{"id":13114,"date":"2025-10-30T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=13114"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:00:56","slug":"the-outer-worlds-2-first-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-outer-worlds-2-first-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"the Outer Worlds 2 – First Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just completed Outer Worlds 2<\/a>‘s first planet now with an ‘Easily Distracted’ build (Science, Engineering, Observation, Hacking, Explosives) and so far the game has been a perfectly decent open-world RPG.<\/p>\n

Tonally and visually it’s quite similar to its predecessor<\/a> while mechanically, at least as far as character-building goes, it seems a bit more limited. Without the Flaw mentioned above a character is essentially forced to focus on only two-three skills, which means there will be some content you can’t see on a single playthrough.<\/p>\n

In my case there were quite a number of locked boxes and several doors that I simply could not open (no Lockpick) along with a few quests\/tasks that could not be completed either in beneficial ways (no Speech skill) or at all (no Medicine or Leadership skill). However, there were many things that I could only access with Hack, Engineering, Explosives, or Observation while the highest check I saw (not including the 11 Lockpick on your ship that can be bypassed) was for 5 Medicine (bypassable with a Trauma Kit) and 5 Explosives on a door that had a key for it lying around. Most checks on this planet were for 2-3 with a handful of 4’s.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping the checks don’t exponentially ramp up next planet so I can stay ahead of them by over-leveling through excessive exploration (hit level 10 just before entering the Relay), or else I may have to restart with a conventional 3-skill build.<\/p>\n

Positives so far:
\n– Very similar to the first game in tone and appearance.
\n– Multiple ways to approach most things.
\n– Lots of character building options.
\n– Ammunition is plentiful.
\n– Nice mix of tracked and untracked quests.
\n– Loot hidden everywhere.
\n– Ditched the equipment durability system.<\/p>\n

Negatives so far:
\n– Very similar to the first game in tone and appearance.
\n– The map is bad at showing where you can explore.
\n– Restrictive skill choices and no respec option.
\n– Enemies seem to have an abnormally large amount of health.
\n– More than a few massive empty spaces.
\n– Ditched the ability to dodge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just completed Outer Worlds 2‘s first planet now with an ‘Easily Distracted’ build (Science, Engineering, Observation, Hacking, Explosives) and so far the game has been a perfectly decent open-world RPG. Tonally and visually it’s quite similar to its predecessor while mechanically, at least as far as character-building goes, it seems a bit more limited. Without the Flaw mentioned above a character is essentially forced to focus on only two-three skills, which means there will be some content you can’t see on a single playthrough. In my case there were quite a number of locked boxes and several doors that I simply could not open (no Lockpick) along with a few quests\/tasks that could not be completed either in beneficial ways (no Speech skill) or at all (no Medicine or Leadership skill). However, there were many things that I could only access with Hack, Engineering, Explosives, or Observation while the highest check I saw (not including the 11 Lockpick on your ship that can be bypassed) was for 5 Medicine (bypassable with a Trauma Kit) and 5 Explosives on a door that had a key for it lying around. Most checks on this planet were for 2-3 with a handful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[472,495,121,62],"class_list":["post-13114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-first-person-perspective","tag-outer-worlds","tag-rpg","tag-science-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}