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Anyways... Finally got the game re-installed following my clean reboot to win 7, ported the save over, and... finished. :dizzy2: I was able to finally figure out the arcane warrior dealio, many thanks to those who helped out.
I was a bit disappointed, overall, by the epilogue. The end for gameplay wasn't really anything special either, to be frank.
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Mountaintop battle
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Many thanks for the advice on specialization classes. After some further playing, I've decided to go with a combo of Blood Mage and Healer. :bow:
I would like also comment on how truly superb the AI scripting system is (represented by Combat Tactics). Every single time I go into that screen, I am amazed by just how versatile the system is. No matter what situation I can think of, I can create an accurate command trigger to adapt to it well. Playing as a mage, I find that I need to spend a lot of time controlling my own character, so having the others work on their own without my direct input is very useful. The DA:O system is so good that I'm heavily inclined to add more points to Combat Tactics for the NPCs to make them even more versatile as they get stronger.
This is one area in which Bioware have definitely surpassed both the Infinity Engine and the Aurora Engine. Overall, I'm very pleased with the Eclipse Engine. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes one of the classics of RPG gaming. :2thumbsup:
Tactics can be quite useful but could significant work:
1. You cannot use AoE spells properly with tactics. For instance you can only target the nearest enemy with cone of cold, not use it when surrounded, as surrounded requires spells targetable to Self.
2. You cannot tell a caster via tactics to only cast a spell on a cahracter if that character doesn't already have that effect - Wynne used up all her mana in seconds mass casting Heroic Offense on my main.
3. Multi-condition tactics use the object in the last tactic condition as the target. Not exactly useful for your hostile target spells or buffs given certain situations - i.e. spell won't work.
4. No condition for character frozen/shatterable, so you can't use spells like stonefist properly via tactics.
5. You cannot select an ally who is surrounded by enemies, only allies bunched up with enemies (i.e. 2+ allies with 1+ enemy).
6. Nearest visible class is wonky. I want my mage only to cast a spell on a mage (or otherwise) and she casts spells on the nearest visible enemy regardless if mage or not.
I could go on...
Still, it has some good points, but overall it needs a lot of work.
Another thing they should have taken from NWN is that if your character kills an enemy, he should automatically target the next rather than stand around silly while controlled. In fact, the contolled char won't even fight back when attacked.
I see what you mean, and I suspect I haven't encountered most of those issues because I never let the AI control the main character who does all my mage work. Despite those limitations, though, it's still a massive improvement over previous games. Even with heavily modded scripting, the AI scripts in the IE were very limited, and in the AE they were extremely primative. The flexibility and ease of use of the EE scripting interface is itself a huge improvement, and it doesn't seem like it would be very difficult for the things you're asking for to be added into that system via patch or mod.
The DA:O system is very flexible OOB and allows us to create characters that can survive very well under AI control, even if they're not as good as they would be under human control. I never expected Bioware to devote a lot of attention to a new AI scripting system, so this is a genuine surprise for me.
I have another question-
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To continue the spoilered discussion between india and FactionHeir:
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Right I just tried the options myself.
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For my tank, I set him to have threaten on and to taunt anyone who comes after-me. Since it is usually him or me or has aggro, it works very well. I have my healer mainly healing my tank, if surrounded, for the Bard to sing stun them, etc.
These are a few elements, but yeah, they work very well.
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Hmm...
For whatever reason, DA is not liking the clean install I did. The game is still entirely playable, but there's far more frequent "tears" and so forth, graphically, while playing the game. Its a bit off putting, and I'm not sure how to fix it.
If you're using an nvidia card it might be the Physx drivers as DA doesn't like them very much. Try disabling it.Quote:
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I was having the exact same problem and this fixed it for me.
Using ATI, but I'll try it.Quote:
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edit: I don't suppose you could tell me how to do that? :embarassed:
I think PhysX is an Nvidia only thing, i heard ATI has something similar but I don't know for sure and I wouldn't know how to turn it off. You might look in the video card's control panel that many of their drivers come bundled with. :shrug:Quote:
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I found I need to run DA using Vsync to prevent tearing.
Finally got my main to do a paltry 253 damage in 1 hit using the berserker final strike, but while it registers online and in my char sheet, it didn't net me the achieve ~:(
Leliana on the other hand regularly does 700+ using her arrow of slaying...so jealous.
My PC is now level 25 too (highest you can get it seems) and is 2 talents short of arrow of slaying (got all templar, berserker, warrior and sword/shield talents already). Argh.
To get XP quickly:
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Tried that, tried pretty much every setting to no avail. :no: I'm really hoping there's some kind of fix that can be released for this.Quote:
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I went a different route:Quote:
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I want to critical-hit all of you while on a frost giant potion and gone berserk :bigcry:
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I haven't been able to put this game down since i bought it. I've autoleveled up some of my NPC's but now I see I could really use a healer and the autolevel up didn't help in that area.
Indeed. Unfortunately if your PC isn't a mage, you really only have two options.Quote:
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Invest in health potions at every store! :yes:
I find you swim in potions by the end of the game, I pretty much kept to using lesser ones where possible and ended up with some 20 potent, 50 greater and 70 something normal health poultrices :grin:
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On higher difficulties you get less potion drops and they heal you for far less per potion. :help:
Yeah I've noticed I'm spending serious money on potions and eventhough I've managed to level up Morrigan to healing just a bit, I think potions do a better job. That spoiler......interesting, I did not know that.
Is it just me or does Wynne go mana-dry pretty fast when set to Healer tactic set?
I tweaked it a bit, removing Rock Armor being cast, as my sword&shield character and Sten picks up most mobs pretty easily, plus the few who gets by are easily taken out by Leliana) and initially set her to drink a "least powerful lyrium potion". Before I had noticed, I only had two powerful Lyrium potions left.
Compared that both my own character and Sten are set to drink potions at 50% health, I have lots of healing potions.
She does, thanks to the Auras and Buffs she will use before she starts healing, in a fight she will spend around 40% of her overall mana just tossing support spells. In a standard fight with some minions it's nothing to worry about, but in a boss battle? :skull:Quote:
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I deactivated most of her support tactics and have her focused solely on healing. I find that she's great in that regard and her mana lasts long when she's got a focused tactic set, if i need the support skills i'll just micro them. Wynne has also redeemed herself a bit in my eyes, thanks in part to the banter she provides when paired with Ohgren. Who knew the old bat had it in her? :laugh4:
Major spoilers on Shale, Orzammar and Shale's Companion quest.
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I have some mixed feelings over item scaling. It just seems wrong that nearly everything you find post level 20 seems to be either dragonbone or the tier before that. I mean really, does every commoner have a dragonbone axe in their drawer? Of course those items are unenchanted and unsocketed, so they are good for nothing but gold.
And shameless plug/spoiler for my char's page
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Ah that was fun.
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