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Bethesda's Todd Howard has revealed a brand new detail about the development and eventual release of Fallout 5. As many fans should know, Bethesda recently revealed a roadmap of sorts detailing what it is working on for Starfield, for The Elder Scrolls 6, and for the Fallout franchise. While The Elder Scrolls 6 is the next main release from the studio, it seems Fallout has the most going on out of everything.
Not only has Bethesda confirmed that remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas are in development, but it also confirmed it was working on a new Fallout game with Obsidian. Plus, Fallout 5 is in pre-production, and Amazon is working on a new season of the show. Tucked into all this motion in the franchise is a key detail regarding Fallout 5 and Bethesda's proprietary Creation Engine.
Fallout 5 Uses Creation Engine 3
In a recent interview with Windows Central, Howard revealed that Fallout 5 uses Creation Engine 3. Bethesda's Creation Engine is, and always has been, tailor-built for large-scale open-world RPGs, which should come as no surprise. The Creation Engine was used for Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76, among others, while Starfield used Creation Engine 2. Now, Howard has confirmed that Creation Engine 3 is in the works for The Elder Scrolls 6 first and then Fallout 5. Speaking to the direction of Fallout 5 and Creation Engine 3, Howard said,
"For the kind of worlds that we want to build and also knowing that we were going to be doing Fallout 5, and just how do we do those simultaneously in a way where it's not start and stop. And we're really happy. I can't say enough about our tech team. It's just incredible. Our designers ask for so much crazy stuff, and our tech team finds a way to do it. And I think that's really defined our games where you feel like anything is possible."
Howard also explained that worlds like The Elder Scrolls 6's Tamriel and Fallout's wasteland begin with the tech. "A lot of people think engine, they think rendering, but there's so much more that goes into it from a tool side and a system side." Which makes sense. Supporting a massive open-world game requires many fine-tuned tools and systems to sustain the world, not to mention creating it. And while Creation Engine itself has developed a slightly bad, or more accurately aged, reputation in some corners of the internet, perhaps CE3 will maintain all its strengths but feel more modern.
Unfortunately, The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 are both years away—even as Xbox and Bethesda try to speed up production. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier recently claimed that The Elder Scrolls 6 would release in 2028 or 2029, meaning Fallout 5 will be some time after that. It's easily a 2030s release, but the good news is that there's a lot going on with the franchise.
Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are well-loved and often debated as the best Fallout games in the industry, so knowing that remasters of both are going to release in the coming years is certainly welcome, even if it's a bittersweet wait for all these games.
Source: Windows Central
