MastorofPuppetz
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How the heck did you finish in 25 hours? just doing the main, companions quests, and avoiding most side stuff I would still be way longer.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition |OT2| Leave the damn Hinterlands!
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How the heck did you finish in 25 hours? just doing the main, companions quests, and avoiding most side stuff I would still be way longer.
I am in the same boat. haha
I dont even remember whats the next main quest after Giselle, I unlocked so many sidequests... I guess it is to see the
guy responsible for the horses?
I am so afraid I will get lost with the plot with all this sidetracking. Hopefully not though.
I agree with this, as I'm at 80 hours in and after nearly wrapping up every side quest in Hinterlands, The Mire, Storm Coast, Crestwood and Western Approach, I now angrily pass undiscovered skull posts because I hate seeing more missing shards pop up on my minimap.
Great game, but I needed to pace the story more than just the side quests. If Bioware follows through with Mass Effect 4 on the same engine, they absolutely need to reverse the story/side quest ratio to keep players engaged.
So can anyone explain the tactical camera to me? I played pretty much all of Dragon Age Origins in isometric mode but I just can't seem to get things working in this. Is there any way to queue commands to your party members? My main issue is that I can't order my ranged characters into position and then tell them to use a specific move. What am I missing here?
Thanks.
Thanks.
The Emprise and Crestwood are my favorite zones, because they have a more interesting zone quest. Storm Coast is just you killing red templars like in the Emprise, but in the Emprise you have the story of the village and its leader along with
Michel and Imshael, both Masked Empire characters
Hissing Wastes looks cool but is a fucking waste of time. If it wasn't for the loot I'd never go back in subsequent playthroughs. Emerald Graves is again beautiful but the dungeons and side quests have more interesting stories than the main one. Western Approach has an okay main story (aside from the Hawke/Grey Warden stuff I mean), cool dungeon and Warden keep, but I found it a hassle to traverse. I've read some people saying they love Exalted Plains but the zone is wasted potential to me since it could have been used to flesh out the Civil War more than it did.
Overall the only two criticisms I have of this game are that some zones needed stronger main zone quests that relied less on codices and more on cutscenes, and that companion AI sucks and they need to bring back DA2's.
Yeah, it's not that people need to leave the Hinterlands it's that they need to stop doing the quests they don't like and stick to the core quests for each area that have at least a film of story about them delivered by actual talking NPCs.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
This would be frakking amazing TBH....gamechanger 101 haha...
Pyros_Eien
Member
Well other than the fact it's awful, you can press the Pause button to "unpause" tactical while still being in tactical view. Hold it for a few seconds then release to pause again. It's just all around terrible to play entirely in tactical though, the constant recentering, the lack of multi targetting and the lack of queueing makes it painful to use.
Moff
Member
generally, you should just always fight enemies that are more or less your level.
the game does not make that easy though, because apart from the main quest, you do not know what level enemies in a region are, and since you need ressources to unlock these regions, this can be pretty try & error.
it's a serious flaw of the game, because it made me finish 2 regions first, which were too high level and too hard. and I had to do 2 low level regions after that which were too easy then.
Shards should have never been in this game. Having a few interesting sidequests being obscured by 30+ shard locations on the map is not the greatest idea they've had.
Ok, thanks for the heads up. I was worried I was missing something. Actually I was kind of hoping I was missing something because I'm playing on Normal and I just keep getting ripped apart during difficult fights. Guess I just need to figure out how to fight smarter.
(Stupid Dragon)
Anton Sugar
Member
Thanks, really good to know. I didn't know if they had some kind of level scaling in place.
Generally you can tell if an area isn't meant for you by the enemy levels.
Emerald Graves is mid to early late game. Hissing Wastes and Empris Du Lion are the late game areas.
I got the horses last night as my last quest, it was a side quest apparently. But it makes traversing much easier, so I'd definitely go for that one ASAP
That's what my save says,I feel it's been longer yes. I did main missions and enough side stuff to get enough Power to unlock the main story.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Dragons are rough in the early levels(like at level 12 the hinterlands dragon is pretty rough unless you just solo it with certain classes or you have very good preparation). As you level up they get easier and easier though as gear outpaces mob scaling and your skill build becomes complete. Fighting a 20 dragon at 20 is easier than a 12 dragon at 12 in my opinion.
Horseticuffs
Full werewolf off the buckle
Ostensibly you'll get the same chances at good stuff regardless of size. You get a lot more chances in a large though. I'll usually go with a large if I've got time to earn enough.
Nice. I was running with some friends and if you can finish missions you get more than enough gold. Working together really means a lot more in DA than in ME3's MP, which is exactly what I wanted. I haven't done anything higher than Routine though since that's been challenging enough.
A Serious Man
Member
After two and a half grueling hours I finally unlocked the Belle of the Ball trophy. I did an actual fist pump when it popped up on my screen. The mission itself isn't that bad but running around pinging every square inch of the palace looking for coins and all that other bullshit is a slog.
There's so many ways to get that achievement though. You need 100 reputation, but there's, what, 200+ something possible?
I got the achievement getting 12/30 letters, 6 out of 15 coins, and 8 statues.
It's a nightmare for OCD people, but in terms of maxing out the meter, it's quite easy.
Mr Wonderstuff
Banned
My rogue has -199 and around that on all defense abilities (magic, melee and ranged). What's causing that? Is it a game-breaking bug?
PeskyToaster
Member
OT2!! This game just takes all of my time. It's a million times better than DA2. I need more time to play!
Horseticuffs
Full werewolf off the buckle
My brother and I, Pons here on GAF, first tried it and it was totally murdering us. We couldn't finish even a single room at first. After he left I went into a random group and gained five levels in one map. Just keep at it and you'll be rolling the hardest difficulty before long.
Skills and gear make a huge difference. I'm really loving this mode. I need to remember about single too, though.
It's not that quest. You will see some text about ending the game when you get to the final quest.
My replacement ps4 came and after a full charge, it lasted for 7 1/2 hours according to the game clock. So I know thats accurate. Way better then my year old one which lasts about 4
Yup, same problem most recent open world RPGs have. Even Dragons dogma and Xenoblade. Its a hard thing to do, but just try to do a few sidequests that sound sorta interesting, instead of 100%.
Raven77
Member
Any advice on what I should do next?
I am about 60% done with Hinterlands stuff so i'm moving on now. I can go to either the first city on the left side of the map, forgot its name. Or I can go to the Storm Coast or the swamp area with the undead.
I'm a little confused as to which area I should head to next. I think i'm lvl 7 currently.
I am about 60% done with Hinterlands stuff so i'm moving on now. I can go to either the first city on the left side of the map, forgot its name. Or I can go to the Storm Coast or the swamp area with the undead.
I'm a little confused as to which area I should head to next. I think i'm lvl 7 currently.
Yeah I got like 15 approval just for my hot qunari dance moves.
Go to the city and keep doing as many main missions as possible to get more companions before you go back to futzing around.
Thanks.
People keep asking this just save often and you shouldn't have a problem.
do you have an item with berserk?
A lot of it is noncombat so you don't need that much luck, but that last bit. lol.
They scale within the range of the zones.
Level scaling is a pretty divisive issue. I was under the impression that people tended not to like it in the Huge RPG genre.
I've done a bunch of the sidequests, pretty much everything available to me at this point, and I'm way over-leveled for the main story quests. Right now I'm at level 24, and I still haven't gone (Act II spoiler)
In the previous story mission I was around level 22, fighting enemies at levels 11-15, and of course I didn't get experience for anything. I ended up fighting a dragon and killed it in less than a minute.
This game can be a drag if you're a "completionist". I like filling out maps, but so many of the maps are (unnecessarily) huge. Like, I appreciate the sense of scale, and the scenery is beautiful, but do I really need to travel five minutes by horse across empty desert (with barely any enemies or mining materials) just to get to the next point of interest? Couldn't they have compressed things a little so it doesn't feel like I'm walking / riding half the time?
I mean, I'm enjoying it but I feel a lot of the content is filler and doesn't really add to the experience, except to irk people who don't like having uncompleted quests in their journals. And especially irksome are bugged / poorly designed fetch quests: "This random item in your Valuables is actually necessary to complete a Requisition quest in a different area, but you won't know that and it's only available from loot caches you've already opened or from enemies that no longer spawn because you've cleared the area."
to the ball at Val Royeaux for Empress Celene
This game can be a drag if you're a "completionist". I like filling out maps, but so many of the maps are (unnecessarily) huge. Like, I appreciate the sense of scale, and the scenery is beautiful, but do I really need to travel five minutes by horse across empty desert (with barely any enemies or mining materials) just to get to the next point of interest? Couldn't they have compressed things a little so it doesn't feel like I'm walking / riding half the time?
I mean, I'm enjoying it but I feel a lot of the content is filler and doesn't really add to the experience, except to irk people who don't like having uncompleted quests in their journals. And especially irksome are bugged / poorly designed fetch quests: "This random item in your Valuables is actually necessary to complete a Requisition quest in a different area, but you won't know that and it's only available from loot caches you've already opened or from enemies that no longer spawn because you've cleared the area."
You're not right up against the end, that's about 3/4 of way through the main storyline. The game explicitly says when endgame events will be set in motion and you don't have to rush towards it like in Mass Effect to get the best results.
You have 2 more after that one, 3 if you haven't done Here Lies yet. What I would consider the final stretch (though not the last mission, just the start of OH SHIIIIIT I GOTTA FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS) starts with What Pride Hath Wrought.
GrumpyOutlander
Member
After going through the Hawke customization at Skyhold, my accent changed to British. Is there a way to prevent this?