14 DAY TRIAL // Patch 3 for Dragon Age: Inquisition launched a few hours ago across many platforms, but despite promising in the changelog to fix the key drop issues that prevented players in the cooperative mode from progressing, these situations still happen, much to the disappointment of those who enjoy the multiplayer mode.
Dragon Age: Inquisition launched last November and delivered a sprawling role-playing experience that included a fantastic single-player story, not to mention an intense cooperative multiplayer mode that sees players progress through different environments, while killing foes along the way.
Unfortunately, ever since the beginning, there has been a particularly nasty problem that caused the key required to progress through a map to not drop once the last enemy was killed. The release of the Destruction multiplayer add-on, which brought even more enemies into the maps, added even more targets that didn't die properly and perpetuated the key drop glitches, despite both patch 1 and 2 promising to solve them.
Now, with the recently released patch 3, many players hoped that BioWare had finally nailed down the cause of the issues and remedied it.
Keys still don't drop in Inquisition's cooperative multiplayer
Unfortunately, after installing the update, it seems that things are still problematic, as keys still fail to drop, thereby preventing players from progressing through the match. Many reports on both Reddit and the BioWare forums support this and the studio has released a small statement through one of its representatives.
Apparently, BioWare solved one major case that caused the key drop glitch but there are still plenty of situations where it still occurs, particularly when it involves elemental attacks upon certain enemy types.
"I wanted to clear up some confusion around the key drop issue - We fixed one major case causing the key drop bug, we didn't solve the whole issue as we didn't have time to get that into this patch. We have the remaining issue causing the key drop bug solved in a future patch, but for now the issue will occur less frequently. It has to do with certain enemies (like the Red Templar Shadow) failing to die properly during an elemental death ( turned to ice, burned to ashes, etc. )," the BioWare rep says.
As such, until the studio can release update 4 for Inquisition, the multiplayer is still, more or less, unplayable across PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, or Xbox One.
