It appears that a pre-alpha screenshot for the Microsoft exclusive game, Avowed, has been leaked online. This screenshot comes from a leaked gameplay video that circled the Internet a year ago. It’s also of low-res quality, so don’t expect much from it.
From what we know so far, Avowed will be a fully open-world game. Its map will be “denser” and “more contrasted” at the same time than the one for Skyrim. Moreover, the game will have real-time weather and very advanced character creation tool.
Additionally, Avowed will have a big focus on world reactivity. Not only that, but it will have advanced lighting, as well as next-gen AI systems and physics.
The PC version will also support mods from the get-go. This is a huge deal as, at first glance, Avowed feels like a Skyrim game.
Avowed will be fully respecting POE creatures lore with new additions, and will have dynamic presentation of dialogue. It will also have bosses, very large number of factions, and will allow you to have companions.
Microsoft officially announced Avowed in 2020. Since then, though, Obsidian went radio silent.
Stay tuned for more!
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A 1-year-old screenshot from a game with no further information. Resetera has done it again, what a scoop.
This is a picture of a banana, which is about just as interesting:
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If only they hovered over my head like that until I ate them, then I would possess the Holy Potassium!
I’m cautiously optimistic for this game.
I wouldn’t be. The writing talent which made Obsidian great is long gone and if The Outer Worlds is any indication, they consist of communist lesbians now.
Not a big fan of always on-screen fixed hands in first person view games.
In this picture, if you zoom to full screen, it seems to occupy a decent amount of screen real estate. It might get tedious after a while and downright annoying if the game presents fast pace fighting scenarios. Hopefully they can find the right balance and implement an interesting gameplay, but so far I’m kinda “meh” on this game.
Either the FoV is too low in this screen or it’s a cropped off-screen shot, but that’s not a problem at all, the real problem is that it’s developed by Obsidian…
The issue is viewmodel FOV, console games are a blight for that as everything looks gigantic and you can only change them via .ini file, sometimes.
Any game mentioning AI improvements I am interested
Low quality is a euphemism. This looks like it was zoomed in 50%, rendered at 360p, blurred with TAA and then blurred again with compression. It’s hard to make out any detail besides the player’s hands.
Well, at least Xbots got SOMETHING from an Xbox studio in 2022 then.
So all we have is an announcement trailer which just confirms a game is being made and this horrible picture. MAN I CANT WAIT
In this screenshot we can see magic that looks like the iron man HUD, or the effect on Doctor Strange hands. That’s stupid.
Little advise for devs : you don’t have to insert magic in games. You can just do better engines, better interactions. And if you do magic anyway, you should do it in a intelligent, coherent way, not over-the-top crazy sh*t. Like in Skyrim, not like in … all the last AAAs.
Crazy sh*t is crazy, but I guess that’s really what the Woke want.