Bethesda is working on a new engine to power its upcoming games – “The Elder Scrolls VI” and “Starfield”. Todd Howard is keen to comment on the importance of updating this engine.
The Elder Scrolls 6 release date is likely to be released in a few years. We still don’t know what platforms we can expect it on, but Bethesda has recently taken the opportunity to raise the expectations of players for the next-gen game and the first decent installment of the series since The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim . So it’s no surprise that Bethesda promises that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be much better than Skyrim. Bethesda’s Todd Howard reveals that cities will be more expansive and dynamic.
Skyrim from 2011 had a fairly substantial and large by the standards of local games open world. In 2020, many of its settlements looked small and spacious. According to Howard, creating large, sprawling cities was a big challenge for the development team.
Unfortunately, Howard did not reveal many other details, let alone specific details, about how big the cities will be. Of course, bigger is not always better. What makes a city feel credible, especially when it comes to its size, is how densely populated, well-built it is. The Witcher 3 did it very well and it looks like CD Projekt Red is going to set the bar even higher in Cyberpunk 2077 .
Some of the cities and towns in Skyrim are quite large. Even Oblivion had some very large cities. However, neither of them appeared alive. And that’s what will be crucial for Bethesda in developing The Elder Scrolls 6. The last time Bethesda Game Studios released Fallout 4 in 2015 , it failed to do so. Cities, towns and other settlements seemed empty. Not only was the NPCs lacking, but also the credibility of their routines. However, in this case, such an effect was intended.
Creating a vibrant, dynamic and well-realized world is not a strong point at Bethesda Game Studios. However, the team seems to be trying to change this, and these changes may be easier to achieve thanks to the new engine made for the game.
Elder Scrolls 6 is currently being developed for PC. Unfortunately, we do not know the release date yet, or whether the game will be released on other platforms.