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For the record, the one time I needed to speak with Origin tech support I got to speak with them same day and they were extremely helpful, and that was about four or five months ago.
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You guys crying bout Origin are dumb. "A bloo bloo I'm going to not play the absolute best copy of the game, get the inferior copy, because well gently caress the corporation EA and their soulless money hats." The worst part about this whole thing is the game isn't out yet but people are playing it and rubbing it in my faceo n twitch etc.
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Nov 15, 2014 19:10
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My problem with Origin is that I've already got Steam. I don't want Origin and Steam. I want all my stuff in one place, with only one login/password that I have to remember, and that one place I already have works just fine. The only thing Origin does is force me to use some alternate service that doesn't do anything that I don't already have as well as give me the additional headache of having my games split over umpteen zillion different services for every single publisher. If EA didn't want to be butthurt about not getting as much money as they might be getting, then they should have invented steam instead of getting mad about it after the fact. Hence I don't buy EA games anymore. Except Mass Effect 3 and maybe Inquisition. I'm actually on the fence about Inquisition and if EA is going to lose a sale I'm pretty sure having to gently caress around with Origin is going to be the hassle barrier that might just make me skip it.
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Rookersh posted:Origin stuff Well, I'm wrong. Thankfully, it doesn't unlock for me (Or I don't get my key) until the 21st of November. So.. maybe I'll avoid this kind of stuff? Maybe.
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peak debt posted:Minimum Requirement: Quad Core. Here's why! Like Lords of the Fallen, the main game files are encrypted, with Denuvo decrypting them on the fly as requested, and also like Lords of the Fallen, a quad core is being pretty generous, given the performance hit it took, since it's CPU-assisted like gently caress. No doubt this is Bioware's reactionary response to the fact that they have yet to release a DA game (until now) where installing DLC of questionable origin was as easy as adding it as a regular mod. It's also probably on the big list of dumb reasons why this is also the first DA that you can't mod. At all. Seriously, if you're holding out for even the most minor of mods, it's best to just stop now before even more disappointment
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Nov 15, 2014 19:15
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Rookersh posted:They fired that support around 2013ish ( it now takes a week plus to get a response, and it's always canned. After that they'll just never respond to you. ), and it's actually got several huge bugs that affect people with the latest revisions of Win7/all of Win8. Namely it'll hog your memory until it crashes itself/the game/your computer. Or sometimes it'll just crash even when it's supposed to be working. I've also had it eat my legitimate saves in both Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2. This is all within the last 3-4 months mind you, so unless you are constantly using Origin you probably haven't run into these problems. Any idea if any specific options may cause these bugs? I typically roll with automatic updates and cloud saves off, and I haven't had any issues like the ones you described. Not running the beta version, either.
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I, surprisingly, only have a mild headache today. Gonna play Divinity 2 to keep me busy until Tuesday. I've added everyone currently on the GPCGMR tab of the spreadsheet to my friends list and will invite you to our Terrible Origin Chatroom for Terrible People at some point during the day after you accept. I'm glad I now know that NASCAR romance novels are a thing. Kind of disappointed but unsurprised to hear DAI contains Denuvo...hopefully it's less of a buggy shitstorm than Lords of the Fallen was (is?).
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Nov 15, 2014 19:20
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Well, with anticrack measures it's often about the implementation. There are tons of secuROM games, for instance, where you'd have no idea it's actually present.
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Nov 15, 2014 19:22
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Lords of the Fallen is getting better and is now worth picking up on sale if you're not immediately craving some more Souls.
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Cyclomatic posted:umpteen zillion different services for every single publisher. What other publishers other than EA and Ubisoft has their own services?
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Cross-Section posted:Any idea if any specific options may cause these bugs? I typically roll with automatic updates and cloud saves off, and I haven't had any issues like the ones you described. Not running the beta version, either. No idea. It's one of the latest updates they rolled out to Origin a few months ago. I have auto updates on and it downloaded it immediately, and the next day everything started going to poo poo. I sent in a few support tickets, tried a live chat, and even called them. Eventually I was told if I kept bothering them they'd lock my account, so I stopped. The most I was able to get out of them was that it was a bug with Windows 8, but they didn't care enough to try and figure it out because their PC sales are so low/who owns Windows 8. So I tried my games on my laptop which runs with Win7 and the problems kept happening. Checking their forums show it also affected a number of other people who downloaded the update that also have Win7, but since most of the people on the forums still use WinXP, it's not very widespread ( yet ). Nobody has any ideas how to fix it, outside of just cracking the games. If you have an older version of Origin cherish it, and never let it update. It'll turn into a monstrosity. If you don't already have Origin from a few years ago on your PC, well, I guess you get screwed because the only version you can find for download has the bug in it. e: I bought Inquisition as well because I'm a crazy person, so I guess we'll see if they fixed Origin in the last few months. Rookersh fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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Setzer Gabbiani posted:Here's why! Yeah it's totally Denuvo's fault lords of the fallen runs like poo poo, not because its a poo poo badly made by a crap developer responsible for games like Cooking Frenzy and Sniper Ghost Warrior 2. It has performance issues and the same bugs on the console releases also. It's used in Fifa 15 and that runs totally fine. The reason we won't get mods for DAI is because it uses frostbite, and even texture mods are a giant loving pain on that engine, because of the way the levels are compiled. DiabloStarCraft fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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Nov 15, 2014 19:27
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FYI, if you're in any of these areas: Australia Japan Europe New Zealand South Africa United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal your payment won't be processed until Monday
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Nov 15, 2014 19:27
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Good thing I'm not picking this up instantly then. And now for something completely different, I'm poking around those previously linked vids. Sera really looks and sounds like randumb.
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Archimago posted:I, surprisingly, only have a mild headache today. quote:I'm glad I now know that NASCAR romance novels are a thing. And then her husband shows up and suddenly everything gets super awkward. This book really exists. For real.
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Nov 15, 2014 19:37
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Potential dumb question: I just created an Origin account for the Dragonkeep, and looking at the tutorial video in the OP, it shows that in addition to creating your own Hero and Hawke, you can choose from your actual characters you previously created from save files (I guess so if/when they pop up in Inquisition they'll have the same physical appearance as when you played them). But how do I get those to appear? I didn't have an EA/Bioware account playing through the games and I don't see a way for it to look up or sync with my Xbox Live account, where I presume it could access my characters from.
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I hope it really is possible to kill off Hawke at some point in this game. If so I'm going to use my worldstate where Hawke was the most massive rear end in a top hat imaginable (sold Fenris into slavery, made deals with demons, was a mage who congratulated Anders on his big act of terrorism but then sided with the templars at the last minute just for maximum dickishness, etc.) I'd love it if the game also let me acknowledge that Hawke was ultimately the biggest villain in Dragon Age 2, but I doubt that will happen. I'm guessing we'll at least hear a few times about how totally awesome and misunderstood the *Champion!* was.
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Shrinkage posted:What other publishers other than EA and Ubisoft has their own services? So the way Denuvo works is that it decrypts on the fly? Sounds like it could get intensive.
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GuyUpNorth posted:And now for something completely different, I'm poking around those previously linked vids. Sera really looks and sounds like randumb. Yeah, she's the only one I'm not really liking of the party. Everybody seems pretty cool with a lot of personality except Sera's supposed to be the manic pixie dream girl and managed to be even more annoying than Merril. I didn't even hate Merril except for her stupid mirror obsession.
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Blastedhellscape posted:I hope it really is possible to kill off Hawke at some point in this game. If so I'm going to use my worldstate where Hawke was the most massive rear end in a top hat imaginable (sold Fenris into slavery, made deals with demons, was a mage who congratulated Anders on his big act of terrorism but then sided with the templars at the last minute just for maximum dickishness, etc.) From what I've heard, in DAI the Chantry is trying to execute Hawke as a scapegoat for everything that happened in DA2. You can save Hawke or let the Chantry hang him/her.
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Blastedhellscape posted:I hope it really is possible to kill off Hawke at some point in this game. If so I'm going to use my worldstate where Hawke was the most massive rear end in a top hat imaginable (sold Fenris into slavery, made deals with demons, was a mage who congratulated Anders on his big act of terrorism but then sided with the templars at the last minute just for maximum dickishness, etc.) Unconfirmed but rumors suggest that Hawke is captured at some point and the Chantry wants to make him/her a scapegoat for the Mage Rebellion and execute him/her. You have the option of allowing it. Dang it, beaten
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Cythereal posted:From what I've heard, in DAI the Chantry is trying to execute Hawke as a scapegoat for everything that happened in DA2. You can save Hawke or let the Chantry hang him/her. I told Anders to go gently caress himself. I really hope if you let Anders live, you can get Hawke off the hook, and instead Tranquil Anders.
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Any decent combat gameplay vids around? It all looks a bit simplistic from the little I've seen
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Cythereal posted:From what I've heard, in DAI the Chantry is trying to execute Hawke as a scapegoat for everything that happened in DA2. You can save Hawke or let the Chantry hang him/her.  edit: WastedJoker posted:Any decent combat gameplay vids around? Chuf fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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Rookersh posted:If you have an older version of Origin cherish it, and never let it update. It'll turn into a monstrosity. If you don't already have Origin from a few years ago on your PC, well, I guess you get screwed because the only version you can find for download has the bug in it. That's... really strange, as I believe I'm running the latest version too; in addition, ever since I saw your post I've been keeping an eye on Origin's memory usage (I typically have it set to auto-open when I start up my Win7 PC) and it's actually been slowly going down over the past hour or so. I guess I have the magic non-broken version of Origin, then?  On the Denuvo front, I think I may have just realized why builds with AMD GPUs are so thoroughly outperforming ones with Nvidia cards in early benchmarking tests: The game reportedly makes heavy use of AMD's Mantle in mitigating the engine's unusually CPU-heavy system load, which I now understand may be the DRM's fault. 
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AnimeJune posted:I'm trying to cram as much NaNoWriMo and editing in before the game comes out. Got the call from the store, my copy comes in on Tuesday and I'll be there at 8:00 am to pick it up, go to work, try to work for 8 hours, and then rush home to play it. Am I the only person who thought of this guy? 
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Bogwitt posted:
will do. What about controlling the group - do we get to mess about with their behaviours in battle such as what spells they'll launch first? I (dimly) recall Origins giving us quite an advanced level of control over how a companion would behave such as "if party member health is lower than 20%, heal" etc.
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Tactics have been pretty significantly cut back but you can still micromanage every single aspect of combat and ability use if you desire.
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WastedJoker posted:will do. From what I've seen (can't remember the specific video) the tactics are functional but nowhere near as deep as Origins. In Origins, you could basically set up a ton of if-then statements as you've said which from what I've seen is not possible in Inquisition. What you can do is decide how many and when they use their potions, what abilities they will use with what priorities and... I can't remember but I have a feeling that's all there is. 
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Orv posted:Tactics have been pretty significantly cut back but you can still micromanage every single aspect of combat and ability use if you desire. Only during pause? Awwww, I was hoping the Tactics section was kept for the PC version I hope this doesn't mean battles have become less tactical/difficult. That was easily my favourite thing about Origins. Edit: Bogwitt posted:From what I've seen (can't remember the specific video) the tactics are functional but nowhere near as deep as Origins. In Origins, you could basically set up a ton of if-then statements as you've said which from what I've seen is not possible in Inquisition. What you can do is decide how many and when they use their potions, what abilities they will use with what priorities and... I can't remember but I have a feeling that's all there is. Oh well even a basic Tactics interface gives me hope the game isn't too easy/simplistic. Was this the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTqwwlCvygQ WastedJoker fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Nov 15, 2014 |
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After watching this, I'm pretty sure I'm going to be playing an rear end in a top hat again. Kind of excited about it, except that I have no money currently and won't be able to play until, probably, next month.
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CottonWolf posted:I was unbelievably tempted to order one, just because I wanted that tarot deck. The art is great. I just could't justify it as I didn't care about anything else in there. Hopefully they'll sell them separately on the Bioware store for an exorbitant price at some point. Are we the same person? I wanted that deck soooo bad, and it was even worse because my fiancee wanted the lockpick set and was willing to go 50/50 with me on it. 100$ it still too much for a game and a deck though, especially since I'm not sure if DAI will be that great.
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pro chantry? already hate her. I want to burn the chantry to the ground.
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Could you not put the cool font in the title I feel a lot is lot with it in standard font and the exclamation mark
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Soysaucebeast posted:Are we the same person? I wanted that deck soooo bad, and it was even worse because my fiancee wanted the lockpick set and was willing to go 50/50 with me on it. 100$ it still too much for a game and a deck though, especially since I'm not sure if DAI will be that great. You're a better person for holding strong against temptation, hth.
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WastedJoker posted:FYI, if you're in any of these areas: Thanks. That explains why I couldn't my preload going via vpn.
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cheesetriangles posted:pro chantry? already hate her. I want to burn the chantry to the ground. If the Chantry can be completely destroyed I will go for this option.
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Ballz posted:Potential dumb question: I just created an Origin account for the Dragonkeep, and looking at the tutorial video in the OP, it shows that in addition to creating your own Hero and Hawke, you can choose from your actual characters you previously created from save files (I guess so if/when they pop up in Inquisition they'll have the same physical appearance as when you played them). But how do I get those to appear? I didn't have an EA/Bioware account playing through the games and I don't see a way for it to look up or sync with my Xbox Live account, where I presume it could access my characters from. I didn't see anyone answer your question. A few points: When you are on the Tapesty and select the Warden or Hawke tiles, you can pick the race/gender/class of your warden and if they're alive or dead, and you can pick gender/class of your Hawke and their personality type. Selecting the class/gender tile takes you to a list of defaults, but there's a checkbox to use the heroes connected to your Origin account. If you created a new origin account, then it won't be connected to your old saves. Appearance and similar data on your Hawke or Warden isn't imported; really the only thing of value is the name and the fuzzy feeling you get from saying "that's my guy" when you look at his tile. That name will probably appear on codex pages and similar screens when/if cameos happen. If you want to customize a character that returns, Bioware says you will get the chance to do so in game. Spoiler: Hawke comes back.
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