Swap weapon sets icon removed in Dragon Age: Inquisition?

I recently bought the new Dragon Age: Inquisition for the PS4. I have played Dragon age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 on the XBOX 360.

Usually I prefer to play Rogue, so in close combat i'd like to use the daggers and I use the bow for shooting at targets from longer distances.

In the first and second game you could easily swap weapon sets with an icon. In the new game I can't seem to find it and looking on some forums I saw more people with this problem. For the Rogue players it's very inconvenient that this icon has been removed in the new game. I'm restarting the game to play a Mage so I won't have this problem, but I was wondering if this is a known problem and whether this is going to be fixed in an update in the nearby future or not.

Greetings,

Wouter

dragon age inquisition

ragnarok013
11 years ago
@nextgen4 wrote:

Well that may be the case but it seems rather odd and I really don't see the good thing about removing a feature like that.

Any way, I was hoping someone from EA who is involved in Dragon Age: Inquisition could answer my question whether this is a case where it's not added YET but will be in the feature via an update or that it's a designer choice that the feature was removed.

I agree that it isn't a welcome change, regarding someone from Bioware responding the EA Answer HQ is a community run technical self help forum (ie gamers helping gamers). The only EA employees here are the handful of EA Community managers who administer the forum and keep it running smoothly. The rest of the people are gamers who volunteer their time and knowledge to help their fellow players.

If you want to bring the issue to Bioware's attention the best place is the Bioware Social Network forums http://social.bioware.com/ or Tweet directly to Dragon Age on Twitter.

8 Replies

thehalfnhalf
11 years ago
I don't think that this feature was included in the game. A shame really, I liked the versatility of switching from melee to ranged.
Anonymous
11 years ago
This is not a 'problem' but a design choice. They're kind of making you choose to be either a dagger-rogue or an archer instead of both. Whether it's a good thing, ... I don't really like it either.
ragnarok013
Hero+
11 years ago
@anticlimax wrote:

This is not a 'problem' but a design choice. They're kind of making you choose to be either a dagger-rogue or an archer instead of both. Whether it's a good thing, ... I don't really like it either.

This is exactly what happened just like when Bioware removed healing spells from mages. The community may not like the changes but that is how the game was designed.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Well that may be the case but it seems rather odd and I really don't see the good thing about removing a feature like that.
Any way, I was hoping someone from EA who is involved in Dragon Age: Inquisition could answer my question whether this is a case where it's not added YET but will be in the feature via an update or that it's a designer choice that the feature was removed.
ragnarok013
Hero+
11 years ago
@nextgen4 wrote:

Well that may be the case but it seems rather odd and I really don't see the good thing about removing a feature like that.

Any way, I was hoping someone from EA who is involved in Dragon Age: Inquisition could answer my question whether this is a case where it's not added YET but will be in the feature via an update or that it's a designer choice that the feature was removed.

I agree that it isn't a welcome change, regarding someone from Bioware responding the EA Answer HQ is a community run technical self help forum (ie gamers helping gamers). The only EA employees here are the handful of EA Community managers who administer the forum and keep it running smoothly. The rest of the people are gamers who volunteer their time and knowledge to help their fellow players.

If you want to bring the issue to Bioware's attention the best place is the Bioware Social Network forums http://social.bioware.com/ or Tweet directly to Dragon Age on Twitter.
xrayspex73
11 years ago
Technically they removed weapon swapping in Dragon Age II. There were of course mods that added it back, but I am positive it did not have it by default.
Anonymous
11 years ago
What makes it even worse is, you can't access the inventory screen during combat in order to switch weapons, forcing you to fight with the equipped weapon the entire battle.
Anonymous
11 years ago
It would seem once again corpaorations can't leave are individual liberties alone, not even in our game. So far every thing about this game seems gelded compared to the 2 previous. I am only into it about 6 hours though. I hope the dissapointment doesn't continue, I liked the raw grit of the last two.