Dragon Age News Thread

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
I didn't even know that Slack HAD a thumbs-down reaction, but today, @sherylchee let me know in the most hurtful way possible.



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Cassandra by blaquewidowe bit.ly/2B01kLA
Leliana by themalicemaus bit.ly/2C730BZ
📷 by thewillbox bit.ly/2B08Nde

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Corpses in DA4.......confirmed?

Very artfully put, though admittedly (since I don't develop games) I don't fully understand what they're talking about here. I wonder if they mean writing a branching story... or if it's a more technical problem that's common to the process. 

Yeah, the corpse pit metaphor suggests something old and unpleasant left behind in the foundations.

Pat‏ @miracl3work3r
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Impressive, but I'd still like to see some Dundie's. 

Aww, was really, really, really, really hoping an extremely blurry image on that tv there for DA4 stuff.

Absolutely. And this applies to all legacy code, not just game code. It's not unusual to go into something like the "handle keyboard key" function, and find 20 lines of useful code with another 500 lines of obsolete stuff, most of which applied to features that had already been removed, maybe 15 years ago.

Something that a lot of people don't realize is that code is hand-crafted with manual labor. With all the flaws and quirks you'd imagine from any hand crafts, like woodworking. Nobody has time to go back and rework that old thatching or barrel hooping. And what's worse, if you do try to go in and remove the dead wood, the roof is likely to cave in and all the barrels, even ones you shipped 10 years ago, start springing leaks.

I don't recognize in front.

First Guess, Sebastion.
Second guess, Krem.
Third guess--- oh crap. *realizes it's Alistair*

Sorry, Artist, that face is too slender for an obvious Alistair..

Very true. I prefer DAO Alistair. That's where he won my heart, so of course, I find him most handsome there.

As young as Alistair was (or other characters around that age), a lot of that 'baby fat' is just previous engine's inability to render finer details^^;