Dragon Age: The Veilguard finally heard our collective cry—photo mode is coming, and it’s there from day one! No more wrestling with third-party apps just to capture that perfect dragon-slaying moment. This is a first for the Dragon Age series, since none of the previous game had this feature available.
If you’ve ever messed around with photo mode in games like Horizon Forbidden West or Spider-Man 2, you’re already in the know about what photo mode is and how it works.
Now The Veilguard is bringing all those familiar tools and then some from the first day of it’s official release.
Using this you can act like director of your own fantasy epic. Want to frame a shot just right? You’ve got a free-roaming camera. Need the lighting perfect? Tweak the f-stop like a pro. Is an NPC photobombing your epic dragon fight? POOF, gone! It’s like getting to Photoshop real life… if real life had dragons.
With this you can capture and share the best moment of Gameplay right from the gamescreen wiithout relying on any third party application.
What exaclty in Dragon Age: The Veilguard Toolkit?
What’s in this new photo mode toolkit, you ask? Here’s the rundown:
- A free-roaming camera to get that perfect angle (because honestly, we’re all a little perfectionist when it comes to screenshots).
- Tilt, focal length, lens distortion—basically, all the fancy camera tricks you didn’t know you needed.
- Depth of Field and Auto Focus (so you can really make your character pop while the background blurs out like a dream).
- Full control over lighting with the f-stop feature, because lighting is 90% of a great shot.
- Vignette mode to add that artsy cinematic vibe.
- And sliders for bloom strength, saturation, brightness, and contrast, so you can tweak your image until it’s Instagram-ready.
Oh, and the pièce de résistance: you can hide whoever you want! Be that Player charracter, party member, enemies, NPCs—gone with a click.
Now, I gotta say, as someone who’s spent way too long trying to line up the perfect shot in other games (looking at you, Spider-Man 2), this feature is a game-changer.
You ever mid-battle with some giant dragon, and everything’s looking perfect except for that one character standing awkwardly in the background? Not anymore!
A shout-out is due to Brenon Holmes, the tech design wizard behind Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.
According to game director Corinne Busche, he’s the guy who brought this whole photo mode to life.
Busche even shared that her favorite part is the tab that lets you hide characters mid-shot.
So here’s my question for you: what’s your first shot going to be? Maybe it’s a sunrise over the mountains or an epic battle pose with your squad.
Whatever it is, get ready to pause the action and capture it all—The Veilguard’s photo mode is here to make sure every moment is picture-perfect.
