Outcast - A New Beginning

[Oyster Sauce]

Ignored this thread because I thought it was a sequel to Outward, but it actually looks cool.

EDIT: I am now aware that the main character is a race mixer and retract this statement

[Rand]

Yea, it's effects. They've tied a bunch of stuff to that knob.

For ****'s sake. What madman has a single knob for simultaneously adjusting multiple settings in the settings submenu?

[Rand]

And if your game takes a long time to startup, add this to the Engine.ini:

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[OnlineSubsystemSteam]
bEnabled=False

What the hell is this for, anyway?

[rusty_shackleford]

I like how much areas change as you do quests. Finished collecting the asciar queens for the one town and now there's a bunch of nests in the town full of larvae.

[rusty_shackleford]

If a world dialogue gets interrupted by combat or something, it restarts where the dialogue left off. Only other game I've seen do this is Outerworlds, it's a nice feature.

[rusty_shackleford]

And if your game takes a long time to startup, add this to the Engine.ini:

Code: Select all

[OnlineSubsystemSteam]
bEnabled=False

What the hell is this for, anyway?

Used for connecting achievements to steam but I'm playing the GOG version so it spends 30 seconds trying to connect to Steam when booted up.

[aweigh]

Anyone else noticed how insanely woke this game is?

First thing that happens is the human character instantly sides with the ****** aliens instead of his OWN ******* SPECIES.

[rusty_shackleford]

Anyone else noticed how insanely woke this game is?

First thing that happens is the human character instantly sides with the ****** aliens instead of his OWN ******* SPECIES.

just found out the main character's daughter is a ****** even tho she doesn't look like it in any of the flashbacks


the game is fun but that's the only 'woke' thing I've seen so far

yuropeon jungle fever strikes again

[aweigh]

just found out the main character's daughter is a ****** even tho she doesn't look like it in any of the flashbacks

Oh, I noticed that on the very first flashback. You can tell she's a nog, or bi-racial, just from the silhouette of her hair in the first flashback.

the game is fun but that's the only 'woke' thing I've seen so far

Framing human expansion as evil and the ****** alien "natives" as oppressed is giga-woke. Also all of the cartoonishly evil human characters are white.

The game has the protagonist *immediately* side with the ****** aliens, even saying "I'm on the wrong side". Absolutely disgusting.

[Orvas Dren]

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There's a mission that involves you riding a massive air leviathan to destroy a convoy by dismounting and flying over to the convoy with your jetpack. Afterwards, you get to call the leviathan at will to destroy the convoys in the air. I thought those were just background scenery…

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This is just avatar isn't it

[rusty_shackleford]

Framing human expansion as evil and the ****** alien "natives" as oppressed is giga-woke.

I'd ally with the insects from starship troopers against microsoft or amazon

Also all of the cartoonishly evil human characters are white.

all the human characters except for his daughter are white

[Emphyrio]

Framing human expansion as evil and the ****** alien "natives" as oppressed is giga-woke.

I'd ally with the insects from starship troopers against microsoft or amazon

Also all of the cartoonishly evil human characters are white.

all the human characters except for his daughter are white

that's a pretty big "except for"

[rusty_shackleford]

Framing human expansion as evil and the ****** alien "natives" as oppressed is giga-woke.

I'd ally with the insects from starship troopers against microsoft or amazon

Also all of the cartoonishly evil human characters are white.

all the human characters except for his daughter are white

that's a pretty big "except for"

just typical yuropeon jungle fever

[rusty_shackleford]

I never played the first game, turns out the character was blakk there
https://www.giantbomb.com/marion-wolfe/3005-9000/

[rusty_shackleford]

ending sucked and you can't even skip the credits despite it saying you can, the button does nothing
meh

[rusty_shackleford]

ending sucked and you can't even skip the credits despite it saying you can, the button does nothing
meh

credits are STILL going btw
this is a AA game that probably had 10 core developers

games include absolutely everyone tangentially related to it in the credits now

[DagothGeas5]

ending sucked and you can't even skip the credits despite it saying you can, the button does nothing
meh

Did you find any woke things in this? It does sound interesting, but the above posts make me guarded to try it. (Thank you for posting this by the way!)

[rusty_shackleford]

ending sucked and you can't even skip the credits despite it saying you can, the button does nothing
meh

Did you find any woke things in this? It does sound interesting, but the above posts make me guarded to try it. (Thank you for posting this by the way!)

main character's daughter is multiracial, apparently the mother was a major character in the first game(?)

the aliens have a nominally feminist society, but in reality men are doing all the work so I'm not sure what the messaging there is
at first the story seemed like avatar but it's not. The aliens are just as ruthless and cruel as the worst of humanity, so again, not sure what the messaging there is

I don't think there's much of an intentional 'woke' message here.

[rusty_shackleford]

as for technical:
Performance ranges from meh to bad.
Only encountered 1 bug that prevented a quest from completing, and it was an optional post-quest followup thing.
Crashed a couple times.
Cutscenes are locked to 30FPS for some reason but it's not a good one as if you install something that enables unreal's console you can disable this and they work fine
Small portion of enemies(definitely <1%) spawned inside of geometry or got stuck in geometry. Never was a serious issue, and never prevented me from killing them.
The controls are designed for a controller. This is most obvious with one button doing a lot of actions which will frequently cause you to accidentally swap your weapon, but also makes using consumables difficult.

Not the best release from a technical standpoint, but it's probably far above the average now tbh.

[aweigh]

This is most obvious with one button doing a lot of actions which will frequently cause you to accidentally swap your weapon, but also makes using consumables difficult.

using consumables is mapped to a different button than swapping weapons. using a consumable is up on the d-pad, and swapping weapons is the Y button. The only button which does double-duty is the jump button which you hold down to boost-jump, which feels obvious and natural.

[DDC]

This game is starting to get pretty cheap on sales and key sites. This or Dragon's Dogma 2 for an open-world slopfest?

[rusty_shackleford]

This game is starting to get pretty cheap on sales and key sites. This or Dragon's Dogma 2 for an open-world slopfest?

Actually enjoyed it tbh

[rusty_shackleford]

This is probably my GOTY btw.

[1998]

Forgot about it, looks cool. Will get on next sale.

[1998]

Playing this now. Quite fun so far. Flying around with your jet pack killing stuff. I probably will get bored with it eventually (only 3h in), but at least for a few hours its decent fun.

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[Tangerine]

Playing this now. Quite fun so far. Flying around with your jet pack killing stuff. I probably will get bored with it eventually (only 3h in), but at least for a few hours its decent fun.

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This looks like Eurojank Star Trek. I mean that in a good way.

[1998]

I hate escort missions

[1998]

Finished, took me about 25h. Overall indeed a pretty fun game. It's much more condensed than other games of this sort, it doesn't really try to pump up playtime. Even though you have your usual, repetitive POI, but the pacing is mostly so good that I ended up clearing more than I usually do.

They could have cut some of the dialogue though, that was at times just a bit too much for my taste. That and the constant babbling of that female alien **** was a bit annoying.

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[Mordred]

reading this thread made me a bit sick

[rusty_shackleford]

reading this thread made me a bit sick

Game itself is very fun so I guess it's entirely dependent on your tolerance for some eurolib shittery