Dragon Age 3: Inquisition announced

[bystander36]

I was just in game looking at my character attributes (hit P and go to attributes tab). When you hover your mouse over the focus stat, it says each party member has their own personal focus meter, but all party members gain focus when a single member does damage.

That would clear up what is intended to happen. It is possible the differences in some of our games is a bug.

Edit: I just tested this in combat, and my characters have their own focus. This must be a bug on your game, if it doesn't happen.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Fade touched doesn't exactly fix in pop-in. I've seen stuff render in a few feet from me, like the Maker just shat out some fine tessellated roads. The conversations between Dorian and Bull are hilarious. Cue Dorian moaning about Bull's rippling chest and endless thoughts of conquest and Bull retorts with how he'll make Dorian grab his horns and then really conquer him.

Dorian is great. Especially with Cole IMO.

Dorian: Cole you really should be careful when i am tossing fireballs around.
Cole: It won't hurt me, it's friendly fire.
Dorian: That doesn't always mean what you think it does...

 

[zinfamous]

Did you mean to say you haven't killed the ones in Hinterlands and Crestwood? At the end you said you hadn't bothered/forgot, but at the start said they were the dragons you killed.

Those are the only two I've killed with my Rogue Assassin, but my Knight Enchanter has done a couple others as well, such as the Western Approach and I forget the name of the zone for the other.

Being over leveled definitely changes things, or in my KE case, being near indestructible is also very game changing for those fights. My rogue group is level 13/14, and my KE group was 14/15 when they fought them.

Now the party sharing focus is interesting. I'm wondering which people have the bug. I'm also on hard difficulty. I'll test again, in combat. My test last night was out of combat. I was able to use the focus bars separately from my characters out of combat, several seconds a part. Maybe it behaves differently in combat, or maybe it's a bug, and related to your rampage issues.

What I meant was that I killed them when overleveled--I was overleveled because I forgot about that one flying around in Hinterlands, and never bothered with exploring every corner of Crestwood--that one is a bit out in the open, so doesn't require a lot to find him.


I just tested focus again, and running through a Varric mission, focus pool was character-based, not shared. Not sure what I was seeing on those previous 2 investigations....maybe it's a lottery whenever I start up the game.
:hmm:

 

[escrow4]

Dorian is great. Especially with Cole IMO.

Dorian: Cole you really should be careful when i am tossing fireballs around.
Cole: It won't hurt me, it's friendly fire.
Dorian: That doesn't always mean what you think it does...

Cue something else today: Bull to Dorian - Did you deliberately leave those silky black underthings all over the place? Dorian then moans about airing it out for everyone to hear, Bull responds with "Were you coming back for them you sly dog you?"

Even paraphrased the dialogue for other characters is hilarious.

 

[AgentUnknown]

Gonna pick this game up. Looks awesome. Amazon 45 bucks is good. Was it cheap on BF?

 

[facetman]

Anybody know how to unlock the basement doors in the temple found in the Oasis map area. I opened one door, did the fighting and then came back out to the other 2 doors. However, when I try to open either of the other 2 doors it says I need more shards- but I already picked up all the shards in the map. Hmm.... I also have got all but a few of the shards in the Hinterlands.

Edit- I think it makes you pick which of the doors you want to go through/open, as you have a finite number of shards. I just took the first door and kept going - ended up getting XXX loot, but used up all my shards- so... without a spoiler- take a second to decide which doors you want to open ( spirit /fire/or frost) as the outer doors cost a certain amount, then the next door is more and you get better loot the deeper you go. But you use up your shards. If anybody else has finished this area- please confirm.

 

[nurturedhate]

Anybody know how to unlock the basement doors in the temple found in the Oasis map area. I opened one door, did the fighting and then came back out to the other 2 doors. However, when I try to open either of the other 2 doors it says I need more shards- but I already picked up all the shards in the map. Hmm.... I also have got all but a few of the shards in the Hinterlands.

Edit- I think it makes you pick which of the doors you want to go through/open, as you have a finite number of shards. I just took the first door and kept going - ended up getting XXX loot, but used up all my shards- so... without a spoiler- take a second to decide which doors you want to open ( spirit /fire/or frost) as the outer doors cost a certain amount, then the next door is more and you get better loot the deeper you go. But you use up your shards. If anybody else has finished this area- please confirm.

You'll need all the shards from all the zones (not all zones have shards) to open all the doors.

 

[Udgnim]

Gonna pick this game up. Looks awesome. Amazon 45 bucks is good. Was it cheap on BF?

~$45 on Origin during BF

 

[zinfamous]

You'll need all the shards from all the zones (not all zones have shards) to open all the doors.

this.

I was bummed at first, assuming that doors were tied to the shards in that map, then realized you couldn't possibly open up even the three doors of each type with those shards, let alone with the ones I collected in Hinterlands also.

...then realized you have to collect all of the shards.

ALL OF THEM!

 

[ControlD]

this.

I was bummed at first, assuming that doors were tied to the shards in that map, then realized you couldn't possibly open up even the three doors of each type with those shards, let alone with the ones I collected in Hinterlands also.

...then realized you have to collect all of the shards.

ALL OF THEM!

Yeah, and some of those shards are quite difficult to get. I tend to find myself in the familiar Skyrim mode of "Crap, that one is on top of a mountain. Let's spend the next 10 minutes trying to climb every ledge.".

Still, it has given me a reason to go back to several zones I thought I was essentially finished with. I always end up finding tons more stuff to do in those cases.

I have to admit I have sort of become addicted to those connect the dots puzzles as well.

 

[Dahak]

Yeah, and some of those shards are quite difficult to get. I tend to find myself in the familiar Skyrim mode of "Crap, that one is on top of a mountain. Let's spend the next 10 minutes trying to climb every ledge.".

Still, it has given me a reason to go back to several zones I thought I was essentially finished with. I always end up finding tons more stuff to do in those cases.

I have to admit I have sort of become addicted to those connect the dots puzzles as well.

Lucky for some reason for the shards, I have not had too much trouble getting to them, except for maybe in the oasis.

But there is item in the Western Approach that I cannot get too, its near a camp on top of a tower cant remember the name right now, but is one of those items where your compass pulses and points the way

For the Astro puzzles, I rather like those to, they are not too hard and pretty interesting, although they said that they would get more difficult later on but so far I have not seem so

 

[ControlD]

Lucky for some reason for the shards, I have not had too much trouble getting to them, except for maybe in the oasis.

But there is item in the Western Approach that I cannot get too, its near a camp on top of a tower cant remember the name right now, but is one of those items where your compass pulses and points the way

For the Astro puzzles, I rather like those to, they are not too hard and pretty interesting, although they said that they would get more difficult later on but so far I have not seem so

I know exactly that item you are trying to get to in the Western Approach. I have spent a lot of time trying to get up there and I pretty much gave up. I even set a waypoint and it shows up way up there where I cannot get to it. There is a path up there but no way to get to that path.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I don't item hunt really. I normally skip the "collect all of these" quests in games.

 

[bystander36]

I know exactly that item you are trying to get to in the Western Approach. I have spent a lot of time trying to get up there and I pretty much gave up. I even set a waypoint and it shows up way up there where I cannot get to it. There is a path up there but no way to get to that path.

I've got all the shards in the oasis. It took me a while to figure out, but there is a walk way that requires your mage to "energize" to put back together, allowing you to walk across.

Doh, you were talking Western Approach, and he was talking Oasis. I got those too, you might need to advance the darkspawn quest line in the Western Approach for the one you are searching for.

 

[ControlD]

I've got all the shards in the oasis. It took me a while to figure out, but there is a walk way that requires your mage to "energize" to put back together, allowing you to walk across.

Doh, you were talking Western Approach, and he was talking Oasis. I got those too, you might need to advance the darkspawn quest line in the Western Approach for the one you are searching for.

I closed that quest. Come to think of it, the item I need to get might be in the Hinterlands. Once of the Apostate caches. I know it doesn't matter if I close that or not but every time I get near that area of the map I still try to figure out how to get up there.

 

[aigomorla]

Sigh... im sort of depressed at the limited amount of gear in the game.

Origins had so much more cool stuff one could obtain and craft.

Inquisitions feels very limited in the gear.

What worries me more is the cooler gear will probably be released as a DLC in which we will need to pay for.

 

[QuantumPion]

I closed that quest. Come to think of it, the item I need to get might be in the Hinterlands. Once of the Apostate caches. I know it doesn't matter if I close that or not but every time I get near that area of the map I still try to figure out how to get up there.

That apostate cache is in the smuggler's cave, not on top of the mountain (which there is no way to get to). I spent at least 30 minutes on this too haha.

 

[QuantumPion]

Sigh... im sort of depressed at the limited amount of gear in the game.

Origins had so much more cool stuff one could obtain and craft.

Inquisitions feels very limited in the gear.

What worries me more is the cooler gear will probably be released as a DLC in which we will need to pay for.

Huh? Origins had very limited gear and no customization at all. I think I used maybe 2 or 3 different items the entire game.

 

[bystander36]

Sigh... im sort of depressed at the limited amount of gear in the game.

Origins had so much more cool stuff one could obtain and craft.

Inquisitions feels very limited in the gear.

What worries me more is the cooler gear will probably be released as a DLC in which we will need to pay for.

The most exciting gear comes from boss fights. Like the Dragons and some of the dungeons in some of the zones have special boss encounters. You'll see purple epic items on those types of fights, but it is true it doesn't feel like a ton of gear is everywhere, but as mentioned before, DA origins and 2 didn't have much either, unless you downloaded mods.

 

[StinkyPinky]

Sigh... im sort of depressed at the limited amount of gear in the game.

Origins had so much more cool stuff one could obtain and craft.

Inquisitions feels very limited in the gear.

What worries me more is the cooler gear will probably be released as a DLC in which we will need to pay for.

Do you mean the appearance of the gear? I've changed my armor probably ten times, but the appearance of it seems similar or identical for some of them.

The amount of weapons seems excellent. They all look different and I go through a lot of them.

Rings and belts are a bit meh.

 

[cmdrdredd]

You need to craft stuff. Most of the best stuff if not the best stuff is crafted. You can adjust the appearance based on the materials used. Mostly the color, but some of them look cool. Once you get some good tier 3 weapons and armor schematics you will find you never change it except for crafting it again with new materials for different/better stats.

 

[Red Hawk]

Fade touched doesn't exactly fix in pop-in. I've seen stuff render in a few feet from me, like the Maker just shat out some fine tessellated roads. The conversations between Dorian and Bull are hilarious. Cue Dorian moaning about Bull's rippling chest and endless thoughts of conquest and Bull retorts with how he'll make Dorian grab his horns and then really conquer him.

Tessellation pop in isn't something the texture setting would effect, though. The tessellation setting directly determines the draw distance for tessellation on the environment. Even at the ultra setting it's somewhat limited, most obviously when you're walking along a road and you can see various tessellated rocks and pebbles growing as you move forward. On consoles the tessellation render distance is considerably lower than the PC's ultra setting, so it must be even more obvious.

The tessellation detail itself on the environment is pretty great, though. And at least we have tessellation, unlike a certain contemporary game that's supposed to be just as next-gen. :sneaky:

 

[escrow4]

Finished today, around 70 hours all up. Only a couple side quests to polish off and I didn't bother with the 2 doors requiring shards (did one). Main plot is rather thin (really needs more meat), after Orlais there are 3 or 4 main missions and BOOM the end. The bulk of the game are the side quests, side companion quests (there is one where Cassandra is revealed to actually love Varric's books was hilarious) and areas. On the equipment, if you don't craft you are missing out, if you want armor that gives you 254 protection and weapons that do close to 300 damage you need to craft. You can get nice rings and belts and amulets as loot, but crafting is key. You do get quite a few different models of armor which change the look too, and the different metals and cloth changes the color.

Also the Solas/Flemeth plot twist at the end was jaw dropping. Literally.

EDIT: There were not many world changing decisions in the end - the wardens + mages or templars stood out and that is about it. You can't really influence the Chantry at all.

 

[datalink7]

On the equipment, if you don't craft you are missing out, if you want armor that gives you 254 protection and weapons that do close to 300 damage you need to craft. .

While crafting is a good way to get good access to nice weapons and armor, I have found nice stuff as drops. I have a 312 DPS greatsword I found as a drop with a lot of bonuses and a rune slot.

 

[Red Hawk]

Spoiler tags escrow, god damn