During Gamescom 2024, Xbox developer Obsidian Entertainment revealed that its upcoming RPG Avowed will run at 30FPS on console, and despite this lower frame rate target, the team claims that the game is running "really, really well" on Xbox Series X right now.
As part of a preview over at Windows Central, Obsidian's Matt Hansen spoke to the site about Avowed, and how it's shaping up from a technical perspective - roughly six months out from launch. Here's what Hansen had to say:
"We've been developing [for Xbox and PC] in tandem the whole time,
But, honestly, one of the things that surprised me most was that, early on in development, we realized that often the Xbox Series X performs better than the PC.
The console is running [Avowed] really, really well,"
The developer went on to mention Xbox Series S, and how the team is "still figuring out the specs" for that version of the game. Obsidian mentions that Series S "doesn't have some of the bells and whistles" that Xbox Series X does, so we can expect the game's specs to be lowered on the digital-only machine.
Despite the controversy surrounding that 30FPS announcement, we got plenty of other good stuff out of Gamescom when it comes to Avowed. A pretty chunky gameplay demo was quickly followed up by over an hour's worth of new footage earlier this week, and yeah, it's safe to say we're quite excited for this one at the moment. We'll just have to make do with 30FPS if that's the team's target!