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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Fixes Inquisition's Problem With Party Banter

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rhiannon Bevan

Published Sep 13, 2024

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is getting one of the most sought-after quality-of-life improvements - companion banters that pause if interrupted.
Now, if companions are interrupted, they'll start talking again when they're able to.
Previously, if a banter was interrupted, it was lost forever.

It's been ten years since we've had a new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age game, with the launch of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Inquisition in 2014. That's a lot of time for BioWare to collect feedback from fans, and it's now been confirmed that one of the biggest issues with Inquisiton has been addressed: companion banter.

In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: The Veilguard, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:our companions will pause their banters if they're interrupted by combat or a cutscene. They'll pick up where they left off afterwards, so we don't miss out on any interactions between them.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Companion Banter Has A Huge Quality Of Life Improvement

Three characters in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. On the left, there's a qunari woman. On the right, a human woman. In the middle, there's the player charatcer, a human.

This was just confirmed in 's preview of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, giving us a better idea of what we can expect from the long-awaited sequel. This quality of life feature has been sought after by fans for years, after many of us lost companion banters in Inquisition because we accidentally ran into some enemies, or an NPC tried to speak to us (looking at you, requisition officer).

Dragon Age: The Veilguard creative director John Epler touched on this change on , confirming that this was very much a conscious decision. "Resumable banter is one of my favourite little [quality-of-life] features the team got into DATV," says Epler. I saw it for the first time in State of Decay back in... 2013? and it's shown up in a bunch of places since. Otherwise you teach the player to stand PERFECTLY STILL the moment they hear banter."

Indeed, it's probably muscle memory for most of us by now. As soon as we hear our companions nattering away, it just feels right to stop moving and keep the camera on them - but that's likely only come about because we're so scared of interrupting them. Hopefully, this new system means we don't have to pause the action while we're in the thick of it.

In any case, we'll see for ourselves soon enough, when Dragon Age: The Veilguard launches on October 31.