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Post by Lee on Nov 21, 2024 1:10:49 GMT
But yeah threads has a good vibe currently. Just wish it had all the twitter functions. It really feels like all the Twatter replacements are enduring a very long job interview where the goal posts are constantly moving. I hope something does win the war though, and it's not "X". |
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Nov 21, 2024 1:45:05 GMT
Talking about that place lol DA twitter silencing this tweet... IM ...  |
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Post by Lee on Nov 21, 2024 2:51:56 GMT
Harding related act 2 ending spoilers: I have put a lot of thought into it. I think Harding probably survived since she landed in a pool of blight (which is basically corrupted Titan blood/goo anyway). So I think she'll probably be taken to a safe place.
On the other side, there's also a possibility that I can't shake that maybe she died at the start of the game anyway, and all we really had was her titan created shade (like Leliana who died in origins).
So, for me it's save Davrin-cause Harding is either fine or was never gonna be fine one or the two.  |
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Post by farferello on Nov 21, 2024 4:46:22 GMT
Oh that thing with the Inquisitor is handy, will have to try out some time. The less times I have to attempt to remake the same Inquisitor, the better. XD
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Post by disgustednoise on Nov 21, 2024 11:22:40 GMT
Finally hit 20 on my mage and I love Evoker so much! Ice is always my element of choice in anything and I also always drawn to telekinesis/gravity powers too so it really feels like it was made for me specifically.
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Post by Lee on Nov 21, 2024 11:27:05 GMT
Finally hit 20 on my mage and I love Evoker so much! Ice is always my element of choice in anything and I also always drawn to telekinesis/gravity powers too so it really feels like it was made for me specifically. I tried to get into it a few times now...but I can't seem to get the hang of entropic sphere and it either killing everything before I can combo or it just missing everything when it explodes. Is it just better to use it for crowd control, and a different ability for weakening enemies? |
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Post by farferello on Nov 21, 2024 12:40:45 GMT
My Artbook arrived today. I took a few shots of some interesting bits but you'll have to deal with the phone posting. XD
Random bits:Some Companions we potentially could have had:Our (male) companions:If people would like to see other things also, let me know. |
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Nov 21, 2024 12:57:07 GMT
Harding related act 2 ending spoilers: I have put a lot of thought into it. I think Harding probably survived since she landed in a pool of blight (which is basically corrupted Titan blood/goo anyway). So I think she'll probably be taken to a safe place.
On the other side, there's also a possibility that I can't shake that maybe she died at the start of the game anyway, and all we really had was her titan created shade (like Leliana who died in origins).
So, for me it's save Davrin-cause Harding is either fine or was never gonna be fine one or the two.  Totally agree, I couldnt cry for Harding cause I truly believed the titan powers would save her, and the fact that theres no body? Its just Hawke in the fade all over again, same with Davrin I saw the video and Davrin and Assan just... disappeared. Yes they would be badly injured but one is a titan child with magical powers and the other is a warden with blight powers sooooo... hmmmm My Artbook arrived today. I took a few shots of some interesting bits but you'll have to deal with the phone posting. XD
Random bits:Some Companions we potentially could have had:Our (male) companions:If people would like to see other things also, let me know. Thanks Far!! So cool!!!! I saw the happy ending one on twitter and I'm so salty we couldnt get something like that in the epilogue  hopefully they do more content updates for this kind of things. That potential saarebas companion, omg  Pretty much everybody made the cut except him, Calpernia (who I assume evolved into Neve) and the female demon from the early companion concept art |
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Post by disgustednoise on Nov 21, 2024 13:34:18 GMT
Finally hit 20 on my mage and I love Evoker so much! Ice is always my element of choice in anything and I also always drawn to telekinesis/gravity powers too so it really feels like it was made for me specifically. I tried to get into it a few times now...but I can't seem to get the hang of entropic sphere and it either killing everything before I can combo or it just missing everything when it explodes. Is it just better to use it for crowd control, and a different ability for weakening enemies? Yeah it's a bit wonky because the weaken effect doesn't apply until after the orb explodes so you have to time things just right to combo off it. It seems pretty powerful just for CC though. I think when I get enough points I might take that passive at the top of control that makes Ice Blast a cool down ability instead of a mana one and use it as my main primer instead and then drop Frost Nova. |
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Post by disgustednoise on Nov 21, 2024 13:35:03 GMT
Harding related act 2 ending spoilers: I have put a lot of thought into it. I think Harding probably survived since she landed in a pool of blight (which is basically corrupted Titan blood/goo anyway). So I think she'll probably be taken to a safe place.
On the other side, there's also a possibility that I can't shake that maybe she died at the start of the game anyway, and all we really had was her titan created shade (like Leliana who died in origins).
So, for me it's save Davrin-cause Harding is either fine or was never gonna be fine one or the two. Totally agree, I couldnt cry for Harding cause I truly believed the titan powers would save her, and the fact that theres no body? Its just Hawke in the fade all over again, same with Davrin I saw the video and Davrin and Assan just... disappeared. Yes they would be badly injured but one is a titan child with magical powers and the other is a warden with blight powers sooooo... hmmmm My Artbook arrived today. I took a few shots of some interesting bits but you'll have to deal with the phone posting. XD
Random bits:Some Companions we potentially could have had:Our (male) companions:If people would like to see other things also, let me know. Thanks Far!! So cool!!!! I saw the happy ending one on twitter and I'm so salty we couldnt get something like that in the epilogue  hopefully they do more content updates for this kind of things. That potential saarebas companion, omg  Pretty much everybody made the cut except him, Calpernia (who I assume evolved into Neve) and the female demon from the early companion concept artI think the book explicitly says they replaced Calpernia with Neve. |
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Post by farferello on Nov 21, 2024 13:42:14 GMT
Could be, might explain why Neve was originally white with blond hair in the original concept art before they changed the design. I liked Calpernia on my Templar run in Inquisition but I've no idea how she could have worked as a companion given the plotline. Though it seems the Inquisitor had more content in their past plans so maybe from there.
Would have loved to have a Saarebas companion though. Ishmael could have also been interesting but given what he was like in Inquisition (and could also die) probably a bad idea. Though it could have been fun to see him argue with Spite. (Given the artbook had both male and female form I wonder if he could have swapped between the two or if they would have just been boring and gone with the female desire demon design.)
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Post by mediocreogre on Nov 21, 2024 15:17:07 GMT
Yeah, as much as I am impressed by what this team managed to throw together after a pretty rough development history, I do think it's pretty clear they had limitations of what they could do which is always a shame. I'm one of those people who wants to see developers, especially writers, get enough resources and time to stay true to their visions. But that wont happen until we get out of the funk of fidelity wanking and spiking game engineering resource costs and publishers wanting a cash cow with out recognizing its hard to manufacture a cash cow with out good ideas first.
Edit: also I have seen elsewhere others come across evidence the game was supposed to be darker ( I think you can even see that still in places in game, like the whole bad bad ending thing, or even the act 1 choice/consequence) so, I hope we get some reporting on what happened there. So many people wanna blame the new, younger writing team or whatever but I would put money on it being a higher up decision to make the game a bit more light hearted
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Post by Lee on Nov 21, 2024 20:09:13 GMT
I'm glad the game isn't too dark. Honestly, given how things are going in the real world-I'd not have been okay with grim dark misery porn. Optional dark might of been okay though. eh..
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Post by Andrew Mancer on Nov 21, 2024 20:35:02 GMT
OMG Lucanis looks really hot in the leftmost image as a "Tevinter Agent", whatever that was supposed to be!
Male Imshael looked like he could have been really hot! It would have been interesting to see that play out as a "romance" and them shaping to your Rook's desires. I'm almost sad that didn't make the cut!
While the seven we have now are fine, I wouldn't have minded all those extra potential companions to be added if the game didn't have such a messed up development cycle that had to be scrapped multiple times.
I have to admit I've NEVER seen Calpernia because I never sided with the Templars. She never really seemed all that interesting to me, but at least all that speculation that she was supposed to return as a companion turned out to be true...she just didn't make the cut. Even if she had appeared as a companion instead of Neve, I wouldn't have felt any connection to her because she didn't exist in my world. As flawed as he was, I like Samson better anyway...but it would have been interesting to have a former enemy of the Inquisition as an ally.
As it is now, I though there was fine balance between "dark" and light hearted. I wouldn't have minded more "dark" aspects if there was also more content to balance it out (like the cut companions and more/expanded story areas with quests to explore).
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Nov 22, 2024 5:29:11 GMT
Ohhh maaan, regarding that final act 2 choice and this fandom People really are pitting Davrin and Harding to eachother and how one is more worthy than the other, im so tired of this toxic fandom  both are sweethearts like a healthy mind wouldnt be thinking about that... About being lighter or darker, i dont know, every game has the decent amount of both for me, i dont want to play Elden Ring either haha (i cant get into those type of games mainly cause gameplay and story), but this game (act2 and 3 spoilers is the first game where actual companions can die no matter what, this Virmire 2.0 is going to haunt me for years im so sad
no counting the sibling in DA2 cause well, the one killed is not a permanent companion anyways, and every death in the franchise have been optional, even Hawke/Alistair can be worked around with Stroud.
But this game killed for real Varric who is very loved by almost everyone and the Virmire 2.0
I like it narrative wise, since even the happiest ending in ME have Virmire 1.0 companion, Thane and Mordin killed for real. DA sadly needed something like this and facing gods It was only time |
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Post by Lee on Nov 22, 2024 8:34:50 GMT
Biggest worry on that act 2 moment was just how many racist homophobic people would brag about killing the black queer man. I thought I was going to actually throw up. I didn't think I was gonna be able to finish the game for a few hours there. I'm still trying to find peace with it, but honestly I'm upset that BioWare did this. |
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Post by carcer on Nov 22, 2024 17:47:00 GMT
I really like the soundtrack, but there is this one song that I can't get enough of  it usually plays during combat, and I LOVE it!
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Post by Davrin's boobs on Nov 22, 2024 21:58:17 GMT
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Post by Scottphoto on Nov 22, 2024 22:05:13 GMT
Yeah! Those are good sales since is the table of october, and the game came out on the 31st, it means it sold way more than mario party, sonic in just 2-3 days of sales counted. Metamorph also had like 20 days of sales counted versus DAV's 3 days. So I think is doing good okay so far. Will it be enough for EA is another story but I hope they speak soon of the game doing well, because positive reaction to the game is what ultimately helps more people to try it, seeing a lot played it and enjoyed for what it is. carcer I ended up really enjoying the soundtrack despite originally finding it too dark, the themes when they play are just right. I'm particularly fond of Solas' theme, he always a killer theme music, his trespasser one and now this one are great: |
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Post by farferello on Nov 23, 2024 13:11:06 GMT
It's only as I'm reloading and doing some experiments that I realized Solas has banter with each companion you have during that segment in the city. I never even realized and I've finished the game twice. Glad I found it though, Davrin calls him out on his shit, and Lucanis has Spite just being all >:[ at him on Rook's behalf.  A shame you only get two per run unless you're fucking around like I am and replaying stuff. |
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hopefully they do more content updates for this kind of things.
Pretty much everybody made the cut except him, Calpernia (who I assume evolved into Neve) and the female demon 
both are sweethearts like a healthy mind wouldnt be thinking about that... 
it usually plays during combat, and I LOVE it!
