Dragon Age The Veilguard Wishlist (Official Thread)

• No MP intruding on my SP experience.  The less I have to connect to the Internet or interact with other people, the better.

• More than a token dwarf companion. (related: dwarf LI pls)

• A Tal-Vashoth companion as opposed to a devoted Qunari / guy who's on the fence. Preferably a lady since we've had two dudes.

• Calpernia. 😍

• Maevaris. 😍

• New specializations for warriors. I'm very over Templar/Champion/Reaver. At least put a new spin on them. Guardian? Magekiller? Fog Warrior? Something.

• Race selection. Gimme dem qunari and dorfs.

• Don't hide the gay characters on the ship as with ME trilogy and Andromeda. Gay companions pls. GAAAAAYYY GAY GAY

• STENISHOK

• Lots and lots and lots of Tevinter and Qunari and dwarf stuff

- Let me be fashionable, and alternatively a slut. Don't force me to put on some chunky, practical armor, give me fashionable alternatives that show off my sweet abs and maybe even my perky nips? I just really want my characters to be sexy, or if not sexy, at least fashionable... Inquisition was a fashion disaster. The problem with impractical sexy, fashion-y armor isn't that it exists, but because it exists only for one gender. Let my men walk into battle with their midriff exposed and with high heels on their feet, and of course give this possibility to women as well. There, fixed your game for you.

- Crazy Tevinter couture and extravagant Tevinter architecture.

- No bottles, no mosaic pieces, no astrariums, no shards.

- 1-3 bigger areas to explore, and the rest smaller linear areas.

- Take Inquisitions character creator as a base, and then add lots of new customization/options to it.

- Make qunari and elves look like how they do in Inquisition tarot cards, or at least how they look like in DA2. Big horned humans and short skinny long eared humans are meh.

- Bare-fisted combat.

- Gay.

• I'd like to have proper factions, with whom you can interact and something more deep than a chain of quests that ends in a binary choices fueled by clumsy drama and obvious villains with their obvious villains faces.

• Companions with interesting personal quests. I don't care about how their mama broke their hearts...(well unless their mama is Flemeth ...) or their dying lovers or whatever. They can spell it out during simple conversation. I'd rather have quests that shows their involvement in the world and give more insight into said world. Unless of course it's a way more personal setting like DA2. Varric personal quests with his brother were pretty good, we knew his brother , Hawke had some stake in it and we learn more about lyrium and it tied with the overall plot. Alistair and Dorian quests are an example of no-no. It mostly came down to "there, there" and that was pretty much it.

     

• More interactions that requires to use one's brain. Having sometimes dialogues you have to pay attention to. Having skills like pickpocketing, or charming, or stealth...so you have different ways to solves quests that aren't just dialogue or killing.

    

• A zoomed on camera. How are we supposed to feel involved in the world and looking at pretty decorations when the camera is way out there. Same for dialogues...if no cinematics dialogue, zoom the camera in goddam.

   

• Companions who are chatty during quests. Also no more banter bug please.

 

   

• If there's a feature like the war table we're meant to use often, don't put it behind multiple loading screens.

 

   

• Finding letters sometimes is fine. Finding letters all over the wilderness to explain people might have been there once upon a time but vanished doesn't really hide the lack of npcs and quests. I know the Storm coast was supposed to get axed, but finding letters that explain wardens were here and interacted with locals and now all that left are bears is not great.
  

     

      

• "Mature" elements. We kill stuff, we're playing killers. We move among societies that aren't that grand. Tevinter is supposed to be pretty bad, let it be pretty bad. I don't want to interact with just reformers who have their hearts in the right place or the moron twirling his mustache. I also want to be able to play a self serving pragmatic ass of dubious morality at times.

 

  

• A pc who is interesting. I didn't mind the Inquisitor, playing an elf, I find you can have a nice personal story arc with all the elven lore thrown in DA. But it was still the overall kind of bland chosen one who poof fell from the sky suddenly special. There wasn't much personal stake/goals beyong saving the world.
  

 

• A shorter casts of close companions. No more huge organisation please.
  

Decent character creator, i could put up with most on pc because mods but since pc fried an im on console im seeing an can't ignore how bad they are, not just BioWare's tbh

I'd also like the golden nug to be in base game same with some version of black emporium.

I'd also like to see layered areas for lack of better wording, basically a overland area which also has say extensive deep roads to explore

- More character Customization, even if we can't customize the proportions and heights of their bodies at least allow us to control their weight (skinny, fat, chiseled, whateves)
- Queer companions who
A) Aren't late in game companions (side eyeing Dorian, Zevran, Sera, The Iron Bull, etc)
B ) Aren't Another goddamn gay trope (Ex-lover died and suicide sounds reasonable if you don't gimme protag dick, parents want to convert my sexual standing[okay that one was actually well executed, but please don't make it a fairly chunky part of their character again], whoops, forgot about the gay characters so we can tack them in the hull where nobody's gonna hang out and make them non-unique because who gives a shit, make the cute boring guy an option if he survived the first game, JILL, Okayokay we'll make the catsquid bi because they caught on to our shit, we'll make the redhead gay because straights have enough pussy they don't want, and last minute bisexuals again.)
C) Aren't a fetish for straight people (Looking at lesbian/fem only romances because, let's be real, those were not written for lesbians)
D) are actual fleshed out people.
E) NOT EXPENDABLE as usual.
Because we queers need a fucking break from sad queer shit such as knowing the world despises us and politicizes the shit out of us.
F) Are the starters, because honestly, what's the one in a million chance all of the starting characters are going to be straight or unavailable to romanticle with, because so far they've all been straight (Not counting Kaidan (who was suddenly a bisexious, DA2 had Aveline, Varric, and your surviving sibling as starters)

- Better hair and facial, let's add bodyhair and tattoos while we're at it
- Facial Piercings and accessories
- Hair and horn options for qunari to be separate
- At least a horned or not horned option for qunari so the hornless ones can wear the ugly helmets
- Less ugly helmets
- Better weapons/armor crafting
- No multiplayer (See Andromeda) #DEADHORSE
- Cutscenes for conversations,I love Inquisition but the world and its people feel dead without any exposition, personality, or charm and question. I mean, Jaws of Hakkon wasn't even interesting until a cutscene triggered.
- Just cutscenes in general. Inquisition was gorgeous and beautifully detailed but all that detail doesn't get appreciated unless someone grabs a screencap of it. I mean, without The Descent, I wouldn't even know how fucking horrifying (in a good way) the darkspawn were.
- If they doin' open world again, make the world worth exploring, make it alive, that's why skyrim and the witcher 3 (You know it's true) succeeded, the games rewarded the player for exploring it, and not on the superficial level, mind you.

For now that's what i'm thinking, so i'll get back to it if anything good blows up.

EDIT: I got some more!
- Better Elf proportions (they look weird and disproportionate to their head/body ratio and the men look like they have tits)
- Better Qunari proportions (They look like an accident waiting to happen.
- Armor for Qunari that isn't DLC
- All weapon and armor models in-game are useable, I was heartbroken none of the tevinter or elven swords/shields/staves/bows/daggers/armors or the inquisition swords had schematics or were lacking parts to make them whole.
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- curly hair
- flemeth's armor
- robes
- missing teeth
- half your face covered with burn marks
- hairy legs/chest/arms for males
- bad body odor - characters in the game will constantly mention it. 
- when playing as an archer, be able to kill an enemy from a far distance.
- fade mission that is or longer than the one in dao
- during a dragon fight, it grabs you by the mouth and.....you're dead. Or it grabs you, flies very  high in the air, and drops you to your death. excellent. Another is the player fights a very large dragon that is able to crush you when it steps on you
- be able to craft jewelry
- be able to breakdown weapons/armor to use for crafting
- be able to wield two staves at once

For mage, have a new ice power called the ice slide. A sheet of ice is placed on the ground, then the companions slide along slicing and dicing the baddies as they pass by. Ice beam. Like what the despair demon had.

For electricity, a lightning whip like what the pride demon has. Place lightning mines on the ground.

For fire, have a fire shield. The mage encases her/himself in fire. When a baddie attacks, he/she catches fire. The same can be done for the other elements

Introduce the water mage. The flood spell. It drowns all enemies within 10m. Or choose the tidal wave. It washes away the enemies. Throw water balls. They won't cause damage, but stun the enemy long enough for companions to damage the baddie. The water spout. It pulls in enemies, within 5m, and sends them up in the air. I guess the other elements can have a spout as well. Mix water with electricity and things will be truly shocking. hahahaha

Yes! I want more options to be disfigured or at least look like I regularly wade into battle.


And women pls. At least the legs and arms.

-See Monster Hunter World CC?? Something similar with ability to change the lighting, more hair options (less bald/buzz), and better sliders would be awesome. MHW does it well, so I feel DA could take some inspiration.

-Crowded cities with NPCs interacting with their environment. It'd be hard to make EVERYONE interact with it, but seeing the barkeeper wiping down the counter or cleaning a glass would be cool.

-Companions moving around the base. Say you leave for a mission, come back and person A is now in the library versus the sitting room where he started.

-Dalish encampments that are actually an encampment versus a handful standing around.

-An adventure in a necropolis. So. Cool.

-I really hope to see bits of Antiva, and of course Tevinter.

-New specializations for each class, maybe even specializations exclusive to just the PC or race.

-I still want to jump...

-Passage of time. It'd be super neat to have the map turn from day to night while exploring, and having different people/monsters/etc come out at those times.

-Dog. I don't care for Mabari, but a lot of people do and Dog has always been helpful.

I would like to request shameless cameos because I want to see everyone looking pretty in Frostbite.