Dragon Age: The Veilguard got here out yesterday, and it actually looks as if there was no scarcity of parents seeking to dive again into Thedas, as BioWare’s huge fantasy factor shortly stole the crown to develop into BioWare’s greatest ever Steam launch.
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 based on SteamDB. That outdid BioWare’s earlier better of Mass Impact Legendary Version with 59,817, and a few of EA’s current single-player excessive marks, like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s all-time peak of 67,855.
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 thus far, it appears like there have been some lengthy, exhausting hours put into the sport’s character creator, with each Twitter and Reddit being residence to a complete bunch of Rooks that might very simply pursue modelling careers if the entire main a celebration of adventurers factor would not work out for them.
Don’t fret 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 by some means has three separate v-necks. I am glad to report that not 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 commonest illness? Seemingly bizarre brow/nostril bridge ripple that appears and bit-vaginaey and may out of the blue develop into extra outstanding in cutscenes. “Had this occur with my Rook too,” one participant wrote in a thread in regards to the phenomenon, “Went to the mirror and made the brows barely additional aside and it helped enormously. Do not have to maneuver them a lot both, just a bit.” One other advised that they’d handled their by “enjoying round with the nostril bone slider”. So, your Palpatiney vibes ought to solely must be short-term. Phew.
For those who’re in want of a little bit of useful steering when it comes to constructing your Veilguard character, be certain that to seek the advice of our guides to the very best beginning lessons and factions to select, and should you’re nonetheless on the fence about enjoying the sport, take a look at our evaluate of it.
