PCG Article Purported Dragon Age: Dreadwolf leak shows actionized combat

[Zed Clampet]

The screenshots and brief video supposedly originate with a playtest of the game.

So no more real time with pause, then. I love melee, but this kind of ruins it for me ,tbh. Apparently you issue squad tactics like in Ghost Recon games.

That is, if the leak is real, which it seems to be.

Meanwhile, the last Bioware employee, Mike Honcho, has left the company to pursue other interests (jk)

 

[mainer]

I don't know what to think anymore. I've never played the Ghost Recon games, but I don't like what I see there, even if it is an early beta playtest. I knew RTwP has been slowly fading away as a combat mechanic (which I find sad as I love it), but moving to a more "shooter like" combat system doesn't feel like the right move to me. And are they designing the controls for a controller with KB&M tacked on later?

The more I see and hear (which is little enough) about DA4, my enthusiasm drains away a little more each time. It's starting to feel like the dysfunctional development that ME Andromeda had (though in fairness to MEA, it was a fun game to play, but felt more like a spinoff game compared to the originals).

And another employee leaves the company. I don't think we'd see this type of exodus if EA/Bioware wasn't experiencing some level of chaos. I'll hold out on a slim layer of hope that DA4 will be a good RPG, but it definitely won't be a day one purchase for me like the other Dragon Age games.

 

[Zloth]

Yeah, the series is throwing all sorts of red flags around. I'm "cautiously pessimistic" about the title.

There's no chance I'll buy it on Day 1, naturally. I missed all sorts of content by buying and playing DA:O so early. I got Inquisition after all the DLC showed up, which worked out much better.