Summary
Many role-playing games include party camp moments where players can perform a variety of tasks including interacting with their companions, cooking meals, and managing their inventory. While atcamp inBaldur’s Gate 3, for instance, players can change their party composition, restore their HP, revive fallen party members, and engage in important, relationship-advancing conversations with any companion characters they’ve recruited along their journey. Obsidian Entertainment’s upcoming fantasy RPGAvowedhas been confirmed to include its own party camp moments that function in a similar way.
Avowed’s party camp feature hasn’t been put on full display just yet, but Obsidian has disclosed a generous amount of information about it ahead of the game’s release. In short, the party camp inAvowedserves as an invaluable hub where players can connect with their companions and even upgrade their gear to increase their efficiency in fighting stronger foes. As the case has been in other games that include moments around the campfire with the party, players may find their time spent on these occasions withAvowed’s companions to be some of their most memorable.
What to Expect From Avowed’s Party Camp Feature
Avowed’s Party Camp Serves as a Conversation Hub
As expected,Avowed’s party campgives players an opportunity to interact with their companions on a deeper level than they might be able to while out exploring and completing quests. These tranquil moments provide the player and their party with a brief period of respite where they can let their guard down and allow their relationships to flourish, so it’s likely a significant portion of the character development ofAvowed’s companions occurs at camp, should players pursue meaningful conversations with them.
In these conversations, players can discover more about each ofAvowed’s companions' personalities, backstories, and opinions, which may help shape the choices players make during key parts of the game’s story and crucial quests.
Players will also witness each ofAvowed’s companionsoccasionally engaging in conversation with each other at the party camp, with plenty of banter and quirky humor to boot. There will even be times when companions are at odds with one another about a particular point of view, but how or whether players can get involved in these conflicts is currently unclear. At the very least, these conversations could create crossroads moments where players can have their own point of view shaped by those traveling with them.
Players Can Stash and Upgrade Their Gear at the Party Camp in Avowed
Apart from the ability to form more intimate connections with companions at the party camp inAvowed, players will also be allowed to upgrade their gear and manage their party stash. Based on what has been disclosed so far, there is no option to upgrade gear outsideAvowed’s party camp, so players may be spending plenty of time at camp for that reason alone. When upgrading gear inAvowed, players will need both the materials and the currency required to do so. It’s also possible for players to upgrade theirskills atAvowed’s party camp, but that has been confirmed to be something players can do at any time during the game.
Avowed’s party camp gives players an opportunity to interact with their companions on a deeper level than they might be able to while out exploring and completing quests.
It’s possible Obsidian could reveal ’s party camp feature the closer it gets to the game’s February 2025 release, but what has been revealed so far should be plenty for role-playing enthusiasts to get behind. As they traverse theLiving Landsto investigate the mysterious Dreamscourge plague, players will likely come to value the brief moments of respite thatAvowed’s party camp experience provides, especially if it means growing closer to their companions and becoming stronger in the process.
