Gamers,
It seems bioware is finally ready to share information on their latest additions and changes
to the latest installment in their dragon age franchise as well as throw more questions into
the mix about the upcoming unnamed DLC that apparently had it's information leaked earlier this
month.
- First of all; Patch 8 is out, and it's a whopper! Released on the 6th of July this patch clocks
in at exactly 2.5gb of information to enhance your dragon age experience, and this patch contains two very distinct pieces of information. Firstly; there are two new hotfixes for PS4 only one is a stability
patch relating to the 'flames of the inquisition' weapons pack and the second will finally allow PS4 players to join a multiplayer game through their friends list.The second hotfix being more significant here as this patch in particular is all about the multiplayer, fixing more issues and introducing more features than ever before to enhance the online play experience. Highlights of these features include a proving ground to test your character before going online, new higher level weapons and even a new "Nightmare" difficulty to challenge players even more (Think of when Platinum difficulty was added to ME3 online.).
- Second of all this patch adds a save importer to the main menu of the Xbox and Playstation versions of the game. This is not as I mistakenly believed a way to replace the need for the dragon age keep system for your decisions in the previous two games. Instead this is a feature that allows you to migrate your save data (both single and multiplayer)from one version of the game to another, specifically from older generation consoles to the newer generation. There are a few caveats to this however as it only allows for the transfer of one save at a time much like the borderlands save importer, and it will only work within console families, meaning an xbox 360 save can only migrate to an Xbox one and likewise a Ps3 Save can only transfer to PS4, with neither being made compatible with the PC version of the game.
A complete list of the patch notes can be found here:
http://blog.bioware.com/2015/07/07/dragon-age-inquisition-patch-8-notes/
A guide for using the save importer correctly was also made by bioware:
http://www.dragonage.com/en_US/news/save-importer?utm_campaign=da-social-na-ic-fb-social-na-ic-fb-save-importer-prev-site-sust&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&sourceid=da-social-na-ic-fb-social-na-ic-fb-save-importer-prev-site-sust&cid=40456&ts=1436213442580&sf39119004=1
This save importer feature is especially important as bioware has announced that no more future DLC will be made available to the previous generations of consoles, instead focusing efforts on the Xbox One, Playstation 4 and PC versions of the title.
And just to cap it all off? Bioware are adding a new decoration option to the skyhold base customisation list; A pack based entirely around a dragon theme (matching the deluxe edition Dragon maw throne nicely), it appears this addition will be free to all dragon age inquisition players and will become available to your inquisitor has defeated their first high dragon in-game.
So there we go, a massive amount of information from the nuggalopes mouth there, a lot of exciting stuff seems to be happening and it's clear Bioware aren't quite done with the inquisition as of yet. What do you think of the news? Is this the patch you've been dying to get or is it largely irrelevant? Is this move away from the 360 and PS3 versions of the title shameless grasping for money asking for you to buy a new version of the game or is it a statement of the quality Bioware wish to achieve with further content without having to be concerned with console parity? Let us know your thought's below, be sure to share all this info with your friends and until next time...
Gamers,
Let's Play!
