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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Dedicated To Bringing A Great PC Experience

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Od: Philip Watson
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Dedicated To Bringing A Great PC Experience

In a Wednesday blog post, BioWare revealed that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has a dedicated force behind its PC development with over 200,000 hours of playtesting done.

Today, BioWare let out a massive blog post that outlines their ongoing development for their upcoming fourth entry in their high fantasy RPG series, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and specifically how they’re placing special care on development for PC. The blog post starts with “The Dragon Age franchise started out on PC, and we wanted to make sure PC is a great place to play our game. Many of us at BioWare are PC players ourselves, and when testing, PCs made up 40% of our platform testing effort, with over 200,000 hours of performance and compatibility testing.”

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Dedicated To Bringing A Great PC Experience

The amount of testing that has gone into the new title is staggering. Bioware explains that the importance of getting everything ‘just right’ is paramount to the overall gameplay experience. The UI has been tweaked over thousands of hours of gameplay to ensure that players of all persuasions — whether they play on Xbox, PlayStation, PC or all three — including keyboard and mouse fans, can enjoy a comfortable experience. All three controller inputs: Xbox, Dualsense and KBM will also be available for PC. Going one step further, fans will be able to customize their character’s keybind to make the gameplay as smooth as possible for Warrior, Rogue and Mage players.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard PC Features

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Dedicated To Bringing A Great PC Experience
  • Full Steam Nativity, including full Steam Deck verification—Cloud saving allows you to pick the game up on the Deck and seamlessly play it on PC, and vice versa.
  • Linking an EA account will be completely optional (for PC).
  • Display Features for PC – Full Support for 21:9 Ultra Wide Resolutions, Ability to Uncap Frame Rate, HDR Support, Optional Upscaling (DLSS 3, FSR 2.2, XeSS), NVIDIA Reflex, DLSS 3 Frame Generation and Optional Dynamic Resolution Scaling are included.
  • A huge level of graphic scaling to ensure the game runs great no matter what rig you’re playing on, a small vignette of how the graphics will increase (or reduce) in clarity can be seen on the right.

It’s worth mentioning the sheer amount of turbulent launches the PC has seen since 2023. One of the most widely complained about being The Last of Us Part I, reported to feature staggering performance issues when it launched on PC. CGMagazine’s review of the port said “The Last of Us on PC feels like an infected facsimile of a dearly departed friend.”

At least fans can rest assured Dragon Age: The Veilguard will run smoothly on PC and console when it launches in October this year.

You can currently pick up the Dragon Age series for under a tenner

✇Eurogamer.net
Od: Victoria Kennedy

If you've yet to play any of the Dragon Age games, but Dragon Age: Veilguard's recent gameplay video piqued your interest, I have good news. You can currently scoop up the first three games for less than £10 thanks to a new Steam deal.

For a total of £8.47, you can purchase Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, and Dragon Age Inquisition - with all the major DLC and expansions for each included.

EA's Dragon Age promotion is running until 27th of June, and you'll find the sales page here if you fancy something to do this weekend that isn't Elden Ring.

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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: Six Amazing Games We Refuse To Stop Playing

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Od: Claire Jackson， Ethan Gach， Kenneth Shepard， Zack Zwiezen， Moises Taveras， and Carolyn Petit

It is now officially summer. Yesterday, the solstice (Litha, as it’s known to some) brought us our longest day of the calendar year, and now we march on to ever darkening days. But right now, we’re just marching on into the weekend to spend that time off in some delightful digital realms.

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I'm slightly less panicked about Dragon Age: The Veilguard after seeing 24 seconds of gameplay

✇PCGamer latest
Od: lauren@pcgamer.com (Lauren Morton)

I wasn't expecting to see Dragon Age: The Veilguard turn up at the Xbox Games Showcase over the weekend ahead of the gameplay reveal it had already planned for tomorrow. But turn up it did, with a CG trailer that had a lot of fans, including me, very nervous about the plastic-y, poreless character designs. Partly to quell that public panic, I'm willing to bet, BioWare just gave us a "sneak peak" at 24 seconds of the planned 15+ minute gameplay reveal tomorrow. Everyone take ten deep breaths. It looks better—probably.

As my colleague Robin Valentine pointed out yesterday, the CG trailer debuted at the Xbox show had serious hero shooter vibes, with a "hello fellow kids" kind of banter that I don't associate with the dry, dark humor of Thedas. 

I was worried too, and spent the evening consoling myself with thoughts of the Sacred Ashes trailer for Dragon Age: Origins and the Dragon Age 2 Destiny trailer, both of which looked very different from the actual games. The Veilguard's trailer did say "game engine footage," though I'm not certain how much stock to place in that.

Anyhow, here's that new 24 seconds of The Veilguard which definitely is in-game footage:

Enjoy this sneak-peek at tomorrow's Gameplay Reveal!Rook and Varric arrive in the stunning - and seedy - city of Minrathous. Little do they know what dangers await. Tune in tomorrow to find out: https://t.co/UGVqA1ZiTE #DragonAge pic.twitter.com/LSJ3oBVoZoJune 10, 2024

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"Rook and Varric arrive in the stunning—and seedy—city of Minrathous. Little do they know what dangers await," BioWare says in the accompanying post.

Now look, this thing is a somewhat compressed video posted to X in a maximum of 720p so I can't tell if the whole world looks just as shellac-ed as Scout Harding's face did in that reveal. We don't see either Varric or our protagonist Rook's faces here either, but this seems like something I might be happy to call a Dragon Age game. 

It's dark. It's moody. And if it's not as grimy and gritty as we're used to, well, we already knew that the cultural hub of Minrathous was going to be way more advanced than the backwaters of Ferelden where the series began. 

We'll see the remainder of this scene tomorrow, I'm sure, but for now we can hear Varric and Rook deciding to chase down one of the game's companions Neve Gallus to help track Solas, the presumptive villain of Veilguard who lost his name rights when the Dreadwolf title got replaced.

It is funny to me that this first peek shows us walking around on a quest with Varric. From the companion reveals yesterday, we assumed that he wouldn't be a full party member again. That's likely still true, but neither has he been relegated to hub areas like the advisors of Dragon Age: Inquisition. He's still got to get out and about. Please let that man put his feet up for once, damn.

I don't think this gameplay peek entirely assuages the fears I share with PC Gamer mag editor Rob Jones who worried that Dragon Age has lost its identity based on the cartoony physical gags of the reveal trailer. But it's a nod in the right direction, at least.

The rest of the gameplay reveal is scheduled for tomorrow, June 11 at 8 am Pacific / 11 am Eastern. I'll reserve my full judgment until then, but I'm feeling a little less leery than I was this weekend. 

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