Any word on when the update is coming ? Don't want to touch this until it's gotten a patch on it.
Playing with a controller. It absolutely was developed for controller (just like Witcher 2, and probably 3, in that regard).
I haven't had a chance to play the game much yet but is there a prologue somewhere that I missed, or are the events of the intro explained later? For example, who was meeting who and why, what blew up, who was killed, what was the PC doing there, etc?
Any word on when the update is coming ? Don't want to touch this until it's gotten a patch on it.
Yeah, there is a short cut scene in the beginning that explains why you are where you are, and why you are viewed as an outlaw. I think the overall story is kept somewhat vague in the beginning however because nobody really knows for sure what's going on yet.
Where is this cutscene? After the prologue section of the game? Or am I somehow missing it during character creation?
This is non-spoiler-
The Templars' job is to watch over the mages. The mages are super powerful in magics, but if they do bad stuff (blood magics) or they get possessed by demons they are super dangerous (abominations) so the templars make sure they don't get out of line.
In DA 2 the mages got uber pissed that they were being overly controlled and the head mage blew up the main church (the church is called The Chantry, and they are in charge of the Templars) and this lead to a massive fight between the mages and the templars.
In the moments before DA:I starts, there was a massive meeting trying to sort out the mess that was called by the head of the Chantry. For reasons unknown, it got blown up, killing everyone inside, including the main church lady (like the pope). Everyone, that is, except for you.
Game on.
Hmm. Maybe I'll have to break down and try using my X360 controller for this one. In general I have a really hard time trying to use controllers (I'm 45 and too old to come to grips with anything more than two buttons) but this sounds like a good game to try it on.
I am even older, and have a very hard time using a controller because I have over-use injuries to my thumbs. Very disappointed that the game seems to play better on a controller. Is it *really* that much work to design good controls for the PC? I just simply will not play using a controller. Maybe wait for a sale and live with the kb/mouse controls.
You see what you do is, you take the PC Controls from your previous games that people were OK with. Then, you do market research, find the things PC Gamers don't want changed about these controls.
Then, you change those exact things!
This is what my manual says for developing games in 2014...
But again I have to ask, what exactly is so radically different about the controls in DA:I as compared to the previous Dragon Age games? I feel like there must be some huge difference I am not seeing, but I only had to remap a few keys in my Tartarus profile (Space, Control, V) and I could play DA:I the same as before. I don't feel like I need to use a controller.
Some of the tactical mechanics are different for sure, but that's a different matter. The controls themselves seem to be quite similar to the previous games.
Ah ok thanks. I wasn't sure if the explosion at the beginning of DA:I was the same explosion Anders caused in DA:2 or something completely separate.
I am even older, and have a very hard time using a controller because I have over-use injuries to my thumbs. Very disappointed that the game seems to play better on a controller. Is it *really* that much work to design good controls for the PC? I just simply will not play using a controller. Maybe wait for a sale and live with the kb/mouse controls.
I probably won't play the game until I see the first patch however.
You will miss a cool game though since bugs aren't that numerous and the game run smooth on ultra with my rig.
The tactical map view needs to zoom out a LOT farther to really be useful. Target selection is a little strange in tactical mode as well, but that might just be me not quite grasping how it works yet.