Dashing throughout open plains atop a trusty steed is a standard theme and mechanic throughout many role-playing video games, and Dragon Age Inquisition isn’t any exception. However that feeling of the wind in your hair, of travelling the world at nice velocity? Properly, you’ve got been lied to.
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The truth that a part of the velocity of horseback using in Dragon Age Inquisition is in reality an elaborate phantasm was revealed by one of many sport’s builders in a twitter thread about revealing ‘ineffective’ Dragon Age sequence details.
“Once you ‘dash’ on a horse in Dragon Age Inquisition it does not actually do a lot,” BioWare veteran John Epler tweeted. “Frostbite could not stream in ranges quick sufficient, so we simply added velocity strains and adjusted the digital camera so it felt sooner.”
So there you have got it – using a horse is quicker than strolling, however each time you press that dash button in your horse, it does not truly do something. It simply methods you into pondering you are transferring extra shortly.
BioWare’s struggles with the Frostbite sport engine, which was constructed by fellow EA studio DICE for the Battlefield sequence, have been effectively documented through the years. Designed for a shooter, it lacked a lot performance that’d be most helpful for constructing role-playing video games – having a heavy affect on the event of each Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Impact Andromeda.
The subsequent Dragon Age sport, Dreadwolf, may also be on Frostbite. Epler, who revealed this tidbit, is that sport’s Artistic Director, and so wrestling with the engine once more – albeit with many extra instruments and extra expertise. The subsequent Mass Impact is probably going switching over to Unreal Engine, primarily based on BioWare’s job postings. We’ll see extra of a type of video games – if not each – later this yr.
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