Dragon Age II gets Hi-Res Texture pack for PC

[ripken204]

pissed me off last night when i couldn't select all of the members of my party... due to the fact that you cant zoom out far, and my party members were pretty close too.

[killerxp100]

Without the advanced DX11 features turned on it runs pretty good, but yeah , even with my 980x and tri SLI 480's I can't max it without dropping into the 40's of FPS, still playable, but barely.

I just use very high without the DOF or SSAO and get 75 fps.

Has to be a driver issue. My oc hd6870 gets an average of 40fps with the hi-res pack & dx11. AA x4.

Kinda having buyers remorse. Graphics are indeed better, but can't stand the camera or changed gameplay.

[Mungri]

[killerxp100]

If you post that on Bioware's forum, you'll be banned

[zalbard]

He already is.

[DeltZ]

tbh you are nothing but trolling, i appreciate the general humor. But nearly all of that is bs.
Try button mashing on nightmare and you'll die in 20 seconds. The graphics are certainly better than DAO, the high res textures are pretty good, and I'm not running DX11 either.

[kazuyakun]

Very true, there is little button mashing but what annoys me how ridiculous the combat is on hard/nightmare. They always come in waves making it difficult to plan and how you always walk into perfectly positioned enemies making it so that the only way you'll win is to abuse the system by running back into a choke point and funnel em all in. Even with this, you can't stop them from passing the doorway by body blocking with a tank. Also you can't even check the statuses that you inflict on enemies for abilities like Death Hex so you gotta disable all the tactics and do it manually. DA2 is definitely a big step back since all you do now is spam AoE due to the sheer number of enemies and with the removal of more than half the skill set from DA:O to dumb it down for the console players.

Honestly, the gfx looks like crap if you were ever to get to the camera to get a close look at the npcs as it clearly shows that they optimized it for consoles and did a piss poor port to the PC. At least they didn't have a hit "start" button to start the game. Lastly, I don't think I've ever played a game where copy-paste has been used so so so so extensively its mind boggling. MMORPGs have more sudden copy-paste than this just shows how little time they were was in development, all courtesy of EA. They ruin everything they touch, I just hope BF3 got vaccinated against the virus that is EA.

[Mungri]

Try button mashing on nightmare and you'll die in 20 seconds.

The thing is though I dont like games that are insanely difficult due to having enemy hitpoints and damage raised by a factor of 10 or something like that.

In this kind of game, what I was expecting and looking forward to was the same kind of gameplay I had in DAO at normal difficulty - Challenging boss fights, normal difficulty enemies, friendly fire, and an isometric top down camera view. This game ommits two of those, and the only way to get friendly fire enabled is to play on an insane difficulty level, and you can forget all about the traditional iso view gameplay.

The hard and nightmare difficulties in this game seem to make it feel far worse to play, and thats coming from someone who played Deus Ex 1 on their first, second and third playthroughs on Realistic difficulty.

Right now, I'm perfectly enjoying playing this RPG:

http://www.avernum.com/avernum6/index.html

THe gameplay is spot on and perfect for what I like, but I do wish the graphics were a lot better

The graphics are certainly better than DAO, the high res textures are pretty good, and I'm not running DX11 either.

The graphics are certainly better than Baldurs Gate, and the RPG I posted above as well, but I didnt realise that comparing a game released in 2011 to games from many years ago is how graphics are compared.

Oblvion, Fallout 3 and ME2 still eat this game alive graphically, and when compared to other upcoming 2011 titles such as Witcher 2, Skyrim, Deux Ex 3, Crysis 2, even Return of Alice, I really dont understand how its possible to defend the graphics in what was meant to be a AAA bioware title released this year. As for the high res textures only being available for download, and the DX11 mode being so buggy and added on very late into the games development, this to me is proof that this game was made for consoles first and ported over to the PC, with better textures and DX11 added on as an afterthought.

Really, this game has nothing compared to other cRPGs. Just about every other PC game also being released this year is literally going to skin DA2 alive in terms of, well, pretty much everything.

tbh you are nothing but trolling

DA2 is also doing nothing but trolling the cRPG fans and PC gaming community. I'm not bothered if you or anyone else like the game, that doesnt mean that it isnt what it definitely is - a standard cookie cutter, dumbed down, console first hack n slash game with no feel of cRPG or Bioware to it at all. This game has absolutely nothing about it compared to the titles I listed above. I've already played just about every single cRPG and MMORPG over the last 15 years, DA2 is shockingly bad for a game of this genre by Bioware.

there is little button mashing

'Now when you press a button, something awesome has to happen! So button = awesome, connected now, in Dragon Age 2'.

[DeltZ]

fair enough. Hopefully though, for yoursake as well. Bioware isn't as so easily corruptable by EA as things seem atm.

Like all things in nature, they oscillate. Bioware takes feedback pretty seriously, so they tried diversifying and went too far maybe, they might learn from these mistakes/reception and they'll lean back the other way.

If all goes well, we have a damped response where they home in on a perfect level, if not, well...it all blows up and gets worse and worse. But they are right about one thing. Change is necessary, sticking to exactly the same rehash over and over can be just as bad. Every change makes a wave but maybe next time it'll be closer to how the overally public want it to be.

I don't see how people have said that this game is easier at all difficulties. Ok so it's my first play through so i qualify as a noob...but compared to origins, nightmare mode...if you just stopped and thought nightmare mode on origins wasn't bad at all, it was clean and clinical, you always felt in control of how good you were. DA2...more uncertainties. Some enemies are horribly strong, the enemy stealth rogues are overpowered!, they can just disappear at will, stab you for half your health while you can do nothing about it and then heal..difficult to stun lock them long enough.

A lot of aggro juggling and kiting to survive in DA2 nightmare

[Piotrsama]

@bhavv
Good pic.
Big LOL at the "I'm hungry" dialogue option... what a load of crap.

I'm skipping this game big time.

[LexDiamonds]

DA2 is also doing nothing but trolling the cRPG fans and PC gaming community. I'm not bothered if you or anyone else like the game, that doesnt mean that it isnt what it definitely is - a standard cookie cutter, dumbed down, console first hack n slash game with no feel of cRPG or Bioware to it at all. This game has absolutely nothing about it compared to the titles I listed above. I've already played just about every single cRPG and MMORPG over the last 15 years, DA2 is shockingly bad for a game of this genre by Bioware.

This +111


Give me Witcher2 nao!

[Mungri]

Big LOL at the "I'm hungry" dialogue option... what a load of crap.

Heres another one then for you:

[antiacid]

hey I don't know what you guys are crying about, I'm playing on a 4.6ghz 920 with a 5970 and I use dx11, high-res texture pack, AF and AA and I game at 2560x1600. The game definitely looks better on my end than on your crappy screenshots and it loads quicker than ME2 did.

Also, you should try the game at least at "hard" before complaining that it is too easy. From reading some of the critics here, it looks like people were expecting something different and aren't happy with the changes. I don't want to be playing clones of previous games for the next 15 years. Change is good.

Anyway, to the dude who couldn't target everyone in his party: ctrl + a. You're welcome.

[ripken204]

hey I don't know what you guys are crying about, I'm playing on a 4.6ghz 920 with a 5970 and I use dx11, high-res texture pack, AF and AA and I game at 2560x1600. The game definitely looks better on my end than on your crappy screenshots and it loads quicker than ME2 did.

Also, you should try the game at least at "hard" before complaining that it is too easy. From reading some of the critics here, it looks like people were expecting something different and aren't happy with the changes. I don't want to be playing clones of previous games for the next 15 years. Change is good.

Anyway, to the dude who couldn't target everyone in his party: ctrl + a. You're welcome.

ya i found that out already... still kind of annoys me, but that works fast enough.

change is not always better... some changes are good, some are bad.
i think the game looks great, but i dont like the new fighting system.

[Mungri]

hey I don't know what you guys are crying about, I'm playing on a 4.6ghz 920 with a 5970 and I use dx11, high-res texture pack, AF and AA and I game at 2560x1600. The game definitely looks better on my end than on your crappy screenshots and it loads quicker than ME2 did.

Then why dont you press print screen, upload to imageshack and show us what it looks like?

I've not yet seen any screenshots posted from people who think that the game looks so good.

The graphics shown in official screenshots from reviews are hardly decent for a 2011 game.

[Ket]

Such a shame. I really liked DAO Even on the console DAO looked pretty good after a updated that gave some stuff higher res textures. Sad days. Hopefully ME3 will make up for all the crapness.

[Buckeye]

I don't know, I think this looks much better than the first one.
Game play is pretty good also and I like the story lines which imo are no better or worse than the first game.

I like it better than the first game in fact, but thats just me, but its only just a game.

I am still waiting for D3