Err, the MC isn't necessarily part of the chantry. Fuck, that'd be awkward as an Elf or Qunari.

The Inquisition is completely separate from the Chantry.

 

Ah. Thought they were for some reason

 

The Inquisitors are basically the Internal Affairs division of the Chantry, except they're more another branch that answers to the Divine than another Chantry chapter.

 

Ehhh, not really. The Inquisition actually predates the Chantry and was formed to simply fight of the Tyranny of Blood and the Old Gods. When the Chantry was founded, they saw common ground with eachother and the Inquisition became the military branch of the Chantry, The Templars and Seekers of Truth.

The Modern Inquisition was a backup plan from the Divine, but has been denounced. All ties to the Chantry have been severed.

 

Found this PS4 gameplay footage. They show some cool stuff.

First video mainly shows character creation, actual gameplay starts at 19:30.

Part 1

Part 2

PC footage, from the same channel:

Gameplay starts at 5:50. Also, first video confirms that Inquisition is independent, it was renounced by the Chantry. Second video features Knight Enchanter.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

 

Avoiding spoilers, but how does it look graphically on ps4? Heard it's at 1080, but the textures are, well, not so great.

 

Well, it's kind of hard to tell from a YT video, but it's nothing to sneeze at from what I can tell.

 

I have a decent PC only a few years old and it doesn't meet the min reqs. Mainly my GPU, but it's more intensive than battlefield 4. I'm playing on PS4 so I'm not worried.

Everything I've seen...top tier last generation graphics. Mid tier current gen.

Edit: Watched the KE video.....

Jedi Gandalf. Definitely Jedi Gandalf.

Upgrade to bounce back ranged attacks at enemies? Heck yes.

 

So KE works with force magic? How much of it offensively?

 

Staff in one hand, fantasy lightsaber in the other, lunge forward, swing.

Personally, I'm more interested in the Rift Mage.

 

Dunno, if KE are essentially Yoda... Lol

 

A few days late, so you may already know (they mentioned it in a Twitch strem last Friday IIRC), DA Keep open beta launches on the 29th.

 

You're not missing much. Can't even sync your characters, right now. I spent maybe 2 hours on there and haven't looked at it much since. The options are fairly comprehensive, but there's still a few things to be desired.

Can't really be specific, but you'll probably end up using once or twice to set up your imported saves and then forget about it.

 

Only if you have Origin?

 

So...more on story topics...but what kind of Inquisitor is everyone looking to make?

I'm torn between Human and Elf mage at the moment (Rift or Knight Enchanter). If elf, more focused on helping the Dalish reclaim their homeland, but I would not make it a main focus of the entire Inquisition.

If human mage, definitely of the libertarian style. Would love to turn the Inquisition into more of a Mage Order in addition to the whole rift thing.

Was torn on the romance options, but this fanart helped with that...

NSFW SEXY CASSANDRA

Anyways, thoughts for your Inquisitors?

 

I seriously want to see talent trees pre launch so I can get some idea how they all play.

One of the mages most likely, unless Archers are good in this game. I saw a rogue video and they look crazy lame compared to mage animations.

Human male, as always. Cassandra because I have a thing for short hair...

I'm getting deja vu, lol

 

Only time I played an archer was when I played DA2 on the PC out of boredom and used a console command to snatch the DLC companion's Archery Tret that was specific t him. It increased his Crit or Crit DMG or something and actually made Archery fucking awesome

Could one-shot grunts, had near or maybe over 100% crit and the DMG was insane good to begin with.

 

I thought archery in DA2 was fucking boring. Just stand in one place and zing the arrows all over the place. If you had Stealth or Decoy, you didn't even need to move around, really, unless there was an AoE happening, or enemy moved out of sight. DW was boss though. And 100% crit chance is mandatory for DA2 rogue, considering how easy it was to get there.

I won't be getting the game at launch - my hardware won't haul it. I'll probably never touch the MP because I expect it'll be gone by the time I get to the play the game, but I'll buy an Ultimate Edition or something once it appears in a year o two (because, let's face it, there will be DLCs). So, I am planning to play DAI at some point.

I replayed DAO and DA2 last summer and created a save that I'll try to recreate in the Keep. My first Inquisitor will be a female qunari rogue.

@Invictus: yes, you need Origin to use the Keep. I don't see the problem though. I don't mind Origin, actually. It's quite user-friendly, I think.

 

For me I'd say I'm going to keep the tradition of trying Elf out first, then after that Qunari. All mages, I'm really looking forward to finding out people reactions to a mage Qunari. It's like...extra heretical.

I don't know about the specialization yet, the only ones with good information on them are Rift Mage and Knight Enchanter; I'm curious about Necromancer and how that works.

 

Any chance you learned how to mod DAO?