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No, once you have installed them, they will kick in at different points. Dawnguard will begin at level 10, Hearthfire will begin early on (you will receive a note from a courier), and Dragonborn will be available during your quests for the Greybeards.
Therein lies the issue for me - I love going for as many trophies as I can, so not getting to keep the Vampire perks will make it tough for me to get the trophies for unlocking all Vampire/Werewolf perks. I'm sure it'll be a grind either way, unless I spend my first 20-30 skill points on both (not sure how many perks there are total).
As for the DLC, I don't think you can turn them off once they're installed. You're just gonna have to do the Dawnguard questline if the vampire attacks get too annoying (which, believe me, they will).
Shouldn't be too much of an issue, as obtaining all of the Werewolf perks leads to one trophy, and obtaining all of the Vampire perks leads to a separate trophy. There's nothing in the games mechanics from stopping you from backing up your save to a USB. Unless you want to replay the game just for the other trophy perks that you didn't get the first time around.
There are 8 Werewolf perks:
Animal Vigor
Bestial Strength
Gorging
Savage Feeding
Totem of Ice Brothers
Totem of Terror
Totem of the Moon
Totem of the Predator
Though there 4 levels of Bestial Strengh, so it's more like 11 perks.
Vampire perks (again, 11 of them):
Blood Healing
Corpse Curse
Detect All Creatures
Mist Form
Night Cloak
Poison Talons
Power of the Grave
Summon Gargoyle
Supernatural Reflexes
Unearthly Will
Vampiric Grip
Unfortunately not. If you have already installed Dawnguard, then when you next play it, the first thing I recommend you doing is travelling to at least one other hold* (to offload any equipment you want to sell), then go and get the Dawnguard quests out of the way.
*Just in case your usual shopkeeper is killed.
I've reached mission 17 (of 18*). The first part of the mission, take out enough targets in the time given to reach the points target, I can complete that fine. The second part, intercept the squadron, and destroy them... that is giving me some problems.
*With one mission left, I have bought Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, ready to play next.
Finally got to fire this up today after all the updating, and damn, I'm loving it. I'm hardly through the tutorial stuff, and I can already tell I'm going to be sinking some solid hours into this. You would think it's pure garbage, given the mass outrage over the character animations, but that's if you assume the three prior installments had no bugs, which is simply not the case. No game is perfect, and there's a lot to love in this past any technical hiccups.
Glad you're enjoying it, @Creasy47. I've been following the backlash a bit, and it's more of the usual: the women are too model-esque, the guys are too pretty, etc. I agree that the customization options are pretty poor for a series that makes you create a character to use over a whole series of games, but I think some criticism has been outlandish.
It's strange to me that people target this game for creating body issues in its female gamers when other games are far, far worse-such as those where women's body parts are out of proportion three times over. I've watched some criticism videos on this aspect of the game, and got offended at one time when the reviewer said that the character she played looked far more ready to go to the library than the battlefield, implying that more slim and diminutive women couldn't join the cause to save the galaxy. This woman then went on to freak out because the height and weight of one of the female characters was actually the height and weight of a 5 foot 9 woman when you did the math, and not a 5 foot 6 one. Seriously.
I guess because we have all this powerful new hardware people were expecting to see the tail end of those hiccups in animation, which I get, but for there to be such an overreaction is unfair, I think. I've seen a lot of fair assessments too, so there is some good to outbalance the outrage.
I think the ultimate conclusion people have come to is it's just okay, and doesn't live up to what came before. I'm not a sci-fi guy, but I have to say ME just doesn't click with me. I watched play throughs of one and thought it was very limp and empty, and ME2 was better with good characters, but still nothing that shouted greatness to me. Players like the choice of those games, though, and I understand why there was the hate for how ME3 went down. That's a time of fair criticism, especially when the developers promised massively different endings to fit your unique choices and then delivered nothing of the sort. That's a case of false advertising, but this animations thing is a bit nit-picky. But everyone is a critic now, and that's another sign of it I guess.
At the end of the day, though, I'm loving it - could've gotten 0/10 ratings across the board, and I'd still be enjoying myself. I've sunk several hours into this and I'm still not passed the whole tutorial section, I can tell.
I think the hiccup they had regarding the transition from the incredible ME2 to ME3 was that ME2's finale could go so many different ways, all dependent on your choices throughout and who you managed to save in the end. Thus, there was no way to craft an independent play experience for each and every gamer when the third one was released, as surely they all had different surviving squads at the end of the second game. Still doesn't change the fact that the three choices you're given at the end were terrible, especially since you played through three separate games to arrive at this disappointing moment.
You may know this, but apparently there was a way to end ME2 that basically made it impossible to play with that save in ME3. I guess you really have to try to fail at it, but it's possible to be forced to start 3 with a fresh Shepard.
I get the impression that Swery is a big Mission Impossible fan. I have reached the point where you have to access the terminal room, from a hatch in the ceiling. The room has censors to detect any rise in temperature and the are a series of laser grids between the ceiling and floor (with the latter being pressure sensitive).
Having played Deadly Premonition (another Swery game), I am not all that surprised that Spy Fiction has an odd cheesy-ness to it. I have also detected a reference to The Man From UNCLE. Alas, no Bond reference as of yet.
It's obviously based on the box-art, and in fact started as a PDF scan of it. I applied some effects and made some small adjustments.
I'm trying a new strategy: I'm pretty much killing everyone I see! It's amazing how fast I've leveled up and gotten the best weapons!
And I'm female. :))
Seriously I've forgotten how great this game is! Much better than 4.
I can see how people could get into it. I have to try and give it a chance.
Some (a lot?) fans didn't, but I enjoyed Blacklist.
Spy Fiction
I finally got passed the Mission: Impossible-esque terminal room, all it took was a little patience, and the right timing.
It's been a long time since I tried out a survival horror, but this Outlast keeps you rolling around with your brain attempting to rocket its way out of your head with all those jumpscares and the adrenaline-bumping stressful suspense the game puts you through. It is, in a way, an equivalent of Shutter Island and The Cabin In The Woods (albeit much more coherent than that), giving you a small reminder of Silent Hill as well as some Slender Man. The gameplay is alright, the control movements being a mixture of old and new, the story however, for a video game, is compelling. There are lots of disturbing elements in it and even things that stay with you for sometime, irritating your mind due to its utmost unpleasantness. However, I liked it. Haven't tried the DLC sequel yet, entitled Whistleblower, I'll be getting down to it once I get a grip on my mind.
Also, looking forward to the real sequel that's supposed to come out this year.
It never ends well for journalist characters in video games. Just like every time anyone has a wedding, bad shit is going to go down and horrible things will happen to you.
Updating Post:
In order to avoid double posts, I'm going to submit my newer experience with the one I promised myself to play. Well...
Outlast: Whistleblower (2014):
A downloadable content for Outlast, the game that made its debut in 2013 on Windows PC, this portion of the content serves as a side-occurrence to the events of the original, taking place before, during and after the story of the main experience. This time, assuming the role of the I.T. guy who himself put the journalist from the original game in this mess in the first pace, being the whistleblower, he's soon captured by those whose secrets he was supposed to expose and is given the course to run through hell, much like the first game, but a bit differently than the one that came before. So, while the events of the original game are already happening by the time you're halfway through the experience, you encounter different kinds of villains and sprint through different places that looks more like an asylum escape rather than sewers, abandoned prisons, chapels, occult-related hallways and whatnot. As opposed to the more supernatural horror feel of the original, this one is more like a serial killer evasion type. It's quite the same gameplay, but with one thing improved... This protagonist doesn't have to slam the door and alert everyone around as much as the other one did. The jumpscares are on the same level, but its spooky elements are less as it's more action-oriented, this one. I couldn't say I'm pleased with the uber-nudity image displayed over this content as it felt overdone. What I felt was lacking however was the player's ability to at least try and punch his assailants. At least show minimum signs of fighting back. Good game. But, I prefer the original.
When that game first came out, and before classes had started for the semester, I remember sitting in my dorm room, packed with a good ten or so other people I knew, as they watched me play it, enduring screams and jumps alongside them as I went along. Was good fun - wish I had the skills to complete it on that Insanity mode or whatever it is, but I've never been good at those "Beat a game with only one life" modes.