Summary
BioWareknowsthat you don’t change your companions in theDragon Agegames. Once you’ve clicked with your party, you’re with them to the bitter end. It’s a pretty common problem with RPGs, we even saw as much inBaldur’s Gate 3, butThe Veilguardaims to break that habit by making you play with companions you might otherwise ignore.
According toEdge Magazine, BioWare data shows that most people stick with two or three companions per playthrough. It’s not often that players swap characters in and out, so The Veilguard will force you to change your party at regular intervals.
Unlike past games,you may only have two companions in your party at a time.
“We do expect that players will have favourites they typically want to adventure with,” game director Corinne Busche said. “But sometimes certain companions will be mandatory.”
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Companions Will Quest Without You
Another big reason to get more involved with your companions is that if you don’t, they’ll progress their individual stories without you. Busche explained that they all have lives outside of Rook, meaning that they won’t just hang around at camp doing nothing when they’re not in your party.
You’ll bump into them in the world where they’re found following throughtheir own questlines, so if you want to see their adventures from start to finish, you’ll have to actually play with them.
“If I go an interact with [Neve], I can stop what I’m doing, pick up her arc and adventure with her throughout her part of the story,” Busche said. “What’s interesting i that all of the companion arcs do ultimately tie back to the themes of the main critical path, but they also have their own unique challenges and villains, and take place over the course of many different intimate moments.”
So, get ready to hang out witheverybodythis time around, because if you leave someone behind for too long, they’ll just plough on by themselves.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.
