[STEAM] Early Dragon Age: The Veilguard Mods Improve Performance, Add Character Presets, and Remove All the Purple

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isn’t even a week old, but the mods are coming in thick and fast. In these early days, the most popular on

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revolve around performance improvements on PC and various character presets, and there’s even one that strips the purple from the game to make it look more like a dark fantasy RPG.

Let’s start with the latter. Vktrfly’s

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(LUT) mod is a reshade that aims to remove the purple/magenta elements from the game and give it “a darker, more atmospheric look.”

Ever since BioWare unveiled The Veilguard gameplay, fans have debated its art style, with some lamenting the developer’s decision to go for a heavily stylized, almost cartoony look compared to the more gritty, realistic prior games in the series. The Veilguard, with its smooth, purple-hued visuals, is certainly at the opposite end of the Dragon Age art style spectrum, with 2009’s

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heavy on mud and blood-drenched medieval fantasy, and

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occupying a place somewhere in-between.

But the most popular mod so far is ChemBoy1’s

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, which enables high CPU and disk priority for the Dragon Age: The Veilguard executable. This can help with performance on weaker CPUs and slower disks, and helps reduce stuttering on all CPU and disks, ChemBoy1 said.

Also high on the most downloaded mods list is Nyctaginae’s

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(Veilguard’s customizable main character), Ayse de Riva, a female mage and elf Antivan Crow (“Based on my OC of 15+ years, hope you like her!”).

Expect more elaborate mods to release as modders get to grips with 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 an ********** in each game’s modding scene. Perhaps at some point down the line, BioWare will do the same for Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

And that might be important in keeping the game alive, given BioWare has indicated

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, with the developer now turning its attention to Mass Effect 5.

In the meantime, fans are busy digging into BioWare's latest RPG after Dragon Age's release on Thursday, propelling it to

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. They have plenty to find even without DLC — estimates on

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suggest that it can take upwards of 88 hours to complete the main story while doing sidequests.

For more, check out our guide to the

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