Dragon Age Keep Open Beta!

[rose_in_shadow]

Stealing the text for this post from this tumblr post of a fellow beta tester because it's concise and explains pretty much everything you need to know.

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[rose_in_shadow]

Just a couple of other FAQs not covered above:

What does Cullen's friendship tile mean?

No one knows for sure, but it's assumed that particular tile will simply reflect how Cullen speaks of the Champion in DAI. On the Keeper forums, people have reported that Cullen is generally pleasant to Hawke and maybe a tad friendlier if you take the time to speak with him in every Act, but there's no one moment where you become Cullen's friend or enemy in DA2. He will always defend Hawke against Meredith.

The Keep won't let me have Nathaniel alive and do Yehven's quest at the same time!

These two quests are mutually exclusive. If Nathaniel is alive in DA2, you don't get Yehven's quest. You only get that quest ("Fool's Gold") if Nathaniel died in Awakenings.

The Keep won't let me have ____ at the Landsmeet even though that's what I did in the game!

Alistair is tied to so many variables that he frequently causes issues in the logic solver. First, check that the ending you think you remember is indeed possible by checking the Landsmeet Outcomes entry in the DA Wiki. Next, start at the ending you want, lock that, and accept all the changes that the logic solver prompts. Then go back and change those choices working backward.

Where's my Orlesian Warden?

They are looking to implement that, but it won't be before game launch.

[itches]

'They are looking to implement that, but it won't be before game launch. '

Well I guess that makes the decision of which character to play first a lot easier.

[rose_in_shadow]

Well, it's been stated by the devs that the Warden won't appear in DAI. If the Hero is referenced at all, it'll likely be as that "The Warden" or the "Hero."

Stands to reason that the Orlesian Warden wouldn't get referenced at all for playing a comparatively minor role.

[itches]

Yeah, but the inability to import a dead warden isn't awakening always bothered me. I was looking forward to being able to "insert" that stuff into the chain of characters.

Also, I never did figure out what happens if you import an Orlesian warden into DA2.

[tov01]

You can make all the relevant Awakening decisions, and if the warden is dead, it assumes that the Orlesian Warden did it (it won't know what the name, class, race, and gender the Orlesian Warden was, but if Inquisition needed that information, it would have been in by now)

[tov01]

The Keep won't let me have ____ at the Landsmeet even though that's what I did in the game!

Also note that the Keep tiles are meant to reflect what the state of the world is at the end of the game, not what decisions you made as you made them. So, for example, if in game you decided to make Alistair king (either alone or with Anora), and Alistair dies killing the Archdemon, then the correct choice for the Landsmeet tile is "Anora Rules."

[tersa]

One of the conflicts I've heard from a couple of people who messed around with it during the closed beta is (was?) that it went pear shaped if you chose the options of Anora rules and both Alistair (sent off to be a drunk) and Loghain (did the Dark Ritual) survive.

When I read "Why is the auto-solver not letting me make choices that are correct in-game?", that's what my brain leapt to. XD

[sakuratea]

In act 3, there's some line about "catching up with old friends" when you talk to Cullen at the start.