The Outer Worlds 2 Looks to Expand the Gunplay and Combat While Sticking to Its RPG Roots | IGN Live 2025

Marcus Morgan, Obsidian's VP of Operations, came by IGN Live to sermon The Outer Worlds 2 successful the pb up to its much-anticipated October 29 merchandise date, including its Flaws system, a caller crystal satellite that has go 1 of his favorites, a goo pistol, and more.

Morgan began by sharing that the sequel is digging deeper into the RPG aspects, remarking, “Obsidian is rooted successful RPGs. We wanted to germinate with Outer Worlds.” He's not adjacent comfy calling The Outer Worlds 2 portion RPG, portion FPS. Instead, helium stressed helium would "only ever telephone it an RPG."

However, the squad heard a batch of feedback that fans wanted gunplay and combat to evolve, truthful determination volition beryllium plentifulness of caller weapons to look guardant to, including immoderate that are science-based. Morgan besides described “a melee limb that, if you deed it to the beat, it amplifies the damage.” These caller additions are meant to adhd to the acquisition portion retaining the RPG core.

“One of my favourite weapons is the goo pistol," Morgan added portion joking helium doesn't condone littering successful existent life. "You instrumentality this biomass canister and you dump the goo into the weapon and you chuck the canister away."

Morgan besides wants to fto those who person ne'er played the archetypal Outer Worlds to cognize that they won't get mislaid successful this sequel, noting, “We’re moving to a marque caller colony, Arcadia. with a marque caller acceptable of characters.” He described the Earth Directorate, the enactment you are portion of, arsenic “sort of the abstraction rangers of the universe. You’re determination to support against the tyrannies of capitalism, authoritarianism and assorted aspects of utmost religions with definite group."

Morgan was besides peculiarly excited by Outer Worlds 2’s Flaws system, saying it was a mode to instrumentality the accustomed thought of leveling up and putting a humorous rotation connected it. For example, 1 of these flaws is “The Sungazer Flaw - if you look astatine the prima for excessively agelong you tin regain wellness but the satellite is blurred out.” Another is for those who ne'er tally retired of ammo arsenic you'll bash much damage. If you bash fto it tally down, however, you'll beryllium penalized with a debuff for a bit." He described the Flaws arsenic “A amusive mode to integrate progression with levity.”

As for the Psychopath Perk, Morgan remarked, “One large happening successful Outer Worlds 1 is you could termination each azygous person, and we brought it backmost successful Outer Worlds 2. And you'll get a perk if you bash that. Also, you tin decorativeness a quest adjacent if you termination the quest giver.” On the different hand, “You tin beryllium a pacifist if you choose. You tin speech your mode done the full crippled [without sidesplitting anyone]. You’ve got the full spectrum.”

When it came to bugs, Morgan noted “We’re already successful our bug fixing mode. This is astir apt the earliest we’ve been successful that mode.”

Among the caller planets successful The Outer Worlds 2, Morgan revealed, “One of my favorites is simply a satellite called Cloister. It’s a elephantine crystal satellite you spell to due to the fact that there’s a ace machine trying to lick a large calculation.” He elaborated by saying the machine is connected to 1 of the game’s groups of spiritual fanatics who judge they tin foretell the aboriginal utilizing math. In this case, the ace machine and the immense vigor (and resulting heat) it takes to powerfulness it are connected Cloister to support it cool, and Morgan said “I loved the nuance of wherefore we created the crystal world.”

Lastly, Morgan mentioned the archetypal game’s Dumb mode and however they are leaning into those sorts of options again for Outer Worlds 2. They’ve besides integrated their dialog strategy into the rubric screen, and Morgan explained that arsenic you load up the crippled “You mightiness perceive prompts similar ‘Hey, you look to beryllium dying a lot. Should you little your difficulty?’”

The Outer Worlds 2 volition beryllium released connected October 29, 2025, and it volition officially beryllium Microsoft's archetypal $80 game.

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