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Veilguard - Rogue - Unable to use bow
I've tried everything I can think of to use a bow...as a Rogue...but I cannot seem to figure it out. Why did they make it so complicated?! I've checked the settings, I am set to a Rogue in Controls -> Class Bindings I have hit the "X" key, which is the key bind to change to the secondary weapon...nothing happens I've left-clicked, right-clicked...nothing works. Can someone provide me exact, step-by-step instructions on how to use a bow? I am clearly not able to comprehend this incredibility difficult mechanic of the game.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Rook’s Weapons Appearance Offer
I didn't see a preexisting announcement thread for it on EA Forums, or a news item at https://www.ea.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-the-veilguard/news, but here is the description from EA app: Rise as Rook in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. This offer includes Rook's Weapon Appearance Set for all players who own the game on PC. This offer is available to players who purchase the game by April 9, 2025. The items will appear in Rook's Room when you log into Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It is also available on Steam and Epic Game Store: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1845910/view/824826934428960623 https://store.epicgames.com/p/dragon-age-the-veilguard--weapon-appearances This appears to be content that was previously made available on Xbox as part of a "Dragon Age: The Veilguard Xbox Offer" holiday promotion. I have not seen a PlayStation announcement.
Please Implement the Dragon Age Keep in future games.
Greetings. As the title suggests, it would be highly appreciated if the devs would re-implement the Dragon Age Keep into a future Dragon Age game. The Veilguard felt hollow due to the lack of the Keep, and only three choices from Inquisition mattered but none from DAO and DA2. I'm sure that the devs are aware, since many players throughout social media and probably in here have already expressed their disappointment regarding this decision. Hoping for the best Regards
What did you think about Veilguard's ending? (Spoilers of course)
I got Veilguard at Christmas and have been taking my time with it, doing all side content I could find. Just finished the main story today and I crave to discuss it. I got into Dragon Age in 2009. Origins and its worldbuilding blew me away – I had never played such a well written game before. Now I feel like BioWare have mostly wrapped up the story they set out to tell. I thought the reveals and especially the ending were satisfying. Did Veilguard give you the answers you wanted? I have read that Veilguard has sold poorly. Maybe that's understandable, with 10 years since the last installment. Could be other factors as well, perhaps. Veilguard is not a flawless game but neither is Origins, 2 or Inquisition. They are all pretty different. For me, Veilguard is the most enjoyable installment in terms of combat and exploration. The world design is incredible. I also liked the companions' dynamics as a group and the voice actors did a great job. On the other hand, I think the romances could have had a little more depth. What's your take?The Fate of the Leaders of Thedas
Hi, everyone. Hope you’re doing well. The lack of the Dragon Age Keep (wish it was kept) made me question a myriad of things, including the fates of the characters we had met as the Grey Warden, Hawke and the Inquisitor Did we get any news regarding the fate of the leaders of Thedas in the Veilguard? And other characters we had met in the previous games? Including our former companions. Aside from Aveline and Sebastian and Sten and Marius (not a companion but was Calpernia’s former lover). I’m aware that you can get some of them killed but what exactly happened to them if you spared them? What happened to the leaders and recruits of the Inquisition, Alistair, Anora, Loghain, Fiona, Bhelen, Harrowmont, Irving, Eamon, Isolde, Connor, Teagan, Samson, Feynriel (who goes to Tevinter if you allow him), Celene, Gaspard, Briala, Abelas, Cyril, Alexius, Calpernia, and Meredith who is somehow still alive (or dead after knowing what happened to Kirkwall in the game)? And the list goes on... Regarding, Calpernia, her absence was strange since this game takes place in HER homeland of Tevinter. I can only surmise that she might’ve left the Venatori after you had exposed Corypheus’s plans to her in Inquisition. But what happened to her afterwards? I know that she almost became a companion but that’s it. So… have they all perished in the Sixth Blight or are they still alive? And most importantly, who was the Divine? Cheers
Builds... You got 'Em... I wanna steal 'Em!
I love the new combat system and skill trees! I have burnt waaaay too many hours tearing through this game. The combat is probably the second biggest reason for my hours played. So, naturally, I am a huge fan of tinkering with my builds to get every last drop of DPS, stagger, mana regen, etc... out of my characters. And they are ALL different, because we have SO MANY options from stats to build around. Like, wow! It's crazy. ***Continued below*** My Veil Jumper is actually using an alternate build in that screenshot. He is all AoE, necrotic, and damage based off of arrow count. IFYKYK... ***Continued*** Specifically, I am looking for a good Veil Ranger build for my final character. Preferably, non-necrotic... I actually want a challenge! HaHa Again, IFYKYK... Also, if you want to show off your Rook's build, in general, I love trying to read your play style through your gear. I need an excuse to put off more chores. Cheers!
Veilguard crashing frequently
Hey Yall, Im a PC player using steam. I have a NVIDIA RTX 4070 w/32g of RAM, and a high end processor and can most games on ultra with no issues. I installed Veilguard last week (Had to replay all the previous DA games first of course) and its been a nonstop crash fest. I've tried reinstalling it, verifying the data integrity, deleting the shader cache, installed the latest NVIDIA driver, using the lowest settings, running the program as AdmIn and in Win 8 compatibility mode and nothing. The game typically takes 3-5 attempts just to not crash at start up then crashes within 5-10min of play. I'm a die hard Dragon Age fan and just want to play! I dont care if I have to use the worst settings or the weirdest work around but desperate to see what Solas has been up to. Please help & thank you in advance!Player always has aggro...
I'm a Rouge and no matter what I have aggro. I cant fight since I have to run all over the place to keep from dieing. Any way to get a warrior to get aggro? So glad this game is free on psn, no money out of pocket. If the rest of this game is like this Dragon Age got eaten by the dragon and died. I'm at the first dragon fight. Figured I would give the game a try even after hearing all the negative. This time the negative was right on the money.my pride is shot
just wanted to whine about my hurt pride. I pride myself on being an extremely thorough explorer yet in my playthrough, once I got to the point of no return, i was only at 80% lore found!!!! I'm not sure how many more i got in the final parts, I didn't think to check but there you go 😭. In a similar vein, are some maps bugged? I swear I found almost all of the chests yet on some maps(lighthouse for one) i solved a riddle and returned later to find 2 chests, yet my map says I'm still at 0/2??? a few other maps are like that, i have all chests with a checkmark to say I found them yet my count is off. just wondered. happy gamingHold The Line! We are On Our Own! Hahaha
Enjoy this rant I wrote after finishing breakfast. Suggested track to loop to set the mood is Meow by Lvsum. Because my voice sounds like Mark Wahlberg’s voice. See, now I ruined it… Let’s go! Before we start, I am fully aware of the elephant in the room with this game. I myself have been confused and annoyed with it at times. I am also an atonomous adult capable of hitting "skip". OKAY? DO WE UNDERSTAND? CAN WE MOVE ON? Don’t let the review bombers win! I may be responsible for this by trolling haters with PSN numbers… See the one-star review counts… Har har har If EA needs 3 million copies sold to consider Veilguard a success- erm... let's get'em there? DA:I didn't need much help to get to 12 mil in 10 years, if those numbers are to be believed, but Veilguard was expected to hit 3 mil in 3 months even with a viral campaign against it and the horror show that was development? 1.5 million is an acceptable 3 months tally in my book, but I am not a billion-dollar entertainment company that invested 100s of millions into an IP. That being said, word of mouth from fans keeping the IP alive all-over social media did help DA:I reach such a lofty number. Just like with Inquisition, I have been singing this game's praises to everyone who asks. I waded into every filthy scrum on the internet, throwing elbows and pies left and right. Even when it was seemingly fruitless, the goal was to have at least one person to “spite the ‘opps’”. I stumbled out of the melee, bruised and bloodied, only watch in utter confusion as the Bioware DA dev team turtled into a fetal position while being tucked into bed by the EA boss before he turned off the lights. Confusion led to horror as I saw “fans”, you know, short form of FANATICS, pulling an “et tu Brute?” If this game completely bombs, you may never get another Dragon Age. Some of us, who have been around since the beginning, are getting old. 30s, 40s, and even 50s, right? People will start kicking off before a new game can even enter development. Another 10-15 years is bad news. Haha Get the word out and be an ambassador if you enjoyed your experience. Take people under your wing that are curious or apprehensive about giving the game a try. Befriend and enlighten people who have had a bad experience or have been reluctant because of what haters are saying. Social media. I need not explain too much as it has already worked for DA:I. I have seen a decent amount of streams and clips from players on YouTube. Good start. No doubt while under bombardment from haters... The goal is show that there is more to the game than the elephant in the room. If I had to guess without a stopwatch, I'd say the total run time of the thorn in our collective sides actually being a thorn is 25 to 30 mins across all characters involved. A playthrough should run you 50-70ish, flying, to 100+ hours depending on the person and how invested you are. If you had a bad experience, find people who have had a good experience and inquire about what they liked and even didn’t like. Common ground is the beginning of understand you see. Rather that, than running to the first hater page you can find and drowning yourself in confirmation bias. Haha Needless to say, you will find it. “Isn’t this kind of IRONIC, considering you’re asking me to-“ SHUT UP! We are in crisis mode, Mr. Contrarian! Let me finish. Befriend someone who enjoys the game and play through a campaign in parallel. Sorry, I am full up. I have two friends with 200+ hours a piece doing share-screens on PS5 every other night. Where was I… Try a different class, sub-class, overall build, faction, race, love interest, character personality, there are three choices plus love interest, and or choices in general. Haters say choices have no impact… That is hilariously false. I have over 600 hours in this game. I will battle anyone, anywhere, any time over this. Haha. Some choices have very little impact, some make you very sad, happy, and others still will make you furious ,quick tangent, WASTING 80% OF THE GAME ON A BELLARA OR LUCANIS “SHIP”. I am on characters #4,5, and 6 out of 7. One for each love interest. I have had a blast! Is Veilguard BG3? NO! AND IT SHOULDN’T BE! GO PLAY BG3 IF YOU WANT BG3! I actually took a break from my now 2,000 hours over all characters to play Veilguard. Yeah. I did. This is a quick 80 to 100hr romp through what should be one of your favorite IPs. I don’t think I have a single playthrough under 120 hours that is through the second act of BG3. Most of that time is prepping builds, relationship management, and exploring catacombs with often underwhelming payoff. Did I mention RTS? 15 to 45 min battles… Snoozeville… It is a generational achievement, storytelling wonder, and an S rank gamer score from me, sure. Still, I call balls and strikes. At 2,000 hrs I could go on and on. Need to see what all was fixed with the latest patch. ANYWAY… Random final thought: PS5 PRO + that last patch has visuals equivalent in beauty as that of hearing my mother’s voice for the first time… Except for the armor and hair clipping in parts and places of course… It might be the most beautiful game I have seen to date on a console. For "realism" mixed with... Uh... ultra hi res Fortnite, and not the fancy artsy fartsy stuff. Flagship title well earned. Now, go forth and multip-… I mean spread the word! I will go back to fighting the good fight. I don’t want to have my mind turn to Swiss cheese before I get another game. HahaVeilguard is a delightful game
I just came here to say, that I have found this game to be utterly delightful. Impressive Elven ruins, interesting magical devices, likeable characters. I'm on my 4th playthrough (I think I like the Rogue class the best... bows and dual wielding swords) This is not from the perspective of a Dragon Age fan (moreover, I was reading all the things people were complaining about and said hmm... I might like this one), I could never get into those games. Anyway, praise where it's due, Bioware/EA. I've always been a fan of the Mass Effect series (I even like Andromeda... sad that the plug got pulled and there were no expansions) and Veilguard has me similarly invested.Dear EA CEOs and shareholders
As a longtime Bioware fan and video gamer, I'm NOT interested in: multiplayer, your microtransaction money grabs, your blatant disregard for your employees, your ignorance toward video games as a form of art, your insulting stance that only people under 25 play video games, you disinterest whether a game is hitting the mark in terms of lore consistency which directly ties into your disrespect toward the fans. It is so apparent that you are out of touch with the people who would happily give you all the money they don't even have if they got a sense that you were trying to stay true to them and franchise games they have been following for decades. But I hear you think games failed because "people want multiplayer" - NO, WE DO NOT! Did you learn nothing from Dragon Age pervious successes and Baldurs Gate 3? No, you did not, because you don't consume games, you just try to bleed people dry and move on. I hope you step barefoot on Lego bricks every day for the rest of your lives.An Open Letter to EA CEO and Directors
I beg of any EA staff that read this to pass this letter to higher ups. Everything I am writing about today cannot be solved by customer service staff because frankly, it's not up to you guys. You have to sit through all this and read all of these complaints and I am deeply sorry - I do not wish to direct any of my frustrations towards you. Andrew Wilson and Kofi Bruce however? Oh yes, they deserve to feel the fan's wrath and gain an understanding. Rachel A. Gonzalez, Jeffrey T. Huber, Talbott Roche, Richard A. Simonson, Luis A. Ubiñas, Heidi Ueberroth, Kofi Bruce, and Andrew Wilson; I desire to speak directly to you. The discussion about live service needs to end. Not every game can be CoD. Or FIFA. Or Apex. You and your shareholders have been near obsessive over turning single-player IPs into MMOs or multi-player live service IPs for more than a decade. The result of that is leaving your fans ( and profit generators, because that's all we are to you, right? ) with a sour taste in their mouth and a reluctance to spend money on your franchises. Not to mention many of us have a severe lack of trust in this company due to the blatant disregard of customer opinions. The fact that EA doesn't have an email address to contact when issues arise says it all. Got too much complaints in those inboxes, huh? Yeah, the solution is definitely to just remove that point of contact. Ignoring an issue makes it go away! I have to put this in the Dragon Age: The Veilguard forum simply because there is no general complaints page on this forum. But it is not just DA this has happened to. What on Earth is happening with The Sims franchise? Why, oh why, do the Directors and shareholders insist that live service is the only way forward? Has it never crossed your minds that perhaps, some people only like playing single player games? Some people like the concept of being able to play a game without internet connection being a requirement. Or, if you're like me, you do not like dealing with the harassment and abuse that ensues when playing these online games. I used to play CoD all the time, you know what happened? I was abused for being a girl. Experiences like that push you away from live service IPs, not towards them. Especially when those abusing you don't get banned by the platform despite all of the complaints I used to submit 10 years ago. Here's a snippet from the EA User Agreement: "When you access or use an EA Service, you agree that you will not: Interfere with or disrupt another player's use of an EA Service. This includes disrupting the normal flow of game play, chat or dialogue within an EA Service by, for example, using vulgar or harassing language, being abusive, excessive shouting (all caps), spamming, flooding or hitting the return key repeatedly. To enforce these rules, we may monitor your activity and remove any UGC. If you don’t follow these rules, we may remove your UGC, warn you, suspend you, ban you permanently or place other restrictions on your EA Account, games, or related services." Oddly enough, all of the men who message me sexually charged messages, tracked down other social medias and harassed me (at the age of 15, by the way), shouted sexist nonsense at me during a team death match, were not reprimanded for their behavior. They were not banned. Their accounts were still active. I was bullied and harassed out of the FPS/MMO community. You really think I want the lovely Dragon Age to join the likes of THEM?! These games did not do well because they don't have live service. The newest installment in the Dragon Age franchise failed because writers are no longer appreciated for all of the amazing concepts they create. Too 'controversial'. Too 'hard to connect with'. Too 'Woke'. The respect towards creative voices in this industry seems nonexistent and there is this weird reluctance to just... let writers do their jobs? The 'woke agenda' definitely did not hold back Larian Studios from success, in fact, it propelled them to the top and is expected to hold the place as the most popular RPG in history, surpassing even Skyrim with the ability to mod and add new maps/quests/ANYTHING to the game. Dragon Age could have easily been their direct competitor. Let me say that again, could have easily been their direct competitor. The fan base that have followed BioWare for over 15 years would be more than happy to do all the hype work and marketing for you, I myself have recommended the earlier games to others many times. That is called loyalty, and you only achieve this by earning your customer's trust. EA has gone out of their way to break that trust between company and customer on many occasions. Then have the audacity to question why the game didn't sell well? Seriously? Do you only read your stock prices and just stop there? Have you ever, genuinely, read a single review for this game? I didn't think so - because if you had you'd know that a lack of multiplayer is NOT why the game underperformed. Enough about that for now. Let's circle back round to The Sims, shall we? Why did Sims 4 not do very well? Oh yeah, because there's so many expansion packs that it would cost over $1,000 to own everything ( and good luck running your computer with all of that! ) and when the game was released it was incomplete. The most upsetting thing about the Sims franchise for me, is that it had such a vice grip on this niche of the gaming market. There was nothing else like it. Notice I said was? Sure, the copycat life simulation are taking a while to get off the ground, but they are coming. Why would someone go back to the Sims when a hyperrealistic, complete, and bug free game emerges on the market? Why would customers trust you with the next installment of the Sims when EA smashed that trust with a sledgehammer by continuing to release expansions, stuff packs, CRAP packs? Project Rene. It's a wonderful concept, I will admit. But it's so easy to see past the curtain here. To see the real reason why there won't be a Sims 5. The shame of being called out for extorting your own customers was just too much to bear! Instead of apologizing to them and rectifying the past mistake by providing a new and complete Sims experience, it'll be so much easier to add to the existing foundations so you can squeeze even more money out of your fans! Why make a new one when you can convince new people to come and spend money, right? This way, new fans may only buy 2 expansion packs but that's another $60 in EA's pocket (standard game price with little to no extra work done) that'll be funneled right back to shareholders. Ah, what a wonderful idea!! And us fans, gosh, we are just so stupid that we will continue falling for it! Never mind the fact that when the 'For Rent' pack came out it corrupted everyone's save files and progress, and was fundamentally broken on release. With no quick fix in sight either. Oh, and many youtubers documented that whole situation live. Thanks to them, I didn't waste my money on that pack and corrupt my game. Aren't you tired of being embarrassed? Surely it is just exhausting by now. But we, the fans, are here to help. But you'll have to do something very very difficult.... LISTEN TO US! Phew! That was so hard to say... to the wall or screen . I'll be lucky if so much as a manager puts their eyes on this, let alone a Director. But with all of the digging I've done it could be very fun to do a video essay about the structure of EA, their stock markets, and long terms monetary results of their IPs and the management of them and post it to YouTube. That would get a lot more views than this little forum post. To Kofi Bruce and Richard A. Simonson in particular - I see that you are both Finance Experts. Pray tell, could you indulge upon me your insight and wisdom? Can you explain why turning massively successful single player IPs into mediocre multiplayer IPs is a wise financial decision? Is it a purposeful way of eliminating an IP you no longer want to deal with? In the same way where if you can't or don't want to fire someone you just give them terrible work or exclude them from outings in the hopes they hand in their notice themselves? Because that is exactly how it looks to me. I would love to know which focus groups said 'Yes! We've always wanted Dragon Age to turn into MMO slop! Why stop there?! May as well use generative AI for everything! Those pesky writers think they're so great, but my ChatGPT can outdo them by miles!' considering all of the veteran employees of BioWare were laid off or outright fired, I can't help but assume this is how all of you think. I could be wrong, but unfortunately I can find no proof out there to say I am wrong. Which is why I ask you - what information made you all think that this game needed live service in order to succeed? My favorite line in all of the Dragon Age games will always be from Origins - 'You killed them, didn't you? You killed them all.' 'Like dogs, Shianni.' Lines like this simply do not exist anymore today. Well, from EA, anyway. Larian is doing a smashing job. Thanks for listening to my TED talk, I'm gonna go back to playing BG3 and supporting Larian since ain't no way anyone from EA has read this far! Again, I'm so sorry to any CS staff that read all of this. My gripes are not with you <3 However I have saved this letter externally so if it gets taken down I've got backups.
