The Outer Worlds 2 launches later this month on October 29 (or October 24, should you pre-order the costlier Premium Version) and also you is perhaps questioning should you ought to try to finish a playthrough of the primary sport earlier than leaping into this sequel. Whereas it actually will not harm to refamiliarize your self with the universe of The Outer Worlds, do not anticipate any of the primary sport’s numerous endings to play a job in Obsidian’s second crack at this collection.
We spoke to The Outer Worlds 2 inventive director Leonard Boyarsky in regards to the first sport’s endings and whether or not the consequences of it can seem in our playthrough of the second sport, and he gave us a definitive “No”.
“No, not particularly, as a result of it’s a fully totally different colony,” Boyarsky says, noting the primary sport takes place within the colony of Halcyon whereas The Outer Worlds 2 takes place in a brand new colony referred to as Arcadia. “[Arcadia’s] been lower off. There are references to issues that occurred within the first sport; I don’t wish to mislead folks although, and [have] them suppose there are quite a lot of particulars, however there’s the story of the universe that’s occurring, and we’re persevering with that story.
“So there are parts of what occurred within the first sport that you possibly can discover references to. I feel gamers who performed the primary sport and preferred the primary sport will get pleasure from discovering these little issues that gamers who didn’t play the primary sport gained’t.”
As regards to Halcyon and Arcadia, The Outer Worlds 2 director Brandon Adler says Boyarsky and Tim Cain, who collectively created the Outer Worlds IP, have been very clear that the thought of this collection is that every sport takes place in a brand new colony. “So we knew we needed this to be a brand new colony as a result of we now have different tales we wish to inform,” Adler says. He provides that if The Outer Worlds 2 happened in Halycon, Obsidian must discover a technique to both canonize an ending to the primary sport or deal with all of the potential endings and world states gamers ended, and that’s one thing the group needed to keep away from.
Sport Informer’s cowl story for The Outer Worlds 2 is offered to learn proper now should you’re a subscriber (and this challenge is delivery to mailboxes as we converse). For extra, try this record of 8 enjoyable info about The Outer Worlds 2’s first biome, Paradise Island, after which try this unique gameplay section showcasing Paradise Island. After that, examine how there are pets (you could pet) in The Outer Worlds 2, after which try this story about how third-person gameplay made its means into The Outer Worlds 2.
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