Dragon Age 3

[Ingmar]

I started playing yesterday and while at first I gladly noticed that mouse+keyboard weren't that bad (two handed warrior), I have to say that the animations are so sluggish that it all just feels very off. I wouldn't even say it's because of mouse and keyboard though and I will probably get used to it soon, but I must observer that so far combat feels quite underwhelming, like a bad attempt at action fighting that feels like you are underwater. Uhm.

2h warrior is also by far the slowest and most sluggish feeling class.

[Falconeer]

Everything is working for me now, but I am new.

Alsom this thing is overheating all my CPU cores on my laptop. Just on the laptop. Blergh.

[Rasix]

2h warrior has always felt sluggish all the way back to Origins.  

A brief load of my game determined that my graphics seem OK.  At least my face didn't get jacked up or anything.  I didn't check my hair shininess, however.

[Ceryse]

Mine's fucked. Basically locked on Low graphic settings, despite being on Ultra. Shiny hair. My two female Inquisitor's look like they have aged 40 years pre and post patch (number of complexions got fucked up, with certain ones replacing others). They've also miraculously had scars healed. My male Inquisitor lost his beard and eyebrows.

[Falconeer]

Not sure if the patch has changed anything, or it's because I switched to 2-handed hammer, but all of a sudden the combat feels much better. Maybe I have already started to get used to it.

[Tannhauser]

My shiny hair is gone but not my armor thankfully.  The radar works great and I'm glad for the F auto-loot key.

This is from my laptop with a GeForce GT 425M.  Runs smooth with all settings on Low. 

[Rasix]

I don't know if they fixed the banter or not, but my party (who is pretty much my standard one) won't shut up.  I thought they had exhausted the conversation avenues by now.

[Tebonas]

So time to resume this game when you waited for the patch to fix the party banter or not? Any confirmed fixes in that regard?

[tmp]

Mine's fucked. Basically locked on Low graphic settings, despite being on Ultra. Shiny hair. My two female Inquisitor's look like they have aged 40 years pre and post patch (number of complexions got fucked up, with certain ones replacing others). They've also miraculously had scars healed. My male Inquisitor lost his beard and eyebrows.

On PC there's a workaround for the hair at least: basically, set the mesh quality to whatever you please (I'm running with it set to High) and then add this parameter to the command line for the game (either in the shortcut, or in the Origin "Game Properties" window:

-ShaderSystem.ShaderQualityLevel High

where "High" is matching the mesh quality setting in game preferences. So if you're running Ultra it'd instead be "Ultra" etc. It made the hair look normal for me again.

[rk47]

Dragon Aging: Inquisition Before & After

[Paelos]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae83RfgdTc4

[Bunk]

I had an issue with shiny hair for the first area I was in after loading. Once I transitioned everything went back to how it should be.

[Phildo]

Hah, I noticed one of the characters looked terribly aged yesterday and assumed it was for plot reasons.

[tmp]

That one is actually not the side effect of this recent bug but it reflects the character's state, like you thought it's supposed to. It was there pre-patch, too.

[Phildo]

Hah, ok.  Most confusing bug ever.

[Paelos]

My voice is one of the ones that reverted to british, so meh. Too late now.

[Rasix]

Finished it at around 68 hours. Party was level 23, so the last plot missions were not remotely challenging.  However, this was on normal.    

There was a lot I didn't do.  Emerald Graves was pretty much completely unfinished except the dragon and character specific plot points.  Didn't complete shards or most of the collectables.   I just kind of rushed through the last part because of vacation coming up and not a lot of consistent time to play in the holidays.

The ending was interesting..

Very spoilery, don't click unless you want it ruined.  OK?

Good experience, if a bit buggy at times.  I think I'm going to do another play through, but I'm a bit torn on what to play.  Might go with a Qunari rogue, just for reaction's sake.  Although the romance angle seems a bit odd, I don't know if Cassandra's into that.

I'm not sure where I place this among the DA games.  Each had their strong points and detracting points in hindsight.  I think this one definitely comes out on the bottom as far as combat, but it scores a lot of points with the exploration aspects, plot, and the sheer expansiveness of the experience.

[Khaldun]

I also just did the ending and

[Polysorbate80]

[Yegolev]

Is anyone else playing the multiplayer?

[murdoc]

[Phildo]

Is anyone else playing the multiplayer?

Probably not.  Is it fun?

[Nija]

Is anyone else playing the multiplayer?

I've been playing nothing but the multiplayer. PS4, NDizzl0r. I only have about 6 hours into SP.

I'm not sure why it seems like nobody is playing multi. It's 4 player coop in randomly generated dungeons, one of 3 styles. It's 'grid style' where they have a bunch of grid squares created that can be connected to other grid squares in a semi-random fashion. After a bunch of MP (my MP level just hit 100 - whatever that means) I recognize most of them.

[Yegolev]

The MP is fun enough, comparable to Garden Warfare in a way except the actual fighting is less arcadey fun than Garden Warfare and the grind is both wider and deeper.  I suppose, like SP, it's good enough.

[rk47]

Is anyone else playing the multiplayer?

I've been playing nothing but the multiplayer. PS4, NDizzl0r. I only have about 6 hours into SP.

I'm not sure why it seems like nobody is playing multi.

Because it's shit.

[Tannhauser]

Finally decided to finish the game at 140hrs played, some of that with two alts though. 

[Phildo]

[jakonovski]

I just got this for the benefit of a lazy Christmas vacation. Current thoughts: I have bought an empty hut exploration game.

edit: and letters. Lots of letters.

[Maledict]

the thread on gaf sums it up the best I feel.

Leave. the. hinterlands.

It's a badly designed zone that is way too big and lacks the more cohesive storylines of zones like Crestood, Felmire etc. It's the most "MMO" like of all the zones, and should come with big warning letters telling you to not to try and finish it in one go. Or any number of goes!

[Paelos]

I'm always amazed how many people got stabbed in the game just after completing a letter.

It's like everyone in the game was at the Alamo.

[tmp]

Your smith in Skyhold may scoff at the idea of the pen being mightier than the sword, but it does seem like writing is the most common source of deaths in Thedas.

[jakonovski]

The game keeps crashing every couple of hours with some graphics error. EA really hates QA don't they?

[Paelos]

The game keeps crashing every couple of hours with some graphics error. EA really hates QA don't they?

I just had a crash where the game simply closed. No error no nothing. And it was right after a long cutscene. It's something for sure.

[Venkman]

What's a good level range to fight up to? And is there a way to get the game to tell me before I attack?

I keep going on the more interesting sounding quests, by avoiding the Hinterlands But I'm only just level 8 which means the rest are level 7. Seems like the stuff I find is in the 12-13 range. Yard trash is ok unless I get swarmed, but rift second waves are impossible.

So should I just suck it up and finish out Hinterlands until the whole party is like 9 or 10?

And if that's the case, there any way to tell that from the quest log? I'm long used to the /con colors of yore, or even the level numbers of newer-yore. I got neither here unless I'm missing a setting.

[Polysorbate80]

There needs to be a mod for this RIGHT NOW.