Sorry in advance for the Discord ping noises 🥲

I love how the community manager (?) said that she would try to get the Q&A saved. But Catie and Felassan beat her to it.😂

someone special to help you upgrade your gear!!!! So um enchantment

I’m glad that customizing gear is back! I spent an unreasonable amount of time making everyone look stylish.

Crafting...Mysterious Entity.... ENCHATMENT! I hope he's back

I'm amazed by how straight forward they've been. They didn't close comments on their trailers and continue to engage the community. Respect. Also, big fan of Matt Rhodes here! Holy shit! I'm glad he was there.

My working theory for Rook 'wanting to avoid blood magic' is that it'll basically be like using Reaper tech. One or all of the Evanuris will be able to reach into your mind if you use the power of blood. The power of lyrium is separate, the blood of the titans, and therefore disconnected from them. Perhaps the blight began from the Evanuris trying to taint lyrium to assert full control over all magic. Solas's respect for the dwarves would make a lot of sense if this was the case. He saved them and their heritage by sealing the Evanuris away. Perhaps that's why he's so confused by Varric not caring about losing his 'stone sense' at first. This is why Varric is the only one who can potentially talk Solas down other than the Inquisitor. He is proof that just because the world can be changed does not mean it needs to be. Sometimes life should just go on as is, because it works.

I cannot beleive that the bald elf lore was right there with the DA1 Keeper and Well of Sarrow elfs.

I am so glad to hear that they're avoiding fetch quests/grind-type quests. It took me forever to finish Inquisition because I kept having to take breaks from it to avoid burning out, and it led to my experience of the game's story feeling very disjointed. Really looking forward to seeing how this more curated and story-focused experience plays out!

It's a shame they only made 3 abilities per character...Even in Inquisition 8 abilities weren't enough. I can't imagine how to play as a mage with 3 abilities. What's the point of having a big skill tree if you can only use so little of it? I was hoping for a unique mage specialization like shapeshifter, plant mage, blood mage or something like that. But for now they've just said the same thing we saw in Inquisition.Mage knight, necromancer, elemental mage. And again, 3 abilities... That sounds damn boring.

I rlly rlly appreciate them doing this little Q&A it just feels very nice

EXCUSE ME Did they just confirm we‘re gonna see young Solas with hair??? 😂 And we can HUG the griffon??? Best game ever.

OMG Interruptible/resumable banter!??!! This makes me SO HAPPY!!!

I'm going to have to listen to this at least two more times, there was so much info there. Thank you for recording this for us.

Bless you for this! I missed the first part of the Q&A due to a work meeting. I tuned in right when I heard “you can hug the griffon”

What do they mean that the Fade decision from DAI "won't show up"? Like I get if it's not gonna be important - but if it doesnt even get *mentioned* that means that neither Varric nor any hypothetical DA2 cameo would mention Hawke's death? That would be heartbreaking. I know it's been like 10 years since Inquisition but Varric wouldnt just forget Hawke, would he? 😭

Thank you for doing this!!! You are awesome! I appreciate your channel so much!

Wait 3 ABILITIES?! WHAT?!

I want to know if Morrigan will make another appearance 😅

Had to leave halfway through so I didn't catch the second half. Thank you for uploading so fast! You're the best!

The reaction in chat to them saying no blood magic is very telling, two games in a row without it. Especially considering the setting we’re in it would’ve been a perfect opportunity. Even with the lore reasoning I mean we have yet to see the severity as to why Rook doesn’t like it.. It better be a damn good reason too 😭. I’m hoping we see a variation of it in the Necro tree considering how wack that spec was in Inquisition.. P.S I love the dragon age series one of my favs i’m still very excited about this game I just wanted to see how blood magic could’ve been done especially with how pretty the game looks too and i just wanted to have my elf blood mage shadow dragon fantasy😔 🙏

Thank you for this. I had to go to work so I missed the Q & A. Glad I can listen to some now and some later. Makes breaks something to look forward too

Thank you so much for posting this. I jumped in, but then had a meeting at work and couldn't watch!

Question that I believe didn't get answered: Will there be any dealing with the imperial chantry or the magisterium, we decided the fate of southern chantry by electing a new divine. I'd like to see what can happen? It's a magically dominant place, I'd love to see what's up.

Thank you Ghil for recording this. I joined late and was hoping someone would have recorded. Really appreciate it. 💜 The news of a name generator in game is so nice to hear. I always struggle coming up with a name that fits for my protagonists.

(Story spoilers referenced) “A mysterious entity that assists you with crafting” Solas’s disembodied voice: “it’s on your left, no, the OTHER left!”

Thanks you for uploading the Q&A

thanks for saving it! folks like you are a Maker-send, keeping us informed

Thanks so much for recording and uploading this, the q&a was on at like 3am for me.

This character creator has me more than excited along with the companions and their impact on the narrative and how we interact with them. One thing I am disappointed with is the lack of controlling companions and only 3 abilities?? That is seriously a letdown and will have an impact on combat variability.

Thank you so much Catie! I joined late and missed the beginning. So funny that the lady at the end said she would try to immortalise the questions and then you uploaded them instantly ❤😂 You go girl!

9:18 My first thought now is June, the god of craft. Are we getting the evanuris splitting up?

As someone who missed the Dev Q&A, thank you so much, Ghil. This had so much good information for the game. Thank you a million times for posting a video of the Q&A and thank you to anyone who asked questions!

Enchantment? Enchantment. Enchantment! Enchantment! Enchantment... Enchantment?

Thank you so much for capturing & sharing this! I was unble to tune in and managed to read summaries, but listening to the full Q&A is just waaaaay better :D

Thanks for recording this. I had technical issues and couldn't join 😭 Thanks to you, I can listen to this afterwards. ❤

Playing back through Dragon Age Origins has really shown me why I love this series so much. Yes at the end of every game we’re the hero; However, it’s about how far we’re willing to go to save the world that DA:O really stands out. You can be a true Paragon and champion of the people, or you can really do some evil ends justify the means type stuff. Blood magic is a big part of that, because why it’s seen as evil it’s just a tool like any other. It’s how you use it that counts. So I’m very personally bummed out that or mage Rook can’t make the choice to use it. Especially when we’re literally in the Blood Magic capital of Thedas! Hell, Hawk developed a hate for blood magic in DA: Inquisition even if your mage Hawk was a blood mage in DA2! Better yet Anders in Awakening talked bad about blood magic and you could literally tell him “But you’re a blood mage!” If you made him one. It was funny! My point is it should be our choice to use blood magic. It’s the end of the world after all. I’m sure there’s a lore/ narrative reason for it but I feel like that just takes our agency away from OUR Rook. Still looking forward to the game, can’t wait!

BUT WILL FENRIS BE THERE

Thanks for uploading this for us without discord 🥚🐺

Thank you so much for this! It caught me sleeping, literally. Although I'm starting to wonder if it's not a good time to go a biiiit dark on news and coverage. I feel like they're dropping so much facts and hints about the game that I would have preferred to discover blind... Overall, I'm not too bothered by spoilers, but I've waited 10 years for this and I'd like to keep as much as a surprise as possible. My bad either way, I should have known better LOL. Anyway, it's great to have this in youtube for posterity!

42:54 yes! Thank you! But how much a part of the story is the question???? I just hope we get to be involved with them and solas’ interactions! I want to make those choices!

While not a dealbreaker for me, the reasoning for 2 companions instead of 3 sounds like bullshit to me^^ I cannot imagine 1 more character to add so much visual clutter. Im just disappointed in that descision, but not enough to make a big deal out of it.

4:23 EXCUSE ME? You could take control of the companions and plan their actions in the previous games, did you even play them?

What a ton of wasted question space that have very clearly been answered already in marketing or you could've searched up in half a second online. There were only a small handful of good questions. But man, the small vocal few of the DA community are so bad. 😂💀🤡 "Is SoLaS STiLl BaLd?!?" - Uh, yes. "WiLl wE hAVe ProNouNs?" - Yes. "Is THiS GaME OnlY TakInG PlaCe In TeVintEr?!?" - Clearly No. "IS CoNe OF ColD StiLl in The GamE!?" - No. "CAn We ROmAnCe EVerYOne EvEn ThoUgh YoU guYs HaVe CLEARLY Said we can do so multiple times?" - Clearly Yes. "WhAt aRe THe TatOoS on The faCes oF thE ElVen ChaRacTers In thE tRailErs?!" - Vallaslin, did you ever even play the games? "Is ThE INqUisiTor In ThIs GaMe EvEn ThoUgH yOu gUyS AlREadY coNfIrmEd it?!" - Yes. "CAn YoU Be sOmEOne OtHer THaN a HuMAn ROOK?! (Asked three separate times)" - Yes 3x. Far better questions that should've been asked could've been these (or at least questions I have concerning the game and more importantly, the actual story): "So, ethnically diverse Dalish elves seem to be a new thing in this game. Specifically, Bellara and Davrin who are both ethnically diverse Dalish elves that we've never seen before in any previous DA lore and content. Will they be given proper new overarching worldbuilding lore where we can see where the Dalish branched off of from their usual genetic appearances?" "Now that Tevinter is finally fully realized and is being shown to us for the first time, will we be seeing how integral and different the Black Divine and the Tevinter Chantry is compared to the larger Southern Chantry that we are used to seeing? Or will it be just a minor part due to the focus on Ancient Elvhen lore?" "Will Veilguard implement any large/important story beats from Awakening and/or the Descent DLCs? A simple yes or no will suffice if it's too much into spoiler territory." "A follow up question to the last one is, can we expect to see more about the Titans and Dwarven lore considering the return to the deep roads, Wardens, and how tearing down the Veil is awakening them across Thedas? Again, you might not be able to answer this one due to spoilers but it's a very good question to some major story threads leftover from Inquisition." "Regarding the tarot story cards that will be available to build world-states, how thorough can we expect it to be regarding our past decisions? Will it more or less be similar to the number of choices we had stored in the Dragon Age Keep or is it more compact? I'd be disappointed if it only involved a handful of major choices." "Regarding the 6 major factions that are appearing in this game, will each of them play a fairly major role in this story or will we see them being more so side story content for each individual companion?" "Probably can't answer this one without spoiling the game's ending but it doesn't hurt to try and ask. You/BioWare haven't been marketing Veilguard as the conclusion to the current Dragon Age plotline like say what Halo 3 or ME3 had done for their overarching stories. But should we be expecting and therefore treating Veilguard as the finale to this specific storyline set in the DA universe?" "Regarding the curated missions and map exploration. Will we be able to have moments to simply wander, explore, and interact with the people and locations within the major cities like Minrathous, Antiva City, Weisshaupt, Diarsmuid, and Nevarra City? Or are the missions much more streamlined and linear in approaching open world exploration?" Etc. 💁🏻‍♀

This just looks, sounds and feels like it was meant to be a 5v5 online shooter game but somewhere along its production Bioware managed to convince EA to let them try to make an rpg, the thing they are most well known and adored for, and EA caved but then told them that afyer 8 years they had already lost too much time, effort and money to scrap everything and redo it from scratch. So, then they just adapted DA into this weird marvel-esque 5v5 online shooter game aimed at teenagers. Like a DA wrapping paper wrapped around a copy of fortnite that they decided to give to as a present. Now the feeling and tone is off the dialogue marvel levels of "funny" and "quirky" and the story has been (reportedly) scrapped and changed so many times this clearly lost track of its initial goal.

I was trying to record it, too, but couldn't manage it. Bless your soul.

I CAN NOT WAIT 😮 this is going to be such an amazing experience

Did they talk about the redesigned enemies? I'm curious if it was for lore reasons or if they were just feeling silly? Also I hope we can have bangs... I want a hime cut.

3 active skills is boring. Will get repetitive very quickly. Having 8 in the other games is a crazy number to drop from

Thanks for recording this for those that couldn't catch it live 🎉

THANK YOU SO MUCH for recording and uploading this Ghil! Aaaaaaaaaaaah

Appreciated this so much, I missed it.

Ty I missed this. I'd love if they did another before release.

Thanks for the upload Gil!

Thank you so much; had an appointment this morning and couldn’t watch live; so glad you recorded!

I’m sad that blood magic won’t return like inquisition I was hoping for the next game for it but I guess not :(

I was Disappointed that a load of stupid questions where picked to be asked instead of relevant ones. I mean we got some good information still but seriously asking them about noodles and about the dog from origins? Also asked the same question three times asking about what races to play when it's already been answered 🙄

Pretty basic combo system, you could shred enemies trying to pull enemies out of Static cage with Pull of the Abyss while also landing other combos. Inquisition was basically conducting an orchestra of damage and status effects, considering we have less abilities for use at any time, complexity is gone.

I’m sorry but how am I not immersed in the game when I had 3 companions for 3 games?

Absolute garbage answer to having only 2 companions. It’s clearly because they’ve dumbed down the gameplay to remove any tactical RPG aspects and make it like mass effect where you press D pad directions for them to attack rather than dragon age style. It works in a shooting game not a fantasy RPG. Having 3 companions is clearly better for “banter” as it creates 33% more variation in the conversation.

idk, i feel like a huge justification we’ll see in gameplay for one less companion is that for many main quests we may have a guide, characters we already know. we saw it at the end of inquisition gameplay and in trespasser, your team + a guide. varric is basically a party member in the gameplay demo even though your companions are obviously neve and lace.

Im not one who thinks post game patches being added is a good habit for developers (excluding bug fixes), and they should be good on arrival. But with what im hearing in regards to abilities/ combat actions. I hope to god we get a post game patch that adds more than what they have. Even if it was half the amount we got in origins, it would be great. Especially mages. I had always hoped for Da2/inquisition combat with origins spell trees.

There are only 3 abilities to use in combat....i just can't deal with that! I dont care if we can use companions abilties or do combos. Has a mage i only have 3 spells. I need help 😂

The reason for 2 companions is for more intimate immersion? Wut that seems like they're trying to justify it in some way over having a real reason. I think the real reason is combat encounters are smaller and an extra companion would make these battles end too quickly. The same could probably be said for the lower amount of abilities.

listening to them talk about combat and it feels very Mass Effect, especially when they talked about the synergy between abilities and companion combos. I'm super excited to see how that feels in game.

thanks for recording this!

but will dorian be showing up?????

58:18 the answer is yes. Yes we want you to make us cry… from amazing storytelling and emotional connection to the characters that is! (Not from anything else! Let me be clear!

I wish we heard more about the inquisitor. Will we get outfit options for a character we create but don’t have on our team? Still, I’m excited to hear/see more. I really want to see what a mage parry looks like.

I had already assumed that the keeps decisions were inflated to seem like your choices had a wider reach than they really do, but not using the keep seems like so much of prior decisions will just not matter anymore if the world state is part of the character creator, like most of dao or da2s decisions most likely wont matter any more.

Glad Caitie posted this. Guess I can delete twitter since you’re posting news here and don’t have to check there for stuff 👀

So i was playing Origins and the way Sten is positioned in the character wheel, was there ever a scrapped concept of Sten trying to murder the Morrigan in her sleep where in a segment you are called back into camp to intervene? Sten is positioned right behind Morrigan as a family killer... Just asking.

Thank you for posting it here 😁

I love how Matt sidestepped the Vallaslin specific question. Like, all us lore hounds, want to know which god Davrin and Bellara's markings mean...and he couldnt even give us that.

I was hopeful then the three abilitys dropped. Oof. This was made for consoles primarily and it shows.

I kinda irked that they just decided my rook has a good reason for not using blood magic, how about let me choose that lol

Some of the questions they asked were kinda lame. I don't care if noodles exist in thedas. Ask something relevant to the game not some wine aunt level question

Back to a check point if rook gets downed? That's awful.

These are the safest questions that have ever been asked in the industry. But thanks to the author for posting this and saving my time and money. I will continue to believe that we have only three games in the series and nothing more.

20:12 I wonder if detonations will work within classes or only across classes? In Inquisition, my favorite party was an all mage party. No detonations, but I still had fun.

I dont think any if you processed what they said regarding companions and abilities. The reasoning isnt just immersion or whatever. It's because the number of varied inputs is higher than ever and having to control 3 of them was apparently too difficult with the added inputs. Thats what the feedback was, anyway. Also, you can switch abilities at will in the middle of combat, and you have access to your companions' abilities more seamlessly to be able to perform combos. I dont think it sounds dumbed down at all. It's just different and yall are apparently terrified of change.

Gotta admit I am really disappointed at the 3 skill limit. Specially as a Mage player. Needing to pick only three spells doesn't sound interesting, it sounds boring and means more time spent at menus swapping skills or choosing a generic strong skill combination that works in every scenario and just spam that.

Did I miss it or did no one even ask if Dual Wield warriors were making a return?

I just found your channel with the upcoming Veilguard game and plan to go through everything dragon age, I think I might be in love.

A slow arrow sent me... (I am subscribed here but I saw their post before checking KZfaq :3) I missed most of the Q&A so I'm looking forward to hearing everything!

Hey so, Im coming back to dragon age after a really long time, is there a discord i should join ?

Thank you once again for all the work you do for the community!

Thank you! I was just scouring the a Discord trying to figure out how to watch this as I woke up late lmfao

Ok 4:10 when he starts talking about having more control than ever over the companions than the rest of the games if that is true they royally screwed up with what they decided to show case gameplay wise looking at the menu for abilities made it look like you have even less abilities to choose from that inquisition for both yourself and your companions. They need to show something much later in the game because the fan base seems divided and older fans like myself are extremely worried about this gameplay.

Thx for the upload. Unfortunately, this qna session killed the interest i still had in the game. The few questions that were about the gameplay were disappointing. Hope you all enjoy it, this direction just isnt for me.

One thing I'm dying to know: Are there any non-companion romance options? Like full fleshed out romances (specifying since basically every game has had room for non-romance flirting and/or one night stands)

Wow...That answered virtually nothing. These were all questions that were already answered in articles and still they were vague. Why do an Open Q&A at all?

Did they say something about the length of the game? Since they said they aren't gonna do any mounts I wondered if it be as big as Dragon age inquisition was.

I wanna fire the magic from my hands or materialize it on target not from the sky dammit. Meteor instead of fireball, the three active abilities at a time, the lame snowflake effect on Neve's magic that is hopefully improved/gone by release and of course the lack of blood magic once again in fucking Tevinter might be the biggest letdowns so far. I was hoping Rook can be more of a grey area character or straight up "evil" but again no blood magic......

Im actually a writer so i was playing Origins this weekend watching Allistair see if he makes any hints to him being the son of royalty in Lothering.

Catie, what do you make of the answer about photo mode? They made it seem like it might not happen?

I’m still sad the keep isn’t being utilized. But hopefully what they incorporate in the creator is expansive.

A mage with only 3 ability slots makes perfect sense and is safer. Otherwise his head would explode.

Okay, but is it a femme or masc skeleton?

Oh no, I hope Sandal is not returning, or at least that I don't have to interact with him every time I want to upgrade stuff