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Where are we on the rumors for this one? 😄 From the XBox Developer_Direct 2024, about 44 seconds in.

Heh heh. I’m not even sure I can be mad. The whole showcase lineup is looking pretty incredible for team Xbox.

We did it everyone! See you all in 2024!

It’s been a thousand days since our last drop of Avowed information. Let’s see if we can break that streak! 😃

Potato Chef is there to keep everyone safe. It can be dangerous to ignore his warnings.

I don't think there's been much conversation about the first-person sequence in the trailer because it seemed fairly unlikely that last year the game could possibly be too far along. It may include elements they're considering (glowing runeswords, fancy casting animations, etc...), but the general consensus is that the trailer is CGI from end-to-end. It's been really hard to interpret "coming soon" statements these days. Most of those happened before a string of California wildfires forced evacuations, and were back during simpler times when everyone still hoped COVID would burn out during the summer of 2020. [Also, welcome to the forums!]

It was released last just week! Should be available on Spotify and iTunes (maybe others too). https://music.apple.com/us/album/grounded-original-soundtrack/1576301412

Is it too soon to speculate about Michigan?

Obsidian seems to be keeping up with the state naming convention. There may even be more than four things in various stages of production. 18. Louisiana - Pillars of Eternity 2 19. Indiana - The Outer Worlds ------------------------- 20. Mississippi - [???] 21. Illinois - [???] 22. Alabama - Avowed 23. Maine - Grounded 24. Missouri - [Josh Sawyer's unannounced project] 25. Arkansas - The Outer Worlds 2

Yeah, that seems reasonable. By project codenames, Avowed is three projects older than TOW2. We really don't know much about the two in the middle, so it's hard to gauge if it's a big head start or a little head start, but TOW2 is the most recent project they've announced.

New Website, New Metadata! TOW2 is Arkansas stRef:filePath="AR_Announce_Trailer_Final_16-9.mp4" Avowed is Alabama stRef:filePath="Alabama_Teaser_Animatic_XboxDigitalVersion_OnlineMaster_ESRB_HD_1080p29_H264_Stereo_-16LKFS.mp4"

TOW 2 is Arkansas! The new website features a short TOW2 video clip chopped up from: stRef:filePath="AR_Announce_Trailer_Final_16-9.mp4" Avowed is Alabama.

Potato Chef knows all the game's secrets. 🕵️‍♂️

I don't think there's been any definite info to find so far. Aside from the teaser trailer, there are only like 3 TOW2-related pieces of media to examine, and both have been fairly scrubbed of interesting metadata.

Depending on how you want to parse the semantics, Halcyon doesn't have to be the only corporate colony, just the only (known) one on the edge of the frontier. Maybe there's another corporate colony even further out. Or a colony slightly closer to Earth. Or a non-corp colony somewhere else on the frontier. Or some wildcat colony that the corporations built in secret. Still plenty of ways to spin a sequel while not retconning TOW1.