What did you do today in Dragon Age The Veilguard [Spoilers]

That's what I did and got a REALLY good looking Inquisitor as a result. He looked older and more mature just the way I wanted it while looking somewhat similar to my Inquisitor a decade ago.

I thought as much, my game may be buggy then because I don’t have that option.

Guys, I think I missed where to customize inky...
I thought this would come up later somehow but apprently it's right at the start when you do Rook? HOW did I miss this?!
Does anybody know what the default world state is? I'm NOT starting over! Took me forever to get Rook to look good.
I don't really care about my inky and don't even remember what she looked like after 10 years and none of my screenshots survived my PC upgrade. So that part I don't care about. But I wanted to set the 3 choices to what I had. This blows. How is there no warning that you missed the other character customization?
Just arrived at the Lighthouse. I guess I'll just see what happens when you forget to set a world state. I assume there is no way to do it later? Or can I do it with the mirror? I haven't used it yet. Gonna check...

The game doesn't feel like a Bioware game anymore, feels like another studio made a kid version of Dragon Age as an action adventure. I'm basically Link smashing urns for glowing things and looking for shiny gold nuggets in dark corners. Yikes. MEA while also being a shit Mass Effect game still had the familiar Bioware flair, just a shittier version of it. But this is something else entirely wearing Dragon Age's knock-off skin.
Dialogue is just short sentences in between running around. Just sound bites for children so that they don't get overwhelmed. Everything glows, so you don't get lost. I even turned off stuff glowing from miles away but it doesn't help much.

Granted, kinda feels like the equally shit prologue of ME3, but eh. I still don't really understand how and why they recruited Rook and how long he's known these people. It all feels so disjointed and rushed. The pacing is just awful but I expected as much. I have zero feel for Rook. This is just a faceless avatar with a short written background thrown at you.

In any case,I'll try to play my Rook as a mix of sarcastic/playful and gruff. My headcanon is that he is ususally easy-going but has a temper and is easily frustrated. So sometimes he's grouchy but when he's relaxed he's a bit of a charmer. He's mostly serious though when the situation is dangerous and focused on getting out of there. Let's see how much I'm able to roleplay here, my expectations are low. I still plan on romancing Neve.

A few screenshots of the prologue:

A quick note regarding the announcement requiring posters to not discuss Game End and End of Act spoilers.

Which you can read here:

bsn.boards.net/thread/20412/game-spoiler-discussions-listed-threads?page=1&scrollTo=1662832

For a while, while people are having their first playthroughs, it's just too dangerous to allow such spoilers.

For this thread. Please be really vague when you reach the end of each Act and the End of the Game.
We owe it to everyone to not surprise and spoil their experience.

Thanks.

Did some more stuff/missions.

Visited Minrathous and I just find it funny how Rook really like heights, there are a few idles tied to it.


I think right now, my favorite companion is Neve and then Bellara. Sorry Harding. I will get a 4th one shortly.

Using the first Warrior Ultimate you unlock is hilarious as a dwarf. Tiny Hulk Smash!

As for the topic, I did manage to get through launch, 40 minutes of shader building, chargen, and the first couple of conversations. Still don't know if my rig will actually be able to handle combat.

I gave Neve a new outfit


The First Warden


It's Dorain. And it's Maevaris


Thedas


Picked up a couple trophies

Convenient that

Another 2 hours in CC. Finally have a Rook that I can live with. I gave up on recreating my Lavellan. The CC limitations made it impossible. Disappointing because I didn't use any mods in DAI. She will be a stranger to me when she shows up in game, except for her voice. I finished the prologue and explored the Lighthouse.

As I have referenced I have had a DEVIL of a time trying to get on. Fate, bad luck, and probably more of my own biological frailties and anything else made it a really trying time to get on and actually do anything. But now that I am playing the game for a bit TODAY I am quite enjoying it.

General notes and preamble on how I do things, or at least WANTED to do things before I get started though. 1. Usually in any other 'what did you do' threads for the spoiler warning I post quest name then spoiler tag, bla bla bla. This was the way I intended to and practiced doing it with Veilguard in mind because that would be the big one, and while I am tempted, I am also torn because there are two big problems. A. That quest names itself might be considered spoilers and especially with the latest admonation from SofaJockey on the endgame that coulc also count and B. I don't even often times remember what the quest names are exactly so there is that and it did just occur to me I also might do what I thought of that one time and go with an approach lifted from Friends 'the one where we went to Weishaupt'...etc. 2. I tend to ramble a lot. I make really long posts in these threads talking about anything that is on my mind, I notice a lot of short posts in here, so I appologize for the wall of text that is incoming, but I have a LOT to get off my chest.

First thing I did was I went to go start working on my settings. Since this is the first game where I codified this I decided to turn on the 'color blind' setting for Deuten because I guess I have a SLIGHT color blindness (think that emphasis will come up in importance later, maybe some of you are already going 'uh oh' IDK). My tips here, in case someone reads this in the future I guess, is that I was calibrating the brightness and contrast by looking at a floating building off the Lighthouse proper in the background of the menu. I discovered that this was a bad idea because the menu darkens that bit of the thing. Second note is that there isn't the entire suite of options somehow, so I recommend making sure on clicking it again. Pretty smooth, or so I thought.

The Character Creator is where the trouble really began. And I love it in a way Andromeda like but with the same stuff from the trilogy and what not. But I almost hated it because well the Inquisitor can't really create her right, I had a plan, BUT I also didn't see any red hair colors in the thing either so I was annoyed. I had already been at this for about 3 hours or so, and I was really tired, really hungry, and a little bit sore so was trying not to get too dispairing and also being up pretty late and the wife at least had work in the morning so I was a little self consious about this as well. But wasn't too happy. But then it didn't make sense because I could've sworn I saw red headed options in the CC when I was looking at videos for it so what...they didn't give the Inquisitor the same options? On impulse I went to check on if it was in the Rooks options and then I went too far, instinctually hit X, and wiped out all of our hard work on it. So round 2 of creating Oliver and got through it, messed with the Inquisitor, hit play got through the bar...the game crashed. It was here though after watching the Important Goose do her CC and the wife noticed something on my computer...it hit us. The color blind setting theems to have leached a lot of the colors out of it to 'compensate' So yeah, don't know if I am more the issue here or if BioWare is but once we realized that we turned it off and the colors instantly started popping again. Last thing I discovered in this chain of incidents is started the game up again and you can import your Rook at any point though to start, had to recreate the Inquisitor...I guess. But that was fine with me since I just sort of through things together.

Two different notes on the combat.

First so far at first having a lot of trouble with timing things, both parries and dodges was basically trying to time it with the attacks and it wasn't working out too well and I was getting hit...a lot. Even with me having a fairly generous amount of time to actually do these things and it got confusing. And given the build I am thinking of going for will need heavy defense and what not at the least so I guess I need to get used to parries and it does throw me off since I can't just hold it down.

Second, the bow combat. Now at the risk of gaslighting myself or something I remember having a conversation with LukeBarrett in the past in the wishlist thread about it would be nice if bows would snap to your target at the beginning to help with console gaming because in previous ARPGs you could waste a lot of time aiming. Well I had hopes based on what I had seen of it but I wasn't entirely convinced either but yes, after looking into it and trying it...the bow does indeed snap for a second, both on aimed attacks and firing from the hip. It is still easy to wrench it off target and because of other ARPGs I was trying to hit L2 and R2 at the same time, but so far I am quite thrilled by it, though in general problem number two I am having with this is that the control scheme of this game is very different then previous games so its taking me a minute to get on it and lots of flailing around...

The one where we confront the Dread Wolf