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With the release of an upgraded version for current gen consoles and PC, however, The Outer Worlds is back to the top of my list. After playing it for only a little while, it made its way beneath the crushing weight of my backlog. I for one love these kinds of games, so when The Outer Worlds arrived on the scene (made by the team behind the amazing and underrated Fallout New Vegas), I was more than ready to try it.
There are standouts, like Fallout 3 or Skyrim, but we haven’t had that renaissance in the genre one might hope. To put that in perspective, I was level 41 when I finished the game so there is a lot of growth still there for those that don’t want to put it down.Quirky western RPGs aren’t necessarily a dime a dozen. The Level cap for players has also been raised to Level 99 for those that are super fans. The stories for both of these expansions are fun diversions from the main tale and there are a host of wacky and wild new armour sets and weapons to play with, so their inclusion is certainly welcome. These extra story additions aren’t anything groundbreaking in the way say Blood and Wine was for the Witcher 3, but they do add a nice chunk of extra content.
The Spacer’s Choice edition also includes both of The Outer World’s quite hefty expansion packs. It might not seem like much, but over a 30-50 hour game, those load times add up to a whole pile of wasted minutes and these improvements are very much welcome. Now, in this version, the load screens are still there but thanks to the magic of SSD tech and some tweaks under the hood, things load much faster, significantly reducing load frustration. One of my biggest issues with the original release of the game was the sheer amount of load screens that the game has, a legacy of that older style of RPG design and probably an indication of Obsidian’s budget at the time of development. The other major improvement from a tech side of things is the load screens.
Even on my Steam Deck it looked great at the necessarily lower graphical settings, easily comparable to the original release in most areas. It is an impressive boost to the visuals that will be appreciated by old and new fans alike. The propaganda seems to pop off the screen, the forests and wastelands are more alive. There has been a noticeable jump in the detail of both the worlds and the characters and everything feels more vivid and enticing. This game still has the best sky in the business and it is even more better now. Graphically, on a high-end PC, it looks stunning. I can’t say that I blame them for that, but it does feel like it has been rushed as a result.Īll that being said, it is still a great game and once the problems have been fixed this will undoubtedly be the best version of it. Perhaps the most telling thing about the whole saga is that Obsidian were forced to bump the problems off to the publisher Private Division, which leads me to believe that this release, in a lot of ways, is about Private Division getting one last bite of the cherry before the franchise becomes wholly an Xbox property.
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Private Division have promised a patch soon though so hopefully it turns this game into the release it should have been. At the stage of writing, approximately a week after it hit stores, things haven’t been fixed. There is a host of stuttering, framerate and graphical drop-in issues that are immediately apparent and are immensely distracting.
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However, those improvements have seemingly come at a cost, at least on the PC version that I played, and that cost is performance. The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition promised souped-up 4K graphics, improved load times and a host of other quality-of-life improvements that use the added power of modern systems to make it a better overall game.
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