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Dragon Age: The Veilguard doesn't give full control over companions as "in some ways it was detrimental"


Dragon Age developer BioWare has discussed its decision to no longer allow full control over companions during combat, …

Dragon Age developer BioWare has discussed its decision to no longer allow full control over companions during combat, in a shake-up to the series set to be seen in upcoming entry The Veilguard. The change has been made for several reasons, game director Corinne Busche told Edge magazine (thanks, GamesRadar), most notably the additional options instead available to controlling main character Rook. Another reason was that BioWare wanted to give companion characters a sense of autonomy - to feel like "fully-realised" personalities "in control of their own actions", Busche added.

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