With Dragon Age: The Veilguard creeping ever nearer, BioWare has shared a brand new perception into what PC gamers can anticipate from the sport, together with customizable controls, superior show choices, and “Steam native” options like cloud saves, Distant Play assist, and verified performance on Steam Deck.
“The Dragon Age franchise began out on PC, and we needed to verify PC is a superb place to play our sport,” the studio wrote. “Many people at BioWare are PC gamers ourselves, and when testing, PCs made up 40% of our platform testing effort, with over 200,000 hours of efficiency and compatibility testing. Getting the PC expertise excellent was essential to us and we created a devoted group to give attention to PC.”
On the enter facet, meaning native assist for PlayStation 5 DualSense controllers together with Xbox controllers and keyboard and mouse, which is after all one of the best ways to play and no additional dialogue on that entrance is required. For gamers who simply cannot make up their minds, you may additionally be capable of seamlessly change between controllers and keyboard/mouse in menus or throughout gameplay; you may as well arrange class-specific keybinds, so “your Rogue Rook can use a distinct set of keybinds than your Warrior Rook” in case you discover that makes issues extra manageable.
As befits the big selection of PCs that will likely be operating the brand new Dragon Age sport, The Veilguard will assist 21:9 ultrawide displays, together with in cinematics by way of an non-obligatory “Cinematic Facet Ratio” choice, and also will have adjustable FOV, uncapped body charges, full HDR assist, DLSS 3 body era, and DLSS 3, FSR 2.2, XeSS upscaling.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is Steam Deck verified, which means it has been examined by Valve to be “totally purposeful” on the cell system, and also will assist Steam Cloud saves and Distant Play. Writer Digital Arts has already confirmed that Dragon Age: the Veilguard on Steam will not require the EA app to launch; there will likely be an choice to hyperlink the sport to your EA account in order for you, however it will likely be “fully non-obligatory.”
This is not the total extent of the PC-specific options in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, as BioWare mentioned it has “extra PC options to share” nearer to launch.” Which appears a little bit bizarre to me: Positive they cannot be apprehensive about PC efficiency choice spoilers, proper? Then once more, they did it for penises, so I suppose something’s attainable. Anyway, here is what we have got thus far:
Show Options
- Full Help for 21:9 Extremely Broad Resolutions
- Means to Uncap Body Charge
- VSync, together with fractional charge VSync
- HDR Help
- Non-compulsory Upscaling (DLSS 3, FSR 2.2, XeSS)
- NVIDIA Reflex
- DLSS 3 Body Technology
- Non-compulsory Dynamic Decision Scaling
- Cinematic Facet Ratio (Disable this feature for cinematic 21:9 ratio)
Graphics Settings
- Presets Obtainable (Low, Medium, Excessive, Extremely)
- Texture Settings: Texture High quality, Texture Filtering
- Gentle and Shadow Settings: Lighting High quality, Contact Shadow, Ambient Occlusion, Display House Reflections, Volumetric Lighting, Sky High quality
- Ray Tracing Settings: Ray-Traced Reflections, Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion, Extremely Ray Tracing (* Ray Tracing may be “ON” or turned to “Selective”. Selective Mode
allows Ray Tracing options in particular areas that may greatest take
benefit of the function) - Geometry Settings: Degree Of Element, Strand Hair, Terrain High quality, Terrain Ornament High quality, Visible Results High quality
- Digicam Results: Depth of Discipline, Vignette, Movement Blur, Submit Processing High quality, Discipline of View
- Controls: Class-specific Keybinds, Keyboard + Controller Bindings
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is about to launch on October 31. If you wish to get a head begin on which celebration member you are planning up to now (this can be a BioWare RPG, in spite of everything), we have got a information to the Veilguard romance choices that may assist.