spoil the game for me.

Did the ending turn out like you planned? There are a few things you are able to push for that didn't work out for me and were tossed in out of nowhere, about a character I never talked to or used. Specifically

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who ended up as the new Divine

I just got through the wicked eyes and hearts quest. It took at least an hour and a half despite mashing skip on all the cut scenes.

I won't belabor the point, but it was the worst 90 minutes of gaming I've had in years. It was magically, majestically, spectacularly tedious. It was terrible in a multitude of ways. Are there other quests like this in the game? I haven't had these many mixed feelings on a video game possibly ever. I know I'm suffering from sunk cost fallacy at this point. I just want this game finished.

It was the most annoying thing ever. Running around randomly attempting to find clues with very little info to go by and there's like 4 or 5 different plots going on at once and it's hard to keep track of which piece I'm looking for where. I hated every second of it. I wanted to get to a fight and fast.