Here’s where things get a little more complicated. There are more intricacies, but trust me, if you like how Fallout does loot, you’ll like it here in The Outer Worlds as well.

You can’t freely pick up items and you can’t just take all of the clothes and weapons off of every enemy and leave them with just their undergarments, but just about everything else, from the weight limit, to the ability to mod and tinker your weapons at a work bench are the same.

Just about everything else pertaining to loot is very similar to Fallout, with a few small differences. Only in Outer Worlds you can actually load those items into your inhaler to combine a bunch of different effects all at once.Ĭheck out how loot works by watching the first 20 minutes of The Outer Worlds. Like in Fallout, you’ll pick up a ton of consumables that grant a temporary buff, sometimes at the expense of a temporary debuff. Most of it is junk, but junk is great too, since it can be easily sold off at any vendor with the simple press and hold of a button. Just like in the Fallout series, almost everything in the game world can be picked up. Loot is at the core of the Fallout experience and so too in the Outer Worlds. Pretty much every location you visit in The Outer World is caught up in some sort of conflict between multiple different factions or corporations, so if you like the moral ambiguity of the Fallout games, you'll find a lot to love in The Outer Worlds The choice that leads to the best result for the most people, might not be as straightforward as you think. In the very first big moral choice of the game, you must decide whether to cut the power to the large and populous city of Edgewater, or the small tight knit group of deserters who left Edgewater and now live a peaceful and happy life growing vegetables in their little garden.

Very rarely, if ever are there opportunities to find a magic way to solve a conflict with both parties winding up happy, and that’s awesome. Often, doing a nice thing for one faction will mean screwing over another. In place of a karma system, you have various reputation scores to maintain among various factions, much like Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4. There’s no karma in Outer Worlds, but rest assured, your moral compass will get a pretty thorough workout. Difficult moral dilemmas are a cornerstone of every Fallout game, with most of them having a karma mechanic to track your good and bad choices.

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