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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is less than a week old, but the mods are coming in quickly. In these early days it was most popular Nexus Mods revolve around PC performance improvements and different character presets, and there’s even one that removes the purple from the game to make it look more like a dark fantasy RPG.
Let’s start with the latter. Vktrflies Dark fantasy lookup table (LUT) mod is a new color that aims to remove the purple/magenta elements from the game and give it “a darker, more atmospheric look.”
Dragon Age: The Veilguard in original form.
Vktrfly’s Dark Fantasy LUT mod enabled.
Ever since BioWare revealed The Veilguard’s gameplay, fans have debated the art style, with some lamenting the developer’s decision to go for a highly stylized, almost cartoonish look compared to the more gritty, realistic previous games in the series. The Veilguard, with its fluid, purple-tinged visuals, is certainly at the opposite end of the Dragon Age art style spectrum, with 2009’s Origins heavy on mud and blood-soaked medieval fantasy, and Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition somewhere in the world take a place. -between.
But the most popular mod so far is ChemBoy1 Anti-stutter – Performance improvement – High CPU and disk priority – DATV modwhich allows high CPU and disk priority for the Dragon Age: The Veilguard executable. This can help with performance on weaker CPUs and slower drives, and helps reduce stuttering on all CPUs and drives, according to ChemBoy1.
Also high on the list of most downloaded mods is Nyctaginae’s preset and sliders for their Rook (the customizable protagonist of Veilguard), Ayse de Riva, a female mage and elf Antivan Crow (“Based on my OC of over 15 years, I hope you like her!”).
Nyctaginae’s Ayse de Riva mod for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Expect more extensive mods to appear as modders master The Veilguard. We’ve seen the likes of Larian and CD Projekt release official mod tools for Baldur’s Gate 3 and The Witcher 3 respectively, which have unlocked a boom in each game’s modding scene. Perhaps BioWare will do the same for Dragon Age: The Veilguard at some point.
And that could be important in keeping the game alive, as BioWare has indicated it has no plans to release DLC for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, with the developer now turning its attention to Mass Effect 5.
In the meantime, fans are busy delving into BioWare’s latest RPG following the release of Dragon Age on Thursday, bringing it to new highlights for an EA game on Steam. They have plenty to find even without DLC – estimates are at IGN sister site HowLongToBeat suggest it could take more than 88 hours to complete the main story while doing side quests.
For more information, check out our guide to the important choices in Dragon Age: The Veilguard as well as ours complete romance guide.
Wesley is the UK news editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].