Dragon Age announces expansion. Awakenings!

While the Return to Ostagar paid add-on is still delayed for the time-being, Bioware has just announced the first full expansion for Dragon Age. In Dragon Age Awakenings you are tasked with rebuilding the Grey Wardens. Me, I’ll see if I can get them to have a little bit more respect for life, as I’m pretty sure murdering anyone who decides not to drink their foul poison or asks too many questions is not doing them any favours in the [...]

Dragon Age Origins 1.02 Patch Notes

This one is rather more fulsome than the previous efforts. It supersedes the test mod that many of us have been using that fixed the archery and dagger issues. You can grab the patch at the official 1.02 Dragon Age Patch page.

Dragon Age: Origins 1.02:

You do not need to download patches prior to Patch 1.02. Downloading Patch 1.02 contains all previous patches. Downloading Patch 1.02 will provide you with all patch data available.

Balance

* Daggers now [...]

Dragon Age Patch 1.01b released

Dragon Age’s second game patch has arrived!

Dragon Age Patch 1.01b patch notes:

Fixed potential corruption of character statistics. Fixed portrait appearance sliders when importing a character from the downloadable Character Creator. Fixed import for preset face settings from the downloadable Character Creator. Made Easy difficulty easier. Slightly increased attack, defense, and damage scores for all party members at Normal difficulty. Fixed video issues when running on a very wide screen display, including ATI Eyefinity displays. Fixed an issue with [...]

The Dragon Age Toolset: Destroyer of Worlds.

It is possible that I have just become a lot more stupid than I used to be, but try as I might, I couldn’t get Dragon Age’s editor to do ANYTHING without something going horribly wrong. Even though I’d not even changed anything, I somehow managed to break the main campaign and corrupt my saves. Weirdness abounded, with my party just standing about, refusing to follow me, and greeting me as if we were meeting for the first time. Talking [...]

Dragon Age Patch 1.01a released

Aye indeed. I’ve picked up Dragon Age: Origins, and am hoping to do a spot of modding for it if it turns out to be within my abilities. I never really got into Oblivion, but I greatly enjoyed the Morrowind and Baldur’s Gate 2 modding scenes.

Bioware have just set loose their first post-release bug fix, which you can download here. It performs the following works of wonder:

* fixed potential corruption of character statistics * fixed portrait appearance [...]