The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition - Obsidian's first-person sci-fi RPG set in a corporate space colony

[Justicar]

That's a look of surprise. It looks fine in motion.

Its a look of suprise it works fine in motion.

 

[Miserable Panda]

How is this game not dead yet? Seriously, that is the most surprising thing to me. Not that it' s terrible, but it is mediocre to such an extent that I honestly believed that in a few months no one would talk about it anymore - but here we are. With these two expansions/DLCs, they will finally make use of the planets that appeared on the game's central map but that you couldn't interact with?

Completely agree, I've never seen such a forgettable game in my life. Seems all that Microsoft cash flow has to go SOMEWHERE. Pity they won't invest on Halo instead.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

We all know it will be shit.

I honestly have no idea why the choose to focus on these narrative-heavy DLCs. The advertising slogan should be "Remember the weakest aspect of our game? We've just added 10 more hours of that stuff".

 

[ciox]

Doing narratives and worldbuilding that trigger the bigots is both fun and a moral imperative.
Problem, bigot?
Next DLC price just went up.

 

[Infinitron]

Pre-expansion patch: https://outerworlds.obsidian.net/en/news/outerworlds/the-outer-worlds-patch-1-5-0-release-notes

THE OUTER WORLDS PATCH 1.5.0 RELEASE NOTES

Greetings fellow spacers,

We have released Patch 1.5.0 for players playing on PC, Xbox consoles, and PlayStation consoles and you should see this the next time you launch The Outer Worlds. This patch is required in order to fix specific issues and apply any changes included.

• Necessary files to The Outer Worlds: Murder on Eridanos have been added. Murder on Eridanos will release on March 17th!

Changes/fixes that are included in this patch are as follows:

General:

• Save files from beyond the "point of no return" will now allow players to access the "Peril on Gorgon" and "Murder on Eridanos" DLCs. After installing a new DLC, attempting to load a save file at the end of the game will give an option to instead place the player onboard the Unreliable, with access to the rest of the Halcyon system restored.
• Fixed an issue where Nyoka's face animations could stop updating during conversations.
• Updated the description of the "Robophobia" Flaw to be more accurate.
• The frame rate cap has been removed on PS5 and Series X (not Series S).

To continue to report issues you come across and to share suggestions for the game, please visit the Technical Support forums for The Outer Worlds and search to see if a fellow player has already made a thread about it to help reduce duplicate threads. If you find a thread that matches your issue or suggestion, then please feel free to leave a comment and include any details you would like to share.

If you are not able to find a similar thread, then please share it with us on our forums and then visit our publishing partner, Private Division, and share this issue with them through their support website. This will help ensure that your specific issue or suggestion is in their queue and will allow us to prioritize requests to provide the fastest possible turnaround time.

We appreciate all of you and want to thank you for your continued support, patience, and understanding while we continue to improve the game. Please continue to share with us anything you come across. Thank you all for being amazing, and we hope you continue to have fun out in the Halcyon Colony!

 

[Roguey]

Reviews are out; I will leave the big link dumps to Infinitron but these two paragraphs sum it up for me

As far as I can tell there isn’t a significant effect on the story based on your roleplaying dialogue choices, but there are a couple of big decisions to make once you close in on a suspect: for one, you get to actually guess at who killed the actor, which is a refreshing breath of fresh air when so many detective games are on rails. Sure, no matter who you accuse, the final confrontation is effectively the same, but it feels great to be given the chance to make a call and then find out if you’re right or wrong about it, which is a lot more than Peril on Gorgon did. And of course, then you have to decide what to do when you discover what really happened and the secret Halcyon Helen was killed to protect, and you’re given some justification to go either way.

Gathering information comprises roughly 90 percent of my eight-hour playthrough of this DLC, with the latter being combat. For those who prefer The Outer Worlds' combat (which, in my mind, is quite clunky), you'll probably find the amount of talking unsavory.
...
While I did have a lot of fun attempting to solve the true mystery in Murder on Eridanos, the real solution to the case made me feel like my work was for nothing. That no matter what my findings and conclusions were in the case, the same result would happen regardless of my choice. This is disappointing because Obsidian had the opportunity to create a mystery that, if not thoroughly investigated, could remain unsolved.

Disco Elysium as filtered through The Outer Worlds.

 

[DeepOcean]

Reviews are out; I will leave the big link dumps to Infinitron but these two paragraphs sum it up for me

As far as I can tell there isn’t a significant effect on the story based on your roleplaying dialogue choices, but there are a couple of big decisions to make once you close in on a suspect: for one, you get to actually guess at who killed the actor, which is a refreshing breath of fresh air when so many detective games are on rails. Sure, no matter who you accuse, the final confrontation is effectively the same, but it feels great to be given the chance to make a call and then find out if you’re right or wrong about it, which is a lot more than Peril on Gorgon did. And of course, then you have to decide what to do when you discover what really happened and the secret Halcyon Helen was killed to protect, and you’re given some justification to go either way.

Gathering information comprises roughly 90 percent of my eight-hour playthrough of this DLC, with the latter being combat. For those who prefer The Outer Worlds' combat (which, in my mind, is quite clunky), you'll probably find the amount of talking unsavory.
...
While I did have a lot of fun attempting to solve the true mystery in Murder on Eridanos, the real solution to the case made me feel like my work was for nothing. That no matter what my findings and conclusions were in the case, the same result would happen regardless of my choice. This is disappointing because Obsidian had the opportunity to create a mystery that, if not thoroughly investigated, could remain unsolved.

Disco Elysium as filtered through The Outer Worlds.

NWN 2: There is a trial, gather evidence for your case. It ends the same way.
PoE: There is a trial, give your testimony. It ends the same way.
Outer Worlds: There is a murder investigation, it ends on the same way.

Obsidian lazyness is legendary at this point.

 

[Child of Malkav]

 

[DeepOcean]

Yeah guise, you can relax now, it is confirmed, long hair technology isnt on the game. Nothing to see here.

 

[Infinitron]

https://af.gog.com/game/the_outer_worlds_murder_on_eridanos?as=1649904300

https://outerworlds.obsidian.net/en/news/outerworlds/the-outer-worlds-patch-1-5-1-release-notes

THE OUTER WORLDS PATCH 1.5.1 RELEASE NOTES

Greetings fellow spacers,

We have released Patch 1.5.1 for players playing on PC, Xbox consoles, and PlayStation consoles which should be seen the next time you launch The Outer Worlds. This patch is required in order to fix specific issues and apply any changes included. If you do not see this update right away, please know that it may take some time to populate and become available.

Changes/fixes that are included in this patch are as follows:

• Achievements added for 'Peril on Gorgon' and 'Murder on Eridanos'

'Murder on Eridanos' Specific Bug Fixes

General

• Fixed various lighting issues
• Fixed various typos and spelling errors
• Improved various lipsync animations
• Improved various textures
• Fixed some spots where players could become permanently stuck
• Improved overall collision

Design

• Reduced the spawn rate of some enemies in the Wilderness Exploitation Reserve
• Updated the Rizzo Security Guards near the Distillation Station so that they will attack the player if attacked first
• Fixed an issue where NPCs on the VIP Floor may not become hostile to the player
• Improved the performance when attacking specific enemy types with a melee weapon
• Updated the "Wormed Out" Flaw to provide the player with a 25% reduction in the effectiveness for Consumables
• Fixed an issue where companions would stop talking to the player after the player investigated the Prophet of Profitability
• Included a fix to prevent the player from hacking SAM while on the Unreliable
• Updated the detection range of the Discrepancy Amplifier for some pieces of evidence
• Redistributed lootable items and added locks on other items in some locations
• Mascot will now react appropriately to being threatened
• The Lawyer will now act appropriately if the player aims their weapon at him

Quests

• Fixed an issue with "Escape!" where NPCs were not behaving appropriately
• Fixed an issue in "The Bird Drug" where Ella Tinsley would not allow the player to progress further

To continue to report issues you come across and to share suggestions for the game, please visit the Technical Support forums for The Outer Worlds and search to see if a fellow player has already made a thread about it to help reduce duplicate threads. If you find a thread that matches your issue or suggestion, then please feel free to leave a comment and include any details you would like to share.

If you are not able to find a similar thread, then please share it with us on our forums and then visit our publishing partner, Private Division, and share this issue with them through their support website. This will help ensure that your specific issue or suggestion is in their queue and will allow us to prioritize requests to provide the fastest possible turnaround time.

We appreciate all of you and want to thank you for your continued support, patience, and understanding while we continue to improve the game. Please continue to share with us anything you come across. Thank you all for being amazing, and we hope you continue to have fun out in the Halcyon Colony!

 

[flyingjohn]

One guy said he likes it on reddit and gets bombarded by how bland and boring he game is.
Tim and Leonard have done it.They managed to make the average Reddit consumer despise bland shit for a moment.
They should get a lifetime reward or something for this achievement.

 

[Bad Sector]

the average Reddit consumer

In which subreddit? I find /r/pcgaming to be more critical than /r/games and /r/rpg_gamers seem to be more into CRPGs in recent times than at the past when JRPGs seemed more popular there.

 

[LudensCogitet]

the average Reddit consumer

In which subreddit? I find /r/pcgaming to be more critical than /r/games and /r/rpg_gamers seem to be more into CRPGs in recent times than at the past when JRPGs seemed more popular there.

Why are you cheating on the Codex?

 

[Infinitron]

All right let's gather those reviews:

GameSpew 9/10
IGN 7/10
MMORPG.com 8.5/10
Noisy Pixel 9/10
PC Invasion 7.5/10
Screen Rant 4/5
VG247 4/5
Wccftech 7/10

Slightly better average than Peril on Gorgon (so far).

 

[DeepOcean]

A 7/10 on AAA land is more like a 4/10, guess that even the target audience of gender fluid, pronoun confused proto lesbians SJW on the gaming journo media arent huge into it.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

All right let's gather those reviews:

GameSpew 9/10
IGN 7/10
MMORPG.com 8.5/10
Noisy Pixel 9/10
Screen Rant 4/5
VG247 4/5
Wccftech 7/10

Slightly better average than Peril on Gorgon (so far).

microsoft money

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Infinitron I hope they upped your salary

 

[copebot]

A 7/10 on AAA land is more like a 4/10, guess that even the target audience of gender fluid, pronoun confused proto lesbians SJW on the gaming journo media arent huge into it.

I'm pretty sure lesbians have been cancelled. They're just low effort FtM trannies now.

 

[Infinitron]

Infinitron I hope they upped your salary

Eh? It's probably genuinely better in the eyes of journos (and probably Codexers?). Peril on Gorgon was basically a big dungeon crawl, mainstream reviewers have never been into that. White March Part 1 vs Part 2?

 

[DeepOcean]

"Retard friendly Dungeon Crawl" vs "Usual fake agency from Obsidian.", I'm so enthralled by such choices of DLC.

 

[Cpt. Dallas]

I actually can't see myself recommending this game if it was free.
I effectively got it for $1 (because of Gamepass on PC) and I had to force myself to finish it.

i got it literally for free and i had to force myself not to vomit. stay away from this crap, even cyberspunk is better. enough said.

Yeah 1 dollar play thru on game pass and it felt like a job

Don't give those degenerates any money.

Less than 0. I got it for free on gamepass and I want my time back.

Sticky this.

 

[fantadomat]

(and probably Codexers?

Jude,most codexers stopped playing the game by the mid point,some persevering autists like me even managed to push trough the final part and finish it......but i doubt that there are more than a handful that decided to even play the dlcs,let alone finish them.

 

[Hellraiser]

Unless they absolutely overhauled the shitty perks and itemization into something moderately enjoyable I cannot fathom why anyone would bother with more of TOW.

Also the only good obsidian DLC was Honest Hearts, so considering the base game's quality and their track record with DLCs over the years I see no reason to be interested in it.

 

[fantadomat]

Nah infi,this days i am a bit lazy,haven't pumped up my biceps in some time.....fuck you fired me up,going to pump for half an hour,see ya.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Unless they absolutely overhauled the shitty perks and itemization into something moderately enjoyable I cannot fathom why anyone would bother with more of TOW.

Also the only good obsidian DLC was Honest Hearts, so considering the base game's quality and their track record with DLC's over the years I see no reason to be interested in it.

The phobia system was disappointing as hell when I realized how shitty perks are