Wildlife concerns: Generic wildlife / constant hostility

good point

i just hope there are no generic enemies anywhere!

I thought we were past yammering about TW3's immaculate perfection as The Greatest Thing Man Has Ever Created at this point. The notion that CDPR goes the extra mile in their games but Bioware doesn't is bullshit. TW3 recycles a lot of assets, filled with shortcuts and bugs, and some ugly or clumsy design choices. AND THAT'S OKAY. I'd say the both are on par with the love and care the games are given by their respective devs (maybe not so much EA as a publisher), though they go in their own directions and focus on different aspects of gameplay and storytelling. CDPR exceeds in certain areas and BW in others.

And ftr, I prefer DAI to TW3, though I'm def. a fan of the Witcher games.* But I just get more enjoyment out of BW's strenghts than out of CDPR's strengths.


*(Letho of Gulet = best video game antagonist ever)

Exactly! I suggested this very thing back in November, when the GI coverage gave us our first real look at the kett and some of these creatures. The "fiends" on Elaaden look remarkably like the kett. It could be they share a world. It could be kett tampering. We've also seen "kett attack dogs"-- long-tailed quadrupeds of some sort-- in the December gameplay video; so it's clear that they use beasts.

The kett aren't the first interstellar civilization in the Heleus Cluster, either. These big fellas, in all their divergent varieties (not all called fiends, either), are maybe only found on former remnant worlds. Anything is possible.

Ultimately, any lore provided is good story cover for the reuse of a cool enemy design. There's no way they pour time and energy into the design of these creatures, and then use them on only one or two worlds; so we can expect to see them here and there. That's not an issue. Look at everyone's beloved TW3 (I loved it too). How many very similar varieties of flying monster does Geralt hunt? It's true to lore, but also mercifully convenient to the game devs.

Well being it's 2017 and it's been confirmed there is no entering and exiting animations for the nomad. I'm pretty sure these fiends will be everywhere also. As I said before small details aren't EAware strong suit.

Gotta draw the line here. This is a public forum to discuss bioware and their games. Fan or not people are welcome to post.

I didn't agree with 10k in our last discussion and you have showed that Bioware did try to implement the animation but not everyone checks the devs' twitter nor the twitter thread at the right time.

This was the first thing that I thought of when people wanted to know if we had enter/exit animations.
I really hate when enemies can attack me in an animation.
It is the same when you talk to people in the world and "BAM" some fucking enemy start chopping up my health.


And I agree that even if people are disagreeing there is no need to be offensive and get angry. At best, it makes everything worse. At worst, the Mods have to step in, and that is unnecessary waste of their time.

Behave and discuss as adults.

A problem easily avoided if the Nomad wasn't lacking a critical piece of equipment...

They obviously will be, which is indeed kinda lazy when you think about it.

It would be cool if they'd made different skins for them though so they'd all be "fiends" becuase they were some unknown wildlife creature but one would have blue skin and sharp horns but the other would be some furry bear-like thing.

But then again, Thresher Maws are mysteriously around all sorts of planets across different clusters in ME1.

So far we saw two different types. They might be more, or one type is due kett experiment.
I don't think it'll 'obviously' be like this, but we can just wait and see. 

In the VGA trailer there were some fiends in cages in a quest.

Actually, it's not a mystery. Thresher maws are introduced to various planets by spore attaching to spacecraft. 

I'm from New York so I can't help but think crack addict.