>>3866028
There's only one man in a cast of five???

>>3866028
Game releases for most players tomorrow. Ask again then or read reviews.

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Making a convict granny

>>3866028
Playing it now. It feels identical to the first. Sometimes dialogue makes no sense. My example is "What are you doing here?" My response is "Just, uh...what are you doing down here near the sewers?" Guard response, "Protectorate is making my head spin and needed a break. Don't let the matriarch know." I respond with, "Why not leave?" They respond "There are a bunch of saber things (can't remember monster name)". "Don't worry, I cleared them out." Then he leaves.

No shit, that was the dialogue. Guy watched me come in through the tunnel and then stopped caring after I said "Just, uh...what are you doing down here?"

It's just like the first.

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>>3866028
I kept playing nu-bsidian games despite knowing this company has gone down the shitter talent wise, but tow2 is where I'm gonna cut my losses I think

>>3866403
>Guy watched me come in through the tunnel and then stopped caring after I said "Just, uh...what are you doing down here?"
because he's a dumb mook who got caught bumming off work. this text flavour is perfectly okay and even better if it gives you options and you can catch him out with one.
it's more disturbing that you were willing to buy the game and think this instance is bad

>>3866028
Its painfully mid.

>>3866028
Are they using the same engine and content pipelines as the first game or have they "upgraded" to UE5?

>>3866521
its UE5

>>3866515
I miss when games could just be alright. Modesty is dead

So far the game is better than expected. Way more roleplaying options and solutions, better combat, better traversal, better level and world design, better quest design, more tools, exploration is improved.
I also like how they made weapons more distinct, like revolvers can rapid fire from the hip which pistols can't.

>>3866403
>It feels identical to the first.
Absolutely not. The amount of improvements to everything and things they added is immense.

>>3866503
>it's more disturbing that you were willing to buy the game and think this instance is bad
You think he didn't just watch it on youtube?

Are there any good RPGs that double as space adventures?

>>3866028
Outer Wilds or Starfield?

No third choice sorry. I've already hit myself on the head with a hammer, and it didn't help.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8S8jqpyV0

>>3866664
I'm not watching your video dawg. Especially if you only speak in buzzwords

The knee popping noise is funny and makes stealth gameplay interesting after years of ES-alikes. And that’s why that trait is good.

>>3866664
>that thumbnail

way to invalidate any criticisms you have of the game

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>>3866781
1. Im not heem
2. It's from a clipper channel so he didn't even make the thumbnail

>the outer worlds 2 has less players on launch than avowed or the outer worlds 1 (which launched a year late on steam)(going off steam numbers)
L M A O

Done with Paradise and it's very middling, i doubt i'll continue playing.

this is so doa its incredible
they managed to pull second concord

>>3866499
i heard writing wasnt good in the first Outer Worlds. Is the second one this bad?

just finished it as a dumb character:
had fun 7/10
game is much better than the first
quests aren't that interesting
being able to influence companions in their quests is nice
i bought extremely few items and had tons of money and items left over
i liked granny the most
besides uniques traders don't have interesting stuff
most uniques are pointless
i haven't found an idiot ending like in the first
basic tribarrel shotgun is insanely strong and can be turned into a sniper
the rattler shotgun revolver is op
interesting lore drop at the end of the game doesn't get resolved at all, which pissed me off

>>3866403
>It's just like the first.

Agreed. I'm now a couple of hours into the game and the first world feels like an asset flip of the first game. Most of the missions make me feel like I've played this game before. The only thing that has markedly improved is the gunplay.

I think Inez is hot

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Playing through it right now, enjoying it much more than the first one some of the dialogue is DREADFUL. I regret taking the auntie choice gal, I want to vent her out of the airlock.
I like Niles, I like the knife chick, surprisingly.

PTATH

>>3866028
I might get it on black friday.

>no thread on v or vg
>thread on vrpg is a ghosttown
yeah it's fucking dead.

>>3866664
I'm watching the video to see if they will ever learn their lesson about wokeshit games.

Do you think this or Tainted Grail is more worth checking out? I feel like playing a newer RPG but it feels like my options are aggressively mid vs eurojank

>>3867387
It was flawed but fun worth a torrent at least.

>>3867387
Tainted has a demo. I tried it and I liked it - nothing special, but ultimately decided I had a backlog to clean up already.

>>3867304
It's getting some discussion on /crpg/, Anons actually like the murder hobo surprisingly enough

I let the relay crash in the first town killing everyone and following reactivity ensued:
everyone in westport had broken dialogues. I didnt sabotage them so they remained in the settlement but now theyre all generic npcs. fast traveled to landing pad and inez threw a shitfit, calling me a psychopath and left the party. I shot her in the head but she was unkillable. talking to her again she smiled and said I'm a good commander and thanked me for helping her out with her side quest.

So how is it? Is the game as boring as the first one?

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So, is Obsidian just doomed to mediocrity? I enjoyed Pillars Of Eternity for what it was. Kotor 2 had better roleplaying than 1, but everybody just talks about the story in that game. While I respect New Vegas, I never really cared for the gameplay. Similar to the Elder Scrolls games, it was this unsatisfying middle ground for me where it wasn't arcadey or >realsitic enough. Maybe if you had skills/abilities you could use in combat, and do dumb fun stuff like wall-running/wall-jumping I would have enjoyed it more.
In a way, they're like Piranha Bytes. They seem to tackle styles of games that are too big for what they want, and they keep trying to make the same type of game.

>>3867615
It's just Outer Worlds 1, but called 2. Weapon usage feels better, that's just QoL though.

>>3866028
>The Woke Worlds sequel
Even Tim Cain refuses to sweep the floor for this FELTED game series.

>>3867624
>Kotor 2 had better roleplaying than 1, but everybody just talks about the story in that game
Wrong, vermin bugman. I literally cannot bring myself to replay KotOR - I only played it twice as a child before KotOR 2 came out - because KotOR's gameplay is unbearably shit compared to the sequel. The story improved in the sequel as much as the gameplay did.

>>3866028
Does this game have notable mods yet?

>>3867690
The fuck are you talking about? The gameplay was nearly identical.

I keep getting distracted by Dr. Venture's voice coming out of random NPCs. If you're going to get one of the dude's behind Venture Bros as a voice actor you should at least have him play a single character, his voice is too unique to use for a bunch of nobodies

>>3867624
It seems so. I thought they were intent on making mid level games but here they go charging $70 for it which implies ambition.

>>3868123
I knew a recognized that voice from somewhere. He is the only good voice in the game.

>>3866857
>watching streamers
>watching videos from clippers
>watching clippers who make videos with thumbnails like that
Why do you live your life without standards?

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>>3867002
>I regret taking the auntie choice gal, I want to vent her out of the airlock.
Part of some of the faction characters arcs and how you can influence them is that they can go from brainwashed supporters of said factions to abandoning them.
For Inez one is her abandonding Auntie to go freelance because she becomes disillusioned with them in her personal quests.
It's a similar deal with Aza and Tristan.

>>3867624
It's the best game of its kind since New Vegas. Fallout 4, Starfield, Fallout 76 or the numerous cheap, janky games like Tainted Grail are so far below Outer Worlds 2 it's not even funny. If you want to judge that as most of these games aren't very good that's fine, but OW2 is definately better than them.

>>3866028
It's a big improvement on the first; I like it. Two criticisms though.

>only two factions to choose from, no independent option
>Level cap is 30, so you only get 62 skill points to work with, essentially forcing you to min/max to pass skill checks

>>3868341
>>Level cap is 30, so you only get 62 skill points to work with, essentially forcing you to min/max to pass skill checks
This is not a bad thing, just not something players are used to. In too many games you can be a generalist, get companions to fill in for skills or use stat items so you can pretty much pass any skillcheck that comes up, which means there are no actual builds or replayability. It makes whatever skills you choose to "focus" on not matter.
You should not be able to pass all high difficulty speech, engineering, lockpicking, hacking, medicine, observation, science, etc. checks with a single character in a single playthrough. The Backgrounds and Traits can sometimes compensate for that to allow you to choose or pass some checks depending on which you picked.

While the balance maybe isn't perfect, too many modern RPGs allow players to just pass almost all checks which devalues any creation or build choice you made and makes replaying pointless.

>>3866028
It’s no masterpiece but it does a pretty fucking solid throw for a modern RPG. But my god it’s doing poorly

>>3868330
The fuck are you talking about? It's complete shit as well.

>>3868370
You make a fair point. I suppose I'm just frustrated because I've gotten used to being able to lockpick in these kind of RPGs, and I can't do that in OW2 because I can't afford to waste any skill points in Lockpick.

>>3868577
Compelling, educated and rational argument. This is why I come here.

>>3868605
But enough about the post anon was replying to

I just finished the first zone and I think I'm done. It feels like Avowed with a sci-fi paint job. All the "exploration" really comes down to a few small buildings scattered around the map. Combat is mediocre and there are like four enemy types and guns in total.

>>3868990
>I just finished the first zone and I think I'm done. It feels like Avowed with a sci-fi paint job. All the "exploration" really comes down to a few small buildings scattered around the map. Combat is mediocre and there are like four enemy types and guns in total.
Each planet introduces more weapons types and has uniques with even more distinct behaviors. Weapon variety is not an issue in the game. The first planet is the least interesting one, but I'm not sure you were expecting when it's the same as any other game like this.

Is it just me or are most weapon mods fucking useless
And most perks for that matter, why even really put a single point into sneak or medical?
Just a very generic experience
At least it's inoffensive to play, and I really appreciate that there's no bullshit like encumbrance

>>3869012
>Is it just me or are most weapon mods fucking useless

Depends. Silencers are good for stealth builds, all aim mods are good, ones that just reduce recoil and stuff are good, plasma and shock mods are good. Some mods like double fire rate with lower damage or sawed-off I never use. Armor mods are much more impactful.

>And most perks for that matter, why even really put a single point into sneak or medical?

Many of them are good, some really impactful like you can unlock pickpocketing, being able to hack robots, more dialogue options. Some unlock interactions in conversations and in the world. Some like sneak gets more value on higher difficulties and can still come up in interactions. Medical is also better at higher difficulties, can tame creatures, inhaler upgrades and has some of the most interactions for conversations and in the world in the game.

>Just a very generic experience

Very strange comment. I can't think of many other games like it, especially when it comes to the level of reactivity and roleplaying. If you're comparing it to like New Vegas, that's the point.

I actually think this game would have been good, had they turned it into a linear shooter. The first time I had fun in this game was 15 hours in during the quest in the N-Ray range.

>>3866028
That armour looks pretty cool. Shame about the monkeys.

>>3869016
Dorado and Cloister are the best planets in terms of design, missions and content.

>>3869015
>I can't think of many other games like it
It's literally fallout 3, which is itself oblivion/skyrim

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>>3869024
The closest is New Vegas and the only ones doing games like this is Bethesda and Obsidian. Bethesda's last games were Fallout 4 (10 years ago), Fallout 76 (7 years ago and veyr different in a bad way) and Starfield (which was bad and infinitely worse than Outer Worlds 2). Skyrim came out 14 years ago. Only one of these is also set in space and none of them have a setting similar to Outer Worlds. Many things and advancements set it apart from these Bethesda games beyond this. Space settings are incredibly rare not just for RPGs, but games as a whole outside of spaceship sims.
Calling it generic makes no sense.

>>3869030
>Calling it generic makes no sense.
My guess is that retarded esls think generic means cheap/bad

>>3869030
>was bad
Sure
> infinitely worse than Outer Worlds
I have no idea why you keep saying this. It's terrible as well. The writing sucks,the gameplay is bad and it's just boring to play even at its best .

>>3869046
>I have no idea why you keep saying this
Because it's true. You're clearly irrational and biased anyway, so I don't have the energy to waste arguing with someone that unironically calls Outer Worlds 2 a bad game. Especially since you probably think Fallout 3 and Oblivion are amazing games.

Fallout 3 and Oblivion are both good games though

>>3869052
Even if you think that, both are heavily flawed games with a lot of problems which games like Outer Worlds 2 doesn't have. So calling those good and Outer Worlds 2 bad makes no sense. The combat, roleplaying, writing and level design is all worse in those games.
It's not that those games are bad, but if you think they're good while calling Outer Worlds 2 bad puts that persons character into question.

I liked Outerworlds 1 and I liked Starfield up to a certain point, the ship building was top tier though. Outerworlds 2 isn't as good as the first, its still a 7/10 game which is good, not great.

>>3868050
No it wasn't.
>no forced shit class start
>better balance, crafting, far better level design, generally one of the the best gameplay-story integration examples in history of RPGs

>>3869030
>>3869024
>>3869024
I dub this genre, Elderout

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>>3866400
Just finished up, glad I gave it chance since I didn't like the first one. Marisol is best girl!

>>3869597
>Marisol is best girl!
Nah that would be Aza

What's the fucking point of exploring? I never find any interesting locations or decent loot. Clear out the same monster cave/bandit huts and wow some crafting supplies and a revolver I have 15 of.

>>3869601
To chase the possibility

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>>3869601
What are you on about? There's good loot and interesting areas even on the first planet (Dorado and Cloister are better) that are optional.

I'm up to the third planet and haven't found anything approximating "good loot"
I guess I picked up a silenced sniper rifle

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>>3866572
>I miss when games could just be alright. Modesty is dead

It's design. Or painful lack of it that makes obsidian games so unplayable. Just look at the op image, who would want to play that? Characters have zero personality.

>>3869628
Are the characters in your pic meant to have personality?

>>3869618
If you haven't found unique armor and weapons that are good, you're either not looking around much or you don't know what's good. Or even just lockpicking/pickpocketing if you don't explore a lot. One of the best guns in the entire game the Auto Hacker is on the first planet.

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>>3869628
Let's be real, Mass Effect had the advantage of having multiple alien races. The humans in ME series were all bland apart from Jack.
The companions in Outer Worlds 2 is are fine, only the robot is boring as fuck. Niles is better than I expected and has a dash of Garrus to him. Marisol is fine, but is a bit too profesional for my liking. Aza is a murderhobo and probably the best design visually of them all.
Inez and Tristan are the ones that start out a bit grating since they've been brainwashed by their respective factions, but along their companion quests they become pretty good if you push them to challenge their ideas so they wake up from the brainwashing.

>>3869642
I find every unique
The only one I haven't scrapped is the sniper rifle from the station

>>3869597
>>3869600
Nah that would be VAL

>>3869648
So you scrap some of the best armor and guns in the game? While sticking to one of the worst weapon types? Ok. Well then, that's a you problem for not understanding how good they are.

I'm on the 3rd planet. I think I fucked up taking the ADHD flaw. Should I just restart so I can put my points in stats I actually want and not have to be a jack of all trades? I kinda want to be a sneaky scientist hacker that uses robots do do his bidding.

>>3866499
i don't know how you can say that having played pentiment (maybe you didn't)

>>3869696
NTA, but most weapons in this game just aren't practical unless you love getting overrun by enemy hordes while you're trying to reload your weapon. I've been using a plasma pistol almost exclusively since the second planet and it works just fine against every type of enemy.

>>3869724
Ranged weapons with quick reload, high DPS and a bit higher mag size are the best.
So the light revolver is bad, but light pistol, heavy revolver, assault rifles, machine guns, shock rifle, shock machine gun, trench shotgun and shit are great.

>>3869724
>>3869730
Marksman rifles are good too, especially with the damage boosts you can get from perks.

>>3869717
Brother you're over halfway through the game and you want to restart?

I put maximum points into speech and observation and to be honest I barely notice any difference. There's an occasional speech option, but it never changes anything

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>>3869876
Its actually not bad since you be focusing on 2-3 perks anyway.

>>3869876
>Flawed but no Profligate Spender or Easily Distracted
For what purpose?

>>3866613
>things they added is immense.
lmao settle down, it's definitely an improvement from the first but it's not "immense."

>>3869880
I haven't triggered them because I only focus on a few skills and I don't buy anything

>>3869892
Fair. I noticed the trigger on Profligate Spender is a little unclear, I triggered it the first time by spending ~4K, ended up reloading for something else and then couldn't trigger it again until spending 12k. I like it though, it's a fun way to change how you play the game.

>never buys anything
>kleptomania
>only 19k bits
How? Do you just break everything down for crafting?

I honestly don't know why I bother picking up or scrapping shit
I have 400 cloth

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>>3869903
>Do you just break everything down for crafting?
yes, literally
and then I don't craft anything because there's nothing worthwhile except an ammo top-up now and then

>speak to tunnel foreman
>"well, you can't help unless you can see through this rock and tell us what's on the far side!"
>use N-ray and see protectorate on the other side
>"well, you can't help unless you can see through this rock and tell us what's on the far side!"
yeah OK thanks game

Dogshit game. Combat can be fun, but don't give a fuck about the story or any of the characters. The dialogue and writing is shit. I made it partly through Dorado but I'm done with this game. Same thing happened to me with Avowed.

>>3869915
>don't give a fuck about the story or any of the characters
So like all of these types of games then. Or are you gonna sit here and tell me you were super engaged in the story and characters of Skyrim?

>The dialogue and writing is shit.
I'd argue it's pretty good, but my problem is that it's a bit restrained. Some of the comedy would've landed better if they committed more to it, especially if they pushed the dark comedy angle.

But if you don't want to play more that's on you. It's the best game of this type since New Vegas and one of the best as a whole.

>>3869915
The writing in Avowed was pretty good, though.

>>3869907
Because it's there.

>>3869909
I figured, I think I had 20k in creature parts by the time I finished the first planet, heh. I like it, though, a crafting-only playthrough would be interesting.

>>3869914
Huh, it worked fine for me, although the foreman sends you back to her boss.

>>3869914
A guess is you need to be close enough and look at them long enough for all the enemies to be marked on the map. Or you just reload a prior save and retry, which you should have multiple of anyway.
The quest structure is
>talk to commander
>go to the dig site, talk to the person there, look through the wall, talk to the npc there again
>talk to the commander
>return, the dig site is attacked, kill the enemies
>return to commander for reward

Kind of a poorly structered quest with too much back and forth. Part of it being because I imagine they didn't have a good way to handle the wall getting dug through or blown up, so they had to get you to move far enough away so as not to notice they just deleted the wall model.

The strikers chanting is the first bit of dialogue I've enjoyed in the entire game

honestly do vendors EVER sell anything worthwhile?
They have ammo, consumables I don't need, and armour that isn't any better than what you pick off the ground

>>3869962
>The strikers chanting is the first bit of dialogue I've enjoyed in the entire game
Auntie quests tend to be the most enjoyable for me, since they tend to make fun of corpos and be more absurd, like the Mantisaur commander.

>>3869967
oh true I forgot about that
they're also the most reasonable faction
>Protectorate
brainwashed drones, humanity's death
>Order
academics unfit to lead, weak
>Corpos
true humans, selfishness, innovation, guile; fit to lead

>>3869963
>honestly do vendors EVER sell anything worthwhile?

Ammo, recipes, mods for guns you don't have recipes for, lockbox keys, some uniques, some med stims and sometimes new gun types you haven't found yet.

>>3869969
>>Protectorate
They're supposed to be true communists (not the fake kind like Russia and China) but lost their way when their founder passed away so they just became a bunch of mindless drones and corruption set in.

Did people say corpo before cyberpunk 2077? I know it's way more known than the table top game.

>>3869993
as long as the word "corporate" has existed, people have said corpo

>>3866028
Best way to play this game is on Hard and focus more on stealth.

>>3870003
Best way to play this game is to do whatever you want

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>>3866028
If any of you give money to Obsidian to play this then you were quite likely dropped on your head at birth or you're under the age of 25 and a clinical retard.

>>3870130
Playing good actual RPGs over shitposting on 4chan ad nauseam? We bow to your supreme autism.

>>3870130
>buying games in 2025
i have not pay for a new game in years.

Remember when Obsidian was based and on our gamer side? It's why we funded Pillars of Eternity

>>3870329
>Remember when Obsidian was based and on our gamer side?
No, because such a time never existed.
They did, however, used to have somewhat competent writers.
I wonder what the fuck John Gonzales is up to?

>>3869967
>>3869969
>siding with a corporation
You people sicken me, the Order of Ascendant is the only faction worth supporting

>>3870330
Bro? Your KotOR2? Literally built for us chuds.
>hot babe who fights in underwear to arouse the male gaze
>some blind bitch who also wants to fuck you (I never did)
>meanwhile female main characters get some ugly retard and Anton

>>3870336
Video game developers are the spitting image of the Nietzschean last man.
They are rootless cosmopolitans, fags, degenerates and freaks.
Their mere existence is proof that the genetic fitness of the species as a whole is not great.

Every single time I look up a developer to see where they're from, their country is literally never listed. It's all corpo PR speak about passionate faggots.
Words cannot describe how much I despise them.

If they're on your side, you're on the wrong side.

Chat is this true?

>>3870330
He's back with Obsidian now, Josh is putting the crew back together.

>>3870339
brother you're on a videogame board

bullet blender is my GOAT

>expect the science skill to have a bunch of fun science scaling weapons like OW1
>it has two
I'm pretty fucking disappointed.

>>3870613
doesnt shock scale with science?

>>3870613
They probably didn't want to lock out fun weapons like shrink ray and such behind a high skill value for a specific skill. Science is more focused on your new tools, elemental damage and skill checks.

>>3870630
Gonna restart and get the Korroder this time

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>>3869722
Pentiment was kino.

>>3870630
>lock out fun weapons like shrink ray and such behind a high skill value for a specific skill
Reminder that Duke Nukem used a shrink ray.

If you use a shrink ray can you trap your opponent in a jar or is it used purely for combat

>>3870764
Brother what do you think?

>>3870764
It's a weapon. Same as that tentacle or homing slime gun.

>>3869997
nah you are thinking of "copro"

Kind of annoying when you hit level cap

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Best song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAtk2tnD0wc

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>>3871107
The Auntie and Protectorate have the best songs. Not a fan of the Order's.
One of my favorites is Gloria Arcadia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dGmKo8NuEM

Order radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLc3khGcj7c
Protectorate radio
Auntie radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rweRfIPnxGU

>>3871107
Sounds like shit

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>>3871204
Kind of the point. The Auntie songs are suppossed to be catchy shitty jingles and marketing songs for Auntie's shitty products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DoyYn-k-M0

Now that the dust settled, how do we rank the 5 worst Obsidian game from least worst to worst worst?

>Dungeon Siege 3
>The Outer Worlds
>Grounded
>Avowed
>The Outer Worlds 2

Humiliation rituals like Skyforge and Armored Warfare (f2p mmo slop) where Obsidian only "helped" to keep their company afloat, not included.

I love how that one obsidian game is so bad it is routinely memoryholed from both realities of haters and fanbois alike

personally I think it really is the only _bad_ game to ever be released by obsidian

>>3871288
You have horrific taste if you not only think those games are bad, but ranked as the worst.

>>3871322
Na but all of those games are terrible.

>>3871322
>You have horrific taste if you think bad games are bad
Sometimes, /vrpg/ surprises even me

>>3871288
Grounded was really good

>>3871322
Thank you Rajit, glad to see you working for free over the weekends.

~Feargus

>>3871329
>>3871334
>>3871345
Have you played Outer Worlds 2?
What specifically is good or bad about it? I'm not talking your kneejerk reaction or whatever shitposter on 4chan you like to parrot.

>>3871352
Yes, I played it a couple of times in QA. I had a great time with it and I think more people should buy it. It's a really good game and the price tag reflects Obsidian's effort & hard work.

~Feargus

>>3871335
I didn't find the premise or the story believable at all. It wasn't grounded enough.

>>3871357
You do realize you'r only proving me right that you're a close-minded ignorant shitposter that can't disprove anything stated, right?

>>3871360
Anonymous, I think you are directing your anger at the wrong person. I don't think your forum post is related to mine. Please use the quote function responsibly.

~Feargus

>>3871362
You stupid ignorant shitposter piece of shit I will kill you. The Outer Worlds 2 is the second best game of the year, after EO33. Die mother fucker. Die.

how does expedition 33 get the acronym "EO33"...

>Skillup said he loves Outer Worlds 2
We lost

>>3871385
>Skillup
you mean "shillup"?

>>3871385
who?

I do like the "flaws" system in the game
haven't seen something like that before

I've only beaten the tutorial so far using melee and sneak. Doesn't feel very satisfying and after spoiling myself on later melee weapons I'm not sure excited. Should I just respec to guns now or is there some secret sauce I didn't understand?

>>3871620
Do not go melee

Honestly you don't even need to "spec" guns
I got up to about level 25 with nothing but observation, speech, and lock picking (which admittedly includes some combat bonuses)

>>3871621
It definitely feels like a second playthrough kinda thing once I understand the game and map layouts more.

>>3871622
Were you on very hard?

>>3871626
Just hard, maybe it's my bonuses but combat is now trivialised. My shotgun one-shots almost everything

>>3871622
Spending points in the gun/melee trees makes using it better and gives you more options. You don't "need" to, but it's better on higher difficulties. The game isn't very difficult on Normal, since you tend to outlevel enemies from all the sidequesting and exploration you do.
I do think spending 1 skill and perk point to get another weapon slot is nice so you get 3. I also think that going deep into both melee and guns is redundant.

>>3871392
Toxic ignorant shitposter is also an antisemitic racist? Color me surprised.

>>3871529
One of the greatest video game essayists (NOT a mere "reviewer") ever made. Become a better person.

>>3871750
>One of the greatest video game essayists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BPqhza60M

>>3869722
pentiment was soier's pet project and some handpicked senior devs iirc, hardly representative

>>3871862
*Sawyers, you illiterate toxic ignoramus, learn to spells.

>>3871862
Pentiment and Avowed had a lot of the same writers.

I'm having fun :)

>>3871301
the ants game?

>>3871985
NTA but probably The Outer Worlds 1. People actually like Grounded a lot, they're just mainly kids and not on a Mongolian Fishing board talking about it. Only OW1 seems to be totally forgotten about in most RPG conversation.

>>3871301
That's because nobody played Dungeon Siege 3

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She would not look me in the eyes..

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I literally haven't swapped weapons since I picked up Last Whisper, it one-shots practically everything (on Hard)

It's surprisingly good. The big put-off is the price - if this had released for 50 bucks, people would be way more forgiving of the crappy sidequests.

>>3872094
bro where's Tristan?

>>3872105
For me it's the silenced plasma pistol.

The game really is just way too easy
Always overflowing with everything
Nothing to spend on
May as well have had unlimited money
Even the shit from the lockboxes isn't that good

The guns being this boring is pretty unfortunate.

the outer sharts

>>3872195
>The guns being this boring is pretty unfortunate.
They are actually pretty varied and way more varied than in 3D Fallouts.

Finished the game, doing most stuff in the game, mini review

pros
>is very much an rpg, with lots of choices, reactivity with lots of things feeling like they matter and impact the world
>writing and dialogue is pretty good
>not being able to be a jack of all trades and do everything is good, makes your skill investments feel more relevant
>most skills have high amounts of reactivity, some more than you'd expect like medical, science, engineering and observation
>decently long at around 50-60 hours for a more completionst run
>faction unique radio music is nice
>combat is pretty good in terms of how it plays and the weapons
>level design is pretty good
>humor and satire worked pretty well, rarely cringe
cons
>none of the characters, dialogue or factions were that memorable
>some skills, traits and backgrounds are clearly better than others. speech is best by far
>the sub rosa faction feels like it had content cut, not on par with other factions in terms of content
>would've liked more enemy types
n/a
>companions are better than you initially think and can develop in different ways, but i wouldn't rank any of them amongst my favorites. inez, niles and aza are better than expected. val sucks though
>planets are a mixed bag. some good, some meh
>you're rarely faced with a tough call if you have the stats or exploration done, often giving you a "best" option. might put off some
>game quickly becomes too easy on normal if you do side stuff and overlevel and overgear yourself, hard or very hard would be better
Much better than OW1 and one of the better first person RPGs like this to date, but it's also clearly somewhat of a budget title and not at the scale of a Skyrim or something.

>Hey boss, looks like we're on some Outer Worlds 2: The Squeakuel

>>3872473
It's too easy on very hard even, and I'm not some pro gamer

>>3872467
Lol

>>3872497
He's not wrong

>>3872137
I was already the big hammer swinger sadly

>>3872542
You're confronting the fucking Consul and you don't bring TRISTAN?

>>3872105
Yep, Last Whisper is nuts, especially with max Guns and Sneak

Sneak is almost OP, honestly

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>>3872549
Sometimes you save things for your second playthrough

I don't know who's doing a second playthrough of this game
Yeah it has reactive elements but, I dunno

I didn't use a lot of the guns so I could easily do so after all the dlc releases

>>3866028
Anyone know the item codes for the pre-order stuff? Can't find them anywhere.

Can I get a quick rundown on why Obsidian and Tim Cain had a fall out after The Outer Worlds and why he refused to work on the much inferior sequel, The Outer Worlds 2?

>>3866028
How well does it match up against the 3D fallout games?

>>3872711
Why do you expect people on a board that knows nothing of game development to have insider info that would most likely be personal and between him and a select few at Obsidian.

He's a very senior dev, but not a great programmer, not a good designer (doesn't even view himself as a designer) and problably isn't a very good director. So what's left for him to do? He probably just wants to use his name to get consulting gigs on multiple projects either for variation or because he prefers to be more of an idea guy.

>>3872723
>How well does it match up against the 3D fallout games?
Better than all of them quality wise, apart from New Vegas in terms of writing, characters and quest design.

>>3872724
holy shit so much this
he is an outdated transphobe (this is objectively a fact) who uses his gayness to shield himself from criticism and who has literally no clue about real programming language
all he brags about is programming some shitty Gnoll engine in C, which is an inherently transphobic language by design

>>3872798
>transphobe
based
>gay
gay
Though I will agree all his games suck ass.

Big update/patch today. Just a lot of bug fixes desu. Nothing added from what I can see

>https://mp1st.com/title-updates-and-patches/the-outer-worlds-2-update-on-november-11-version-1-000-005-fixes

>>3872711
Tim Cain worked on the Order of the Ascendant's radio station in OW2

>>3872876
>Tim Cain worked on the Order of the Ascendant's radio station in OW2

So the worst radio station.

>>3872798
>transphobe
based
>gay
also based

>>3872878
I don't disagree

I never listened to any of the radio stations

>>3872976
Free arcadia has some really catchy jingles. Makes me feel like Stallone in Demolition man

>>3872976
Yeah, me neither. I didn't even know these radio stations existed until I was on that ice planet.

>>3872976
Wireless Free Arcadia has some good jingles, but I like Protectorate Sanctioned Wireless the most. Better songs, and I kind of like the Redcloak skits.

>Gary suit turns player into a literal schizophrenic
Holy fucking kino

>>3873410
Wished the game had more science armors like Gary. The only other blue one is boring.

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I played the shit out of OW1 and preffer it over this fucking game I have buyers remorse this fucking sequel is nothing like 1

>Attributes that give you buffs such as reload speed/swing speed+, Critical damage+, Etc.
>Skills can go up to 100 or 150 with dlc but you can unlock good stuff from the minimum 20 in different skills, you get 10 per level
>Almost every corpse and container has plenty of loot from bullets to gear you can wear or easily scrap to repair your own or sell it if you have the carryweight

Pretty fucking gay OW2 has nobody drop you anything other than materials for crafting.
>No Goy you have to craft the bullets because... YOU JUST HAVE TO OKAY? Also weapons aren't common so you can get fucked and not have one of each element to switch on the go
Played the first planet so far fucking terrible, shops don't have heavy armor, you can't specialize in pure dps meaning every fucking common mob is a bullet sponge

ARMOR IS USELESS AND MELEE IS SHIT

>>3873642
Funny thing to be triggered by, you want a metric fuckton of trash loot because you like busywork.
Ammo drops were reduced to make you want to swap between weapons more and craft/buy ammo more, instead of effectively just having infinite ammo. This is a good change.
>weapons aren't common
Is this a joke? You find them all over the place and even if you didn't you can just buy them. Stealing is also an option.
>shops don't have heavy armor
Almost certain the shop in the first town Fairfield has heavy armor and you can even trick the shopkeeper to look in his backroom to steal it from the shelves.
>can't specialize in DPS
Except you can. Fire rate, more weakpoint damage, crit increase, elemental damage, charge conversion are all mods that increase DPS. Even if that's not enough, which it should be, you can level up guns/melee skill.
>ARMOR IS USELESS AND MELEE IS SHIT
Armor is very useful, but if you play in melee don't use light since evade only works against ranged. For that you want raw armor value or damage reduction %. Many armor mods or unique armors are good. The unique light one in the crabble cave is good and right by the landing pad.
Melee is good, but a few points in it to unlock perks is recommended if you plan on doing it. Melee works well for stealth.

>>3873642
2 is way better than 1

>>3872711
his video called "game developnent caution" has a pretty funny anecdote from the outer worlds develompent. probably the reason he just said fuck it.

>>3873642
The first planet is absolutely awful, it gets better after that. Still not good, but better.

>>3873674
TLDR: Chatgpt fgt contrarian spam. Doesn't play games just thumbs down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oel4vCrzPg&list=LL&index=2&t=5123s

>>3874069
and?

>>3874069
I liked the first one and hated the second game. Wheres his vid for OW1?

>>3874069
>posts his shitty youtube videos because he's desperate for clicks

>>3874073

the Youtube video shill made a second thread to shill his video

>>3874712
Go shill your shitty video on the eceleb board where someone might care enough to watch it
>>>/v/

>>3874714
>>3874713

>>3874717
It's very strange someone like you
>goes into threads for game he hasn't played
>clearly knows nothing about the game
>gets all of his opinions from youtubers spoonfed to him, incapable of independent thought
>shills said youtubers in said thread
>when called out for shilling, accuses others of shilling
This is not the behavior of a mature intelligent person. But you go ahead and use your favorite defense mechanism, deflection.

>>3874737
Maaaaaaalding

>>3874712
I've heard of geller from the spider man sandman video

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I was surprised after some Cloister exploration that the game has TECHNOLOGY for the characters getting snowy feet. Also saw some corpses that were there before have the snowed in textures over them. It's a nice touch.

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>seeing this rare poster after doing the mental refreshness facility quests
Hits different and very creepy. Also holy fuck they mental refreshed the Protectorates mind into goo is not something I expected. All these 3 systems are failing and blundering hard but keep going anyway.
Good social commentary.

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>All the mushrooms on Cloister grow out of decomposed human corpses
Wait a second is this an Avowed reference?

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>>3874717

>>3874809
Bro who the fuck cares or notices something like that. Same shit as Red Dead Horses taking a dump

Aka nothing to improve game nor play

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Cloister really has such good atmosphere. The lost in snow BGM playing together with all the warheads going off in the distant, grey sky. Slowly seeing all the massive machinery yourself and realizing that yes this entire thing is a gigantic super computer covered in snow that they build into this icecold planet. Lots of the scientific logs indicate that the plane is slowly warming up. Not an issue for now but likely will be in the future, especially if they keep overworking it.
>>3874859
Wanna know how I know that you have that avowed vs oblivion physics gif saved?

>>3874859
>who the fuck cares or notices something like that
People with functioning eyes?

>>3866028
No, they managed to make it worse. They don't even have a singular city.

>>3874809
Science!

It actually doesn't. Everyone in the region just has white spray paint on their feet indoors.

>>3874873
Cloister, Dorado and Auntie's ship are the best locations.

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>>3874916
I wish auntie's ship train was faster because with how slow it is I end up spamming the teleports instead. It really does sell the heart of hyper capitalism though. I felt nauseated from all overlaying adspam on all senses at the front and then Tristan said commented if the people of this faction just tune all this noise out eventually.
Pic related is really pretty but damn me if that facility right next to it wasn't one of the most eerie places.

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I really like speechmaxing. A shame they don't have all the food and potions for timed statboosts in here like Avowed. Guess they were both in dev at the same time and the chance of porting those things to the whole system was out of question.

>>3875041
I hate timed non-combat stat boosts

>>3866034
Lmao, looks woke AF.

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Seeing the glass barrier from the other side of this mega structure is really cool.

Also GODDAMN CRABBLES ARE EVERYWHERE lol

>>3872473
>writing and dialogue is pretty good
>none of the characters, dialogue or factions were that memorable
Cognitive Dissonance

>>3875132
>Seeing the glass barrier from the other side of this mega structure is really cool.
You should drink the water

>>3875152
The word you're looking for is contradiction. Cognitive dissonance isn't what you think it is.
But there was no contradiction.
The actual spoken words and dialogue is well written. But the characters, dialogue and factions rarely have anything that sticks out and is memorable.

Let's take Fallout 4 as an example. It's dogshit in terms of story and characters for the most part, but then there's like 4-5 memorable questlines/quests because they stick out in their absurdity.
One is a ship crewed by robots that wants you to fix their rocket ship so they can go on their journey, but if you help them they just fly into a building, but that changes the map so you can now go to the top of that building to the ship.
Another is the Silver Shroud one where you can roleplay as a The Shadow/Batman type super hero, where the protags VO can ham it up and play the part.

In Outer Worlds 2, there's like 1 mission like this that stood out and involved a Manticore being the commanding officer. The rest are just competently made and well designed quests basically. Fun to play with good level design, roleplaying and variety. But does fixing a zyranium leak at a factory, sneaking into sentinel hq to find evidence or doing a murder mystery at a facility stick out in my mind years from now? No.

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>already stole his quest reward item before talking to him
>it shows up as option
lol I kept it secret from him and just cashed in more bits as reward instead. Sad I couldn't deliver him his final package because you needed brawny or science to get to his pals corpse.

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This is the first 20 speech test I encountered. I gooped all the frozen soldiers to get their loot before. Gonna reload and see if she can actually bring them back to life since there is more of a peace treaty down here.

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>>3875397
Hm nope she doesn't figure out a solution for reversal in time you fix the Planet Computer. You can freeze hr in though if you want. Not worth collecting all the mats anyway because Treasure Hunter gives insane amount of extra bits, throwables and ammo. And it even works on poop and nests because those count as containers!

Is the setting a bit more believable in the second game? Or is it still just corporations being comically incompetent and evil for no reason? Do they at least have customers now?

>>3875446
Didn't play the first game. All 3 factions are well written full of faults in the systems but also filled with people just trying to live.

>>3875397
There are several 20 speech checks towards the end. One I think is required to convince the bad guy, which also requires multiple pieces of evidence, other skill checks and the right choices.

More games should do the flaw system
The only one I found a slight annoyance was kleptomaniac

>>3875446
What the fuck are you even playing this game for retard?

>>3875607
They're garbage curse/blessing deal most of the time. At least in 1 I only bothered to pick em because a perk gave you 5% DMG UP per flaw you picked

>>3875613
It's about the flavour

I think it would be really funny if they added an ugly flaw and every conversation started off with people telling you how ugly you are

>>3875611
So the setting is still shit? That sucks.

>>3875613
Many of them are mostly beneficial if you manage to trigger them in the first place, and most of the rest are at least situationally useful. There are very few that are outright bad, and most of them exist either to make things more difficult/annoying for the player (kleptomania) or as jokes (sungazer) .

I'm Kill on Site with the Order since I gave the archive to Ainties Choice. Is there anyway to get the Order to be my friend again or am I fucked for the rest of the playthrough?

>>3875877
>I'm Kill on Site with the Order since I gave the archive to Ainties Choice. Is there anyway to get the Order to be my friend again or am I fucked for the rest of the playthrough?
Wait 3 in game days and aggro resets. Might want to check if you have a bounty too after those 3 days. They will not be "friendly" so some quests might be locked out for that run if you didn't do them already, but they won't attack you.

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Oh the 3 rifts in the spider infested cliff just lead to the locker I already looted hours ago by maneuvering around and up the mountaina nd thenc arefully dropping down with a welltimed damage reducing double jump.
The rift in the middle suddenly spawning a bunch of spiders while I was mid jump got me good tho.

>>3875607
It's a cool way to further build your character and make them more unique as a build yeah. Very welcome since you only have 2 equip slots in this.

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>a big fidget spinner for the autistic math cult
lol

>>3875607
>>3876005
The flaw system is like a dynamic difficulty modifier for people that think it's too easy, except it doesn't strictly make you worse and you get something out of it.

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That was a very fun and tense final boss dialogue. I am really starting to dig the possibility to talk the final boss down after this and Avowed.
I'd say this dialogue was more nuanced and stressful but Avowed has you literally talk the boss out of not existence by losing faith in her god, which is so rad it is hard to beat at a conceptual level.
Played the game for 106 hours and enjoyed it a lot. But as was noted before, it feels like this was supposed to release before Avowed that addressed some smaller issues of the system by adding charms, statswing potions, and extra skill points from quests.

Just finished it, been taking my time with the game desu. It started off slow but it becomes fun when you get off the first planet and can go do anything you want.i took the easily distracted flaw early on so I never had the skills that I needed to easily bypass stuff with hacking etc but it was a fun playthrough, I have no motivation to do another playthrough though

>>3876353
there's literally zero reason to replay the game

>>3876723
>there's literally zero reason to play the game

>>3876723
>there's literally zero reason to replay the game
The game is balanced so you can't spec into all skills and do everything in a single run. Flaws, backgrounds and traits can also change how you play.

>>3876822
Yes this is true but how different is the actual game if you spec a different way? Like I said I took easily distracted flaw so I was always a jack of all trades and didn't struggle at any point except at the start with Vox Relay. I helped aunties choice with the archive so I guess I could do a replay and focus on a few skills and side with the Order but then again how different is the game? Does it even warrant another replay?
I might replay it in a few months time since I need to finish Ninja Gaiden 4, Marvel Cosmic invasion is out at the end of the month and I still haven't progressed much in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I will probably just uninstall OW2 now ive finished it. Same happened with OW1, really enjoyed it when playing it but when its over its over

>>3876841
>Yes this is true but how different is the actual game if you spec a different way?

I would argue you would need to spec and play differently.
i.e. if you mostly
>used guns, never melee
>rarely stealthed
>specced into speech, hacking, lockpicking, science
then for another run, you'd want
>use melee primarily
>try to stealth as much as possible, but don't reload when you fail and kill them in melee
>spec into melee, stealth, medicine, speech. with enough points into lockpicking to unlock pickpocket to tie into stealth/thief
>maybe pick at least 1 flaw

I personally never instantly replay any game, to leave a bit of time so everything isn't as fresh in my mind.

Just started the first one. I gave Supernova difficulty a serious attempt because I like the hunger/thirst/sleep and follower death mechanics, but fuck me I just die no matter how prepared I am or where I go. It's quite obvious it's not designed to be played that way and it's just an extra mode shoehorned in for turbo autists who already know the game inside out. I just turned it down to Hard and it already feels more "correct".

/blog

>>3876854
I thought that too until I realized it's tuned for frequent use of the slowmo vats thing. I didnt find it useful on lower difficulties so I kinda had forgotten it exists.

>>3876918
>slowmo vats thing
we called it bullet time in my day ;^))
it only lasts like 2 seconds and i didn't find that it helps much when it comes to not dying.

>>3877004
the gauge doesnt go down if you don't move or shoot. it lets you freely line up shots and shoot 3 times before depleting. if you have high enough weapon skill (I think 20 or 40) these shots will cripple enemies based on where you hit them.

I completed the entire game without ever using the VATS thing or any gadget really (Except when mandatory)

why would anyone play melee in this game? It's not even fun to do

>>3876918
so i switched it down to Hard and it's almost too easy now (why do so many games do this?) and if that wasn't enough i then quickly discovered that you can tinker the fuck out of your gun, seemingly infinitely, by just putting money into it at the workbench??

>>3877031
>the gauge doesnt go down if you don't move
huh... i intuitively wasn't doing that because i was trying to not get shot...

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I was playing Murder on Eridanos add-on, and in the top island part after a random fight found a gun on a body that was level 99? It's the only gun I've ever seen that was full level, must have been a mistake. It was an empty level 99 gun. I've installed all those gun perks and made it my mainstay weapon.

the outer woraaaaaakkkk.

>>3877858
I looked it up and it's always been there as a static drop when you get there. I figure it's been done as a easter egg on purpose because a game load screen for Murder on Eridanos has him as a gunslinger, which is the level 99 spawn weapon.

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>>3878097
It's not the exact pistol with a larger barrel, but it probably the closest one the game has to it.

>>3877233
Stfu cuck and play your gay sniper crouching in your cuckshed

>>3877232
I just found the shield way more useful in fights. Throw a grenade, call alli attacks, snipe the head and pop a shield for all the aggro coming in was my go to flowchart.
My autism also made me remove every corpse.
And I mean EVERY CORPSE
Even the ones that were already there before and weren't shown on the minimap. Partly to not research through cleared areas but also yeah autism.

>>3877232
>>3880763
Shield is the best unless you have companions/gear/perks boosting the bullet time. If you do, then the bullet time becomes OP.

>>3880783
The other dimension scanner is good if you want to expose weakspots for sniping.
Bullet time just feels like a relic for combat but I do liked its usage for parcour puzzles.

Uninstalled and removed the game. Never playing it again.

I feel like exploration and itemization are far worse than Avowed, which is surprising to me. I thought this game would have a similar structure to its world design but everything is ugly and all I ever find is crafting materials.
All the mods I can craft for weapons just make the weapon do a different damage type but worse, or add a scope.
I haven't found a replacement weapon in 15 hours, I've just been using the same chainspark cannon or whatever it's called. And it was already just a minor numerical upgrade over the electric weapon I was using before getting it from a bossfight.
Even the combat is worse than Avowed. Which was a 6/10 video game in its own right. All the RPG systems around having multiple solutions to problems are super basic and scripted and really just make me want to replay Deus Ex. I miss doors with damage thresholds.
I'm on Praeton now and the only reason I'm still playing is that I've had a series of bad weeks and this dumb shit is the only thing my brain can handle. Pretty disappointing.

>>3876822
I honestly wish there was just a little more perks/skill points. Just a teensy bit. My first run is lockpick/hack/speech and I'm just not feeling it and keep stopping to play a different character who's melee/sneak/engineer. I also just think the game lacks a little oomph in most departments to keep me intrigued.

>>3881923
You can spread yourself more thin. Only skill you might feel is mandatory is Speech at 20 since that is how you get the technically best ending. Every other skill is not needed to raise above 11 and certainly not 14.
Some like Lockpicking you can get a lot of value out of just by putting 1 point into it and taking the pickpocket perk.

>>3881940
I looked this up because I was worried about wasting 20 fucking points into hack/lockpick. I was told that "that" ending (I don't know what it actually is) requires 17 hacking or lockpick for something specific. And that there is also 2 20 lock pick doors somewhere in the "archive".

>>3881943
I got the best ending and kept my lockpicking and hacking at 14 and sat on 8 unspent towards the end to spend on any last minute big necessary checks.
Nothing apart from Speech at the very end is "mandatory" to go beyond 11 or whatever. Even then you can get the next best ending if you didn't kill DeVries.
The best ending is mostly about having gathered enough "evidence" throughout the game, passing some midrange non speech checks and a final 20 speech check. As well as not annoying the final boss during the convo.

Higher rank lockpicking and hacking is mainly just for various bonus stuff.

>>3881948
Well I appreciate your helpful insight anon. I think I'll stop flip flopping for now and start investing into gun or melee because holy fuck any forced combat makes me want to kill myself.

>>3876854
Alright, I'm back with an update to my blog.

I've reached Groundbreaker and I'm missing the survival mechanics and the difficulty. On top of that, I thought the version I was playing wasn't just a "complete" version, but a remaster (fucking really?) which is known to be a turd and is giving me more and more graphical problems. So I've decided to take whatever knowledge I have gained so far and start fresh with the regular edition on Supernova difficulty.

Since I kept dying the first time, I will put all my points into health/armor/medicine and damage, for me and ESPECIALLY my crew. I'll be tinkering the fuck out of my gear, so I'll need that 50% tinker discount. Hopefully that will make the game more enjoyable in the long run, because right now I'm just runnin, gunnin, lootin & not carin. Feels like it's meant to be that type of game anyway, but I want to try to make the most of it. Guns break way too quickly.

>>3866028
I'm put off these games by the moon head guy. I know that's stupid but it's a bias I'm sticking with

Beat it a few days ago and actually had alot of fun, stiil doesn't fill the void left by New Vegas/Fallout 2.

>>3882836
Every time I turn it on I play for a few minutes and turn it off. I haven't gotten further than the second planet refugees.

>>3866028
I've played it for the first time this weekend. I like the ways the guns work I just wish aimming was a bit more generous. I'm tired of barely missing. Also I wish the geometry actually matched the the visuals. I like hopping around mountains and forcing myself into places in my 3D games.

It's kinda bullshit how armor is split between only the head and body. Also most of the armor is boring and uninspired. Less so than the last game but till

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No intention of playing woke gay shit.

>>3866028
why are they all niggers or dykes?

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have finished my 2nd meleequeen playthrough and it was pure dogshit, not recommend it

>>3884512
Melee works best with stealth, with some guns on the side for open world combat.

>>3884466
Who knows? I had to take it upon myself to be the token white.

>>3884525
>with some guns
yeah that's the bad part

>>3884466
Black women invented spaceflight, chud.

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>>3874712
for the love of god someone post that webm lol

>>3866028
I enjoyed it so immensely that I stopped playing in, like, the 2nd planet.

Didn't listen to any of my companions dialog, either. That shit is straight garbage.

I have zero patience in this game. It's not engaging to me. I can't finish it.

Holy concord veilguard reeks

>>3885689
Maybe you should stick to tiktok friend

This game has 0 east Asians in it. I couldn't even make myself one in the character customizer.

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>>3885689
I really can't pinpoint what it is I find so unengaging. The isolated worlds. The skill system feeling very random and limiting/strict. The gunplay is not satisfying or weighty. The melee combat feels unnecessarily clunky, trying to block after a heavy attack takes longer than Niles to find you. The design of the world spaces feel claustrophobic and it's hard to see anything on the horizon interesting to chase after. The story lacks presence.

Oh and restricting me to two weapons without perks or mods is retarded. Especially since you can 100% circumvent this by just pausing the game to equip something else.

>>3886269
>make game that is so boring that people quit
>n-no your attention span
Why would anyone keep playing the game if it is bad?

>>3886911
I think the gun play is fine. I just wish it was easier to see the enemies. Everything blends in together so much that the lizards are easier to see when they're invisible than when they're not. Also the tone should be more than, authoritarianism and capitalism suck. and could probably benefit from being more campy.

>>3887165
True, I have the rendering scale set to 100% but I'm convinced it's still lower res than what it's supposed to be.
>authoritarianism and capitalism suck
That, plus the fact there's always The Obviously Best Third Choice, means the contrarian in me only lets me roleplay a pure corporate lackey.