Dragon Age: Inquisition’s next patch will be the biggest the game has seen thus far, and will also be the first to be beta tested by a small community on PC, BioWare has announced.
“At BioWare, we’re always looking for new ways to empower our players. Whether in person or online, we firmly believe in collecting feedback and working with our community to ensure we’re addressing issues important to both new and experienced players,” explained BioWare’s Conal Pierse.
The blog post adds: “For Dragon Age: Inquisition, we’ve developed a faster and more compressed patch schedule than any prior BioWare game. However, due to the nature of the certification process, it can often still take weeks after developing a fix to release it on different platforms. Because of this, we continue to explore new ways to foster better communication between our players and developers.”
This has led to the introduction of the Patch 5 beta program, which will see a select group of PC players testing the latest game update in a closed, developer-like environment.
BioWare says this “not only allows us to more quickly identify and respond to future issues, but gives our developers a great, new way to work directly with our players”.
The big additions with Patch 5 are:
Access to the Black Emporium: A mysterious underground shop run by an immortal proprietor. There, Inquisitors can find powerful artifacts and tools to aid their cause, purchase epic weapons, powerful accessories, new crafting materials and schematics, and even change their voice and facial appearance using the Mirror of Transformation.
In Skyhold, added party storage to the Undercroft: A new feature that many players asked for.
- Item tinter that lets players use crafting materials to change the colour of armour
- Auto-attack key for single player
- Option to adjust the size of subtitles
- Shader quality setting to the graphics options, giving players more versatility when running Inquisition.
There’s currently no word on when Patch 5 will release on console.
Source: BioWare Blog
