Dragon Age: The VeilkeeperThe early positive momentum in terms of the number of people playing via Steam carried over well into the first weekend following release, with a peak of almost 90,000 Rooks descending on Thedas.

Veilguard had already posted a fairly impressive number of simultaneous players on release day, with 70,414 participants for the start of the adventure on Thursday, according to SteamDB. This surpassed BioWare’s previous best Mass Effect Legendary Edition with 59,817, and some of EA’s recent high single-player ratings, like Star Wars Jedi: Survivorthe all-time high of 67,855.

Over the weekend, Veilguard improved on this top rating, as you would expect since many people aren’t as busy as the majority of us are midweek. 89,418 is the new all-time player record for the game, according to “>SteamDBthis mark having been reached yesterday around 8 p.m. GMT – that is to say Sunday November 3.

So, what does that mean? Well, Veilguard now sits at number four on Steam’s bestseller list and has surpassed the all-time high for gamers. Need heat quicklyone of EA’s other big hitters to arrive on the platform in recent years. He currently sits in a very solid ninth place the list of the best titles released by EA on the platform, sorted by peak players of all time, with upcoming items like the notoriously massive EA Sports FC/FIFA titles, as well as some online shooter games in Apex Legends And Battlefield VAnd The Sims 4.

A good start for Dragon Age, and early signs indicate that it has plenty of modding interest to potentially help it maintain a decent-sized player base, even though BioWare has already ruled out doing DLC. If you’re wondering what the Veilguard modding community has been up to so far, the answer is lots of creations aimed at things you’d expect early in a game’s life – performance improvement and reshading.

Regarding the latter, it seems that some people have declared a bit of war on the color purple, with the very popular modder vktrfly ‘Dark Fantasy LUTs” literally stating that it “aims to remove the purple/magenta elements from the game and give it a darker look.” Add to that the likes of Aether’s ‘Toggle UI‘, which lets you remove many UI elements with the press of a single button whenever it’s convenient for you, and it looks pretty good for the magenta haters playing DA right now.

The other big thing in terms of modding early on is character presets, some being custom and others inspired by existing charactersas The Witcher 3It’s the yen. If you need some helpful tips for creating your Veilguard character, be sure to check out our guides on best starting courses And factions to choose. We can also help you resolve them annoying choices for the main story.