Dragon Age The Veilguard Wishlist (Official Thread)

Inspired by conversations in the Schmooples thread and 8 year time skip. The Wartable. I imagine some version of it will people up in DA 4 since it was there in both Inquisition and Andromeda in some form so I imagine it will be in DA 4.

1. I believe one of the comments that the devs made with the intention of lettins us lead the Rebel Alliance fromt he ground up. Naturally this didn't really meet the mark considering the Inquisition was basically courting powerful nobles by the first quest line and was getting powerful siege weapons by the other. (Though admittedly the RA got its ass handed to it at Hoth and then by the end of ESB had an entire Battle Fleet at its disposal...ugh urge to rant rising). Instead though I would certainly like the beginning of the game to feel like we are leading the Red Jennies. Not in terms of purpose, just going around for pranks, but in tactics. It should feel more like a street gang at first getting together and slowly setting up and building intelligence networks throughout all of the North until eventually, maybe, it can become a powerful organization. Dead drops, smoke signals, sabotage, diversion, some good ole fashion espionage.

2. Maybe the game has already been given away but this should have an effect on the gameplay. Again in Inquisition they promised that these missions would have an impact on your gameplay, opening up secret routes and things like that, but those were few and far between. So much like the above I would prefer it if this could help out with the quests you are doing, probably a tall order for this to happen all the time but make your organiation feel a part of the world. Distract guards, bribe government officials, sabotage the enemy to stop them from pursuing you, or creating new openings. If there is a system of invesitgtation similar to the last two AC games then perhaps we can even add onto that by giving us the option of doing it through our networks, hunting down inteliggence and what not.

Yes! Give us the option to simply sneak and rob them of their treasures ..... and a couple of their scales, lol.

But seriously, I don't like killing them either, I like to compare it to big game hunting which I'm also not a fan of - give us the option to not kill them without getting penalized for that via missing XP and loot. Make it an option to somehow converse with the dragon instead of killing it, and scheme with it resulting in a little sidequest to get loot and XP. Like saving its eggs that were stolen by high-level bandits that have tons of loot and gives the player tons of XP. 

Which leads me to another wish - I wish for more encounters that give me the option to resolve them without violence and without getting penalized for not killing everyone. I often get really tired of combat in games because its so plentiful it numbs my senses, and its also really ridiculous to just kill everyone all the time. Give us more situations that can be solved with stealth or clever negotiating skills.

My favorite game series is Thief  - Thief: The Dark project - Thief: The Metal Age and Thief 3. I always managed to finish the missions without killing anyone - avoiding fights and using stealth was magnitudes more thrilling than going round and simply chopping everyone with my sword. (Which was quite do-able)

Of course, Dragon Age is far from being a stealth game, but they should really add a couple situations or missions that require guile and stealth over brute force and violence, this would certainly help to keep the gameplay fresh and interesting. 

I don't know about "conversing" with a high dragon, as they are pretty clearly animals, albeit apex predators.

But yes, options to do something besides kill them. I'm a big fan of quests with multiple ways to resolve them, especially nonviolent options (stealth, diplomacy, etc) Give us a chance to use skills besides "how hard can I hit it with a sword?"

My go-to weapons in the Des Ex games have always been the taser and tear gas

No, which I think is a shame, really. But, according to the developers dragons have dog-like intelligence, and you can absolutely converse with dogs and other similarly intelligent animals through simple gestures if you know the typical body languages of those species. 

I think it would make sense to have a dragon tell the protagonist through gestures and body language about its stolen eggs and hinting about a reward if he or she returns. Also, its a fantasy game after all, there is tons of flexibility here, just make the dragon an especially intelligent specimen. 

Yeah I've never understood the decision to heavily brain-nerf the mythological creature the game is even named after. In pretty much all other fantasy games and shows dragons are intelligent and cunning and its always awesome. 

In line with the earlier wish for more peaceful means of solving conflicts and quests, I'd like to suggest something they sort of already did in DAI: "Constructive Magic". In select quests and encounters, it should be possible for a mage player or selected companion to do/fix/heal someone/something. Not as in a selected ability, but clickable in the same way the "raise bridge magically" option was there in select spots, only that there would be say... six(?) different things you could do, not just "raise bridge magically". For example, if you arrive at a peasant's hut whose cow got hurt by the cultists you're hunting, and he's too afraid of the cultists to trust you with information about the direction they went, you could click on a "use magical ability" to heal the cow.

It would be nice to see slightly more of the civilian aspect of the "magic exists to serve man" -doctrine, than just the "how can we use magic to kill and disperse our enemies and strengthen our fighting allies". Especially in a Tevinter where magic seems to be used more to control than to serve.

I know they're the devs, but I think they're wrong. Dogs don't gather gold or kick off Blights.

I don't know what issues could potentially stop them but I'd love if they took whatever they think the default moving speed should be and then make it like 30% faster. Please don't give me another post-Haven forced slow walk. If I want to walk, I'll choose to walk.
Maybe I'm just the least patient person in the world but when I start Origins the first 4 level ups are spent teaching Morrigan Haste.

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