General Gameplay Discussion

Best Tips video I saw so far (also very, very good player):

PC players. Do you need to open the radial menu in order to use squad skills, or can they b bound to a key?

I missed it then.  My apologies.

You can rebind them, they are already bound by default to something. 

Playing Rogue (on Xbox).

I found having the controls for Defend (parry) [LB] over on the left and dodge ( B ) over on the right, problematic when dancing around the battlefield.

Swapping the bumpers [LB] [RB] made a huge difference.

Also swapped the triggers [LT] [RT] so my bow is on [LT] where it should be. 

Does anyone know how hard the puzzles are in Veilguard.

Mortismal's 100% completion review (which I just watched as he's one of the Youtubers I trust to give accurate, unbiased, comprehensive reviews) touched on this saying that certain elements of character development, skills, traits etc. were locked behind some kind of puzzle system.

Has anyone completed one of these (apparently mandatory) puzzles? How difficult are they? Are we talking about solving some really, really nasty, complex Tower of Hanoi or fliptile type stuff, or (even worse) something like Andromeda's 'Space suduko') or are they relatively straightforward?

I ask because I'm one of those people who comprehensively suck at puzzles mostly due to me suffering from Dyscalculia (which makes anything involving sequential logic or pattern recognition very, very difficult to process). Am I going to be playing the game with a Youtube puzzle solver walkthrough permanently open on the other monitor in order to make any headway?

Hold for ADS (aim down sights) or tap to hipfire. For SofaJockey, we actually used to have separate buttons for ADS and ranged attack but it was wildly overloading the controller. These RPG games need controllers with at least 2 more buttons (fingers crossed for the next gen)

I'd have to double check but I believe you have to specifically be on Storyteller for it to be an option (rather than custom). It definitely is in there somewhere (I'll edit this when I get time to boot back up and find it for you).

EDIT TO ADD: Settings -> Gameplay -> under the Combat section it's third down, called Prevent Death. 

I wonder if having a button on the controller handles, or something approximating the Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, is the way forward these days. It's amazing how complex controllers have become over the years.

So far, the only puzzles have done are environmental puzzles (find the switch/lever, creating passage/destroy blocking barrier, etc) and I wouldn't considered them very hard or even long. Althought, some stuff are hidden and smashing crates might reveal them, or looking for another way around sometimes too.

Fighting the camera? You might want to play with the mouse sensitivity settings (there is one for the mouselook and one for aiming).

Not sure about switching to bow, might be the same switch weapon button as Warrior/Mage (I rebinded stuff, but I think  it was X originally so I kept it). Otherwise, when I'm using Shield Toss, I have to hold the hip-fire button to aim.

Yeah, just go to the menu and go to the companions page. You should see their approval level on the left side.

I finally found the world map