A for effort and it was nice seeing the aftermath of Origins and being able to play as a Qunari but personally I couldn't finish it (quit at the interrogation in the market - couldn't back out and couldn't work it out). Also the whole thing felt illegitimate for me (like playing an alternate timeline) since Alistair was King, the Right of Annulment was invoked, anvil wasn't destroyed, etc - lots of choices from Origins that I never made - same with the codex entries. Not my "canon" story, you know? So it makes bothering to care or read difficult. Also... Too much reading for my tastes. No voice acting... Too linear. No hate, just sharing my thoughts. Seems stable enough, though I don't have much installed and deactivated all the DLC. Bad voice acting is better than none, in my opinion. I have still Endorsed however because it functions and it's a standalone story.
Played through it start to finish. Really fun mod that makes really good use of the destroyed Denerim. I played through it on micromanager and had a few small bugs only at the scripted walk to the palace at the end where half of my party didn't go to the boss with me. Loaded an earlier save and realized that if you go up the wrong stairway you break the game. Let it autowalk me to where I was supposed to go and I had all 4 party members. Really fun standalone that takes 3ish hours that I recommend highly. It's a shame Fergus never took a crack at modding stuff within DA Campaign, It could have been something really special. There's some really good cinematic camera work here and in Emissaries that looks amazing
I've tried stealing the key from the Darkspawn by standing behind and in stealth mode. It fails all the time, putting me out of stealth mode, however the Darkspawn doesn't care whether I'm in stealth or not, I don't get attacked, I just get ignored. I also set a trap in a doorway, the Darkspawn walks over it multiple times without triggering it. In the end I used the console cheat "runscript dbg_setattrib 5 100" to enable successful stealing of key.
I've been having a bit of a problem, I installed the mod and decided to uninstall to play the main campaign, but it can't uninstall. Even after removing it from my dazip file, my addins file, my mod manager, and my DLC's. Even after removing it from all that, it still opens the mod when I select the Origins campaign.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.
Honestly, my only complaint isn't even a gameplay thing - I have a frickton of mods, so it was a pain to disable them all. But was it worth it? OH yes. This is my favorite lore-friendly standalone campaign - second period, honestly. I enjoyed it a great deal, and adore the well-rounded characters to the point that I have genuinely considered writing fanfiction on them.
Yeah. It's a problem.
I wrote a glowing review here, though! http://poeticallyblind.tumblr.com/post/91545607829/the-carrion-birds-an-absolutely-amazing
Excellent work. Hard to understand why this only has a few hundred endorsements. I've played a dozen or so user-made campaigns, this is the most solid. Once you deactivate all of your mods, everything is gravy. Voice-overs are nice, but no voice-over is better than crappy voice-over.
I enjoyed this mod greatly! With the Qunari Update Mod, this was even more fun to play as a Qunari.
My only slight complaint is the dialogue; I wish it had been done in the style of Origins. I understand the lack of voice-over work (I can't imagine the effort required for it), but the walls of text were slightly overwhelming.
Still, the story was well put-together, and I did not encounter any bugs of significance. Great work!
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I'm not sure about Macs, sorry. You might try googling more general problems/solutions for mods on macs.
The soundtrack is all sourced from the original game, just reappropriated.
The playable Qunari mechanic is of my own design, but it's quite messy, specific, and difficult to 'transport' to another mod.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.
Yeah. It's a problem.
I wrote a glowing review here, though!
http://poeticallyblind.tumblr.com/post/91545607829/the-carrion-birds-an-absolutely-amazing
My only slight complaint is the dialogue; I wish it had been done in the style of Origins. I understand the lack of voice-over work (I can't imagine the effort required for it), but the walls of text were slightly overwhelming.
Still, the story was well put-together, and I did not encounter any bugs of significance. Great work!