For the PC demo, will a download link suddenly appear on the DA2 official site at 9am PST, or do we need to go to use EAStore/EADM to get the demo?

Trying to get my xbox internet up and download it.

Edit: How large is it.

my file was 1.98 gigs

The first is the plan. It might also appear on Steam, which means you might at least get lucky with their servers, since the Bioware site ones usually die when something new is released.

Yeah the size of the demo is going to be 2 GB. I'll download it in a couple hours for the PC although I'll be getting Dragon age 2 for the Xbox.

Hurray, free stuff. :rolleyes:

So i played through the demo for xbox and the combat seems more fluid and fast paced. In origins, you would run and when you attacked, you would kind of attack slow but now its more fast paced. the quick thing on the side is back for you to hot key your spells/potions. The radial menu is basically the same with less options. You have an attributes page that looks kind of like the Mass effect 2 page. You can change your appearance, add tattoos, change your name much like dragon age 1 but that feature is locked in the demo. When you start, you choose male/female: warrior, mage, rogue but im not sure if that will be in the final or it was for the demo purpose. your inventory is locked but it looks very much like the originals with your armor, weapons, junk, ect. It is gorier and dismemberment is much more prominent with 2 handed weapons but you have a persistant gore option and can turn it off. When you level up, you still have your basic attributes like constitution, fortitude, magic, dexterity ect,. Your skill sets are now based off separate skill trees. So say like mage for example, you will have one tree for elemental, one for entropy, one for another specialization. In other words, its not all in a column and rows like the first. you can change your tactics for each party member in the start menu. you have basic commands like "hold" and "go there" in the radial menu. No frame rate drops that i experienced. there are more enemies on screen. It also seemed too easy for normal but the difficulty is locked on normal for the demo. When you first start, you cant change to your other party member which scared me but you can after you defeat the first wave and when it flashes back to when you escape lothering.

I really enjoyed playing it and the controls are basically the same. Any questions?

I have been having issues DL it all day, sometimes it would just freeze at 1% once my xbox disconected.

Anyway if I like it, it wont change much, I already lost one witheld character, so I guess this means I wait for the ultimate edition.

FYI the PC demo is up.

http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/demo/

EDIT: Seems like they're getting problems with all people downlaoding at once. Both the site and the forums are down.

The demo was awesome! And it isn't auto attack anymore you have to press the buttons for each attack which is awesome!

Oh I never saw THAT coming. ^_^

Are the deathblow animations still there? Gaider(or it was someone else) on the forums confirmed them, but the new demo gameplay videos weren't really reassuring...

Sure as the Fade they are.

If that's true, then you have bloody improved my mood, good lady! :vaultboy:

I bloody aim to please, I bloody do. ^_^
Anyway, yeah, they are in. Rare as usual, but the occasional decapitation or even cutting enemies in half, still happens. Though the actual special attack deaths are far more brutal. Rogues rip their enemies to shreds now. :chaos:

Downloading the demo so i'll find out myself later, but initial reaction to that is :swear: :banghead: (in assumption that it works like in Diablo).

26 hours at 25 kb/s?! No one at BioWare anticipated high demand for the demo it seems ^_^

Weeelll..... what I had in mind were those "combat finishers" in Origins, like the shield bash to the face etc.

So far , I have only seen enemies getting gibbed. Should I be sceptical?

Probably because most were focused on directly controlling Hawke or whoever. As said, I've seen a few hilt bashes by Ms Savvy Lass, so don't worry, even if I've not used a shield-wielding tank in the demo. ^_^

That's on the consoles though. PC still has auto-attack and hotkeys and quickbar for the skills.

Eh, I'm loading at 600. Not exactly the full capabilities of my connection, but obviously better than most folks. Though it occasionally drops to 50 or less.

Whew! Guess i don't need ot try the PS3 version demo :hehe:

And i bet my speeds up once Steam is done downloading. 600kb/s And not at full speed? I'm lucky to get 150, usually 100 :brokencomputer:

600?! Mines refuses to go above 150, and usually stays in the 50-75 range. I can't believe they didn't have mirrors.

Dropped from 800 KB/s to 100 KB/s..... [censored] it EA, get your [censored] together.

I hope there's an auto attack option on the consoles. If it's not there it's no big deal as I'm good at Button Mashing. I just hope my controller doesn't take a hit.

I didn't realize how long it would take to down load the demo, it's gonna be another 7 hours before I'll be able to play it. 70-75 KB a second is going to take forever for the demo to download.

Since my PC's speed is even lower than that, I'm glad that I'm waiting for the preorder's delivery next month. At least it doesn't sound too bad, judging from the posts above.

That is indeed fun. I'm at 81 percent, and now I need several hours more because of the low speed. Amusing. Anyway, I have some mines to craft to pass the time. ^_^