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Avowed News
2025
March 12
⚫︎ Carrie Patel, the director of Avowed, has stated in an interview with Eurogamer how though the game doesn't have a romance system built into it, it doesn't mean to say that there isn't any romance at all. She says the inclusion of romance mechanics and meters make it appears more of a gameplay system and mechanic, and less as an organic romance that gets kindled and grows as players spend more time around their companions. Moreover, she spoke at how RPGs should never always strive for gigantic open world maps, and should focus on condensed dynamic stories for the player.
February 27
⚫︎ Obsidian has released an official DIY mushroom kit, which allows fans to grow thier own mushrooms based from the game's plague that can be eaten for snacks.
February 24
⚫︎ After the steadily rising success of Avowed, the director expresses their interest in expanding the Living Lands and perhaps creating a franchise out of Avowed. They also talk about the numerous reboots the game underwent throughout its development.
February 19
⚫︎ For the game's day 1 patch meant to fix some bugs upon its official launch, numerous changes and tweaks have been made. The most prominent of all was the toning down of the constant nagging of companions commenting about the players' poor state of affairs regarding weapons and armors.
February 17
⚫︎ Upon the arrival of the game, Critical Role, a group of professional voice actors who gained rise from their Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, will be playing a single-shot Avowed-themed campaign. It premiered as the game was released.
February 12
⚫︎ Avowed was announced as one game where players can purchase one copy from either the Xbox store or the Battle.net which allows them to own and play the game on either platform.
February 8
⚫︎ Director Carrie Patel spoke on how the game at launch will still have some jank to it, and that such bugs add deeper and more fun exprience in games as a whole, citing them as unavoidable when pushing for risks in gaming. She also reveals how the game will not have any sort of scaling, which will allow players to tackle difficult enemies on the field and suffer game overs, as is tradition in past RPGs.
February 6
⚫︎ Ahead of its launch, director Carrie Patel reveal that they went back on their previous statement of Avowed only requiring 30 FPS, and have been able to run the game on 60 FPS. This was to also accomodate the reveal of a 3rd-person POV for players who preferred the playstyle.
February 4
⚫︎ As the game nears its impending release, the marketing campaign has ramped up to the point wherein the game was able to occupy a space in the famous Times Square in New York City. The ad contains an adventurer shifting within a colorful cave and performing an ability, as it then proceeds to transition into the game’s cover art and title.
January 28
⚫︎ New footage of the game surfaced in the Xbox subreddit, wherein it showcased 3rd-person gameplay that enticed fans. It also features a litany of combat, where the player is able to cast a variety of spells and wield different weapons to defeat their enemies.
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Jan 25
⚫︎ Avowed’s Twitter/X account shares a thread of how its character creation not only determines the players’ appearances, but their backgrounds as well, determining how the world in their adventures will treat them.
⚫︎ Avowed developers spoke to Xbox how the game will manage to provide very flexible freedom in terms of quests to be taken, character interactions to discover, and combat to perform that all offer a very immersive RPG. right]Read more: [How Avowed Lets You Choose Your Own Adventure with Incredible Freedom (Xbox)will shape how the world responds to you
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January 24
January 18
⚫︎ As the game nears it set release date, Avowed’ Steam Community Hub section was quietly cleared and shut down, as well as the game disappearing entirely from players’ libraries. Fans speculate that this is a hint the game will be further delayed, but official Avowed social media accounts quickly posted that it is still scheduled to release on February 18.
2024
December 7
⚫︎ The game’s environment region designer, Berto Ritger, goes into detail how majority of the questlines in Avowed can be initiated at any point in the game no matter how far along the player is into the game, allowing each playthrough to stand out and be unique to instill a sense of exploration and wanderlust.
(GamesRadar)
December 1
⚫︎ Dennis Presnell, Avowe’d lead environmental artist, boasts numerous RPG credits in his resume, dating all the way back to 2003 working on franchises such as Baldur’s Gate, Fallout, and Obsidian. He says he has never felt more confident in an RPG such as Avowed, where he mentions how overjoyed he is at the entire process and how well everything is coming together.
November 14
⚫︎ Avowed’s delay from November 2024 to February 2025 has been explained by Xbox boss Phil Spencer as a strategic one, citing that there were too many big game releases in November. He denies that it had nothing to do with any performance or optimization issues the game is dealing with during development.
October 2
⚫︎ Avowed’s Director, Carrie Patel, explains in an interview how the game will be affected by any and every decision that players make, whether big or small. Their team is making sure that the title will have nearly endless replayability and individuality from player to player as all their own actions influence their own adventures.
September 9
⚫︎ Avowed art director Matt Hansen shares the team’s target performance for the game, citing that their goal is to reach 30 FPS on consoles minimum. However, they also don’t see a reason to further optimize to reach the coveted 60, allowing them to implement better graphical fidelity and special effects just to maintain a stable 30.
