Drac-

What a brain you have, I never thought of that and I have The Witcher on so as soon as it arrives, should be 3 to 5 days I will do that. Thanks ever so much for that advice, it sure is good and I have played The Witcher about six times with my right hand, when I get the Merc I shall use my left hand. It comes with a mouse and earphones, I take it you are suggesting using just my left hand and getting use to it????

maggie

Hi Maggie, I wrote a little description for you yesterday, on how to use the point and click: -did you not see it? Here it is again:

To make your entire party move with with point and click: First make sure that the little "run" icon under their portraits is active and not the "hand" icon, which makes them stand still while only the main charcter moves.

With your "run" icon enabled, click on the portrait of your character that you want to run in front, and then click on the ground where you want your party to run. You don't have to click the portrait all the time, though. Once the leader is selected, you can simply keep clicking on the ground, and they will all go there. It's just like Witcher and NWN2. It's as easy as that.

I specially opened The Witcher yesterday, (just for you ) since I know you've played it, and I checked out the point-and-click mode there, and it's really quite similar to the movement in Dragon Age. The DA moving system is quite similar to NWN 2, if you've played it.

You could drag your mouse around the characters themselves to select them, as has been suggested, but your people are sometimes spaced far apart, and then you need to use that little Left-hand icon under your character portraits.

Have a look in your manual, it is numbered (8) there. That icon makes that you can select either only one person, or your entire party.

The little icon next to it, (9) makes them either run with the main person, even if you don't have then all selected, or stand in place, while only the selected person moves.

Knowing how this works, becomes more important during combat, when you have a full party with some of them using ranged attacks, so you can put the rangers at the back, and make them stay there and shoot from far away, while your melee fighters run forwards to engage the enemey.

If your movement is still slow and stiff, even with your gamepad, there is a possibility that your computer is not up to the game's requirement... -could that be possible?


To Sherayaha: The game really is not all that gory if you switch off persistent gore, especially since you don't see the blood from close up. The worst is that creatures that you have already killed, tend to bleed a bit while lying on the ground. I had found Risen and Fallout 3 to be rather more gory actually, I guess because I'm playing with "persistent gore" set off. As I had said in a previous post, the game really is rather nice-looking; (if your PC is up to running it on high specs) - I wish I could post you a screenshot.

Not quite, Maggie. What I like to use is left hand (mostly W) for forward movement and the mouse for changing the camera angle or some call it panning. Simply put, W makes Geralt move forward and simply moving your mouse left and right changes his direction. No clicking is involved until he is fighting. Then you use the left click for the fighting maneuvers.

It became very "second nature" to me within about an hour of gameplay. And no fatigue on either hand or wrist...

Draclvr and Oldman: With these gamepads you are using, does one still have to depress the RMB for camera panning in DA? ..or does it switch to normal mouselook like in the Witcher or Oblivion?

If so, I might be interested in one for myself... ;D

In DA you still have to depress the RMB to pan with your mouse. However, you can turn the camera left or right with the keyboard but you need the mouse (with RMB depressed) to pan up and down. Don't know about the gamepad though.

What I like about the Merc Stealth is that all the normal commands besides the WASD keys are within reach of the fingers of your left hand. Like Jump, walk, duck, C key, tab, and all the numbers for quick slots.

It made games like TR Underworld playable for me.

Thanks, Oldman. I do have a very nice 360-type controller for my PC, with which I could play games like TR or POP; but maybe I should make it known amongst my family members, that I'd really like such a gamepad like yours as an Xmas gift.

Then I'll be nicely set up for any game, hopefully, eh?

PS. I'm also waiting with bated breath for Divinity 2..

No, Moondancer, I'm not pressing any of the mouse buttons to move forward with the W key. I can change the camera angle/pan with the A and D keys while I'm moving forward. I'm not using the mouse for any movement, just the RMB for interacting with objects and the LMB for attacks.

Hi Karsten, so sorry to hear that, hope you find a new job soon, will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Am certain everyone really appreciates the help you give us with games, and especially with Dragon Age, it being so large and detailed.

Thank you Anne 2 and Debra for your empathy - much needed. I hope I'll find a job soon, too.

Will continue to cover DA: Origins

Moondancer-

Thanks for all the information, I sure will use it. Yes, I am going to try my Merc on The Witcher first, I look forward to that. You are a weath of knowledge and I thank you for that,

Drac-

Thanks so much, I am really keen to use it now, I think it will be difficult at first with my left hand, but I am sure I will get it done. When I am comfortable with that I will start Dragon Age again.

Thanks so much both of you.

Maggie

For anyone interested I've found a walkthrough for the main quests here. It looks like the side quests will be posted sometime in the future.

Moondancer:

Last time I checked the anticipated date for the English version of Divinity 2 was late December. Since the German version is already being played maybe they'll meet the projected date for the English version.
One can only hope.

Hi everyone. I was checking out Dragon Age the other day and am thinking of getting it, but the digital version that includes the DLC, was like 64 dollars. The regular was 49....so I'm wondering if anyone knows if we can buy that extra content later if we've bought the regular version, or in order to have the extra stuff do we have to download the digital version?

Thanks for your help!
Cat

Hi catbelly, sure you can buy the extra content later, or not at all, if you wish - it's not essential to the main story in the game. Yes, you can just add it to whatever you bought as a hard copy. I bought the standard edition as a hard copy, and got some extra DLC with it because it was a pre-order. Whether you buy the hardcopy or a download, there will be a tab that you can click for DLC.
One simply has to create an account with them, and you're ready to download whatever extra content you require.

Sorry to hear about your bad break, Karsten, I hope you get a job again soon, and I hope you either get Dragon Age for Christmas, and/or that the price of it comes down soon.

Phew! This game sure is expensive!

Good luck with your new gamepad, Maggie, I hope it helps with your sore arm.

Thanks for the info, Draclvr and Oldman!

I bought my copy of DA on Wednesday (I didn't preorder the game) and it had been reduced to $39 already and had two downloadable items- The Stone Prisoner and the Dragon Blood armor in it. So, you can get some DLC and a lowered price. What a deal!
BTW, I bought it from Game Stop.

That's a good deal Debra, I need to check my email and see if I can figure out where I ordered this from? Hmmmm........

Thanks Moondancer! Also thanks Debra---maybe I can grab a less expensive one at Gamestop too.

Cat

Thank you everyone for your kind words - and your empathy - much neede it is

As for the download, the digital deluxe download version contains all that will be in the game, including Shale( The Stone Prisoner)and Warden's Keep. It also included the Blood Armour (which you also can use in Mass Effect 2, the code for it, not the armour ). The soundtrack should be in there, too, I think?

The only extras that come with the retail version of the Collector's Version of the game is a cloth map, and a making of DVD.

You can just buy the normal version of the game, and then pay 7 US dollars for Warden's Keep...

Has anyone done the quest where you are to activate the golem (The Stone Prisoner)? I need help with the puzzle in the basement. Does anyone know of a online strategy guide that would cover the solution?

Debra, Oldman found one Here and I found one Here.

Perhaps one or both will help?

Thanks so much for the guides. I figured out the puzzle. I guess I was too tired last night. It really wasn't very hard after all.
I like this game so much I'm not even playing WoW and that's saying something.
I'm trying out another race because I'm just not getting how to play the rogue very well. It seems you can't stealth once an enemy has been sited however far away. I'll keep working on the rogue, but for now I'm trying the Dwalish elf warrior/ranger class.

Great Debra, I'm glad you figured it out. I thought I pre-ordered this but I can't find my receipt and I don't have the game, so .......

Hi-

I understand that Prima has made a Strategy Guide for the game, they sent me an email the other day. Just in case someone wants to know.

Maggie

Debra how do you start this quest? I have downloaded both Blood Armor and Stone Prisoner but can't figure out where to go to get the Golem.

Karsten-

I recieved my Merc today. My husband put it and the mouse on, I loaded the software. I then found the user guide and printed it all out, 19 pages. You know the numbers to the right, I cannot get them to work, I am use to the number pad, it is probably in the user guide I am thinking??? I must say I love this Merc, even if I never get the hang of it. When I went to use the wasd red buttons on the left, it turned my game off, I was playing space hack.
Anyway, I am going to read through all 19 pages and see what I can come up with.

maggie

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