The Outer Worlds skills & attributes guide – character creation overview

For a lot of – okay, high-quality, all – one of the best a part of beginning a brand new RPG is all the time the character creation course of. And The Outer Worlds fails to disappoint on this regard, with its finely crafted array of attributes and expertise that you need to use to begin carving out the trail of your character earlier than you even set foot on Halcyon. Our The Outer Worlds expertise & attributes information will provide help to make the alternatives you really wish to make proper off the bat, with detailed explanations of how every ability is used in-game, and the way levelling up your expertise really works in The Outer Worlds.

The Outer Worlds expertise & character creation information

• The Outer Worlds character creation: attributes and skills explained
• Melee skills (1-Handed Melee, 2-Handed Melee)
• Ranged skills (Handguns, Long Guns, Heavy Weapons)
• Defence skills (Dodge, Block)
• Dialog skills (Persuade, Lie, Intimidate)
• Stealth skills (Sneak, Hack, Lockpick)
• Tech skills (Medical, Engineering, Science)
• Leadership skills (Inspiration, Determination)

The very first determination to make when beginning a brand new recreation and creating a brand new The Outer Worlds character is to set the leaning of your attributes and your expertise. Each these mechanics are interconnected, and it’s pretty vital (particularly with attributes) that you just get it proper first time. Right here’s what it’s good to learn about expertise and attributes in The Outer Worlds:

• There are six attributes in The Outer Worlds, cut up throughout three classes: Physique (Energy and Dexterity), Thoughts (Intelligence and Notion), and Character (Allure and Temperament).
• Every of the six attributes start on “Common“, and might both be pushed right down to “Beneath Common“, gaining you a ability level to make use of elsewhere, or pushed upwards to “Good“, “Excessive“, and “Very Excessive“.
• You solely have a complete of six ability factors to spend throughout the attributes, and every one impacts the bottom beginning values of assorted expertise (which you’ll be able to see whenever you hover over every attribute). Additionally they offer you an additional unfavorable or constructive impact if altered from “Common”. For instance, growing Temperament will enhance your HP Regen, however setting it to “Beneath Common” will disable pure HP Regen and pressure you to relaxation or use consumables to heal.
• After modifying your attribute values, you need to select two out of your seven ability varieties to degree up, offering a +10 bonus for every of the abilities in these varieties. We’ll go over every ability kind and ability under.
• Every ability has sure threshold bonuses which activate each 20 factors. At 20 Dodge, for instance, you’ll acquire the flexibility to Leap. At 40 Dodge, your dodge restoration velocity is doubled. And so forth. Many issues can have an effect on your base ability values in The Outer Worlds, similar to travelling with a sure companion or utilizing a selected consumable – however solely the bottom worth is taken under consideration when unlocking these threshold bonuses, and as soon as unlocked you’ll all the time have entry to them even should you drop under that threshold afterwards.
• You earn 10 ability factors every time you degree up, and you may make investments them in any of the seven ability varieties to extend the values of every ability of that kind – however as soon as a ability hits 50, you’ll be able to solely degree it additional by investing instantly into that one ability, somewhat than the ability kind.

The principle factor is to learn all the pieces very fastidiously. Hovering over every attribute and every ability provides you with a good suggestion of what every one really does. Make investments some factors right into a ability as a check, and see what modifications earlier than undoing it. Experimentation is vital.

However! Should you’re a min/maxer at coronary heart, then we’ve obtained a particular tip for you, thanks very a lot to RPS commenter “ScottFrazer” who allow us to in on the key: when making use of your preliminary factors to your six attributes, it’s finest to decide on two attributes particularly and apply three factors every to these, leaving the remainder at Common. This provides you 252 factors whole into expertise, whereas should you have been to set each attribute to “Good”, you then’ll solely obtain a web of 216 factors. So constructing tall on a few attributes offer you greater than constructing extensive by spreading your factors throughout all six.

Now, sufficient dilly-dallying! Let’s go over every of The Outer Worlds’ expertise in additional element.