BioWare had lots to share as a part of Wednesday’s Dragon Age Day celebrations, together with a giant new patch for Dragon Age: The Veilguard and a brand new stand-alone character creator for the sport. Players can now spend numerous hours finessing the look of their Rook with out having to really pay for the sport itself — although, in the event that they do, they will switch their customized character to the total model of Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
There’s no time restrict on how lengthy gamers can spend customizing their Rook within the stand-alone character creator. So if you happen to, like many different role-playing sport lovers, need to spend dozens of hours crafting a digital individual, Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s free character creator is out there on PlayStation 5, Windows PC, and Xbox Series X.
For Dragon Age Day, BioWare dropped one other deal with for longtime franchise followers on Wednesday. Owners of Dragon Age: The Veilguard can now get the armor, physique paint, and “nostril blood smear” of Dragon Age 2 protagonist Hawke for his or her Rook. These free cosmetics will be discovered within the Lighthouse after downloading the sport’s new patch and finishing the mission “The Singing Blade.” (More particulars on patch 4 for Dragon Age: The Veilguard can be found on the sport’s official web site.)
Character creation in video games like Dragon Age: The Veilguard have change into main promoting factors in recent times, as evidenced by the deep and in depth customization instruments in video games like Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and Elden Ring. Some publishers, like Capcom, have gone the additional mile for character creation obsessives, giving gamers pre-release customization entry in Dragon’s Dogma 2 and subsequent 12 months’s Monster Hunter Wilds.
Hopefully, by the point the following Mass Effect sport arrives, BioWare will comply with in Capcom’s steps so we will completely hone our commanders upfront of the total sport’s launch.