As I say goodbye to the game, I also bid farewell to these links on my phone:
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They served me well.
They just never learn their lesson, do they? They killed Picard to bring back Picard, they killed Data to bring back Data, they killed Q to bring back Q. This nonsensical wheel just never stops spinning. This is almost as bad as babbling about “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV” and thinking this means you are supersmart somehow.
But let’s begin. I was kind of scared and sort of had to force myself to watch this, because I didn’t want it to suck.
btw: Why did the Borg need to steal Picard’s body to steal a DNA sample they themselves added to Picard? Shouldn’t they, as the origin/creator of that DNA, have had the DNA all along? Is anyone understanding what I’m talking about? Do you now what I mean? Am I making myself clear here? The Borg can clone people and whatnot, they just could have made a thousand Jack Crusher’s with the desired gene sequences.
A day before watching this episode, I saw this gif on Twitter, that shows the Enterprise flying through the Death Star trench and blow it up. You don’t need to make a fake gif for that anymore.
Where was I? Ah yeah. So did it suck? Well, it wasn’t as bad as I feared, but it wasn’t as good as I hoped either. So maybe this still counts as the best possible outcome? I know I sound like a broken record by pointing out that this is still Shakespeare compared to the first 2 Seasons and I hate repeating this, but that’s just where we are at.
I guess my biggest problem with this is, that it’s pretty much a redo. It leaves them in the same spot they already were in at the end of All Good Things. It’s just less original this time. I heard them say this mantra, that they wanted this to be the Star Trek VI sendoff for the TNG crew, this crew never got due to Nemesis being bad. After seeing this, I can only say they failed at least at that goal. Star Trek VI wasn’t a redo of a previous plot that had already happened and left the crew in a largely identical scene, we already saw them in. Star Trek VI was a new original adventure, that cleverly included some political beats from reality. STP Season 3 is nothing like that. And it’s not like that would have been impossible, there is just no creative force behind this, that would have been capable of achieving this.
While I definitely didn’t want Agnes to show up again, it’s still funny how they couldn’t even mention her. They clearly know themselves that none of this stuff was very good and acting as if it never happened was the best they could do to handle things. Geez.
How dumb was it of the Borg Queen, to call something assimilation (or even a better version of assimilation), that only worked while a signal was being sent. That’s such a huge step back from the original version of assimilation. Even while she had the whole fleet under her control, she didn’t even order some of those ships to protect the vital signal source. She left herself completely undefended and vulnerable. A truly all around terrible plan with terrible execution.
At least they resisted the temptation to kill anyone, I wasn’t so sure they would get this done, because they are definitely capable of doing the dumbest thing possible here, namely killing a TNG character in a show, that’s all about spending some more time with these characters, possibly for the last time. It would have been the last thing anyone would have wanted to see.
Seeing them all together in the end really felt good, it’s really insane how likeable all these people are, they really come across as one of the best friend groups ever. REALLY! While the camera might have lingered a little bit too long over the table at the end, the good mood, these characters portrayed, felt genuine and this made me happy in response. Most fans just wanted to see these people in a good place after all. So this show at least succeeded at that, which makes it much easier to remember this in a positive light.
Hopefully for the last time (sorry), I wanna drag out my conviction, that this seriously didn’t need to be 10 hours just to get to that. I think largely the same could have been achieved in 2-3 hours. 8 episodes/hours about Vadic amounted to little more than her just being a minor villain/pawn after all. They couldn’t even be bothered to elaborate on the floating head thing.
What’s left? The end is supposed to set up the much talked about Star Trek Legacy show and… good luck with that. Although, while I dislike Raffi (who would be on that show apparently – you maniacs), Seven does insanely well with everything she was given in this episode. I’m sure she would do more than just be a harsh Mistress who sends Jack Crusher to sit in a corner on his naughty stool. I’m just not sure if it would be worth suffering through Raffi for this. Oh and Jack Crusher seems to be alright as well. I’m sure he could do much more, if given the chance.
Before I go I should probably still mention that the D was the only ship in the fleet that had its lights on – which I very much appreciated. I guess all the other ships needed their juice to power all that Borg-like tech they added. That’s also why the D won, because they were the only ones who could see what they were doing (complete silence, someone coughs). What did you expect? Name it Star Trek Into Darkness and then not address this? No Sir!
So I guess my life is complete now. Since old Star Trek shows were the only thing I was ever an expert in and this is the final episode tied to any of that, there is nothing left for me to do except wait for death, like Picard did on his vineyard in the beginning of this show. :P I can’t even have a podcast about this, since everyone else has already done that. :D
PS: The thing that felt the most spot on for me in this entire episode, was when Dr. Crusher fires all the weapons during the Death Star trench run (okay that part was more like Death Star II reactor run). I always thought, ever since I saw the episode Conspiracy 30+ years ago, that her arc in that episode should have been escalated throughout the show. I’m of course talking about this scene, in which Rear Admiral Quinn just throws Worf (who everyone expects to be the tough guy) through the room, making him collapse immediately and then Dr. Crusher steps in with her lab coat on and immediately pulls a phaser on Quinn and shoots him until he’s down. In my head canon she was only wearing this lab coat outside of sickbay, so she could better hide all the weapons she was carrying. In my version of Star Trek 9 it wouldn’t have been Worf who pulled that purple space-bazooka, but Dr. Crusher and Worf just would have been confused over where she even got all these huge guns, them not even being Starfleet standard issue. I’m sure the writers didn’t think about anything along those lines when they added this to the show, but this is definitely the closest I will ever get to my fun and awesome ideas in one of the official shows. “A lot has happened in 20 years” she said when firing all the weapons and “fuck yeah” I thought.
PPS: President Walter Koenig didn’t give a second speech, I missed that. Don’t get me wrong, I DEFINITELY didn’t want the Star Wars ceremonial walk through the huge hall with all the extras (the trench run was enough), where only Worf doesn’t get a medal for some opaque reason, but a simple “good job guys – mission’s done” from Starfleet command wouldn’t have hurt.
Guys, I gotta be honest here: if I would have commandeered that shuttle, it might have flown past the D, but it would have stopped at the Defiant, BECAUSE THAT SHIP WAS BUILT TO FIGHT THE BORG, BITCHES. :D And I’m not getting tired to mention, that the Defiant at least has quantum torpedoes. And a cloak. Also, how funny would that have been?!? But yeah, ever since the painting of the D was shown in the first episode and such an emphasis was put on it, it was only a matter of time until it showed up. It simply had to.
One thing that stabbed me in the heart brutally, was Geordi, AS AN ENGINEER, saying that the D is still analog. You really don’t have to have a degree in Informatik/computer science/electrical engineering, to know what digital is. If there’s one thing those computers in the 24. century weren’t, then it’s analog. An engineer saying this, is like a sailor, who has never heard of a thing called water. Those writers, good lord. People alive today should know this stuff by heart. This might really be tied to the toxic mandates from the Kurtzman bros, who constantly say that sci-fi is not about the future, I don’t know. These people never would have come up with stuff like the holodeck and all the characters and stories that resulted from being creative and there would have been no elements such as Moriarty to copy/paste in the first place. It’s lame that no cool new sci-fi tech was invented in a sci-fi show for so long. The holodeck was almost 40 years ago.
That’s also why the Borg are always the answer and behind everything in every Season somehow. Because doing anything else would require creativity that no one who works there is interested in. There were like 4 major Borg episodes out of 178 episodes on TNG and 1 out of the 4 movies had them and now they reduced Picard to being exclusively about the Borg and that’s just it.
Also, I’m with Worf. The E is awesome. I also didn’t understand their cryptic remarks, why they couldn’t use the E. The last time I saw that ship in Nemesis, it was completely being rebuilt, so presumably it should be completely fine then. Or was that the problem, because it is already compatible to the new Borg system? I really didn’t get it and because of the way it was handled, they might not know either. They do that every so often on Kurtzman shows, where they quickly do away with stuff, they have never thought about and are therefore unable to explain themselves. This attitude bums me out.
They could scan human DNA in its entirety in the TNG days, so they definitely would have caught such changes. There are even episodes about the transporter storing everything about a person, so you’d always know precisely whether there was ANY difference or not. Remember the Dr. Pulaski episode in Season 2, with everyone getting old? They returned everyone to their younger selves, by using the transporter data, that was stored about everyone BEFORE they got sick.
Shapeshifters helping Borg? I don’t know man. So that head in Vadic’s hand was the Borg Queen then? Will Agnes’ “better Borg” return? I mean I don’t really wanna see her again, but dedicating all 3 Seasons of STP to the Borg means it would also suck if they acted as if it never happened. It’s their own damn fault. :P It would be really funny if Agnes showed up, leading even worse Borg. :D
That moment when they step on the bridge of the D was really emotional. I mean I don’t have the faintest clue what butterfly tears are, but I was about to cry something like that. :P
It’s funny that overall this is still the least nonsensical STP Season by far. I mean I don’t think Picard still hearing the Borg in First Contact needed any further explanation/elaboration, but at least it’s based upon stuff that happened in Star Trek. It was also clearly shown that the shapeshifters replaced transporter chiefs, so this checks out too. Kind of. I mean it’s still hard to believe that shapeshifters killed and replaced all transporter chiefs on all ships without anyone noticing all the dead bodies, that were clumsily stashed somewhere, but… at least it’s something that was kind of built up over the season. It didn’t come out of nowhere and it did fit together.
Seven becoming Captain simply because the former Captain got killed didn’t sit right with me honestly, but apparently many fans wanted her to become Captain, so… I’m sure they could have given her her own command without having to kill someone to make room, like this is some Klingon ship, but that’s Kurtzman bros for you. Kirk, Sisko, Picard, Janeway and the like never had to kill anybody to get a command. LAME!!! BORING!!! :P
When leaving the Titan, they spoke of needing a plan, but in the end they just get onboard the D and fly away. So I guess they’ll still develop that plan? In the final episode?
Anyway, did I already talk how moving the final scene was? Despite everything? Damn.
And no, this doesn’t excuse the terrible quality of prior Seasons, so don’t give me that argument, that we should be thankful for all the bad episodes, because otherwise we couldn’t have enjoyed this so much now. I can see that point, but this reasoning is still wrong.
Okay, I’m ready for the final ep and I’m hoping incessantly they can keep their momentum. It would make me really happy.
PS: I didn’t think it was dumb/unnecessary to point out that it was weird that Shelby of all people implemented/was in favor of Borg-like tech. Would the audience have gotten that without that remark? Probably, but them saying something that made complete sense and showed them being on top of things was way more important to me. That’s something this show lacked too desperately too many times.
Out of all the Season 3 episodes so far, I liked this one the most, because finally things seem to be moving along. Everything up until right now, felt like a holding action. They never should have struggled with Vadic for this long. This should have happened in 3×04, not in 3×08. For the first time, all of the TNG crew met each other face to face. Again, this isn’t something that should have happened at the end of the season. All of them should have teamed up much much earlier. Their interactions are the best part of this show after all.
It really makes me double down on my opinion from last time, that they could have cut whole episodes. Introducing a secret about Jack Crusher at the beginning of the Season, then adding nothing substantial to it for the whole Season and then, presumably, just doing a reveal at the end of the Season, isn’t good writing.
I also dislike those lines, that Jack’s whatever syndrome is something he inherited from Picard. Picard possessing whatever kind of “super-genes” that can give people superpowers, would seriously damage this character for me. Even after they already damaged him with all this android nonsense. Picard was never more and was never supposed to be more than some guy who is good at his job, because Starfleet trained him well and he worked hard and he managed to make good use of some opportunities that presented themselves to him.
Why do so many writers think, that these “chosen one” storylines are smart or desirable. Especially in this context. More often than not it just cheapens everything. Sadly the writing team behind Season 3 really seems to broadly subscribe to this crap. One of my favorite episodes, not just from TNG, but seriously from all Star Trek, is “The Drumhead“. It’s about Picard defending some random crew member, Simon Tarses. Picard doesn’t defend Tarses because he’s someone special, or because he owes him a favor or anything like that. No. He didn’t need to be someone special. The only reason, Picard defends this guy, the only reason Picard NEEDS to defend this guy, is that it’s the right thing to do. That’s it. That makes it so much more powerful, than Picard only doing that, because he’s his son or something.
That’s sadly no longer the ideology this show follows. This already rubbed me the wrong way back in 3×02, when Picard only decides to defend Jack Crusher, after Dr. Crusher shows up on the bridge and let’s him know that Jack is his son. To TNG Picard this would have made no difference whatsoever. He just wouldn’t have turned over someone to criminals. Period. “Star Trek: Picard” Picard would have let Simon Tarses go to jail or commit suicide in his desperation or whatever, because he wasn’t a relative. Stuff like that really bothers me. When I watched Star Trek shows as a kid, this is why I would have loved to join Starfleet – this is what made it palpable to me, why people would be proud to wear this uniform. This doesn’t make me feel this way at all. It also weirds me out, how someone could grow up watching Star Trek and now sees things this way. Especially in this context of Star Trek. It’s like they didn’t get it at all. They might have seen it, but they didn’t understand it. I just don’t get what’s supposed to be cooler or more desirable about this “Dark Trek” version of this universe. They clearly must think this is better, or else they wouldn’t have changed it. They obviously have complete creative freedom here and could have gone in any direction they wanted.
But yeah, otherwise this is the best ep of this entire series to me, so far. Brent Spiner is really great in it. This whole cast just still fits well together. Again, they should have leaned into this relatively early in the Season and not delay this for so long. Especially since this Season was supposed to be about the cast getting back together, I would have expected this to be more front and center.
Now I’m worried about the resolution to all the Jack Crusher red door stuff. I just don’t see how this is going to be something good. Especially with this also being tied to inheriting superpowers from Picard… Delaying any sort of reveal about this until the very end of the Season, also doesn’t exactly fill me with much confidence. If it doesn’t suck after all, this will be the first Season of STP I’ll actually rewatch.
A couple of days ago I watched “The Night Agent”, a show that ironically didn’t take place in complete darkness and is a lot brighter than some other shows. I found it especially easy to like, because pretty much all the characters were usually smart and likeable and they didn’t present a mystery in episode one and only dumped the resolution at the end. The show’s story was constantly evolving and made sense throughout. Everything shown was a necessary puzzle piece for the season long story arc. The length of every episode felt just right and I can’t point to anything one might have cut.
They also didn’t just outright kill everyone they met. They only killed one dangerous assassin, after it became impossible to arrest him alive – which The Night Agent attempted first. It was also always very clear who the protagonists were and why they were doing what they were doing. They all had their strengths and weaknesses and were used appropriately inside those roles. The villains had concrete reasons for their actions, they weren’t just trying to be evil and they weren’t being cartoonish either.
While there certainly are countless other shows and movies with FBI agents in them, “The Night Agent” didn’t have any noteworthy references to any of them. It didn’t need any and was able to stand on its own.
It was really pleasant and refreshing to watch something like that, compared to some other shows I experienced recently. Makes me also happy to hear, that this great first season paid off for them and they are already renewed for a season 2. I’m already looking forward to it.
PS: And yes, obviously I noticed that he’s called Peter Sutherland and Jack Bauer was played by Kiefer Sutherland (whose new show Rabbit Hole coincidentally started recently btw) and D.B. Woodside was on 24 and the show overall feels like a maybe smarter version of 24, but it’s all very subtle and the show isn’t about that at all. It comes of more like a sort of inside joke (and people who overlook it miss nothing), there is no “look here!”, “remember this???” and so on at all, let alone this being the point of the entire show.
After last episode ending with a relatively beautiful Star Trek moment, this week we are back with “the whole Federation” being evil/compromised again. Like it has been too many times already. It brings back painful memories of Season 1, in which the Romulans had infiltrated Starfleet. It’s really funny somehow. So many people working over at Starfleet HQ seem to be in the employ of anyone except Starfleet. :D Who knows at this point, how many secret plots were foiled, because members of one secret group coincidentally killed members of another secret group, while thinking they were just replacing regular Starfleet folks. :D
An organization, that was actually “working” like that, probably wouldn’t last long. It’s almost as bad as it’s with the Klingons, where everyone can become Captain, if they just kill the Captain. More often than not, that clearly wouldn’t lead to the best person/strategist being in command.
That moment with them sitting around the table was great. Because that’s what they actually used to do on TNG all the time.
“Daystrom visitors identify or LETHAL protocols will engage.” WTF?!? Lethal??? Why are the inventors of the stun setting using lethal options only these days? I feel like they at least should have explained such a significant paradigm shift. Everyone just acts like this is completely normal. Do their phasers even still have stun settings? Every time they shoot it kills or even vaporizes.
The Starfleets torture Riker. As it turns out the villain does the punching, but since “real” Starfleets are watching it without batting an eye, this makes no difference – they clearly aren’t bothered by this. So when Vadic shoots them, I felt nothing. In a way this is even worse, that they weren’t some of Vadic’s henchmen.
Ships being “beacons” now makes little sense. Those ships have to be able to be undetectable during secret missions and whatnot. If one couldn’t shut this stuff down, all opponents would use it too, not just Starfleet. Also, why wouldn’t someone like Shaw, who’s the Captain and an engineer, know all about this? It makes him look really dumb. All of these writing problems are self-inflicted wounds, which could have been dodged easily.
Best part of this Season is, that Picard feels a lot more like Picard again. Maybe PS really needed the rest of the cast to remember who Picard was. I have this feeling a lot less, that I’m just watching PS, not Picard. Dr. Crusher is probably my favorite out of the bunch. She always is the one who does the smart things, like doing an autopsy on the shapeshifters to learn some helpful information. It’s like no one else even thought about this.
But let’s not forget that 90% of what’s good here, is the music. :P You can glue pretty much anything between the music from the Nicholas Meyer era of Trek and the First Contact theme and it will still feel 10 times better than it actually is. :P
Overall I’m really trying to like this, but some obstacles keep coming, many story beats only serve as excuses to show old stuff. Of course Geordi is the head of a starship museum (so you can see ships from previous Trek), of course the next clue is in a storage facility (that will have items from previous Trek) and once they find the clue it’s literally something from previous Trek. It’s like this show has a studio mandate that they have to show references every 5-10 seconds or something.
How weird is it though, that all these ships that seem to be perfectly alright, are “archived” in such a museum, when some others just get a refit. It’s especially weird in the case of a ship like the Defiant. It’s more modern than the Titan in at least some ways. While the Titan is still equipped with photon torpedoes, the Defiant already had quantum torpedoes (much, much more firepower) and yet it’s the Defiant which landed in a museum?!? The Defiant even had a cloak, although I can see how one might spin this, by saying they had to give that one back or something.
Outside of this it’s kind of alright. There were some scenes which weren’t boring to watch and almost exciting. With the previous STP seasons some ~60 min episodes could feel like they were 6 hours long.
In 3×07 they have a shapeshifter trying to impersonate Tuvok and all I could think the entire time was: why bother? When just talking about a viewscreen, they could just display a hologram of anyone anyway. Everyone could do that all the time, shapeshifter or not.
Odo looked the way he looked, because he copied the face of the scientist, who was experimenting on him, as best he could. So why does Vadic look the way she looks? *ding* *ding* *ding* Correct. Because Vadic copied the face of the scientist, who was experimenting on her. All shapeshifters have to have the exact identical backstory. There can’t be a difference in their origin stories or anything. They must have that copy/paste thing every 10 seconds or so. How hard would it have been, to do something original here?!? Seriously. Does it ruin the whole show? Maybe not. Does this mean it’s as bad as the previous seasons? No. Is this lazy as fuck and could have been avoided easily? YEEEEESSSSS.
Another thing I can’t stop thinking about, is how we are 7/10 eps through the entire season and not much happened. They are just on the Titan with Jack Crusher and are struggling with Vadic. That has been the whole show so far. Of course there are more details and they keep meeting members of the old TNG crew, but as far as broad strokes are concerned, that’s seriously it. What’s up with Jack Crusher, has been the mystery from the beginning and nothing substantial has been learned. They really didn’t manage to have many layers to this, where more and more is slowly uncovered throughout the season. They are ultimately doing that thing again, where they introduce a mystery at the beginning and then just dump the resolution at the end. That’s not very satisfying and makes me think that they could have cut whole episodes – hopefully leaving the entertaining bits and thus giving those much more focus.
I’m also disliking how they are killing and bringing back Data. That’s not cool. Good stories should have the same characters die only once max. There are only very few exceptions, where a deviation from that worked really well. Especially when they want it to be this epic dramatic/emotional scene each time. That’s bad writing.
Somewhere in all of this, is a really alright, entertaining 2 hour movie.
PS: If I was in Starfleet and someone would give me the order to attack/shoot/whatever the likes of Picard/Kirk & Co., the only people I might shoot would be the ones who gave that order. It would be obvious to me that clearly they would be the villains. This should be an unwritten law in Starfleet, if someone orders you to attack Picard, take THEM down!
Why are all STP flashbacks taking place in bars with them imbibing (too much) booze? Maybe all these violin sessions and poetry readings on TNG could be awkward as hell at times, but at least they had some variety. But then again, it fits perfectly in their bleak narrative of this future – all people have left is doing drugs & booze.
In this episode they have to save as much energy as possible, as they are about to crash into a “gravity well” and almost everything besides life support is disabled. So what does Picard do? He loads up a holodeck program. Because this definitely doesn’t eat up any energy. And it’s a holodeck program of a bar no less (of course it’s not the TNG version of 10 forward), when they could be sitting and drinking anywhere on the ship without using up energy for this. Sometimes such writing gives me a slight ChatGPT vibe.
Normally everyone on this show is shooting around as if it’s a shooting gallery, but when Seven of Nine is attacked by the shapeshifting saboteur, she is (for the first time) holding her fire, so the saboteur can escape safely after murdering a crew member. The one time it would have been understandable to fire all over the place…
Furthermore, during this crisis, no one really works on resolving/addressing it in any way for the longest time. Picard is just in the holo-bar drinking and talking about unimportant fluff. Did they ever do that on TNG? During a crisis they would just sit around and drink and wait for death without taking any action?
We also learn that Shaw hates Picard so much because of Wolf 359, something that happened like 30+ years ago. That’s a long time to hold a grudge against someone who was just a victim himself. Even 40 years ago it was standard for Starfleet to have therapists on board like Deanna Troi on the Enterprise D or Ezri Dax on DS9. So why are there all these untreated people like Shaw, who never received any of the help they clearly needed? They are literally sitting in a holodeck while he goes off. He could just consult a holographic therapist and tell no one. People like that have so many options in that time period, they wouldn’t even have to wait until an appointment with a flesh & blood therapist becomes available. They really have no sense of how such a post-scarcity society would actually be like. Or they do not have that sense anymore, weirdly enough they understood this better in the past. This is regression, not progress.
Later on, Dr. Crusher, the medical doctor, figures out how to utilize the space anomaly to supply the ship with energy. Not a science officer or anyone like that. No one else was looking into this. Everyone else was cool with just waiting for death. What a crew the Titan has. Dr. Crusher didn’t just have to come up with the idea, she also has to convince Riker. Riker, who was always the man of action is now the obstacle. He doesn’t even present an alternative plan or anything – at least not at first. It takes a while for him to finally come around and start doing his job – he really seemed to care more about leaving a goodbye message to Deanna than actually returning to her alive. That’s so bizarre.
Once they finally start doing something about their situation, the episode starts getting much better. If the whole show would have been like this, this actually would have been alright. A tighter cut could have worked wonders here. Maybe this didn’t need to be 10 eps a season and 6-8 would have been even better.
Another big plus for this ep was, that the audience didn’t have to suffer through more Raffi scenes. Oh and this one flashback scene with Picard being unintentionally cruel to his son in that bar earned its emotions. That much felt put together well. This might be a first for this show.
At some point the Shrike decides to go after the Titan into the nebula, but they drop their portal gun before they do. Why? The only reason seems to be that the Shrike won’t be able to keep using it against the Titan in the future.
In any case, the episode ends well and I actually wanna see what’s going to happen now. Yay!
PS: True to its title, the show remains super dark, in one scene nothing is visible except Picard’s face and the rest is pitch black. The effects do look good in general though.
It’s not a secret that I never really liked DAI, unnecessary open-world causing it being filled with too much crap, it almost played like a singleplayer MMO, too much cosmetic stuff without real impact on the game, early E3 prototype “promised” a very different game […] but then again, I had played DAII too many times over the years, so I thought why not give DAI another go for a change. After all this time a lot of mods are (still) available (I had never used) and there are several, that can deal with some of the worst aspects of this game. Frosty is even so buggy, it might be official EA software, if there weren’t workarounds for some of its flaws.
One of the things I hate in all games, is if the PC walks too slowly. Padding always sucks, but padding the gameplay by making the PC move like an 80 year old, is especially aggravating. So that’s where I started making this mess easier to stomach. ~50%f aster movement speed, war table operations complete instantly (this alone…), collections of minor bug fixes, more inventory space, improved that ping feature (love this one, the player can now see all the items stuck in walls or the floor, it’s incredible how often this is the case), new level cap of 50, rebalancing of all the combat skills, more levels for the Inquisition, new timing for the party banter so you actually get to hear most of it (who wants to miss one of the best features of the game), quicker looting without all the painfully slow animations – another absolute must…
Most of these are such important quality of life improvements, EA should just patch those in officially. Obviously they never would, but they really should.
So after all these changes, it’s so much easier to just focus on the good parts of this game and finally enjoy it, instead of screaming at the war table operations or the time suck that was picking up elfroot or whatever.
Frosty even accepted all the mods without any problems, that were intended for an older toolset, initially I thought this might be game over for these mods, but it wasn’t. Because it was possible to just focus on the content itself, I even finished all the mosaics for the first time since this game came out almost 10 years ago. The mere thought to attempt that, wouldn’t have come to me before.
Maybe I’ll check out the mods for Andromeda at some point, they also use Frosty.
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