I'm gonna get FRAPS.. my boy just told me that was the best in game recording software.. http://fraps.com/

First things first, man put your poultices/lyrium potions in your userbar at the bottom, so you don't have to go into inventory everytime to use them.. That'll save you a LOT of time.. then just left click on them in the userbar at the bottom..

Next level up you get, do a vulnerability hex, that'll allow you to do spell combos. put a hex on someone first, then use your cone of cold, or any other ice spell and they're more suceptible to injury, also drain life takes a SH!Tload of more energy. I kill lower level mages in 3 hits now.. Vuln Hex + ice + bolt = TOASTED MAGE!!!

Also, set up your Combat Tactics mayne.. You can set up scripts to work so that when your character, or any in your party for that matter get to certain health levels or are in certain scenarios, they do what you'd have them do "auto-magically". For example, if you see that you're doing the same spell combo, you can set it up to do that.. I've done that for my Sleep + Horror combo.. If my mage (morigan) sees someone asleep, she'll automatically cast horror next (another spell combo) to make them get all KINDS of spirit damage and they can't resist it when they're sleeping.. HAHAHAHHA!!! Another thing I do is "Frost Weapons" w/ morigan, she will make all the characters melee weapons deal cold damage and that when combined w/ the vulnerability hex are SICK.. Next stage of the Vulnerability hex is the "contagious" vulnerability hex, all enemies in a region are affected and more suceptible to cold, electricity, nature, and fire damage.. AW JEAH!!

Combat Tactics are your friend bro.. Also use that for when my characters hit a certain health threshold.. if they're less than 50%, they use a lesser health poultice, if 25% or less, they use a regular or greater depending on what I have..

EDIT: After watching the vid again, I see that you just "disabled" them.. Prolly for the purposes of the video.. PLAY ON!!! PLAY ON!!!


Hope this helps, and saves you some time.. It's kewl to see them "self sufficient".. Just another aspect I love about this game. The ability to "program" your characters to do what you'd have them do even when you're not directly controlling them. Really lets you sit back and enjoy the fights like a movie, rather than micro-managing each aspect. I like to do that too for harder enemies or larger parties though.. So I can control the order of death.. LMAO!!!

 

You're right, I disabled the combat tactics whenever i cast a large spell like inferno or blizzard, my party tends to walk right into it and they get dealt damage. lol!

Now the Hex i didnt know, im waiting to try it out now...

 

Yeah.. When I cast BLIZZARD, OMG.. I just make my characters use their ranged weapons till the spell subsides.. And I have my mage stand away from the group as well, because like fireball the first thing the spell does is knock everyone off their feet.. Then anyone caught in the blizzard gets dealt constant cold damage. You can run outside of the range of the blizzard however, but by then it's normally too late, you've lost like 75% of your health. That's a BAD CHICK!!!

So over time, I've increased my character, Lileana, and Alistair's dexterity, so they're just as cold w/ ranged weapons as melee weapons. Also, since they're in a group, if you get past the onslaught of arrows, they'll just gang up on you and take you down w/in seconds.. (remember you also had to come through a blizzard to get to me, so they're already VERY weak, and then taking armor penetration from the arrows. I'm mainly in critical shot or crippling shot mode w/ them and rapid fire is enabled..) HAHAHAHAHH!!

 

Just watched your vid again... SAY MAN.. You're running around w/ a lot of "injuries" you could prolly be a lot stronger.. USE YOUR INJURY KITS!!! Everytime you "die" in battle, you don't actually die, you get an injury instead, that's why you get up if EVERYONE in your party doesn't die. But if you mouseover your injuries, you'll see that it's hindering your character's skillpoints in some way..

Get rid of those, you'll kick even more A$$!!!!! That's what the injury kits are for.. Lesser fix one injury, Greater fixes 3.. If you go back to camp, that heals you completely as well..

Didn't know if you knew this.. Just watching your vid over again.

 

My mage was the only injured one. He was injured since i didnt have any money for injury kits before that fight. I bought some up that road after that fight since there is a dwarve vendor before you enter the dwarf city. All better now, i like to keep my guys healthy.

 

this game started off pretty good. but im around 75% done and its kinda a knock off of lord of the rings.

i wish the game was alil longer i have only been playing this for 3 days

 

wow pc version does look hella better!!! btw did u guys make your players sleep together yet lol. my 2 girls are jealous and bitching back and forth lol

 

Dang, you're 75% done? I've put in over 60+ hrs and not even 40%. How many hours have you put in? Are you looking at the stats that are calculated in the journal? It'll tell you the % complete you are and the exact amount of gameplay. Are you doing the side quests on the chanters board, and the crows, and the black-whatever-they're called group... (forgot their names).. I'm trying to do them all for the most part...

The kewl thing about this game is that they also have the level generator that THEY actually even used to create the game.. There's already groups out there making their own expansions. You can do anything w/in the game using this toolset, even make voiceovers and do cutscenes..

Dragon Age Toolset

Did you get all of the Downloadable content as well? There's 2 addons already that were released when the game launched.

Dragon Age Addons

What class/type character did you use? Warrior/Mage/Rogue? Human/Dwarf/Elf?

Yeah, conversely to most games coming out now, this was a native PC game that was ported to play on consoles, not the other way around. So it's going to look better on PC. From my understanding Part 2 is going to be an MMO. They wanted to get the engine perfect in the first game, and then will roll out the multiplayer aspect in 2. But w/ all of the addons that will come out between now and then, we'll have plenty to play I assume.

My character slept w/ the lady in waiting in the castle the first night I played the game.. LMAO!!!

Mine are getting to that point (my female warrior, and lileana)... She's "interested" by her approval rating... Alistair has gotten certain upgrades to constitution and damage due to his feelings for my warrior and her "leadership"..





Kris, on a side note.. THANKS FOR PICKING UP THE BUMPER BIDDNESS... I was scared out of my mind not knowing where I could get a replacement K2.. Thanks bro.. Hear you're doing an excellent job as well..

 

i killed the high dragon and am rite about to kill the last dragon. i just saved my game cause i dont want it to end yet lol.

i wont ruin it for you though. total i have put in around 70-80 hours now. and yeah i did alot of the side quest. but its not rewardiing since u dont get xp or any cool stuff. the only cool side quest was the one for dragon plate armor.

 

holy crap the dragons hard lol. heres a tip killl the generals before u enter the last battle.

 

I could have sworn you got experience and gold/gear for completing quests.. I have been.. When doing the chantry boards and blackstone irregular quests and crows quests.

 

lol maybe i just dont notice lol it doesnt do that pop up like when you kills someone and it says like 50xp gained

 

boo done...

 

I'll probably get it. But my PC is in storage until I buy a house out here in CA. I don't even think she'll be able to handle it haha. I might just build a whole new rig.

 

yeah.. you get experience.. You also get experience everytime it wrote to the codex (journal) too about anything... found new pages, updated quests, anything.

Wish I had time.. I'm just now going to the circle of mages tower.. Didn't have time to play at all yesterday. I plan to play it again (already have 2 other characters made).. The beginning story is different depending on what class and race you are.. Also plan to be completely mean to EVERYONE to see how that changes the story.. You can also say for instance decide to help the werewolves instead of the elves and see how that alters the end fight too.. There's replayability in it..


Sounds like a great excuse to me man... I also got Left 4 Dead 2 and the Creative Fatality MKII headset, so we can talk noise while we kill zombies.. LMAO!!! Frys had EVERYTHING on sale this weekend.. Prolly still has some good sales.