The next Mass Effect game will share several core features with Dragon Age: Inquisition

First pass at Design Document for the next Mass Effect! #sorryforthetrees pic.twitter.com/EMG2QS4lie



— Yanick Roy (@YanickRRoy) June 18, 2013

@shinobi602 Don't worry: we have a large and talented team, we started a while ago, and we are "borrowing" a lot of game systems from DA3.



— Yanick Roy (@YanickRRoy) June 18, 2013

@chris23651 @shinobi602 Yes, since we share engine, we can start from some of DA3's core systems instead of from scratch.



— Yanick Roy (@YanickRRoy) June 19, 2013

Yanick Roy took to Twitter to announce that a first version of the design document for the next entry in the franchise, which isn't likely to be called Mass Effect 4 , had been completed.Following a fan questioning what the sizeable tome meant for development time, Roy explained that it wouldn't take as long as people feared thanks to the team's decision to borrow a lot of core features from Dragon Age: Inquisition.Quite what this means isn't clear, but it's good to know that progress is being made on the sci-fi title.

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