Dragon Age

[Threash]

I need more buttons, i have way too many spells.  

[Ingmar]

I think what they meant by that is 'hard' is the setting where it doesn't cheat in any way for either side.

[Ingmar]

I need more buttons, i have way too many spells.  

Drag the right end of your ability bar out, it can go all the way across the bottom of the screen.

[Threash]

I need more buttons, i have way too many spells.  

Drag the right end of your ability bar out, it can go all the way across the bottom of the screen.

Thanks, i had no idea you could do that.  I wasn't even going to stumble on it by luck since it doesn't work when the ability bar is locked.

[sidereal]

I'm considering doing a no-mages run next, as a sort of Nightmare mode.

Either that, or run mages in an actual harder mode.

... On a sidenote, I read something awhile back that the developers considered "hard" their default ruleset.

I'm pretty sure I'm playing on hard.  I'll check when I get home.

[Sky]

That social site is a terrible, terrible, terrible mess.

Despite being logged in every time I play, my info hasn't been updated since the 12th, and I've played every night for at least a half hour.

On mages: you don't have to minmax :) As I said earlier, I dropped Morrigan as soon as I had the chance to dump her, and wish my minmaxing ways hadn't kept that miserable bitch around that long (oh, cone of cold, why are you so awesome?). I'm so tempted to restart my human noble 2h warrior playthrough to keep my dog with me.

Still adapting to not having Morrigan, it's fun. Toughest battle so far in the tower saw Wynne and Alistair bite it (Wynne is having a tough time staying on her feet, heh), and my tank desperately trying to hold aggro while Leliana switched to her dagger (I have her set up as an archer) and poked mobs in the back, both of us only having the single CC melee attack to try to keep things manageable. It was pretty sweaty there, but we barely pulled it out. Love fights like those.

[Brogarn]

Despite being logged in every time I play, my info hasn't been updated since the 12th, and I've played every night for at least a half hour.

That was happening to me until last night when I finally actually registered the game. Then suddenly everything started updating properly. Although my achievements continued to update all along which kind of boggled my mind a bit.

But ya... terrible mess sums it up. Especially when its link to the old bioware login doesn't exist as far as I can tell. So even though I have all those games registered, they don't show up on the social site. I looked for a way to link the two but if it's there, it's buried.

[Threash]

Why the hell does almost everything turn off blood magic, if you were gonna do it that way so you dont accidentally kill yourself then at least remove the cooldown.

[Slyfeind]

So yeah, save files are huge, what the hell is up with that?  Does Bioware not believe in garbage collection?

So, do items disappear ever? Without actively destroying them, of course (dropping onto the world). I assumed they would disappear after sitting in merchant inventories after a while, but it's all still there. Good thing though, because I find I suddenly need a certain kind of gem I've been selling.

That social site is a terrible, terrible, terrible mess.

Agreed. I really want to play with that more, but yikes.

[Tarami]

They probably just dump the entire world state to disk. Which is a good thing. 7 MB is nothing anyway.

[Nerf]

Items will persist in merchant inventories forever, and if I'm not mistaken, items in merchant inventories will actually level up.  At the end of my game, there were some tier 7 weapons on the vendor that I *KNOW* weren't tier 7 when I sold them to him, like the crow dagger.

[Ingmar]

One thing I wish I had realized on my first playthrough:

If you buy a backpack from the Ostagar quartermaster before you head out into the wilds, you can buy another one from him after you get back and you're in the 'nighttime' Ostagar before the Joining. This is pretty huge, especially because his backpacks are much much cheaper than any other ones in the game, at 50-odd silver each. Leaving Lothering with a 100 item inventory rather than 70 as I did on my first playthrough is making an enormous difference.

[Rasix]

Crap, I didn't know that guy had backpacks.  

Maybe I should just use an interface hack to max out my bag space. I really hate having to micromanage it since I must pick all locks and pick up all loot.

[Ingmar]

Crap, I didn't know that guy had backpacks. 

I saw them but didn't really realize their significance until after it was too late for me to buy those in my first playthrough.

[Thrawn]

I saw them but didn't really realize their significance until after it was too late for me to buy those in my first playthrough.

Same, I saw them and remember thinking "Oh, cool, I can expand my capacity later when I have the extra gold by buying backpacks."

Then of course like 20 hours later I find out what a big deal they are and that I can not go back to Ostagar.

[Morfiend]

I have yet to find a backpack. Having a 60 slot limit is destroying me.

I think my second play through will be as a Mage/Arcane Warrior. Currently I am using a DW Warrior and the amount of warrior NPCs is a bit annoying.

Also, Shale is fucking awesome. Not quite HK-47 awesome, but along the same lines. He has some classic dialog. I dumped Allister for Shale as my tank as soon as I got him.

[Rasix]

I have yet to find a backpack. Having a 60 slot limit is destroying me.

There's one in your camp you can buy off the dwarf and his retard son.  Like was said earlier, there's a possibility of 2 in Ostagar.  I've heard there's one in Lothering.. but I'm guessing I missed that. Circle Tower, Denerim (I think it's only available after the Landsmeet from Gorim), Dalish camp.  Some only appear after you complete quests.  

There's an addon by the guy that did the dex fix that permanently bumps your inventory to 125.  Unreversible.

Shale is awesome.  Her bird hate is constantly amusing.

[Sheepherder]

So, do items disappear ever? Without actively destroying them, of course (dropping onto the world). I assumed they would disappear after sitting in merchant inventories after a while, but it's all still there. Good thing though, because I find I suddenly need a certain kind of gem I've been selling.

I'm just in the peanut gallery for the moment, I need to upgrade my PC and refuse to play this on Xbox.  But exceedingly large save files and garbage collection are something that should be watched in a persistent game world.  That concludes my concern trolling, resume discussions of dragons beating your ass down with all appendages, because that sounds pretty cool.

[Ingmar]

I have yet to find a backpack. Having a 60 slot limit is destroying me.

There's one in your camp you can buy off the dwarf and his retard son.  Like was said earlier, there's a possibility of 2 in Ostagar.  I've heard there's one in Lothering.. but I'm guessing I missed that. Circle Tower, Denerim (I think it's only available after the Landsmeet from Gorim), Dalish camp.  Some only appear after you complete quests.  

There's an addon by the guy that did the dex fix that permanently bumps your inventory to 125.  Unreversible.

Shale is awesome.  Her bird hate is constantly amusing.

The one in Lothering is off the old farmer merchant in the tavern - the one you can do the poison quest for.

[Nerf]

So, do items disappear ever? Without actively destroying them, of course (dropping onto the world). I assumed they would disappear after sitting in merchant inventories after a while, but it's all still there. Good thing though, because I find I suddenly need a certain kind of gem I've been selling.

I'm just in the peanut gallery for the moment, I need to upgrade my PC and refuse to play this on Xbox.  But exceedingly large save files and garbage collection are something that should be watched in a persistent game world.  That concludes my concern trolling, resume discussions of dragons beating your ass down with all appendages, because that sounds pretty cool.

It's actually pretty fun on console, we got it for the ps3 as gamefly > paying $50 for a game that'll get a few weeks of play and shelved.  I tried it on the PC, it's still fun, but I have a tendency to revert to the overhead BG style view and it really kills the immersion.  Being forced to play in over-the-shoulder 3rd person is immersive as shit and I had a blast, you just have to fiddle with getting the AI right and invest in the extra tactic slots for all your party members.

[Tarami]

But exceedingly large save files and garbage collection are something that should be watched in a persistent game world.

Just FYI, garbage collection isn't what you think it is. It's a managed memory (de)allocation mechanism, not an object destruction mechanism. It doesn't work on the level you suggest. Memory leaks (which is what you're assuming; a garbage collector that isn't marking for deallocation properly) wouldn't affect save filesizes, because the extraneous objects wouldn't be referenced by game logic, just still be allocated in memory. They don't save a virtual memory address range to disk, they serialize an object graph.

[stray]

Playing this on a console will not kill you. Not sure what's supposed to be so bad about it. It's not a shooter, and if you have a Xbox already, it beats upgrading a PC.

[sidereal]

Oh good.  I was going to nerd on savefile optimization but Tarami already nerded up the place, so I'm saved.

Instead,

his retard son

ENCHANTING!

[Morfiend]

Shale is awesome.  Her bird hate is constantly amusing.

Her?

[Ingmar]

omg spoilers

[Threash]

Oh good.  I was going to nerd on savefile optimization but Tarami already nerded up the place, so I'm saved.

Instead,

his retard son

ENCHANTING!

ENCHANTMENT! actually :)

[Nerf]

ENCHANTMENT?

[Draegan]

Doing the dwarven plot right now.  Fuck it's terrible.  So much running around and whining.

Gah.

[caladein]

Noble or Casteless?  I haven't tried the latter, but the former is fucking awesome.

Edit: Or do you mean the Orzammar treaty stuff?  If you mean that, yeah... although it's not any worse the second time around as the two sides seem to have different errands they send you on.

[Ingmar]

Yes, noble is amazing.

[rk47]

Crap, I didn't know that guy had backpacks.  

Maybe I should just use an interface hack to max out my bag space. I really hate having to micromanage it since I must pick all locks and pick up all loot.

I'm trying to look for it every spare time in the office. There should be an inventory mod somewhere.

[Rasix]

Crap, I didn't know that guy had backpacks.  

Maybe I should just use an interface hack to max out my bag space. I really hate having to micromanage it since I must pick all locks and pick up all loot.

I'm trying to look for it every spare time in the office. There should be an inventory mod somewhere.

http://dragonage.gulbsoft.org/doku.php/mods/easy_mod

[Threash]

Wtf, alt is not highlighting stuff anymore, how do i get it back?

[Rasix]

Wtf, alt is not highlighting stuff anymore, how do i get it back?

I thought Tab did that.

[sidereal]

Wtf, alt is not highlighting stuff anymore, how do i get it back?

Having flashbacks to Diablo 2?