During the fight with Uldred in the Circle Tower, don't use the Litany when instructed, hence killing the mages and Irving, and ultimately siding with the Templars.

Don't help Redcliffe, just leave. Come back later, fight your way into the castle, and when it comes to how to deal with Connor, either kill him, or, if you're a mage, have Jowan do the ritual and go into the Fade yourself. When you meet the Desire Demon, instead of killing or banishing her, trade up Connor's soul for Blood Magic, increased approval from one of your party members, or, best of all, six with her!

Defile Andraste's ashes. Don't kill the cultists or High Dragon.

Convince the werewolves to slaughter the Dalish, and recruit them to your cause.

Put Harrowmont on the throne, preserve the Anvil. This leads to the absolute worst ending for Orzammar!

Accept Caladrius' offer to sacrifice the Elves for a ritual to boost your Constitution.

At the Landsmeet...well, what you do here depends on what brand of evil you want to be. No matter what you do, someone can suffer. You can execute Loghain, allow Alistair to be executed by Anora, have Anora be imprisoned (and possibly executed later), put an unhardened Alistair on the throne alone, and then set yourself up as chancelor or queen (female human noble only) and rule from the shadows. Your choice.

During the Final Assault, don't go to the Alienage.

If you did not opt for the Dark Ritual, make it clear you intended to throw your fellow Grey Warden to the Archdemon when the moment of truth comes (though keep in mind, this may spoil the evil you tried to commit in the Landsmeet, so your choice once again).

For extra options to kick the dog, if you did the City Elf origin, leave the women to be [censored] by Vaughan. If you're a Dwarven Noble, use the murder-knife option whenever the choice appears, kill your brother, and, if male, have six with the Noble Hunters so you abandon the kid conceived from it later. Dwarven commoners should kill the lyrium smuggler Beraht sics them on at the beginning. Dalish Elves should kill the humans encountered at the beginning.

- The effects of various follower talents and item properties are now being properly removed and re-applied when loading and saving.
- Party members who are resurrected during a fight now rejoin combat properly.
- Hawke no longer gains random spells or talents after using the Maker's Sigh potion, then saving and reloading.
- The “Duty” plot will now appear on the Chanter’s Board even if the player accepted all of the board’s quests before installing the Exiled Prince premium content.
- In the “Finders Keepers” plot, if the player leaves Woodrow’s Warehouse before finding the crate, it is now possible to return to the warehouse to complete the quest.
- Merril no longer refers to the aftermath of “A New Path” before the plot has been completed.
- Aveline’s final armor upgrade is now available during the “Favor and Fault” plot.
- Varric is no longer confused about which character Hawke has been romancing.
- Various other gameplay and story-scripting issues no longer appear.

We’ll delve into some of the platform-specific details early next week. In the meantime, a special shout out and thanks to our mighty beta test group who’ve been a big help in confirming how these fixes will behave in the wild.

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UPDATE: Monday, April 11, 2010.

Hi everyone. I hope you had a good weekend. We're working with Valve right now on dotting the i's and crossing the t's for the Steam rollout. Based on our current estimates, we expect the 1.02 Patch to go live on PC/Mac sometime tomorrow (Tuesday, April 12).

On consoles, the 1.01 title update is progressing smoothly through final certification at Microsoft and Sony. No issues have been found and they're currently projecting release dates of sometime next week - we're working with them to see if we can pull those dates in any further.

Last Friday we discussed some of the universal fixes that we’ve made across all the platforms. Today we’re providing a high-level view of some of the platform-specific fixes that you can expect.

CONSOLES:
- The options menu now includes auto-attack.
- Armor values now adjust correctly when changing shields.
- Choosing a target at close range is now easier.
- Cinematics are no longer distorted on certain standard-definition televisions.
- Hawke no longer gains excessive coin and experience from rapidly and repeatedly completing a single sidequest.
- Various technical changes should improve performance, limit crashes, and address memory-related issues.

PC & MAC:
- Various issues specific to DirectX 11 no longer occur.
- It is now easier to select party members by clicking on their portraits when the level-up arrow is displayed.
- The game now functions correctly across different desktop sizes.
- The video options menu now allows a wider full-screen gamma range.
- Various technical changes should improve performance and limit crashes.
- We’ve improved our crash reporting and our ability to anolyze those reports. If you’re still experiencing crashes, we encourage you to play logged in so we can identify and resolve your issues in the future.