Greetings,
first I must say I enjoyed all 3 Mass Effect games, and both Dragon age and now you came up with DAI which is possibly the worst game you released so far. It's probably caused by my dissapointment in it and my great expectations cos over last several years I always said that you are the best game making company in the world and you never released bad game.. Well until today. Let's take a look.
Combat
is probably the worst part of the game. You had genius system in DA and DA2 where I could set abilities as I saw fit and it was working as a miracle
cos i could do
1 if monster is elite or higher > goto 2
2 if monster is frozen (or any other type of incapacitated) > goto 3
3 if monster's health is >50% >use x (insert shatter or other combo ability)
this was just awesome system even on high difficulties I just could leave party memebers to do whatever their AI came up with and still beat everything except most difficult combats when I simply turned AI off and ordered NPC one by one
the game is 18+ so no kids should play it and I take it as insult to players intelligence to simplify it to use/prefer/don't use system which is ridiculous...
I start combat by shooting at ferret. Solas get scared (aaaa angry rabbit, run for your lives!) and pop shield immediately, Cassandra see it and pop Challenge (agro), then poor ferret dies and I end up with 2 best cooldowns wasted...
but it's not only critters, even in combat I shoot at someone from distance and bam I end up with shield from Solas and by the time monsters get close to me shield wear off, well that's just great.
when I talk about critters, they have relly high health, I yet have to see a deer jumping around with ten arrows shot in it
THE BIGGEST ISSUE OF COMBAT is that if I order my group to hold possition, they still move!!! WTF is that? They are like "hey that monster is out of range, I bet the leader didn't mean us to stand here waiting for the enemy to be lured into a trap, no I bet she meant do whatever you like and place 50 yards from here is as good to hold as this one so I just move over there to that tree, the sun is shining too bright I rather fight from the shade anyway"
second biggest issue is that if I get too far with controlled character from the rest of the party they get teleported to me!!! jeez
whoever came up with those two game mechanics should be fired immediately cos s/he ruined the whole game (or at least combat mechanics). You can't even talk about strategic combat anymore, there is no strategy to have, there is just mindless potion drinking, component gathering and going to camp for refill
if I pause the game and change to different character the game unpause
tactical combat mode (T) is worthless as well it has so many issues that I never use it
I have whole 2! option to set behavior and neither is usable. If i set assit and I use some crowd control ability (CC) like fear rest of the party just hit the moster with their abilities so it was all for nothing. And if I set defend they won't move until my controlled character take dmg. So were you high when you programmed that part or what?
Solas hit enemies with dispell even when they have just one status effect, which would be fine except that status is burning that I caused... so hmm talking about the AI well you didn't do very good job there
the enemy AI is just useless anyway, I managed to kill Fereldan Frostback on hard difficulty with my lvl 5 mage (got to lvl 7 after the fight lol). I did took me like an hour to kill him cos he beat me few times and had to restart the fight
GIVE US BACK DA/DA2 strategy mechanics, we aren't idiots hmmm well most of us ain't...
CHARACTER CREATION
this was very disappointing. Why do you hate women? Premade characters looks aweful. I spent about 2 hours searching net for at least average looking character making guide and even that looks awkward when in the cutscenes from different angles.
you completelly missed long hair, you did that in ME too, but in DA2 you still could make woman look like a woman (I always made character whom looked like Bethany - they were sisters after all), but in DAI it's really difficult. And to make pretty woman, like Bethany, now that's impossible.
you probably don't realize that even average looking girl with good maku up is looking great, but your characters with make up look under average
take for example youe Keeper character from multiplayer. It took me few hours to figure out it's a woman! (I saw her in hall from the side which showed her lady parts, but even then I wasn't completely sure it's a woman). She (or more likely it) looks like someone took her out of WC in the middle of #2. That's the best you can make? Aren't elves supposed to be beuatiful? Average looking elf should look like digitally enchanced supermodel and best looking should be pure "wow"... instead you made them ridiculous ears which doesn't seem appealing at all. They are supposed to look awesome yet they are no match for characters like Leliana or Cassandra.
They say do not judge book by it's cover, but it's the cover what makes the book sale so why did you ruin your own product? Plenty of people are complaining about it, shouldn't you just make preset character appealing? Well your loss, for me it's one point out of ten down
I chose black hair collor or hmm well black... I am not sure if it's black, it's certainly not as black as Cassandra's hair. But the color in game changes from brown to redish to grey to somewhat black which is just silly, whatever color light you shine on black hair it suppose to still be black
there is a HUGE difference between characters in character creation mode and in game. Why didn't you just add short video which would show character from different angles/showing different emotions to character creation? I could just run that video and tweak character accordingly and run it again till I would be satisfied
MULTIPLAYER
well there is tons of bugs which either throw you to windows or exit to menu, but those I don't see as a big problem, cos they can be easily fixed, altho they certainly are annoying.
the worst experience with MP actually happened to me in SP. I got "unable to connect message" when I tried to join a group (I used Quick Match option but never actually got into group) so I decided that I will play SP instead and in few minutes I got "kicked out of a game". Well really? Someone kicked me from single player game? I suspect i actually got into the MP group menu at some point and since I was hmm inactive from their point of view they kicked me, which affected my single player mode.
sometimes when I join game which is already in progress I end up unable to use any ability and/or mouse buttons
once when I got teleported to a final boss fight the texture... ah I made a scrshot and I was unable to see enemies except some lvl 1 spiders (no idea where they came from) and it took the game like 5 minutes to kill me, I don't know what actually damaged me
that's probably the most important things, I could say that I don't enjoy open world areas with respawning resources cos then I can't make full clean of it, killing everything and collecting all resources (since they are respawning) and I always get lost cos there is no useful minimap with zone borders (and the one there is is changing scale when you're in combat which is making it useless) but those and some other thing I can live with, problems I described above are game breaking (some of them)
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