Discuss Dragon Age 2

Hmmm..... Just realized they released a new patch with a bunch of fixes.....

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Dragon Age II 1.03
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NOTE: Some fixes are retroactive, but not all. Players with plot-breaking bugs may need to revert to an earlier save, particularly a save prior to visiting the affected area during the current year in the game.

GAMEPLAY
- In many fights, enemies now move less quickly at the start of combat. This slower initial pace makes tactical positioning more useful and important.
- If the force of an enemy attack interrupts a party member's current action, the party member now resumes the action once he or she has recovered. This means, for example, that party members who have been instructed to consume a health potion will now do so as soon as they are able, and do not need to be told to consume a health potion again if they are interrupted.
- Enemies are now much less likely to explode into body parts upon death.
- Attacks that hit a stealthed assassin are now more likely to disrupt stealth.
- Abilities that apply a silence effect now also cancel the target's current action in addition to preventing the target from using further abilities.
- When an enemy wakes from a sleep effect due to suffering damage, other status effects that were applied by the same ability that caused the sleep effect are no longer removed at the same time.
- Items that bear the property "100% of basic attack damage vs. enemies that attack in melee" no longer harm the user when equipped in conjunction with abilities like Blood Magic or Sacrificial Frenzy that reduce the user's health.
- The items known as Final Thought, Sataareth, Sundering, and Trepanner's Gift now have damage types that match their elemental damage bonuses.
- The items known as Allure's Crook, Corrupted Acolyte's Staff, Defender of the Wall, Void's Hammer, and Volcanic Shield can now only be equipped by the appropriate classes.
- The high dragon's fireballs no longer track moving targets.
- Pride demons can no longer be affected by their own Crushing Prison spells.
- The size of the area affected by an ability is now explicitly described as diameter or radius (usually diameter).
- When a party member's armor changes after consummating a romance, runes inscribed on his or her old armor now carry over to the new armor.
- Using the Maker's Sigh potion on an archer no longer alters inventory capacity.
- It is no longer possible to create more than one Elixir of Heroism.
- It is no longer possible to simultaneously enable sustained modes that are supposed to be mutually exclusive.
- In some cases, enemies would freeze while entering combat. This no longer occurs.
- In some cases, saw traps or spike traps would throw party members back even when the trap was not visible. This no longer occurs.
- The Special Deliveries chest can no longer get into a state where it contains items but cannot be opened.
- The storage chest is now present in the Hawke estate after completing the main campaign.
- If the Black Emporium premium content is installed, the mabari hound now follows his master more reliably.
- Various character-corruption issues now correct themselves automatically when you load your game.
- Various minor gameplay issues no longer occur.

That's just the Gameplay section, there are 4 more sections with a bunch of fixes listed. Here's the complete list - Choose Language | BioWare Social Network. Be aware that some of the fixes listed in the Quests section contain spoilers.

You can download the patch here - Patches and Fixes: Dragon Age 2 v1.03 Patch - Demo Movie Patch Download Section - GamersHell.com

Seems like this would be a good time to replay the game now :)

Yeah I never patched DA2 either, did the samething you did, finished it and put it away. However I've been wanting to replay it anyway so with the new patch I will.

Started to replay Origins but that game is too long for me. Loved it, but really don't feel like going through it again. Great game though :)

Maguscreed said:

Yeah, that patch came a little late.
And that's not even the complete change log.

If you're refering to what little I posted in my post, yeah, it's not the complete change log, which is what I said, and provided a linked to the full change log.

Maguscreed said:

I've moved on to the new red faction game.
I honestly think it's one of the best shooters I've ever played though.

I nearly bought that game, but than got talked (reviewed) of of it. It really looks good but I'm kind of afraid I'd be missing a lot since I've not played the other games before it. Would I be missing out if I jumped in with that one?

Also how's performance? I know all games have issues upon release; are there any glaring issues there?

Thanks.

I'll probably pick it up at a later date. I had initially intended to pick it up on release day but than changed my mind as I've had to make some financial adjustments

The game looks incredible though from the videos I saw.

Thanks for the info.