BioWare Spent 200,000 Hours Testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard On PC

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is just two months away from its launch, and as the release date approaches, the developers are sharing more information about the RPG with the fans.

BioWare has published a new blog post about the title’s PC features. The developers have confirmed spending as much as 200,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard on PC.

Why it matters: Recent PC ports have been far from great, so it is encouraging to see BioWare carrying out extensive testing for its upcoming RPG.

BioWare released a new journal for Dragon Age: The Veilguard’s PC features, stating that the franchise started on PC, so the developers wanted to ensure that the PC is a great platform for players to play.

Regarding PC development, the studio carried out extensive testing. The team further stated that getting the PC experience right was crucial to the team.

PCs made up 40% of our platform testing effort, with over 200,000 hours of performance and compatibility testing.

-BioWare Blog

The team stated that they spent 10,000 hours dedicated to keyboard and mouse user research testing and have also worked on the native support for PS5 DualSense controllers.

If you haven’t noticed yet, the team’s testing of over 200,000 hours suggests that it spent  22 years of testing just for the PC version. In total, it appears that the developers have spent over 600,000 hours testing Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Another exciting news is the confirmation of Ultrawide support, which also extends to cutscenes. The team has confirmed that no matter the size of your monitor, players can adjust the size of the FOV through an FOV slider in the setting.

Nonetheless, this is great news for fans. The developer has spent a massive amount of time working on testing the title for both PC and console versions to ensure the smoothest experience for everyone at release.

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