Huge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs

Huge new Avowed update adds New Game Plus, playable dwarves and Orlans, and quarterstaffs | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these RPG Three years after its last update, the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance gets a new patch that includes a new caparison for your horse Baldur’s Gate The best Baldur’s Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond Baldur’s Gate Surprise! Baldur’s Gate 3 got a fresh patch. Unsurprise! 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter It’s been exactly a year since Avowed released, and Obsidian has continued to support it with new classes, new skills, and better optimization. To coincide with the new PS5 edition, Avowed just got its biggest update yet, adding New Game Plus, three new playable races, and a new weapon class.Character creation will now let you select Dwarves, Orlans and Aumauans, which is a big step up from the choice between a human or Elf. To refresh your memory, the Orlans are those furry cat-eared creatures, with the most memorable in Avowed being innuendo-happy Yatzli. Companion Kai was an Aumauan: they’re big and lanky half-fish half-human beings. All races have different starting attributes too, which compliment new background choice stat boosts. It’s starting to feel more like an RPG.If you’re halfway through a playthrough and feel annoyed that you didn’t get the chance to start as an Orlan—and I can’t blame you—there’s a new Magic Mirror you can access at camp to change your race or godlike features, ie, those weird fungus growths that mark you as a godlike. Related articles Avowed says sorry gang, no fall update this year, but to make up for it the devs are rolling together a bunch of features into a ball and putting them out in February Avowed didn’t rewrite the RPG rulebook in 2025, but it still gave me some of my biggest gaming ‘wow’ moments of the year Baldur’s Gate 3 started on top and kept on climbing: Larian said it wouldn’t make a sequel, then drip fed us an expansion’s worth of free updates into 2025 New Game Plus is what you’d expect: it lets you restart with all the weapons and armor you acquired in an initial playthrough, as well as all unlocked abilities with the exception of godlike ones. Enemies are more durable and powerful, and the player’s attribute points cap has raised from 15 to 30.There’s also a new photo mode, and new difficulty sliders, lest those dreamthralls get the better of you. A new quarterstaff weapon class has been added, which is “a new bludgeoning weapon that com