Dragon Age Inquisition

[Vintage Paw]

For example, I'm not sure how much is explained in dialogue or through a text pop-up, but the table by Minaeve in Josie's office, if you click that it will deposit any of the gold/yellow items you pick up off enemies that sit in your valuables bit of the inventory (the tab that looks like a cut jewel) - depositing them gives you a bit of a damage bonus against that particular type of enemy.

 

[Chick Webb]

If there's anything you want to ask about that might help you get through the game with the bad text, go ahead. I'll try and help as best I can. Whether it's asking about mechanics or lore or quests or characters you can't read about.

Thank you! It's actually going better this time around, because I'm playing it while alone and I can actually hear the characters (other people aren't around playing their records or watching vids on their phones - this is a 3 person/1 telly house).

It took me a long time the other day to figure out Minaeve's table. My quest screen was telling me to go give her an item, but every time I tried to, she said "can I help you with anything" in that rude, aggressive way she has. She sounds like an angry Kerry woman trying to throw you out of her shop. Anyway, I figured out I was supposed to put the demon guts or whatever it was on the table in the end, but I didn't know what that did for me, so thanks!

 

[Chick Webb]

I met

Spoiler

Hawke last night! He seems confused. He thought he had a living brother and seemed to be talking about his beloved boyfriend in the past tense

I'm in the Emerald Graves now. Is that where I'm supposed to be, or does it matter what order I do things in? I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing now apart from someone suggested making more of a presence for myself in Orlais.

I thought the

Spoiler

Redcliffe timetravel

was great.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Patch 5 is now out. It brings armour tinting, a storage chest, auto-attack outside of tac-cam, a greater zoom distance in tac-cam, and various stability and bug fixes. It also decouples shader and mesh quality, so you can drop mesh quality without sacrificing scars, freckles, or gaining super-shiny hair, and so on.

The Black Emporium is still being beta tested, and there are more things planned in patch 6, which is also being beta tested. They are aware the changes to PC controls they've implemented so far aren't perfect, but are a work in progress and they plan to continue to iterate on them.

Chick Webb - patch 5 also includes the ability to change text size, but as far as I'm aware it only affects dialogue, so no codex entries, notes and the like. I don't know if that's planned down the line, or not, but it might make some things a bit easier for you.

I'm still playing and taking screenshots.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I met

Spoiler

Hawke last night! He seems confused. He thought he had a living brother and seemed to be talking about his beloved boyfriend in the past tense

I'm in the Emerald Graves now. Is that where I'm supposed to be, or does it matter what order I do things in? I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing now apart from someone suggested making more of a presence for myself in Orlais.

I thought the

Spoiler

Redcliffe timetravel

was great.

It doesn't matter what order you do things in really, as long as you can handle the level of the enemies there. I think they want you to do Here Lies the Abyss (the Hawke/Warden quest line) before Wicked Eyes, Wicked Hearts (the Celene quest line), but I did it the other way round and thought it was fine. In fact, there is a little bit of dialogue you can get by doing WEWH before HLTA that you can't get the other way around (depending on your world state).

 

[Vintage Paw]

Bizarre surprise announcement that the first DLC is dropping tomorrow for PC and XBone (other platforms have to wait).

Jaws of Hakkon.

Seems it's about the Avvar (ERMAHGERD I REALLY WANT TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THEM), and possibly more specifically about Hakkon Wintersbreath, who is one of the Avvar gods of legend.

Super excite.

 

[Pseudopsycho]

My mate turned up with a nearly free copy for me yesterday...
...just got to wait til I can afford my new GFX card (and finish Skyrim!)

Twitchy gaming fingers!

 

[Vintage Paw]

New DLC coming soon, The Descent.



The Deep Roads look pretty!! And the ogre looks more like the original ogres. Love the punching

 

[golightly]

Just getting back into DA:I. I'm enjoying it much more than my first play. I think this tends to happen when I play Bioware games. It takes a couple of goes for me to get it.

 

[moon]

Apparently this has arrived at home I couldn't wait until winter to play it seeing as I have PS4 just sitting there, waiting for Bioware
Will probably spend my evening making a female elf mage.. yayayaay!

 

[moon]

I made my elf mage (mainly for Solas!) but she looks nothing like me so am feeling a disconnect. May make a human rogue tonight..
Also my loading screens seem to take ages and the dialogue wheel is sometimes unresponsive. I installed an update and will see how it performs tonight.

 

[moon]

I got into this a bit more last night and am loving it!
Managed to complete a variety of quests in the Hinterlands and got enough power to go to val royeaux.
Chatted to Solas one of his dialogue bits very much reminded me of the 'Tears in rain' monologue from Blade Runner.

My entire team was killed by the Druffalo on the farm.. I wasn't expecting that.
Getting into tactical camera a bit, I like it for checking the vulnerabilities of enemies and it also has a bit of a Skyrim stealth archery feel, will test it more over the weekend.

I made a human female but she was so ugly I'm going to delete her and make a male rogue dual wielding assassin (for Dorian!)

Um that's it for now.. will post a few pics over the weekend no doubt.

 

[moon]

Here is the Solas speech at time 0.27


And here is the 'tears in the rain' monologue from Blade Runner, they are surprisingly similar

 

[Vintage Paw]

Inquisition's final DLC comes out in a couple of weeks, called Trespasser. I'm looking forward to it, although I haven't played the last one yet

 

[moon]

Here is my male rogue.


Still trying to get a good photo of my female mage... her facial proportions are a bit off.

I've made it to Redcliffe and finally met Dorian! He is such a darling.. and the clothes he wears (or doesn't wear) whooo..
Its all getting really exciting now. I've spent a huge amount of time in the Hinterlands helping refugees, stopping the fighting between mages and templars etc etc. Visited the Storm Coast for a bit as well as a few other areas, but the Hinterlands seem a bit more populated.
Getting the hang of crafting etc Sera's bees have been a godsend when fighting bears. So far my fave companions are Iron Bull, Sera and Vivienne, I try to take them out with me as much as possible but I have a feeling that they tire if you take them out to much? loosing health more quickly? So I change up my team on occasion.
I cant find the place where I can see how much time I've spent in game but I'm sure its around 20hrs..

I saw the final DLC, I think it was the Spanish version... and the ending was erm.. interesting...Solas???

Edited to add that I now have the mages working alongside us and FREE at Haven, that caused a lot of ruffled feathers but I'm getting the feeling that this game is quite similar to Mass Effect in regards to the fear of artificial intelligence.

My take on it is that we have to at least trust in the mages to use their magic wisely if we are to move forwards in peace. Keeping them locked up in circles and hunted down just creates more of a threat, possibly tempting them to use blood magic in order to gain their more power and control over their lives etc etc.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I should have added, if you haven't finished the main game do NOT watch the Trespasser trailer

I'm yet to side with the templars, but there are changes to the later story if you do, a character you don't meet otherwise shows up and is apparently a better character than the equivalent in the mages' storyline. That said, my natural inclination is to trust the mages first, templars absolute last. I'm about to start a qunari mage playthrough to romance Sera again (I absolutely love Sera) and of course I'll be siding with the mages. If I play a dorf, which I most assuredly will at some point, it would make a great deal of sense for her to side with the templars, since magic boo evil bad weird scary. But, I have to make my elf character at some point to romance Solas because reasons.

I'm modding the game this time around - not too many mods, a couple of hairstyles, a new complexion, a place to buy schematics, an altered xp-gain curve (so I don't have to be quite as completionist because seriously), and a few other bits and bobs. Making a qunari is quite difficult - there doesn't seem to be as much latitude with the face sliders as there are for other races. Still, in my testing last night I came up with this, which I'm semi-happy with but will be redoing today:

 

[Vintage Paw]

Oh yes, if you're into screenshots, on the PC of course, you can now pause cutscenes with the latest download of DAI Cinematic Tools.

 

[moon]

My female elf Mage inquisitor
We have made it to Skyhold!!
That cut scene saw me wildly finger snapping on the sofa whilst shouting 'yes yes yes' I did think the scene could gave been even more cinematic though, for example the crow that flys into view over the mountains could have given a squawk
Has been interesting meeting Cole, I've read a bit about him and am looking forward to learning more about his back story. Also Krem, KREM! Such an amazing character, I hope s/he has a bigger part to play in the story, at the moment s/he seems to be a bit of an add on, to make Iron Bull more approachable?
I had a chat with Blackwall and although he is really really not my kind of person I hope he comes out of his shell a bit and forgives himself of his past (what ever that thing was)
Am still in the Hinterlands and have done a bit of the Storm Coast, found the Black Emporium (haha) and will probably now spend a bit of time in Skyhold.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Krem is wonderful. He has a little bit of awkward dialogue at one point that didn't need to be there, a bit too forced. But fair play to BioWare for taking on a trans character and really trying to do him justice. They've been good at listening to feedback from trans people about how he was handled, and they took a lot of advice beforehand too. I wonder if you'll experience Krem's fondness for standing on his chair or sitting on it oddly in the pub?

Yes, there's cosplay of it:

Watching that arrival at Skyhold, it felt like it needed another 'Dragon Age: Inquisition' splash screen like after when you get to Haven for the first time That whole sequence gives me the shivers.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Finally happy with how Samiya Adaar looks:

I've barely done anything yet because I've been messing trying to make a ReShade config (pretty colours). Each map tends to need its own version because the lighting template is so different for them all. Haven in particular is a bugger to get right. I'm pretty happy with this now though:

 

[moon]

Phew, I thought Krem may have died at Haven, as I can't seem to find him at Skyhold. I wasn't sure what gender he was initially but read up on him. I can't believe Jennifer Hale voiced his character, he sounds nothing like my femshep.

 

[moon]

I found some new clothes in the wardrobe at Skyhold

 

[Vintage Paw]

I haven't downloaded that patch yet. I'm waiting to see if the last couple of mods I use get updated to work with it. I have a pj replacement installed at the moment anyway, so I'm not too worried. The best thing about it is the golden nug - once you've completed the base end-game mission for the first time (regardless of whether you do any dlc or not) that character gets access to a golden nug statue and can upload all your found and bought schematics to the cloud. Then from that point any of your future characters can at any point in the game touch that statue and all the schematics will sync, and of course any additional ones those characters find are uploaded and synced too. It's sort of like new game plus-lite. Once I've got the patch I'll load up my one and only completed character and sync the ever-loving fuck out of it

 

[moon]

This was on my Twitter feed

 

[Vintage Paw]

I have updated to patch 10 - it didn't go terribly. All my mods work - I was waiting for the faster levelling mod to be updated, and now it is. It makes it so you don't have to be completionist to get to the levels required to take down the highest level dragons or do the harder content in the dlcs. Because seriously, I've done completionist once, and it was enough for me.

I've synced my golden nug from my one and only end-game character, so now all my inkies can use the schematics she found and bought. And I've discovered that trying to tint your armour at Skyhold is difficult because good god the lighting in that menu is drreadful.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Some more screenshots:

 

[Vintage Paw]

And some more from The Hinterlands:

 

[moon]

Where did you get those clothes??
My entire party was slaughtered on the Western Approach so I've retreated to the Hinterlands to lick my wounds.
For some reason Blackwall and I have become a thing... Not sure how that happened but Solas has been creeping me out a bit..

 

[Vintage Paw]

That's one of the Avaar armours from the dlc pack. I can't help myself, I have to buy all everything

And yeah, Blackwall's romance is a weird one. It just suddenly happens, out of the blue. There is a design reason for that though. The writer of his romance explained it in a BioWare blog post a while ago. DO NOT READ IT YET. Wait until you've finished the romance

 

[Vintage Paw]

In other news, the golden nug is wonderful. Tier 3 mage armour and I'm only level 5. Super!