Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers 5 difficulty levels that are 'curated,' including a Nightmare Mode.

Electronic Arts has been focusing on the details of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, including a recent rundown of its difficulty settings and accessibility features.

EA's latest update stated that it wanted to make sure everyone could enjoy the story and experience of the game, regardless of their skill level. To this end, the company has created five "curated" levels of difficulty to cover all bases.

• Storyteller : Here is the story.
• Keeper is a balanced combat experience that emphasizes the party composition and equipment selection over reaction times.
• Adventurer : A balanced experience with equal emphasis on combat, group composition, and equipment selection.
• Underdog : This is a situation that requires strategic planning and tactical decision-making.
• Nightmare : Unrelenting battles. To survive, you must master combat, equipment, game mechanics, and skills.

Self-selecting strategic masterminds-slash-tough guys should note that choosing the Nightmare difficulty level is a permanent commitment: Once selected, the only way out is to give up completely and start a whole new playthrough. Use caution as you deem fit.

Unbound allows players to choose their own settings, which "impact many aspects of gameplay." EA recommends selecting a preset during your first playthrough. However, you can choose whatever you want. There are other options available to further customize the combat experience, in addition to the difficulty setting: Parry timing and aim assist strength.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is accessible, with customizable subtitles and adjustable UI text sizes, audio aids and adjustable motion blur, camera shake and an FOV slider. It also offers "full-screen colour filters to improve visibility." The inputs are fully remappable. Deadzones and input sensitivity can be customized. Interactions that require a button be held can instead be changed to a tap.

The Dragon Age: Veilguard accessibility page provides a deeper look into all of the options available. It is comprehensive, but not complete. "As always accessibility is a journey that we are on and we are listening to feedback from our community," EA stated.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard elicited mixed reactions from the PC Gamer staff over the last few months. Lauren Morton who played the game in September for several hours thinks that it is the "BioWare Comeback fans want" while Fraser Brown fears that its rote recycling old ideas could spell the end of BioWare. Harvey Randall is still unconvinced, but is willing to play around with the systems. I, on the other hand, continue to insist that Dreadwolf is a great subtitle and The Veilguard not. (I'm actually not a Dragon Age fan, but I'm throwing it in the mix to continue complaining about this game.)

In just three weeks, we'll know who was right: Dragon Age: the Veilguard is released on October 31.