Dragon Age 4: Every Rumour & Leak You NEED To Know

4. Multiplayer Choices Will Be Integrated Into The Story

Another thing that Schreier touched upon in his overview of Dragon Age 4, is how the team are apparently looking to synergise multiplayer components into the self-contained story. While Casey Hudson has made it clear that the studio is looking to use the live service foundation to continue to deliver content to players long after launch, it will also effect the decisions players make across the narrative.

It seems as though Bioware are devising a drop-in, drop-out multiplayer component that would allow a group to team up to take on missions. As blasphemous as it sounds, that system is long overdue, as Dragon Age's gameplay has always been centred around swapping between a party of three, so it makes sense that other team members could be controlled by other humans.

The real kicker is that these other members of your party will also be given story decisions that will effect the outcome of quests, potentially adding an element of tension to the role-playing experience that wasn't there before. In Bioware's past titles, you've only ever had to worry about your own dumb decisions coming back to haunt you, but now you'll have to worry about how your friends react, as well.