Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition

[NoSoup4You]

I grabbed the Ultimate Edition on Steam recently so that I could play Awakenings and several of the DLC I never bought, but I'm curious if I should start a new character or import an old one for Awakenings?

Any significant advantages/disadvantages? If I go with the Commander, do I start as a level 1 character? That's a pretty huge difference from importing a character that has already beaten the Origins campaign and is at a high level already...etc.

I'm not overly thrilled with my characters from Origins so starting a new one is no big deal there.

As a side note, I had a pretty serious issue with the Steam version of Ultimate - the DAUpdater service never installed and therefore never runs - as a result the DLC that came with it was "unauthorized" and I had to manually install and start the service before I could use the DLC that came with Ultimate. Very annoying and I'm not the only one from doing some Google searching.

 

[Darklife]

Your level is unchanged, but the enemies are also beefed up so expect fighting uber-genlocks. The thing is Awakenings is pretty much like a stand alone game, only one NPC is carried over and the rest have a tiny cameo, what's more some don't show up at all depending on your original choices.

 

[NoSoup4You]

For some reason I was thinking a new character would start at level 1, but I see that you actually start quite high and get to assign all the talents at the start...etc. No reason not to import in that case I guess...

 

[airdata]

If you create a new charactor, you start at a rather high level with alot of skill points to spend. I had lost my game save data and was forced to do this, but after several hours decided to just play through DAO again and carry over my character.