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The main reason you'd want to play the Witch Hunt DLC for Dragon Age: Origins is to wrap up Morrigan's story. So, you can imagine that many fans were upset to learn that a "continuity bug" is preventing users from seeing the events of the DLC unfold according to their choices.
Apparently, the problem is that the DLC isn't correctly recognizing the completion of The Dark Ritual, an event in Origins that could mark the last time players saw Morrigan, and therefore be very important to how your interactions with Morrigan play out in Witch Hunt. In a post on BioWare's official forums, executive producer Mark Darrah explained:
"As everyone here knows, Dragon Age: Origins is a huge game with a lot of choices for each individual player. Unfortunately, there is a continuity bug that is causing issues with a subset of our player base. While this issue is not affecting the majority of people, it is still a significant issue that we will address. We apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing anyone.
Clearly, it was our responsibility to catch this sort of issue in the interaction of Witch Hunt with Dragon Age: Origins. Our team is doing everything we can to fix this in a timely manner so those who are affected can go back to enjoying Witch Hunt as soon as possible."
This comment is immediately followed by another from BioWare's Fernando Melo, who acknowledges that the add-on is also not properly creating a save file after the completion of Witch Hunt.
At least the problems were identified early, and BioWare is clearly concerned with fixing them. Even so, if you were planning on downloading and playing this new content, you should probably wait until this issue is resolved.
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***....Guess I'll just wait a few more days till it's fixed
oh my... how sad... i wish to hunt morrigan. or maybe its the other way around...
I'll wait. Thanks for the heads up!
I checked PSN yesterday, and for some reason Witch Hunt was not listed as a disc based add on, it had all the others though.
Well I finished it already and suffice to say, I'm a little disappointed in this DLC, No Spoilers in this comment but, I dont understand how this DLC was supposed to complete Morrigans story when it just left more questions. And now to hear that it might not have saved right...lame. But I love the game the company and cant wait to continue on in DA2
I was just about to purchase this DLC. Thanks for the head's up. Now I can wait and continue playing Plants vs. Zombies!!! That arcade game rocks:)
While I haven't played this game, from dealing with DLC from Mass Effect, I am noticing a trend with Bioware and their faulty DLC.
*** Awakening was a let down but leilana, golems, and morrigan might have to check this out. after Fallout new vegas, and lbp2.
Yea this was major let down. I was pumped to see how this would play out but When i reached the end the game did not recogonize the choicecs i had made. I am now concerned that I will have to play from the end of Origins through Awakenening again to get this work. Hope they fix it soon
How about getting it right the first time and quit releasing these small bugged down dlc packs
Luckily I haven't picked it up yet. I'll just keep on working on Red Dead Redemption.
What a bummer... glad I decided to go with Liara before Morrigan XD I'll be back for ya when you're fixed!
I started playing it...but I will probably have to wait. Will I need to restart it, or will a patch fix my current save file?
Hurry up Gamefly i can't wait to play this game.
Dang that's a pretty big bug.
They didn't test it...?
I'm still upset that I don't have this yet. I needs me some more Dragon Age. Just completed my 4th playthrough and already started number 5. Tryin' out multiple different types of characters and movesets.
Broken... just like the first Dragon Age.