Dragon Age

[Riggswolfe]

I have the game on the PS3. I haven't had to patch yet.

Be thankful, the latest patch has added some kind of odd memory leak to the game. If I play long enough I get mobs that keep standing after death and long load times. I feel like I'm on the laggy server in an MMO.

[01101010]

imo, the way bioware should fix this is to scrap main characters. Means they can worry less about balance within the party.

Main characters always feel the flimsiest part of the setup in these games. Even though the origin stories themselves were great, I never felt DA manages to finish the main character story in a satisfactory way, maybe because bioware haven't really helped us define the main guy in the story.

Instead they could have you play through an origin story for each companion/party member (maybe triggered by the party reaching a specific area, or maybe you just play them one after another at the start, maybe have you pick 6 of 10 characters to form the group), have the origin stories include a couple of key decisions on the nature of the characters, and then let you identify the main protagonist half way through the story.

There you go thinking again. Stop that right now.

[Slyfeind]

I just bought the Grey Wanderer tower thing expansion, thinking "Hey downloadable content updates are a pretty neat thing!" Then I started my second playthrough, uninstalled, then bought all the Fallout 3 updates and started to play that again. Gyah.

[BitWarrior]

I have the game on the PS3. I haven't had to patch yet.

Be thankful, the latest patch has added some kind of odd memory leak to the game. If I play long enough I get mobs that keep standing after death and long load times. I feel like I'm on the laggy server in an MMO.

Not due to memory. If you kill a mob while it is paralyzed or in one hit coming off of a stun, the mob will remain standing until the duration of said paralysis is done. As for load times, I believe that is your imagination.

[Threash]

I have the game on the PS3. I haven't had to patch yet.

Be thankful, the latest patch has added some kind of odd memory leak to the game. If I play long enough I get mobs that keep standing after death and long load times. I feel like I'm on the laggy server in an MMO.

Not due to memory. If you kill a mob while it is paralyzed or in one hit coming off of a stun, the mob will remain standing until the duration of said paralysis is done. As for load times, I believe that is your imagination.

Thats actually pretty neat and makes a lot of sense.

[Riggswolfe]

Not due to memory. If you kill a mob while it is paralyzed or in one hit coming off of a stun, the mob will remain standing until the duration of said paralysis is done. As for load times, I believe that is your imagination.

Uh huh. Is this where I give you instructions on how you can kiss my ass? When I first fire up my game load times are near instant. After a couple of hours of play they go to several minutes and I have to stop the game, let my computer recover, then reload and going through the exact same load screen is back to instant loading. It really hard for me to "imagine" going from instant loads to loads that can take long enough I can go make a sandwich and come back while it's still loading. Sometimes this is even on repeat trips to the same area.

And yes, I know bad guys will stand there for several seconds sometimes if they die while frozen, this isn't that. To give you an example, Zevran went into his super kill animation on an orc Ogre. The problem is he was crouching on air, stabbing nothing because the orc  Ogre was still standing there, breathing even, for a few seconds. Then it laid down and died, about the time his animation ended and he was walking back to join the party. This Orc Ogre wasn't frozen or anything. It really reminds me of server lag in an MMO and is the weirdest thing.

This all started with the last patch and I have seen posts on their forums from other people having similar issues.

[stray]

There are orcs in this game? I was thorough damnit! How did I miss this? 

[Riggswolfe]

There are orcs in this game? I was thorough damnit! How did I miss this? 

Eh...meant an Ogre. They both start with an O. :)

[stray]

Wait.. there are ogres too? 

Sorry, my memory is getting bad these days.

[Phildo]

I've been having an issue with lengthening load times since launch.  It also starts to lag loot appearing on corpses and places like the market screen.

[stray]

The more I hear about technical stuff, the more I think the PS3 is actually the best version. 360's graphics are inferior for some reason, and the PC has performance issues. I've never sat side by side with a PC and PS3 version to see the visual difference though. Maybe it's much better?

[edit] not being console biased.. just curious

[Nerf]

I played it on the ps3 and really enjoyed being able to sprawl out on the bed/couch and play away, that many hours in my computer chair and my ass/back start to hurt.

[Tebonas]

The PC doesn't have performance issues per se. It had some memory leaks in older versions (and apparently in the newest patch), but the game ran quite good on my old rig (Athlon XP 4000, 2 gig Ram), let alone my new one. Slow downs after few hours seemed to be the worst of it. I tended to restart the game once I realized the slowdowns, and that worked swimmingly. Nothing compared to the Witcher Load Hell.

[stray]

I also heard some tard say that playing on the PS3 is "ez mode". Not sure what he meant. Maybe it is. lol.. You guys have everything I have, don't you? Like a radial menu and shit?

[gryeyes]

The difficulty settings between consoles and PC version are different.

[Merusk]

You guys have everything I have, don't you? Like a radial menu and shit?

Nope.  Hotkeys for abilities and F-keys/ portrait click for party member selection.

I started up a new ME game yesterday and have decided that it's the superior game.  I love me some fantasy RPG, but ME just told the (same) story a lot better.

[eldaec]

I have the game on the PS3. I haven't had to patch yet.

Be thankful, the latest patch has added some kind of odd memory leak to the game. If I play long enough I get mobs that keep standing after death and long load times. I feel like I'm on the laggy server in an MMO.

Not due to memory. If you kill a mob while it is paralyzed or in one hit coming off of a stun, the mob will remain standing until the duration of said paralysis is done. As for load times, I believe that is your imagination.

It's not until the paralysis would have worn off, it's random, or until you knock them over by running into them. They sway a little while waiting as well. At least on the PC.

I thought it was a neat touch.

[eldaec]

You guys have everything I have, don't you? Like a radial menu and shit?

Nope.  Hotkeys for abilities and F-keys/ portrait click for party member selection.

I have radial menus on my PC....


But then, I hate radial menus. What the fuck is wrong with dropdowns you pick options from that are written in actual words?

[Engels]

Radial menu on your PC version of Dragon Age? That explains the problems you're having. You installed the PS3 version on your PC   

[Riggswolfe]

Wait.. there are ogres too? 

Sorry, my memory is getting bad these days.

Yeah, those big buff guys with the horns that look very much like a D&D devil to me. The game calls them Ogres.

[Riggswolfe]

I've been having an issue with lengthening load times since launch.  It also starts to lag loot appearing on corpses and places like the market screen.

These are the symptoms I'm getting but it only started after 1.02 or whatever that newest patch is. The game is pretty good for about 2 hours then it hits multiminute loading screens and I have to restart it. I'm not sure what that patch did but it's quite annoying.

[Rasix]

Did you load 1.02 during a new play through or towards the end of one? If it's the latter, that's always been happening.

[eldaec]

Radial menu on your PC version of Dragon Age? That explains the problems you're having. You installed the PS3 version on your PC  

Are you talking about something different, or are you using an apple mouse?

[BitWarrior]

I have the game on the PS3. I haven't had to patch yet.

Be thankful, the latest patch has added some kind of odd memory leak to the game. If I play long enough I get mobs that keep standing after death and long load times. I feel like I'm on the laggy server in an MMO.

After a couple of hours of play they go to several minutes and I have to stop the game, let my computer recover...

 

[stray]

Wait.. there are ogres too?  

Sorry, my memory is getting bad these days.

Yeah, those big buff guys with the horns that look very much like a D&D devil to me. The game calls them Ogres.

Oh that's right. I barely paid attention to npc names I guess. I just thought they were darkspawn elites.

On a sidenote, it seems like the smaller genlock dudes are former dwarves or something. i don't remember if that's in the story or not. can you be turned into darkspawn? or just eaten by them?

[eldaec]

On a sidenote, it seems like the smaller genlock dudes are former dwarves or something. i don't remember if that's in the story or not. can you be turned into darkspawn? or just eaten by them?

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