BioWare has released a new patch for its recent RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The update, dubbed patch 5, brings a host of bug fixes and a major new quality-of-life change. On starting the game, players will notice that side quests have recommended levels attached.
This was done to prevent players from accidentally taking on a side quest they might have gotten much earlier in the game with higher-level enemies than the player can handle.
Aside from that, the patch largely revolves around bug fixes, with issues like clipping on Taash’s Rivain’s Legacy armor, a typo on a note in Dock Town, and an issue with a puzzle in the Converged City area of the Crossroads getting fixed. For more details, check out the complete patch notes below.
The game director behind Dragon Age: The Veilguard had recently left the company after having worked at EA in some capacity for almost two decades. The director stated that her decision to leave the company came about because she got an opportunity she “couldn’t turn down” to work on a new CRPG.
In the meantime, check out the details of a patch from back in November, which brought with it a host of bug fixes, as well as additional Photo Mode filters. For more details on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, check out our review.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Patch 5 notes:
Quality of Life Changes:
- Recommended levels have been added to side quests that players may receive at significantly lower levels.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where Rook could only flirt with Lucanis in a specific conversation.
- Fixed an issue with the Regrets of The Dread Wolf quest not triggering properly or stopping Rook with an invisible wall in the Crossroads.
- Fixed a blocking issue with a puzzle in the Converged City area of the Crossroads.
- Fixed an issue with the “Imperium’s Resolve” armor causing negative damage instead of the intended zero fire, cold, necrotic, and electric damage.
- Fixed excessive clipping on Taash’s “Rivain’s Legacy” armor.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some Rooks from changing the runes on their lyrium dagger.
- Fixed an issue with the Medium Armor Mastery skill for Warriors.
- Fixed a spot on Rivain’s beach where Rook could get stuck in a cycle of drowning, never to be pulled out of the water by their companions.
- Fixed a typo on a note Rook can find in Dock Town.
- Fixed an issue that caused photo mode screenshots to be noticeably worse quality when HDR was turned to “On.”
- Fixed an issue that was causing the photo mode screenshot location to still be shown on screen.
- Fixed an issue that caused the fireflies in the opening area of the Crossroads to flicker at an alarming rate on specific settings.
- Fixed a lighting issue in one of the conversations with the whole team in the Lighthouse.
- Fixed an issue in the Mirror of Transformation that blocked players from zooming in and out with the mouse scroll wheel.
- Fixed an issue where the Objective Marker Visibility was not updated when the exploration preset was changed with the other options in the Exploration sub-category.
- Some adjustments to the game credits.
