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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition Patch Notes & News

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Ed. Patch 2.5.9.0 is now Available

Obsidian Aariksteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

39d ago

Attention Halcyon Citizens,

The Board is pleased to announce that Patch 2.5.9.0 is now available. If you don’t see the patch right away, please try restarting your PC launcher or console.

Here are some of the changes/fixes we’ve been up to in this patch:

Bug Fixes

Environments / Levels

Fixed some issues with shadows in Byzantium.
Fixed an issue with companion movement through the restricted areas
On Scylla, fixed an issue with the tug ship displaying piles of crates.
Iconoclast guards are now positioned to face the correct direction.

Lighting

Updated visuals to reduce the yellow fog and improve visibility.
- This is in Monarch Wilderness, Amber Heights, Fallbrook, and Stellar Bay.
Adjusted character lighting to appear less bright.

Combat

The Purpleberry Launch projectiles now properly bounce.
Improved Ellie’s pathing when becoming alert.
Fixed an issue where a Corporate Technician will go alert once the player's disguise is degraded.
Ash piles no longer float in the air.
Enemies that are disintegrated in the air no longer spawn invisible ash piles.
Killing an enemy from stealth, then saving and loading will no longer replenish enemy detection meters.
Maxwell the Unique Impact Hammer has now been updated with a 2 attack swing combo.
Fixed a crash after allowing Dodge penetration perk to end and dodging after it ends
Fixed the debuff duration and lack of personality changes for Clive's Boarst
Fixed an issue with SAM moving until the player repairs him.

Menus / UI

Companions do not gain the “Self Governed” perk after leaving the party.
SAM’s tab now properly shows after they’re added to the party.
Engineering skill beyond 150 will continue to decrease the number of weapon/armor parts a player needs to repair their items.
The Resolve buff no longer stacks with itself.
The Companion tutorial correctly appears when first gaining SAM.
Terminal in Terra 1 has been fixed to show a "\" option.
Added Inspect button prompt to the General and Junk Inventory tabs
Restoring settings to default in game does not change the language of the game.
Fixed an issue where the player would get a flaw before fully accepting.
The controller can now be used to inspect Ammo in Inventory.
Inventory sorting settings remain consistent after a Save/Load or changing locations.

Quests

The doors will now properly open if the player moves while entering the Sublight Freight Storage from the main entrance.
The player is now able to return to Dash Whitlock and ask for the passphrase.
Fixed an issue where Junlei would come back to life on the Unreliable.
Maverick Johnston will open the door if the player speaks to a companion.
Fixed an issue with dialogue during The Empty Man.
Fixed an issue with C3 turning hostile before saving Berthold.
Fixed a beacon for the objective "Defeat the Iconoclasts"
Door near Clive's office elevator is fixed
Fixed quest dialogue with Junlei

We appreciate all of you and want to thank you for your continued support, patience, and understanding while we continue to make The Outer Worlds even better. Please continue to share with us any issues you come across at Obsidian Entertainment Support and we’ll continue to do our best to address them.

We hope you continue to have fun out there, exploring the Halcyon Colony!

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Ed. Patch 2.5.9.0 is now Available

Obsidian Aariksteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

39d ago

Attention Halcyon Citizens,

The Board is pleased to announce that Patch 2.5.9.0 is now available. If you don’t see the patch right away, please try restarting your PC launcher or console.

Here are some of the changes/fixes we’ve been up to in this patch:

Bug Fixes

Environments / Levels

Fixed some issues with shadows in Byzantium.
Fixed an issue with companion movement through the restricted areas
On Scylla, fixed an issue with the tug ship displaying piles of crates.
Iconoclast guards are now positioned to face the correct direction.

Lighting

Updated visuals to reduce the yellow fog and improve visibility.
- This is in Monarch Wilderness, Amber Heights, Fallbrook, and Stellar Bay.
Adjusted character lighting to appear less bright.

Combat

The Purpleberry Launch projectiles now properly bounce.
Improved Ellie’s pathing when becoming alert.
Fixed an issue where a Corporate Technician will go alert once the player's disguise is degraded.
Ash piles no longer float in the air.
Enemies that are disintegrated in the air no longer spawn invisible ash piles.
Killing an enemy from stealth, then saving and loading will no longer replenish enemy detection meters.
Maxwell the Unique Impact Hammer has now been updated with a 2 attack swing combo.
Fixed a crash after allowing Dodge penetration perk to end and dodging after it ends
Fixed the debuff duration and lack of personality changes for Clive's Boarst
Fixed an issue with SAM moving until the player repairs him.

Menus / UI

Companions do not gain the “Self Governed” perk after leaving the party.
SAM’s tab now properly shows after they’re added to the party.
Engineering skill beyond 150 will continue to decrease the number of weapon/armor parts a player needs to repair their items.
The Resolve buff no longer stacks with itself.
The Companion tutorial correctly appears when first gaining SAM.
Terminal in Terra 1 has been fixed to show a "\" option.
Added Inspect button prompt to the General and Junk Inventory tabs
Restoring settings to default in game does not change the language of the game.
Fixed an issue where the player would get a flaw before fully accepting.
The controller can now be used to inspect Ammo in Inventory.
Inventory sorting settings remain consistent after a Save/Load or changing locations.

Quests

The doors will now properly open if the player moves while entering the Sublight Freight Storage from the main entrance.
The player is now able to return to Dash Whitlock and ask for the passphrase.
Fixed an issue where Junlei would come back to life on the Unreliable.
Maverick Johnston will open the door if the player speaks to a companion.
Fixed an issue with dialogue during The Empty Man.
Fixed an issue with C3 turning hostile before saving Berthold.
Fixed a beacon for the objective "Defeat the Iconoclasts"
Door near Clive's office elevator is fixed
Fixed quest dialogue with Junlei

We hope you continue to have fun out there, exploring the Halcyon Colony!

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Ed. Patch 2.5.8.1 is now Available

Obsidian Aariksteam_community_announcements

67d ago

Attention, citizens of Halcyon!

The Board is pleased to announce that Patch 2.5.8.1 for The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is now live. All spacers playing on Steam should receive the update the next time they visit the colony. Our changes include economy rebalancing, unique item improvements, bug fixes… and a brand-new feature to the game: grenades.

Economy Rebalancing

Addressed macro economic community concerns in early, mid and late game. Players will find more Bits in the beginning, more consistent Bits to be found in boxes, lockers, and lockboxes, and additional items available to spend your Bits on as you go.
Equipment dropped by enemies now reflects appropriate wear and condition, presenting wonderful fixer-upper opportunities for the resourceful Engineer - and less buyer’s remorse on that shiny Pristine Assault Rifle you just bought.
Reworked Tinkering to increase Bit costs based on weapon and armor level instead of the number of times a weapon or armor has been previously Tinkered.
Addressed both economic and usability concerns with Consumables, standardizing costs and extending buffs. Fixed several Consumable pickups that could not be picked up.

Unique Item Improvements

All Unique weapons, armor and helmets have had a usability and balance pass. Adjustments were made to stats and abilities of many Unique items.
All Unique weapons and armor can also now be fully modded by players, except for a permanent “Unique” mod that gives each item its more readable Unique qualities.
All Unique weapons that had just standard damage output have had their base damage increased slightly.
Tinkering changes allow early-game Unique items to remain viable throughout the full game.

New Thrown Grenade Feature

The highly requested feature of Thrown Grenades have come back in time from The Outer Worlds 2.

Enjoy blowing your foes to bits with the trio of the destructive Explosive Grenade, highly-corrosive Bio-Mass Grenade, and the chilling Frost Grenade.
As the hot new items on the market, Grenades are still mid-rollout throughout Halcyon! Visit your friendly weapons vendors or nearly any vending machine to purchase these new devices of destruction.
Default control schemes have been slightly reconfigured in the style of The Outer Worlds 2 to include a dedicated Grenade Throw input.
The Companion Move, Attack and Follow commands are now combined into one context-sensitive input.
For Gamepad, the Emergency Medical Inhaler is now on the D-Pad Down input, as in The Outer Worlds 2.
Purchased Grenades will appear on the updated Weapon Radial HUD, allowing a quick swap between the Explosive, Bio-Mass, and Frost Grenades.
We’ve written new in-game tutorials regarding Grenades and all related changes for additional information, future reference, and/or the occasional chuckle.

Bug Fixes

Environments / Levels

Added 300 Bits along the tutorial path to the Unreliable (but we’re not saying where).
Fixed an issue where the player could get stuck inside the Geothermal Power Plant, causing them to slowly go insane with Chester Higgins.
Players can no longer clip into the landing at the top of the elevator to the Circus Time Freighter on Scylla, causing them to fall through the elevator.
Walking outside of the safety barrier on Scylla will now properly kill you.
Improved ambient lighting and surface reflectivity on rocks and bushes in the Monarch Wilderness.
Removed unintended contrail effects from the UDL Gunship during the Radio Free Monarch mission.
Removed visible debug strings from most terminals in the RR&DD Labs. The typo of “RR&DD Labs” is still quite visible.
Players can no longer pickpocket NPCs through solid glass no matter how high their Sneak skill is.
Players can no longer read Datapads through solid glass no matter how high their Reading skill is.
Brought in a mortician to fix the makeup on Hortense Ingalsbee’s corpse in Byzantium to better match her appearance in life.
When viewing the Model Needler Gun using the Investigation Board on Eridanos, the Model Needler Gun will actually be there.
Fixed up a group of textures across the game that spontaneously inverting their color schemes.
Removed some floating junk in the Gorgon Overlands.
Fixed issues with shadows in Stellar Bay.
Addressed an issue where the player would get stuck at the cave entrance in the tutorial area.

Combat

Critical Hits with the Prismatic Hammer’s Power Attack no longer deals 0 damage for characters with minimal Intelligence. You can no longer be too dumb to wield a hammer.
Fixed an issue with the Flamethrower VFX while in TTD
The Medical Drone with MacRedd’s outlaws in the Back Bays has taken its Hippocratic Oath, and now heals (the outlaws) instead of harms (you).
Defeating the Alpha Canid will now properly cause all other Canids at the party to get bored and leave. (
When loading an autosave created at the start of the Slug Queen boss battle the player no longer gets softlocked.
Turret traps can be destroyed with a flamethrower.

Menus / UI

The so-called “Competent” Skill Unlocks for Inspiration and Determination are now competently assigned to their correct skills, with Inspiration’s giving the Critical Damage boost and Determination’s granting the Armor bonus.
The Paranoid flaw no longer stacks an extra debuff on the Lie skill specifically, and the Extra Paranoid status effect will stop being so “extra” in adding a new stack of its debuff every time you just highlight the Lie skill.
Added an entry for the “Resolve” buff in the Buffs page in the Codex.
Highlighting a status effect on a Companion’s details screen no longer makes the Journal forget how to highlight everything else.
We’ve fixed an issue where the performance drops significantly while scrolling through mods, which would sometimes lead to a crash.
The "Resolve" Skill buff is now fully visible when viewing the Status Effects section of the Character Details section in the Ledger.
Fixed Adaptive Trigger functions on PS5 triggering outside of gameplay.
Consumables show their stacked duration appropriately in the Character tab.

Quests

The Following Section May Contain Spoilers:

Grace Romero no longer conveniently “forgets” about the missing Zoe in A Few Kindred Spirits, even if you talk to her about Adelaide first or convince all the Deserters to go back to Edgewater.
Choosing to attack the Hacked Mechanical in the Lord of Blight Quest on Eridanos no longer sometimes enrages the entire spaceport.
The ‘Shipping Note' that the player is told will be on Ella Tinsley’s desk in Sublight Freight Storage will now be on Ella Tinsley’s desk in Sublight Freight Storage.
Jasper Low’s CHEM Lab audio log now plays automatically after you’ve gone through all the trouble of getting the dang thing from him.

With full sincerity, please continue to share with us any issues you come across, and we’ll continue to do our best to address them. If you come across any issues, please contact us at support.obsidian.net

The Board thanks you for your continued support, patience, and understanding while we continue to make The Outer Worlds even better.

Enjoy your visit in the Halcyon colony!

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition Patch 2.5.7.0 Release Notes

Obsidian Aariksteam_community_announcements

94d ago

Greetings fellow spacers,

The Board is happy to announce that Patch 2.5.7.0 is releasing on PC, Xbox consoles, and PlayStation consoles for The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition. If you do not see this update right away, please know that it may take some time to populate and become available.

Changes/fixes that are included in this patch are as follows:

General

Companions' status effects are no longer obstructed by their HP bars.
Shooting from the Storm Cannon repeatedly at a close target no longer results in severe FPS drops.
The heat effect coming out of the Unreliable will no longer stack up each time the player arrives in the ship's proximity.
When the Font Scaling setting also scales up the UI icons appropriately.
Fixed "artillery cannon" typo.
Fixed "Shipping" typo in Fallbrook.
Players are now able to sleep in either of the two beds when exploring Ash's old Outpost for 'Little Memento' on Monarch.
Players are now able to manually save while under the 'Concuss' status effect throughout the title.
Fixed an issue with the Super Scoper 3000 zoom where the zoom would not properly display.
Felix’s book “Systems and Serfdoms” now appears in his room when acquiring it in Roseway town.
The arrow is now greyed out when there are no more options.
Status Bar displays all relevant Status Effect icons.
The workbench now displays ownership of items when navigating through the workbench during gameplay.
The gate will now load correctly while moving from Rizzo’s Distillation Station to the Bridge.
The Item repair tutorial will no longer cause a freeze when switching to the inventory tab.
SAM’s weapons can no longer be taken and equipped by players.
Environment decorations no longer look the same as items the player can pick up.
Players no longer become stuck when falling between two crates at the Spaceport.
The sights are now centered after modding the Hunting Rifle Hyper with a Funtimes Barrel and a Gyro Sight.
Frey's Bar Cart no longer disappears from Unreliable after revisiting Relay GB-23.
Mods have correct VFX when inspecting them in the inventory and then viewing them on the ground.
The shadows on the cans no longer appear dark when viewing them in the office in Phineas Lab.
A companion's armor displays correctly if players wear a different type and modify it in the Workbench during gameplay.
All aptitudes are correctly shown being applied when selecting them and viewing the summary screen.
Mods display correctly for tinkered Elite Troop Armor.
Players will no longer encounter a stuck spot when jumping/crouching into the 2nd floor of the General Store with insufficient Mag-Picks in Edgewater.
Fixed a typo with the quest beacon text.
Udom Bedford and Vicar Max will now play correct dialogue when attempting to turn in Phineas for the first time.
The hacking and picking locks tutorial now triggers correctly when the user has a high lockpick skill during gameplay.
Players can no longer get stuck when jumping in between a crate and pipe by the fence at the Geothermal Plant.
Fixed an issue with the state of Anton on the Groundbreaker.
A Workbench in the Covert Lab correctly unlocks a 'Point of Interest' icon when moving near it.

Design

Players will now receive only one +10 from a Bonus Support perk when the companion is in the party.
Leveling to multiple of 5 in Player Ship now updates the Companion UI tabs to indicate new Perk point available.
Extend-O-Sight properly increases to both Effective and Max Range to 25%.
The Paranoid flaw description has been updated to “Repeatedly getting caught by guards has made you jittery, especially when roaming around Restricted Areas or sneaking.”

Quests

Sanjar and Zora are now only present inside the OSI Temple if the Player triggers a truce between them to happen.
Once players agree to get the Radiator parts, regardless of chosen dialog, they can talk to other NPCs about them.
Solution Vital now updates after killing Captain Irion on Scylla.
Players can give the NVTUR mech the collected phonographs and complete The Electric Fling quest.
The 'Weathered Lockbox' is now turned in when completing the 'Little Memento' quest in Amber Heights.
The user is able to pick up the phonograph while doing the ‘Electric Fling’ quest.
Sophia will no longer give the Player “Signal Point in Space” after the Player acquires the targeting module.
The quest objective ‘Speak to Spencer Woolrich’ no longer remains active if the user speaks to Bellhop Owens and retrieves the security footage first.
During BOLT with His Name, Huxley will no longer be invisible during the conversation after releasing her from the locked room.

Performance

FPS Performance improvements:
- When exploring Fallbrook.
- When in conversation with Percival Platt.
Performance has been improved when exploring Roseway, Eridanos, Monarch, Emerald Vale or Gorgon for the first time.
Player can no longer fall through the ground while walking from islands to the Grand Colonial Hotel.
Performance has been improved in tutorial area, where first Marauder enemies appear.
Performance has been improved in Emerald Vale Junkyard POI.
Framerate will no longer steadily drop as the player is continuously shooting onto any metal surface.

Please contact our support team if you run into any issues.

https://support.obsidian.net/contact

We appreciate all of you and want to thank you for your continued support, patience, and understanding while we continue to improve the game. Please continue to share with us anything you come across. Thank you all for being amazing, and we hope you continue to have fun out in the Halcyon Colony!

The Outer Worlds Spacer's Choice Edition is Getting Some Updates!

Obsidian Aariksteam_community_announcementsmod_reviewedModAct_1894963720_1777574418_0mod_require_rereview

94d ago

Today we have news to share about an update coming to The Outer Worlds as well as changes being made to the store pages. Starting today we will be pushing a couple of updates to The Outer Worlds through the Spacer’s Choice Edition. Today’s update is to test our release pipeline and fix a few issues that are in the game. The second patch will be larger bringing performance fixes, lighting changes, a host of other quest and gameplay fixes, and bringing in a brand-new feature to the original game: grenades!

Along with the second patch, we have big store changes planned. Starting May 27th, the base game edition of The Outer Worlds will be delisted and the Spacer’s Choice Edition will be the single version of the game going forward. For those who already have the original version of the game in your libraries, it won’t be going anywhere. After May 27th, however, the only version of The Outer Worlds that will be available on most store pages will be the Spacer’s Choice Edition. The only platforms not affected by this are Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.

But wait, there’s more! If you have at least the base edition of The Outer Worlds in your digital library* before May 27th, you will be receiving the Spacer’s Choice Edition free. That’s right, free! This is for all platforms that the Spacer’s Choice Edition is on (Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG). After May 27th, The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition will be available for $39.99.

A few other store changes are coming to those who have Xbox Ones and PlayStation 4s. After May 27th to upgrade to the Spacer’s Choice Edition from the base game on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, you will need to own the base game and both DLCs for The Outer Worlds. That said, we are removing the paid upgrade path and as long as you have everything, the Spacer’s Choice Edition will be yours. The base game and DLCs are also getting pricing adjustments to $24.99 and $14.99 respectively on Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

For the full patch notes on today’s update please head to our forums and stay tuned for the larger patch coming at the end of May! ------

*We are still investigating the possibility of being able to extend this offer to physical owners of The Outer Worlds on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 but we will not be able to do so by May 27th. Please reach out to support for any questions.

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition Patch Notes - v1.4

sarah.engelsteam_community_announcements

1132d ago

Greetings employees of Halcyon, The Board asks that you pause your colonial duties for a very special announcement: Spacer's Choice Edition v1.4 patch is available now! This update includes the following:

Fixed discrepancy between auto-detect and default settings
Improved VRAM-based GPU performance
Fixed bug where Tucker Needham does not immediately talk to the player when trying to interact with him during A Family Matter in Amber Heights
Fixed bug in "A Few Bits More" Perk
Fixed bug with companions sometimes missing in elevators (RR&DD lab and connected hallways)
Resolved several popping issues
Adjusted rocks and foliage
Texture and LOD updates
Reduced several flickering issues
Fixed collision issues in multiple levels
Fixed shadow issues in several areas
Fixed alarm sound playing outside of Gorgon after completing DLC
Several weapon VFX fixes

We hope these updates improve your time in the Halcyon Colony. If you continue to experience issues playing The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition, please contact our support team directly for help.

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition Patch Notes - v1.3

sarah.engelsteam_community_announcements

1159d ago

Greetings employees of Halcyon, The Board is interrupting your scheduled break time with a special announcement: Spacer's Choice Edition v1.3 is available now! We appreciate your patience and hope these resolutions improve your time with us in the Halcyon colony. This update includes the following: Performance:

Hitching improvements
PSO cache improvements to fix hitching issues
Rebalanced SSGI settings
Updated environment asset to reduce stutter in Roseway
Fixed ghosting issues caused by FSR

Stability:

Fixed crash when unequipping items in the options wheel
Fixed various rare crashes

General:

LOD fixes across different environments
Reduced flickering in Emerald Vale
Fixed rare T-posing bug in Eridanos
Fixed wrong inventory tooltip when playing with gamepad
Fixed various clipping issues
Fixed various popping issues
Optimized rock shaders on Monarch
Fixed offset map in Pit on Tartarus
Fixed minor issues caused by FSR
Fixed bug where SMC is on fire when first arriving in Gorgon
Various bug fixes

Encountering a bug not listed above? Contact our support team directly to report issues.

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition Patch Notes - v1.2

sarah.engelsteam_community_announcements

1208d ago

Greetings employees of Halcyon, The Board would like to officially announce that the Spacer's Choice Edition v1.2 patch is available now! We thank you for your continued patience and hope these resolutions improve your experience exploring the Halcyon Colony. This update includes the following: Performance:

Replaced dynamic resolution with FSR and added option selector
Framerate improvements
Various improvements to reduce hitching issues
Specific DirectX 12 allocation improvements to fix hitches
Fixed settings auto-detection
Fixed multiple flickering issues
Optimized VFX during combat to address frame rate dips

Stability:

Fixed occasional crash when detecting graphics settings

General:

Various bug fixes
Fixed bug where EULA needs to be accepted after every launch
Material and texture updates to remove visible seams and improve overall visuals
Lighting improvements
Fixed excessive shadow popping bug in Roseway
Fixed disappearing reticle when changing settings during gameplay
Fixed floating grass in Monarch
Improved LODs to reduce popping

Encountering a bug not listed above? Contact our support team directly to report issues.

The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition Patch Notes - v1.1

sarah.engelsteam_community_announcements

1234d ago

Greetings employees of Halcyon, We have a new update to Spacer’s Choice Edition that will help resolve many of the visual and performance issues that have been reported, allowing you to continue your colonial duties. While this does not resolve all that we’ve seen, The Board would like to inform you that the team is still working to address additional reported issues and will continue to do so in future patches. Thank you for your patience while our team worked diligently to get this out, and continue reading below to see what resolutions this update brings you. Top Community Issues:

Adjusted settings for Ultra and Very High graphic modes, improving experience for PC players on higher end graphics cards
Fixed issues with SSGI being set inappropriately high on PC affecting performance

Performance:

PSO experience improved to mitigate hitching during shader compilation
SSGI auto settings updated preventing scenarios where it would toggle on unexpectedly

General:

Various HLOD improvements to reduce popping
Fixed many instances of flickering textures
Reduced chance for characters hair to glow
Fixed two instances of invisible enemies
Fixed invisible trip mine beam

Encountering a bug not listed above? Contact our support team directly to report issues.

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