While potentially incredibly annoying for your DA2 playthorough, BioWare resolved this problem for Inquisition:
They'll be implementing the "Dragon Age Keep" as the way to establish the world-state at game start.
Here's an article about it:
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: how you'll "transfer" your Origins and DA2 saves
New Dragon Age: Keep app allows players to shape world ahead of release
Posted on Wednesday 28-Aug-2013 8:28 AM PDT By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, Deputy Editor for OXM
BioWare has announced Dragon Age Keep, a web application that - wait, come back! It's not just the usual browser-based marketing gimmick. Keep allows you to preconfigure the world of Dragon Age: Inquisition to reflect the choices you made in Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2, in lieu of a more traditional save transfer option which is, I assume, impossible for technical reasons.
"It will initially be accessed through the web and there are more platforms planned," executive producer Mark Darrah explained to IGN. The app allows you to choose which companions your Grey Warden favoured in Origins, and who Dragon Age 2's Hawke romanced, among other things.
Warning: watch out for series spoilers in the paragraph below.
"The consequences of your choices in the previous games will affect the state of your world in Inquisition," Darrah told the site. "It could be something huge, something like what happened with Morrigan and the Dark ritual at the end of [Origins]: Did she have a child? Additionally, the game will also know and react to things like who is in charge of Ferelden."
This is obviously indirect confirmation that Hawke and the Grey Warden have a role to play in the new game's plot, though BioWare won't say anything further on the subject.
"Within the Keep, fans will be able to customize as much or as little about the world of Thedas as they wish," Darrah added. "You can change your choices to see all of the different opportunities in previous games. Once you start a new game, it will use the choices from the previous games from that moment."
This is good news if, like me, you seldom get to replay RPGs like Dragon Age, and thus miss out on all the optional outcomes.
It's also good news if you're worried BioWare might fudge up save importing, as was the case with Mass Effect 3. (Mind you, broken savegames can be rather mindblowing. :P )
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So, no worries! 😕mileywink:
That's really helpful but I was really hoping for a way to fix the witch import bug, that way I can actually play the DA2 game I want instead of waiting for Keep. DAK sounds great but I feel like I cheated if I just download the keep and then import that. Plus if the keep is anything like Mass Effect Genesis then there will still be cameos or choices left out as apposed to importing a saved character.
Well
@Spagnolo1 wrote:
... feel like I cheated if I just download the keep and then import that.
You misunderstand. It appears that there will be no direct "importing" of game saves.
EVERYONE will have to build their world-state from scratch.
Either:
Use some kind of in-game "Choose one of the following DAO/DAA/WH summaries: [Default Human Warrior] [Mercenary Dwarf Rogue] [Kindly Elf Mage] ... [etc.], and one of the following DA2 summaries: [Mage Hunter] [Arcane Defender] ... [etc.], mechanism, (DA2 already has exactly this, with three-or-four options)
or ;
Download the selections you stored in the Dragon Age Keep.
😕mileywink:
Oh wow! Thanks t
@ThandalNLyman wrote:Well
@Spagnolo1 wrote:... feel like I cheated if I just download the keep and then import that.
You misunderstand. It appears that there will be no direct "importing" of game saves.
EVERYONE will have to build their world-state from scratch.
Either:
Use some kind of in-game "Choose one of the following DAO/DAA/WH summaries: [Default Human Warrior] [Mercenary Dwarf Rogue] [Kindly Elf Mage] ... [etc.], and one of the following DA2 summaries: [Mage Hunter] [Arcane Defender] ... [etc.], mechanism, (DA2 already has exactly this, with three-or-four options)
or ;
Download the selections you stored in the Dragon Age Keep.
😕mileywink:
hat makes me feel so much better. Does that mean, for example, I can import a game from witch hunt with missing plot flags, play through DA2 and then when keep is released, just tweek it so that everything I want to appear does?
