Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[Avellion]

Moving the goalpost.

Technically, yes and if we go by no healers like I literally said, yes none of them belong in that group. I do like the overall concept of healers, provides another role to combat and thus more diversity to your party members and their roles. But at the same time, I do not think an RPG must have a combat healers to be good. However, knowing BioWare's utter incompetence at balancing, they will mess up horribly, making things worse than they were even before. What we have seen and heard of the new system is not a good sign either.

Dork Souls had an implementation of res management/potion similar to what the DA:I want, and it's pretty decline. You never lacked potions, you were always refilling your stacks at bonfire gratis, and could upgrade bonfires up to 20 potions (just like DA:I intends on letting you upgrade your stack).

Of course no one used healing spells in DS1, it had a batshit retarded implementation of resources.

DS2 is slightly, just slightly better, for not giving you more than a few potions in your stacks at the beginning, and making other forms of healing much slower to use in combat. It made healing spells look more appealing too, to use while exploring so that you could keep your potions only for important boss fights. It's still ultimately decline because you will end up with a large stack at the end.

Dark Souls' healing system isnt perfect and has flaws. However, the issue is you had too much healing in the end, like you said. Though, it still beat my massive hoard of grass by the time I was done playing Demon's Souls. Problem was, the overabundance of healing resources.

No, they weren't. It was also particularly bad about healing (only a 5 second cooldown for all healing, health potion tiers had their own individual cooldowns)

Do that and you will eventually run out. Of course, the game was never challenging to the point to justify the mass consumption of consumables like that.

This isn't much of a choice. Go to tactics screen, if a character has less than a % of their health, heal. In DA:O and 2, outhealing damage is the degenerate, low-bar way of winning fights.

I was referring to the theoretical but improbable scenario of only having enough mana left for one (assuming they all cost the same), in which you have to make a choice between one of the 3 effects. Point is, the mage can heal, although that comes at the expenense of everything else, there will be less mana for crowd control, buffing, debuffing, damage, ect. With this new system, ANYONE will not only be able to heal, but they will be able to heal fully without any worries of potentially limiting their other fields.

 

[Abu Antar]

http://www.twitch.tv/bioware

PC gameplay.

 

[Abu Antar]

Key bindings are in.

Friendly fire is an option.

Game does not pause in the co-op mode.

Lots of screen tearing. (Thank you, bad eyesight, you will make this a non-issue for me!)

Inventory space is poorly managed. There's lots of room to show items, but they have it start in the middle of the screen for some reason.

 

[tuluse]

I thought they weren't going to do a friendly fire toggle because players were too stupid to know if they wanted it or not?

 

[Abu Antar]

I thought they weren't going to do a friendly fire toggle because players were too stupid to know if they wanted it or not?

It'll probably be unchecked on all difficulties as standard and then players who want to use it, get that option.

 

[Volourn]

And? The option is there.

 

[Abu Antar]

And? The option is there.

And, nothing.

I will probably play with it off. My point was just like yours: The option is there.

 

[Frusciante]

Mouse and keyboard gameplay:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X5UfD8Hnhw
Pat 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtF8...eature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_2027739869
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff4L...feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_302724697

 

[Night Goat]

If the AI is as bad as I'm expecting it to be, it'll need an option to turn friendly fire off. I remember playing a mage in DA:O, casting huge AoE spells like Inferno and then fucking dumbass Alistair goes running right into it.

 

[eremita]

If the AI is as bad as I'm expecting it to be, it'll need an option to turn friendly fire off. I remember playing a mage in DA:O, casting huge AoE spells like Inferno and then fucking dumbass Alistair goes running right into it.

In the video above, Laidlaw shows you can order your party with commands placed on UI (stop action etc.).

 

[polo]

So, for those who watched the vids. What do ya think? Is this worth pirating?

 

[Carrion]

No.

 

[meanwhileInPoland]

Its around 26gb so repack will be probably half of that...so yes day 1 torrent

 

[polo]

26gb? No one cares about optimization anymore.
And here i was so hyped about backflipping dwarves with hairy chests.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Ill most definitely pirate it, then proceed to bitch about it here on this thread.

 

[Hepler's Vagina]

Ill most definitely pirate it, then proceed to bitch about it here on this thread.

Just out of curiosity- who are you planning on romancing?

 

[Kem0sabe]

Ill most definitely pirate it, then proceed to bitch about it here on this thread.

Just out of curiosity- who are you planning on romancing?

I have no clue, not sure my computer can even run it.

 

[Hepler's Vagina]

So you're planning some 8-way thing with all the NPC's simultaneously that requires an 5ghz six core CPU to properly render

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Thane Solus]

wanted to see some proper gameplay, started with emotional engagement cutscenes dialogs, closed the video, deleted history, threw the desktop out of the window. Nice map tho...

Will pirate it if drunk or on drugs...and never enter again in the the 10000 pages thread which will be in a few months "criticizing" the game...

 

[Thane Solus]

Thats a pretty good trailer, you know why?

Go to 1.43 and update your .txt with gaming sites you should avoid.

10/10

 

[Jedi Exile]

Will pirate it if drunk or on drugs

 

[Borelli]

Music is too loud compared to voices.
LOL HE KEEPS THE DUMB HELMET WHILE BEING A WIZARD.
Generic trailer otherwise.

 

[Space Satan]

I will consider installing it on my rig given the following offer will be present

but they should pay me more

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Glad to hear friendly fire is in. Will play this one on hard and see how it goes. PC settings look good.