Summary
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard introduces six difficulty settings, with five curated and one custom for a tailored experience.
- Nightmare difficulty in Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers a challenging experience locked once chosen.
- Unbound difficulty in Dragon Age: The Veilguard enables full customization of settings for tailored gameplay.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been a long time coming, and it's finally almost here. There are plenty of new features Dragon Age: The Veilguard is introducing to the series, including six difficulty settings recently revealed by BioWare.
When starting a new game in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, players will have the opportunity to choose between one of six unique difficulty settings, five of which are specifically designed to provide a curated experience. Most of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's difficulty settings are standard for an RPG, but players might find one option, in particular, to be something often found in survival games.
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Every Difficulty Setting for Dragon Age: The Veilguard Explained
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has Five Curated Difficulty Settings
While Dragon Age: The Veilguard technically has a total of six difficulty settings, only five of them are curated. Developer BioWare also recommends that players choose one of these five curated difficulty settings if it is their first time playing the game. The five curated difficulty settings available in Dragon Age: The Veilguard are as follows:
- Storyteller
- Keeper
- Adventurer
- Underdog
- Nightmare
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Storyteller difficulty, as its name suggests, means that players who choose it are playing the game for its story. As it is with most Story difficulties in other games, players can expect Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Storyteller difficulty to allow them to breeze through even what would have been its most challenging encounters and go from story beat to story beat without much hassle. Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Keeper difficulty setting increases the game's challenge by a manageable margin by balancing its combat to require players to pay special attention to their party composition and equipment choices.
The official description for Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Keeper difficulty specifically mentions "reaction times" as being less important, suggesting less aggressive enemies overall.
The Adventurer difficulty for Dragon Age: The Veilguard is what would commonly be referred to as "Normal" difficulty in that it balances incoming damage, enemy aggression, tactical challenge, and defend timing. Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Underdog difficulty is a bit tougher than Adventurer, requiring more strategic planning and tactical decisions from players.
Finally, Nightmare difficulty is likely going to provide an experience that fits its name, making Dragon Age: The Veilguard a nightmare for players. Specifically, players will need to have their Dragon Age: The Veilguard party, equipment, and skills optimized, alongside a thorough knowledge of the game's combat mechanics if they hope to survive. It should be noted that Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Nightmare difficulty is also locked in once players select it and start a new game. As such, if players plan to play through the game on Nightmare difficulty, they will never be given an opportunity to change it later.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Unbound Difficulty Is Fully Customizable
The most distinctive difficulty setting in Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the Unbound difficulty option, which allows players to customize all of their settings to tailor their experience to their playstyle and preferences. While BioWare recommends that first-time players choose one of the five curated difficulty settings, Unbound has the potential to be one of Dragon Age: The Veilguard's most noteworthy features, depending on how players utilize it. There are multiple options for players to adjust when starting a new Dragon Age: The Veilguard playthrough on Unbound difficulty, including the following:
- Aim Assist
- Aim Snap
- Combat Timing
- Enemy Aggression
- Enemy Damage
- Enemy Health
- Enemy Resistances
- Enemy Vulnerability
- Prevent Death
Adjusting these settings in the Unbound difficulty option thereby allows players to make Dragon Age: The Veilguard as easy or as difficult as they want it to be. This is just one of the many new features Dragon Age: The Veilguard is bringing to the franchise, and players will get to see it all for themselves when the game launches on October 31.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 80 /100 Critics Rec: 71%
- Released
- October 31, 2024
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ // Blood, Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Violence
- Developer(s)
- BioWare
- Publisher(s)
- Electronic Arts
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.
- Engine
- Frostbite
- Franchise
- Dragon Age
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X
- Genre(s)
- RPG
