Dain's Fixes

Introduction

This started out as a small collection of personal fixes for Dragon Age: Origins that hadn't been made by any other modders, released publicly by popular request from the guys at the old BSN. It's since grown in scope to be a one-stop shop for all mechanics-related fixes in the game, plus some quality of life changes, cosmetics, and mild balance tweaks without significantly altering the feel of the gameplay. Quest and dialogue fixes aren't in the scope of this pack - try Qwinn's Ultimate DAO Fixpack if you're looking for such.

This fixpack is completely modular. The CORE folder is needed for the various modules to work together (note that they don't do anything on their own until individual modules start directing events to them), but for everything else you can freely pick and choose. For a conservative approach you might want to limit yourself to only the fixes and possibly some of the lower impact tweaks.

It's designed to be as compatible with other mods as I can make it. For the most part it should work gracefully with anything that uses event manager, though there are some events where performance and/or bugfixes necessitate monopolising the event as eventmanager can cause issues with too much event redirection.

On the note of bugs, while I dogfood the mod there's always the chance of scenarios I haven't encountered which may result in anything up to and including breaking your game, all of your saves and the computer it's being run on. No warranty of any kind is included.

I've included .nss source files as a separate file for anyone curious.

INSTALLATION

Unzip the Dain's Fixes file and place the contents into Documents/BioWare/Dragon Age/packages/core/override. Any subfolder inside override works, but I'd suggest keeping them inside the Dain's Fixes folder for neatness. Optionally pick and choose whatever modules you want, but the CORE folder must remain. I strongly recommend doing this, at least for the QOL and tweak sections, as they may not all be to everyone's taste. It should work with Vortex but you'll still need to manually remove any undesired changes from the override folder.

You can drop into existing saves with no issues, though a couple of the changes - particularly around item properties and heroic attributes - won't be applied retroactively. Modal talents will typically need turning off and back on again for changes to be picked up.

UNINSTALLATION

The Lucky, Fast Move, Hide Weapon VFX Crusts and Telekinetic Dual Weapons modules can cause permanent changes if the mod is simply removed. If you are using them, you'll need to delete the contents of override/Dain's Fixes apart from the CORE folder, then re-save your games. The mod will detect the removal of these modules and update your game accordingly.