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Todd Howard Confirms Fallout 5 Will Arrive After The In Pre-Production Elder Scrolls VI
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They have overhauled the Creation Engine and now call it Creation Engine 2, animation, rendering, procedural generation, pathing etc., part of the Starfield development time was devoted to overhauling the engine. This engine is now confirmed to be used for Elder Scrolls 6 as well with a few tweaks and *most* likely fallout 5 which will hopefully speed things up although they were never fast developers to begin with.
The Bethesda forums are gone now but there used to be a few threads showing Bethesda development timeframes for games from Pre-production – Production - Launch – Bug Fix (haha go modders)- DLC release was generally 3.5-4 years once they left pre-production (they had the completed engine then).
Even the best esti-guesstimates from these fans are predicting 2027 for Elder Scrolls 6 release (this does sync up with Howard saying it would be 15+ years for the next Elder Scrolls game after Skyrim in 2011). That would put Fallout 5 out at 2030 /2032 if their previous design timeframe of 3.5-4 years is kept (Starfield not- withstanding, new IP and they overhauled engine) which puts it 15+ years after Fallout 4 in 2015.
A real concern as others mentioned is will, I still be interested / capable of gaming, I will be late 50’s in a decade and planning retirement so should still be above ground for Fallout 5 (will this website? Seems there are less and less long-term posters all the time). Fallout 6 maybe 15 years after Fallout 5? that’s another matter that may have to be left to descendants, maybe with biochips in their heads.
It could be worse, 10 years for a crowdfunded game may still net you mostly artwork, with these guys (and Howard at the helm) I am sure there will be 2 released games in the next decade (roughly) which will at the minimum moderately entertain me, even Fallout 76 gave me a handful of months entertainment anyway.
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