While BioWare has largely moved its development efforts on its next title after releasing Dragon Age: The Veilguard, the company has released a small DLC weapons pack for the game. Dubbed the Rook’s Weapons Appearance pack, the weapons pack can be picked up for free by those that manage to buy Dragon Age: The Veilguard and play it before April 8.
Curiously, despite being a separate weapons pack, it can’t be grabbed by those that don’t already have a copy of Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC. According to fans of the game on Reddit, the Rook’s Weapons Appearance pack includes the Watchful Blade, Watchful Shield and Watchful Maul for Warrior, the Watchful Poniard and Watchful Staff for Mage, and the Watchful Bow and Watchful Saber for Rogue.
Making the DLC even stranger is the fact that it was previously released for the Xbox Series X/S version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard back in January. The latest release is specifically for PC through Steam, Epic Games Store and EA’s own digital store. Players have also noted that the PS5 version of the RPG doesn’t have a similar DLC yet.
Former lead UX designer from the studio, Bruno Porrio, had also revealed details during GDC 2025 about the development of Dragon Age: The Veilguard earlier this month. In a talk, Porrio spoke about the challenges in designing the game’s interface, since older iterations of the game caused confusion for the QA team. This confusion largely stemmed from the “primers” and “detonators” system that BioWare has been using in its titles over the last decade.
“So much confusion around detonation,” Porrio said. “There was a lot of confusion, and players weren’t really utilizing the detonations.”
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has seemingly underperformed according to the projections set by EA. Back in February, CEO Andrew Wilson revealed that he believes the cause of the game’s commercial failure stemmed from it not featuring any online shared-world components.
“To break beyond the core audience, games need to directly connect to the evolving demands of players who increasingly seek shared-world features and deeper engagement alongside high-quality narratives in this beloved category,” said EA CEO Andrew Wilson. “Dragon Age had a high-quality launch and was well-reviewed by critics and those who played; however, it did not resonate with a broad enough audience in this highly competitive market.”
While BioWare has moved on to working on what will be the next Mass Effect game, the studio has apparently been restructured. In an update, BioWare’s Gary McKay had revealed back in January that a new Mass Effect game is being developed by a team made up of veterans from the original Mass Effect trilogy.
“Now that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been released, a core team at BioWare is developing the next Mass Effect game under the leadership of veterans from the original trilogy, including Mike Gamble, Preston Watamaniuk, Derek Watts, Parrish Ley, and others,” wrote McKay in January.
“Given this stage of development, we don’t require support from the full studio. We have incredible talent here at BioWare, and so we have worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues with other teams at EA that had open roles that were a strong fit.”
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Check out our review for more details.
