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Post by Reznore on Sept 20, 2024 14:33:36 GMT
About dragons and dwarven lore/blight We think Archdemons are "special" but I aren't so sure anymore. At the start of the game in Solas hideout you see an ancient mural showing elves binding a dragon with chains. Later in Arlathan the red dragon speak as if posessed by Ghilan'nain.
There's also Harding talking about some kind of lost dwarven hymn. A kind of we are all one type of thing. Might be the twisted song in the Blight. Ghilan'nain might have created the Blight using Titans magic.
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Post by dadithinkimgay on Sept 20, 2024 15:29:04 GMT
About dragons and dwarven lore/blight We think Archdemons are "special" but I aren't so sure anymore. At the start of the game in Solas hideout you see an ancient mural showing elves binding a dragon with chains. Later in Arlathan the red dragon speak as if posessed by Ghilan'nain.
There's also Harding talking about some kind of lost dwarven hymn. A kind of we are all one type of thing. Might be the twisted song in the Blight. Ghilan'nain might have created the Blight using Titans magic.
Definitely makes sense. Also I’m not sure if Harding will ever be the same again :/ given what we know about Titans. Notice how she seems completely out of it when talking to Rook in her Lighthouse room. I just hope she doesn’t become a husk.
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Post by IlidanDA on Sept 20, 2024 15:37:59 GMT
Maybe you know. Is crafting back? I don't see any movie about this.
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Post by Dukemon on Sept 20, 2024 16:07:23 GMT
The Qunari, Vashoth and Tal-Vashoth all look so ugly. In Inquisition you could see very well where the horns start and how they affect the shape of the head. In Veilguard, they just look like they're stuck on and the lack of detail in the cartoon look takes away any chance of them being taken seriously in their appearance. Did the designers even take a closer look at the Qunari from DA2 and DAI?
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Post by smilesja on Sept 20, 2024 16:31:54 GMT
The Lords of Fortune are going to be my Faction for the 1st PT, but... I'm not digging the "Aspirational Armor". Holy crap - I take it back. *CR* - Dragon Age: Stunder Effect @corbynred*cough* Take that back. SHE'S SO BEAUTIFUL! WHERE CAN I GET THAT OUTFIT?!
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Post by azarhal on Sept 20, 2024 16:43:20 GMT
Not sure if this was posted, show most of the class active/ultimate abilities description. No story spoilers. Warrior core Ultimate is litterally "hulk smash".
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Post by Reznore on Sept 20, 2024 17:22:24 GMT
Minor spoiler Next to the codex entries, you got a "Letters send by companions and people you helped" folder.
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Post by gervaise21 on Sept 20, 2024 17:39:22 GMT
About dragons and dwarven lore/blight We think Archdemons are "special" but I aren't so sure anymore. At the start of the game in Solas hideout you see an ancient mural showing elves binding a dragon with chains. Later in Arlathan the red dragon speak as if posessed by Ghilan'nain.
There's also Harding talking about some kind of lost dwarven hymn. A kind of we are all one type of thing. Might be the twisted song in the Blight. Ghilan'nain might have created the Blight using Titans magic.
What I found interesting but curious about Kara Elizabeth's Solas "spoiler" is that: Ghil may have created the Blight much earlier than we originally thought. I may have misunderstood the conversation she had with Solas but she seemed to be speaking about leaving to join the gods, as though perhaps she wasn't one previously. Now we also suspected that Solas had something to do with her sparing her monsters of the sea but there seems to be something more going on there. He suggested she was sensitive (sympathetic?) at one time but then that changed. Also, she left him inside her lab even though he disapproved, so perhaps she authorised him to destroy it (as part of her deal with the other Evanuris to be elevated to godhood). She also seems some warped spirit of creation.
Still, if the Blight was created by her, rather than something that occurred in nature through mutation/corruption of lyrium, then presumably it should be easier to find a way to "cure" it. You just need to discover how she created it and then reverse engineer it. Something like that anyway. After all, we know it is possible to cleanse the Blight from eluvians (which seem partially organic) because Merrill managed it and we know that Fiona was cured through accelerating its spread (through making it run out of energy or something?), so there must be some way of dealing with it.
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Post by IlidanDA on Sept 20, 2024 17:58:12 GMT
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Post by colfoley on Sept 20, 2024 18:56:57 GMT
With everything we are reading and seeing either we're getting a lot more then the first seven hours or those seven hours are just packed through with stuff.
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Post by Envisionary on Sept 20, 2024 18:59:23 GMT
Solas spoilers Solas on blood magic
10 years ago: I would teach you if I knew it. It's a means to an end. Blood magic is no worse than any other, properly used. Now: I abhor the use of blood magic.
??? Yes, you can change your mind in the span of 10 years, but Solas? Since the recent "no more blood magic ever" debacle, it's just that this seems like the developers want you to feel a certain way about it using Solas and Hawke as mouthpieces.
Yes, I know he personally doesn't use it because it supposedly makes it more difficult to enter the Fade, but speaking generally and "abhor"?
And, "-had I the power to control you, I would already have used it." First of all, potential foreboding for the Well. Secondly, just as I suspected. He has principles until they're of no use to him and hates slavery until it's advantageous for him. He's an elven god under the pretense that he's better than the others.
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Post by Reznore on Sept 20, 2024 19:00:06 GMT
With everything we are reading and seeing either we're getting a lot more then the first seven hours or those seven hours are just packed through with stuff. It wasn't the first seven hours. They had the CC and custom made character they could use in the first area. Then a default rook for a companion quest. A default rook for a main quest.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 20, 2024 19:01:18 GMT
With everything we are reading and seeing either we're getting a lot more then the first seven hours or those seven hours are just packed through with stuff. It wasn't the first seven hours. They had the CC and custom made character they could use in the first area. Then a default rook for a companion quest. A custom rook for a main quest. ah so not the seven hours of the game but the whole event was 7 hours. Got it. Siege of Weishaupt seems really weird for the first act though.
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Post by Reznore on Sept 20, 2024 19:12:34 GMT
It wasn't the first seven hours. They had the CC and custom made character they could use in the first area. Then a default rook for a companion quest. A custom rook for a main quest. ah so not the seven hours of the game but the whole event was 7 hours. Got it. Siege of Weishaupt seems really weird for the first act though. I think it's the end of the first act. There's some big choice to make and the dev asked to keep quiet. But yeah weird some rook were level 30 during the siege.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 20, 2024 19:14:26 GMT
Yep watched the Rogue abilities and Veil Ranger it most likely is and the archery in this game looks amazing.
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Post by midnight tea on Sept 20, 2024 19:20:58 GMT
The Qunari, Vashoth and Tal-Vashoth all look so ugly. In Inquisition you could see very well where the horns start and how they affect the shape of the head. In Veilguard, they just look like they're stuck on and the lack of detail in the cartoon look takes away any chance of them being taken seriously in their appearance. Did the designers even take a closer look at the Qunari from DA2 and DAI? Have you considered that they did, and they've actually decided that they want to go in this direction? In fact, have you considered that the Qunari perhaps were always supposed to like like that, and they were held back before by technical limitations, just like they were held back by DAO's engine, which prevented them from adding horns on Qunari at all?? Man... people are entitled to their opinion about artists choices once their creation is let out into the wild, but as someone who creates herself I can't help being frustrated when creators are so often treated like idiots who don't know their own creation, once they make conscious decisions that some in the audience don't like.
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Post by midnight tea on Sept 20, 2024 19:21:37 GMT
Not sure if someone posted Skill Up's in here already, but his take is usually my go-to for this sort of hands on game preview. Not just because his is pretty unbiased and down-to-earth, but also because he always states upfront that he turns down any expense paid by the game developers/publishers (hotels, meals, transport, etc), unlike other content creators. Let's be real, once your hotel and meal are paid by EA (or be it Activision, Nintendo, whomever) to have a look on their game, you have strings attached. All of that said, I am more positive towards the game now than I was before. Ehhh... while I'm neither hot nor cold on Skill Up, I'm kinda iffy about gaming personalities boldly declaring that they paid all travel expenses (good for him that he's in secure-enough financial situation to afford that), because he still got an exclusive access to preview the game. That's not nothing.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 20, 2024 19:34:03 GMT
The Qunari, Vashoth and Tal-Vashoth all look so ugly. In Inquisition you could see very well where the horns start and how they affect the shape of the head. In Veilguard, they just look like they're stuck on and the lack of detail in the cartoon look takes away any chance of them being taken seriously in their appearance. Did the designers even take a closer look at the Qunari from DA2 and DAI? Have you considered that they did, and they've actually decided that they want to go in this direction? In fact, have you considered that the Qunari perhaps were always supposed to like like that, and they were held back before by technical limitations, just like they were held back by DAO's engine, which prevented them from adding horns on Qunari at all?? Man... people are entitled to their opinion about artists choices once their creation is let out into the wild, but as someone who creates herself I can't help being frustrated when creators are so often treated like idiots who don't know their own creation, once they make conscious decisions that some in the audience don't like. preach. Also after looking at enough of the CC the complaints are even more hollow. Sure no hamburger face but you definitely can see grizzled, rough, and horns leading up designs.
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Post by bierkrug on Sept 20, 2024 19:35:09 GMT
Man... people are entitled to their opinion about artists choices once their creation is let out into the wild, but as someone who creates herself I can't help being frustrated when creators are so often treated like idiots who don't know their own creation, once they make conscious decisions that some in the audience don't like. I'm a 2D/3D artist, I see where you're coming from. But if the entire internet's reaction to the Qunari is a resounding "ugly", then it probably is time to question design choices. There absolutely is such a thing as bad creature and character design.
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Post by flyingovertrout on Sept 20, 2024 19:41:39 GMT
Solas spoilers Solas on blood magic
10 years ago: I would teach you if I knew it. It's a means to an end. Blood magic is no worse than any other, properly used. Now: I abhor the use of blood magic.
??? Yes, you can change your mind in the span of 10 years, but Solas? Since the recent "no more blood magic ever" debacle, it's just that this seems like the developers want you to feel a certain way about it using Solas and Hawke as mouthpieces.
Yes, I know he personally doesn't use it because it supposedly makes it more difficult to enter the Fade, but speaking generally and "abhor"?
And, "-had I the power to control you, I would already have used it." First of all, potential foreboding for the Well. Secondly, just as I suspected. He has principles until they're of no use to him and hates slavery until it's advantageous for him. He's an elven god under the pretense that he's better than the others. He's always abhorred personally using it. I regret to inform you that you do not, in fact, know Solas better than Trick Weekes.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 20, 2024 19:43:17 GMT
ah so not the seven hours of the game but the whole event was 7 hours. Got it. Siege of Weishaupt seems really weird for the first act though. I think it's the end of the first act. There's some big choice to make and the dev asked to keep quiet. But yeah weird some rook were level 30 during the siege. I'm pretty sure it's the end of Act 1. I even suspect we deal with Ghilan'nain by the end of it or at least we think we did. That's why people are saying the end of Act 1 feels like the end of a game. Also, some of the people who played the game are speculating that Act 1 is the longer one.
The players were all jumped to that mission to play it with a preset level 30 Rook.
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Post by illuminated11 on Sept 20, 2024 19:44:34 GMT
It did surprise me, how negative the diction was for blood magic. Solas was much more neutral in that past, but I suppose it could've been a result of a less adversarial relationship with Inquisitor as compared to Rook.
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Post by midnight tea on Sept 20, 2024 19:46:27 GMT
Man... people are entitled to their opinion about artists choices once their creation is let out into the wild, but as someone who creates herself I can't help being frustrated when creators are so often treated like idiots who don't know their own creation, once they make conscious decisions that some in the audience don't like. I'm a 2D/3D artist, I see where you're coming from. But if the entire internet's reaction to the Qunari is a resounding "ugly", then it probably is time to question design choices. There absolutely is such a thing as bad creature and character design. Please don't confuse vocal parts of the Internet with the entire Internet. People are entitled to their opinion, and I've seen different people varied opinion about what exactly they don't find appealing in DAVe Qunari, but from what I saw most of people who declare that the Qunari are downright "ugly" are usually the same people who say that Veilguard looks like Fortnite or MMO. Like, I personally don't have much of an issue with the new Qunari design. I don't think it's bad. They are creatures with giant horns on their heads, and those horns have a very wide base covered in skin - and this is Bioware's interpretation of how that'd look.
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Post by Envisionary on Sept 20, 2024 19:49:25 GMT
Solas spoilers Solas on blood magic
10 years ago: I would teach you if I knew it. It's a means to an end. Blood magic is no worse than any other, properly used. Now: I abhor the use of blood magic.
??? Yes, you can change your mind in the span of 10 years, but Solas? Since the recent "no more blood magic ever" debacle, it's just that this seems like the developers want you to feel a certain way about it using Solas and Hawke as mouthpieces.
Yes, I know he personally doesn't use it because it supposedly makes it more difficult to enter the Fade, but speaking generally and "abhor"?
And, "-had I the power to control you, I would already have used it." First of all, potential foreboding for the Well. Secondly, just as I suspected. He has principles until they're of no use to him and hates slavery until it's advantageous for him. He's an elven god under the pretense that he's better than the others. He's always abhorred personally using it. I regret to inform you that you do not, in fact, know Solas better than Trick Weekes. I specifically said that he sounds like he's speaking generally and not personally. For this exact reply that I knew would get it if I didn't include it.
I regret to inform you that this smug ass reply was the result of poor reading comprehension.
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