Dragon Age: The Veilguard‘S The character editor is the most powerful that BioWare has ever built into one of its RPGs. We took a look at it at Summer Games Festival and can confirm Mass effect And Dragon Age from before have nothing against what is coming. But the ways in which you customize your character are not nearly as exciting as a major change between inquisition And The Veil Guardian: They fix the terrible lighting that plagued the 2014 RPG’s character editor.
A quick Google search for Dragon Age: InquisitionThe character editor shows you decades-old Reddit Threads complaining about the too-dark, green-tinged lighting that players were given to customize their Inquisitors before heading off to save Thedas. Sure, it probably felt very fitting for the dark setting of the early days, but it was all too common for players to like how their character looked in the character editor but hate how they looked in different lighting. I love my Inquisitor, but it took me some time to get used to his appearance once he was out in the world. BioWare heard this criticism loud and clear, The Veil Guardian.
In an interview with Game InformerCreative Director John Epler confirmed that the character editor will allow you to customize your Veil Guard character in four different lightings before you confirm their appearance. Three of them are “The Veil Guardian‘s main tone is purple, a bright and sunny tropical day and a gothic night.”
It’s a small but significant change to a character editor that already offers more options than its predecessor. Players can create a human, elven, dwarf, or Qunari character, choose between they/her, he/him, or they/them pronouns, and define their character’s origins by selecting one of six factions they could belong to.
Accordingly Game InformerThere are sliders for almost every part of your character’s face, including “forehead, brows, cheeks, jaw, chin, throat, and scalp.” But the face isn’t the only thing you can change. Protagonist Rook’s body can also be altered in a few key ways. Including “height, shoulder width, chest circumference, buttock and stomach circumference, hip width, how bloodshot your eyes are, how visible cataracts are, the color of the sclera, how crooked your nose is, how big your nose bridge is, the size of your nostrils and the tip of your nose.”
These customization options extend to Rook’s mouth and ears, as well as makeup options, underwear options, tattoos, scars, and paint (even race-specific for elves). Art Director Matt Rhodes says that the Veil Guard Team has made great progress in hairstyles, Especially black hairthanks to EA’s Frostbite engine, which renders all available hairstyles with realistic physics. The look is only part of Rook’s customization options, because you can also customize her voice, similar to inquisitionwhich includes a male and a female option, one being English and the other being American.
In total, The Veil Guardian‘S Character customization seems to be a significant improvement over anything BioWare has offered us so far. Unfortunately, BioWare has rejected Game Informer no usable images or footage for it. We will just have to wait and see if the studio shows it in the coming months before The Veil Guardian will be released in autumn for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
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