Around 100 people are working on the game currently, and it's been in development for two years with seven months of pre-production.Obsidian wants to make it possible to kill anyone in the game, similar to how Morrowind let players terminate the main plot by killing certain key characters.'Dynamic presentation of dialogue'-whatever that might mean.Creatures and wildlife will be based on Pillars of Eternity lore but will make new additions.Two large cities are being planned, with smaller settlements dotting the map and large areas of wilderness.The game will feature boss battles that happen on a very large scale.

You will be able to enlist the help of companions, but it is supposedly very different to how it works in Obsidian's other recent RPG, The Outer Worlds.The world will have lots of factions, but they won't be similar to Skyrim's factions.Character creation is supposed to be very advanced and detailed.There will be a real-time weather system.There will be a 'big focus' on world reactivity, lighting, and next-gen AI systems.The main setting will be The Living Lands region of Eora, which is a northern frontier not seen directly in either Pillars of Eternity game.The world will be 'denser' and 'more contrasted'-which presumably means diverse. Avowed will be 'fully open world' and much larger than Skyrim, but not necessarily in total size.The following are just rumors at the moment, and haven't been confirmed. The authenticity of Sponger's leaks was backed up by another notable Microsoft leaker named Klobrille (opens in new tab), who had also leaked some key details about Microsoft's other big games at the time. The biggest of these leakers is Sponger, a member of gaming forum Resertera who dumped a long list of rumored gameplay features (opens in new tab) Obsidian is looking to implement in Avowed. Though much of Avowed is still a mystery, some self-proclaimed Microsoft insiders have come forward to share details about Avowed's development.

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