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[JWvonGoethe]

http://youtu.be/lQIV24Xr6n4?t=1m36s

 

 

PC Gamer: Are you guys pulling existing levels from the game [into the multiplayer] or are they like totally new levels?

 

Scylla Costa: So they're uh... they're from the game - from the singleplayer campaign. Like, we have three levels when we release the game. We have Elven Ruins and we have Orlais and we also have Tevinter.

 

 

The multiplayer levels are taken from the singleplayer. That is apparently clear confirmation that Tevinter will appear in the singleplayer. The developer does slightly amend his statement by stating that it's the tileset rather than the exact same level that is reused in the multiplayer. However, this amendment does not change the implication that Tevinter will be a singleplayer location since he says the tilesets are based off the corresponding singleplayer levels and that we will be able to recognise these locations when playing multiplayer.

 

The statement contradicts information we've been given by BioWare regarding singleplayer locations. It's clearly implied that Tevinter is a singleplayer location in this interview. I'm not trying to get anyone's hopes up - there have been a number of statements made by or attributed to BioWare recently that were misconstrued and which had to be clarified. I'm sure this statement must have been made in error or that I am missing something. Hopefully someone can clear this up.

[dutch_gamer]

I am pretty sure it is an error somehow. They have stated very clearly in the past we won't be going to Tevinter and I really doubt that has changed. Maybe they are simply using a tileset not set in Tevinter from single player which is used as being in Tevinter in multiplayer.

[Akernis]

That could just mean that the location was a Tevinter ruin or something in that regard, as Tevinter once spanned most of Thedas there could be plenty of those in Orlais. 

I highly doubt we will go directly to the nation in DAI, at least not in its singleplayer.

[JWvonGoethe]

I am pretty sure it is an error somehow. They have stated very clearly in the past we won't be going to Tevinter and I really doubt that has changed. Maybe they are simply using a tileset not set in Tevinter from single player which is used as being in Tevinter in multiplayer.

 

That is certainly a possibility. Right now I'm just confused by the apparently contradictory info. I fully expect that Tevinter is not in the singleplayer, but it would be nice to have this clarified since the interview seems to indicate otherwise.

[St. Victorious]

That could just mean that the location was a Tevinter ruin or something in that regard, as Tevinter once spanned most of Thedas there could be plenty of those in Orlais. 
I highly doubt we will go directly to the nation in DAI, at least not in its singleplayer.

This. I think there was something mentioned about war table missions to send troops to Tevinter but we won't be visiting it ourselves.

[ManOfSteel]

They can quite easily (re)use an existing tileset from an area of Ferelden or Orlais and create a multiplayer map that represents Tevinter. This in no way confirms that Tevinter is present in the campaign.

[Revelat0]

This. I think there was something mentioned about war table missions to send troops to Tevinter but we won't be visiting it ourselves.

Yeah, we don't go to the locations but we send agents there, pretty much.

[Kieran G.]

I'm pretty sure they mention in some multiplayer trailer that they were using this to also help them design Tevinter architecture so it might be practice for future dlc?

[JWvonGoethe]

They can quite easily (re)use an existing tileset from an area of Ferelden or Orlais and create a multiplayer map that represents Tevinter. This in no way confirms that Tevinter is present in the campaign.

 

So why does he say we'll recognise the locations of the multiplayer maps from their singleplayer counterparts? The information presented in the interview is misleading in that sense.

 

Just a general note to people reading the thread: I didn't start this topic to convince people that Tevinter would be in the game. I actively warned against coming to that conclusion in my opening post and stated that I believed the developer's remarks were made in error. I am just making a complaint that we are getting conflicting information about something that seems pretty important and it's confusing.

[davishepard]

It's not conflicting since the SP and MP are two different things. If Tevinter was to be seen in the SP it wouldn't be confirmed in a MP interview, for instance.

 

Or, God forbid the devs not telling us every location that may be visited in the game for the sake of surprises.

[Kieran G.]

So why does he say we'll recognise the locations of the multiplayer maps from their singleplayer counterparts? The information presented in the interview is misleading in that sense.

 

Just a general note to people reading the thread: I didn't start this topic to convince people that Tevinter would be in the game. I actively warned against coming to that conclusion in my opening post and stated that I believed the developer's remarks were made in error. I am just making a complaint that we are getting conflicting information about something that seems pretty important and it's confusing.

He didn't mean we would recognize all the locations, we just might recognize some.

 

Yeah its pretty misleading, but if they are just trying their hand at it. at least we will get to see how much the original idea changes to when we see it in DLC or future installments.

[davishepard]

On a side note, for someone that is "just making a complaint that we are getting conflicting information" you sure exaggerated on putting the "false info" bit on the topic title. 

[ElitePinecone]

Wow, nice catch OP.

 

Would appreciate some clarification from the devs though.

[Rogue Roxy]

He likely meant to say 'Thedas'. *shrug*

[JWvonGoethe]

It's not conflicting since the SP and MP are two different things. If Tevinter was to be seen in the SP it wouldn't be confirmed in a MP interview, for instance.

 

Or, God forbid the devs not telling us every location that may be visited in the game for the sake of surprises.

 

The developer who was interviewed was a producer on the multiplayer component of the game, which I believe is being worked on by a different BioWare studio from the singleplayer. Miscommunication between the two studios is going to happen.

 

As a hypothetical - no I don't think the marketing team would have thought "Hey let's tell everyone Tevinter isn't in the game when it actually is and we'll reveal it as a location in a 5 minute multiplayer interview while answering a completely unrelated question." But it's certainly a possibility that a developer working on multiplayer might not have been aware that Tevinter was supposed to be kept secret and accidentally let it slip out.

 

I love surprise locations in video games. I wasn't the one who potentially let this slip though. There's kind of an unwritten obligation for fans to inform each other  on the forums when this kind of thing happens.

[riverbanks]

How many more times and in how many new and different ways can they tell us "it's only Orlais and Ferelden" before people will believe it...

[Maria Caliban]

I suspect Scylla made an error.

[Fiery Phoenix]

At a PAX Q&A yesterday, they hinted that the game will feature more than just Orlais and Ferelden. I personally doubt Tevinter is in, but at this point anything is possible.

[Giltspur]

Possibilities

(1) There's a Tevinter-themed location in Orlais in the single-player campaign (SP) that is also one of the starting multiplayer levels (MP).  (So by 'Tevinter' he's talking about some feature of the level instead of the country itself.)

(2) There's a level that is located in Orlais or Ferelden in the SP .  That level is re-used for MP and considered to be in Tevinter for MP.  So in that case 'level' in his statement is technical.  It's referring to the map or the art but isn't the same lorewise (same actual place in Thedas) in MP as it is in SP .

(3) He misspoke, version 1.  Maybe he's temporarily thinking something was in Tevinter when it's really not.  Take for example Chateau Haine.  It's really in the Free Marches.  But it would be understandable if someone, in passing, referred to it as being in Orlais because it belongs to an Orlesian family and has a lot of Orlesian elements.

(4) He misspoke, version 2.  Maybe he meant 'Ferelden' and said 'Tevinter'. 

(5) Maybe Tevinter really is in the single-player campaign.  While I doubt it's prominently featured, you never know: there might be some scenes there.

 

I can't find anything decisive to support any one of these.  But I'm going to guess it's (1).

[BluuDuck]

I'm not saying we'll go there but I'm pretty sure it said on the wiki that we'll visit places such as Tevinter to 'encourage or calm the fighting' - no idea if that's still up there though.

[ElitePinecone]

IGN also mentioned Tevinter in this podcast, around 5:00.

 

http://ca.ign.com/vi...odcast-unlocked

[SNascimento]

I would love to see some Tevinter cities. 

[RedWulfi]

Tevinter, DLC maybe?

[Hrungr]

I could have sworn I heard, somewhere, that you will only be able to visit Tevinter in MP, but not SP.

[dekkerd]

I could have sworn I heard, somewhere, that you will only be able to visit Tevinter in MP, but not SP.

Allan, in one of the MP threads. Tevinter location is a map pin quest in SP, playable location in MP.

EDIT: link
http://forum.bioware...yer/?p=17202166