What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

@domi
Are you going to set up/import your custom world state from the DA Keep or just use default?

I am soooo confused. It does not give me any character creation options? I go Qunary, Rogue, DW, and then no male/female/appearance? It just shows Character Summary as a Tal-Vashoth Mercenary and then cuts into a cutscene (unskippable?) with a male Qunari????

WHAT? Where is the character creator? What Dragon Keep? Why do I need to log in somewhere? Can I pick female there and do the customization?

After the first scene you can customize the character.  


You can see your characters, warden and Hawke. Put them in the tapestry, and there you can to check your choices, and change them (must, if you want to see your choices in game!). 

I can't see my Warden at all, just my Hawke. :( I loaded the Origins, and re-saved with CLoud storage enabled, and it still does not load my Warden. And I can't see any obvious places to input choices or start character customization on those dumb cards. What a joke...

It's better to check through everything; DAO to Awakening to DA II, because little things here and there get reset to default. 

I was also befuddled by Dragon Age Keep in the beginning but just patiently click through whatever is clickable and see how everything works. I think there're tutorials in YT too. 

Okay, thank you for the tips.

I re-wrote the name of my Warden, did not really check anything anywhere on the Hawke for now, and managed to get into the customization. I will have to upload a mod that gives extra hair colors, before heading for Black Emporium later in the game, because no black hair/eyes. Seriously? That's the only hair color that is Okay in those games. Watched a really long scene with Cassandra, saved and quit. Called her Dusk Fell in favor of a character I really ended up not playing in SWTOR. Fingers crossed the mods held...

And, they have the same movement scheme as in SWTOR with 6 movement buttons with Q/E for strafe. Argh.

DA Keep can be a bit overwhelming if you never used it before. Note that no decisions from DAO/DA2 upload/import to the Keep, only your avatars and basic character info (name is pretty much it). You have to manually select all the choices for both games in order to get them into DAI. It might take about 30 minutes or so, but it's worth it for the little touches that make the world consistent across your PTs.

I guess he wasn't using Mana Clash?

Never played DAO on NM; have managed Hard though. I stick with normal for DA2.

He's a two handed axe dwarf and he has Morrigan as an arcane Warrior carrying and axe and shield. With the barriers she puts up, she is near impervious to all damage and effects like stun, but doesn't actually do much damage herself. So, Morrigan is always the last one standing, pecking away at the bad guy's health.

 I don`t know about any DA fanfic thread, and I`m interested. I`m planning right now a pre-DA2 story about Varric as part of a larger fanfic project about DA2. When Varric`s story is finished, I plan to post it here, where there are interested fans I`ve already met.

First of all, yeah, I would love a FanFiction stuff, but it is now in the modding section of the forum, split by game....

Okay I have tried for a few minutes this morning, getting to the Base Camp, and to the point I leave for a Mountain Path.

The things I liked so far are how my character looks (despite the ridiculous shin and a strange slouch all characters get) and her voice is awesome, low and thanks goodness without a British accent. Mod took, Solas looks good. His voice is unremarkable. Varric, Leliana and Cassandra are all looking great.

Now... deep breath... gameplay. BioWare, is there some sort of commitment to breaking great gameplay when you actually accidentally managed it? Are you striving to come up with the worst, most uncomfortable system ever in the history of video Games? I hate, hate, absolutely hate the movement system and keybinding options.

The tactical camera idiocy, the inability to have double binds, cannot bind the middle wheel, no target assist, and...

HOW ON EARTH can I make her MOVE FASTER?

I enabled toggle auto run, I rebound the Sprint to C, but no matter how much I pound G or C, the character moves at the same snail pace.

They had directional evades on double tap in Jade Empire 15 years ago, 15 frigging years ago! The Shepard rolls in ME3... but whatever you call a char in Inquisition slowlwly inches itself towards the target...

My gap closer is pathetic, so the whole hauling your behind really slooowly to a ranged target while it pounds you with frigging ranged attacks from all directions is frigging the worst nightnares from pvp. What, another game where you gotta play ranged? The DW rogue is mobile... my sweet behind it is.... it WAS in DA2. Now it's a pain....

Frigging will have to switch to Casual, because it also does not rest/heal up between battles.

Let me guess... people whined DA2 was too easy to play, right? Stupid.