Avowed, the upcoming action-RPG from Obsidian Leisure, was not too long ago delayed and is now set to launch on PC and current-gen Xbox consoles on February 18, 2025. Now, the developer has confirmed that the sport will run at 30fps on each Xbox Sequence X and Sequence S. Extra particulars in regards to the recreation have surfaced on the ongoing Gamescom 2024 occasion, the place Obsidian revealed that Avowed could have a number of attainable endings, going double digits.
Avowed Efficiency on Xbox Sequence S/X
Obsidian shared particulars about Avowed’s efficiency on Xbox Series S/X on the Iron Lords Podcast on the sidelines of Gamescom in Los Angeles. Showing on the podcast, revealed on YouTube Friday, the sport’s artwork director Matt Hansen stated that the studio was “focusing on a baseline of 30fps” for the RPG on Xbox consoles.
“We’re core focusing on 30fps, naked minimal,” Hansen stated, responding to a question in regards to the recreation’s console efficiency. “That is the expectation.”
The developer reasoned that gamers did not essentially want 60fps efficiency in a first-person single-player recreation and a 30fps output allowed Obsidian to enhance graphical constancy and lighting.
“It is a trade-off we opted to make comparatively early and we’re actually proud of it. The sport’s working fairly clean for a way visually dense it’s, and that was all the time our aim,” Hansen stated. “However so far as a larger understanding of efficiency spec, we’re nonetheless figuring all that out. It is one of many final stuff you do,” he added.
Avowed just isn’t the primary Xbox first-party title to launch with efficiency on consoles locked at 30fps. Bethesda’s Starfield launched at 30fps on Xbox Sequence S/X final 12 months, and so did Arkane Austin’s Redfall. Each video games, nonetheless, obtained a patch later that introduced the efficiency as much as 60fps on consoles. In reality, the most recent Starfield replace added 60fps efficiency for the sport on the lower-end Xbox Sequence S earlier this week.
Avowed Potential Endings
In a separate interview with IGN on the sidelines of Gamescom earlier this week, Avowed recreation director Carrie Patel confirmed that the sport would come with a number of attainable endings. “I can let you know our ending slides quantity within the double digits, you may find yourself with a whole lot of totally different mixtures of them,” Patel stated.
“I imply, that is an Obsidian recreation, so your ending is basically the sum whole of your decisions throughout the sport, throughout a whole lot of items of content material, relying on what you encountered and what you probably did while you discovered it,” she added.
Avowed was initially set for launch in late 2024. After the announced delay, which supplies the Obsidian RPG a little bit of respiratory room amidst a packed late 2024 online game launch calendar, the sport is confirmed to launch February 18, 2025, throughout PC, Xbox Sequence S/X and Game Pass.
