Avowed, the upcoming action-RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, was lately 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 Series X and Series S. More particulars in regards to the sport have surfaced on the ongoing Gamescom 2024 occasion, the place Obsidian revealed that Avowed may have a number of potential endings, going double digits.
Avowed Performance on Xbox Series 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. Appearing on the podcast, printed on YouTube Friday, the sport’s artwork director Matt Hansen mentioned that the studio was “targeting a baseline of 30fps” for the RPG on Xbox consoles.
“We are core targeting 30fps, bare minimum,” Hansen mentioned, responding to a question in regards to the sport’s console efficiency. “That’s the expectation.”
The developer reasoned that gamers did not essentially want 60fps efficiency in a first-person single-player sport and a 30fps output allowed Obsidian to enhance graphical constancy and lighting.
“It’s a trade-off we opted to make relatively early and we’re really happy with it. The game’s running pretty smooth for how visually dense it is, and that was always our goal,” Hansen mentioned. “But as far as a greater understanding of performance spec, we’re still figuring all that out. It’s one of the last things you do,” he added.
Avowed shouldn’t be the primary Xbox first-party title to launch with efficiency on consoles locked at 30fps. Bethesda’s Starfield launched at 30fps on Xbox Series S/X final 12 months, and so did Arkane Austin’s Redfall. Both video games, nonetheless, acquired 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 Series S earlier this week.
Avowed Possible Endings
In a separate interview with IGN on the sidelines of Gamescom earlier this week, Avowed sport director Carrie Patel confirmed that the sport would come with a number of potential endings. “I can tell you our ending slides number in the double digits, you can end up with a lot of different combinations of them,” Patel mentioned.
“I mean, this is an Obsidian game, so your ending is really the sum total of your choices across the game, across a lot of pieces of content, depending on what you encountered and what you did when you found it,” she added.
Avowed was initially set for launch in late 2024. After the introduced delay, which provides 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 Series S/X and Game Pass.
