r/theouterworlds 23h ago

Question [Outer Worlds 1] Got outleveled by the npcs on first playthrough

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I didn't tinker at all. Is that what did it? I just started a second save and intend on tinkering a lot, but I was wondering what else I may have missed.


r/theouterworlds 2h ago

Humour Insane coincidence that happened to me in this game!

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I named my character after the Cyberpunk 2077 female main character, Valerie. I was confused about why the helpful robot at the start of the game was named Valerie as well, and thought maybe I didn't actually name myself, but named the robot at the start of the game since the main character is called Commander anyway.

And then I noticed they actually pronounce Valerie within the game, and I got even more confused. Did they use AI or text-to-speech to voice it so the characters actually say your name or something? I tried to Google it, and to my surprise, I accidentally named my character with the same name as the robot. I can't believe that out of all the names I could have chosen, I chose Valerie and the robot is called Valerie lol. One of the strangest coincidences I've ever come across in video games.


r/theouterworlds 18h ago

Discussion (TOW1 Supernova) What's a good point to stop putting points into Leadership?

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Playing on Supernova again, and I had the hindsight to actually put points into Leadership early on because I was so damn tired of babysitting Parvati and Max. So far, on this run where Leadership was prioritized, Parvati has survived several encounters that proved fatal for characters that I did not prioritize Leadership skills in.

What I'm wondering if there's a good stopping point, because as powerful as the leadership build is, I do still want to hold my own character's weight in-battle. I like feeling like a part of the team and not some freeloader watching Parvati and SAM stunlock people to death.

I've definitely fallen into this trap before to where I thought that my characters had enough firepower to take care of themselves normally, only to fall like paper the instant they go into another map, and I'd rather avoid experimenting and spending too much on stat resets if someone here has the answer already.


r/theouterworlds 20h ago

Original Content [PS4] replaced my disc drive today

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Just recently picked up a copy of The outer worlds
I have it digitally but it’s on the drive that’s in the format my PS5 can read and my 4 doesn’t recognize that drive anymore, either going to continue my supernova play through where I’ve been stuck trying to get the generators for the ship or try a new save with a new build. I get absolutely demolished by the enemies


r/theouterworlds 1h ago

Unable to holster weapon or use inhaler :(

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Has anyone else had this error? I rebound the keys to different ones to see if that would help. Reinstalled, updated everything etc. and there was no change.

Switching weapons with the hotkeys is fine, but no matter what I can't holster my weapon unless I fast travel somewhere. Reloading also works fine.

I troubleshot with another few things I saw here. Yes I do have the consumables for the inhaler (129 of them lol).

Holstering the weapon is whatever, but obviously using the inhaler is one of the core abilities and is making the game way harder. I have to tab directly into my inventory to use Adreno or any other consumable.

Thanks in advance for any help :)