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[dalyeau]

From here.

• The romance options will not be released until sometime next year. Gaider said he’d like to release them February 14th, but that just seemed like a desire rather than a set date. They said the reason for this is they don’t want to say someone is romanceable, only to find out they don’t have time to program it in and then disappoint people later on.
• The Qunari you can play as are Tal-Vashoth. This means you can make your female Qunari a warrior if you so choose (traditionally those women who follow the Qun do not typically fight)
• There will be mounts you can ride, but they have no plans for mounted combat. It isn’t ‘Dragon Age Chevalier’
• Morrigan is not a party member, not romanceable, but she is also not just a cameo. She will play an active role. Gaider said a lot of our questions after DAO should be answered with regards to Morrigan.
• The writing team looked at a lot of history when building Thedas, and drew from a lot of cultures and societies when creating their worlds. For the Qunari they first looked at Muslim society during the Middle Ages with regards to their advancements in technology and medicine among other things, and then branched out from there into other cultures. The art team also has a lot to do with how a group of people will look, and what real world cultural influences will be brought into their society.
• Still no word on if Varric is romanceable
• We should find out what is going on with Hawke and his/her disappearance
• [Edit] Your inquisitor does not start out as an inquisitor, so I am assuming we get back-story to the point where they join the ranks of the inquisition.

 

[Allan Schumacher]

I Like Cats And wrote...

So it makes sense for the Inquisitor to just get off their mount anytime theres something they need to fight> What if they get ambushed? It's 100% cutting corners, it's a little feature that isn't a huge deal but would take some extra effort to make the game more logical.
/le facepalm lolololololololololoololololololol

It, unfortunately, is not a little feature.  Doing meaningful mounted combat would place large strains on the combat team and animators that already have a lot on their plate.


At this point, one can argue that any feature that isn't done to the level of depth that you would like is "cutting corners" but the reality is it was never on the table.

Mounts have basically been explored for pretty much every BioWare game, and historically they have been gigantic time sinks that end up resulting in something that isn't really all that interesting.  THere was actually a lot of internal resistance to mounts (especially from people that have been down the path before throughout BioWare's legacy) because the initial assumption was "It will be a nontrivial amount of work for potentially minimal benefit."

With Milestone 8 (which ended around June), there was a team set up that pretty much proof of concepted mounts on a very introductory level.  They actually achieved more than they were expecting to deliver (which is good), but without delving too deep into systems that lead to a combinatorial explosion (which, from a developer point of view, is also good).

These decisions are not made in a vacuum though.  Mounted combat is seen as very high risk and I think there are better things that the teams that would be affected could be working on instead.

Modifié par Allan Schumacher, 01 octobre 2013 - 05:30 .

[Allan Schumacher]

ag99 wrote...

Thank you for the info OP

Seconded

[Allan Schumacher]

Seconded...? You're a Bioware-person, you already know all this. Heck, you are certain to know tons of things we average fans don't seeing as you probably know everything about what's going on with DAI thanks to being in the company.

That doesn't mean I can't thank him for taking the time to post it.

[David Gaider]

Some of the things mentioned here regarding what I said are paraphrased, so I'll elaborate a little:

The romance options will not be released until sometime next year. Gaider said he’d like to release them February 14th, but that just seemed like a desire rather than a set date. They said the reason for this is they don’t want to say someone is romanceable, only to find out they don’t have time to program it in and then disappoint people later on.

As mentioned, I said Valentine's Day would be a cool day to release more info on the romances. There are, however, no current plans for releasing more info regarding the romances-- I am certainly not in charge of that.

Morrigan is not a party member, not romanceable, but she is also not just a cameo. She will play an active role. Gaider said a lot of our questions after DAO should be answered with regards to Morrigan.

I actually said that it was time to start answering questions about Morrigan, instead of posing new ones. I did not say "a lot of your questions" would be answered, just to be specific.