Poll: What Are Your Initial Impressions Of The Outer Worlds 2 On Xbox Game Pass?

I only started playing it yesterday, so not long enough yet to give a score. Saying that, my first impressions are positive. It already seems more polished than the first game, which I admit I never finished. Looking forward to sinking a lot more time into it over the coming weeks and months.

I'm struggling to get into it. I enjoyed the prologue mission but for some reason thr second I hit that first town I started to struggle to keep playing.

Now I fully admit I probably haven't given it enough of a chance to get its hooks into me, been on a weird visual novel kick which is distracting me from playing it.

I'm hoping that settling in for a night with no distractions and giving it a real go fixes it.

It's kinda boring and lifeless. Maybe I'm just not far along enough or not in the right mood for it idk

Tried to few times to get into the first one and for some reason I couldn't. Don't think I'll be giving it a try if it's more of the same

Started my second play through this past weekend (have plans for a 3rd run too.)

Excellent rpg that works best if you actually lean into the rpg aspect. Choose your role and work with the consequences of your actions both good and bad.

I scored it a 9 as its not perfect (no game ever is) but its still an excellent rpg with many options on how you play it.

I'm having an incredible time. 7 hours in and loving the side content so much.

About 15 hours in. Not as good as Avowed. There are some irritating things about it that didn't exist in Avowed. Hitting knee level water is insta drown death? Hmmm....

I am loving it! I am already planning a second playthrough with different skills/traits. An easy 10/10.

@abe_hikura I felt exactly the same way, I was really having trouble once I got to the first town-the game really slowed down. . But it picked up again once I got to the first big choice in that town.

After that speed bump, I am really enjoying the game, for what it is worth.

I would give it an 8/10 I think right now. The graphics are great, the missions are interesting and varied, I love the humour, the skills and perks are cool, the companions are interesting and I like the different ways to approach scenarios based on the skills/Perks you have.

My main gripes are that Ammo is scarce as hell. I am swapping my guns out regularly, not because I want to but because I am forced to select the guns I have ammo for. At nearly 20 hours I have found a tonne of armour mods but only 2 weapon mods which is annoying because I am pretty much using the same armour from the beginning of the game while changing weapons constantly. Performance has been iffy at times on both Series X and PC but tbf its been nowhere near as bad as some recent games. And finally, while I understand the reasons for not allowing a respec, I would have liked the option. I am second guessing all my skill and perk choices knowing how final they are, especially with the level 30 cap. I made some early errors in my allocation which are going to hamper me for the rest of my playthrough.

I played it for a few hours and it reminded me of my experience with Starfailed. I tried getting into it but found it to be incredibly boring. I would give it a 6 so far. And once again, it reminds me of a game that they launched on Game Pass. A mediocre game that no one will remember. Truth. Microsoft strikes again!

@GeeEssEff I assume you are checking for ammo recipes at vendor machines / vendors? Most basic ammo is fairly easy to craft as you need at a workbench more so with using certain traits to increase craft yields. There is also a flaw called wasteful that will make all killed enemies drop ammo (but it also increases vendor prices.)

Two handed melee weapons are good early on first planet without any skill investment to save ammo for boss fights. Will obviously need skill point investment to keep using on other planets.

@GeeEssEff you have just not adopted to game. You have to use crafting, breakdown any regular bullet weapon at table and you will get Black Powder/Scraps. And craft your needed ammo. Mods are not often in first map to find, you can buy them tho.
Play around skills/perks. I am on my 2nd playthrough.
I invested Trait into crafting. I have cleared 1st map with 90% on Hard, and last boss on Normal. I havent bought any ammo. I havent sold any item. I have plenty of ammo for Compact/short/shells. I run out at last boss encounter, and then I swapped to Electric Rod weapon with 2000 units. Extra perks in extra loot from storage and robots. Level 10 and I will leave 2st Map with 17k cash too. This is knowledge after 1st playthrough

It’s a really good game and 8/10 so far from me.
It’s not a legendary game up there with the top gang.
It’s not FH5 or Mario Odyssey or Last of us 2, or even those production values.

It does most things really good and some good.
But it’s what mainly Xbox studios do, really good but not in the same league as the top guns.
I’m hoping gear E day will be a top of the tree game.

I’m gonna play the first one first.

@RiverGenie Yep but I feel the resource cost of crafting ammo to be quite high for what it is and I have swapped out Niles so I’m at the mercy of finding crafting benches which seem numerous in some areas and sparse in others. Either way for a game with gunplay as one of its core combat mechanics, I don’t particularly want to be stopping and crafting ammo after every couple of encounters. I will google that flaw though and see if I have missed it or can still get it so appreciate the tip!

@REALAIS my view of an RPG with builds and choices is that the game should adapt to my playstyle, not the other way round. I don’t want to be crafting various types of ammo every five minutes when I could just be picking up more of it off the bodies of the gun toting enemies I have just killed. I have had to adapt by putting skill points in melee and using that more but I am never a big fan of melee in these types of games. Also I’m well past Eden and a large portion through the story on Dorado and still not finding weapon mods. I noticed some at that black market planet but IRC they were super expensive and mostly for Assault Rifles which, at that point I hadn’t found any of.

It could be that I have just completely missed a load of early stuff and other people are having a different experience to me but I can only report on what I have found so far. Good game though, my gripes are minor in the grand scheme of things.

@Romans12 Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you saying that games Microsoft launches on Game Pass are mediocre titles that no one will remember? Because if so, I suggest giving Keeper and Ninja Gaiden 4 a shot, they're very good IMO.

@GeeEssEff then where are you putting all your cash? First playthrough I finished with 350k
Right now I finished 1st map completely, used hacking skill on bounty board and I am 18k. You should be having many thaousands on 2nd, 3rd map. And buying bullets is great option for you then. And are you even opening Mods vending machine? Weapon Mod Vending machines are full with Weapon mods. Each map has its own main mods to buy.
For example Fairfield has 5x mods for light pistol, repearing rifle, light revolver etc. Yeah some of those are 1k, expensive. But starting price is 250 for some mods. Depends what you want.
Seems that you are rushing quickly through main story maybe? Then it eill be harder for you, if you dont go through every map and most of the quests. Thats how you get those Bits left and right. Yes, game is not easy and you have to do extra chores, and if you dont enjoy that, then your experience will be worse.
On first map I have completed 23 quests/tasks for comparision. Done collectibles.

@REALAIS ahhh right see I went to a couple of vending machines early on which sold just ammo, grenades and ammo recipes so assumed they would all be the same so haven’t looked into any more. I will check out the mod vending machines next time I play now I know that’s a thing so thanks. Consider my weapon mod gripe retracted (although i still maintain I should have found more dotted around in the wild)

I assure you though I’m not rushing…If I was just mainlining the story I would be way past the 2nd planet at 20 hours in. I have explored about 95% of first planet if for nothing else but to find those comics and I still have one missing.

@Questionable_Duck And I will check those out for sure. But, Starfailed, Redfail, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Avowed were all horrible. And I'm sure there are far more than that.

@Romans12 you are entitled to your opinion but I have had lots of fun with 3 of those games & the only one I didn't really get on with was Redfall.

Not every game will be for everyone and that is fine. If we all liked the same thing we would all be playing Fortnite and the world would be incredibly boring. 🙂

@GeeEssEff yeah, you should probably use guide for that. Go to your in game codex and find which number Comic is missing and then use one of guides in internet to get it.

@Westernwolf4 That's great to hear.

For some reason I liked Avowed more.

From the start i did not like that cover and not even going to try it out .

on the second planet right now.
The gameplay isn't a revolution, but the writting is delicious and geniunely makes me laugh quite often!
The flaws based on what you do is a great idea (DO NOT pick Kleptomaniac!!!! It makes every visits in a town tense and swaety)

I really enjoy it so far, even I didn't really get hooked on the first one.

I am really enjoying it so far - getting close to a 10/10, just like KCD 2 earlier in the year.

Also, like some reviewers mentioned, the game is quite pedestrian until the latter part of the first planet, when you have to make a big choice. After that, things really take off.

@CallMeDuraSouka As someone who enjoyed Avowed, I will say it is a big step up in terms of scope, writing, gameplay mechanics, RPG systems, and choice consequences.