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The Outer Worlds |OT| S.P.A.C.E.I.A.L.
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I didn't use a single consumable in finishing the game outside of the health inhaler mapped to the left shoulder button.
I did run into a serious crunch on heavy ammo towards the end and had no equally levelled weapons to fall back on. Made the final mission a total chore
I did run into a serious crunch on heavy ammo towards the end and had no equally levelled weapons to fall back on. Made the final mission a total chore
The game's much more fun again with blatant cheating. I really like the world (as in the narrative space, not the gameplay space) and the writing. I dunno, just cozy, enjoyable dialogue and it's great to be able to play a first-person game again where I'm actually free to make decisions. All that said, I'll probably laser focus on the main story and only do side quests that interest me.
It just takes too much time to use consumables for them to be worth it. Longer and more substantial effects would've been better, as well as shortcut buttons.
This is me. Other than being too easy, it's been excellent. I really love the banter with SAM. I'm a sucker for robo-dialogue in my rpgs. This reminds me of Mass Effect 2 in that way. It's been a treat.
Upstairs in the Unreliable. I think you trigger the mission from your ship's computer.
I took SAM and Parvati with me to Scylla and it was great. She treated him (it?) like a little puppy, haha.
Yeah, this is me as well, and it hurts so much.
It's in your ship, 2nd floor. You need to activate it first by doing a quest.
I played a few nights of this and then stopped because of the font issue to play RE4. Just in time to finish Separate Ways!
Played about six hours between yesterday (when I started) and today. The game seems amazing for now. I just wish it ran better, it looks good but not that good :\
What's up with the square pupils in everyone's eyes though? They seriously freak me out every time I'm in a dialogue.
What's up with the square pupils in everyone's eyes though? They seriously freak me out every time I'm in a dialogue.
I haven't played all that much yet, but it does feel like a bit of a missed opportunity that there aren't any other combat options to break up the monotony of either shooting or hitting things over the head. Even if they didn't want to go down the space magic/psi powers route, they still could have added grenades, mines and gadgets.
Huh. In my first playthroughs I always turned in all sidequests before going to the Geothermal Plant. This time I went to the Plant first and returned the book to Max afterwards. I was surprised you actually get to talk with him about the choice you made and even ask for his thoughts on Adelaide using corpses as fertilizer. Afterwards he immediately joined my party instead of meeting me on the ship. It doesn't really change anything, but I thought it was a nice detail.
Also, is there a way to obtain Reed's bowler hat without killing him yourself? He says he goes to live outside Edgewater's walls, but I don't know if you can actually find him somewhere.
Also, is there a way to obtain Reed's bowler hat without killing him yourself? He says he goes to live outside Edgewater's walls, but I don't know if you can actually find him somewhere.
I don't remember my first playthrough, but on a bad guy Supernova run, level 9.
It is so cool how what companions you have can change some small things. I was entering a room and a enemy robot started talking with me. Since I had SAM he did the talking and convinced the other robot to stand down. I had saved just before that and I reloaded and changed companions and the dialog was very different and this time it ended up being a shoot out. Game is so damn good. Still, need a balance fix, like reduce loot by 50% because you just get way too much.
Been wondering the same thing. In his office there is a locked door that you need his pass card, but I think the only way to get it is to kill him, but when he said that he goes to live outside of Edgewaters walls, I wonder if you can find him and still get that pass card from him?
You should save the game and kill him just to see what is in that room. It's worth it.
There's another hat that gives the same Persuade bonus. Also, there seems to be very few instances where you need 100 for Lie or Intimidate, and Persuade still seems to be the most frequently used dialogue skill in conversations. This is with having the option checked to see skill requirements in dialogue.
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They really need to add the option to turn off Chromatic A. I am also playing the PC version and the game is SO MUCH better looking without the CA. I hope/pray they are able to add that in this upcoming patch because it is really needed on consoles.
Sure, if you play on story mode, skip much of the dialogue and don't read any of the terminals. 25 - 30 is closer to the average.
I think I was about 11, now I'm leaving at 21. I'm glad it ended where it ended because I was already getting tired of the planet and the back forward fetch quest quest. Still loving the game though.
I was hoping for like 40 hours. But I'll still probably pick it up.
Just depends how you play. Took me a little over 38 hours my first time, and there was more I didn't see on my next playthrough.
No, play on Hard. Supernova adds a layer of shit that doesn't technically make it any more difficult. It just becomes annoying, and by maybe a third of the way through the game, the extra "challenge" is such a moot point that all you're doing is adding unnecessary tedium thanks to the lack of fast travel. Other than permanent companion deaths (which don't affect your previous saves), having to fuck around with your inventory way too often and no fast travel to anywhere but your ship, it's identical to Hard. Oh, and any body afflictions you end up with can only be healed by sleeping on the ship too.
My last playthrough was a no death/no reload Supernova run, and basically I should have been playing on Hard, since I accomplished what I wanted, but it just took longer for no good reason.
The upside I suppose is that the Cheetah perk becomes top tier by default.
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i hope they rework Supernova to be a toggle. Also the setting really needs to add weight to ammo.
i beat the game on Supernova and saving the game on the ship wasnt really a big deal as the game autosaves. On large planets you just move your ship to different ports to move across the larger maps.
i beat the game on Supernova and saving the game on the ship wasnt really a big deal as the game autosaves. On large planets you just move your ship to different ports to move across the larger maps.
Seems like that would kind of remove part of the point of it though. Toggle it off for every single fight if you're using companions, and then just turn it back on after combat ends.
Wouldn't really change anything other than slightly prohibiting carrying a supply depot's worth of munitions around all of the time. By the end of the game you can have like 3K - 5K ammo per type, and you don't need even a fourth of that amount through an entire playthrough.
Saving wasn't an issue, but the backtracking was. It was just nonsensical. I want to go to the southern part of the map, but no, first I have to warp back to the ship, then move the ship to the landing pad near where I wanted to go anyway. The fast travel removal was just dumb since enemy respawn rates were so low as to not even matter. You already killed everything on your way to any given location, but you can't warp back because?
i meant a toggle at the start of the game separate from difficulty. Like Path of the Damned or Expert mode in Pillars.
Right, thats the point. More restrictive inventory helps the feel of games like this. When you cant just mash a button to quickly loot everything and have to consider what you are doing tends to make for a more compelling experience. If ammo weight was added it would instantly make the game better imo.
i didnt find a problem with it. i only did that when i needed to do a quick turn in or get something quickly. Oftentimes i just ran around. If you set companions to passive you can run around most enemies without worry once you learn the map.
I wasn't talking about companions. Yes, you could have simply run past enemies, but just like killing them outright, when there's no enemy to contend with, the removal of fast travel becomes pointless and just adds extra time for no reason. It would be different if the maps themselves were actually compelling enough to run through, but they weren't.
I don't agree. The better approach would be to simply reduce the overall amount of ammo you find in the first place. Adding weight to ammo would either be inconsequential (oh no, all of my 1000 ammo x3 now weighs 10lbs!), or it would be too clunky for a video game. Supernova already had too much fooling around in the inventory already with the obscene eating and drinking times. I also don't really get the point of the bars at the top of the screen either near the icons. The looked like they would be some kind of timer that let you know about when you needed to eat or drink, but instead the bars never moved for me, and I would just randomly get the debuff icons.
Started a 2-handed melee/heavy armor playthrough. Edgewater was OK, but the real fun started when I reached Groundbreaker and got the Prismatic Hammer. What a badass weapon.
Would like to know how much of the game I have left, any help is appreciated:
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The game is still fun, but it being so goddamn basic and repetitive is wearing me out.
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I just wrapped up pretty much everything that's available on Monarch, every location/sidequest etc. I also received the Navkey to Byzantium without buying it on Groundbreaker.
The game is still fun, but it being so goddamn basic and repetitive is wearing me out.
Anyone using a Switch pro controller? Windows is detecting it fine over USB or blutooth, but the game recognises no inputs from it.
*edit, nevermind! Have to run the game through Steam to get the pro controller to work, for some reason.
*edit, nevermind! Have to run the game through Steam to get the pro controller to work, for some reason.
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Alrighty then, two crashes in less than 30 gameplay minutes means fuck this game, I'll go play something else. I can take boring gameplay, but add frequent crashing on top of that and I'm out. Maybe I'll just uninstall the game and try again next year when it's released on Steam.
Got that also once,I have no idea why this happened lol...
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Anyone else think the automated robots advertising stuff in the cities sound eerily similar to the Gummy Bear speaking at the beginning of that song?
Can't get it out of my head :( . In other news, beat the game and finished up pretty much every sidequest expect one because I think it had to be botched near the end of the game. Total playtime was around 30 hours. Quite enjoyed it, especially for the $1 through GamePass. Didn't run as well as I had hoped on PC, though.
Can't get it out of my head :( . In other news, beat the game and finished up pretty much every sidequest expect one because I think it had to be botched near the end of the game. Total playtime was around 30 hours. Quite enjoyed it, especially for the $1 through GamePass. Didn't run as well as I had hoped on PC, though.
It happened immediately after I recruited Felix for the first time ever, so I thought it had something to do with him. But I went to talk to him and he didn't say anything about it. Neither did the other companions or ADA.
I was just totally flabbergasted by it, haha.
I googled it and apparently it's a random easter egg and reference to Firefly, which makes the gif I posted unintentionally appropriate.
There's supposed to be a quick line of dialogue from ADA about ordering fertilizer or something, but it seems to not play for a ton of people.
I honestly thought you were joking and got the reference because of the appropriate gif. 🤣