Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Difficulty & Accessibility Options

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is 3 weeks away from its release, and BioWare is slowly sharing what we should expect from it. In its recent blog post, the team discussed accessibility options, including difficulty levels.

We already know that you can turn off death if you want, but here is a more detailed look at what the game offers.

The Veilguard will have 5 preset difficulties and one you can customize:

• Storyteller: Here for the story.
• Keeper: A balanced combat experience that emphasizes party composition and equipment choices over reaction times.
• Adventurer: A balanced experience that places equal emphasis on combat, party composition, and equipment choices.
• Underdog: Here to be pushed to the limit, requiring strategic planning and tactical decisions.
• Nightmare: Overwhelming battles that give no quarter. Requires a mastery of combat, equipment, skills, and game mechanics to survive. Selecting Nightmare cannot be undone without starting a new playthrough.
• Unbound: Customize all settings.

BioWare recommends starting with one of the presets for your first run, as it's hard to guess what incoming damage, enemy aggression, and parry timing you need.

As for other accessibility options, you will be able to tweak UI and HUD elements, changing their size, position, and visibility. You can turn off some stuff altogether: "For example, you can fully hide elements like Rook’s health, the objective tracker, or the Mini Map."

Players might appreciate subtitle customization, audio aids for visual-only elements like incoming attack indicators, and full-screen color filters.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be released on October 31 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. If you want to know more about its settings, check out this post.

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