It’s hard to think of a series that’s more reactive thanDragon Age. While plenty of RPGs react to our decisions in a single game, Dragon Age stretched it over three, as we carried over almost every decision we made inDragon Age: OriginsandDragon Age 2intoDragon Age: Inquisition.
However, since there was a console generation between the second and third games,BioWarehad to get creative. Thus, the Dragon Age Keep was born. If you connect your account to the site, then it will automatically track your decisions across the series (or, failing that, you can input them all manually). Then, you export the world state to Inquisition, and voilà, the game will now react to all of the choices you’ve made previously, such as who sits on the Ferelden throne, and whether certain characters are even alive.
We’re not countingDragon Age: The Veilguard here, because the world state import is completely offline, butonly accounts for three decisions.
While this worked well at the time, I’m sure you can see the glaring issue with this - it depends on an online service staying… well… online.It’s already stopped working in the past without warning, which prevents players from starting a new Inquisition run in their world state until it’s fixed. And now,after mass layoffs at BioWareand the Dragon Age series seemingly being on ice, few expect EA to keep it online out of the goodness of its heart.
That’s where this project comes in. Dragon Age fans are working together to keep the Dragon Age Keep alive and make it available offline, all while staying connected to Inquisition.
EA Might Abandon The Dragon Age Keep One Day, But This Could Keep It Alive
It’s even chucking the Mass Effect Archives in there too
The project’s creator, Reddit user Daimon_Guardian, shared the progress they’ve made in the Dragon Age subreddit. They explain that, right now, the project is focused on making the Keep available offline so fans can print their completed tapestries off. But after this, they aim to make it compatible with the Dragon Age series, and eventually, able to export decisions over into Inquisition. It also appears to be expanding the tapestry, too, with artists also working on the project.
It might not be quite ready to replace the official Keep, but at the very least, we now know that someone is working on an easy-to-use fix. They say that it will be shared on Nexus Mods or GitHub when it’s done, so PC players will have this safeguard against EA pulling the plug (sorry, console fans).
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Dragon Age: Inquisition is the third in the popular action RPG series from BioWare, and serves as a sequel to the events of Dragon Age 2. You must travel the continent of Thedas in order to seal the ‘Breach’, a kind of portal that is sending demonic enemies into the world.
