Dragon Age: The Veilguardwill include a host of features that are brand new to theDragon Ageseries, from an overhauled combat system to accessibility features that open the game to more players than ever before.It’s been 10 years sinceDragon Age: Inquisition, and the video game industry has introduced features that have become staples in the medium.
Dragon Age: The Veilguardhas been confirmed to include useful gameplay features such as transmog, is completely offline, has a robust photo mode, and a massive variety of accessibility features. Many of these features, such as the UI, are completely optional and can be individually toggled on or off, giving players more freedom to curate their experience than ever before inDragon Age.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s Gameplay Features
Transmog
There’s nothing worse than being forced to wear ugly armor just because it has good stats. Transmog solves this problem by changing the appearance of armor and equipment while keeping its stats.Dragon Age: The Veilguardoffers a full transmog system, and while each faction has its own signature armor and casual outfit, Rook isn’t limited to their class' style and can swap their clothes across factions whenever they like after they unlock them.
Difficulty Settings
There will befive difficulty settings forDragon Age: The Veilguard, with an additional, fully customizable difficulty.
All difficulties can be changed in-game after they’re selected. The exception to this is the Nightmare difficulty, which cannot be undone once selected and the game starts. The other difficulty options are more forgiving, with the easiest being Storyteller mode for players who care more about the story than min/maxing their stats and strategies. Unbound allows players to customize their difficulty with different settings, allowing for a unique experience, although BioWare recommends a full playthrough on a preset difficulty first.
Photo Mode
Dragon Age: The Veilguardhas gorgeous environments, and its photo mode will let players capture every part of their journey through them.Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s photo modehas several options for players to edit to get the perfect picture, including individual toggles to hide the player character, party members, enemies, or NPCs. The photo mode also has options that are typical in real-world professional photography, such as focal length, depth of field, autofocus, F-stop, bloom strength, and the ability to edit saturation and contrast.
New Technical Features in Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Accessibility Features
Accessibility can be a major barrier to entry for video games, andDragon Age: The Veilguardhas introduced a range of accessibility features to accommodate as many players as possible. The accessibility features inDragon Age: The Veilguardfall into several categories:
For audio accessibility features, there is Accessibility SFX which provides additional audio feedback for visual mechanics, such as incoming attacks. This can be toggled on or off. There is also a new Glint Ping VFX, or spatialized SFX, which is activated when “up” on the d-pad is pressed. The visual accessibility options are robust, with a Persistent Dot toggle for motion sickness, a fullscreen colorblind filter, two size options for the UI screen, and the option to hide individual elements of the HUD. Gameplay also gets accessibility, with a toggle in the difficulty settings that even prevents player character death in combat.
Offline Mode
Unlike many AAA games released in recent years,Dragon Age: The Veilguardis completely offlineand will only need an internet connection to be downloaded. Despite being an EA game, it is also available to purchase with full support on Steam and the Epic Store in addition to the EA App, which comes as great news for those who are frustrated by EA’s native app. AsDragon Age: The Veilguardwill be fully offline, there won’t be any microtransactions or online verification to play it, which means players can simply start up the game and play.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
WHERE TO PLAY
Enter the world of Thedas, a vibrant land of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities – steeped in conflict and secret magics. Now, a pair of corrupt ancient gods have broken free from centuries of darkness and are hellbent on destroying the world.Thedas needs someone they can count on. Rise as Rook, Dragon Age’s newest hero. Be who you want to be and play how you want to play as you fight to stop the gods from blighting the world. But you can’t do this alone – the odds are stacked against you. Lead a team of seven companions, each with their own rich story to discover and shape, and together you will become The Veilguard.
