Uh, Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC just got a free DLC out of nowhere and with next to no fanfare, despite everyone kind of assuming EA was done with it

Ok, so you know Dragon Age: The Veilguard – that game that came out, and then not long afterwards a bunch of veteran BioWare devs who worked on it got laid off or transferred to other EA studios as part of restructing at BioWare. Well, the PC version of it randomly got a new DLC yesterday, seemingly with very little fanfare.

This comes after the combination of all that behind-the-scenes stuff I just mentioned, EA saying the game underperformed before letting it drop on PS Plus for free in pretty rapid fashion, and BioWare itself seemingly saying a fancy Elven goodbye in some January patch notes had all left us assuming that the game was very much done with. On to Mass Effect 5, whatever that may look like.

Well, as spotted by TheGamer, the Steam version of Veilguard suddenly got a fresh add-on yesterday, March 20. It’s a free DLC called “Rook’s Weapons Appearance Offer”, and it looks to offer some new weapon and shioeld skins that someone on Reddit’s kindly put together a slideshow of.

“Rise as Rook in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. This offer includes Rook’s Weapon Appearance Set for all players who own the game on PC,” reads the Steam announcement that looks to be the only thing outside of just randomly browsing Veilguard’s Steam page that’s around to let you know this DLC exists, “This offer is available to players who purchase the game by April 8, 2025. The items will appear in Rook’s Room when you log into Dragon Age: The Veilguard.”

So, limited-time and seemingly as part of an offer designed to encourage you to buy or play Veilguard – which is on sale along with the rest of the series on Steam right now – in the near future. As an extra note, the drescrption of the DLC itself gives a different date as to when you’ve got to purchase the game by compared to that Steam announcement – it says April 9. However, there’s no post on the official Dragon Age Twitter account about it or anything on the game’s website under either latest news or game updates.

VG247 has contacted EA for comment and asked whether this free DLC will also be coming to console.

There’s some speculation in the Reddit thread I link earlier that this stuff might be stuff that was already in Veilguard’s files and has now simply been made available, rather than being freshly-developed content made by whoever’s left at BioWare that could still be assigned to the game. The Dragon Age fans on there don’t seem to be fans of these weapons/skins either, with one summing things up by writing: “Here, have a hideous knife and love us forever”.

How do you feel about this kinda weird development with Veilguard? Let us know below.