Avowed Seemingly Confirmed to Be Running on Unreal Engine 5

Obsidian Entertainment seems to be using the newest Unreal Engine 5 technology from Epic to build the first-person fantasy RPG Avowed.

[Jin_Sakai]

Pretty excited for this game! Should fill in the gap as we wait for ES6.

[darthv72]

I get a hexen / heretic vibe when I see this game.

[Crows90]

How often do you see this game? Isn't it from pillars of eternity?

[RaidenBlack]

A first person RPG that's different from Elders Scrolls set in Pillars of Eternity universe. ~ is what I have managed to gather till now.

[darthv72]

sorry Crows, I haven't played that game. But I have played lots of hexen / heretic back in the day.

[phoenixwing]

I'm of the opinion that Bethesda is lucky they're owned by Microsoft because obsidian was probably working to take the crown from their elder scrolls series with avowed.

Also if you can't tell by my opinion up above I'm looking forward to avowed on pc

[Concertoine]

Honestly im not impressed with the output of either dev lately. Outer Worlds was polished but i found it very unengaging. Fallout 76 and Fallout 4 (Bethesdas most recent games) barely feel like RPGs at all to me.

I’ll be pleased if either Avowed or ES6 actually feel like a generational leap over games like New Vegas and Skyrim.

[No Way]

Outer Worlds was pretty dope; but, to each their own.

[RaidenBlack]

True ... Obsidian (even though being very talented) was struggling with the identity part.
They're ex-Black Isle Studios, the team behind OG Fallout, Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment. And is also the publisher/collaborator of BioWare's Baldur's Gate. Hence BlackIsle being one of my fav. studios from 90s.
Their RPG skills are top notch and their games reflect that but although they have created original intellectual property(comparatively smaller scale), many of their games are sequels based on licensed properties.
Hence bigger-budget original IPs starting with Outer Worlds was a much needed step. And actually them getting acquired by Xbox was actually a positive thing for this talented but underrated studio. Now Obsidian can showcase what they can do with proper financial backing and new IPs.

[JEECE]

Unreal Engine 5 means no more last gen so I hope every game uses it now.

[Orchard]

UE5 does actually build and run on last gen…

[JEECE]

Sigh sigh sigh sigh. Of course you're still advocating for games being gimped for 2013 CPUs. Okay, yes obviously you can port an old or basic game to U5 and it will still run on the ancient systems.

*Unreal Engine 5 when the devs actually take advantage of the engine's features means no more last gen.

Happy with that correction? Or do we need more ruinous cross-gen?

[Orchard]

I'm not actually advocating for that at all. I was just pointing out that a title being UE5 doesn't mean it wont come to last gen. Nothing more, nothing less.

I do look forward to when we see 'proper' UE5 titles though. The engine looks phenomenal, miles ahead of anything else out there today.

[EvertonFC]

That would be so boring and dull

[Obscure_Observer]

Can´t wait for June when we´ll finally get release dates, trailers, gameplay and further details on many of Xbox first party games.

[porkChop]

That shouldn't be surprising. They used Unreal for The Outer Worlds as well.

[TheDreamCorridor]

Unreal Engine sucks butt.

[TheColbertinator]

Obsidian back on a decent budget. The Outer Worlds was seriously lacking in polish

[Crows90]

Microsoft has bought tons of IPS and studios. In their coming showcase if the show fails to deliver on every single game that's been announced for years....yeah dimwits and useless.

[metalgod88]

Any game that runs on UE4 can run on UE5. It's pretty awesome that the devs of the engine were able to add this functionality. Of course, it would take the devs of Avowed to get used to the new UI, tools, and functionality, but it saves projects in progress a TON of time if they wanted to jump from 4 to 5.

[Wrex369]

Really hoping for a game play reveal of this!

[nmbr1esq]

If only you had the option for 3rd person...