The Outer Worlds Pre-Release Thread [GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Nano]

From the article:

We chatted with Megan about working as a lead narrative designer on The Outer Worlds

I'm guessing whoever wrote this article is confusing "senior" with "lead".

 

[a Goat]

This was extremely unpopular, so they patched it out

Good thing I've played unpatched version then, I guess. Seriously the game doesn't have enough content to not finish ot whole in like 80-100 in-game days.

 

[FreeKaner]

You mentioned usefulness and I suddenly realized that we start arguing about usefulness of fictional energy weapons in fictional world and moved to discuss serious business in serious world. In real world there very thin chance of war in space as we see in movies and game, I was just trying to say that (in my opinion), in-game balance would be better if energy weapons was better in terms of combat than guns, but their ammo was rare. Not in way that guns better in everything and energy weapons ammo rare, it's kills some ways of replay-ability imho.

I completely agree. Energy weapons should be their own thing and their balance should be around their ammo and the distinction of this fact, they shouldn't be just regular weapons but different paintjob. There could be even situations where only energy weapons would work.

 

[Quillon]

You mentioned usefulness and I suddenly realized that we start arguing about usefulness of fictional energy weapons in fictional world and moved to discuss serious business in serious world. In real world there very thin chance of war in space as we see in movies and game, I was just trying to say that (in my opinion), in-game balance would be better if energy weapons was better in terms of combat than guns, but their ammo was rare. Not in way that guns better in everything and energy weapons ammo rare, it's kills some ways of replay-ability imho.

I completely agree. Energy weapons should be their own thing and their balance should be around their ammo and the distinction of this fact, they shouldn't be just regular weapons but different paintjob. There could be even situations where only energy weapons would work.

Energy weapons should get tired and sleep daily to recover imo.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

BELIEVE IN TIMNARD! TIMNARD HAS PURE INCLINE IN THEIR DNA STRANDS! THEY WILL DELIVER US A GEM FOR THE AGES! BELIEVE! BELIEVE!

 

[Delterius]

BELIEVE IN TIMNARD! TIMNARD HAS PURE INCLINE IN THEIR DNA STRANDS! THEY WILL DELIVER US A GEM FOR THE AGES! BELIEVE! BELIEVE!

Its Cainarsky you goddamn heretic.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Honestly the biggest danger to Outer Worlds is that it's getting hyped as this Bethesda killer when in reality it's a mid-budget game that's bound to have some serious limitations. Hub world instead of open world being one, characters and animations looking like it's 2005 is another, and so on.

I guess the extremely fabulously optimistic option is that it becomes a smash hit and then papa Tim and uncle Leo get fifty trillion of Microsoft dolla for the sequel without too much corporate meddling.

 

[FreeKaner]

Energy weapons should get tired and sleep daily to recover imo.

You should need to find a thin pointed charger wherever you go and only the waiters know where they are.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

TIMNARD, CAINARSKY, WE KNOW THEM BY MANY NAMES BUT THE SAME DEITY REMAINS. THEY WILL INFUSE THE GAME WITH THE ESSENCE OF BLOODLINES, ARCANUM AND FALLOUT. TIMNARD WILL OVERCOME AND CONQUER THE CRPG WORLD IN 2019. For real doe.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Hub world instead of open world being one

If you read the new Megan Starks interview, she says it's a mix of open and story-driven. Watch, it will be like Bloodlines, hub areas to explore that offer several quests and deeper reactivity. She also said there's many areas to explore when you get your ship.

 

[Quillon]

Hub world instead of open world being one

If you read the new Megan Starks interview, she says it's a mix of open and story-driven. Watch, it will be like Bloodlines, hub areas to explore that offer several quests and deeper reactivity. She also said there's many areas to explore when you get your ship.

Which is called hub world

 

[Glenda Glenn]

Didn't you get game over if you didn't help your vault with the water chip?

Fallout had a time limit which was later extended. IIRC you have to find it within 13 years.

Don't know what happens if you fail to find it within 13 years, either "game over" or CTD.

I remember like 100 days or maybe 200...

You're right, that was the limit for finding the water chip. 13 years was perhaps the time limit for the entire game. Either that or I confused it with the limit for Fallout 2.

 

[FreeKaner]

Hub based games are strictly superior to open world ones unless your game aims specifically to exploit the vast amount of empty space as a gameplay mechanic.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I guess the extremely fabulously optimistic option is that it becomes a smash hit and then papa Tim and uncle Leo get fifty trillion of Microsoft dolla for the sequel without too much corporate meddling.

Speaking of this, it has been a very good strategy that Tim has always emphasized that there was very little corporate control when they were making Fallout. The implication is "if you want us to make good games, try to replicate this approach"

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Good job men, keep 'em coming.

 

[The Great ThunThun*]

Honestly the biggest danger to Outer Worlds is that it's getting hyped as this Bethesda killer when in reality it's a mid-budget game that's bound to have some serious limitations. Hub world instead of open world being one, characters and animations looking like it's 2005 is another, and so on.

I guess the extremely fabulously optimistic option is that it becomes a smash hit and then papa Tim and uncle Leo get fifty trillion of Microsoft dolla for the sequel without too much corporate meddling.

As far as I am concerned, this is the acid test for Tim and Boyarsky. If they also foul it up a la PoE then in new indies I trust. The last of the old has-beens should then be given up.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Which is called hub world

Bloodlines was hub-based. Need I say more?

 

[Roguey]

You can recruit all of the game's companions, but some of them will have allegiances to specific factions in the game. For instance, if you decide to support the Board (Halcyon's enigmatic corporate entity), there will be certain companions that will clearly not agree with your decisions, but they won't abandon you unless you clearly decide to part with them.

Even New Vegas has companions who would outright leave if you made them angry enough.

 

[Jacob]

So, the banana bread was indeed tim cain's

 

[Glenda Glenn]

Hub world instead of open world being one

If you read the new Megan Starks interview, she says it's a mix of open and story-driven. Watch, it will be like Bloodlines, hub areas to explore that offer several quests and deeper reactivity. She also said there's many areas to explore when you get your ship.

Which is called hub world

I don't think Obsidian has the budget/skill/manpower to create a multi-planet open-world game e.g. Star Citizien. It has to be hub based.

 

[Quillon]

Which is called hub world

Bloodlines was hub-based. Need I say more?

but why.gif

So hub world and hub based ain't the same thing? :D

 

[Delterius]

So hub world and hub based ain't the same thing? :D

a hub world is a world that is a hub

a hub based world is a world based on a hub

 

[Glenda Glenn]

So hub world and hub based ain't the same thing? :D

"Hub world" is a single hub with open-world in a hub-based game. i.e. one of the multiple smaller size open-worlds that are somehow connected.

 

[Quillon]

what

 

[Glenda Glenn]

what

Hub-world: a single small open-world map
Hub-based: Has multiple hub-worlds