Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming February 18th

[Riddler]

It will only be passable if you can pacifist-run through it.

Avoiding combat would only serve to highlight the modern obsidian writing.

 

[Quillon]

I can see this being good if they

make a proper clone; copy more immersive sim features from gamebryo(+ extensive mod support). Otherwise people will forget about it in its release year just like with TOW and will only say forced good things about it just not to eat their words which were spoken just to shit on bethesda.

 

[Infinitron]

First employee to update his LinkedIn, some recently joined contractor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayd-hendricks-9716b961/

Senior Area Designer - Avowed
Jul 2020 – Present

He was the project lead on survival MMO ATLAS.

 

[Abu Antar]

Justin Bell wrote the track for the Avowed teaser trailer and for the new The Outer Worlds expansion. He seems to be their main guy.

 

[fantadomat]

Why so butthurt infi,clearly you will get a superior PoE survival game set in a cavern. It will be amusing if it is a rogue-like.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

First employee to update his LinkedIn, some recently joined contractor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayd-hendricks-9716b961/

Senior Area Designer - Avowed
Jul 2020 – Present

He was the project lead on survival MMO ATLAS.

So mostly like this gonna be open world game.. Doesn't sounds promising to me. I would preffer hub based , somehow.

I wonder who gonna work on the combat design in this one

 

[Duraframe300]

First employee to update his LinkedIn, some recently joined contractor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayd-hendricks-9716b961/

Senior Area Designer - Avowed
Jul 2020 – Present

He was the project lead on survival MMO ATLAS.

He updated his profile yesterday 2 hours after the presentation.

 

[Lycra Suit]

Heh, an FPS set in a world that traditionally had isometric RPGs based on it?

Kind of like Fallout 3.

...

Oh no.

History repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce

 

[ADL]

First employee to update his LinkedIn, some recently joined contractor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayd-hendricks-9716b961/

Senior Area Designer - Avowed
Jul 2020 – Present

He was the project lead on survival MMO ATLAS.

The bad parts of Atlas have absolutely nothing to do with the level design. Here's some of his work.

 

[Gargaune]

Now ask them to translate "Banal Shit Boring" into runes.

 

[Tyranicon]

First employee to update his LinkedIn, some recently joined contractor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayd-hendricks-9716b961/

Senior Area Designer - Avowed
Jul 2020 – Present

He was the project lead on survival MMO ATLAS.

So mostly like this gonna be open world game.. Doesn't sounds promising to me. I would preffer hub based , somehow.

I wonder who gonna work on the combat design in this one

Hub-based is where it's at. I'm biased though, because hub-based is also cheaper to develop. I prefer dense environments to vast empty ones anyhow.

 

[Zombra]

And yet FNV was worse than Skyrim. People still mod Skyrim to this day, it had a dozen final/legendary/whatever re-releases, it even has sex mods, what does FNV have?

Yeah! New Vegas was so bad, barely anyone decided it could use major changes!

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

First employee to update his LinkedIn, some recently joined contractor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayd-hendricks-9716b961/

Senior Area Designer - Avowed
Jul 2020 – Present

He was the project lead on survival MMO ATLAS.

Hahahahaha, this just keeps getting better and better. Atlas was such a wreck.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Clearly this is the result of following the teachings of Roxor.

 

[Infinitron]

So mostly like this gonna be open world game.. Doesn't sounds promising to me. I would preffer hub based , somehow.

That seems likely, but you shouldn't assume that because of this guy.

Hahahahaha, this just keeps getting better and better. Atlas was such a wreck.

Perhaps that's why he accepted a career downgrade to Senior (not Lead) Area Designer. (In game development, having the word "Senior" attached to your role isn't as important as it sounds like. Often it just means this isn't your first job)

 

[Kem0sabe]

Obsidian developing melee first person combat is also not an exciting prospect, it never is in first person games to be honest, but after outer worlds I believe that they are especially inept at developing solid action combat.

 

[Tyranicon]

Perhaps that's why he accepted a career downgrade to Senior (not Lead) Area Designer. (In game development, having the word "Senior" attached to your role isn't as important as it sounds like. Often it just means this isn't your first job)

Most of the time it's just a way to appease someone without giving them a big salary increase or more control over their projects.

 

[Tyranicon]

Obsidian developing melee first person combat is also not an exciting prospect, it never is in first person games to be honest, but after outer worlds I believe that they are especially inept at developing solid action combat.

I fully expect it to be banal Oblivion/F:NV Era whack-whack-block melee, much like Outer Worlds was.

 

[Quillon]

whack-whack-block melee

which is shit but still better than: block/whack>hit/get blocked/randomly receive unblockable master strike back //*cough*kcd*cough*

melee combat should at least be third person

 

[Tyranicon]

whack-whack-block melee

which is shit but still better than: block/whack>hit/get blocked/randomly receive unblockable master strike back //*cough*kcd*cough*

melee combat should at least be third person

I enjoyed KCD, but combat was... different. The only first-person melee combat I liked was Dark Messiah, and 80% of that was kicking orcs into random things.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Dark Messiah is indeed the gold standard, but I also thought that breakdown(Xbox) was very good, but that might just be nostalgia talking

 

[ADL]

The gold standard should be something like Mordhau or Mountain Blade for melee combat mixed with KCD-like progression where you start off really inept and you see yourself grow in proficiency as you train up your skills. Lichdom had magic combat that felt good so I'd recommend that as a reference too.

 

[Volrath]

Obsidian developing melee first person combat is also not an exciting prospect, it never is in first person games to be honest, but after outer worlds I believe that they are especially inept at developing solid action combat.

inEptile vs Obshitian, which is worse and why?

 

[Zombra]

First person only? This sucks, I want to see my char.

A vanity cam is too much to hope for, but I assume they'll at least let you check yourself out in the inventory screen like in OW.

Fantasy scripts always being nothing but the latin alphabet but with different characters is pretty unimaginative.

Would you really rather have them do something wild and creative, like spell out emotional concepts with pictograms of dead animals and have no other language?

 

[fantadomat]

Mordhau or Mountain Blade

Have very arcady melee combat,KCD has a lot better one. The problem was that you could master it too fast and end up fucking up everyone,also reposte.