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The Outer Worlds is sprawling and intimidating at first. With the standard role-playing game complexities, weighty decisions that go into every main quest, branching dialog trees, and the ability to kill anyone you meet. It immediately feels like a whole lot of game, and making any decision feels impossibly stressful. In our The Outer Worlds beginner’s guide, we’ll eliminate a ton of potential stress. The game adapts, so don’t worry In an early quest, you’ll make a big decision. Based on your choice, one town survives and another withers. It’s easy (and human) to get paralyzed by decisions like that. What if you kill a necessary informant? What if you make the wrong choice about who to trust? What if you give the life- (and career-) saving medicine to the wrong group? You’ll have to make a lot of weighty decisions, but the game will adapt to you. Obsidian Entertainment/Private Division via Polygon Sure, your choices will have consequences, and you might make enemies along the way, but your choices aren’t always as binary as they appear to be. In the example above with the two towns, immediately after switching power, a new objective moves everyone into one place, mostly better off than they were before. Maybe your choices will mean you’ll miss out on opportunities later on, but The Outer Worlds is built around letting you make decisions and course correcting to deal with the consequences. Don’t agonize over every decision. Make the choice that feels right to you (or the character you’re playing), and go for it. The game adapts. You have multiple options for every objective The game is built around not just the decisions you make in-game, but the character creation decisions you make as well. You don’t really have to worry about your high stealth character being bad at combat, for example, because that high stealth makes you good at picking the locks on crates containing great weapons. You’ll almost always have multiple ways to complete an objective — everything from killing bad guys to finding lost items to breaking into a secure facility. These options tend to correspond to various skills you may or may not have. Solutions will be around no matter if you emphasized strength, sneaking, or intelligence. You don’t have to explore all of those options — and you won’t be able to, depending on your skills — but it doesn’t matter. Use your strengths to find a solution. Search for hints everywhere Figuring out which of the multiple paths is best for you isn’t always easy, but The Outer Worlds will give you plenty of hints. Look for computer terminals, books, notes, and even people you talk to — they’ll all hint at the various solutions. Whenever you pick up one of those hints, it’ll appear in your Journal menu under the corresponding quest. Talk to people. Read everything. All of that information will make completing your objectives easier. Search for loot everywhere Just about every room, bin, bookcase, and
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