The RPG’s world will be bigger than in The Outer Worlds, and the lighting and art style will be refined.

Briar Diem works at Obsidian Entertainment, the developers of Avowed, and has taken to the RPG Codex forum to respond to the critical voices that have been raised in response to the preview video for the first-party Microsoft game. According to the developer, the trailer was not good, and the game looks much more like the few images you can see below. The color editing and poor video compression may have made the game ugly. Avowed isn’t even in alpha yet, so there will be opportunities to improve the art style and lighting.

Avowed uses Unreal Engine 5, so Obsidian could use Lumen GI in Epic Games’ technology to remedy the lighting. Diem added that the game is the longest-running of Obsidian’s creations in alpha and beta. There will be plenty of time for quality and bug fixing, so it’s fair to suspect that they plan to release their RPG in late 2024. Director Carrie Patel and CEO Feargus Urquhart have compared the size of the game to The Outer Worlds and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, but Diem says the comparison wasn’t fair because it’s big and open-world. He sees the official comments as an attempt to lower expectations (called a Skyrim-like experience initially).

The developer added that they’d had a lot of work to do with Avowed because it was partially rebooted in 2021. It promises to be bigger than Obsidian’s games. Still, despite not being seen in the trailer, he says the story, characters, missions, and gameplay mechanics that Obsidian is known for will all be there in the game announced at the 2020 Xbox Games Showcase. It’ll be a first-person RPG set in Eora (Pillars of Eternity) on a large northern island full of wildlife and unique environments. There will be only humans and elves and a local plague to investigate.

Avowed has no official release date yet. It’s coming to Xbox Series and PC, but it will also be on Game Pass.

Source: WCCFTech