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#2894008 - 11/03/09 06:29 PM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: MaceUK33]
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Installing now... bananadance
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#2894229 - 11/04/09 06:33 AM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: Speedo]
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First impressions... very cool. I got about 3 hrs playtime in total, got through the intro for my character (dwarf noble) and just into the first battle of the main plot. Very fun, really enjoying the plot so far. They've apparently done some incredible optimization on the graphics, I'm running at high settings @ 1600x1200 and haven't noticed a hint of slowdown performance wise so far.














Edited by Speedo (11/04/09 06:36 AM)
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#2894235 - 11/04/09 06:43 AM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: Speedo]
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Looking great!

And a dwarf noble? That's gonna be my 1st char, too!

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#2894278 - 11/04/09 07:47 AM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: Para_Bellum]
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a few hours into the story too.

Fantastic impression so far.

The combat is particulary great : you can choose to micro-manage your team entirely or can define elaborate tactics for each member (for instance if a team member health down to 10% then use health spell on him, or if >1 enemy close, use area effect combat move).

It feels a bit like an extra-polished version of Drakensang, another very nice RPG coming from Germany.

This promises to be a great time-sink.

Cheers

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#2894480 - 11/04/09 12:42 PM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: Bongokid]
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Looks fantastic. The blood splatter on characters looks silly though.
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#2894550 - 11/04/09 02:33 PM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: vonKhan]
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The blood is a bit much, and this roleplay system is going to take some getting used to. Other than those two minor issues, this game is pretty damn cool. Gotta rush home and get some more time in with this one. yep
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#2895414 - 11/05/09 07:03 PM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: vault_dweller]
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So... where do you suppose I can find a +2 Electric Toothbrush and some Crest White Strips of Dentistry?
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#2895769 - 11/06/09 07:51 AM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: vault_dweller]
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on the Game Tab of the Options menu you can disable the blood splatter effect by un-checking the box next to Enable Persistent Gore.

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Determines whether battle covers a character in blood and gore that remains in place until the next change of armor or clothing. Blood effects during combat remain enabled either way.

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#2895776 - 11/06/09 07:53 AM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: Jeevz]
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Love it.
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#2895802 - 11/06/09 08:18 AM Re: Dragon Age pre-loading now... [Re: Razorback]
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a small patch, 12.6MBs, has been released for Dragon Age.

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Patch details:

* fixed potential corruption of character statistics
* fixed portrait appearance sliders when importing a character from the
downloadable Character Creator
* fixed import for preset face settings from the downloadable Character
Creator
* made Easy difficulty easier
* slightly increased attack, defense, and damage scores for all party
members at Normal difficulty
* fixed video issues when running on a very wide screen display, including
ATI Eyefinity displays


http://social.bioware.com/game_patches.php

http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/dragonage/patch/33583.html?details=1

http://www.filefront.com/14870387/Dragon-Age-Patch-v1.01a

if you have the Steam version you will get the patch from Steam.

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