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Post by dazk on Jul 6, 2024 0:11:11 GMT
Very frustrating, our normally very good and reliable internet has been flaky for almost a week now, apparently there is a "service degradation".
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Post by phoray on Jul 6, 2024 3:37:26 GMT
This new EA player thingie sure crashes a lot. Also loses my mouse pointer constantly
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Post by melbella on Jul 6, 2024 4:09:41 GMT
Very frustrating, our normally very good and reliable internet has been flaky for almost a week now, apparently there is a "service degradation". We're in the middle of a 100+degF week-long heat wave and the power was out for 4.5 hours today. That means no AC. Just came back on - thank goodness! so now maybe I'll be able to sleep.
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Post by dazk on Jul 6, 2024 4:18:19 GMT
Very frustrating, our normally very good and reliable internet has been flaky for almost a week now, apparently there is a "service degradation". We're in the middle of a 100+degF week-long heat wave and the power was out for 4.5 hours today. That means no AC. Just came back on - thank goodness! so now maybe I'll be able to sleep. That'd be very uncomfortable, we are having a very unseasonable cold period the last 3 weeks our heating bill is going to be a bad one.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jul 6, 2024 19:49:50 GMT
Decided after much contemplating, that I want to create a world state where all my heroes are mages
Because imagine the irony of a mage screwing up the world, only for a mage also the save it...the Chantry would be having a field day
But then I was like...do I want Amell or Surana as my Warden? 'Cause, Amell has a lot more lore (what with them being related to Hawke, and actually having a background), but Surana is more fun in that it's a more blank slate. I think I'll go with Amell though, that way I can also avoid the many glitches that Surana Wardens face for their dialogues not acknowledging them as elves Also I already have a lot of head canon for my Amell, which is a lot harder to adapt for Surana as I thought
I also needed to find a way to make all of my mage characters unique, in terms of class specialization anyway. I kinda wanted to go color coded...(it's just too bad that Blood Mage doesn't get acknowledged like, at all in DA2 and don't get me started on Hawke condemning Blood Magic during Inquisition even if they're one themselves)
So now I'm going with Arcane Warrior + Battlemage for Amell (the specialization icon for Battlemage is blue+red, so also nods toward their cousin Hawke, similarly the ability icons for Arcane Warrior are light blue+pink) Spirit Healer for Hawke (also I don't like blood anyway...so there's that), unless someone can sell me on why Fenris would even consider dating a Blood Mage Hawke Rift Mage for my Inquisitor Lavellan (green!) and for Rook...I'mma go with Death Caller in the hope that their signature color is purple like it was for the Necromancer in Inquisition (plus both Evoker and Spellblade sound kinda meh (Evoker basically sounds like an elementalist, and Spellblade like an Arcane Warrior, which I already have)...and Death Caller sounds cool )
Now I just gotta decide on a name for this world state, I generally use song names (but I've yet to find one that sounds good)
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Post by Rascoth on Jul 6, 2024 19:55:38 GMT
LadyofNemesis My current canon world state is all mages as well. And funnily enough they're the exact specializations you plan to use for DAO, DA2 and DAI
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jul 6, 2024 20:23:47 GMT
LadyofNemesis My current canon world state is all mages as well. And funnily enough they're the exact specializations you plan to use for DAO, DA2 and DAI I mean...they are the best specializations
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Post by themikefest on Jul 6, 2024 20:47:43 GMT
Back into the fade to save a child The Urn will save the Arl. Hmmm.....I suggested to my companions about grabbing some dirt instead of wasting time for some ashes. That didn't go well. All gave me the evil eye. Call me a believer. The ashes worked. Hmmmm......Maybe after doing my Grey Warden thing, I could profit from selling the ashes. Bye bye blood mage Before I headed to Haven, I was ambushed by an assassin. Since the idiot failed to kill me, I will make sure I kill him. I believe in an eye for an eye.
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Post by dazk on Jul 7, 2024 0:28:48 GMT
Did the Fallow Mire, and a few other bits and pieces. Beat the Dragon on The Storm Coast - struggled but had a weak party for quest reasons Harding and lots of her because Sky Watcher A Goat
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jul 7, 2024 23:58:29 GMT
Decided after much contemplating, that I want to create a world state where all my heroes are mages
Because imagine the irony of a mage screwing up the world, only for a mage also the save it...the Chantry would be having a field day
But then I was like...do I want Amell or Surana as my Warden? 'Cause, Amell has a lot more lore (what with them being related to Hawke, and actually having a background), but Surana is more fun in that it's a more blank slate. I think I'll go with Amell though, that way I can also avoid the many glitches that Surana Wardens face for their dialogues not acknowledging them as elves Also I already have a lot of head canon for my Amell, which is a lot harder to adapt for Surana as I thought
I also needed to find a way to make all of my mage characters unique, in terms of class specialization anyway. I kinda wanted to go color coded...(it's just too bad that Blood Mage doesn't get acknowledged like, at all in DA2 and don't get me started on Hawke condemning Blood Magic during Inquisition even if they're one themselves)
So now I'm going with Arcane Warrior + Battlemage for Amell (the specialization icon for Battlemage is blue+red, so also nods toward their cousin Hawke, similarly the ability icons for Arcane Warrior are light blue+pink) Spirit Healer for Hawke (also I don't like blood anyway...so there's that), unless someone can sell me on why Fenris would even consider dating a Blood Mage Hawke Rift Mage for my Inquisitor Lavellan (green!) and for Rook...I'mma go with Death Caller in the hope that their signature color is purple like it was for the Necromancer in Inquisition (plus both Evoker and Spellblade sound kinda meh (Evoker basically sounds like an elementalist, and Spellblade like an Arcane Warrior, which I already have)...and Death Caller sounds cool )
Now I just gotta decide on a name for this world state, I generally use song names (but I've yet to find one that sounds good) Nice I coul dsee mysel fdoing an all mag erun onc eVeilguard is out. Maybe I'l lhook it up wit hthe Cro wmage I hav ein mind for Veilguard whic hwill be like my 4th or 5th Rook
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Post by phoray on Jul 8, 2024 3:55:55 GMT
EA Play App thing I guess is what's making my origins game constantly crash. Last gaming session, trying to access the world map made it crash. This session, the Lothering Wolves quests seems to be making it crash. Twice it just spontaneously crashed, lost about half an hour to 45 minutes of my efforts between all the crashes. It's making Origins really damn frustrating to be honest. It makes me wonder how playable Dragon Age Origins is really going to be even 5 years from now. I'll have to find physical copies to play on playstation. Does PS5 even go that far backwards compatitible? Then I was also thinking about how apparently the Keep doesn't work anymore, so how are people making their DAI world states?
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Post by dazk on Jul 8, 2024 6:10:38 GMT
EA Play App thing I guess is what's making my origins game constantly crash. Last gaming session, trying to access the world map made it crash. This session, the Lothering Wolves quests seems to be making it crash. Twice it just spontaneously crashed, lost about half an hour to 45 minutes of my efforts between all the crashes. It's making Origins really damn frustrating to be honest. It makes me wonder how playable Dragon Age Origins is really going to be even 5 years from now. I'll have to find physical copies to play on playstation. Does PS5 even go that far backwards compatitible? Then I was also thinking about how apparently the Keep doesn't work anymore, so how are people making their DAI world states? This may make it work properly. You may know these already, if so sorry. In the EA App settings make sure you turn off the EA in game Overlay, and that you are not running "Beta" if it is an option. Make sure in Properties, Advanced in the EA App it is set to "Run As Administrator" and that in the security TAB all the options are set to Full Control. Before you start the EA App open the Task Manager (CTRL ALT DELETE) and "End Task" EA Background Services if it is running, then start the App by right clicking on it and telling it to Run As Administrator.
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Post by azarhal on Jul 8, 2024 13:26:04 GMT
I'm slightly amused that my EA app run super well under Linux (using Wine)...it only reverted my DAI settings twice , but no crashes.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jul 8, 2024 14:08:07 GMT
Currentl yworkin gthrough JOH an dDescent atm as I'm rtyin t ofinis hm yactive DAI playthrough but I'm no tplanning on carrying this one through t Veilguard as this is a standalone DAI run wit ha randomized worl dstate. My next one will be the first I connect to Veilguard.
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Jul 8, 2024 18:51:54 GMT
Over the weekend I had my first experience of playing through Trespasser with Iron Bull loyal to the Qun. I don't mind that sometimes my game characters just can't manage to talk their way out of trouble, but the scene where he turns against me felt kind of perfunctory and half-assed. Even if he sees the Viddisala's authority as superseding the Inquisitor's, he also suggests earlier in the DLC that this is likely a rogue Ben-Hassrath faction and even asks to be taken along through the eluvians to help figure out what's going on. Why wouldn't he at least try to argue to the Viddisala that the Ben-Hassrath might be mistaken about the Inquisitor's intentions and allegiances? And then all we got afterwards was a single dialogue choice with one of the other party members.
Also, is it part of the lore that Divines cannot marry? There was kind of a weird scene where Cassandra (who was in a romance with this Inquisitor and had also become the Divine) says that Varric's been putting the idea in her ear that the Inquisitor intends to propose, but then when he reacts favorably to the idea, she says it can never happen. But if that's the rule, shouldn't the Inquisitor know that too? And why would she take Varric's joke seriously in the first place? At the very least, I'd say the Inquisitor's "maybe we *should* get married" dialogue choice shouldn't be there if it's known to be against the rules, especially if the Inquisitor is Andrastian (as this one was).
None of this is to say I think poorly of Trespasser in general - it's up there on my list of "this should have been in the main game" DLCs - but the logic seemed a little odd in these two scenes.
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Post by azarhal on Jul 8, 2024 22:40:06 GMT
Also, is it part of the lore that Divines cannot marry? The Divines are married to the Maker, they get removed from the position if they have children (happened to Theodosia II).
Probably the result of Orlesian nobles not wanting families taking over the seat (didn't stop the Valmont naming family members and a few Divine's chosen successor was groomed since they were young girls too).
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Post by dazk on Jul 9, 2024 1:13:59 GMT
Been playing when I can get on our internet has been broken off and on for the past week.
Did Forbidden oasis and am doing Exalted Plain ATM.
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Post by saandrig on Jul 9, 2024 7:47:40 GMT
Decided to do a DAI run for no apparent reason.
A female mage Lavellan that so far seems to aim for Sera's pants. But keeps her options open with everyone else too. Had to kick Bull out of my bedroom because he ain't getting on this mage action.
I never understood who can find the mage gameplay fun in DAI. Tried all specs and they all suck in fun factor. I am probably too biased toward the archers, but they are the only class that doesn't put me to sleep.
Going Knight-Enchanter for now.
Most of the mods don't seem to work for some reason. Tried different Frosty versions, no luck. Well, I mostly need the quick looting and instant War Table, and they are fine. But wanted to have the flying mod as well and it just doesn't run at all.
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Post by melbella on Jul 9, 2024 11:00:44 GMT
Been playing when I can get on our internet has been broken off and on for the past week. You shouldn't need internet to play DAI? Only to initially import your world state but after that offline should work.
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Post by saandrig on Jul 9, 2024 11:20:47 GMT
Been playing when I can get on our internet has been broken off and on for the past week. You shouldn't need internet to play DAI? Only to initially import your world state but after that offline should work. Yeah, definitely need a proper world state. The default one suuuuucks.
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Post by dazk on Jul 9, 2024 12:02:38 GMT
Been playing when I can get on our internet has been broken off and on for the past week. You shouldn't need internet to play DAI? Only to initially import your world state but after that offline should work. EA App needs it to connect. FMM wants to launch it.
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Post by Rascoth on Jul 9, 2024 12:51:22 GMT
You shouldn't need internet to play DAI? Only to initially import your world state but after that offline should work. EA App needs it to connect. FMM wants to launch it. Another reason to despise it. They had no reason to make it so much worse than Origin, which I'll add could launch in offline mode
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Post by phoray on Jul 9, 2024 16:59:45 GMT
I told Laliana no, twice, to joining my party. She pouted and walked away. And took Sten into my party. This is my first time bringing him to the Dalish. He constantly casts shade at almost every person we talk to, and they just do not react to some of the really rude things he says. 😆
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Jul 9, 2024 23:40:27 GMT
You shouldn't need internet to play DAI? Only to initially import your world state but after that offline should work. EA App needs it to connect. FMM wants to launch it. Yeah the App i sannoyin gI've had t orestar tm yPC acouple o ftimes in orde rt oge tDAI t owork due t othe app. I tshoul dhandl ebetter tha ni tdoes especially when Origin was fine. Managed to finish JOH an dDescen tno ws oit's jus ta case o ffinishing the side quests an dmain story befoe rdiving int oTrespasser. Once I'v edone tha tit'll be ont othe kee pt odecid eon m yfirs tworldstate t ocarr yint oVeilguard. I'l lpla yth eworldstate out though throug hplayin the firs t3 games again bu tno tjust ye tas I wantt ofocus on clearin gspace on m ydrive s oI can install Veilguard .Also I'm thinkin go fdoing a run of ME first as well.
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