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

It isn't. Not anymore. Not after last year's E3 Fallout 4 announcement. A couple of Bioware devs (who now work on MEA) have made that pretty abundantly clear in their own podcast:



Basically the last year's Fallout 4 announcement changed the way some of big companies announce and advertise their big titles - be very quiet during development time and then come out with the product a few months before release, together with intense advertisement campaign. 

We've actually seen BW embrace that marketing strategy for DA's DLCs, especially Trespasser. Lots of little hints, but big announcement made only a week before DLCs release.

The good thing about it is that they don't really have to go out to the public with unfinished demos, like in DAI and later that bite them in the bum after realizing that the technical spec for the demo works fine on strong PCs but fried old gen consoles, hence cutting some of the systems and gameplay elements.

The bad thing about this is that even after announcement we'd likely be kept long in the dark about details on DA4 :[

I'm actually sort of glad there is hardly any info out for Andromeda. I'm excited for it now, if I actually knew more about the same it would make waiting worse. It's not coming out for months yet. The same could be said for DA4 I guess? Except in this case we don't even know if they are making one (they have to!) and that worries me a little.

Doomsday theories have always been a part of the landscape. And nobody said that BW can't add their own flavor to the advertisement and they're very well known for their teasing and not-so-subtle trolling It's how they (t)roll.

It'd also likely be a little different for DA than it is for MEA, given that MEA is an entirely new chapter in ME universe, so they can withhold more information to surprise us further after the release, rather than have their new story and universe picked apart or speculated to death about prior to release.

But DA is an ongoing franchise. And not only the devs have revealed later that DA4 will either closely follow DA3 or will basically be a 2nd part of Inquisition, Trespasser very clearly set things up for the future. It's not a secret or anything, the devs don't even tiptoe around it. So we'd likely be given more scraps and things that would make people reel and then speculate (or remember that there's actually a story going on. Most players, in general, likely forgot the whole Cory and Dread Wolf thing already, so we'd see attempts to remind people what was going on in DAI), probably will see a list of announced LIs or locations, or whether we'd see Inquisitor or not and in what role... but likely won't be handed much more formation than that before the advert campaign starts in earnest.

And yeah, I sort of expected the same to happen here (lose power or Internet right before release), but I was fortunate that it didn't happen.

I bet that they will have Trespasser as free gift on Origin when the real campaign for DA4 will begin. JUst imagine people who didn't play this DLC starting DA4. I kind of don't like how Bioware started to implement important story elements in their DLC. Trespasser was awesome but Arrival not so much.

I read some of earliest speculations of Solas and people already have theorized that he was an ancient elf and even Dread Wolf himself completely confirms what you said about picking everything apart.

I wonder what the new IP is. Maybe that strategy game from DA universe? And if it's completely new id it fantasy or sci-fi? Maybe steam punk or something else entirely. I'm so curious!

Not for me. I mean this one isn't drastic, but personally, I prefer to keep non-player characters as the artists intended. 

I like my Solas vanilla. I have seen mods making him dark skinned, looking like he just broke out of jail, so this is quite ok. I like what the author did with his eyebrows. Originally he has strange yellow mask on them, presumably to make them more lighter (Solas is blond, fite me!) it's poorly made and drives me mad.

But as I said there is a reason behind Solas looking so nondescript and most of mods make him stand out. And erase his adorable freckles and that cannot be. 

I saw one where he got this elaborate wardrobe and I was like, what the? Solas would never wear that. The nondescript hobo apostate is a major part of his identity...and his strategy. X)

But hey, different strokes. 

Speaking of mods...not to derail too much, but does anyone know of hair mods that work with Trespasser? I found one that would be great for my Lavellan, but it isn't compatible, alas.

From what I know it depends which original hairstyle the chosen hairstyle replaces. Some of the original hairstyles simply can't be replaced or overwritten.

Oh hey Caddius, nice to see you made it over here.

Nicer to see all of your familiar names pop up.
I was quite indignant to hear of the forum shut-down. (And a little satisfied to know that certain recurring threads about Cassandra's cheekbones being some kind of affront to straight men were going down in the flames too.)