The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

Strangely enough it was Solas who pointed this out in his dialogue with Iron Bull.

• Iron Bull: Nice job in that last fight, Solas. You really kicked the crap outta that guy.
• Solas: I suppose.
• Iron Bull: What, you don't think so? You ripped him a new one. It was great!
• Solas: Unless the fight is personal, violence is a means to an end. It isn't appropriate to celebrate.
• Iron Bull: I don't know. Gotta wonder about anyone who fights as much as we do and doesn't have some fun with it.
• Solas: We have fought living men, with loves and families, and all that they might have been is gone.
• Iron Bull: Yeah, but they were assholes!

Solas is expressing a real world sensibility to the killing we do as part of the game, IB is the usual sentiment employed to justify our actions.

I have to admit that Planescape: Torment is still one of my favourite games for the very fact that you didn't have to fight to win every confrontation, even with the final boss. All I had to do was focus on my wisdom stats and I was then given the dialogue options that would allow me to reason my out of it, essentially defeating my opponent with logic.

In case of the first part, I tend to agree the more I think about it. Let's say my Lavellan is already pretty frustrated by the stae of things (DAI gives ample reason to) and then the only one around her who she though could be approacheable also shits on her people and turns out to be the big bad after dumping her. Though Stonefisting him on the spot is appopriate... reporting to "authorities"? In DA? A bunch of racist human zealots? Nah...

That depends entirely on the player. I don't care how amazing a combat system is - if there is an option to talk game sprites out of killing each other, I'd use it every time. (And feel more satisfaction in how things played out than if I'd defeated a tough boss fight. They feel more like chores to me than fun.) I have little interest in combat sequences. I don't like killing things in games. I just reluctantly accept that I have to in order to progress the story.

ETA: I do miss the system in DAO whereby you could increase your Persuasion stat and convince people not to do stupid things sometimes.

Am I the only one that thinks he looks terribly sad in the teaser? Determined, yes, but mournful. It made new want to hug him. My canon Lavellan is fully on his side. She's up for burning it all down and making everyone start over, regardless of the cost.

Of course, she does, indeed, have questions, mostly ones that revolve around whether we'd be trading shem slavers and religious fanatics for Elvhen ones. That would rather defeat the purpose, though if there's another threat we aren't seeing it still might be acceptable.

My dwarves, on the other hand, would like to go down and fix the Titans or wake them up or whatever the hell is going on down there. All this Fade nonsense is just a distraction from the juicy, juicy lore.

The fact he isn’t stopping removes any sympathy. Him wanting others to stop him does not absolve him.

I think it might be the ears. Dragon Age elves have ears that mostly stick up instead of sideways. This is more or less his regular face, but with more WoW-style elf ears.

But because fan artists usually give him the more horizontal ears anyway, it’s not immediately obvious what’s “off”.

I think it isn't the ears as they aren't so different in this picture but his face used to be longer (or slimmer) and his eyes are slightly different as well.  I think you may also be right about the length of his neck.  The design seems to have reverted back to DA2 elongated neck on elves or that could be the effect created by having really square shoulders rather than sloping ones.

Something I just threw together for reference:

Someone did a side-by-side comparison in one of these threads and showed everything lines up. It’s mostly shadow play. Can’t remember where it is though.

While I agree that some tweaking will keep happening (it's one of the reasons why Solas was in shadows and why they don't show anyone else...), the difference between then and now is that style-wise things weren't as established as they are post DAI release. So I don't' really think things will change terribly much from what we see now.

Anyway, here's a comment liked by our resident lurking dev.


I'll also warn again that the same model may look different in different lighting conditions. I mean... that was actually the issue with Inquisition's CC - people's character models looked different than they did in CC due to how the model was lit in CC