Bioware has slapped a band-aid on the Dragon Age: Origins PC.
Patch 1.02, which released on Steam a few days ago, provides fixes and tweaks for a ton of small issues ranging from magic cool down times, to enemy scaling, and even to loot drops. As Joystiq points out, the patch even addresses some big stuff like that whole “unable to save your game” thing that results from Origins not creating a folder for custom characters. Neat.
The full patch notes can be seen here on the Steam Web site, and because we're awesome, we've provided an awesome place to gripe about the need for yet another patch in our comments section. Just click below, hit "Caps Lock" and go to town!
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8:40 AM on 12.09.2009 | 
No, seriously, you guys.
Everything that happens makes me go "uuuuuh, for fucks sake" I don't get a sense of "oh wow that's wicked!" or any real satisfaction from this game.
Currently stuck in the "fade" after being put to sleep by a monster and gained the ability to change into a mouse - I cannot be fucked with this mouse bullshit. i want to cut fucking dragons up!
Quite pleased I didn't buy this one....
And the final boss was hard as tits to kill. O_o Thanks god I took Leliana along, archery and device skills came quite in handy. For a Baldur's Gate/KoToR fan, this game was everything I could ask for. :) Hopefully there'll be a sequel!
Also people need to realize that if they want to avoid bag clutter they could buy more bag space, sell things, and not pick up every item that drops or just drop things. Inventory management should be a part of the game, and honestly they are pretty generous already(lots of space to start, merchant at your campsite)
So far this has been a fun game that requires you to pay attention to what is going on around you to win a fight.
I guess I was doing it wrong, but then I hate the concept of having a character solely devoted to casting healing spells (YAWN), mages should be eyelazer'ing monsters IMO. :) My approach was then to be a Master Herbalist and brew a ton of consumables, it worked out in the end but made the game longer to beat because I had to go regent-hunting at times. Otherwise having another member dedicated to damage and crowd-control was a plus in situations with many, weaker monsters. On dragon fights, Greater Fire Balms made it cake (used ~10 healing pots on High Dragon).
You could go play some action games...killzone 2...you know...something that doesn't require thought?
2. When I'm a mage and in beast form and a cut scene happens I , by default I guess, go back to human form and stay that way after the cut scene and have to wait the full cool down time before I can use that ability again.
About (1), next time it happens, try pushing your PS button and then return to the game; if any audio conversation was bugged it should start playing now. That is if you play on the PS3 version, I dunno about XBox 360.
Dual-cores are already pretty outdated sadly and a 2.1 is very slow. I would jump to a Q9550 or so, it shouldn't require an upgrade to anything else and will give you a massive performance boost.
The majority of people won't see benefit from a quad core. Not that many games support a dual core, let alone a quad. I'm running a 3GHz dual core and it's my GPU that's the bottleneck. And that's a 8800GT at that.
Promise not to laugh, but I'm using a "gaming" laptop.
My gpu is a 8600m GT and it runs the same at 1024x768 (or whatever the 720p resoultion is for 16:10) on medium settings and 900x600 on low settings. It's very saddening.
And I mean COME ON. It runs Crysis on combinations of medium and low settings without fuss. Dragon Age can't be that much more CPU intensive than Crysis with all of the physics and AI and graphics.
Still loving the game nonetheless.
I'm not saying it's a bad game, I'm just saying I'm not getting into it. I'm a big fan of Demon's Souls and Valkyria Chronicles, but Dragon Age I'm just not feeling.
I like a wide range of games, but Dragon Age just feels like it's missing something important.
Shame, possibly because I'm on a console, sure it's awesome on a PC.
; )
I haven't played the game yet but I'm pretty skeptical that a 2.1 Dual-core should be much of a problem. The min specs are a 1.8Ghz AMD X2, so he's effectively like 500Mhz over the min. (accounting for slightly better architecture efficiency). Plus the whole fact that it runs on consoles should mean he's in the clear, CPU-wise.
@Robotic,
I have a hard time believing that this would give you more trouble than Crysis, as well. I'd check that you don't have much running in the background, doublecheck that cpu-related settings can be turned down, and perhaps look up if there are any .ini tweaks that could help.
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