Dragon Age The Veilguard Wishlist (Official Thread)

- coloured fire after your magic/fire damage stat (whichever is actually present) reaches a certain threshold
- live elements that are as unobtrusive as possible
- live elements that didn't substantially effect choices relating to design
- an ability bar substantially larger than MEAs, thanks for watching out for my cognitive load and all but I think I can handle more than three abilities at a time.
- a Minrathous that does Tevinter justice.
- blood magic that feels morally compromising.
- an Eyes Wide Shut murder blood orgy
- Solas to retain his nuance and complexity and not become Cory 2.0
- a pet cat
- an epic defense of Minrathous as the qunari invade.
- a smaller, denser cast. Six would be fine tbh.
- a Skyhold but smaller and more customizable.
- Finer details on the CC like bags and circles under the eyes, better looking scars, moles etc.
- Curly hair
- CC lighting that largely matches both the majority of the game AND the starting location.
- WEWH style quests.
- SIDE. QUESTS. On par with DA2 at least.
- for every fetch quest a kitten is hurled into a meatgrinder
- a war table mechanic with DAIs story component and MEAs level and trait/perk acquiring squads
- Tevinter to live up to their reputation for extraness.
- Better boats. Very better boats. They're distractingly bad.

Just to make sure I'm clear on this:

When I hit max Fire Magic proficiency (whatever form that takes) the visual effect of the fire for my spells changes to show off how powerful of a caster I am?


This is something that I've heard come up a lot on several projects, but it usually gets scoped out eventually. Here's to hoping it manages to make the cut eventually

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As for anyone talking about side-quests/fetch quests, this has been an extremely prevalent level design topic over the last couple years on the project. Not my department so I couldn't speak to it much other than it's something the LDs are very passionate about.
 

I still have fond memories of Enserric the sword from HotU.

Hero of Undrentide: Do you have any advice for me?
Enserric: You're asking a sword for advice? Here's some advice: DON'T DO THAT.






This makes me happy.

Because science!

If we once again get placed into a conflict between two factions, I want the explicit option to remain neutral. I want to be able to stand back and watch them batter each other bloody and I want to be able to state that I don't care at all.

And if either faction as much as harms a hair on the head of any of my friends and allies, I want to be able to exact bloody justice while still not caring about the conflict.

The ending of DA2 could have been so much better with this.

-Tactical menu like we had in DAO and DA2
-The ability to make use of EVERY ability we learn, not just a few at a time (as seen in DAI and MEA)
-The ability to outfit our companions in armor/weapons (like in DAO and DAI)
-If crafting is in DA4, less reliance on the RNG for schematics
-More versatile magic, not just Fire/Ice/Lightning schools. Bring back the schools of Creation, Spirit, Entropy, and Primal! (for reference, I think DA2 had the best use of spell schools)
-Also, bring healing magic back
-Romances: more conversations ("lovetalks") and development, less graphic nudity. This is Dragon Age, not Game of Thrones

Every meeting I'm ever at I advocate against any hard random systems - basically any time you think: "dammit, now I need to reload because I got a poor outcome".

This was removed in DAI in order to facilitate a certain style of gameplay that eventually got changed anyway by the time we shipped. Unfortunate byproduct of deadlines and change in direction.

That said, I like Healing as a thing and I REALLY like when the Player doesn't require a healer to succeed (though it's okay if it helps).

Thank you!

I've chimed in on this before, but I like the idea of keeping healing out of abilities, and having it as a resource available equally (or as equally as possible) for all characters - like potions and other items. Heal on Kill items I quite liked in DAI.

I'm not a big fan of being dependent on a single class/companion for healing, or just being so OP having one around that it's a no-brainer. Ideally, I'd like to have as much freedom as possible when putting my 4 party teams together. I may want to run with 4 rogues, just because they're interesting characters and have great banter together.

Also, and this is just a personal beef, I find healing pretty much the most boring ability you can have. And with limited space on the ability bar, I'd like to reserve those precious slots for more interesting abilities. Which is... um, pretty much anything else. 

EXACTLY!!!!!

You would not believe how many trips to the Hissing Wastes I took hoping that dog-merchant had the armor schematic I wanted!



Oh, don't get me wrong. I was quite willing to give it a shot when DAI came out. I mean It worked to some extend in Mass Effect with medi-gel. But in DAI, it didn't. I think it made players even more reliant on Barrier, and thus mages were indispensable anyway.

Realistic combat animations. More armor options. Areas and environments feel more alive and more organic. Better cities. I want a city portrayed the way it is described in lore. In other words want more than a market place. I want npcs designed to look and act in a way that reflects their situation.

- playable origin stories
- tactics
- healing magic
- better tactical cam
- Force Mage spec and entropy tree
- multiple race options for protagonists
- probably too much to ask for, but a dialogue wheel that lets us know exactly what we're going to say would be nice
- a "hold position" command that actually works
- any command that actually works
- thiccer elves - DAI was an improvement over DA2, but the elves still look like they can be snapped in half by a child
- better proportions for dwarves and qunari, and elves
- no manboobs for male elves
- more "grounded" combat animations - fewer backflips from the spot and staff-twirling, put some "weight" into two-handed weapons
- more "grounded" weapon designs
- better looking armor for females - I get that they wanted to get away from the titty armor thing, but they went too far. There are a lot of ways to make it look both pretty and practical.
- switching between two weapons
- more ability slots
- accessing inventory in combat
- better hair
- consistent banter or banter trigger points
- probably also too much to ask, but stepping away from the whole "open world, huge maps" thing would be nice. Make maps smaller, but more concentrated.
- city elf origin
- non-noble human origin (not counting the mandatory mage origin)
- fewer fetch quests
- fewer, but more meaningful side quests
- cinematic conversations
- more morally grey choices, but less contrived
- fewer cameos from previous games - Thedas is a big place with more people than our party members/associated from previous games
- asking too much again but less connection with books, comics and what have you. I'm sick of being left out of some plot-relevant lore bits just because I don't have extra money to waste on Bioware.

I actually felt barrier and guard worked well.  Perhaps I'm in the minority here.  My only concern with that system was that rogues had no system that was "theirs".  I know they could get guard on hit from crafting or items, and that warrior abilities could grant guard to companions, but I felt as though that was not really any different from "just have more healing".

Would a class specific system work if it ONLY worked on that class?

As in; mages could cast barrier (but only on themselves), warriors would continue to generate guard, but could not pass guard on to companions and maybe rogues could have an 'evade' metre, which meant they actively dodge incoming damage until the metre was depleted.

Or would a system like that be too much work/no different from "just have more healing"?