Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Dorian: 
Flying cows over Minrathous, hah! What madness!
All right, so that one’s actually true. But the cows didn’t have wings.

To me, the chateau feels like the other self-contained places across Thedas we travel through via the Eluvians. My guess is one probably altered by a mage in some crazy experiment. If we were in the Fade, I'd expect they would have made that clear. 

I think it may have gotten cut because they wanted to populate it with enemies to fight. And maybe they just couldn't get that to work properly with enemies on the walls and ceiling.

Aaryn Flynn aarynflynn
For someone who's seen their fair share of Dragon Age: Inquisition gameplay, this ~30 minute speedrun is INSANE -

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
Step one: get out of the Hinterlands!

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Last thing I remember, I was running quite a lot.
I had to find a passage back, like to Haven or the plot.
Relax, said Scout Harding, we are programmed to receive... 🎶

Some speedruns are fun to see if they do the full game, but doing it by breaking the game with things like glitches doesn't appeal to me. 

Oh man, my absolute favorite speedruns are the glitchy ones!

I spend so much time fixing weird edge cases in my day job, I love watching someone use bugs to do something fun and silly.

Because I’m not in videogames, these kinds of bugs will never show up on my ticket queue. I get to sit back and enjoy the guilty pleasure of picturing how the actual devs would respond. Like aw shit, what are these goofy repro steps, I have to run at a 20 degree angle until I clip through the side of the portal on the opposite side of the wall... and slingshot into the sun? Who found this???

I swear 90% of externally-submitted bug reports have some repro step that’s essentially “I momentarily entered a fugue state.” Like, thanks for submitting the bug I guess, but how do I verify the fix if one of the steps is “randomly teleport to another dimension, then return to the application”?

When bugs are submitted by internal users, at least they (usually) understand that we need some semi-concrete way to reproduce the bug in order to fix it.

I recall seeing that tip a while back (perhaps on this site), and I used the Druffalo at that rift on my last playthrough (which I just finished last week).

If I had not seen that tip, I would have skipped that Druffalo fetch quest.

Relatedly, if you’re doing Trial of the Fool and don’t want to collect unnecessary XP, you can grab T2 leather by going to the bear campsite in the Hinterlands and following bears around in stealth (ideally using Shot From The Shadows, which grants permastealth and doesn’t require tagging an enemy like Skirmisher does). Eventually they’ll run into enough Carta rogues to kill them.

You also get a bunch of sellable stuff from the many, many corpses a bear leaves in its wake. Plus you get to feel like a true hunter, quietly tracking a bear for miles. It was so much fun I ended up pulling similar shenanigans, post-achievement, with Great Bears in the Emerald Graves.

One time I was going through the Temple of Dirthamen, I used Hook and Tackle on one of the Arcane Horrors and upon hitting it in the face, it launched my Inquisitor in the sky and she landed on the "roof" of the temple. I ran around for a while before trying to find a hole to fall back down through because I hadn't saved for a while and didn't want to restart the entire dungeon.  You can sort of see Blackwall and Solas spazzing down below, trying to find their way.

This reminds me of one of my favourite pts (which was also a result of Trial of the Fool). After rerolling I decided to use my rogue to full capabilites, stealthing thru almost everything. Gotta keep Carta reputation while working for Inquisition, right?

This exact same thing happened to me. I was very surprised, because in all of my playthroughs, I found DAI to be remarkable free of bugs on Xbox 1. I still think hook and tackle is one of the greatest things in the game, though.

While the update to DA tiles would be welcome (if unexpected at this time) all of the choices mentioned in the tweet were already there from the start. You can see them in this vid from 2015.