Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reveals Difficulty, Accessibility Options
EA and BioWare posted their latest details for Dragon Age: The Veilguard ahead of the game’s launch later this month. The latest post provides details about the difficulty options and accessibility features available for players.
Players will have access to six difficulty options at the start of the game: Storyteller, Keeper, Adventurer, Underdog, Nightmare, and Unbound. Storyteller offers the least challenge, while Keeper is designed as a balanced experience that emphasises party composition and equipment choices over reaction times. Adventurer is also stated to be a balanced experience, though places equal emphasis on combat, party composition, and equipment choices. Underdog and Nightmare offer stronger challenges, with those who select Nightmare unable to change to any of the other difficulties during their playthrough. Finally, Unbound allows players to fully customise various elements of the difficulty. During the game, players can also tailor various elements including parry timing, aim assist strength, or enemy aggressiveness.
In addition to difficulty, players can also tailor various parts and elements of the game’s UI and HUD. Certain pieces can be turned off entirely, including the player’s health, the objective tracker, and the mini map. There are also options to adjust text size as well as utilise numerous accessibility aids. Subtitles are fully customisable — including size, opacity, speaker names, and colour — with the game also offering audio aids to visual-only elements, colour filters, a persistent dot option, and the ability to turn off motion blur or adjust camera shake. Finally, all control inputs are fully remappable on all platforms, including sliding scales for input sensitivity and deadzones, as well as changing hold inputs into taps. The full list of accessibility features is available here.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard sees players control a new protagonist named Rook, who must fight back after corrupt Elven gods break free and wreak havoc upon the world. They will be joined by seven companions: Harding the Scout, Neve the Detective, Lucanis the Mage Killer, Bellara the Veil Jumper, Emmrich the Necromancer, Davrin the Warden, and Taash the Dragon Hunter. Dragon Age: The Veilguard will release for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S on October 31, 2024.
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