Key Takeaways
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a small yet frustrating bug where your ultimate switches back to your class’s default ability.
- Many players have reported experiencing this bug at inconvenient times.
- The trigger has been discovered.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a very well-put-together game, with solid optimisation and minimal bugs. However, the latest patch released last week has a small but significant bug that’s been causing players some frustration.
The new patch seems to intermittently switch your equipped ultimate back to your class’s default ultimate. It’s a minor inconvenience, but if you don’t realise the change, it can lead to an annoying moment or two. This is exactly what happened to me in one of the game’s many dragon boss fights. My Rook is a Veil Ranger rogue and instead of unleashing a well-timed Twin Gifts of Arlathan from medium range, he instead backflipped on the spot and threw out some useless pyrotechnics.
Beware the Switching Bug
I’m not the only one who has encountered this bug either, as KulaanDoDinok’s post on Reddit about the topic has garnered dozens of comments from players experiencing the same thing. As one fellow rogue puts in, “Yep, happens to me all the time and it’s really frustrating because the base rogue ultimate is really close range and my build is based on long-range combat. I’ve wasted a lot of ultimate thinking I’d throw a pair of magic frisbees only to drop some firecrackers on no one.”
A commenter, Dastion, correctly theorises in the thread that refunding skill points is the trigger for the bug, saying “Yeah, it happens if you refund a skill point for Rook or a companion. The companion part is probably why it seems random to people since they probably don’t see Rook’s skills afterwards because they’re on different screens.” Although refunding skill points for companions doesn’t trigger the bug for me, refunding one of Rook’s skill points consistently switches their ultimate back to the default ability.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s first patch fixed a couple of minor bugs like the Inquisitor’s visuals not appearing correctly, and also added some cool gear for Mass Effect fans to celebrate this year’s N7 Day. In all likelihood, BioWare will have this minor bug fixed in the next patch.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited fourth game in the fantasy RPG series from BioWare formerly known as Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. A direct sequel to Inquisition, it focuses on red lyrium and Solas, the aforementioned Dread Wolf.