Dragon Age: The Veilguard got here out yesterday, and it definitely looks like there was no scarcity of parents trying to dive again into Thedas, as BioWare’s huge fantasy factor shortly stole the crown to change into EA’s greatest ever Steam launch – no less than in relation to single participant video games.
Little doubt to the delight of CEO Andrew Wilson, who was banging the drum for Veilguard having “breakout potential” earlier this week, the sport hit a concurrent participant excessive of 70,414 yesterday in response to SteamDB. That outdid Star Wars Jedi: Survivor‘s all-time peak of 67,855, which was the writer’s earlier single-player finest on Valve’s platform.
As of writing, Veilguard sits at 31,439 concurrent gamers and is simply exterior the highest 25 of Steam’s most performed video games checklist, forward of video games like Baldur’s Gate 3, EA Sports activities FC 25, and Helldivers 2. These numbers are, as ever, just for one storefront on one platform, so we’ll have to attend and see what issues appear to be on console.
Among the many gamers who’ve jumped in to date, it appears to be like like there have been some lengthy, exhausting hours put into the sport’s character creator, with each Twitter and Reddit being dwelling to a complete bunch of Rooks that would very simply pursue modelling careers if the entire main a celebration of adventurers factor does not work out for them.
Don’t be concerned although, not everybody’s managed to create somebody that needs to be exhibiting you what you’d appear to be in some very costly trousers or a jumper that someway has three separate v-necks. I am glad to report that no less than some gamers have needed to run straight to a mirror after realising they’ve made some unfortuate errors of their face-sculpting.
The most typical illness? Seemingly bizarre brow/nostril bridge ripple that appears and bit-vaginaey and may out of the blue change into extra outstanding in cutscenes. “Had this occur with my Rook too,” one participant wrote in a thread concerning the phenomenon, “Went to the mirror and made the brows barely additional aside and it helped drastically. Do not have to maneuver them a lot both, just a bit.” One other advised that they’d handled their by “taking part in round with the nostril bone slider”. So, your Palpatiney vibes ought to solely must be short-term. Phew.
Should you’re in want of a little bit of useful steerage when it comes to constructing your Veilguard character, be sure to seek the advice of our guides to the finest beginning lessons and factions to choose, and in case you’re nonetheless on the fence about taking part in the sport, take a look at our overview of it.