old game-new question (or maybe old)

[clok1966]

Recently with all the Dragon Age 3 talk, fired up DA complete from a Steam sale from ages past. I got the Elf area with 3 companions and had some issues with the abandon camp spot (trying to keep as spoiler free as possible so no direct names). Morrigan is only one in the fight.. she get 2 shotted pretty much every time. This is not my problem, I did hit youtube to watch the fight, and the first one i saw had you , 3 companions and the dog, so 5 in party. How does one do this? it appears i can only have 3? I got the dog as I was a human Fighter, is there another way to get the dog? I didn't much care for him, prefer the 2 legged tanks, but one more party member would not suck. The game is fairly decent on the normal setting, but I do tend to mismanage a battle or two, os one more dps would not hurt. But this has me confused..

 

[EDUSAN]

if i remember correctly you cant have a party of 5...

but if you have summons you can have lesser companions. According to whatever spells you are improving you can summon a squeleton, or an animal ( i think it was a wolf), so you could have more than one companion although they are not "real" ones per se

 

[Wardawg1001]

I don't remember being able to have 5 in a party either. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a mod out there that allowed it though.

 

[clok1966]

Yes with all my reading it seems it must be a MOD, but its a 360 play through (can you mod 360 games?), I have the link on my home account I will try post it (you tube video) when i get home.

 

[JohnDC]

On the PC there is a mod called extra dog slot:
http://dragonage.nexusmods.com/mods/664/?
It makes the dog a summon for the main player character.I have used it It works good and can make fights much easier as the enemies have an extra target to attack.
There are also cheats to enable you to break the 4 member party limit on console and PC,but they can mess up the story and random dialog the party members have.You have to enable the cheat console and developer mode to get them to work on the PC.