Dragon Age: The Veilguard's First PS5 Update Incoming, Adjusts Balance and Fixes Bugs

First impressions...Damn good first few hours..Yes the dialogue can be intolerable at times, but I'd hardly call it a deal breaker... Technically though - not really seen anything to complain about tbh 🙂

I would love for the game to have ng+ with the option to pick a new class, background but keep the skillpoints acquired etc...

Definitely need a new game plus update so I can play this game on repeat. I did notice after the patch that the bugs look a lot better 🦀

I read several reviewers say the enemies get very sponge-y. So I'm hoping for a balance up date that changes health a little (and increases danger) rather than having to manually do that

Do we know if the Pro Enhanced patch has been added too; and what the changes are?

No amount of updates is gonna fix the horrible writing. Just remaster DAO and DA2 already and I'll be happy to play some actual Bioware classics on modern hardware. As flawed as DA2 is, it's a masterpiece compared to Veilguard.

Loving the game as an old Dragon Age fan. Definitely not understanding the complaints! Can we have more than just 3 character slots though Bioware? I don't want to delete my old Rooks

@ThomasHL they don't get spongey, it's matter of people learning to play properly and using combos effectively, I actually think enemies go down quick,.only enemies that take some time are the High dragons,.considering they are end game it's to be expected they don't die in 1minute.

The only thing I've come across so far is that changing vitaar appearance doesn't load properly, and Neve's skill points were reset at one point but it was fairly early on so no major issue. Sounds like this update targets those specifically anyway, other than that I'm loving the game.

@ThomasHL I thought the same but you're right @Uromastryx it's about speccing the right way and using the systems. Now I'm eating through most things because I'm targeting then the right way.

@JB_Whiting We don't know yet what the enhancements are for Veilguard on PS5 Pro, also am interested to know myself.

@ThomasHL As others have been saying, yeah, the game can definitely start off with enemies feeling spongey (for reference I've been playing on the second-highest difficulty) but this gets heavily offset over time. Between the skill tree, upgrades to your gear and their passive effects, and companion synergies, by the time you hit the mid-game (and with a clear-ish vision for your build) you can pretty easily melt anything outside of intentionally challenging side-bosses.

Let me reiterate my original comment, so it hopefully doesnt “bait” anyone…..

-> No patch will ever fix the horrendous writing and dialogue, so hard pass from me.

While I'm not exactly the sharpest bulb or the brightest tack, I really am not getting the hate for the writing. It seems perfectly serviceable. Words like "horrendous" get thrown about and I am just not seeing it.

Really enjoying this game love fantasy adventure with a bit of rpg.

Started playing but holding off for what I’ve named.
Pro Thursday.

They absolutey butchered Isabela in this. Awful, awful, awful writing.

Everytime someone mentions horrible writing you know they saw two clips online and didn't touch the game.

@symmetrian As someone who played through the whole game almost twice for the purposes of reviewing it, I don't think the writing is as bad as some people are making out.

Are there some particularly bad lines? Yes. Are some topics handed quite badly? Yes. But it's an 80 hour game and the vast majority of dialogue is either just fine or actually very good. The conversations with Solas, for example, are close to being peak BioWare.

But this is the internet, so everything either has to be utterly incredible or absolute dogsh*t. There's sadly no nuance to discussions like this.

@ShogunRok the dialogue is fine but the acting is kinda ass

@ShogunRok I've been a fence sitter, but on the playthrough's I've watched, it seems that a fair amount of dialogue uses contemporary American-English and colloquialisms that seem out of place in a game where people are using shields and swords etc.

As out of place as Aragorn shouting, "here come dat boi! Waddaup!" when he sees Frodo.

Plus that Marvel movie-esque dialogue where every other line is an attempt at a witty quip.

I've only seen half a dozen playthrough episodes though, so I'm curious given your extensive experience, if that type of dialogue/language is a small minority of the game in your view?

Or is it a majority, but it just doesn't bother you?

I guess that Marvel dialogue must be popular with a lot of people as the movies would alter it following focus group testing otherwise.

Plus Americans obviously speak American when sat around a board playing D&D!

So I get why the developers could have thought it was fine, and why many gamers and reviewers have no problem with it.

Dunno about you though, but even an American accent in a quasi-medieval fantasy setting is a complete killer for me, in the same way if everyone in Young Guns 1 and 2 had been talking with an English accent and Tolkien-esque dialogue, I'd have turned it off at 5 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I know that if I had a time machine and went back to the middle ages, I wouldn't understand a word anyone was saying as it doesn't resemble 21st century English.

But those tropes and expectations are a vital part of suspension of disbelief to me, even if they aren't historically accurate.

I don't know if you know of the old kids TV series Maid Marian and Her Merry Men? It was basically taking a group of people from 1990's London, and placing them in the setting of Robin Hood.

It was played for laughs with how those modern people with their modern knowledge lived in the Robin Hood time period. That's exactly how DA Veilguard looks to me when I watch it......only they aren't playing it for laughs... It's meant to be as serious as Game of Thrones.

Totally agree about the lack of nuance.