According to a post by Scylla Costa, a producer on BioWare’s Dragon Age: Inquisition, upcoming patches for the award-winning RPG will fix a large number of issues across all available platforms, alongside adding new content and features to both the single-player and multiplayer components of the game.
Dragon Age: Inquisition has already received the obligatory day-one patch, however, the development team at BioWare has been hard at work on a second patch that aims to provide numerous improvements to gameplay and overall stability. The aforementioned patch is set to release tomorrow, December 9th.
Furthermore, Costa has revealed that new features and content will be added to the single-player and multiplayer aspects of Dragon Age: Inquisition over time.
Read more about what Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s future patches will bring to the game below:
Upcoming Patches and Features for Dragon Age: Inquisition
The following comes from BioWare’s official blog post regarding the content of Dragon Age: Inquisition‘s upcoming patches:
Priority 1 – Patches
We’re committed to providing long-term gameplay and stability improvements. We have already released a Day 1 Patch, and in December we will release our second patch. We expect the patch to roll out on PC, PS3, PS4, and Xbox 360 on December 9, 2014. We are working hard to get Patch 2 out on Xbox One as soon as possible.
Patch 2 is focused on stability, but does include numerous improvements and fixes across the board. Full patch notes will be available soon, but generally Patch 2 includes fixes to:
- Stability – Various crashes, freezes, audio/voice glitches, and many stability improvements.
- Gameplay – Conversations, quests, plot states, combat, UI, camera, controls, follower/enemy AI and path finding, exploits, radar, and search.
- Multiplayer – In addition to some of the gameplay improvements listed above, multiplayer fixes also cover areas such as animations, game mode bugs, stat reporting, and stability/crash fixes.
- PC – Numerous control & UI fixes, fixes to some hitching, improved Mantle performance, graphical glitches.
Beyond Patch 2 we’ll continue to release patches that focus on gameplay improvements. We’ve already lined up a number of improvements and fixes we’d like to include in Patch 3, and of course we’ll continue listening to you to make sure we’re addressing your concerns.
I wanted to call out a few specific topics as well, as they relate to patches:
- Keyboard & Mouse controls – Patch 2 includes the first range of fixes towards addressing the feedback we’ve received on the PC controls; it cleans things up so you’ll see fewer problems with the current layout. This gives us a more stable base upon which to work. After Patch 2 goes out, our next priority is to improve the PC mouse/keyboard controls further. We’re investigating how to expand on PC usability and functionality to address specific requests from the community.
- Some people have reported problems with party banter firing. We have also identified that in some edge scenarios, banter isn’t firing as often as we’d like, so we’ll be increasing the percentage chance of it happening. This increase will come after Patch 2.
As for the new features and content coming to Dragon Age: Inquisition in the future, Costa had the following to say on the matter:
Priority 2 – Features and content
As massive as Dragon Age: Inquisition already is, there were some things the team wanted to get in at launch, but we just ran out of time. We’ll be creating these new features and content and adding them into your game over time because we love our DAI players. Multiplayer will also be receiving regular content updates.
Judging by the wording in the quote above (saying that multiplayer will also be receiving regular content updates), it appears that BioWare will be adding new single-player content/features to the game that were not able to be put into the game before release due to lack of time.
As for what “new features and content” entails, nothing is known at the time. It could be new quests, armor and weapon sets, lands to explore, or even characters. Regardless, the guarantee of new Dragon Age: Inquisition content is something that is sure to please many avid gamers worldwide.
What are your thoughts on this news? Have you encountered any bugs or glitches that have hindered your enjoyment of Dragon Age: Inquisition? Anything game-breaking?
Also, in regards to the “new features and content” to be gradually added to Dragon Age: Inquisition, what would you like to see? Would you rather it be more single-player or multiplayer-oriented?
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