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The interface for keyboard+mouse is a bit poorly implemented.

Also tactical view. It's great - just scroll out and switch to strategy. It would take this game back to the tactical combat of DA:O and Neverwinter. Except for its utterly shit implementation. Limited zoom out even in open spaces. Bloody awful indoors.
 
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I'd switch to xbox controller if I could remember where I put the sodding thing.
 
ChrisFilter said:
Yeah, by all accounts it's unplayable with keyboard and mouse. Tactical view works great with a pad.
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Unplayable is taking it a bit far.

I've put in over 100 hours with kb&m, I'm playing on hard. There are improvements they could make. It's hardly unplayable.

The reason it doesn't work well indoors is because of the way frostbite deals with roofs, apparently. Can't remove them on the fly, or something. So you either get a limited height you can scroll to as you 'hit' the ceiling and have to stop, or they flag it as clippable and you get weird bits of the back of assets blocking your view as you hover above the ceiling. That's what I heard on the road anyhow. Take it for what it is.
 
Vintage Paw said:
Unplayable is taking it a bit far.

I've put in over 100 hours with kb&m, I'm playing on hard. There are improvements they could make. It's hardly unplayable.

The reason it doesn't work well indoors is because of the way frostbite deals with roofs, apparently. Can't remove them on the fly, or something. So you either get a limited height you can scroll to as you 'hit' the ceiling and have to stop, or they flag it as clippable and you get weird bits of the back of assets blocking your view as you hover above the ceiling. That's what I heard on the road anyhow. Take it for what it is.
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What it is is lazy. Or rushed. Either way something that basic shouldn't happen in a AAA/£50 (ok £32 at G2A) game.
 
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ChrisFilter said:
Yeah, different strokes for different folks. Epona, you're both into your computers. My wife isn't and even if she was, there's no room for a hulking great tower.

I could invest in a small form-factor PC but it's simpler just to play on the ps4.
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I kind of see what you are saying, but I don't really get it if that makes any sense. Maybe I just got lucky when I got together with someone who views having computing equipment in the front room as a necessity. Or maybe I wouldn't be able to 'click' with someone who objected. I should post up a photo of our desk with its mass of monitors and a TV screen mounted on the wall behind it. If this setup were in another room, we would spend most of our time in that room instead of this one so it would be daft for us to put the PCs (2 of them) anywhere else.

The game looks great btw, maybe I will look into it when OH is out of hospital, I barely have time to play anything right now.
 
Well, honestly, I don't want a lounge full of computer stuff either. Gaming is a small part of my life. I spend much more time not gaming and the aesthetics of my house are important to me.
 
It's super gorgeous. I can't run it at full ultra settings, but even so it's a sexy game.

Apart from the hair.

The hair can fuck right off.

They've cracked modding though. So give it time.

On the PC, obv. Soz. :D
 
It's super pretty without mods anyway. I'd use a hair mod, as long as it wasn't stupid glamour £200 shampoo and conditioner-type hair. And of course, anything that gives more variety to armour as well (maybe a change of clothes for Skyhold).

The environment needs nothing doing to it though. It's lovely.

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ChrisFilter said:
Getting into it now. I'm at the early bit where you're establishing camps. Seems to be a fairly big discrepancy in baddie strength in seemingly similar areas, but I guess that forces you to explore. 'Tis good. Wish I'd got it on PS4 instead of PC so I can play it on the big telly.
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You could always move the PC to the telly. You can get Xbox gamepads for the PC from Microsoft, too, and here's how to use the PS4 Dualshock 4 in Windows.
 
10 hours in. It's quite easy. I think that's why I like it so much. The gameplay isn't challenging - it's just a nice meander with a satisfying battle mechanic that you don't have to work too hard at.
 
Hmm reading up on this game, I still have not found an answer, is there PvP in this game and even more so, open world PvP?
 
snadge said:
Hmm reading up on this game, I still have not found an answer, is there PvP in this game and even more so, open world PvP?
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Nope. It's mostly a single player RPG. There is online coop multiplayer, where you form a group of 4 and fight against npc enemies through specific maps. Not open world.
 
Vintage Paw said:
Nope. It's mostly a single player RPG. There is online coop multiplayer, where you form a group of 4 and fight against npc enemies through specific maps. Not open world.
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Shame, it looks very nice, I'm struggling to find a decent semi popular open world PvP game in the multitude of games out there, would go back to EvE but until the power projection nerfs are active it is pointless.

Also I don't play FPS games, I find no consequence, twitch based PvP awful.
 
The only PvP I've ever taken part in is ESO's. Once you get to level 10 in the single player MMO bit, you can stay in PvP as much as you want. It's all one map though, with small dungeons and the like to explore. There are goals, like take enemy keeps and disrupt their supplies, etc., or there's just roaming around ganking or whatever. I haven't played it for a while, so I don't know how populated it is at the moment. Epona would be the one to ask, I think she still plays it.

It might start to feel pretty small after a while though, since it's just the one map.
 
The Emerald Graves is the most beautiful area so far. Paused currently while killing the dragon there. Paused because taking screenshots :D

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The unreadable text is causing me no end of issues. Now I'm in Haven and
there's an army of rebel mages attacking us. I would not have buddied up with the templars if I had been able to read what I was doing properly. Gah!

It feels kind of like this might be the big/final battle, but it can't be, because I haven't been playing long enough, and I've only just met two of the major characters.
It's not the final battle is it?

I want to start the game again some point, and be a pro-mage warrior, instead of rogue who doesn't know what he's doing and has no plan. At the moment I'm waiting (probably in vain) for a fix to the text before I do that.
 
Very nice looking game, my PS4 gaming mates are showing 'nuff love for this game! Very tempted as I need something to pull me away from Destiny...
 
Chick Webb said:
The unreadable text is causing me no end of issues. Now I'm in Haven and
there's an army of rebel mages attacking us. I would not have buddied up with the templars if I had been able to read what I was doing properly. Gah!

It feels kind of like this might be the big/final battle, but it can't be, because I haven't been playing long enough, and I've only just met two of the major characters.
It's not the final battle is it?

I want to start the game again some point, and be a pro-mage warrior, instead of rogue who doesn't know what he's doing and has no plan. At the moment I'm waiting (probably in vain) for a fix to the text before I do that.
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No, that's not the final battle by any means. Think of it as the end of Act 1 (or perhaps even the end of an extended prologue). Really, the game is just about to open out and begin. Me? I'm on hour 180 and I'm not at the end yet. :D

I'm really sorry you're still having no luck with the text problem. They've been super quiet over Xmas (to be expected, they just released the game and need a break), I don't know if it's on their radar as something they're trying to address.
 
I still haven't finished, but I'm getting close-ish.

Still taking screenshots, of course. Trying to get better at it. These are a couple I took tonight that I'm pretty happy with:

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I've played a fair bit more now and enjoying it. The combat can still be annoying and sometimes inexplicable (warriors charging bulling into the distance and the party reforming around them :facepalm:), but overall it's certainly a better game than DA:2 and in some ways better than DA:O. I like the more open world feel - I've said before that I found it extremely frustrating having this lurking dread that I hadn't collected all that I could of a specific herb or fully mined an area for XP, this seems to have been fixed (to an extent anyway). I'm still not enamoured with the Bioware dialogue style and the occasional 'wtf? that is not what I wanted to say', but it's not so bad. Have learned my way around the fairly illogical menu system, but poor implementation of the mouse still pisses me off. Overall pretty good, buggy and sometimes outright annoying, but good. Oh, it would also be nice if Bioware could actually fix some of the bugs.
 
Go into the tactics menu (such as it is) and turn off charging bull. It's a useless skill for your party to use, it's only really useful if you're the one using it. They won't use it very well. Same goes for things like whirlwind. You can't really spec your party and your inquisitor in the same way, because many of the skills require intervention for correct placement etc, or being used in conjunction with one another, which the AI doesn't get right very often. So unless you're going to micromanage to the extreme, turn off things like that.

They're still working on the bugs. They've fixed some (allegedly, anyway - like various quests not triggering - I didn't even know one of them existed until I saw the patch notes :facepalm:), and they're still looking at others. The game is so huge, some things aren't quite so simple to fix. This is going to be a problem more and more as games continue to grow in size and complexity. Should we be happy about it? Of course not. Should we expect no bugs? No. Should we pissed off with them for telling us the PC version was made specifically for PC? Damn right.
 
I still haven't finished, btw. Close, though. 270 hours and counting. Granted, since about half way through the game I've been using better screenshot tools, so most of my gameplay time is spent shooting.

My DA:I flickr album.
 
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