Everything about DLC + MODS + Russian Localization

Overview

Complete guide for DLC, Modding and Russian Localization with links and instructions.

DLC

To get all the official DLC, go here[dragonage.wikia.com]
Download them all, install them all and don’t worry no more.
It’s 48 files – 3,12 GB

Follow the link[social.bioware.com] to get the following DLC absolutely free of charge:

Dragon Age: Origins

• Memory Band
• Feral Wolf Charm
• Guildmaster’s Belt
• Band of Fire
• Dalish Promise Ring
• Bulwark of the True King
• The Edge
• Embri’s Many Pockets
• Bregan’s Bow
• Helm of the Deep
• The Lucky Stone
• The Lion’s Paw
• Pearl of the Anointed
• Mark of Vigilance
• Amulet of the War Mage
• The Wicked Oath

Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening

• Bulwark of the True King
• Bregan’s Bow
• Pearl of the Anointed

Note: The DLC in question are the various weapons and items players got as pre-order bonuses when the games were first released.

Getting the stuff is as simple as logging into BioWare’s site, selecting your platform and which game, and pressing a button. You’ll be able to download your new toys soon afterward.

1. Download the DAZIP file.
2. Locate daupdater.exe in your game folder. For example, Steam users will find the file at: C:Program Files (x86)Steamsteamappscommondragon age originsbin_ship.
3. Run daupdater.exe
4. Click Load DAZIPs and browse to the location where you downloaded your DLC .dazip file.
5. Install it.
6. Run Dragon Age: Origins and check your DLC

Note: You might want to change the *.zip into *.dazip if you find daupdater can’t see the zip files.

To activate these DLC don’t forget to:

1. Go to official Bioware website[social.bioware.com]
2. Login with your Origin account or create a New one.
3. Register your Game as well as Ultimate Edition DLC Key.
4. After that login in the game with the same account and you good to move to MODS 🙂

MODS

Note: Instructions and download link can be found in respective page.

• DAO – Modmanager 1.9d[www.nexusmods.com] – Use it to install all the mods.
• CharGenMorph Compiler 1.2.3[www.nexusmods.com] – Searching through all override directories and reconstructing a singular “master” xml file containing all the values. It makes multiple models mods work together.

• Lock Bash 7[www.nexusmods.com] – Bash open locked chests and doors. The way the game should have been.
• Character Respecialization 1.6[www.nexusmods.com] – Allows the player to reset the attribute, specialization, spell, talent and skill points of any party members.
• Beyond Ferelden Base Chest 1.0[www.nexusmods.com] – Nice storage chest in the camp.
• Madd Gift Guide 1.1[www.nexusmods.com] – Adds (Intended Companion) Text to the front of a gift item description. Also lets you know if an item is plot related.
• No Helmet Hack 1.6[www.nexusmods.com] – Hides helmet.
• White Teeth 1.1[www.nexusmods.com] – Changes the rotten yellowish teeth of all characters to a white color.
• Pineappletree’s Vibrant Colors 1.31[www.nexusmods.com] – This adds 48 new hair & eyebrow colors, 40 new skin tones and 30 new eye colors to the Character Creator and replaces the 11 eye colors.
• More Hairstyles 0.51[www.nexusmods.com] – Adds new hairstyles available at character creation.
• Natural Bodies all in one 3.0[www.nexusmods.com] – Naughty stuff.
• Better Sex Cutscenes Zesty 2.0[www.nexusmods.com] – Goes well with Natural Bodies pack.
• Theta HD 1.2[www.nexusmods.com] – Enhance Dragon Age’s worst textures, and to fix graphical inconsistencies, without hurting performance or consuming excess RAM.

Note: To put together Pineappletree’s Vibrant Colors and More Hairstyles use CharGenMorph Compiler

• Improved Atmosphere 2.0[www.nexusmods.com] – Improves ambient NPC behavior, gives most NPC’s different clothes or equipment (to make the world seem bigger and more varied), adds many new tints for armors and weapons, restores cut content, fixes bugs, and much more.
• JB3textures 3.1[www.nexusmods.com] – Much better and sharpen textures.
• Dragon Age Redesigned 7.3c[www.nexusmods.com] – Redesigns the WHOLE of the NPCs in Dragon Age to fix skin issues, face proportions, personality mismatches, gender identification, race identification, etc. to better fit the lore of Dragon Age.
• Dragon Age Graphics Enhancement 1.0[www.nexusmods.com] – A graphics injector that adds sharpening, saturation, anti-aliasing, bloom and removes the red tint from the game.

Note: I don’t really like this 4 because I like vanilla textures more and Atmosphere & Redesign changes too much of the game making it too different from original. It really improves the game, but I guess, I’m just old fashioned. 😀

• Extra Dog Slot 1.41[www.nexusmods.com] – Allows you to make your pet mabari war dog a permanent 5th travelling companion.
• Advanced Tactics 3.1[www.nexusmods.com] – This add-in fix various bugs in tactics system, party members behaviors and AI. It enable new conditions and actions in the tactics system that give you the opportunity to configure your followers more precisely.
• Even More Advanced Tactics 1.0.0[www.nexusmods.com] – Introduces improvements to Tactics system. New Conditions, new Target Types, new Commands and completely new features are added. UPDATED on 12.10.2014

Compatibility: You have to choose between “Advanced Tactics” and “Even More Advanced Tactics”. First one is more stable but second one has more improvements.

Note: But it affects the core gameplay as well as the stability making it, at times, too easy.

• Ser Gilmore companion NPC – Fully Voiced 3.1.1[www.nexusmods.com] – Brings Ser Gilmore back into the game as a party member to accompany you throughout the game. It contains a romance, friendship and open relationship paths for all male and females from any race and origin.
• Ser Gilmore and dog companions in Awakening – Fully Voiced 1.1[www.nexusmods.com] – Ser Gilmore and your dog will join your party and accompany you through Awakening.

Quests: There are so many good quests out there that I couldn’t decide which to add, so I give you the links and it’s up to you to choose what adventure to follow. 😀

• Quests[www.nexusmods.com]
• Dungeons[www.nexusmods.com]

• Morrigan Restoration Patch Dialog Fixpack 1.1.0[www.nexusmods.com] – This restores several missing and fully voiced scenes to the game relating to Morrigan in addition to fixing innumerable issues with various parts of her dialogue not triggering correctly. Note: Doesn’t work with Russian Localization
• DahliaLynn’s Sleep Until Dawn 2.2[www.nexusmods.com] – Click on your camp tent go to sleep alone, with dog, or snuggle with a love interest. Wake up to a beautiful morning in camp ^_^
• HAIRSTYLE DAY 1.7[www.nexusmods.com] – New hairstyles for the character creator.

Note: These mods are a little something extra for your pleasure.

Mods. If you know what I mean. Gandalf? 😀

If you are playing this game for the 1st time it’s a good idea to limit yourself to Perfect Mix – it’s just little tweaking and it doesn’t change the core game, only prefects it. And then, on a 2nd playthrough, install Graphics & Atmosphere + Gameplay – since they change the game much more and alter your experience as well as overall feel.
Also, it’s better to install Quests & Companions on your 2nd playthrough, so that you can see new things!

Notes on MODS

1. Not all of them are compatible with Russian Localization and substitute some dialogs by english.
2. Dragon Age Graphics Enhancement 1.0 is heavy and may cause FPS drop on slower PC’s.

And so, I think I won’t further improve this guide by myself because I’m quite happy with it’s current state. But if you have any suggestions please write in the comments and I will try to include them.

Russian Localization

1. Следовать инструкциям инсталлятора.
2. Ссылка[enpy.net] | {LINK REMOVED}Зеркало

Credits: EA Russia с исправлениями и переводом недостающих DLC от IMK team ENPY Studio

1. Распаковать в папку с игрой. В конфигураторе выбрать русский язык (ru-ru).
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Credits: EA Russia