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Post by Gileadan on Jun 13, 2022 22:06:17 GMT
Rheinmetall recycles the good stuff: in this case, well known tank names.
Enter the KF-51 Panther, successor to the Leopard II. Can't wait to see what this kitty can do. Or undo, as it were.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 11, 2022 21:55:29 GMT
What I want is just a basic import save mechanism that carries over all your DA:I decisions through to the next game, just as it was in DA:O/2 and ME:1/2/3. That's the simplest, most effective method. It’s actually not. The save import system had so many problems that’s why they created the Keep system instead. I thought the Keep was simply a cross-platform save import system - just one with a web based save game editor attached to it. That way BioWare can let the players do the work of fixing any bugged quest flags/outcomes.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 8, 2022 7:01:51 GMT
I know, but how much of whatever that is will affect a new protagonist or will even be known to him/her? DAD will be set in a new area with hopefully new characters - what happened in the previous games that will have any important effect in the next? Why put any effort into that instead of focusing on the new plot and characters? I think they should at least bring in the decisions of those in power. We need allies and it would be important who rules orlais, ferelden and orzamar i think. You make a good point, but I'm still hoping that they will go with the idea that those in power will do nothing, and it's not particularly interesting to know who exactly is ignoring us. But even if they go with the tired old "help faction X with their problems so they kindly agree to help you saving everyone's butt including their own" route, the question of who's in power in some other country could be answered in a simple conversation. I hope it won't be necessary though. I've had my fill of Ferelden/Orlais/Orzammar/Inquisition. Give me something new.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 8, 2022 4:01:24 GMT
Ignore. Neither me as a player nor a new protagonist cares about who boinked who or said something mean to whom ten frigging years ago. I'd rather prefer that all those resources would be spent on creating a new story that's exciting enough to make people forget about yesteryear's Keeping up with the Hardings. You do realize that the Keep covers more than just romances, right? I know, but how much of whatever that is will affect a new protagonist or will even be known to him/her? DAD will be set in a new area with hopefully new characters - what happened in the previous games that will have any important effect in the next? Why put any effort into that instead of focusing on the new plot and characters?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 7, 2022 9:15:24 GMT
Ignore.
Neither me as a player nor a new protagonist cares about who boinked who or said something mean to whom ten frigging years ago. I'd rather prefer that all those resources would be spent on creating a new story that's exciting enough to make people forget about yesteryear's Keeping up with the Hardings.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 5, 2022 5:44:14 GMT
Since given the game's title I can't have my favourite "ending" - Solas dies in the prologue and is replaced by something I'm not awfully tired of - I'll go with this:
His plan backfires, sabotaged by the protagonist, strengthening the Veil and causing magic to wane from those on his side who embraced his plan. He lives out his days as a completely mundane person fully knowing what he has done. Magic becomes harder to master but safer to practice and all the circle garbage ends.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 4, 2022 18:49:34 GMT
If the same amount of enthusiasm and effort they are putting into their "woke" tweeterings is being put into making the actual game we're going to have a hit coming our way.
As has been said, BioWare has been "woke" for a long time now and to me that kind of content has become a natural part of their games, the occasional blunders included.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 4, 2022 5:29:03 GMT
So, what recurring characters/companions would people like to see as companions in DAD? As few as at all possible. I find it incredibly awkward to play a new protagonist meeting a returning character and then having to pretend to get to know them all over again. And existing characters had their time in the spotlight already anyway. And ten years later, how many players will even remember the previous games and their characters enough?
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 3, 2022 9:26:56 GMT
I just realized that DAI was very green, now this is very purple. They've basically announced the background lighting colour of DAD's character generator.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 3, 2022 6:32:06 GMT
Now that I had a few hours of sleep: what an incredibly tepid reveal. As a contrast I just watched the reveal trailer for Owlcat's "Rogue Trader" - the words "rogue trader" sound less exciting than "Dreadwolf" but I want to play that game already. As far as "Dreadwolf" goes... yeah, take your time.
I really hope that their title pick wasn't for dad jokes or I'll worry that those will have the same intention as the weird focus on grabbits before Anthem's release: to hide that they had little more than nothing.
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Post by Gileadan on Jun 2, 2022 21:03:58 GMT
Wow, they really couldn't contain their excitement there. Their pride month tweets seemed way more spirited than this announcement. I'm getting vibes of somewhat naff mediocrity from it. Plus, it doesn't even make complete sense - to someone new to Dragon Age the words "Solas" or "Dread Wolf" won't mean anything nor would they be aware of the fact that they could meet Solas in the previous game.
Meh.
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Post by Gileadan on May 31, 2022 12:44:33 GMT
Hah, wow, that even when frightened, templars still manage to be one of the most arrongant specimens of Thedosians. So... does that mean templars cannot even call for reinforcements without also filing for blanket massacre? Their competence level has the consistence of wet toilet paper already, but that'll surely take the cake. You must have wanted to post this on another website. That's uBSN. Only dogs I see is a pile lying around here, and they are all Chantry apologists of some degree.
Interesting discussion. Bio writers must've been in a hurry when they came up with the BS. Templars are just Chantry jailers and attack dogs who use Lyrium illegally.
In Tevinter, where mages can still be demon possed, I'm looking forward to what Bio writers have to say how these situation(s) are handled. Mass slaughter? Controlled killings?
Laughable is "hates the Chantry and the templars for trying to root out the bad apples" . Hm... Children showing signs of magical abilities are immediate sent to the "Goulag" . I had no idea that these children are bad apples. Just WoW! Sending these children to mage schools for much needed training is the correct course of action as demonstrated by Connor's naïveté .
You know, the Chantry, somehow, peeked at the Minority Report.
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I think BioWare just copied was inspired by Warhammer 40,000 there. In that setting, psykers (i.e. mages) are considered a great danger because they are the favourite targets of daemons looking to possess a mortal body. Therefore, the Inquisition collects all young psykers and subjects them to a terrible ritual that tests their resistance against daemonic influences. Those that pass the test are called "sanctioned psykers" from then on and are free to enter Imperial service. Those that do not pass are sacrificed to the God-Emperor so that He may never truly die. Does this sound familiar? The only real difference is that in Dragon Age, even those mages that pass the Harrowing are not free to go and remain incarcerated anyway and despite the fact that apparently no one trusts them enough to let them have their freedom, are being taught spells that let them kill scores of people with the snap of their fingers. That's where it gets really stupid.
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Post by Gileadan on May 20, 2022 9:07:19 GMT
Galeb is the guy that LaCroix's dad is afraid of. A real Ventrue. Yeah, I don't know how LaCroix became Prince. But you're right about Galeb he looks and acts like a badass not a big baby like LaCroix. Poor Sebastian. He was a normal Ventrue once, but then lost his mind over everyone mispronouncing his name as "LaCroy".
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 21, 2022 10:17:54 GMT
The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
If it really comes down to a big conflict between Oxman brainwashers and mage fascists, I hope DA4 doesn't repeat DA2's mistake and makes us choose between plague and cholera again. The idea of the protagonist being mostly powerless because those in power won't act is quite appealing to me and gives me hope that this time we don't have to pick a side and keep doing them favours until they graciously decide to help us preventing the next ancient evil from ruining everyone's day including theirs.
I'm perfectly fine with a "Solas is gone and the war between the Qun and Tevinter continues" ending instead of "Lol most people had never even heard of Solas but now think it's your fault that they get brainwashed by the Qun / sacrificed by blood mages because you helped them".
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 19, 2022 6:48:04 GMT
No, I wouldn't be upset. I realize that implementing decisions from a previous game into its sequel can be quite costly if it's not limited to dialog lines and/or codex entries... and it might be better for the overall experience if those resources were spent on the new main storyline and such.
Also, being potentially cranky over a game's story progression ten years later... I wish all my problems were like that.
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 16, 2022 12:39:14 GMT
No, I don't think it will amount to anything.
After all, the long development cycle does not mean that they took extra time to make sure they'll deliver a massive amount of high quality content, they lost time because of various reboots and leadership shake-ups. I doubt EA will give them actual extra time to deliver a super polished product given how much time already went down the drain for nothing.
They pottered about for seven or so years to make that MVP Anthem, and we all know how that turned out.
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 13, 2022 7:08:59 GMT
BioWare themselves taught players to explore everything in a given area before moving on.
"You haven't seen and done everything on Taris? Welp."
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 8, 2022 8:48:43 GMT
Remedy's Max Payne games are among the most replayed ones in my library. I just love the slow motion shooting and the hilarious over the top noir storytelling.
"Just when you thought you had reached the deepest depths of horror, it suddenly got worse. How to turn off that small voice inside your head that started to whisper that you should be glad... that now, if not before, your revenge was justifiable on any conceivable moral scale. That small voice proved, beyond any doubt, that I was damned."
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 20, 2022 12:48:58 GMT
The major difference between BioWare and CDPR, and MEA and Cyberpunk, is the post launch support each title received. CDPR are still working their butts off on Cyberpunk and it shows. BioWare dropped MEA like a hot potato. Just because CDPR is still working on the game at this point doesn't mean it has reached any more post launch support then Andromeda. You could just as easily then say BioWare did more work in six months to fix Andromeda then CDPR has done in 18 months because Andromeda was on version 1.10 when they stopped support and Cyberpunk is only at 1.5. BioWare spent six months patching and fixing Andromeda to the point it was at a level I would have expected it to be at for release. Just because a company developed a game so badly that it has taken a year and a half to get to this point doesn't mean it has provided more support. I tried Cyberpunk with patch 1.5 to give it another try and it still has many problems that need to be addressed while I can play Andromeda and not have a fraction of the issues. Cyberpunk has become the first game I have received two refunds for. The patch version number is no indication of how much work was done overall. You could bring out 20 minor fixes and be at version 1.20, or 3 massive ones and only be at v1.03 and still have way more work done on your product than the first one. But if we are comparing version numbers (which doesn't mean a lot anyway), 1.5 is actually greater than 1.10. I'm sorry you had so many issues with it, it ran nearly problem free for me out of the box with some minor animation glitches, and my PC is from 2016.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 20, 2022 9:51:47 GMT
The major difference between BioWare and CDPR, and MEA and Cyberpunk, is the post launch support each title received. CDPR are still working their butts off on Cyberpunk and it shows. BioWare dropped MEA like a hot potato.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 17, 2022 6:18:48 GMT
Side Effect, based on the majority of its content.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 13, 2022 10:01:53 GMT
I really wish they would get away from silly out of jail cards like "instant translator implant/portable device". Such a thing is logically impossible anyway, no matter what level of technology a civilization may possess. Often the meaning of a sentence only becomes clear after it has been fully spoken and that means that's the earliest point the translator can get to work, meaning you'd always be lagging one full sentence behind of what's being said at the moment.
An example: in German you can have really long sentences where the verb is the last word (a famous example is Franz Kafka's first sentence of "The Transformation"), so you have to wait out the entire thing before you can start translating. No level of technology can circumvent that problem.
However, Mass Effect very rarely makes aliens actually alien (hanar and elcor come to mind) - most of them are humans with a different paint job and a certain aspect of human culture attached to them. I mean, there's nothing really alien about Turians, they're basically just Sparta in space with cool looks. Almost everyone is bipedal, got two eyes and arms and is relatable to human culture. In this case I suppose it's fine to handwave the "how do they all understand each other" problem.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 11, 2022 7:43:53 GMT
I am playing the first Witcher game and am enjoying it so far. The game engine is based on the Aurora engine from BioWare used in Neverwinter Nights. So that means I can pause the game and switch styles. The fight through Kaer Mohren was not that difficult. Sometimes when the heavy hitters would surround me I'd have trouble. Anyway cleansed the Fort of the bandits. The leaders stole the mutagens. Triss was weakened and since she allergic to magic had to create a healing potion for her. She was cured. Oh yeah Leo died. After the funeral pyre the group separated. Geralt went to Vizima. Found a way to make easy way to make cash through the fist fights. Anyway I need a silver sword to fight monsters? Those spectral dogs almost killed me. Vesemir said he gave me a weapon but it's not in my inventory, and I checked throughout the Fort. Oh the game has a codex which is great. It gets me into the lore of the Witcher universe. Oh yes you do. It's important. The silver sword is for monsters. Have fun!
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 10, 2022 12:00:58 GMT
I get that there is the occasional person who uses humour (no matter how lame) to deal with a stressful situation. But it's a different thing if the entire team is just having cheerful snarky banter all the time. That gives me the feeling that no one truly understands what's going on here: you can never go home again. There will be no help and no reinforcements from home. You came here based on 600+ years old data that turns out to be garbage now. And your leadership is full of dumbasses that can't get shit done unless you do it yourself.
I'd be scared and very worried. And if everyone around me was making jokes in that kind of situation, I'd be outright terrified.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 8, 2022 21:04:36 GMT
No no, they obviously all speak English. If they wouldn't, the lip synch wouldn't match after all. Or maybe the translators subtly influence the user's brain and create the impression that the alien's lip movements match the translated speech he's hearing, including the translated result having the exact same amount of syllables as the original speech. Just roll with it and don't waste too many thoughts on it.
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