Leaks about game direction and pre-alpha (combat and design spoilers)

What the playtest entailed: “Certain part of the game. I played specific missions, story missions, so I wouldn’t know anything about the sidequest fluff.” “I played in the middle because that’s how most controlled tests for games work. You almost never just hit “new game” and start from the beginning.”

Protagonist: “Rook is the name of the protagonist. Like “Inquisitor” was in DA:I.” Someone speculated that Rook would be a fridged prologue companion like Jenkins Masseffect (F) and they replied “As someone who has played the game, don’t try your hand at the lottery for a while lol.”

Party Members: “I’ve played it. You can’t directly control party members. A more apt comparison (and it’s extremely weird that they didn’t reference this [referring to the first Insider Gaming report] considering it’s another bioware franchise) is Mass Effect. It’s exactly like ME’s wheel where you hold RB or whatever it was, and choose what ability they use.” “They can always change it, but I’ve played it and unfortunately, I can confirm. I personally don’t care as I never switch to companions in games where you can anyway, but it’s exactly like ME in that aspect.”

”Dreadwolf has a lot of similarities with previous games in the franchise;“ AND ”You can recruit members to your team"; The article basically just describes a Dragon Age game. ***POSSIBLE SPOILER*** “It’s understood that you’ll be able to move from your hub to missions by passing through a mirrored portal.”

Portals & Open World: [re: mirrored portrals and an open world]: “I can’t confirm the existence of one, I could’ve just never experienced it from my time with the game, but I myself never played anything that could be considered open world. Funny enough, I never thought about that until your question just now. But it would make sense from what I played.”

Q: “Does it feel like a medieval fantasy game still? It looks so sci fi to me, like the eluvians are shitty Rick and morty style portal guns all of the sudden. Does the neon purple take away from that feeling at all?”

A: “It didn’t feel sci-fi to me but it sounds like you’re referring to a deeper level than just baseline aesthetics, and for that I think it’d be subjective. If you’re not though, no it still felt distinctly fantasy. Some parts more medieval than others.” Someone also asked about warriors breaking stuff in the world, mages restoring terrain and rogues picking locks and they replied “Let’s just say…the game doesn’t play in a way that requires those anymore.”

World Size: From what I played, it seems more instanced than open world like DA:I, so I can’t really compare it in size, and obviously the previous 2 games have been outclassed in terms of technology.

Graphical Details: Graphics are for sure upgraded. The flora in particular I would say wouldn’t have been able to be created before the PS5 gen. It’s that good. Environments, clothing, faces were up there as well (clothing and faces could’ve been better with your character, but everyone else’s were next gen).

Q: "weird request. not even sure if you can answer this. can you attribute a single emoji to every companion you saw? like an out of context spoiler kind of thing"

Q: "Hmmm I can try…

I am rather perplexed as to the negativity of the term rook as a name. Its perfect. It suggests a code name. Hence it can be used regardless of race, class, or gender. And its cool.

I wish I played a mean game of chess. Played 48 blitz games today and lost 22 of them ... Also I don't know why I spoilered this but whatever. Spoiler  tag party woooooo

Well, there has been a lot of speculation about a double blight so maybe that will actually happen.