Dragon Age: Origins Question :: World of Warcraft

#80 Sep 16 2011 at 8:58 PM Rating: Good

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Yea, DA:O plays a lot better on PC than console, but I found the reverse to be true for DA2.

Just a note about the Warden's Keep expansion- the storage chest you are given has a special property that allows you to level up your gear. If you put armor/weapons of lower tier material in the chest and come back (might need to change zones), the armor/weapons will be of a quality that properly reflects your level. This is useful because sometimes you'll find unique items that can be made of different tier materials. Keep in mind that not all items can level up because they'll be made of the same material no matter what level you find it at.

I mention this because I know the king's armor can be made of different materials. It should level up, but have not tested it with that specific armor myself.

That sentence annoyed me.

Edited, Sep 17th 2011 1:40am by xypin

#81 Sep 16 2011 at 9:57 PM Rating: Good

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Get for PC if you can. Better all around character control and modding opportunity make PC a better platform for this.

I would need a PC upgrade to do that, so 360 it is.

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#82 Sep 16 2011 at 10:52 PM Rating: Good

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I mention this because I know the king's armor can be made of different materials, but I can not confirm it will level up. It should, but have not tested it with that specific armor myself.

It does. I always hit Ostagar right after getting Wynne. I just use the chest to level the armor throughout the game for Alistair.

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#83 Sep 17 2011 at 10:05 PM Rating: Decent

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idiggory, King of Bards wrote:

Also, the new DA2 DLC trailer is up. Looks interesting.

Reminds me of the opening of a heist movie... Or an episode of leverage. And I love leverage:)

#84 Sep 19 2011 at 3:59 AM Rating: Excellent

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Well, got a chance to play a TON during this weekend (to the exclusion of many other responsibilities, haha). Ended up getting Shale, whom I will probably never use as I dislike her voice and personality; did Return to Ostagar, which was basically just a loot pinata; and did Leliana's Song, which I actually really enjoyed. Great music, not a bad story... although it didn't match the one she said in-game. Oh well. Need to retry it with a higher lockpicking skill in order to get the special item though.

Yup, had a pretty good weekend all around when it came to DA:O Smiley: grin

Next goal: finish this run and try out Awakening (and Witchhunt).

Also, traps are really not worth it most of the time. Grenades, however, are.

#85 Sep 19 2011 at 5:41 AM Rating: Excellent

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I played less and only did Mage Tower, Redcliffe (up to the ashes) and Return to Ost.

The game crashed repeatedly during the last half Mage Tower which was fun. Apparently a common error.

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#86 Sep 19 2011 at 6:19 AM Rating: Excellent

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Jophiel wrote:

I played less and only did Mage Tower, Redcliffe (up to the ashes) and Return to Ost.

The game crashed repeatedly during the last half Mage Tower which was fun. Apparently a common error.

Sucky

I found a neat bug in the Mage Tower (Fade portion). Apparently if you can get the game to lag a bit you can get multiple +1s from the fonts and essences. Once I managed to get like +5 Cunning at a single one. Now I have around 50 Cunning on my rogue, which is doing wonders for my backstabbing Smiley: lol

#87 Sep 19 2011 at 6:49 AM Rating: Good

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The game crashed repeatedly during the last half Mage Tower which was fun. Apparently a common error.

What system are you playing on? Because I've never had any problems here.

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#88 Sep 19 2011 at 7:26 AM Rating: Excellent

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When I did a little Googling on it, it was a very common issue especially during larger fights (14 page thread on Bioware tech support forum) and the Sloth Demon encounter got cited a lot as a crash point. Some people pinned it on a memory leak and one of the recommendations was playing it off a fresh reboot of the system. I tried that yesterday and played without trouble. We'll see if that keeps working.

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I found a neat bug in the Mage Tower (Fade portion). Apparently if you can get the game to lag a bit you can get multiple +1s from the fonts and essences.

All I managed to do in the Fade was hack pseudo-Flemmish's head off and then restart the dialogue so Morrigan was arguing with a headless Flemmish. Smiley: frown

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 8:27am by Jophiel

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#89 Sep 19 2011 at 7:49 AM Rating: Excellent

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Jophiel wrote:

All I managed to do in the Fade was hack pseudo-Flemmish's head off and then restart the dialogue so Morrigan was arguing with a headless Flemmish. Smiley: frown

I DID THE SAME THING! Smiley: lol

It was actually a little disturbing.

Edit: In other news, Song of Leliana has made me fall in love with Force Field. I would have died several times without that spell.

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 10:59am by LockeColeMA

#90 Sep 19 2011 at 9:09 AM Rating: Good

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Dragon Age has a remarkable number of bugs, but something you'll probably notice a lot is lag. Dead bodies won't produce loot immediately, quests won't update for a few seconds/minutes after killing something. The game isn't exactly froze, it's just slow. This is probably the cause of being stuck when talking with one of your companions in the Fade. Once you defeat all the demons, don't talk to your friend again, just pause and wait.

#91 Sep 19 2011 at 11:21 AM Rating: Good

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I played on the PS3, so I can't comment on PC bugs. It has its fair share too, of course. But I never had the game crash. The worst bugs I ever encountered were:

1. The attack on redcliffe. I was up near where the kegs of oil were on fire, but the next wave wouldn't spawn. Normally, you can easily fix that by prompting a "scene." But I had already given Leliana the flowers that are RIGHT THERE before even starting the attack, so that gift option was out. I had no other gifts on me. And Alistair wouldn't kiss me, since I brought Leliana's approval so high (but hadn't yet had her prompt the conversation where I let her off easy), so he didn't want to **** her off by flaunting our relationship.

The most recent save I had was several hours earlier. >:(

Of course, now I know, so I always try and hold on to at least one "scene" item until I have no risk of my romance option being shy.

2. During (one playthrough of) the final battle, I had some serious glitches (specifically, one glitch that affected multiple things). Still managed to win but it was so much harder. Not going to go into more detail, since people haven't reached this point yet. And I didn't see any other posts about it online, so I'm guessing it's a rare issue.

()=edits

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 1:22pm by idiggory

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#92 Sep 19 2011 at 11:38 AM Rating: Excellent

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idiggory, King of Bards wrote:

1. The attack on redcliffe. I was up near where the kegs of oil were on fire, but the next wave wouldn't spawn. Normally, you can easily fix that by prompting a "scene." But I had already given Leliana the flowers that are RIGHT THERE before even starting the attack, so that gift option was out. I had no other gifts on me. And Alistair wouldn't kiss me, since I brought Leliana's approval so high (but hadn't yet had her prompt the conversation where I let her off easy), so he didn't want to **** her off by flaunting our relationship.

The most recent save I had was several hours earlier. >:(

In that case, couldn't you have had all your characters run into the fire to kill themselves, then reloaded from a much-more-recent Quicksave?

#93 Sep 19 2011 at 11:48 AM Rating: Good

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That is what I loaded. No clue why it was so far back--never really examined specifics on how/when it autosaves.

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Wait, no, now I remember. The most recent quick save was actually after the wave failed. I think I had fully cleared the fire waves, but it wasn't moving on. And I think it auto-saved at the end of those waves, but loading that did nothing to trigger the scene redirecting me to the chantry.

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 1:50pm by idiggory

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#94 Sep 19 2011 at 12:10 PM Rating: Good

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xypin wrote:

Dragon Age has a remarkable number of bugs, but something you'll probably notice a lot is lag. Dead bodies won't produce loot immediately, quests won't update for a few seconds/minutes after killing something. The game isn't exactly froze, it's just slow. This is probably the cause of being stuck when talking with one of your companions in the Fade. Once you defeat all the demons, don't talk to your friend again, just pause and wait.

You know, for the PC version, I'm really unsure how many of these bugs are actual bugs and how many of them are, well, Steam in the background doing strange things. I've noticed that my system runs a lot smoother when Steam is disconnected for some reason, so I only have Steam active for games that require it. For the games that require Steam, I will get occasional hang ups as suddenly my system starts madly processing something, then back to normal. :/ It's not frequent though--maybe once in 3 or 4 hours.

Edit: Too many quotes. =X

Edited, Sep 19th 2011 2:10pm by Ravashack

#95 Sep 19 2011 at 3:40 PM Rating: Good

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I'm only a couple hours in, but so far I've noticed a somewhat steady plot arc..."Betrayal".

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#96 Sep 19 2011 at 6:58 PM Rating: Good

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Kastigir wrote:

I'm only a couple hours in, but so far I've noticed a somewhat steady plot arc..."Betrayal".

Let me guess...you a mage? =X

#97 Sep 19 2011 at 7:18 PM Rating: Good

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Ravashack wrote:

Kastigir wrote:

I'm only a couple hours in, but so far I've noticed a somewhat steady plot arc..."Betrayal".

Let me guess...you a mage? =X

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#98 Sep 19 2011 at 8:46 PM Rating: Good

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Are you still in the origin story (as in, have you gotten a trophy for completing it)?

And they make it pretty clear how Dwarven politics work. :P

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#99 Sep 20 2011 at 7:46 AM Rating: Excellent

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Kastigir wrote:

I'm only a couple hours in, but so far I've noticed a somewhat steady plot arc..."Betrayal".

I think almost every origin story has betrayal. I've only done half of them, but someone always gets betrayed. One does not become a Gray Warden by having a nice happy past Smiley: lol

In other news, maybe Duncan's just a source of terrible luck. Seriously, it's like wherever he goes something bad is going down. And after he dies, all of a sudden the steady plot arc becomes "epic army-gathering/revenge."

Edit: Oh, and I have a question about the DLC... do they scale to level (monster-wise?). I did Warden's Keep last night at around level 12-13, and it was ridiculously simple. I could have just let the tactics take over for every battle - something that hardly ever happens while playing on Hard (I'm a huge micro-manager). Return to Ostagar was a little bit tougher, but not by much (I was also around level 10 then). Shale was around that time too, and was also super easy. I really feel like they're just free loot and exp; is that wrong?

Edited, Sep 20th 2011 9:53am by LockeColeMA

#100 Sep 20 2011 at 7:50 AM Rating: Good

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LockeColeMA wrote:

In other news, maybe Duncan's just a source of terrible luck.

I'll say. Being over four hundred years old, and just kinda standing around and killing his friends that miraculously turn out to be immortals while other immortals go around killing his friends that are mortal.

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#101 Sep 20 2011 at 7:51 AM Rating: Excellent

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"Hey! Go to Ost-whatever" La, la la...
"Hey! Go to Redcliffe!" La, la, la...
"Hey! Go to the Mage Tower!" La, la, la...
"Hey! Go back to Ost-whatever!" La, la, la...
"Hey! Go back to the swamp!"

DRAGON, MOTHERF--KER!!

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