Dragon Age: Inquisition - News Roundup

Bioware has released another video on their blog with Alix Wilton Regan who is one of the voices of the Inquisitor, and she discusses her role in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

I also found a new post on the Bioware forums from a member called ViSeiRa who posted information from the PC Gamer UK September Issue.

Gameplay

• Red Lyrium is an anti-magic substance... an opposite force to normal (blue) Lyrium.
• Tactics are in (automated AI settings as described by the writer) and apparently you can set how much mana a mage companion can keep in reserve and at which HP threshold would a companion use a heath potion.. so looks like more grained control over tactics.
• After clearing parts of an area you can set up camps in that area, they give you access to scouts and you gain power, the resource you spend on operations.
• Certain parts of a map can be locked until you clear other ones.
• You can mark certain areas as operation points on the map so that you can deal with them when you return to your base of operations, Skyhold.
• You manage your operations through the war table in Skyhold, and by doing so you get resources like gold and loot or agents, some of the operations are tied to the main plot like an operation involving the chantry in Val Royeux.
• Some operations are resolved instantly and some require you to pick an advisor (Cullen, Leliana or Josephine) to resolve them, they're unavailable while conducting the operation.
• There's a new resources besides power (which you spend on operations) which is called influence.
• Influence gives you inquisition perks, those are divided into four types: Forces, Secrets, Connections and "Inquisition".
• The first three perks are tied to the advisors. A Forces perk might increase your potion capacity by four; a Secrets perk might increase the XP you earn from picking up codex entries; one Connections perk grants better merchant offers on rare items.
• Skyhold changes as a reflection of which perks you favour (doesn't elaborate more on how) though it won't be related to decorations since you do that manually from a menu. You can change everything from the windows, throne, banner, and heraldry to the drapes.
• Dragon fights are all scripted and they have their own personalities.
• Dragons have a main health bar and a health bar for each limb, you can't deal massive amounts of damage to it without dealing with its limbs first.