In the official art book for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare revealed that it was once toying with the idea of bringing Dragon Age II hero Hawke into the fold before ultimately scrapping a possible appearance. However, the RPG’s latest patch includes the next best thing: their iconic mage armor for your new hero Rook to wear. Along with all the expected bug fixes, of course.
Like the Mass Effect crossover armor before it, you’ll need to finish the quest called “The Singing Blade” before you’re able to wear Hawke’s old armor. Once you do, you’ll find it in the Lighthouse base next to the Workshop. The set includes the armor itself, as well as body paint and the blood-red smear Hawke has across their face in their default appearance. If you really want to channel the OG sarcastic Dragon Age protagonist while using those options in The Veilguard, this is how you commit to the bit. I wonder if characters like Varric and Isabela will acknowledge it? Would be surprising given the game goes out of its way to mention Hawke as little as possible, since The Veilguard doesn’t import your decision from Inquisition that may have left them to die in the Fade.
Beyond Hawke’s armor, here’s everything else in The Veilguard’s fourth patch:
New Content:
- Dragon Age 2 Hawke’s Iconic Outfit, including: Armor, Body Paint, and Face Paint
- Qunari Complexions: Two new complexions for the Qunari lineage
Quality of Life Changes:
- In Patch 3, we introduced a line on screen showing where a Photo Mode screenshot was saved. In Patch 4, we are reverting that change due to a safety concern brought to us by some content creators. PC players can find their Photo Mode screenshots in Documents/BioWare/Dragon Age: The Veilguard/screenshots
- Added an in-game Setting to turn off Bloom.
- Added a “Hide/Show UI” button on the pause screen to better take screenshots on Console.
- Added a “Take Photo” button on the pause screen to take screenshots during conversations and cinematics on PC.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed an issue that prevented some saves from loading properly. (PC Only)
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the Frame Rate Limit setting from being saved.
- Fixed an issue with Rook’s face and hair changing drastically when a save is loaded.
- Fixed an issue with certain longer hairstyles that floated above Rook’s chest and shoulders.
- Fixed an issue where two Neve characters could appear in the Fire and Ice quest.
- Fixed a rare issue where Emmrich did not lead Rook to the next task in his recruitment Where the Dead Must Go quest.
- Adjusted the spirit guides in The Warden Vault quest.
- Fixed an issue that caused the Ultimate Ability to swap to the default Ultimate.
- Fixed an issue where the Ultimate Ability Icon was not displayed after Bellara is recruited.
- Fixed an issue where the first hit in a Warrior Rook’s shield throw may miss the target unintentionally.
- Fixed an issue where the Slaughter of Pillars Revenant had no health bar.
- Fixed an issue that caused Achievement Progress to reset when a new Rook was created. This will not restore Achievement Progress that was overwritten, but your Rooks will no longer compete with each other for who can kill more High Dragons.
- Fixed an issue with the camera in The Demon’s Bargain quest when playing on an HDD.
- Fixed an issue with the camera in the Sea of Blood quest if Rook backtracked too far.
- Fixed two instances where Viago was clearly talking to Rook but was too absorbed by Teia’s beauty and staring at her instead.
- Fixed an issue with Photo Mode screenshots appearing slightly blurry for some players.
- Fixed an issue where taking a screenshot with the space bar in Photo Mode also toggled the highlighted setting at the same time. (PC Only)
- Fixed an audio issue that caused battle music to stop playing while Rook was still fighting darkspawn in A Warden’s Best Friend quest.
- Fixed an audio issue that prevented music from playing during a conversation with Lucanis in the Lighthouse.
- Fixed a rare lighting issue in the One Last Breath quest
- Fixed a blocking issue in the Fire and Ice quest when returning to the Lighthouse.
- Fixed a blocking issue in the Blood of Arlathan quest if Rook backtracked too far.
- Fixed a UI issue that caused the “New Item” highlight to get stuck on an item.
- Fixed an issue with the In Lost Friendship codex that was mentioning events out of order and possibly with the wrong companion.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the male British Inquisitor (Harry Hadden-Paton) to be pitched too low.
- Updated several German voice line instances with corrected translations.
