Dragon Age: Veilguard difficulty options allow you to turn off death and manually adjust enemy health

Dragon Age: The Veilguard allows you to avoid death entirely. This is part of the extensive difficulty customization options that also allow you to manually adjust the health of players and enemies.

As Game Informer detailed, BioWare has included a set of fixed difficulty levels and another option that allows you to customize your gaming experience even more.

The Veilguard’s basic levels are called Storyteller, Adventurer, and Nightmare – the latter is a permanent choice, while the former options can be switched between. There is also another option, Unbound, which allows you to edit the difficulty level on the fly.

The unlimited options include enabling aim assist or auto-aim if you so choose, adjusting the difficulty of parrying enemy attacks, increasing your own damage, and even tweaking enemies’ overall health pools and how much they pressure you in combat. Finally, there’s an option to disable death entirely, so you never see a game over screen.

“(None of these options) is cheating,” game director Corinne Busche told Game Informer. “It’s an option to ensure players of all abilities can perform.”

BioWare revealed Dragon Age: The Veilguard last month after years of development. There’s no release date yet, but it seems the long-awaited RPG is close to launch.

Eurogamer tried the game last month and was thoroughly impressed. “Go ahead, Dragon Age: The Veilguard makes me think the unthinkable: it looks like BioWare is back,” wrote our own Chris Tapsell.