BioWare is celebrating Dragon Age Day with a handful of surprises for fans centered around the recently released Dragon Age: The Veilguard, but also recognizes what’s come before. A standalone version of Veilguard’s character creator and a free armor set for the game inspired by Dragon Age II are both now available. Later today, the game will have a new update and you can see the full patch notes for Patch 4 below, which includes a new tool to take photos during the game’s cutscenes, 20+ bug fixes, and new Qunari complexions.
Dragon Age Day was created by the game’s fans to give Dragon Age its own version of N7 Day, the day that celebrates the community of BioWare’s space epic series, Mass Effect.
The biggest gift to players is a standalone, free version of the game’s character creator. For the folks who haven’t taken the plunge into Dragon Age: The Veilguard, you can now create a Rook or Inquisitor, before buying the full game and transferring your character over. You just need to make sure you’re on the same platform that you have the creator on.
There will also be the addition of Dragon Age II protagonist Hawke’s armor, body paint, and nose blood smear as free cosmetics for your character. These cosmetics are a permanent addition to the game, and can be found in the Lighthouse after downloading Patch 4 and completing The Singing Blade mission.
Speaking of community, since Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been out for over a month, developers will start an AMA over at the Dragon Age subreddit starting at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET today, December 4.. Previous AMAs were on its BioWare Discord, so if players want to check out the past questions and answers before hopping into today’s session, head over there.
Patch 4 Notes:
- Fixed an issue that prevented some saves from loading properly. (PC Only)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the Frame Rate Limit setting from being saved.
- Fixed an issue with Rook’s face and hair changing drastically when a save is loaded.
- Fixed an issue with certain longer hairstyles that floated above Rook’s chest and shoulders.
- Fixed an issue where two Neve characters could appear in the Fire and Ice quest.
- Fixed a rare issue where Emmrich did not lead Rook to the next task in his recruitment Where the Dead Must Go quest.
- Adjusted the spirit guides in The Warden Vault quest.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Ultimate Ability to swap to the default Ultimate.
- Fixed an issue where the Ultimate Ability Icon was not displayed after Bellara is recruited.
- Fixed an issue where the first hit in a Warrior Rook’s shield throw may miss the target unintentionally.
- Fixed an issue where the Slaughter of Pillars Revenant had no health bar.
- Fixed an issue that caused Achievement Progress to reset when a new Rook was created. This will not restore Achievement Progress that was overwritten, but your Rooks will no longer compete with each other for who can kill more High Dragons.
- Fixed an issue with the camera in The Demon’s Bargain quest when playing on an HDD.
- Fixed an issue with the camera in the Sea of Blood quest if Rook backtracked too far.
- Fixed two instances where Viago was clearly talking to Rook but was too absorbed by Teia’s beauty and staring at her instead.
- Fixed an issue with Photo Mode screenshots appearing slightly blurry for some players.
- Fixed an issue where taking a screenshot with the space bar in Photo Mode also toggled the highlighted setting at the same time. (PC Only)
- Fixed an audio issue that caused battle music to stop playing while Rook was still fighting darkspawn in A Warden’s Best Friend quest.
- Fixed an audio issue that prevented music from playing during a conversation with Lucanis in the Lighthouse.
- Fixed a rare lighting issue in the One Last Breath quest
- Fixed a blocking issue in the Fire and Ice quest when returning to the Lighthouse.
- Fixed a blocking issue in the Blood of Arlathan quest if Rook backtracked too far.
- Fixed a UI issue that caused the “New Item” highlight to get stuck on an item.
- Fixed an issue with the In Lost Friendship codex that was mentioning events out of order and possibly with the wrong companion.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the male British Inquisitor (Harry Hadden-Paton) to be pitched too low.
- Updated several German voice line instances with corrected translations.