The Outer Worlds Is Getting Grenades, Nearly 7 Years After It Came Out

Surprise! Seven years aft it launched — and astir six months aft its sequel was released — The Outer Worlds is getting grenades.

Developer Obsidian confirmed it would "be pushing a mates of updates to The Outer Worlds" successful a elaborate station connected Steam — the archetypal since June 2023 — earlier introducing the explosive throwables, which are already a staple successful The Outer Worlds 2, aboriginal this month.

As good arsenic immoderate tweaks to the Store pages — much connected that successful a spot — the workplace has pushed retired this archetypal humble update simply to trial the pipeline and "fix a fewer issues that are successful the game," with a larger spot bringing show fixes, lighting changes, a "host of different quest and gameplay fixes," and the grenades rolling retired a small later.

It's this 2nd spot that volition trigger the store changes. From May 27, the basal crippled variation of The Outer Worlds volition beryllium delisted, leaving conscionable the Spacer's Choice Edition. While this won't interaction anyone who already owns the basal variation — Obsidian assures america that "it won't beryllium going anywhere" — it does mean that anyone looking to prime up the crippled connected current-gen systems aft May 27 volition lone get the newer edition.

To sweeten the deal, those with the vanilla crippled connected PC (Steam, GOG, oregon EGS), PS5, oregon Xbox Series X/S tin upgrade to the Spacer's Choice Edition for escaped betwixt present and May 27.

Still playing connected a bequest system? Obsidian hasn't forgotten astir you, but the upgrade volition enactment a small otherwise here. To upgrade from the Spacer’s Choice Edition from the basal crippled connected Xbox One and PlayStation 4, you volition request to ain the basal crippled and some DLCs for The Outer Worlds. If you person those, you won't request to usage the hitherto paid upgrade way to get Spacer’s Choice Edition.

The basal crippled and DLCs are besides "getting pricing adjustments" to $24.99 and $14.99, respectively, connected Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

The astonishment update to The Outer Worlds comes aft The Outer Worlds 2 underperformed, and confirmation from Obsidian itself that it has nary plans to proceed the bid with a 3rd game. Avowed, the company's different RPG released past year, besides missed its targets — but Obsidian reportedly inactive has plans for much from its satellite of Eora, the aforesaid mounting arsenic Pillars of Eternity.

On a much affirmative note, Grounded 2 — yet different 2025 motorboat — was a hit. But of the three, it had the shortest (and astir surely the cheapest) improvement play by far. Grounded 2 took conscionable implicit 2 years to conscionable its aboriginal entree launch, compared to the much than six years required for some Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2.

The Outer Worlds update 2.5.7.0 spot notes:

General

• Companions' presumption effects are nary longer obstructed by their HP bars.
• Shooting from the Storm Cannon repeatedly astatine a adjacent people nary longer results successful terrible FPS drops.
• The vigor effect coming retired of the Unreliable volition nary longer stack up each clip the subordinate arrives successful the ship's proximity.
• When the Font Scaling mounting besides scales up the UI icons appropriately.
• Fixed "artillery cannon" typo.
• Fixed "Shipping" typo successful Fallbrook.
• Players are present capable to slumber successful either of the 2 beds erstwhile exploring Ash's aged Outpost for 'Little Memento' connected Monarch.
• Players are present capable to manually prevention portion nether the 'Concuss' presumption effect passim the title.
• Fixed an contented with the Super Scoper 3000 zoom wherever the zoom would not decently display.
• Felix’s publication “Systems and Serfdoms” present appears successful his country erstwhile acquiring it successful Roseway town.
• The arrow is present greyed retired erstwhile determination are nary much options.
• Status Bar displays each applicable Status Effect icons.
• The workbench present displays ownership of items erstwhile navigating done the workbench during gameplay.
• The gross volition present load correctly portion moving from Rizzo’s Distillation Station to the Bridge.
• The Item repair tutorial volition nary longer origin a frost erstwhile switching to the inventory tab.
• SAM’s weapons tin nary longer beryllium taken and equipped by players.
• Environment decorations nary longer look the aforesaid arsenic items the subordinate tin prime up.
• Players nary longer go stuck erstwhile falling betwixt 2 crates astatine the Spaceport.
• The sights are present centered aft modding the Hunting Rifle Hyper with a Funtimes Barrel and a Gyro Sight.
• Frey's Bar Cart nary longer disappears from Unreliable aft revisiting Relay GB-23.
• Mods person close VFX erstwhile inspecting them successful the inventory and past viewing them connected the ground.
• The shadows connected the cans nary longer look acheronian erstwhile viewing them successful the bureau successful Phineas Lab.
• A companion's armor displays correctly if players deterioration a antithetic benignant and modify it successful the Workbench during gameplay.
• All aptitudes are correctly shown being applied erstwhile selecting them and viewing the summary screen.
• Mods show correctly for tinkered Elite Troop Armor.
• Players volition nary longer brushwood a stuck spot erstwhile jumping/crouching into the 2nd level of the General Store with insufficient Mag-Picks successful Edgewater.
• Fixed a typo with the quest beacon text.
• Udom Bedford and Vicar Max volition present play close dialog erstwhile attempting to crook successful Phineas for the archetypal time.
• The hacking and picking locks tutorial present triggers correctly erstwhile the idiosyncratic has a precocious lockpick accomplishment during gameplay.
• Players tin nary longer get stuck erstwhile jumping successful betwixt a crate and tube by the obstruction astatine the Geothermal Plant.
• Fixed an contented with the authorities of Anton connected the Groundbreaker.
• A Workbench successful the Covert Lab correctly unlocks a 'Point of Interest' icon erstwhile moving adjacent it.

Design

• Players volition present person lone 1 +10 from a Bonus Support perk erstwhile the companion is successful the party.
• Leveling to aggregate of 5 successful Player Ship present updates the Companion UI tabs to bespeak caller Perk constituent available.
• Extend-O-Sight decently increases to some Effective and Max Range to 25%.
• The Paranoid flaw statement has been updated to “Repeatedly getting caught by guards has made you jittery, particularly erstwhile roaming astir Restricted Areas oregon sneaking.”

Quests

• Sanjar and Zora are present lone contiguous wrong the OSI Temple if the Player triggers a truce betwixt them to happen.
• Once players hold to get the Radiator parts, careless of chosen dialog, they tin speech to different NPCs astir them.
• Solution Vital present updates aft sidesplitting Captain Irion connected Scylla.
• Players tin springiness the NVTUR mech the collected phonographs and implicit The Electric Fling quest.
• The 'Weathered Lockbox' is present turned successful erstwhile completing the 'Little Memento' quest successful Amber Heights.
• The idiosyncratic is capable to prime up the phonograph portion doing the ‘Electric Fling’ quest.
• Sophia volition nary longer springiness the Player “Signal Point successful Space” aft the Player acquires the targeting module.
• The quest nonsubjective ‘Speak to Spencer Woolrich’ nary longer remains progressive if the idiosyncratic speaks to Bellhop Owens and retrieves the information footage first.
• During BOLT with His Name, Huxley volition nary longer beryllium invisible during the speech aft releasing her from the locked room.

Performance

• FPS Performance improvements:
  • When exploring Fallbrook.
  • When successful speech with Percival Platt.
• Performance has been improved erstwhile exploring Roseway, Eridanos, Monarch, Emerald Vale oregon Gorgon for the archetypal time.
• Player tin nary longer autumn done the crushed portion walking from islands to the Grand Colonial Hotel.
• Performance has been improved successful tutorial area, wherever archetypal Marauder enemies appear.
• Performance has been improved successful Emerald Vale Junkyard POI.
• Framerate volition nary longer steadily driblet arsenic the subordinate is continuously shooting onto immoderate metallic surface.

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