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Post by melbella on Sept 25, 2024 2:03:47 GMT
Finished the Tevinter comic sets (Deception, Blue Wraith, Dark Fortress). All that's left is The Missing but I think I'll leave that for after Tevinter Nights since it's supposed to "lead into the game." Reading them all in a row like that really helped to gel the story together and have what was happening/who was showing up make a lot more sense. Quite a few deaths too, which I had forgotten about. I know it's probably wishful thinking to see Fenris in VG but it would be nice.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 25, 2024 5:24:32 GMT
Continuing to run around the 'Dirth' doing favors for the Dalish. One of the big themes I have grappled with in this playthrough is just what can I play with Veilguard coming out and if I would have enough time to do a 'complete' PT of all the things I usually do. Up to this in a weird way since I am quite sure I am nowhere near close to this it would also be nice to hit 1000 hours this PT as a nice round number even though I already have and I am about 950 away. Its silly this whole conversation is silly but its where I have been in what I have been thinking about in regards to this game as I prep for Veilguard. Like the Dalish is one area I wasn't sure I would bother with because its actually some of the most pure grind of the entire game, but then there is an agent, but then there is an agent that I almost never get enough favor to get with the Dalish because of the lack of Dalish me getting favor and I never do the Golden Halla quest. But then I remembered that I also love doing the Knights Tomb and love giving the tablet to the Dalish in an attempt to heal old wounds and show mistakes were made on both sides so that almost neccessitates I go meet the Dalish and hey I got the time, quite sure, so why not. But then its in the back of my mind the two optional dungeons in the game, the Sulevin Blade place, and the Temple of Dirthamen. Well coincedentally what I forgot about was that the quest for the Dalish the one with the glyphs actually opens up the Temple of Dirthamen and you don't get any favors or to tell them about it till you do so...while I was thinking of skipping it...hey why not I have time? Though most likely won't be doing the Sulevin Blade since the Golden Nug already has me have that place. Aside from that lots of bugs today. At least the best of which when I was doing the Solas quest something weird happened even on the way to it...but after freeing Solas's friend and geting him to do the aftermath was traveling around and the demon respawned! Now I was really curious about what would happen, I already saved, so I actually attacked, and in the end the thing was invulnerable! I was doing no damage. Also found something interesting Mark of Death can really benefit from the right party compositon and tactics. I have been struggling with it lately but with Dorian in the party was able to start really kicking butt again.
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Post by melbella on Sept 25, 2024 11:04:59 GMT
when I was doing the Solas quest something weird happened even on the way to it...but after freeing Solas's friend and geting him to do the aftermath was traveling around and the demon respawned! I have had that happen before and yeah, can't do a lick of damage to it.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 25, 2024 20:35:00 GMT
cleaning service Hawke, at your service
aka. Hawke spend most of her time in Act 2...cleaning up street gangs...shouldn't that be your job Aveline? Aveline:
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Post by azarhal on Sept 25, 2024 20:47:53 GMT
cleaning service Hawke, at your service
aka. Hawke spend most of her time in Act 2...cleaning up street gangs...shouldn't that be your job Aveline? Aveline: Going by some of the stuff with the guards in-game, looks like Hawke just does half of the job required.
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Post by bierkrug on Sept 25, 2024 21:36:00 GMT
Currently replaying DAI and I can't, for the life of me, find the last token for the assassin specialisation. I looked online and ran around the map where it us supposed to be and nope, nada, zilch.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 26, 2024 10:43:42 GMT
OK so bit of an interesting conversation. Usually DA is pretty good about this sort of thing but I have always found it an odd line that Cassandra specifically calls out the Inquisitor's gender if the Inquisitor is a woman. Like there is of course gender issues here and there but Thedas in this regard, social mores, is a lot different then our own history...especially with regards to this sort of thing. So it seems kind of forced bad writing in this case calling it out given that there are a lot of historically significant women in Thedas's history, especially in the history of the Southern Chantry. Most notably Andraste, their Jesus equivalent, and a long line of Female Popes in their dominant relationship, several Female monarchs, leaders, folk heroes, significant soldiers, and are allowed in the army and guard forces. Yes, there was the story of Aveline, but that was still a long time ago and wound up having female Knights. So I usually have Kara wonder about the status of their friendship half insecuredly, but not this time, had her wonder about that...didn't even get a good answer really. War table got the Darkspawn going after that one town, deciding to be a little bit cautious by having Josie and Leiliana investigate the situation. And off to the Emerald Graves. Always fun to consider just how much of a...bull in a china shop Kara is sometime. Enforcing her will on the situation, at least usually. Kind of fun though this character quirk...but I did feel so bad because not sure how often I did this but I went to Fairbanks first about things, knowing full well I'd still go to Kara and he was like 'this life is so horrible I hate it!' and my Inquisitor is like...yeah I have other business to attend to...over there. Fairbanks *sighed* I felt so bad. Also had this funny arse glitch happen in the quest to fight Carrol. And I wrapped up by making it to the Knight's Tomb for one of my favorite side quests in DAI.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 26, 2024 18:13:30 GMT
cleaning service Hawke, at your service
aka. Hawke spend most of her time in Act 2...cleaning up street gangs...shouldn't that be your job Aveline? Aveline: Going by some of the stuff with the guards in-game, looks like Hawke just does half of the job required. yep
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Post by themikefest on Sept 26, 2024 19:58:39 GMT
ah yes the landsmeet To get this far was a pain. I should have had this playthrough finished a couple of days ago. dazk Like you, I had crashes in Denerim. Ever since I arrived for the lansdsmeet, I've made about 100 saves. After making Alistair king, then he's seen entering theroom with all companions, the game crashed a lot. I was frustrated. I searched for a solution. Found one, but didn't use it since it didn't work for some. It's downloading the 4gb patch because of memory leaks. Here's the thread about that. What I did was lower textures to low, lowered my resolution from 1080 to 16x9. It worked. The difference between this playthrough and the others before is I didn't have all companions recruited. I will go back to 1080 for the end battle. If it crashes again in the Denerim area, I'll just lower the resolution.
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Post by melbella on Sept 26, 2024 23:48:26 GMT
Re-read the first two stories in Tevinter Nights, 3 Trees to Midnight and Down Among the Dead Men. The latter features Emmrich and Manfred in small roles. Emmrich apparently likes tea so Solas will likely hate him on principle. Next up is Horror of Hormak (Harmak?). Anyway, the one with the creepy goo abomination pools.
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Post by dazk on Sept 27, 2024 1:27:53 GMT
ah yes the landsmeet To get this far was a pain. I should have had this playthrough finished a couple of days ago. dazk Like you, I had crashes in Denerim. Ever since I arrived for the lansdsmeet, I've made about 100 saves. After making Alistair king, then he's seen entering theroom with all companions, the game crashed a lot. I was frustrated. I searched for a solution. Found one, but didn't use it since it didn't work for some. It's downloading the 4gb patch because of memory leaks. Here's the thread about that. What I did was lower textures to low, lowered my resolution from 1080 to 16x9. It worked. The difference between this playthrough and the others before is I didn't have all companions recruited. I will go back to 1080 for the end battle. If it crashes again in the Denerim area, I'll just lower the resolution. Mmmm I have it downloaded but maybe I need to "reactivate it" i.e. re-extract and run the executable. Maybe you need to do it before each PT. Will give that a go when I get a chance.
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Post by themikefest on Sept 27, 2024 3:54:51 GMT
Because my game was crashing right after Alistair grants my boon, I decided to stop going any further. The purpose of the playthrough was to see if Shale, Sten and Zevran show up in the wedding mod. Since they show up when Alistair gives out my boon, I'm going to assume they do show up in the mod. I believe it was because I had all companions wearing custom outfits caused some of the crashes as well as having all companions. I will say the mods I installed for Eamon, Anora, Ser Catherien, Loghain looked good. Anyways, with that out of the way, I will start a speedrun. Nothing like what I've seen on youtube, but fast enough to skip a lot of the game.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 27, 2024 10:43:28 GMT
So yeah might as well bring it up to my game crashed right when I was travelling to go find the Glyphs so that was something.
Finished up the Knight's Tomb and well my continuing to parse and put more effort into reading the Codex. Well probably spent enough time gushing over the 'true history' of Red Crossing way back and throughout the years but don't think I noticed/ fully realized...got through reading the names of the fallen Emerald Knights and there was a mention of 'Siona who held the bridge'...like the Siona in the story. Quite interesting honestly given not sure if she held any bridges per se...but then 'Elandrin the one we betrayed'. Yeah, one of my favorite bits of lore and just...like I know people say that it was an attempt to 'white wash' the Chantry and their attrocities...but really, the lesson I've always taken is both sides made mistakes. This is history, this is life, this is tragedy writ large.
Also finished up the Emeralf Graves I think by going after the Dragon. Keep forgetting to min max basically and getting set up with my oils and potions. Fight was a bit tight as went through eight potions, but I did it. Also Kara got to level 25 and thus picked up 'mercy killing'. So now she can do more crits. Yey.
Then got to Skyhold and had a lot of cutscenes with the companions I went to talk to, Varric, Cullen, and Solas.
Always love the Wicked Grace cutscene. No joke one of my favorite cutscenes in the entire series just for how family like this group came to feel and how it was encapsulated here.
And Solas got to the big speech on how much he admires the Inquisitor and her wisdom. Always a bit interesting since he does get approval from asking questions so how much wisdom does she really hold? Regardless though more based on a metatextual theory of my part. But I do wonder what Solas was going to say was 'its a wisdom that I haven't seen since...' IDK maybe Mythal? Do wonder what he was going to say. Of course he also didn't have a lot of kind things to say about Mythal if we drink from the well...heh given another fan theory could it have been Andraste?
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Post by themikefest on Sept 27, 2024 16:35:31 GMT
The fast playthrough has started. On your mark, get set.....GOOOOOOO. To run this playthrough, we have the mage named Speedy. She specializes in getting things done in a very effective way without wasting time talking to others and doing things that will slow her down.
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Post by fraggle on Sept 27, 2024 20:24:47 GMT
Time flies! Got more stuff done. - Recruited Sebastian, helped with Feynriel's demise (Lainey ultimately honored his wish to be made tranquil ), battled some crazy elf woman and her lackeys in green mist, and afterwards accepted both apologies from Merrill and Isabela due to them turning on Hawke in the Fade. Gifted Isabela a boat. - Investigated Gascard DuPuis and let him go. Spent a wild evening with Isabela - Helped Anders and saved a mage from both a Templar and Justice. Helped Varric hunt down his brother, convincing him to spare Bartrand. - Found some Templars who had captured Qunari. They died. Well, both sides did. Messy. Also took care of the fool who attacked my caravans! - Fenris met Hadriana and ended up killing her. Aveline and Donnic finally set it off, woot! And helped Merrill with her mirror. Lainey was cautious at first, but Merrill's plea for the arulin'holm swayed her. - Leandra went missing and it didn't turn out well. Lainey did not have the best relationship with her mother, but she couldn't believe she was gone, that she couldn't protect her. She pushes away the guilt of failing her and shuts away her feelings for no one to see. Pic time Found Hawke's initial outfit again with better stats, I love it! Lainey still wants to help her friends Anders and Merrill and tends to be a bit pro-mage for them (and Bethany), but I'm sooo looking forward to their later arcs, how Lainey might lose her patience with them eventually. It's been a wild roller coaster so far and I love it! Leandra's death and Lainey's complicated feelings toward her mother were pretty interesting. I roleplay her in a way that while she loves her mother, she also always thinks Leandra tries to lay the blame on her for what happens with the Hawke family - not being around for her father's death (I headcanon she always spent lots of time outside seeking the thrill of adventure, often fighting with her mother because she felt Lainey wasn't around her family enough; and she was not there when her father died), not saving Carver from death, Bethany being sent to the Circle. But maybe it was all in her head after all.
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Post by colfoley on Sept 28, 2024 10:04:59 GMT
The Temple of Dirthamen remains quite interesting and a bit creepy. Bit of a maze. Probably if I looked into the lore enough could parse what happened but...well seems to be a little bit of an indication of something that happened to these people when Solas brought up the Veil. Because they mentioned Dirthamen going quiet so it seemed obvious. Bit of a hint on things that happened...so it seems they divided the priest up and then we can put him back together. Hmm.
Fun with the wartable again and went after the lady and her Venatori who were mining in the area which let Darkspawn out. Seems again in this case no matter what you do the Grey Wardens get their butts kicked enough that they are no longer a viable organization. Bit sucky but then I guess it does serve to let them go out as big heroes and ties off a few plot lines with them.
Gave the histories to the Dalish. Which got me a new agent out of the bargain.
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Post by themikefest on Sept 28, 2024 13:08:46 GMT
Update on the speedrun I like the new armor for Duncan and Alistair. The armor I have was added into my inventory after the joining. The rescue Me and Morrigan are dressed well to face anything we encounter Now for the bad news. This current run has been delayed by crashes. The time it took just to get to Flemeth's hut the second time, I could have completed the game. I will restart the playthrough. dazk I solved the issue, at least temporarily. I downloaded the 4gb patch. It took only a couple of minutes to download and install. I was able to playthrough Ostagar at 1080 with setting's at medium without experiencing a crash. The other piece of advice I would add is playing the game for an extended period of time could lead to crashes. The suggestion I read, even after using the patch, is play for an hour or two, then shut the game down for a bit before playing again. Hope this help for you and anyone else who are having issues
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