What's the best way to get him back into the fold with the least amount of repercussions? I swapped him with another prisoner and conscripted him to be a Warden which he liked, but the new mission in the war room that you get afterwards sounds like I've made a mess of things politically. Do I need to do the optional war room mission with Leliana that hides the Inquisitions involvement? Leave the Wardens out of it completely when it comes time to judge? I want to give him a chance to atone but not at the expense of pissing off other allies.
When dealing with choices like the mages why does Bioware only do extremes that don't necessarily make sense.
It's obvious that mages can't handle true freedom from their inept actions in DA2 and this game, but is slavery under the Inquisition really the only logical alternative? Will just lead to a future rebellion/ resentment. How about something in the middle that would benefit everyone, all the prior games showed that neither choice you're given actually works.
You'll have more chances to direct the future of mages/circles/the chantry later in the game, including a middle ground. For now, that decision is more about how the Inquisition is perceived internally and externally and what kind of allies you want than what'll happen once order is restored.
I haven't played DAO or DA2 in a few years but it seems like the non tactical view works differently than it used to. In the older ones, I remember being able to basically go to each member of the party in the paused menu, issue commands, and then they would execute them.
It doesn't seem to work the same in DAI, like as soon as I stopped controlling the character they start doing their own thing completely.
Should I watch a Dragon Age 2 Legacy playthrough on Youtube? It's the only content from the Dragon Age series I haven't played and didn't expect it to play such a big role in this game. Feels like I should.
Hmm Origin reset my keybindings, not sure why. I have pretty much every options turned off, why does it even bother doing stuff like that, I don't want it to cloud save anything, specifically because it'll load stupid shit I don't need whenever it feels like. Steam's the same, stupid cloud saving bugs out every now and then and erases your saves, but I haven't had steam bug out my keybindings settings yet. Oh well guess it's not so bad.
Should I watch a Dragon Age 2 Legacy playthrough on Youtube? It's the only content from the Dragon Age series I haven't played and didn't expect it to play such a big role in this game. Feels like I should.
I was waiting for this, thanks. Liked his preview from earlier. I actually thought his DA2 review was really thoughtful and on-point considering how much material the game provided him for rage.
Yeah, that's the problem. You keep thinking about companies doing this without being unchecked which they are, and have been.
It has been 8 years since the whole Horse Armor fiasco, and things have gotten A LOT better since then. Your argument is moot since we have had a lot of quality products for the last 8 years, with only some being shit with how they handle DLC and microtransactions.
I don't feel like I'm being forced to pay for micro-transactions in DA:I mp and
when I manage to connect to a game
it's pretty fun. You're given a choice - put more time in or pay upfront for the lure of more immediate gratification. I'm not a fan but there's an argument (for another thread perhaps?) that it generates a steadier source of income for developers to continuously develop the games...
But, and this is where I don the tin-foil hat and attempt to make my point, what if they did find a way to add micro-transactions to the sp game to advance the plot a little faster? What if the infrastructure for this was in game already? The example I would give relates to the war table - lots of timed missions that affect your in-game experience & relationships between characters, lasting from a few minutes to a few hours - story quests or gathering resources etc:
Towards end game I actually had two missions with maybe 10+ hours left to complete on each of them by the time that I was ready to start on the last couple of missions - this left me with a few choices:
1 - finish the game when I had the time & was in the mood for it
2 - wait overnight for the war table quests to complete then finish the game the following day
3 - forget about completing the game and continue on with the open world aspect
4 - etc etc
I wanted to finish the main story
and start again on nightmare difficulty, making a few decisions differently etc
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Now, left unchecked, it's worrying how close the war table aspect of the game is to the model where gamers could pay to unlock content that little bit quicker. Would I have paid to finish the last few missions on the war table to get a more rounded story? No (of course) but you could see the argument that if it's acceptable to wait a few hours for time to pass on a sp war table quest then why not allow those who want the opportunity of paying to unlock it that much quicker? It's unacceptable but I feel not impossible...
Playing with a gamepad in PC. Is there any way to select my entire party at once like there was in the previous 2 games? It's annoying having to instruct each individual member to move to a point when I'm trying to move the battle to a more advantageous area.
Are the 2 other upgrades for Skyhold just for the sake of it? I can't determine an actual benefit. Also, after you have all 3, are additional logging stands and quarries for nothing?
Walking Bomb is really good. The rest not so much. It's worth it if you have already covered the basic spells (Chain Lightning, Lightning Cage and Barrier + upgrade and Dispel). Otherwise, I'd spec those first before going into the Necromancer tree.
She is a Knight Enchanter, the most broken spec in the game - at least if you manually play it. Characters unlock their specialization once you have them in your active party.
after building the watch towers and killing the wolves there is no more quest marker on my "get horses for the inquisition" quest, does this mean its bugged?
