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The Outer Worlds |OT| S.P.A.C.E.I.A.L.

Chick3n

Chick3n

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Nov 6, 2018
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I'm enjoying the dumb, but smart dialogue options. I was speaking to an NPC that wanted to be a scientist but had given up and the option was "[dumb][science]If I can be a scientist anyone can!"
 
Edge

Edge

A King's Landing
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
21,012
Celle, Germany
Gosh, I love this draw distance so freaking much. 🥰

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Proven

Proven

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Oct 29, 2017
5,841
Okay, so I did the NZ trick but switched back to the US to do something on the US store. I clicked on TOW to see what would happen and it said "to use this game, use the profile used to purchase this game". I'm assuming that it's just saying that because it's not out in the US yet, but I don't know
 
MotiD

MotiD

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,560
Every now and then I try to launch the game only to receive the 'its not available yet' message, even tho I know it won't work

I'm thirsty
 
Hagi

Hagi

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Oct 25, 2017
4,950
Proven said:
Okay, so I did the NZ trick but switched back to the US to do something on the US store. I clicked on TOW to see what would happen and it said "to use this game, use the profile used to purchase this game". I'm assuming that it's just saying that because it's not out in the US yet, but I don't know
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Yeah it'll only work right now while you're in New Zealand, It'll be fine tomorrow. Same thing happened to me with Gears 5 when I swapped back to the UK to do something.
 
Vault Boy

Vault Boy

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Nov 2, 2017
2,399
Phonzo said:
Man this game is really ugly.

played 1hour on my One X on a oled tv/
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. Played about an hour so far and something about the visuals just feels...off. Like I can't distinguish between enemies/landscape/items and have to squint to see the difference.

Also this is another game where I have to put on my reading glasses anytime text is on the screen, even in menus. I'm sitting about 8 feet away from a 65" OLED and everything looks like this.
 

Deleted member 11822

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Oct 27, 2017
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Calles said:
It is there but it won't download currently for some reason. I tried another game which will.

It just dies out for me.
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So I did a bunch of testing this morning [Microsoft apparently didn't feel the need (even for a beta this is silly)] here is what I have discovered thus far:

- Pre-Install to a location other than C: will error out [In my case I was attempting to install to D:.
- Pre-Install to C: working without error.
- Install an available game from store [In this case Ape out] to D: working without error.

Possible workaround:
- Download game to C:
- Once Download is complete use Windows to move it over to a new location:
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At the moment it looks like its good to go. If things get wonky I'll try downloading directly to D: tonight after it unlocks.
 

Deleted member 8166

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it is the firefly/serenity game I always wanted.

the only negative thing is how small the text is.

like anything is just a tick too small.

otherwise i love the graphics on my xbox one x.
 
Rainy

Rainy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,686
Vault Boy said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Played about an hour so far and something about the visuals just feels...off. Like I can't distinguish between enemies/landscape/items and have to squint to see the difference.

Also this is another game where I have to put on my reading glasses anytime text is on the screen, even in menus. I'm sitting about 8 feet away from a 65" OLED and everything looks like this.
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I was scared about the text size ugh
 
Hella

Hella

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Oct 27, 2017
23,411
Do any reviews/coverage go into how viable melee-only (or just melee-focused) builds are? All of the combat I've seen in vids seem really focused on ranged combat, such that I'm struggling to imagine how it would work otherwise.
 

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cLOUDo said:
This says that the recommend difficulty settings should be in "HARD"
Anyone knows if this is recommended?
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From everything I have read / watched it sounds like Hard will be the best difficulty. Normal seems to start out difficult, but later in the game combat encounters become trivial.
I'll be starting on the Hard difficulty personally.
 
Tovarisc

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hella said:
Do any reviews/coverage go into how viable melee-only (or just melee-focused) builds are? All of the combat I've seen in vids seem really focused on ranged combat, such that I'm struggling to imagine how it would work otherwise.
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Several pre-release gameplay showings are melee focused and devs have talked about how they made melee viable in different ways. For e.g. apparently when you swing melee weapon you basically swing in huge cone no matter what and always deal at least 1 point of damage to enemies.

TL:DR: Melee should be viable, devs have made design decisions supporting melee combat as path
 
Hella

Hella

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Oct 27, 2017
23,411
cLOUDo said:
This says that the recommend difficulty settings should be in "HARD"
Anyone knows if this is recommended?
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Brad Shoemaker at Giant Bomb basically says as much during the game's Quick Look, yeah. And Jeff Gerstmann, the other person on the vid, talks about how it got too easy at a certain point.

Brad does note that combat can get super intense on Hard, especially early on, such that he had to save before every fight in the first hour or two. That's the hard experience.
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Several pre-release gameplay showings are melee focused and devs have talked about how they made melee viable in different ways. For e.g. apparently when you swing melee weapon you basically swing in huge cone no matter what and always deal at least 1 point of damage to enemies.

TL:DR: Melee should be viable, devs have made design decisions supporting melee combat as path
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Ah, thanks. That's good to know.
 

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cLOUDo said:
This says that the recommend difficulty settings should be in "HARD"
Anyone knows if this is recommended?
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I concur with this. Hard is hard but not impossible. I'm thinking through encounters quite a bit before diving in. If you do all the quests and keep upgrading your gear you can stay powerful, but three marauders can still easily kill you.

Its easy to get swamped.
 
JMY86

JMY86

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Oct 27, 2017
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I am dipping my toe in on my X just to get a feel for things until the PC release tonight. I am about an hour in and the game looks and plays great so far, good stuff...
 

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Not far in but I'm enjoying. Combat is a bit rough imo, feels a lot like NV (with 4's VATS) which is like nearly ten years old at this point. I don't see myself liking it much. Everything else is great though, feels awesome to have a game like this again.

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J-Wood

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Oct 25, 2017
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Any performance impressions on Xbox One X? I'm torn on if I want to play this on my PC or XBX. PC has a 1070 and a 6700k for the CPU.
 
Kuro

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hella said:
Do any reviews/coverage go into how viable melee-only (or just melee-focused) builds are? All of the combat I've seen in vids seem really focused on ranged combat, such that I'm struggling to imagine how it would work otherwise.
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the only thing I've heard is the melee is unsatisfying and simple so I would personally stick to guns.
 
Edge

Edge

A King's Landing
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Oct 25, 2017
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Man, I play new games almost weekly but I can't really wrap around my head how this game is capable of having all the textures, always sharp and in the best quality possible with zero aliasing no matter if 3 feet in front of you or 300.
I'm so f'n used to different draw distances, popping textures, weak background but here, everything is sharp and everything stays sharp, always, no matter where you look at.
That feels really impressive and kinda unique.
Fantastic work from the devs here for this kind of magic.

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TooBusyLookinGud

TooBusyLookinGud

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Oct 27, 2017
7,993
California
Edge said:
Man, I play new games almost weekly but I can't really wrap around my head how this game is capable of having all the textures, always sharp and in the best quality possible with zero aliasing no matter if 3 feet in front of you or 300.
I'm so f'n used to different draw distances, popping textures, weak background but here, everything is sharp and everything stays sharp, always, no matter where you look at.
That feels really impressive and kinda unique.
Fantastic work from the devs here for this kind of magic.

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My body isn't ready. Man this is going to be soooo good. I hated Fallout 4 for many reasons - this looks to fix a lot of my distaste for it.

I'm nervous because i may sink 100's of hours into this game.
 
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sponger

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Dec 7, 2018
409
I'm 3 hours in - I'm in love with the game! <3

I will say it - I've not been in love with any game since Mass Effect 2. What a joy!
 
GlowingBovine

GlowingBovine

Prophet of Truth
Member
Nov 27, 2017
790
Did I make a mistake starting off with all my points in science weapons and hacking instead of small/long weapons and lockpicking? I seem to be struggled with normal weapons and have found lots of things that could be lockpicked but not anything to hack.
 
Neural

Neural

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Oct 27, 2017
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CaptNink

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Oct 27, 2017
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I've been messing around with the online character builder, trying out different builds. I think I want to be a dead-shot Engineer-Sciencey guy.
 

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Oct 25, 2017
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Wow already got my first companion lol. Really enjoying the game so far, it feels so familiar but so different at the same time which is great.
 
SirMossyBloke

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Oct 26, 2017
5,855
Edge said:
Man, I play new games almost weekly but I can't really wrap around my head how this game is capable of having all the textures, always sharp and in the best quality possible with zero aliasing no matter if 3 feet in front of you or 300.
I'm so f'n used to different draw distances, popping textures, weak background but here, everything is sharp and everything stays sharp, always, no matter where you look at.
That feels really impressive and kinda unique.
Fantastic work from the devs here for this kind of magic.

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This game deserved HDR, what a damned shame.

There's something about the graphics that is really bothering me aside from that, and I can't put my finger on it.
 
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