Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
Thx ill have a look at that. Can you make fade touched stuff? I don't have much of those. Don't wanna waste resources.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition |OT2| Leave the damn Hinterlands!
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Nah, fade touched items are rare drops from enemies/mining/herbs. You just have to farm a bit to get those. Some do come out of chests, though. A popular one is fade touched obsidian in a locked house in Redcliffe (requires deft hands) inside a chest. As long as you leave an item in the chest each time you leave the Hinterlands and come back the chest will fill up again.
Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
Shit I think I got that already
Oh well. Yeah I figured it was random.
Oh well. Yeah I figured it was random.
Melchiah
Member
Ah, that one. I've already done it. I was actually wanting to have another quest ahead. ;-)
SoraanTribal
Member
I'm finally about to start this game! I've heard good things about it from friends. I'm playing it on the PS4, and can you really not use the dpad to navigate menus? I wonder if they will patch that in or if it's just not possible?
Ovek
7Member7
Don't imagine they would add that.... but Bioware have been awfully silent about the next patch so they might be trying to implement some of the most requested features like a appearance changer mirror (it's going to be a mirror) etc. So you never know.
At around 80 hours right now, though there were a few hours where I went back and redid stuff. I think I'm near the level cap.
The plot itself is pretty slim, but I guess that's not unusual for a BW game. Yet without "hubs" the missions don't have the same effect, I think. Nothing so far has stood out to me as being mind blowing. The last missions I did were
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So far the hardest decisions have related to party members.
Plot choices so far have been pretty easy to make:
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So far I feel like I've wasted more time traveling (walking/mount) and figuring out which items to put on people and what to sell and running back to the damn war table (WHY NOT JUST HAVE IT ACCESSIBLE THROUGH A MENU!?) than playing the actual game . By that I mean fighting or going through the plot or meeting interesting characters that expand on the lore of Thedas. I feel like that happened a lot in the first game, because of the "hubs" that were clearly delineated, but not here, not often. I don't think I've learned anything new so far, with a few exceptions.
I also feel like there's a severe lack of dungeons and crawling of the sort. That's what I like, and there's just not enough of it to satisfy me. The "open world" aspect seems to have taken all their resources. Yet, traveling for the most part has been pretty awful, since there are only a few trails and there are awful steep rocks or cliffs. Whoever designed some of these maps doesn't know how to make a game map accessible. Open world works best when the field is level (like some of the desert maps).
Val Royeaux is probably my least favorite place of the whole game. Awful mini quests and boring political plot postured as something more than it was.
The plot itself is pretty slim, but I guess that's not unusual for a BW game. Yet without "hubs" the missions don't have the same effect, I think. Nothing so far has stood out to me as being mind blowing. The last missions I did were
the Wardens and Val Royeaux
So far the hardest decisions have related to party members.
Plot choices so far have been pretty easy to make:
I went with the mages, teamed up with the Wardens since there's history there from DAO, gave up Hawke because he can probably fend for himself (plus, I just don't care what happens to him at this point -- bitch was a blood mage in my game an continues to bash blood mages, hypocrite!), told the people at Orlais to figure out their own shit (I didn't side with anyone, but I did kill that one woman)
So far I feel like I've wasted more time traveling (walking/mount) and figuring out which items to put on people and what to sell and running back to the damn war table (WHY NOT JUST HAVE IT ACCESSIBLE THROUGH A MENU!?) than playing the actual game . By that I mean fighting or going through the plot or meeting interesting characters that expand on the lore of Thedas. I feel like that happened a lot in the first game, because of the "hubs" that were clearly delineated, but not here, not often. I don't think I've learned anything new so far, with a few exceptions.
Lyrium is alive? Oh man, not midichlorians.
I also feel like there's a severe lack of dungeons and crawling of the sort. That's what I like, and there's just not enough of it to satisfy me. The "open world" aspect seems to have taken all their resources. Yet, traveling for the most part has been pretty awful, since there are only a few trails and there are awful steep rocks or cliffs. Whoever designed some of these maps doesn't know how to make a game map accessible. Open world works best when the field is level (like some of the desert maps).
Val Royeaux is probably my least favorite place of the whole game. Awful mini quests and boring political plot postured as something more than it was.
Do you mean the one where you meet a companion earlier on? I didn't like that one, in fact I preferred the Templar one.
Ovek
7Member7
If I didn't cheat the war table missions they would have driven me insane.
I probably would have just given it to the fastest person. However, I'm looking at a guide. Is there a way to cheat it faster or something?
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
Set your PC clock forward.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
So I'm walking around Emprise de Lion and come across this... thing.
Then I start the Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts quests (very minor early spoilers)
Then I start the Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts quests (very minor early spoilers)
and what is up with everyone wearing the same uniform? I thought it was going to be a fun chance to give everyone a unique formal outfit but instead its copy/paste bodies. Leliana suffers horribly looking like a pin head, to the point I'm wondering if its not a horrible bug.
SoraanTribal
Member
Aww.. well I'm sure it wont be too big of a deal once I get further into it and used to it.
So... random question unrelated to the game (although sort of related due to the install size and patches)... I want to upgrade my PS4 hard drive from the default one. Anyone know of any good/cheap 1 or 2TB hard drives compatible with the PS4?
KyanMehwulfe
Member
loving the Inquisition and war/army elements so far
I left the Hinterlands to try not get bogged down there and continue the story a bit but I keep returning there to establish new camps and such haha
probably my favorite part are the establish camps, claiming territory, or the missions you send those 3 NPCs on
game reminds me a lot if FF XII combat with FF Tactics side missions
I left the Hinterlands to try not get bogged down there and continue the story a bit but I keep returning there to establish new camps and such haha
probably my favorite part are the establish camps, claiming territory, or the missions you send those 3 NPCs on
game reminds me a lot if FF XII combat with FF Tactics side missions
Apparently there were plans for you to be able to choose the outfits for that bit... but it never happened. I feel like they could/should have at least given better formals for the ladies.
Just do quests that sound interesting and if those are just the story quests than just do those as long as you have the Power to do so. But yeah, this game is pretty overwhelming the first time through.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
The more I play the more that this games seem just filled with half baked things like that. Like this Wicked Hearts quest... decent idea for a non combat heavy quest but the mechanics and actual execution of it are not very good.
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They're searching for coders to help them edit/change mesh and EBX files.
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The toolset is still WIP, please have patience with it.
So far modders were able to achieve mostly textures swap.
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Indrid Cold
Unconfirmed Member
So I take it Cassandra's personal quest is bugged too? Killed the templar in exalted plains. Marker still points to his camp.
FutureZombie
Banned
I'm playing a defensive warrior, and I'm finding it problematic to have any other melee characters in my party. I'm using two mages and an arrow rogue since none of the melee characters can defend themselves worth a damn. Even when I'm tanking and have the agrro on me, the other melee characters are taking massive damage from aoe swings. Even worse, sometimes the ranged characters will not move away from the fight. The grapple hook move often does nothing, and there are times when I cannot move the enemies away from my ranged characters. And these idiots just stand there taking damage unless I switch to them and move them away. I wish I could program them to keep their distance.
Ploid 3.0
Member
Yeah it sucks, the AI is the biggest threat in the game. It feels like you're trying to stop water from falling.
A way that suppose to stop ranged characters from going into melee range is to set their behaviors to Follow > Themself. This seem to work sometimes for some characters. It could be a bit buggy like the abilitiy rings which also work sometimes but need you to do certain things to get them working correctly if they are fixable at all.
Take off ring > restart game > check ability in tech tree menu > put ring on > confirm that it's working in tech tree menu > Repeat this each time you equip a new weapon, item, or armor.
So much don't work quite right in the game that you can't really feel like you can trust mechanics to work (especially tactical menu stuff like hold position, use the revive spell Viv, no I said use revive not chain lightnin... grrrr now you don't have enough mana for me to manually use the spell as my melee dd and tank flail around as I use this command for you). This makes the AI really seem untrustworthy needing you to baby them unless you are using a powerful build with amazing gear to offset the AI's blunders. Even then it's annoying to see your ranged character back in melee being less effective and open for aoe melee attacks.
MrCookiepants
Member
I'm loving this game so far. The environment work is absolutely stunning. Combat is a bit weak (playing mage) but the pretty particles keep me awake.
Also, Dorian as my husbando was the easiest choice I've ever made in a Bioware game. Gay or straight, how could one resist that moustache?
Also, Dorian as my husbando was the easiest choice I've ever made in a Bioware game. Gay or straight, how could one resist that moustache?
GotchaForce
Member
Looks like I got the Dragon's Bane glitch 
Want to play a 2nd time, was wondering if I play on Nightmare will that count as beating it on hard as well?
Want to play a 2nd time, was wondering if I play on Nightmare will that count as beating it on hard as well?
The Shogun
Banned
Some high resolution shots from tonight's session.
It's kind of crazy how much of a swing in difficulty I've faced after picking a specialization. It had been pretty slow going on Hard up until getting to
, but after going Knight Enchanter and using a respec amulet on a few characters I've barely had a single fight last more than 20 seconds. Are all the classes this strong after picking a specialization, or is KE kind of broken?
Skyhold
TatteredHat
Member
I'd have a lot more fun with the multiplayer if it wasn't designed to get you to spend money on the store, even at level 10 we're still getting owned by the first Elven Keep boss.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
I probably won't look into modding until I finish the game but has anyone gotten far with being able to mod the faces of companions or NPCs? While old NPCs like Leliana, Loghain, Alistair or Morrigan don't look terrible in Inquisition, I feel like BioWare could have done a much better job making them look more faithful to how they looked in Origins.
It would be real nice if BioWare released some proper modding tools or support for Inquisition, since (for me anyway) its a game loaded with tons of small issues that collectively add up, but a lot of which could be fixed by small mods. Kind of like Origins in that regard. And BioWare seems insanely slow in patching/updating Inquisition.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Mods I'd like to see
- More unique, balanced weapons and armor pieces (I think I spent half the game in the Dragon armor set you're just given, the other half in a crafted fancy dress uniform. More variety would be nice.)
- Way to trigger party banter at will. (To counteract playing through most of the game with the bug that rendered party banter nonexistent.)
- Way to fix up Skyhold
- Tactical camera fix
- Adjustment to Inquisition perks (why do I have to buy into 3-4 useless perks to get say, an inventory increase or whatever else I really want?)
- Adjustment to war table times. There is just no damn good reason to have to wait 18 hours to be able to move parts of the story along. Even if the time is for "flavor" 3-4 hours is plenty long enough.
- Better enemies in late game. I don't want level scaling, but I want there to be some hard enemies in some areas of the map past level 12.
- Damage output increased for warriors, small decrease for rogues. Two-hander warriors should be doing a bit more damage then they are, IMO. That's no butter knife they're slinging around.
EDIT: And of course, Harding as a party member, please. She can take Varric's place.
- More unique, balanced weapons and armor pieces (I think I spent half the game in the Dragon armor set you're just given, the other half in a crafted fancy dress uniform. More variety would be nice.)
- Way to trigger party banter at will. (To counteract playing through most of the game with the bug that rendered party banter nonexistent.)
- Way to fix up Skyhold
- Tactical camera fix
- Adjustment to Inquisition perks (why do I have to buy into 3-4 useless perks to get say, an inventory increase or whatever else I really want?)
- Adjustment to war table times. There is just no damn good reason to have to wait 18 hours to be able to move parts of the story along. Even if the time is for "flavor" 3-4 hours is plenty long enough.
- Better enemies in late game. I don't want level scaling, but I want there to be some hard enemies in some areas of the map past level 12.
- Damage output increased for warriors, small decrease for rogues. Two-hander warriors should be doing a bit more damage then they are, IMO. That's no butter knife they're slinging around.
EDIT: And of course, Harding as a party member, please. She can take Varric's place.
That's not her personal quest, it's just a way to boost up her approval. Almost every character has these.
That happened to me too but when I came back to Exalted Plains later the Templar reappeared and when I killed him the second time it worked fine. Could just be a case of leaving there then coming back.
Knight Enchanter is one of the more overpowered specializations. It synergizes stupidly well with Clean Burn in Fire.
Lol, as I was scrolling down the thread I saw your screenshot before reading your post and immediately thought "holy shit, looks like Tommy Lee Jones".
That is hilarious
Escape Goat
Member
Krem as party member!
You misspelled Harding.
Escape Goat
Member
I'd sooner have Dagna than that useless dorf.
... how dare you.
Tempest is the most broken specialization in the game if you choose to use the Flask of Fire + Thousand Cuts exploit. Fights are even shorter than 20 seconds when using it.
If you (Tempest) and Sera are on the same team, every fight, even bosses and dragons, are over before they even start. I highly recommend no one does this unless you really hate the combat.
LurkerPrime
Member
Controllers, brah.
...It does seem really harebrained when you can get so many more active abilities than that, all but guaranteeing a bunch of wasted skill points towards the end of the game. (10%+)
Wow, that's uncanny.
Bravo!
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
KE is broken.
Jibbajabbawockky
Member
Yeah... I swear I read some interview pre-release with either Laidlaw, Darrah or one of the producers where they admitted the 8 ability limit was a concession to multiplayer that they brought over to SP. Either way its real dumb.
I finally think I'm nearing the end of the game after having done the whole Warden questline and Wicked Hearts/Wicked Eyes and basically clearing out every zone minus Emerald Graves and Hissing Wastes.
After having sunk about 70-80 hours in though, I feel like the game is getting progressively worse. I don't know if its the lack of content in the open world structure or the way I've been playing as a completionist or just the lack of beefy story heavy side quests or lack of main quest content really hurts the game. Up through Haven the game generally felt really fresh and the pacing was solid. But after Haven I feel like the game's story just loses all momentum. Probably a big part of that is how I approached the main story content by basically putting it off for exploring all the zones but even then, there just isn't much content there. Almost to a startling degree.
All I know is that when I try to do a second playthrough I'm going to just main line the main story content as much as I can. I'm guessing that would help the pacing a great deal, even if the lack of cutscene heavy and narrative driven sidequests in the zones is still a huge shortcoming in this game.
KE is so broken, I thought it was a bug when I first used the class. You essentially have unlimited barrier, its crazy.
You get that quest around the 50% point but it's hard to tell where you are since you can do that mission in so many ways. Some people do it 30 hours into the game. I didn't do it until 140.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
The mural in Solas's study shows your progress in the main story. When it completes, you're done.
Melchiah
Member
What?! Mind blown.
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Deleted member 752119
Unconfirmed Member
I finished this up today. just over 100 hours. I got all the shards, landmarks, killed all the Dragons, did everything available on the war table and only sidequests left are requisition crap and finding the 42 books in Skyhold.
Easily the longest playthrough of a single player game for me, surpassing the 80 hours I spent on Oblivion and its DLC. Definitley my GOTY and one of my overall favorite games now. I loved exploring the huge world, and soaking in the visuals. Only nitpick would be that the game was a bit thin on story missions and story in general for a Bioware game.
Easily the longest playthrough of a single player game for me, surpassing the 80 hours I spent on Oblivion and its DLC. Definitley my GOTY and one of my overall favorite games now. I loved exploring the huge world, and soaking in the visuals. Only nitpick would be that the game was a bit thin on story missions and story in general for a Bioware game.