'Dragon Age: Inquisition' PC Release, Update: BioWare to launch Patch 5 Beta Program, includes new features and Black Emporium

By Staff Writer

Feb 25, 2015 07:16 AM EST

Days ago, BioWare announced to have PC Patch 5 Beta Program sign-ups through their Twitter account. Gamers can download the beta and access forum through passing their NDA and joining the beta program. 

BioWare tweeted, "If you clicked past the NDA and successfully joined the PC Patch 5 Beta Program, you can now DL the beta and access the forum" last February 19. A day before that, the announced the applications for PC Patch 5 Beta Program through signing up to a given link. However, on that same day, surprisingly fast, the applications were also closed after several hours. 

This PC Patch 5 Beta Program is said to feature Black Emporium, another means to empower their players both in person and online. This program is set to collect feedbacks while working on their improvements from the addressed issues both from the new and veteran players. 

BioWare mentioned in a statement, "For Dragon Age: Inquisition, we've developed a faster and more compressed patch schedule than any prior BioWAre game ... due to the nature of the certification process, it can often still take weeks after developing a fix to release it on different platforms."

They also added that by means of the beta program, they can select group of PC players from the upcoming Patch 5 to allow them to identify and respond to future issues. Thus, making it less difficult to developers to determine which of which should be improved. The Patch 5 was also the biggest patch ever released to date since it addresses key concerns to a large group of community.

Through the beta, players will be in Black Emporioum, which they got access through logging in, "a mysterious underground shop run by an immortal proprietor."

Players can find powerful artifacts and tools and even purchase epic weapons, powerful accessories, new crafting materials, and schematics, and even the ability to change their voice as well as their facial appearance using the 'Mirror of Transformation.'

Another thing to consider with the gameplay, players should be able to make efforts to use different playstyles using auto-attack keys which are included for a single player. With some additional options such as subtitle adjustments and at the same time graphics option to set up shader quality, the players can experience more versatility in the entire duration of the game.

The available beta program was only open for PC version, not yet on the console versions. With that being said, no word yet from the game developer to the next beta for the consoles since it would be costing some fees.

Apparently, a lot of changes will be made from the game which are observable to players. One of them is the increased item storage and alter appearances right after initial creation of the protagonist.

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