Dragon Age

[Xurtan]

I would rather be able to romance Alistair. Zevran's kind of annoying.  Meh. That, and he's kind of the cliche choice.

And Liliana for the female/female pairing, really? Huh, I would have put money on Morrigan.

Anyone else not have Warden's Keep available to download? I redeemed codes for the Blood Armor and Shale but there was no option to purchase Warden's Keep anywhere.

Try talking to the guy in the party camp. Levi Dryden or whatever; he should give you the option of buying/downloading it. Its where I got mine, at least.

[Amaron]

For those of you who can't get Warden's Keep or your DLC won't move to install do this:

If you are on Win7/Vista

1) Go to the game folder and give the launcher exe admin rights.
2) Start the launcher and goto the game config and then repair and click clear download cache.
3) Save your config.
4) Launch the game and check to see that your DLC is installing.   Warden's Keep should be available now too.

If that doesn't work make sure you have the Dragon Age Updater Service running.

[gryeyes]

Is there some DLC for extra quickbars or am I overlooking the toggle? The higher leveled spell effects are insanely awesome.

[Xurtan]

I love Tempest.  The whole lightning line is pretty nice, really. 

I would kill for more hotbars. Not a big issues on melee characters, but I'm out of room on my Mage.

[jakonovski]

FFFUUUUUU it's time but it's not opening on Steammmmmmm...

Edit: now it's finally decrypting the files. Only took me two restarts to get that going.

[Ragnoros]

Is there some DLC for extra quickbars or am I overlooking the toggle? The higher leveled spell effects are insanely awesome.

Grab the end of the quickbar and drag it to the right/left. You can get a longer row that way at least.

[Elerion]

Based on the first 5-6 hours, this is the best RPG I've played in as long as I can remember.

[Teleku]

I notice everybody is talking about how much they love their specific class/race's story.  How much effect does your race/class have on the overall game play and story?  High re-playability?  Baulders gate was cool and all, but the story of the game didn't change at all except for the very end.

[gryeyes]

Can't imagine a lot of the mage related stuff working if you didn't start as a mage. Unrelated question, is becoming a Gray Warden unavoidable?

[Xurtan]

All paths lead to becoming a Gray Warden.

[Slyfeind]

That was kind of a let-down.

Grey Wardens: Would you like to join us?

1. Definitely!
2. I suppose so.
3. Why not?
4. Sure.

[Montague]

The one problem I have with the tactics engine is the "defensive" AI setting is fubared. There's a bug where if one of your squishies is being attacked your defensive guy will peel off and run towards the squishy. The problem is that the AI will do that with RANGED attacks on your squishies as well. So if my mage is plinked by an arrow my tank will peel off and get backstabbed by 2 or 3 monsters up front while he tries to valiantly defend my mage from arrows.  

[schild]

My profile and screenshots won't upload to that flabbergasted website :( I want to make an AO collection of screenshots with salty language but I can't.

[Sophismata]

The one problem I have with the tactics engine is the "defensive" AI setting is fubared. There's a bug where if one of your squishies is being attacked your defensive guy will peel off and run towards the squishy. The problem is that the AI will do that with RANGED attacks on your squishies as well. So if my mage is plinked by an arrow my tank will peel off and get backstabbed by 2 or 3 monsters up front while he tries to valiantly defend my mage from arrows.  

He needs to be next to the mage in order to dramatically leap in front of projectiles. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" is optional.

[schild]

Hm, I hit level 7, wouldn't let me become a Duelist. Said it wasn't unlocked.

[schild]

Oh, I need to find a trainer. RIGHT.

D&D4ed is more streamlined than some of this stuff.

[caladein]

My profile and screenshots won't upload to that flabbergasted website :( I want to make an AO collection of screenshots with salty language but I can't.

I've taken other screenshots besides these, so I imagine it's just the automatic ones.

And the profile does take a bit of time to update, but all my stuff was up-to-date when I got up today.

[schild]

Bioware needs to stop having bullshit happen during dreams. It's the western version of an amnesiac waking up on the beach. Blast you, RPGs! BLAST YOU!

[schild]

All I have to say is:

The elves are a lithe, pointy-eared people who excel at poverty.

God bless this game.

[tmp]

My profile and screenshots won't upload to that flabbergasted website :( I want to make an AO collection of screenshots with salty language but I can't.

It seems it can just take long long hours for the uploads to actually show up. Like, 12 or more if my character creator upload i tried today is anything to go by.

[sidereal]

This sounds awesome.  It's going to be even awesomer in 2 months when they patch the AI to work and drop the price by 10 bucks.

Yay for self control!

[schild]

[Xurtan]

[Xilren's Twin]

My favorite new spell is the persistant lightning storm.  Course, with any AOE spell, definately turn off the AI so you can position your crew effectively.

[schild]

Should've threatened the guy, he didn't join my party, just ran off.

[schild]

Definitely gonna threaten the guy since I just died because I wasn't paying attention to the CAKEWALK BATTLES I was encountering.

[Morfiend]

I'm poor right now, but this thread made me buy the game. 10% left on download.

[Bunk]

I love the little things. Had a fight where I didn't notice the lever to release the hounds from their cages until after I won the fight. So I ran down the hall, opened three doors, and had the baddies all chase me back in to the room full of hungry dogs.

Really loving the banter between party members. It's happening so much, I'm afraid it will run out before I hit level 7, and they'll all be mute the rest of the game.

Oh, and I felt great joy when I discovered that the dagger I bought with an effect of +2 damage, gives plus 2 damage to both of the weapons I'm weilding.

My only problem, is that I'm already tempted to roll another character, just to try out a mage.

[schild]

Mages, at the moment, seem more fleshed out than rogue or warrior. Which is bothersome. Mages tend to bore me, as do warriors. Rogues seem just as boring as warriors in this game atm, except locked boxes would anger me. Where the fuck is the "bash" option.

[Slyfeind]

Finally at the first village, and the game is opening up to me. About damn time. I'm tired of moving three steps, watching a cut scene, having a fight, then watching a loading screen so it can happen again.

Heh. Bar fight. Excellent.

[schild]

One day WUA is going to have a fucking field day with this story. It just left off the map and went to god knows where bringing completely unnecessary shit into it. Hurk. Too many cooks in that kitchen.

[Kitsune]

Definite two thumbs up thus far.  Looks beautiful, plays well.  I don't mind the babbling NPCs, since they have exquisite voice acting.  I enjoy just sitting back and listening to them.  It's just a shame that they didn't give the player any voice acting like they did in Mass Effect.

[stray]

I bought it yesterday (ps3 btw) and spent way too long in character creation. Haven't played a thing.

Kind of curious what an arcane warrior is... Was there something equivalent in NWN? How does it play out?

[schild]

Every single person on the list of "people" on the poster of defiance in Warden's Keep sounds more amazing than the actual cast. Where's that game?

[gryeyes]

I bought it yesterday (ps3 btw) and spent way too long in character creation. Haven't played a thing.

Kind of curious what an arcane warrior is... Was there something equivalent in NWN? How does it play out?

Its a mage that can use its magic stat to substitute for strength towards gears, thats passive. Then the active ability increases combat stats based on spellpower but increases fatigue by 50% (with jumbo armor your fatigue will be like 80-90%. You can cast regularly and swap a staff in as needed. As of level 12 my melee leaves much to be desired, some guys I just cant hit. Mostly just wear the armor and cast normally with a staff. Havent seen any caster friendly heavy armor so far.