Are you criticising your very capable spymaster? Now that is brave 
In all seriousness, hope your saves are intact whenever that happens. The ps3 has a habit of freezing every hour or so and deleting the most recent save...or two...so I feel your pain.
Ran over a Phoenix, then watched it fight some Venatori as we threw things at them.
Hahaha I've never found much use for mounts so I am enjoying you making a point of running over all the things immensely 
Are you criticising your very capable spymaster? Now that is brave
In all seriousness, hope your saves are intact whenever that happens. The ps3 has a habit of freezing every hour or so and deleting the most recent save...or two...so I feel your pain.
That is a very good point. maybe Cole will talk to her for me. Pssst Cole, buddy... I need your help
Update: All is well with the game. Restarted, loaded the latest autosave and ended up about a hundred feet away from where the game crashed. Had to re-kill a revenant, an arcane horror and a couple greater terrors in order to close the rift, but those things are no trouble for templar Dofni and the boys.
Nery is hot on the trail of Samson and closing in. Took out Carroll in the Graves and now she is getting ready to hit the Sahrnia mine. She forgot that Dorian doesn't like the cold when she dragged him along, but it gave him and TDB a chance to form a truce, so it was worth it. Cass still won't talk to him, but maybe after getting to read Varric's latest smut...er, book....she'll be in a better mood.
Before going to Emprise, she tied up some loose ends in the Plains: finally delivered those bear pelts to the Dalish, even though Loralin was already acquired as an agent, and gave the accounting of what happened at Red Crossing to the keeper. Nery also found one snowy wyvern heart for Vivienne. TDB was incredulous when she told him what it was for, but reconsidered when she pointed out that Viv would never be nicer to him if Nery ticked her off. Better to keep on her good side, yes?
Lastly, she accompanied Leliana to Valance after a (very delayed) message arrived from the Divine. Nery was able to talk her out of killing a Chantry sister working for a cleric opposed to the Inquisition. Ironic considering not a year ago Nery would have easily killed the woman herself for interfering with her plans. Leliana seems a bit more at peace now, but is still focused on the task at hand.
Hopefully by the time they're done rooting out red templars in Emprise, Cullen will have a lead on what happened to that poor Sutherland fellow. Kid's turned out well so Nery definitely wants to make sure he and his crew come back in one piece.
Nery is hot on the trail of Samson and closing in. Took out Carroll in the Graves and now she is getting ready to hit the Sahrnia mine. She forgot that Dorian doesn't like the cold when she dragged him along, but it gave him and TDB a chance to form a truce, so it was worth it. Cass still won't talk to him, but maybe after getting to read Varric's latest smut...er, book....she'll be in a better mood.
Before going to Emprise, she tied up some loose ends in the Plains: finally delivered those bear pelts to the Dalish, even though Loralin was already acquired as an agent, and gave the accounting of what happened at Red Crossing to the keeper. Nery also found one snowy wyvern heart for Vivienne. TDB was incredulous when she told him what it was for, but reconsidered when she pointed out that Viv would never be nicer to him if Nery ticked her off. Better to keep on her good side, yes?
Lastly, she accompanied Leliana to Valance after a (very delayed) message arrived from the Divine. Nery was able to talk her out of killing a Chantry sister working for a cleric opposed to the Inquisition. Ironic considering not a year ago Nery would have easily killed the woman herself for interfering with her plans. Leliana seems a bit more at peace now, but is still focused on the task at hand.
Hopefully by the time they're done rooting out red templars in Emprise, Cullen will have a lead on what happened to that poor Sutherland fellow. Kid's turned out well so Nery definitely wants to make sure he and his crew come back in one piece.
Ahh, Sutherland. 
I'm only a couple missions in on his questline, but it's great to have him in the game. I still dunno why he didn't show up in Harold's game. I didn't even get to talk to him in Herald's Rest to start the whole chain. He just wasn't there. Oh well. He's here now, that's what counts.
Speaking of the account of Red Crossing, did you ever give it to the Chantry? I gave it to the Dalish in each of my first two games, and I only just remembered it was an option to give it to the Chantry reading it just now.
Althogh we started out with very similar PTs -- although yours is progressing much more quickly than mine -- our paths are really diverging now. Samson isn't in my game, and I'm pretty sure I won't be able to talk Leliana out of anything in Valence. Dofni seems to be one for just letting her people kill someone when they have a mind to, heh.
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Heh, the game has actually been very stable for me. This has only happened a couple of times. And it totally wasn't on purpose.
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You're one of the lucky ones.
I haven't seen any cutscene in full yet.
It's kind of tricky. I have to tap 'Skip' after half a second or so. If I dwell to long the game crashes. Which means I have to read very fast and remember the dialogue choices, and then also very fast decide and click to proceed.
The screenshots I made of cutscenes are when I I'm in luck. It sometimes happens that I can watch a scene a bit longer. Usually when I just restarted the game.
I did notice I was able to keep it going for a long time after I'd removed the HUD/UI and turned back again. The dialogues didn't initiate. I guess that's the reason why.
There's a conflict between Windows and DAI. Someone explained it in the help forums. Windows and DAI is actually discussing who's in charge. And when there's no result Windows decides to shut DAI down.
I have a normal PC. A bit above the recommended specs. And the game also runs fair in high resolution, high graphics etc. My framerate is a bit low sometimes. Especially when there's lots of movement in an area or lots of special effects and sounds.
I do look forward to the day when I can play it in full. Relax and just enjoy. Maybe I have to buy a new CPU and GPU? Mine is a year and a half old by now anyways.
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You're one of the lucky ones.
I haven't seen any cutscene in full yet.It's kind of tricky. I have to tap 'Skip' after half a second or so. If I dwell to long the game crashes. Which means I have to read very fast and remember the dialogue choices, and then also very fast decide and click to proceed.
The screenshots I made of cutscenes are when I I'm in luck. It sometimes happens so that I can watch a scene a bit longer. Usually when I just restarted the game.
I did notice I was able to keep it going for a long time after I'd removed the HUD/UI fand turned back again. The dialogues didn't initiate. I guess that's the reason why.
There's a conflict between Windows and DAI. Someone explained it in the help forums. Windows and DAI is actually discussing who's in charge. And when there's no result Windows decides to shut the down.
I have a normal PC. A bit above the recommended specs. And the game also runs fair in high resolution, high graphics etc. My framerate is a bit low sometimes. Especially when there's lots of movement in an area or lots of special effects and sounds.
I do look forward to the day when I can play it in full. Relax and just enjoy. Maybe I have to buy a new CPU and GPU? Mine is a year and a half old by now anyways.
If you're at/above the recommended specs for the game, you should be able to play it without that kind of trouble. Sounds terrible. May be a silly question but have you repaired the game through Origin? After a crash in my first game, I repaired DA:I and it did a 3+ Gb download, but it's been very smooth since then.
Thanks, I'll still have plenty of them to re-deadify. Uhh, yay?
The Re-Deadifying should the name of Worthy's next knock-off novel. Before Varric re-deadifies him!
So much in fact that when Dofni caught up with him later back at Skyhold, he said that he was surprised that a practical, non-dreaming dwarf could display so much wisdom in her dealings, and he respected her for it. Uhh... thanks?
*snip*I hope Jennifer Hale gets to say "pillowy man-bosoms" in her next Bioware gig, too.
Ha, is Solas this bad with every Inky he intends to befriend? Clearly a centuries-long nap has done nothing for his social skills! I guess it's the thought that counts. 
I have to admit, when Krem first said that line, I thought it was 'billowing man-bosoms'. I was picturing Iron Bull running along, his bosoms flapping like the sails of a great ship. 
I really should start playing with the subtitles activated again. But they get in the way of screenshots!
You're one of the lucky ones.
*snip*
That sounds like a nightmare! You must have a lot of patience to keep going with the game when it's doing that. I thought it was bad enough just crashing sometimes when I leave the Undercroft. Since the latest patches, I haven't had problems with sticking dialogue, I can't imagine having it happen all the time.
The Re-Deadifying should the name of Worthy's next knock-off novel. Before Varric re-deadifies him!
Hard in Hightown: The Re-Deadifying Varric's personal quest should have involved going to Kirkwall, deadifying Worthy, and meeting Bianca there, then we could've gone down to the site of Hawke's original deep roads expedition. Oooh...
Ha, is Solas this bad with every Inky he intends to befriend? Clearly a centuries-long nap has done nothing for his social skills! I guess it's the thought that counts.
That's how I'm choosing to look at it, heh. I can't remember exactly what he said to my elf mage after that quest, but i think he was a little nicer, even if they didn't exactly get along.
I have to admit, when Krem first said that line, I thought it was 'billowing man-bosoms'. I was picturing Iron Bull running along, his bosoms flapping like the sails of a great ship.
*mental image of Bull running* Okay whenever he's running in the game, I'm just gonna be laughing now.
If you're at/above the recommended specs for the game, you should be able to play it without that kind of trouble.
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Oh yes. I have tried to reinstall and used FPS cap. Changed, removed and replaced audio, video and DirextX runtime drivers. I changed settings for resolution, shaders, tesselation etc. Whatever you can imagine.
I have an i5 (4x 3.10 GHZ), 8 Gig RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (4GB). There should be no problems.
But it is a known issue. Lots of people have this problem. Bioware is working on it. Even with Microsoft. I can only wait until they fix it.
They simply made a game that wasn't technically designed for all PC's. Now they try to create some kind of 'hotfix'.
Ha ha! God knows how many times I have restarted the game just to watch the cutscenes in 'Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts'.
It's ok. I can play the game. I have no problems during exploring and battles. There's nothing wrong with the normal dialogues. It's only the cutscenes.
My guess is that there are too many different programs running at the same time. One or two of the basic ones creates some kind of stupid error between Windows and DirectX. This error is observed by Windows. Windows then refer to its security protocols which says this is a bad thing, and choses to terminate the process.
You have any idea of how many 'layers' (programs) are active at the same time when you play? My guess is 30 different at least. You have User Interfaces and menus, special effects like ligntning, texture movements, detail filters and mods, loads of small calculators measuring and applying. It's like a huge factory with a lot of different departments each working on one single piece of a large project.
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Oh yes. I have tried to reinstall and used FPS cap. Changed, removed and replaced audio, video and DirextX runtime drivers. I changed settings for resolution, shaders, tesselation etc. Whatever you can imagine.
I have an i5 (4x 3.10 GHZ), 8 Gig RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (4GB). There should be no problems.
But it is a known issue. Lots of people have this problem. Bioware is working on it. Even with Microsoft. I can only wait until they fix it.
They simply made a game that wasn't technically designed for all PC's. Now they try to create some kind of 'hotfix'.
Ha ha! God knows how many times I have restarted the game just to watch the cutscenes in 'Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts'.
It's ok. I can play the game. I have no problems during exploring and battles. There's nothing wrong with the normal dialogues. It's only the cutscenes.
My guess is that there are too many different programs running at the same time. One or two of the basic ones creates some kind of stupid error between Windows and DirectX. This error is observed by Windows. Windows then refer to its security protocols which says this is a bad thing, and choses to terminate the process.
You have any idea of how many 'layers' (programs) are active at the same time when you play? My guess is 30 different at least. You have User Interfaces and menus, special effects like ligntning, texture movements, detail filters and mods, loads of small calculators measuring and applying. It's like a huge factory with a lot of different departments each working on one single piece of a large project.
I figured it was a silly question, heh. I had GTX 660 when I first bought the game and honestly I lived in fear that it was gonna melt when there a lot going on onscreen. That shouldn't matter as much for cutscenes, though. Anyway, sorry about your troubles. I hope they get it fixed for you soon.
I figured it was a silly question, heh. I had GTX 660 when I first bought the game and honestly I lived in fear that it was gonna melt when there a lot going on onscreen. That shouldn't matter as much for cutscenes, though. Anyway, sorry about your troubles. I hope they get it fixed for you soon.
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No, there's a specific problem regarding the cutscenes.
GTX 660?
I run everything in 'High'. No problems. Just a little low FPS now and then. And the sound can sometimes be delayed.
I have a Kandalf tower with 8 fans running. It won't melt. It's only me who melts - when I see Celene 
Just completed Promise of Destruction, and in talking about it with Cassandra back in Skyhold, I told her to let go of the Seekers, that they were gone. To my great surprise I got a "Cassandra Greatly Approves" and she said, "Thank you. I could not have done this on my own." All right! 
I never told her to do that in my previous games because I knew what being a Seeker meant to her, and I thought she would beat me with a stick.
Just completed Promise of Destruction, and in talking about it with Cassandra back in Skyhold, I told her to let go of the Seekers, that they were gone. To my great surprise I got a "Cassandra Greatly Approves" and she said, "Thank you. I could not have done this on my own." All right!
I never told her to do that in my previous games because I knew what being a Seeker meant to her, and I thought she would beat me with a stick.
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Hmm... I wouldn't have expected this reaction from her?
You know what? I think you are bound to make her divine now. That's her real plan. She just pulled your leg
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Hmm... I wouldn't have expected this reaction from her?
You know what? I think you are bound to make her divine now. That's her real plan. She just pulled your leg
Well that would be about right. I didn't tell her that in my other two games, and she became Divine. She'll become Divine this time just to **** with me.
Hard in Hightown: The Re-Deadifying
Holy nug, that would've been so much fun! And Cassandra could've met the protagonist from her favourite book.
Just completed Promise of Destruction, and in talking about it with Cassandra back in Skyhold, I told her to let go of the Seekers, that they were gone. To my great surprise I got a "Cassandra Greatly Approves" and she said, "Thank you. I could not have done this on my own." All right!
I never told her to do that in my previous games because I knew what being a Seeker meant to her, and I thought she would beat me with a stick.
*makes notes for Cass romance*
Unless that would push her towards being Divine instead?
DLC idea: Cassandra goes back to Kirkwall autograph-hunting and gets into a Swords &Shields type adventure.Holy nug, that would've been so much fun! And Cassandra could've met the protagonist from her favourite book.
*makes notes for Cass romance*
Unless that would push her towards being Divine instead?
Just started a new 4th playthrough of a Dalish, Female, Mage with an aggressive/direct 
personality.
Her personality is definitely grating on Cassandra because I have seen a few 'Cassandra Slightly Disapproves' messages. Solas attempted to make conversation with her and that didn't go well either as Varric said something like "will you two elves play nice". So I think any approval will be rare on this run .
I haven't played a mage before so I am not used to the ranged combat (but I am doing this on casual mode which is a welcome pace after nightmare). I am currently at Haven and the inquisition is announced. The Dalish is a reluctant conscript. I also noticed that Leliana let off two birds with messages and they went to Redcliffe and Therinfal (that's some remarkable foresight from our spymaster 
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I also added some points to the inferno skill tree because the Dalish likes destruction and is a bit of a hot-head. She currenly is level 3.
Finished 'Wicked Hearts and Wicked Eyes' after getting Vivienne.
I lost Vivienne. I responded too late on her invitation. Some women are apparently very touchy in these matters? Especially Vivienne perhaps? 
Natuarally I invited her to Halamshiral. God knows what would have happened if I didn't? Some sarcastic or merely rather snarky remarks after returning to Skyhold?
As usual Gaspard tried to convince me to satisfy his need for a purpose in life. And as usual I detested this little pathetic worm.
Celene was happy to see us, and was smiling more than I have ever seen when we left. I wonder why?
We joined the party and avoided any chance to tell anyone anything of valuable. That seemed to a really good idea. Everyone applauded us for being such delightful company. I secretly scratched my head when nobody was watching.
A few paintings found in the Imperial Historic Art Collection:
The Winter Palace how it looked in those days
Celene's three Ladies in Waiting: Lady Couteau, Lady Colombe and Lady Fleur
The three orlesian noble ladies were apparently having conversation with a high ranking officer of unknown origin. The specialists have not been able to identify this person. No records have been found yet. But it seems as if the meeting was of some importance.
Yet another painting of empress Celene I
Cassandra Filigree Portland Abracadabra Pentagoose?It was a grand Orlesian ball tonight, though it didn’t get off to a good start. One of the nobles said “is that an Ox?? Must just be someone’s pet.” Jeez, now Adaar knows how Cole feels every time Vivienne trots that word out. It only got worse from there. It’s safe to say that Adaar is no belle of the ball. She’s too honest and too friendly. To make up for her frequent social blunders, she had to work overtime grabbing secret documents and eavesdropping (though she seems to be a bit too conspicuous for the latter).
Cassandra and Cole didn’t enjoy the ball either. After being introduced as Cassandra Filigree Portland Abracadabra Pentagoose (or something...), I can’t blame her. Don’t worry, we’ll soon get to the stabbing. Cole took a bit of work to get to, only for him to impart this nugget of wisdom: “socks get wet when the tide is high.” That they do, Cole. That they do.
Adaar didn’t seek out Varric, since she needed to save the precious halla statues for later. If he wants to be an anti-social bugger, then she’ll let him. One day, I will check out that guy locked in Celene's chambers. Maybe when I have her as Empress on her own, since I won't need the halla statues for anything else.
It was lovely to see Leliana happier and more exuberant than usual, chatting about shoes and the many crimes against fashion. Speaking of which, she kept talkdig to a man with a strange hat - that looked like his head was being savaged by schleets.
Meeting Josephine’s little sister definitely proved entertaining. Apparently, she’s heard that Adaar and Josie are planning to elope and join the Wardens to battle darkspawn. How romantic! Better just stick to glowy hands and big parties, take Warden Surana’s word on that. Adaar did learn that Josephine has a doll collection, and decided to keep an eye on the shops the next time she’s in Val Royeaux. It wouldn’t be fitting for the Inquisitor to be buying dolls, but that sounds like another nice task for Servis, after he’s delivered us some nug babies.
I have to wonder – Adaar loses so much court approval due to verbal incontinence, and yet no one ever disapproves of her climbing up the garden trellis. She’s doing that in plain view of the party! Do they just assume she’s a very large squirrel or something?
Adaar’s been quite charmed by Celene and Briala, and being the romantic sap she is, would like to reunite the former lovers. The whole ‘crossing race/class boundaries’ thing definitely appeals to Adaar. It’s reminiscent of her own attempts to woo a human noblewoman. Gaspard gets punted straight out into the cold for being a war-mongering expansionist. Niceness before knives. Or oafs with big swords. Adaar did have second thoughts during her second conversation with Briala, though...
Briala: "Rumour had it you were barely capable of intelligent speech."
One more word, and Adaar will set this whole place on fire. Hope you enjoy char-grilled guests with your despair cheese.
We encountered yet another bug! When trying to enter the ballroom, the game went to the black loading screen... but gameplay noise continued. The second bell rang (so Adaar would be ‘fashionably late’). Then the third bell rang, and I heard the horrible ‘you lost approval’ noise and her grumbling. So I restarted the game. I don’t mind losing approval due to Adaar’s social ineptitude, but not because she got trapped in a loading screen!
We weren’t able to confront Florianne peacefully. It would’ve been ideal, since it would avoid non-combatants like Josie and Yvette being put at risk. Instead, it was a fight to the death in the courtyard, after Florianne had changed into some black pantaloons. Very fetching. I’m sure this will prove rewarding later... once the Inquisition have scraped her off the paving stones.
The tiring evening ended with Celene and Briala being reunited, the elves getting actual representation (Sera disapproves...) and a cute dance on the balcony with Josephine. Much more satisfying than it was with the duchess. Maybe all that fuss was worth it after all!
Ah yes, the exceedingly rare magical five-toed west coast waterfowl, known for its disgusted honk and surprisingly romantic disposition. Just don't make her angry
Those Orlesians are quite messed up, judging by that naked dude in Celene's chambers. I wouldn't mind a private conversation with those three ladies and their mistress tbh.
I feel like playing again, lost count, 5-6th playthrough or something. Maybe i will start from Origins.
Seeing if I can actually get a screenshot to show up.....will know in a sec....
Edit: nope, it just posted the link, not the picture
Well, crap.
After a month away from PC gaming, I've finally gotten back to DA:I. I got inspired earlier to roll up my first tank in the series, and this is gonna be quite different for me. I've been playing exclusively dps in many RPGs for over 27 years now, so I think it's time to branch out.
Anyway, meet Valena, my human warrior. She's not nearly as conventionally beautiful as my previous character (my mage was pretty sheltered prior to the start of the game,) but Valena here isn't meant to be. She's a warrior that's seen a battle or three, and has a few scars as well as a bit of a busted nose. She's not too hard on the eyes though, and I think her and Bull are gonna work out splendidly. She's pro-Templar, believes in Andraste (although thinks the Chantry politics can take a hike) She's not anti-mage, just is very mistrustful of magic.
I took the first preset face and modified the hell outta it.
Was I at the Conclave, or did someone spike my mead again? Nope, I'm not in my small clothes The hell am I?"
Well, at least I won't have to pay back that 10 royals I owe Jack the Quick...
Black hole sun, won't you come...and wash away the rain...
Eh, bite me Roddick. Go run and hide, it suits you.
Oh hell, more sodding magic. Perfect. Crap. Like my day hasn't been full of stupid enough. Now all we need is an ancient being to go 'Mwhahahah' and my month is complete.
Spoiler
Oh Maker. That's just...come on ! What's next, a magic mirror?
I'm working on a new character in the CC after creating a whole new world state. Bah, can't decide on the hair >.<
I'm trying to make her look like Hermione Granger lol. I'm going to name her... Hermione.
Which site are you using to upload pics?Seeing if I can actually get a screenshot to show up.....will know in a sec....
Edit: nope, it just posted the link, not the picture
Well, crap.
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