Dragon Age: The Veilguard developer BioWare has launched a brand new patch for the sport and in the identical breath instructed it’s principally performed with it lower than three months after launch.
As noticed by Eurogamer, Patch 5 contains only one quality-of-life enchancment and quite a few bug fixes, nevertheless it’s the wording from BioWare that implies that is the remaining main patch Dragon Age: The Veilguard will get.
“Thanks all for taking part in Dragon Age: The Veilguard; we had been so proud of the sport’s stability at launch and hope you’ve loved our High quality of Life patches since then,” BioWare said. “With the sport being in a steady place, we’re transferring to observe for any game-breaking bugs ought to these happen. Dareth shiral!”
Shifting to observe game-breaking bugs seems like gamers shouldn’t count on any new content material. And as Eurogamer factors out, “dareth shiral” means “farewell” in Dragon Age’s Elvish language.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard was the first new sport in the fantasy RPG sequence in 10 years, nevertheless it got here and went not with a bang however a whimper. Amid the launch BioWare confirmed Dragon Age: The Veilguard wouldn’t get any post-launch DLC, surprising followers who had hoped for expansions as earlier Dragon Age video games had acquired.
This week, writer and proprietor EA admitted Dragon Age: The Veilguard had failed to fulfill gross sales expectations by a whopping 50%; it had anticipated three million gamers, however the sport managed just one.5 million.
There’s been some smoke round Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s struggles, such because it receiving a big low cost only a month after launch for Cyber Monday, and the departure of its director, Corinne Busche, from BioWare simply final week. We have chronicled a few of the sport’s improvement challenges already, together with layoffs and the departure of a number of undertaking leads at completely different phases.
Mass Impact 5 now seems to be BioWare’s focus, though it appears far, distant nonetheless. And what subsequent for Dragon Age? Given how Dragon Age: The Veilguard went for EA, it appears the writer will take some convincing to greenlight one more sequel any time quickly.
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