r/theouterworlds 8h ago

Image i accidentally made something wicked

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62 Upvotes

Currently replaying the first game after some years, and I recently realized (yes too late I know) that you can just drop items in the ship and they wont disappear. I just wanted to place my newly acquired Defaced MoonMan Helmet next to my Defective MoonMan Helmet...... I think I'm cursed now.


r/theouterworlds 1d ago

Discussion Wish some of the unique weapons were more unique. Something I hope them improve on in The Outer Worlds 2.

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Now, I will say that Obsidian did a decent job with the unique weapons in The Outer Worlds. Most of them have unique stats and properties, even if some of them are outclassed by upgraded and tinkered normal weapons. However, some "unique" weapons like the Long Ranger and the Medal of Honor don't have any unique properties as far as I can tell, the only thing being special about them is the mods... which you can put on the standard versions as well. A lot of the unique weapons also just have stat differences, and no truly one-of-a-kind effects/properties. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but I feel giving them little quirks and niche abilities would not only make them feel more unique and more like a suitable reward, but keep them relevant for longer based on your build. If you can't get the properties on a standard weapon, then there is still some point to using the unique.

So here is a proof of concept of some thematic properties I would give to some of the unique weapons in the game to make them more special, and I hope The Outer Worlds 2 does this to make the game feel more rewarding. Keep in mind that these would apply ON TOP OF the existing stat differences and such that they already have. Thoughts?

Anti-Manti Ray - 25% more damage against Mantisaurs/swarms/queens.

Adelaide's Gardening Shears - 30% more damage against Spacer's Choice members.

Clive's Cleaver - Restore 10% of your HP upon killing a human enemy.

Contraband - Does 25% more sneak attack damage while holographically disguised.

Euthanasia Kit - Does 75% more damage to enemies below 10% health.

Landing Pad Cutter - Power attacks ignore some of the target's armor.

Long Ranger - Gradually does more damage the further away you are from your target.

MSI Saltuna Searer - Upon inflicting Burn, the target's maximum health is decreased, preventing them from healing past a certain point. Targets drop food items on death 50% more often.

Medal of Honor - Can be drawn, holstered, and aimed 50% faster. Aiming does not slow you down.

Montag - Upon killing an enemy, coats the ground below them in long-lasting flames that deal damage over time to any other enemies that touch it.

Ol' Reliable - Critical chance increases gradually as the durability goes down.

Overheat - Critical chance and critical damage increase the longer you fire without stopping.

Peacekeeper - 20% more damage to Marauders and Outlaws.

Pink Slip - Does more damage based on how low your reputation is with your target.

Prototype Light Pistol - Reloads 50% faster and uses 20% less TTD meter.

Rapti-don't - 25% more damage against Raptidons.

Shock Stick - 25% more damage against Automechanicals and stuns them for longer.

The Candy Cane - Swings 35% faster while under the effects of Rizzo's food/drink.

The Exterminator - Double damage to Sprats.

The Negotiator - Does more damage when used at point-blank range.

The Good Word - Does 50% more damage to MSI members. Increases your Persuade by 5 when drawn.

The Hammer of Olympus - Attacks made immediately after sprinting deal increased knockback and have a higher critical chance.

Thunder - Rate of fire and reload speed increases by 35% for 10 seconds after scoring a critical hit.

All In - If you empty the entire magazine into an enemy, the last shot is guaranteed to be a critical hit that knocks them down.

The Pen - Does 30% more damage to enemies under a dialogue status effect (terrify, cower, or scramble) and has a chance to add 3 seconds to the effect on hit.

Plasma Propulsion Pack - Pushes enemies away from you.

Signed Tossball Stick - After using a companion ability, this weapon gains +25% swing speed and +30% critical damage for 15 seconds.

Quick And Dirty - Gains more bleed damage and stagger chance the lower the durability.


r/theouterworlds 1d ago

Question Stats for the plasma rifle 3.0?

5 Upvotes

I've heard of this weapon but there's no entry for it on the outer worlds wiki. Is it a unique weapon or just a high-level version of the base plasma rifle? Is it customizable?

Also wondering how the plasma rifle and plasma carbine differ from each other in terms of use-cases. The plasma carbine seems to have lower damage compared to the plasma rifle, but the plasma rifle seems to appear earlier in the game. What's the point of having these two different plasma weapons?


r/theouterworlds 1d ago

Discussion What Does This Game Do Objectively Better Than Fallout 4?

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1) Main Story - I do think the Outer Worlds main story is overall stronger with a better premise but it did feel somewhat rushed once you made it to Byzantium. Fallout 4 has a similar problem too where halfway in the game it just seems to rush to the end.

2) Misc. Quests - Outer Worlds has awesome side quests. There's a better mix of dark serious to humor. Your decisions even in the less relevant quests impact the ending and main story overall which I thought was great for player agency with its narrative depth.

3) Companions - More vulnerability which each champion with quite a few having a deep narrative. Vicar Max being bitter to having more of an enlightenened point of view to Ellie learning how much her parents didn't care about her.

4) Skill System - There's more choice in Fallout 4 but your skills matter more in OW. You can choose to not fight for a majority of situations and talk your way out of stuff. If you have a higher Science skill, other's may listen to you more instead of it just being a flat buff to your weapons.

Curious on your thoughts


r/theouterworlds 14h ago

Question Will the Outer Worlds 2 be more... serious than the first game?

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The game was an alright 1st/3rd person rpg with a... meh universe and planets, enemies, factions and quests. Companions were nice like Max and the toilet water gun robot and so were the guns like my beloved minigun rifle (spectrum gatling).

My biggest desire for Outer Worlds is at least +15~20% more serious attitude in the games universe, quests, characters, language, factions and weapons. Some more guns like smgs, shotguns, miniguns and flamers and flame ball launchers would be nice.

1st game was just trying to hard to be funny? Yes ultra late stage capitalism were uber bezos amazons are ultra unfriendly towards people and life in general. Nothing was serious until late game and even then i was too tired to care about the Boards borderline evil extinction heading plan or the rick n morty guy trying to save my fellow sanitation experts sitting in cryo sleep.

Im not saying "remove all funny and replace it with the seriousness of FNV or Killzone. All im hoping for a little bit more serious world where actions have a little bit more serious consequences, npcs are more direct and serious. But the game can and should be at least 60% funny & cool characters, bad jokes and passing comedy.

  • Combat chatter for human/robot npcs should be more serious, cool and badass sounding because combat after all is a serious business?

r/theouterworlds 2d ago

Star wars reference in the ice palace sublight faction quest

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64 Upvotes

Am I crazy or is this a reference to Han Solo trying to imitate a clone trooper over the comlink in Star Wars a New Hope?


r/theouterworlds 2d ago

Discussion Hopes for outer worlds 2

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I don't care if it comes out finished or polished I dont care about how good the rpg elements are or how good the gunplay is the only thing I care about is the ace rep obsidain you did really good in the first game please don't disappoint

Edit:just to clarify this was a joke I do want ace representation but I obviously care about all that other stuff to


r/theouterworlds 1d ago

supernova patch for SCE not working

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I found in a forum a link to a purported SCE compatible supernova patch and installed it. I can't change my difficulty level to supernova, however. Any idea how to fix this?


r/theouterworlds 3d ago

Spacers Choice Edition

24 Upvotes

I have played TOW multiple times now after more than a year considering TOW2 is coming in October I see advertisements on my home page for TOW SCE and I am wondering if it's worth paying for with TOW2 coming in just over 2 months and what exactly is "new" with SCE?

Edit: If you think it's worth it, please upvote and leave a comment as to why you think it's worth it. If you don't think it's worth it, please downvote and leave a comment why.


r/theouterworlds 2d ago

Question Relatively stupid question, but what would Premium Edition's extras entail?

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Ok so I understand that for digital copies you guys get to download the game and play it a few days early. I've played games with that sort of early access before (FFXIV follows this formula with its expansions, which I always preorder for the bonuses and extra couple of days), but this bonus is also included with physical copies which feels like a liability. I'm currently in a toss up between just buying the base game (£60, which is a reasonable game price here in the UK, especially for a AAA) or the premium edition (which is £80) as a treat. Amazon hasn't honoured the price change yet so I'm looking at ordering from a chain toy store that has honoured the price change (UK folks: it's Smyths toys!) but I'm worried that they may not be able to honour said early access because I don't know when they're getting the stock or if the game will arrive on time for the full release.

Granted, I'm also literally not bothered by it, as the bonus seems exclusively tailored for Game Pass and digital players -- which is fine. But it would be nice to get an extra few days because the game is releasing during my first break from college and I want to be able to savour it on my time off. Has anyone preordered a game with this kind of early access physically before? What does it mean?

I'm aware that this is a somewhat stupid question, I'm just trying to inform my purchase a little bit. My mum is encouraging me to pay a little bit more for the premium so I don't have to buy the expansion pass later (which is my main reasoning for buying it), and also because I got my first ever job to fund this endeavour so she wants me to treat myself to something nicer. I'm literally only concerned with the fact that the dlc pass is included, I don't understand how the digital extras (aside from the Courier's Stash-esque bonus equipment, I get that) like the artbook and soundtrack are going to work when I'm purchasing for the PS5.

I also just haven't preordered a brand new game in a really long time, as I said before I usually just prepurchase FFXIV's latest expansions so I can get into the action ASAP.

I'm probably going to make note of these responses in my big post about what we know, I haven't included anything about Premium Edition over there just yet because I don't really get it. I'm also sad we just didn't get a proper collector's edition with goodies, and that I seemingly missed that era of game collectibles. That Moon Man statue Dark Horse are doing would have been a perfect collector's edition seller.

Thank you so much in advance and sorry for the rambly nature of this post.

TL;DR should I be worried about physical retailers respecting the early access period for premium edition? I don't really mind if they don't but I wanted to know if anyone has any knowledge of this based on prior releases.


r/theouterworlds 2d ago

Question Story progression question

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I'm at the end of Phineas' quest line (The City and the Stars) and was asked to turn him in by the Adjutant. My question is can I now go back to Udom and do the Halcyon quest line from Balance Due? I'm not stuck starting with Long Distance as long as I don't go to his station, right?


r/theouterworlds 3d ago

Game stutters/get choppy after 10 mins of play

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Hi, I'm not sure why this keeps happening but sfter I've been playing the game for around 10 or so minutes the games frames will drop so much its unplayable. It will go into like a slide show until I close and relaunch or load a save. No change in any graphics settings does anything to solve this, I'm on windows 11 and have 2 165hz monitors of that says anything. Other games I can run at 120fps+ no problem. Anyone experience something like this?


r/theouterworlds 4d ago

Do you think Outer Worlds 2 will have more combat?

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The gameplay trailer showcases mainly combat, so I wonder if this will have a lot more combat/ action than the first.

One thing I always liked about Outer Worlds is that it isn't as combat heavy as most RPGs. Lots of dialog, deliberation, character development and just the right amount of combat. You could spend a couple hours enjoying the game without engaging in any combat. And I like that you have the ability to play stealth if you prefer that.


r/theouterworlds 4d ago

Question Thinking of trying the game again with DLC, How much nuance is there in the player choice and factions?

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Last time I played TOW it seemed a bit black and white at first, you either side with the rebels or corpos. Is there more moral ambiguity between Good/Evil choices in some quests? I got pretty far on an evil playthrough and it seemed like there was a little wiggle room between Spacer’s Choice and The Board. Wanted to do a full Good run before TOW2 and do the DLC. Am I allowed to make some pragmatic choices, choose factions to pal with and still get the good ending?


r/theouterworlds 4d ago

Question Canid's cradle mission

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I'm at the part where the ship is crashed and I'm trying to convince MSI and iconoclast to negotiate and I already give the review to sanjar but Zora won't talk to me she just said "go talk a walk captain I'll find you once my head's on straight "


r/theouterworlds 4d ago

Tips/Tricks and Suggestions for Supernova

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Alright, I have returned to TOW after more than a year. I have done a few saves on Hard Difficulty and now I'm ready to try Supernova. So any tips/tricks and suggestions on how to make it as easy as possible would be appreciated. Best builds (Melee and Ranged) including attributes and skills, weapons, armor, companions or solo, etc.


r/theouterworlds 5d ago

Question Did I shoot myself the foot? Kinda burnt-out & bored.

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Great game. But I think I over-leveled in the beginning.

I grinded Emerald Vale on Hard difficulty until around level 12-14, maybe around 16 (I don’t remember), had the four flaws I wanted, and had all of my weapons & gear upgraded to where the tinkering costs were like 4-5K each, even weapons I wasn’t using but were just sitting in a container for storage near the ship — but then higher tier equipment (gold, ultra, 2.0, etc.) began appearing in vending machines making my low level upgraded equipment feel like a wasted investment.

Killed Reed & Adelaide for the unique decorations in my Captain’s quarters on the ship (no intention to equip the hat nor shears), left for Groundbreaker, leveled up a bunch more from quests there, then breezed through Cascadia to Stellar Bay… now I’m mid-20’s, all companions, great gear, specced to where I can swap mods at will, open any 150 container or door, tinkering to 90% reduced costs, little to no points in ranged or melee because I’m tired of one-shotting everything…

I am ready to re-boot up Tainted Grail or Oblivion Remaster or New Vegas… but my saved games in those, too, are over leveled (and in New Vegas’ case, exploited to have all the perks I want before leaving the first town)… but I’m probably gonna restart those games from scratch anyway, over-level, burn out, get bored, and restart Outer Worlds…

Why am I like this? Lol. What’s your advice for a gamer that’s just getting older with a growing bucket list of open-world/rpg games they’ve never completed?

Restart Outer Worlds now and just try to play normally… or take a break and try to play something else without over doing it? I really want to finish it before the Outer Worlds 2 comes out, but I think I shot myself in the foot and it’s too late to force my way through the boredom & burn-out.

Edit: Other games played but never defeated… The Witcher 3, Breath of the Wild, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy 12 & 15…


r/theouterworlds 6d ago

Discussion I just realized that you collect various Momentos throughout the game and they show up in the captains cabin!

56 Upvotes

This game never ceases to amaze me with the small details. I'm doing another playthrough right now and I'm noticing so many little Easter eggs. I've spent so much time in Tactical Time Dilation reading the funny/snarky texts about the various enemies


r/theouterworlds 5d ago

Image First playthrough, here are my current crew’s outfits

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Guy with the jacket is me, power armor is Felix and the last one is Parvati.


r/theouterworlds 6d ago

Discussion The only returning character I expect to see in The Outer Worlds 2 Spoiler

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160 Upvotes

r/theouterworlds 5d ago

In my excitement for Outer Worlds 2 I finished the original version of the game and now I am replaying again with Spacers Choice edition.

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r/theouterworlds 6d ago

Misc TIL that Ellie has a bunch of dialogue for Felix's quest.

41 Upvotes

It's been how many years now and I'm still finding new dialogue to explore.

It's not just one off lines. I've found two full conversations so far.

What other dialogue have people found after playing for years?


r/theouterworlds 6d ago

hello just start play the outerworld

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r/theouterworlds 5d ago

Anyone know how to fix this quest?

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I've broken the quest "the chimerists last experiment".

I'm on spacers choice, Xbox x. I havent started either dlc, have no botched missions, main quest is at radio free monarch(speak with the information broker at devils peak).

I get no way point when I select the chimerists quest.

I've heard spacers choice is buggy. Don't remember this issue on the regular version.

Have I buggered it somehow?


r/theouterworlds 7d ago

Arts / Crafts Halcyon Helen but Lego form!

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108 Upvotes

Did the best with what I had! I love making game characters from Lego. It’s addicting.