Yes, I am a patient gamer. Why do you ask?
I never realized til now how trans D. Va’s bodysuit is
I kept looking at it, going, “Now, what does this remind me of?”
Outer Worlds is a wonderful proof of concept, it only really felt shallow for so many because it stood so close to New Vegas, yet with a much smaller scope and budget.
I cannot wait to see what the Outer Worlds 2 may look like with an actual budget and dev time! Tim Cain is a treasure, and given that the Fallout series continues to be battered with generally terrible direction I’d love TOW2 to cement TOW as a viable alternative going forward.
Outer Worlds is a wonderful proof of concept, it only really felt shallow for so many because it stood so close to New Vegas, yet with a much smaller scope and budget.
As someone who went in knowing nothing, I expected much more of a linear/“indie” feel. I can see how people might be disappointed if they compare it to FNV, but damn it’s been pretty good for me so far. There’s a lot more here than I expected.
My biggest complaint is that the movement feels floaty. I feel like if they can get that right, then it would feel much better to play.
Yep, comparison is the thief of joy. I enjoyed my time with TOW, but felt that it realistically needed a bit more meat on its bones to gain real traction. It tries to sell itself as a long-form RPG in a bite-sized scale, it doesn’t quite work out pacing-wise.
Fun story and characters, but they need to work on combat/UI if there’s enough interest in a sequel.
Plenty of people want a sequel. The next one will hopefully drop 2025. What’s wrong with combat in the game now?
Well, considering it’s Obsidian, I applaud their characters and environments, but it feels like they’ve made no progress concerning gameplay. Of course, they have since been bought out by Microsoft. Whatever team remains, I hope they allow for a more robust style and flexibility.
I get that but what would you change to make combat better?
More fluidity, along the lines of Fallout 4. Increased variety of weapons, which could be tied into character/play types. A few QOL adjustments that have come to be expected these days
Enemy variety is also lacking. That’s been my only complaint about the combat, really. There’s like 6 enemy types, with a few color swaps between them to make “more” enemies. There’s pretty much just dog thing, gorilla thing, bug thing, swarm thing and human thing.
My biggest complaint about the game as a whole is the same as Fallout 4, though. The RPG side of things is really basic. Based on what people had been saying about it when it came out, I expected it to be more like New Vegas in that regard. You do have some more choices than FO4, but they’re all black and white. Do you help the corporation or do you promote anarchy? There’s no way to reconcile both and come to a compromise and these choices are only present in the final leg of a MQ chapter; it’s not most quests.
Rizzo’s: The ultimate choice for trans spacers!
Outer Wilds has a whole species of non-binary characters
Now if only the spacers choice edition I got for free on Epic wasn’t such a shitshow.
But whatever, I have one question:
Is there a lesbian love interest in this game? Asking for a friend
Now if only the spacers choice edition I got for free on Epic wasn’t such a shitshow.
What’s wrong with it? That’s the version I’m playing, and I haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s been great.
Is there a lesbian love interest in this game?
There seems to be so far, but time will tell how far it develops.
What’s wrong with it? That’s the version I’m playing, and I haven’t had any problems whatsoever. It’s been great.
Every time I go into a menu and back out, be it the journal, map, or inventory, the framerate just falls apart entirely, and I can only fix it by restarting.
Performance also drastically lowers when approaching certain computer terminals in the world, down to the point where the word slideshow is a perfectly appropriate description.
Now granted, I’m playing on Linux, and most other Linux users on ProtonDB seem to have these issues too.
According to a few benchmarks on YT, the performance in general is a lot lower than the original version, while not doing nearly enough in terms of graphics to warrant it.
Like, I know my GTX 970 is fairly old at this point, but there’s other games with the same or even more advanced graphics that run considerably better on my hardware.
That being said, I do enjoy the core game. I just wish I could find a way to solve these issues.
I wanted to get into that on Linux, too. Which Wine/Proton version did you use?
First I used Proton GE 8-25, then 8-27, but it didn’t make a difference.
However, I’ve moved the game to my Windows drive in the meantime, and it runs flawlessly there. Which means the problem is not the game itself, so maybe Wine/Proton will be able to fix these issues some day.
(The Spacers Choice Edition Epic gave away some time ago is also fully DRM-free btw. You can run it directly from the executable, no launcher or authentication required. In fact, I’ve found that many of those Epic freebies I got over the last few years are DRM-free. I’m basically a legal, official pirate at that point.)
Thanks for the answer! I don’t have a windows installation around anymore, so I’ll just see if when I do try it, it runs better.
Not having DRM is a good sign at least iirc :D
Oh, I see. I haven’t experienced any framerate issues, but I’ve got a RTX3080 and Windows 10.
I do intend to switch to Linux for my next build. I’ve already moved to it on our other PC and laptops.
I guess it either doesn’t have these problems on Windows at all, or the 3080 is enough to brute force framerates into the outer edge of the stratosphere
I’m thinking it’s the former because I have had it get pretty hot while playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, for example, but I haven’t had that happen with this one so far, and the framerates have been steady.
Either way, if I can’t fix it, I might just put it aside and buy the original edition some day.
The studio who made the spacers choice edition apparently has a track record of problematic remakes
Honestly, I’d totally have been willing to buy this, now that I’ve seen the gameplay and characters and know what it is. I went in knowing little to nothing.
I’d seen people reference it in passing on r/gamingcirclejerk when it was released, but I didn’t pay much attention back then.
