Grimmdaur Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I recently played Dragon age origins, when I played for the first time, I needed to unlock the specialisation to be able to choose it, now, whenever I play DAO, (even if I start a new game) when I get a specialisation point, the specialisations are all unlocked and I didn't even unlock them... Help would be appreciated. Kudos for anyone who helps. It's quite annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyBlade Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 There is a mod that does that. I have it installed but I can't seem to discover its name. Whatever it is, it is in the override folder or it is a mod conflict between two dazips or override mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I recently played Dragon age origins, when I played for the first time, I needed to unlock the specialisation to be able to choose it, now, whenever I play DAO, (even if I start a new game) when I get a specialisation point, the specialisations are all unlocked and I didn't even unlock them... Help would be appreciated. Kudos for anyone who helps. It's quite annoying.Hey Rammo! Just so I'm clear on the issue, I *think* you're asking about the fact that: Once ANY character of yours has unlocked a Specialization in ANY playthrough, it remains unlocked for all subsequent games... and you don't want it to. You want them to be "re-locked" until you perform whatever action is needed in each of your individual games. :yes: In which case, I hope RB is correct and there's a mod that can do this for you. Beacuse it isn't a bug, it's "by design". In fact, it doesn't even take the same RL player ("Windows profile") doing the unlocking. One copy of game installed on our machine; parent plays slowly, son plays quickly, each with their own Windows log-on and "My Documents" folder for characters and saves. But son's specializations are automagically available in parent's games. :( My guess is that BioWare looked at it and made a "playability" decision that once you've gone through the process of unlocking a particular one, there's no mystery and no particular pay-off for doing so again. Might as well leave them marked as "Available". (I don't take advantage of that, BTW. I always do the convo or find the tome to get "legitimate" access! ;D ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyBlade Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Thandal, what I'm reading in rammo's post and seeing in my game is all specialization abilities available to me whether I have chosen that specialization or not. In other words, I'm a rogue ranger-assassin-shadow (AW) and yet I can pick from bard, legionnaire and duelist as well. I think the mod is called "unlock all specializations" but I cannot be sure as I cannot find it due to naming idiosyncrasies; in any case, it didn't do it before 1.04. It is the mod causing the problem and not a case of a mod being able to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Well, I would HOPE that "Unlock All Specializations" does exactly that! :biggrin: But if that were the case, (player looked for, downloaded, and installed the mod) why would he(?) be asking for help? Is it that one doesn't really want "All" specializations unlocked, rather, "only the ones designed for the class of character currently being played"? So, just a partial Spec. cheat then? ;D (Since this machine doesn't have that mod, that isn't what's happening with the games in this house.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RustyBlade Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 If that mod is indeed the culprit, the mod's title is a bit ambiguous since most specializations are locked (unavailable) until you find a particular character or event to unlock them and once unlocked they become available to be selected when a specialization point becomes available. So from my understanding of the English language this would mean that the specs are unlocked with no need to find the trigger event but one should still need a spec point to select. Instead, what is happening is every spec's abilities in every available spec for that particular profession type is available to be selected as a newly made character. In my case anyway, while I did have that mod installed, I no longer do as I unlocked everything on my last play of AW so unless it had some residual files tucked away in an unusual location or in the same folder as another override, it is not the cause. *points finger at 1.04 >:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 So we're back to needing the OP clarifying the issue... @Rammo; Have we been any help so far? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmdaur Posted August 20, 2010 Author Share Posted August 20, 2010 Yes, you've been great help! RustyBlade, I didn't install any mod, I think that Thandal is right, the specialisations remain unlocked forever... But that pretty much sucks, i'm hoping for an improvement in DA 2 because frankly it's no fun playing the game when the work is already done for you... :down: That doesn't mean that i'm taking advantage of that, like Thandal I'll use the manuals, tomes and characters. Thanks for clarifying! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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