Dragon Age: The Veilguard‘s optimistic early momentum by way of the quantity of oldsters enjoying it by way of Steam carried properly into the primary weekend following its launch, witn a peak of almost 90,000 Rooks having descended on Thedas.
Veilguard had already posted a reasonably spectacular concurrent participant excessive on launch day, with 70,414 approaching down for a Thursday begin to the adventures, in line with SteamDB. That outdid BioWare’s earlier better of Mass Impact Legendary Version with 59,817, and a few of EA’s latest single-player excessive marks, like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor‘s all-time peak of 67,855.
Over the weekend, Veilguard bettered that early mark, as you’d count on resulting from numerous of us not being as busy as the vast majority of us are mid-week. 89,418 is the sport’s new all-time participant peak for the sport, once more in line with “>SteamDB, with that mark having been hit at round 8PM GMT yesterday – that is Sunday, November 3.
So, what’s that imply? Nicely, Veilguard’s now sitting fourth in Steam’s high sellers checklist, and has surpassed the all-time participant peak of Want For Pace Warmth, one of many different EA massive hitters to reach on the platform in recent times. It at present sits a really strong ninth on the checklist of high EA-published titles on the platform sorted by all-time participant peak, with the stuff forward of it being the likes of the notoriously huge EA Sports activities FC/FIFA titles, together with a few on-line shooters in Apex Legends and Battlefield V, and The Sims 4.
A pleasant begin for Dragon Age, and the early indicators level to it having quantity of modding curiosity to doubtlessly assist it preserve a decently-sized playerbase, even when BioWare’s already dominated out doing any DLC. When you’re questioning what the Veilguard modding group’s been as much as to date, the reply is a number of creations geared toward belongings you’d count on early in a recreation’s lifespan – efficiency enchancment and reshading.
When it comes to the latter, it appears like some of us have declared a little bit of a conflict on the color purple, with modder vktrfly’s fairly in style ‘Darkish Fantasy LUT‘ actually stating that it “goals to take away the purple/magenta components from the sport and provides it a darker look”. Add within the likes of Aether’s ‘Toggle Consumer Interface‘, which lets you dismiss a number of UI components with one button press each time it fits you, and it is trying fairly good for DA-playing magenta haters proper now.
The opposite massive factor modding-wise early on is character presets, with some being customized and others impressed by current characters, like The Witcher 3‘s Yen.
When you’re in want of a little bit of useful steerage by way of constructing your Veilguard character, be sure to seek the advice of our guides to the greatest beginning courses and factions to choose. We will additionally assist you nail these pesky fundamental story decisions.