MrBrown

There's apparently going to be an open beta for the Keep.

Not yet, but they're saying it'll be out before DA:I.

Bioware posted this on facebook: https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10557317_753659234683479_3287549242482429460_n.jpg?oh=9234f939c603d6a4fca4f5be61922160&oe=548D95AF&__gda__=1421693381_21ee6c93a3ae53ffc517886836273d49 Is it just me, or is the bowstring on the wrong side of her arm?

Ramaladni's Gift does indeed add an extra item affix, making it very very useful. Only works on weapons though. (If your weapon already has a socket, you can enchant that to something else and then use the Gift.)

Toughness is important when playing Harcore: http://www.helsinki.fi/~karilehi/d3007.jpg

It's basically Torment6.

I found this funny.

Not a fan. Only 8 abilities in the toolbar? And no ability to add more bars, poor. Where does it say that? It's been confirmed on twitter (and the bio forums I think). Max 8 abilities on the toolbar per character on the PC. If the ability design is similar to DA:O and DA2, and you don't have to use those slots for sustainables, 8 is enough IMO.

https://twitter.com/BioMarkDarrah/status/505450050688794624/photo/1

They're just carrying over the stuff from BG2? Bah.

I actually like the removing of healing spells. Means you're not half-required to bring a mage along anymore. I'm ambivalent on the weapon restrictions. It looks like, unlike DA2, party-NPCs will be able to use both weapon styles of their class though. I'm not sure about the no-autoheal after combat though. If done wrong, it can lead to all battles being really easy because you have to retain your health through the whole level. So I hope they don't mess it up.

I played the base game on PS3, the stats and numbers were a bit different, so it felt a bit different. But yeah, for sofa-MP, consoles are king.

HA HA HA!!1 I mean RIP. Hey wuss, I only see you playing softcore these days. Lost your manhood?

Lesson of the day: Don't go against the Act2 keywarden with a missile build. Especially not on HC. RIP.

Yeah, it's too bad they took out those legendary crafting components, it was kinda fun. Understandable though, as grinding for those optimally was pretty stupid.

Multiplayer announced. http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/26/dragon-age-inquisitions-co-op-multiplayer-is-all-about-loot Sounds a lot like ME3's.

New patch coming next week. Greater rifts, leg gems, leaderboards, seasons and such.

To my understanding, they're just putting everything they can think of in there in case they want to use them in future games. It's not like everything will be referenced in DA:I.

On the official forums, they clarified they're longest play-through is 150 hours (doing everything possible in a single game), but that's by a person who already knew everything about the game before hand. I had 100+ hour play-through of DA:O, but that was mostly because I pick-pocketed everyone... After that I installed a mod to fasten the cooldown of steal.

Re: Demo, they've pretty much said "no". The gameplay looks identical to DA2 though, aside from the new camera angles and new animations. Re: friendly fire, DA2 had that only on the highest difficulty, it'll probably be the same here.

i'm assuming you need to have the games registered on Bioware's systems as well. DA:I most likely, but they haven't said anything about whether having DA:O or DA2 registered is required for anything. In any case, to use the Keep, you'll need to create the "history file" (or whatever) with it, and then use the game (DA:I) to connect to the Keep servers. After you've started a game like this, you don't have to connect to the servers anymore. So, you don't have to be online all the time, but you have to do it once when you start a game using a history made with the Keep.

You can't even import DA:O or DA2 saves to DA:I. You have to use the Keep. (Though, they've said they might add it in the future.)

Cthulhu! Also, Hawke spotted. I hope you can edit his/her appearance in the Keep, or there will be complaining.

Pathfinder is basically D&D 3.75. If it's real, I'll buy it.

Every thread about Bioware or their games on this board will eventually turn into a discussion about Volourn. What a waste of time.