1st lets
look at the bugs of this expansion.
1.
There is a major crash bug with this expansion.
Sometime the game will crash 20 minutes into playing the expansion other times
mabye an hour into playing. Along with the normal crash bug there is also a microsoft
visual c++ runtime library, runtime error crash code R6025, pure virtual
function call crash which sometimes happens also. The runtime error also always
happens when at the end of the expansion if you try to leave the city to burn
and return to defend vigil and when it gets to the point of preparing for
battle and you choose your final team. When it tries to load you crash with the
runtime error every time. I don’t know if this is just a I7 issue or a windows
7 issue or both but it is a major problem. I will have my computer specs below
for the DEV’s if they want to look into this.
2.
There is a problem with the rune enchanment
system or at least there seems to be. Not all runes can be applied to all
weapons one dagger can use some of the new gems and another cannot. This
problem also applies to staves and other weapon classes. Also armor runes can
be applied to weapons but not to armor. Again if this was intended fine but it
just seems flawed to me.
3.
When killing an enemy instead of seeing a pool
of blood it just shows a red square that flashes. This is definatley a graphics
glitsh.
4.
There is a glitch with the elven trinket with
Velanna where you have to give it to her a 2nd time.
5.
There is also a no romance possiblities that
occur within the expansion even if they love you, and also there is a glitch
that sometimes happens that all characters can end up in love with you if you
hit near 100% approval.
Some of the good bugs, and happy
accidents when importing an existing character from origins
1.
If you want to import custom modded armors,
weapons, and all other items from Origins into Awakenings. You must choose what
is most important to fill your inventory with, and from my experience
everything in your inventory and on your character will import with you into
awakenings. I don’t know if this applies to starfang but I imported all my
custom modded weapons and armor, rings and such this way.
The good of the expansion.
The story was decent on a overall,
and the new locations were well conceived and thought out. Gameplay was solid
for the most part , and the new skills and attacks were a nice addtion. There
is also new weapons and armor available throught the game going up to tier 9.
Voice acting like the original was top notch, and the cutscenes like the original
were compeling. Replay value of this expasion is moderate I have been through
it twice so far, and may go through it 1 more time.
The bad of this expansion.
Some of the characters like
Justice, Anders aka Allistar fill inand Nathaniel seem well thought out where others
like Sigrun,and Velanna aka Morrigan lite with less personality and appeal seem
rushed and shallow not deep like the original characters from Origins. There is
new weapons and armor but like in Origins there is not enough, one of the best
new swords that you get near the end the sword Vigilant is nother more than a
higher tiered starfang copy. Yet again Bioware lacks imagination in the weapon
design department.
There is one returning team member
from Origins and out of all the good choices we get Ogren the drunken dwarf. I
hated Ogren in the 1st game and I get stuck with that Soden fool
again. I wish they gave you a choice in the beginning between Ogren or Mhairi
the hot female warrior. But I tried many variations in the decisions but she
always dies during the joining ritual.
Although the story is fairly solid
it just seems to small. You get a new map with locations but from the beginning
you can see that this is going to be a small trip through a new land. There is
not enough of side quests, and after the first few hours the story does start
to drag until you get to the end, and then at the end you feel some what empty.
Don’t get me wrong they delivered on what they said it is around a 15 hour
expansionon your first run through, on my 2nd run I did it in like
13 hours.
The expansion for what it is is
overpriced in my opinion it should have been released for no more than $24.95.
$39.99 for this is just price gouging, and not worth it. There is no mention of
Morrigan till the end of the game and it is just a short paragraph during the
epilogue. Also unlike Origins don’t espect for it to be open ended after the
epilogue your done. To play after the end you either start a new game or load
an earlier save.
The interaction with conversation and romances were non-exixtant in this expansion. You could not for instance just start a conversation with a party member. there was only a few occasions when you were abale to talk to the characters it lowered the immersion into this expansion and left you feeling empty and bored through the lull parts of the expansion.
For the Devs looking into the
crash issues and such here are my computer specs below.
I7 920 overclocked to a 3.6 Ghz,
EVGA X-58 Motherboard, Corsair Dominator DDR3 Triple channel 12 GB, 1600,
Western Digital 640GBx2 32mb cache black edition HD run in raid 0, EVGA GTX 275
1792mb Superclocked Editions x2 in SLI, Creative SB X-FI Pro Gamers sound card,
Antec 1000w power supply, Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit OS
Modifié par darkshadow136, 22 mars 2010 - 07:54 .
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