Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Now Available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC

[TheLostSwede]

Electronic Arts Inc. and BioWare announced today that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now available for PlayStation 5 (also enhanced for PS5 Pro), Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam (Steam Deck Verified), EA app and Epic Games Store. This bold, heroic adventure is built to deliver on what the series is best known for: rich storytelling, fantasy worldbuilding, companions & fellowship, and a world where you matter. The next installment in BioWare's beloved franchise has captivated critics worldwide, with outlets such as IGN and GamesRadar+ proclaiming it "deserves its place in the RPG pantheon" and is "A true return to RPG form for BioWare" in their 9/10 and 4.5/5 reviews.

In Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Solas, the Dread Wolf, wants to tear down the Veil that separates Thedas from the world of demons, restoring his people's immortality and glory - even at the cost of countless lives. But his ritual goes awry, and his worst fears are realized, as two of his most ancient and powerful adversaries are released. Players will step into the role of Rook, a fully-customizable protagonist who must rise up and unite their companions to stop these two powerful deities on a journey that will span across Thedas' bustling cities, lush tropics, boreal forests, fettered swamps and deepest depths.




"On behalf of everyone at BioWare, I want to thank you for joining us on our latest adventure," said Gary McKay, Vice President/General Manager, BioWare; Executive Producer, Dragon Age: The Veilguard. "After years of careful planning, countless hours of expert work, and innumerable design decisions, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is ready. We are so proud of this achievement and excited to see its impact on our worldwide community of fans, without whom none of this would be possible. We hope you have just as much fun in your own Rook adventure as we did creating it."

Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers 21:9 ultrawide aspect ratio support, uncapped PC frame rates and a suite of Ray Tracing features. Additionally, you'll be able to accelerate performance with DLSS 3, make gameplay even more responsive with Reflex, and enhance image quality and immersion with ray-traced reflections and ambient occlusion. Dragon Age: The Veilguard will also be available to play in "Ultimate" quality via NVIDIA GeForce NOW, and specifically enhanced for PlayStation 5 Pro. Additionally, this will be the first EA title to offer HDR10+ GAMING functionality that delivers outstanding high dynamic range performance automatically when enabled on PCs with compatible NVIDIA graphic cards and HDR10+ GAMING certified displays.

The title builds upon the pillars the iconic series is best known for, delivering a bold and heroic adventure guided by rich storytelling, fluid and strategic combat, companions and fellowship, and choices that matter. Key experiential elements include:

• Fellowship: Dragon Age: The Veilguard's brand new companions come alive with some of the most compelling individual storylines in Dragon Age history. Expansive and dynamic stories navigate love, loss and complex choices that will affect your relationships and the fate of each member of the Veilguard. New companions like the Veil Jumper Bellara, the necromancer Emmrich, and the private detective Neve, come from iconic factions in Dragon Age lore, possessing individual skill trees and specialized gear for advanced team progression. You'll see familiar faces, too, such as the archer Lace Harding who returns to the series as a full time companion.
• Choice and Consequences: Dragon Age: The Veilguard builds on the series' deep role-playing roots, providing extraordinary storytelling and worldbuilding, deep personalities for each companion, meaningful choices and impactful cinematic moments. The bonds you create and the relationships you forge will be affected by your choices made throughout your journey.
• A Crafted Experience: As a character-driven RPG, Dragon Age: The Veilguard delivers a crafted experience that pays homage to BioWare's history of storytelling. The Lighthouse provides a central place where you can rest, learn more about the world through conversations, while the Crossroads allows you to traverse to separate explorable regions of the world with your companions. You'll experience more of Thedas than ever before as your story unfolds across meticulously crafted biomes and beautiful regions including Rivain, Weisshaupt, Arlathan, Minrathous, the Deep Roads and more, each inviting you to delve deeper into the narrative and uncover the mysteries of the land.
• Fluid, Customizable Combat: Immersive combat blends fluid moment-to-moment controls with tactical decision-making. Players can fully customize their experience to fit their playstyle with diverse skill trees among three different classes - Warrior, Mage and Rogue - each with unique abilities and specializations. Choose two companions to join you on your quests and unleash powerful team combos that can change the tide of any battle. Make strategic choices and direct your allies to fight, heal or stay out of the fray with the newly-added ability wheel.
• Be the Leader You Want To Be: Dragon Age: The Veilguard features a robust character creation system that allows you to be the leader you want to be with a vast range of customization. BioWare has created the most comprehensive character creator in Dragon Age yet to make this story truly your own.

Two-time Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer and GRAMMY Award winner Lorne Balfe co-composed the Official Soundtrack (OST) for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which officially releases on November 1st via Lakeshore Records. The album's first single, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Main Theme, can be downloaded and streamed now on all major music services such as Spotify, iTunes and Deezer.

Players can purchase the Standard Edition of Dragon Age: The Veilguard for the suggested retail price of $69.99 USD on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, or $59.99 USD on PC. Meanwhile, the Deluxe Edition is available for the suggested retail price of $89.99 USD on console or $79.99 USD on PC and will include the following cosmetics: three Rook armor sets, six Rook weapons, seven companion armor sets and seven companion weapons. EA Play Pro members on the EA app will enjoy unlimited access to the EA Play Pro Edition starting October 31st.

The BioWare Gear Store is outfitted with a variety of merchandise, including Rook's Coffer. Available for the suggested retail price of $150 USD, Rook's Coffer features a variety of unique physical keepsakes including a light-up Lyrium Dagger, Rook's deck of cards featuring in-game art, and more (game not included).

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[Dorek]

My steam curator says i shouldnt play it so i wont.

 

[the54thvoid]

A couple of deletions made.

Leave your ideology at the door - we don't need those discussions on TPU.

Thanks.

 

[phanbuey]

Dragon Age: The Lecture.

Might wait to buy on discount, looks like a fun game. Ill grin and bear it through the cringy scenes if it's $15.

 

[TheDeeGee]

It's vile alright.

I had to do 10 barfs after seeing that clip in the bar.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Dragon Age: The Lecture.

Might wait to buy on discount, looks like a fun game. Ill grin and bear it through the cringy scenes if it's $15.

I'd probably bite for 30 bucks but after seeing EA block my favorite reviewers becuase they can't handle 7-8 review scores this is the first game I've ever wanted to pirate and I've never pirated a game in my life....

 

[TheLostSwede]

I'd probably bite for 30 bucks but after seeing EA block my favorite reviewers becuase they can't handle 7-8 review scores this is the first game I've ever wanted to pirate and I've never pirated a game in my life....

Maybe you're too young? It was pretty much the only way for me to get games as a teenager.

 

[ZeppMan217]

A saw a gameplay trailer a few months ago and it looked awful. Not just visually but mechanically as well.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Maybe you're too young? It was pretty much the only way for me to get games as a teenager.

Na, I started working at 14 ( mowing lawns, weeds etc) so that I could buy more than the 2 games my folks got me a year lol.

BRE software who use to sell used games was my Jam and unlike Gamestop trade ins weren't terrible lol.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Na, I started working at 14 ( mowing lawns, weeds etc) so that I could buy more than the 2 games my folks got me a year lol.

BRE software who use to sell used games was my Jam and unlike Gamestop trade ins weren't terrible lol.

But was that in the 90's?
Money wasn't really the issue, it was that I grew up in bum-f**k nowhere and the nearest computer shops where over an hours drive away.
Also, most computer shops back then sold hardware and office software, not games.

 

[Uns1gn3d_C0d3]

I'd probably bite for 30 bucks but after seeing EA block my favorite reviewers becuase they can't handle 7-8 review scores this is the first game I've ever wanted to pirate and I've never pirated a game in my life....

I wouldn't waste the bandwidth on it.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I stopped with the day of purchases a long time ago thanks to Mass Effect 3, but I love the Dragon Age series and Veilguard will be a a definite go for me.

Being single player, non-licensed IP, and likely very front loaded with sales I figure we'll be seeing solid discounts after 6 months and $10 sales after a year. Easier to enjoy and judge a game on its merits when you don't have $70 riding on it.

I've waited 10 years since inquisition, I can wait 1 more to pick this up on sale.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

But was that in the 90's?
Money wasn't really the issue, it was that I grew up in bum-f**k nowhere and the nearest computer shops where over an hours drive away.
Also, most computer shops back then sold hardware and office software, not games.

Late 90s. Yeah access wasn't an issue. I also had a lot of friends to swap games with.

I get the lack of access... I remember pirating the RE5 Demo that was Japanese only but had full English dialog and going through the hassle of setting up a Japanese ps3 account to play DOA Extreme beach volleyball 2 lmao.

 

[Gucky]

Hey at least it doesn't have Denuvo...

But was that in the 90's?
Money wasn't really the issue, it was that I grew up in bum-f**k nowhere and the nearest computer shops where over an hours drive away.
Also, most computer shops back then sold hardware and office software, not games.

My uncle hat CDs with a dozen different cracked games (even full titles). To fit they had so cut some content like HD-Video and compress the files.
I never asked for them, but he shared them without taking money... That was over 25 years ago.

 

[ZoneDymo]

My steam curator says i shouldnt play it so i wont.

bit creepy to let yourself be led like that, but you do you I guess...or in this case the curator does you....


for the rest, DF showed they made a terrific effort on a technical front on the pc, so that is praise worthy on its own.

A saw a gameplay trailer a few months ago and it looked awful. Not just visually but mechanically as well.

perhaps look at DF's vid, I think it looks fine, hair rendering is downright impressive

 

[Tatty_Two]

My copy is downloading as we speak (had a steam gift card as a birthday present a while back) sat in my steam wallet so why not. It appears my whole street got the game because my download speed is unusually slow today

 

[Uns1gn3d_C0d3]

Hey at least it doesn't have Denuvo...


My uncle hat CDs with a dozen different cracked games (even full titles). To fit they had so cut some content like HD-Video and compress the files.
I never asked for them, but he shared them without taking money... That was over 25 years ago.

That's how it was back in the day. Janky game rips downloaded via 56k modem.

 

[TheLostSwede]

My uncle hat CDs with a dozen different cracked games (even full titles). To fit they had so cut some content like HD-Video and compress the files.
I never asked for them, but he shared them without taking money... That was over 25 years ago.

This was during the floppy disk era...

 

[samum]

Hey at least it doesn't have Denuvo...

Bioware would be lucky to have this pirated. Dragon Age: Dumpster Fire.

 

[64K]

I won't be getting this one. I still haven't played Inquisition. After Dragon Age 2 it's hard to have the desire to play another DA game but that's just me. For anyone that is still a DA fan then the game is probably worth a playthrough but for those paying $60 for the game right now knowing that it will most likely still need weeks or months of patching then I expect buyer's remorse posts incoming.

 

[GhostRyder]

Ignoring the controversial parts of it, to me this one just does not look good in general. All the art and visuals looked older and not impressive, the gameplay looked meh, which leaves the story which I have heard from the testers is also meh. I was looking forward to a new Dragon Age game, but this is starting to look like its another Mass Effect Andromeda.

 

[csendesmark]

skip

 

[lepudruk]

I pray that one day some studio will commit something like Dragon Age: Origins but with Larian's BG3 quality.. I could even pay twice AAA price for it. It's damn sad they don't make such games anymore

 

[Dr. Dro]

I hold extremely strong opinions on this game - in fact, the only positive about it that I have seen so far and I give it credit for is that it seems to have exposed industry-wide corruption at a very large scale, so I'm not going there.

I guess it makes me a little sad because despite it all I still hold a shred of hope that it's salvageable, I've never played the Dragon Age series (kept getting thrown in my backlog), but I have been recommended both Origins and Inquisition in more than one occasion and in fact, I have acquired my own copies of both games through EA's Origin service and the EGS over time. Everyone who recommended me these games had nothing but praise for them, and it seems that this title took that trust and simply shattered it.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I hold extremely strong opinions on this game - in fact, the only positive about it that I have seen so far and I give it credit for is that it seems to have exposed industry-wide corruption at a very large scale, so I'm not going there.

I guess it makes me a little sad because despite it all I still hold a shred of hope that it's salvageable, I've never played the Dragon Age series (kept getting thrown in my backlog), but I have been recommended both Origins and Inquisition in more than one occasion and in fact, I have acquired my own copies of both games through EA's Origin service and the EGS over time. Everyone who recommended me these games had nothing but praise for them, and it seems that this title took that trust and simply shattered it.

First one is one the best games ever in my book 2 was a huge step down and inquisition isn't anywhere close. I own all 3 and have played through all 3.


When you get around to playing origins and you should make sure you use some visual mods to improve the graphics it helps a lot.

Something like this

Dragon Age Origins Unofficial Remaster

The purpose of this mod is to quite simply make Dragon Age Origins look a little less dated, while still maintaining its memorable style and feeling.

www.nexusmods.com