Summary
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard received its final major update, Patch 5.
- BioWare will focus on monitoring game-breaking bugs, but don’t expect new features.
- We were already told that there would be no DLC, as the team moves on to Mass Effect 5 instead.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard appears to have just received its final major update. With Patch 5 now live, BioWare says that it will be moving to “monitor for any game-breaking bugs”, suggesting that we won’t be getting any new features or many other changes at all.
While this isn’t overly surprising for an offline single-player RPG that we already knew wouldn’t be getting DLC, it does mean that some fan-requested features will not be added to the game. This includes the Golden Nug, a New Game Plus feature added to Dragon Age: Inquisition after its own launch, that let you share loot and collectables across different save files.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Patch 5 Is Out Now
BioWare will only address “game-breaking bugs” from now on
“Thank you all for playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard,” the latest patch notes open. “We were so happy with the game’s stability at launch and hope you have enjoyed our Quality of Life patches since then. With the game being in a stable place, we are moving to monitor for any game-breaking bugs should those occur. Dareth shiral!”
“Dareth shiral” is how the Dalish elves say goodbye in the Dragon Age universe.
Sure enough, we were already warned that there would be no DLC because BioWare is now focussing on Mass Effect 5. However, fans did have ideas for new features that could be added. While some were always a bit unrealistic, like new story elements or even campaigns, there were hopes that we’d get a way to share all of the costumes we’ve accumulated between our characters. Some also wanted improvements to the character creator, but it seems that this won’t be happening now.
After The Veilguard dropped, it appears that the team moved on quite quickly. One of The Veilguard’s directors, Corinne Busche, even left BioWare to work on another RPG. So, it seems that they were telling the truth about no DLC after all, making The Veilguard the first Dragon Age game to get no expansions.
As for this latest patch, it’s made a bunch of bug fixes. This includes fixes for character clipping, dialogue not working as intended, and a quest not triggering properly.

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.