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 help, and verified performance on Steam Deck.
“The Dragon Age franchise began out on PC, and we needed to ensure PC is a good place to play our recreation,” 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 workforce to give attention to PC.”
On the enter aspect, meaning native help for PlayStation 5 DualSense controllers together with Xbox controllers and keyboard and mouse, which is in fact the easiest way 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 also 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 wide selection of PCs that can be operating the brand new Dragon Age recreation, The Veilguard will help 21:9 ultrawide displays, together with in cinematics by way of an elective “Cinematic Facet Ratio” choice, and also will have adjustable FOV, uncapped body charges, full HDR help, 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 “absolutely useful” on the cell machine, and also will help 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 can be an choice to hyperlink the sport to your EA account if you would like, however it will likely be “fully elective.”
This is not the total extent of the PC-specific options in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, as BioWare stated it has “extra PC options to share” nearer to launch.” Which appears a bit of 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 doable. Anyway, this is what we have up to now:
Show Options
Full Help for 21:9 Extremely Broad ResolutionsAbility to Uncap Body RateVSync, together with fractional charge VSyncHDR SupportOptional Upscaling (DLSS 3, FSR 2.2, XeSS)NVIDIA ReflexDLSS 3 Body GenerationOptional Dynamic Decision ScalingCinematic Facet Ratio (Disable this feature for cinematic 21:9 ratio)
Graphics Settings
Presets Accessible (Low, Medium, Excessive, Extremely)Texture Settings: Texture High quality, Texture FilteringLight and Shadow Settings: Lighting High quality, Contact Shadow, Ambient Occlusion, Display Area Reflections, Volumetric Lighting, Sky QualityRay Tracing Settings: Ray-Traced Reflections, Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion, Extremely Ray Tracing (* Ray Tracing might be “ON” or turned to “Selective”. Selective Mode permits Ray Tracing options in particular areas that may finest reap the benefits of the characteristic)Geometry Settings: Degree Of Element, Strand Hair, Terrain High quality, Terrain Ornament High quality, Visible Results QualityCamera Results: Depth of Area, Vignette, Movement Blur, Publish Processing High quality, Area of ViewControls: Class-specific Keybinds, Keyboard + Controller Bindings
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