[Engine.ini]

Has anyone else gone into the Engine.ini to tweak things such as disabling Ambient Occlusion,Chromatic Aberration, or Screen Space Reflections? For some reason when I do this my tweaks will not save. If I restart  the game I have to do it all over again.

[Is there any point for the edible items in the game?]

On 11/24/2019 at 2:20 PM, Rock1m1 said:

I am playing on hard and about 25 hours into the game and I yet to feel the need to use items such as boosts or heals except the inhaler. Sure I take it from time to time but I just don't feel the difference with or without it. Not to mention they don't last very long and having to go back to inventory and scanning through items just stops the flow of the game for me - I guess a better inventory system would have helped here.

I am going off tangent, does anyone use any of the buffs and heals?

Yes,you can slot them into your inhaler for added bonuses when you heal. And in the hardest game difficulty you have to eat,drink, and sleep, to stay alive.

[My biggest issue with the gender binary in The Outer Worlds:]

On 11/30/2019 at 1:00 PM, algroth said:

I may be wrong, but I think the OP's point is that despite having the game accomodate non-binary or more androgynous options in terms of appearance, there's no character that really blurs the binary configuration of gender roles/identity and so on. I wouldn't mind a bit more representation in that regard though I'm also usually wary of representation for representation's sake, for what it can say or fail to say in a certain context and so on (e.g. I think a setting where trans people are just like anyone else and treated in the same fashion, you run the risk of belittling or ignoring the very real discrimination and segregation they suffer in the real world, and with it ignore several anxieties that are produced as a fear of responses and repercussions caused by the same and so on). It also ignores that the absence of a minority in a culture or sphere or other can speak volumes of that sphere: maybe in the Outer Worlds setting, the reason why gender identity is binary is also because it's convenient to the corporations: it's already stated that newborns are born into the "family" of a corporation and are made corporation property - if so it makes sense that in this setting an affair that couldn't produce an offspring would be counter-productive and a waste of time that'd be better spent working instead - if so, a non-binary understanding of sex or gender could be suppressed by merely being non-productive and so on (i.e. romance, gender and relationship as far as the Board is concerned is only relevant insofar as it produces a new generation of workers). Just throwing out ideas, of course, bit still.

Why does sexuality have to be forced onto video games? So what if there's no characters in the game that "blur the lines"? There aren't a lot of NPCs in the game. People that "blur the lines" in real life are not standing on every street. In fact,unless you live in a big city that has areas or communities where these people "hang out", for lack of a better term, you'd be hard pressed to see these "gender-blurring", people. And if you live in the country like I do, you would probably never see such a person. Forcing sexuality upon a game like this makes no sense, and is completely unnecessary. What about wheel-chair bound people? Or people with prosthetic limbs? Or blind people walking down the street using a walking stick, or an assistance dog? Complaining that you don't see "gender bending" people in a video game is actually very selfish. There are many,many demographics that are not represented in the game. Such as the ones I mentioned. And there are far more people walking around with prosthetic limbs in the world, than there are "cross-dressers", or "gender-benders", or those that "blur the lines" as you called it.  This is a sci-fy game. It's not a a game based on sexuality. This is ridiculous....

[My biggest issue with the gender binary in The Outer Worlds:]

On 11/27/2019 at 6:28 PM, Obsidian_Lover_69 said:

When making a character, especially when hitting randomize, there is a complete disconnect between sex and gender identifiers. You can make a woman with a full beard and jawline, you can make a man with a soft face and bone structure, you can make someone androgynous or non binary.

Yet, there is not a single NPC that breaks the gender boundary in the whole game. Everyone looks and presents like typical men and women. It would make sense that in the future the lines of gender are blurred, so its strange that only you do so.

Anyway, have a nice day, thanks for listenin'.

That makes perfect sense to me. How many women with beards do you see in real life? And how do you know some of the "female" characters you see in-game are not trans? If they were men,identifying as women, then you would never know. There's nothing strange about the NPCs in the game. YOU are the one that is strange. I'm sick and tired of ridiculous people like you trying to force your "unusual" world view on the rest of us. Yes, I said "unusual". And if you're offended by that, then you are,indeed, a ridiculous person. Because there's nothing "usual" about expecting to see women with beards while going throughout your day. You are definitely just going out of your way to find something to complain about. If there were characters in the game that were trans,how would you know unless they came out and told you. Why can't you just imagine that some of the female characters in the game are actually men "identifying" as women, and vice versa? Why can't you just play a video game without having to force sexuality all over it.  Just because P.C. obsessed countries like the US have decided to stop listing things like "Gender Dysphoria" as a mental illness does not mean that the rest of us agree that your world view is anywhere near the norm. It is not the norm. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being trans,etc. But there is something wrong with forcing your sexuality into places it does not belong. Such as a video game. You don't see heterosexuals complaining that none of the characters in-game explicitly state in their dialogue that they are heterosexual. If you want there to be trans-sexual,asexual,bi-sexual, or whatever form of "sexual" floats your boat, you can just roleplay it in your own head. Because you can't tell someone's orientation just by looking at them. Stop being so ridiculous.

[why decide on a lowered crosshair without any option to change it?]

On 12/1/2019 at 3:29 PM, naisu said:

i was looking forward to this game and its practically unplayable for me. i dont want to look above everything i need to interact with, i dont want to be looking at the sky to land a headshot. i want to look at things the way i have been for the past 10 years. the fact you chose a lowered crosshair with no option to change is is beyond baffling to me.

"the fact you chose a lowered crosshair with no option to change is is beyond baffling to me" Your "fact" is incorrect.  No offense. But before blaming the game for the issue you're having, you should take a moment to look into it and make sure the problem is not on your end. Because in this case, the problem is,indeed, on your end. The game does not use a "lowered" cross hair. The cross hair is centered, just like every other game of this type that I can think of. You need to go through your settings and figure out what is causing your issue. Because this game is awesome. You'd be really missing out if you didn't play it because you thought a major game feature was crap, when it's actually perfectly fine.