The still-fresh PC version of Dragon Age: Origins recently got a huge booster shot in two delicious flavors. The first came in the form of Patch v1.01a, which, in addition to fixing a few character corruption issues and display glitches, makes the game easier as a whole. The second, much beefier improvement came with the release of the Dragon Age: Origins tool set, which allows users to create their own adventures using the game's extremely adaptable (and powerful!) engine.
Check out the tool set's capabilities in the trailer posted above. To acquire these modding tools -- or the difficulty-reducing patch -- check out the links below.
Download Dragon Age: Origins v1.01a Patch (13 MB)
Download the Dragon Age: Origins Toolset (472 MB)
Download the EclipseRay Lightmapper Source Code (6 MB)
Reader Comments (48)
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 7:24PM (Unverified) said
It's so nice when developers have at least some level of respect and support for the PC.
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Posted: Nov 7th 2009 11:32PM (Unverified) said
Yeah, my mage was getting ass-handed at a ridiculous frequency ever since I got out of the Circle tower. The warriors in my party are too low for aggro control, my mage's damage is ridiculous due to my "glass cannon" approach to character building, and the result is that I spend the first fifteen seconds of the fight cracking heads and the last 45 seconds staring at the ceiling until the melee guys mop up the survivors and scrape me off the floor tile. Not terribly fun, I'm afraid.
Hopefully they didn't just tone down the damage/health of enemies, as I could've managed that by opting for Easy mode...
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Hopefully they didn't just tone down the damage/health of enemies, as I could've managed that by opting for Easy mode...
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 11:51PM Huey2k2 said
Why do so many people suck at this game?
I am past redcliffe in the storyline and I rarely have characters die in combat, you just need to play smart. Freeze enemies and crit them to shatter them. Get a rotation going for your stuns, especially AoE stuns. Crowd control in DAO is vital.
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I am past redcliffe in the storyline and I rarely have characters die in combat, you just need to play smart. Freeze enemies and crit them to shatter them. Get a rotation going for your stuns, especially AoE stuns. Crowd control in DAO is vital.
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 2:53PM BrockObama911 said
My biggest problem with mages was mana, but healthwise my party got good after I got Wynne.
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Posted: Nov 7th 2009 8:22PM Drake Lake said
Surely you mean Gearbox? Sure are taking their sweet time patching that PC version of Borderlands, which might I add, was delayed for a week for supposed optimization and was surely supposed to be the best version of the three as it was developed specifically for the platform.
:)
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:)
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 8:24PM Drake Lake said
I sound like a dick, yeah, but come on, some of the stuff is bullshit. Nearly two weeks later and it still cannot play stable for me.
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Posted: Nov 7th 2009 8:30PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said
Strange.. my console version plays just fine..
Oh well. :)
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Oh well. :)
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 10:27PM ThePCRehabLLC said
Must be something with your system. My Borderland copy has been working flawlessly. May want to check your system drivers.
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 2:31AM Bowser Rogozhin said
"for giving the PC the respect it deserves"
The PC doesn't deserve respect as the PC is a manufactured product, a tool, created for the benefit of human beings. You give people respect, not products. All in all, such ill-thought out statements indicate a slight detachment from the day to day travails of real life and, even worse, an irregular attachment to a cold machine. What's next? You'll notify teh common reader on how you converted your beige box to resemble something akin to a Love Plus love machine? It's sad, and your constant wailing about the PC as a gaming platform is making the site harder to read.
You know, some people should treat the internet like a magazine.
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The PC doesn't deserve respect as the PC is a manufactured product, a tool, created for the benefit of human beings. You give people respect, not products. All in all, such ill-thought out statements indicate a slight detachment from the day to day travails of real life and, even worse, an irregular attachment to a cold machine. What's next? You'll notify teh common reader on how you converted your beige box to resemble something akin to a Love Plus love machine? It's sad, and your constant wailing about the PC as a gaming platform is making the site harder to read.
You know, some people should treat the internet like a magazine.
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 10:55AM kevin949 said
Oh please dude. The respect it deserves? If I'm not mistaken, I believe that most consoles get the red-headed step child treatment when it comes to games that are on the PC as well as consoles. Except for valves games, vavle completely shafted the console orange box owners (as of last time I checked) by not patching or doing anything with it, especially TF2. So please forgive me if I can't help but scoff slightly at your comment as if PC's have been ousted from gaming all together or something.
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 12:17PM RKN said
I can't fucking believe I am hearing this from you guys. The PC has been getting shafted far more often than consoles by publishers and developers, I venture most of you do not own PCs so you don't understand. We have to put up with all this talk of PC gaming dying each fucking year, you never hear that about consoles do you?
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 12:21PM RKN said
"I believe that most consoles get the red-headed step child treatment when it comes to games that are on the PC as well as consoles."
LOLOLOL.
Bull-FUCKING-Shit. Look at all the multiplatform games that are being delayed on the PC months later such as Assassins Creed 2, Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter 4, etc. Look at how Activision has treated the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. Look at the many multiplatform games which receive collector's editions on the consoles but not PC, Arkham Asylum, Rainbow 6: Vegas, GTA4, etc.
Alan Wake was first shown on the PC years ago and thanks to lovely old Microsoft, will probably only come to the 360 now.
And you fuckers are complaining you get treated badly? You have the GALL to do that!? Far as I know, only Valve puts consoles as an afterthought, pretty much everybody else is vice versa.
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LOLOLOL.
Bull-FUCKING-Shit. Look at all the multiplatform games that are being delayed on the PC months later such as Assassins Creed 2, Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter 4, etc. Look at how Activision has treated the PC version of Modern Warfare 2. Look at the many multiplatform games which receive collector's editions on the consoles but not PC, Arkham Asylum, Rainbow 6: Vegas, GTA4, etc.
Alan Wake was first shown on the PC years ago and thanks to lovely old Microsoft, will probably only come to the 360 now.
And you fuckers are complaining you get treated badly? You have the GALL to do that!? Far as I know, only Valve puts consoles as an afterthought, pretty much everybody else is vice versa.
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 7:38PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said
Well, good.
Maybe that'll dry up some of the PC gamer tears, and we can have some peace and quiet for a change.
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Maybe that'll dry up some of the PC gamer tears, and we can have some peace and quiet for a change.
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 8:20PM (Unverified) said
As a PC gamer I can say that I'm getting tired of the whole furore.
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Posted: Nov 7th 2009 8:22PM Cheesus Crust said
YES! PC Only news! I never thought the day would come!
And thanks for this, been too lazy to download.
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And thanks for this, been too lazy to download.
Posted: Nov 7th 2009 9:40PM (Unverified) said
I'm having problems with this patch though. After I installed it, I can't even press play anymore.... WTF
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Posted: Nov 7th 2009 10:45PM carmaction said
I was having the same problem, but if you download the x86 update on this website it fixes it. Well, it fixed it for me, at least:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en
It's a security update for C++. I mean... duh?! Who DOESN'T think to update C++ when a game isn't running? Right?
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en
It's a security update for C++. I mean... duh?! Who DOESN'T think to update C++ when a game isn't running? Right?
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 11:41AM (Unverified) said
Unplayable for me 2 after the patch. The play button wouldn't work. The sysconfig tool ran but also had no option to play either. I had to reinstall before I could play again.
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Posted: Nov 7th 2009 10:35PM carmaction said
I love patches that make your game completely unplayable.
If I have to uninstall and play an unpatched version to fix this... I'm gonna throw a tantrum that will solve nothing. Just you watch. I'll do it.
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If I have to uninstall and play an unpatched version to fix this... I'm gonna throw a tantrum that will solve nothing. Just you watch. I'll do it.
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 2:16AM carmaction said
OH MY GOD! CONGRATULATIONS!
What's wrong with people? It WAS unplayable, but I found a security update for C++ that resolved the issue. "Yours isn't working? Well, mine is, so neener neener neener." Freakin' douche.
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What's wrong with people? It WAS unplayable, but I found a security update for C++ that resolved the issue. "Yours isn't working? Well, mine is, so neener neener neener." Freakin' douche.
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 12:12AM Misfit Toy said
The 360 version could use a music audio glitch fix.
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 1:25AM (Unverified) said
As a PC gamer I'm getting tired of all these entitled bitches that's being associated with my main platform. You will not see console owners bitching and whining why they're not getting a toolset to create their own adventures. And yes it can be done, you can easily enable mouse and keyboard on consoles just like what Unreal Tournament III did.
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 1:32AM (Unverified) said
As a person living in America, I am getting tired of all these entitled bitches being associated with my main country. You do not see the People's Republic of China bitching about having their rights taken away.
Hint to Xenuxenu: Why would they bitch about something they've never had in the first place?
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Hint to Xenuxenu: Why would they bitch about something they've never had in the first place?
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 1:59AM (Unverified) said
You sound retarded, do you by any chance work for Infinity Ward?
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 10:55AM (Unverified) said
@Azerael
Wow did you just bring politics into videogames? Not only that did you compare what IW is doing to PC players to what the Chinese government does to their people? Overreacting much?
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Wow did you just bring politics into videogames? Not only that did you compare what IW is doing to PC players to what the Chinese government does to their people? Overreacting much?
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 7:09AM iHavePants said
Because the people who play on easy are really bad at games.
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 3:01PM (Unverified) said
Damn.. Knew Ishould've bought the PC version of this game.. I loved Neverwinter's toolset.
Oh well :(
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Oh well :(
Posted: Nov 8th 2009 3:54PM (Unverified) said
So, any people that have experience or fiddled about with the toolset? How is it? User friendly?
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Posted: Nov 8th 2009 7:24PM (Unverified) said
The nerf to Normal difficulty is more than welcome. I spent nearly an hour the other night trying to get past a random encounter of wolves.
Seriously, Dragon Age's wolves make the darkspawn horde look like a bunch of ninnies in comparison.
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Seriously, Dragon Age's wolves make the darkspawn horde look like a bunch of ninnies in comparison.
Posted: Nov 9th 2009 12:11PM (Unverified) said
I got stuck on a pack of the dogs in Redcliff castle. Malibri? Whatever they're called. The trick to beating them was to simply funnel them in a door so I only had to fight a couple at a time. Otherwise, they had my team wiped in under 10 seconds on normal difficulty, it was ridiculous.
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Posted: Nov 9th 2009 3:23AM (Unverified) said
A quality game, takes forever to play through, has immense replay value, no wretched DRM, support for PC... worth every penny you should be paying to play it!
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