BioWare has confirmed Dragon Age: Veil Guard takes place 10 years after its predecessor Dragon Age: Inquisition.
The confirmation comes from a recent Discord Q&A session shared by Shinobi602 on X/Twitter (via Eurogamer) in which BioWare revealed a ton of details about its upcoming fantasy RPG.
Among the little things, it was revealed that The Veloguard will be established a decade later Inquisitionand that the 2014 game's playable protagonist, the Inquisitor, “will definitely be part of the story.”
Following the reveal of the game's expanded demo at Summer Game Fest 2024, game director Corinne Busche confirmed that the new locations players will be able to explore The Veloguard are more linear than those of Inquisition and that it will not be an open world, but “mission-based.”
“Everything is hand-touched, handmade and very carefully curated,” Busche said. “We think that's how we get the best narrative experience, the best moment-to-moment experience.
“However, along the way, these levels that we're going to do open up, some of them have more exploration than others. Alternate branching paths, mysteries, secrets, optional content that you're going to find and solve. So it opens up. , but it's a highly curated, mission-based game.”
In the Q&A session, it was clarified that players will be able to return to these story locations later and complete side content, such as quests, and freely explore anything they may have missed. Once again, the developers said that these missions are “handcrafted and story-focused” and will not be recovery missions.
Fortunately, there is no progression lock in The Veloguard nor, unlike in Inquisition, where the player was forced to scale their power to certain areas.
Dragon Age: Veil Guard It doesn't have a release date yet, but is expected to launch on PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC in “late 2024.”
