Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

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I am really beginning to think I misjudged Anthem. *sigh* oh well it is kind of bios fault for making it online only MP only.

In regards to the rest. Its kind of funny how eighteen months just keeps popping up. Again I make no negative assumptions here. I've enjoyed every Bio game I've ever finished so I don't expect that to change. Even some of their most 'rushed' games have been some of my favorites of their respective genres and some of my favorite games of this generation stacking up well against more polished games with longer development cycles.

To paraphrase Doctor Who the time does not matter it's what they do with it. The game could release next year and be crap...or it could be another bioware masterpiece. Conversely it could release in 2025 AND STILL BE CRAP.

So it's pretty much as Mike Gamble already said then. The game got a reboot (in terms of content delivery structure), as they needed to add live-service elements to the game; as was mandated by EA (from Schreiers article).

Yeah, I tried to get into the secret Escher house in Trespasser too, but my game crashes as soon as I get in there. 

One of the things they said they'd have in DAI when it was still in production was weather/environmental effects... I guess we did get some that were map-based - the blizzard after Haven is destroyed slowed us down and dealt damage to us; the poisonous gases in the Western Approach dealt damage to us, and the sandstorms that pick up at the edge of desert maps kept us from travelling out-of-bounds. All were some rudimentary weather/environmental effects. But it would be really neat if we could have seasonal changes/daily weather changes/day & night changes on the same map, I agree. 

That looks cool af.

Wonder why it was cut from the game?

Or maybe it was just a testing area?

I've asked BW devs several times over the years, but never gotten a real answer.

First up, yes - all the Eluvian mirrors are active. In the video, I either enter or exit each of the mirrors in the chateau. With the gravity change I know it can sometimes be hard to tell.

For example, at 5:03 I enter one Eluvian, then exit the mirror hanging upside-down over the fireplace where I first entered the chateau (which you can also see in the video screenshot).

And second, yes - I've walked along the all the walls and ceiling the chateau. I've hopped through those arches you mentioned - it's all accessible (though some you do need the flight mod to get over). 

Spring 2021 #hopes

and I think it was cut for a lore reason. Gravity defying magic sounds a lot like flying, and I thought they had a strict "no flying with magic" rule.

I thought they were just bending the rules. When there is wind magic and force magic, I saw Cory's flying as more of a guided fall than actual flying. We also have people turning into dragons to fly, did they not actually give the cows wings? Been awhile since I read Last Flight, but there was no spell for flying, they had to experiment. I thought they did some sort of gentle force or wind magic to make it work

ya know what, wait. The rule was no teleportation magic, not no flying magic. Never mind me then. 

Even that they broke since by the definition of the term the Eluvians are teleporters.

Levitating oneself or some specific pieces is a different thing than having such a profound effect on gravity/reality that everyone can walk on walls and ceilings tho - and especially to such extent.

And this "secondary magic" isn't as intense or existent in places places outside of Fade, Crossroads or place of intense magical anomalies (like close to the Breach). The eluvians themselves so far don't seem to have any "secondary magic" effect the like Crossroads do - not even in profoundly magical and ancient places, like Fen'Harel's sanctuary, or anywhere that was full of eluvians but not in Crossroads/Crossroads-like/Fade places there have been any notable changes to gravity.

Naturally, what magic can and can't do is now in a flux in world of Thedas, but I just think there would be too many questions about WTH that place was in an already information-packed DLC. Plus, IMO the Chateau isn't really... designed like a level even to an amateur eyes like mine. For me it does seem like a testing area - there must've been a lot of Orlesian interiors lying around from the main game before they've built places like Shattered Library, so they've used them to cobble together a small practice area to test eluvians or how to link them.