DA4 LEAK

DA4/Dragon Age Retribution leak

[Information is a year old and some story points may be changed later on in development]

General details:

>game takes place primarily in Tevinter but we'll have missions in the Anderfells, Seheron, Antiva, Deep Roads, and the Fade, etc..
>60% of the game world is represented by the capital city of Minrathous which is 200 times bigger than Denerim in DAO
>Minrathous will be a open and living city with moving npcs that walk around, buy goods, do busy work,, think of how npc's acted within Novigrad in the Witcher 3
>the city will have large temples, statues, large buildings and towers, markets, docks, fountains, giant walls which you can explore and other cool areas like a coliseum and even an aqueduct which you can climb
>if you hadn't noticed yet Minrathous will be heavily based on imperial Rome and Constantinople and in lore is the largest city in thedas with nearly 1 million inhabitants
>the city is divided into 5 zones/districts with no loading screens to get into each one so it's all integral
>the districts include, the noble district which is in the upper/Northmost part of the city set on a hill which will have three different staircases that can get you in and out of the district
>within that district you have a smaller district encased in marble walls and only accessed by gate called the Imperial quarter which houses the Imperial Senate house, the Grand Library of Tevinter (lorewise its equivalent to the library of Alexandria and is nearly impossible to get into - there will be a quest dedicated just to that place), Archons Palace, the grand temple of Dumat and sentaorial mansions
>the lower half of the city includes includes the market district, the "plebeian/worker class district", the coliseum district which also includes an academy of magic, the library of minrathous, imperial army headquarters and finally the poor district

>the streets of Minrathous are all cobbeled, the outside walls are large guarded by just as large juggernaut statues which are massive black golems
>the city has three bridges that connect it to the outside world which you can also explore before being told to turn around
>the other 40% of the game world will be large maps and dungeons similar to the zones in DAI
>one specific zone will be a swamp marsh area where you'll get one companion and a tied story mission

PLAYER CHARACTER:

>Your character can only be human for story reasons, that means you won't be able to play as a elf, dwarf, qunari etc...
>can play as male or female
>there's a CC filter on being homosexual, heterosexual or bi and influence some dialogue line as well as romance options
>your character' last name is Lanius and will be referred to as such by all the NPCs and text
>DAR will be more story and character focused than DAI, you have a mother and father and a dead male/female thats interchangeable based on your sex ie if you're male you'll have a dead sister and vice versa
>your dead sibling is dead before game and will be involved in a form of a quest with your own mother
>vastly improved CC system, you can literally make a young Liam Neeson type character if you wish, it's that good and it's the best CC system ever made
>You'll have 7 companions, 4 males and 3 females
>of those 7, one will be a dwarf, another an elf, and there'll be a qunari companion
>if you take any of these characters on mission with you within Minrathous prepare to have racist encounters and with the Qunari a literal bloodbath
>the main female romance option of males is named Eva Scala and her father is senator Daedeulus Scala leader of Populares faction of the imperial senate
>your father is a minor noble of the equastarian rank and is leader of the knightly class of Tevinter, he is in constant conflict with the patricians/senators especially Scala
>the rest of the companions I'll mention in the story bits

GAMEPLAY:
>will be more like DA2 combat and will have a vastly improved tactics system similar to DAO
>loads of build variety
>blood magic returns and your story is affected if you use blood magic/become a blood Mage
>NPCS and companions will mention that a lot if you actually choose the blood Mage path
>the canon is to play a Mage but you can still play as a warrior or rogue
>the rogue is actually super fun to play as, you'll actually be a stealth assassin type figure if you spec into it
>warriors are just warriors, still cool
>items system is the exact same as DAI
>RNG is more forgivable in DAR than DAI however the higher difficulty the less luck with RNG
>can craft weapons and armour
>can tint, color and modify your armour
>weapons are less final fantasy looking
>five different difficulties, easy, normal, hard, very hard, nightmare
>no new game plus
>can customize companions
>you have a den in Minrathous similar to the assassin's den in assassin's Creed brotherhood
>you and Daedealus Scala lead this secret society known as the Old Order whose fundamental goal is to bring back the last two untainted old dragon gods to fight against a "greater evil"
>you recruit people similar to how you recruited individuals in DAI and send them on missions of assassinations, political intrigue, resource gathering etc...pretty much similar to DAI
>you get rewards for mission completion including exp, crafting resources, rare weapons and items, and Old Order points used to unlock perks in the Perk system
>The Old Order is integral to the story line but recruiting people and sending them off to missions is entirely optional
>attribute system returns and is pretty much nearly identical to DAO

STORY [subject to change since these points are year old]

Also I forgot the mention that DAR is planned to be unveiled at E3 2018 with Anthem and will have a release date for March 2019.

>game is set in 9:51 Dragon
>the Qunari have invaded Tevinter in six different invasion points
>they've already conquered the northern half of tevinter except for Minrathous which is guarded by its powerful walls on land and by the Imperial Navy at sea
>you're apart of a southern tevinter relief force
>game starts off with massive cinematic battle
>you pick your gender, do your CC, pick your class
>you're apart of a 4 man specialist commando force including yourself, Eva Scala which the commander, one warrior named Constantius, and a rouge named Justin (both of whom die at the end of the level)
>the first area of the game is the army camp area
>get assigned the mission by the general/commander Mage literally name Maximus Decimus (there's there's loads of name refererances to everything Rome and Roman including movies/TV shows) and dropped off immediately behind enemy lines

>your goal is too pretty much disable the Qunari warmachines (canons) and destroy their supply train
>there's numerous cutscenes of a large grayish wolf stalking you
>kill trash mobs of Qunari and Dalish elves in alliance with them
>final battle of the level is with a powerful Saraabas
>get confronted after the grayish wolf finally appears and transform to a giant 10 foot tall armoed figure
>pretty much destroys everything and sets giant balls of Fire on to the clashing armies


>after giant meteroic balls of fire killed off pretty much the entire army of the Tevinters and the Qunari the giant figure is revealed to be Solas but is called and calls himself Salos
>same voice actor as before
>ordains that you the PC character surviving the ordeal will be a messenger to the Archon to surrender the city to him, he also makes the same request to the surviving Qunari commander to do the same but for the Qunari returning back to their lands; he threatens all that hear him that Thedas belongs to him and he will return her to her glory days without humans/elves/Qunari/dwarves
>immediately vanishes
>constantius and Justin die as well as the Mage commander
>Eva Scala survives
>you and Eva set out to travel to Minrathous

Some story tidbits

[ there'll be a warden civil war that you'll have to resolve
>assassination attempt on the archon
>Salos burning and killing tevinter cities and both Qunari/Tevinter armies
>second final level will be Solas essentially trying to destroy Minrathous just after you beat off a Qunari siege
>final level is traveling to the forest of aralaathan to kill Salos/Solas
>ending choice is to kill, capture or save Solas ] all of this is subject to change and but the location continuity/events are set in stone. Siege of Minrathous > Forest of Arlaarthan > Epilogue.
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[ANON]: isnt that bald elven supremacist faggot suppose to be the antagonist of this game? I liked Dragon Age when it was about Templars vs Mages but this elven bullshit... not so much.
[OP]: Yes he is hence the Retribution part of the title.
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[ANON]: Any news from DA:I, DA2, Comic and Book characters?
[OP]:
>Solas is the main villain in game
>Dorian cameo
>Inquisition and Grey Warden both mentioned
>Hawke/Stroud are in the Anderfell level

That's about it. There might be some codex stuff on the others but that's it.
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[ANON]:
>Inquisition and Grey Warden both mentioned
Nice try OP but you blew it here, Inquisition gets dismantled at the end of Trespasser.
[OP]: Guess again;)
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[ANON]:
Not to hijack your thread OP but I figure as long as it's time for BioWare leaks, BW is in talks with Disney to regain the license for and make a new Knights of the Old Republic. It's the primary reason Casey Hudson returned to the company and Disney is receptive, but the primary concern is what it will entail and whether it will be released under the Legends sub-brand or as canon. The game is still in early planning stages but it appears to be receiving a tentative go-ahead. EA was very against it but apparently has failed to uphold a portion contract with Disney by failing to produce more Star Wars games than Battlefront rehashes, which lost them clout in the negotiation.

[OP]: Old news, Hudson was brought back because Flynn did a shitty job as GM. People like to autistically screech at Hudson but people forget that he's a competent studio head unlike Flynn that got sacked.
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[OP]:
>is this the final Dragon Age
No, if all goes well then we'll have three more games after DAR

>what about the Inquistor
He's been relegated to reference role and won't appear in game.
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[ANON]: [on DAI] Already did. Put 20 hours in,got bored because of time gates, and slow pacing
[OP]: Lucky for you DAR doesn't have time gates and and it's faster pace since there won't be much fetch quests around;)
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[OP]: DAR target release is March 2019 so it's still a while away and they'll probably push it back to November if problems arise.
[OP]: Don't worry about it, since Flynn left there's been a massive shake up in company culture and work attitude with Hudson. All for the good trust me.