drbob

Answering my own question: apparently the co-director of The Outer Worlds, Leonard Boyarsky, said in an interview that mod support may be coming in a post release patch but didn't make any firm promises

It would be nice if Obsidian were to create a curated list of vetted mods. However, I think having Obsidian vet and approve all mods would be unworkable and far too limiting. There are over 20,000 mods for Fallout: New Vegas on Nexusmods alone.

Hello, Will the outer worlds explicitly support mods to the game? This is especially important for the Microsoft store version which is sold as as a locked down UWP app with access to the game files heavily restricted by Windows unless developers deliberately choose to allow access for game modifications. All previous obsidian RPGs have been greatly enhanced with mods created by the player community. It would be a great shame if a large portion of the player base on PC were locked out of using mods due to the UWP.

Some of the bugs I have experienced: * On Korriban I got stuck in the last room of the cave (the one with the tomb). I entered the room, got the goodies from the tomb, but the exit door didn't unlock. I had to replay from before entering the solo part of the cave. Second time around I got a message from kreia upon entering tomb and the exit door unlocked. * Towards the end of the game I saw a cut scene upon entering the ebon hawk where bao-durs remote was destroyed by g0-t0. But after the cut scene the remote was still floating round the ship and neither bao-dur nor g0-t0 had anything to say about it. * Swoop racing is completly broken for me - whatever time I get, I am told I crashed out. * I could not complete the fuel for telos plotline, I went to see votta towards the end of Nar-shaddar - I had already complete most of the exchange stuff, so maybe this broke the scripting (though it shouldn't). *Dantooine was unplayable until I edited the ini file to correct the fps bug, incredibly unprofessional. I would have given up here were it not for the forums. There were many others but I wasn't keeping notes and will not be playing again until a patch is out.