This change arose due to how the first game homogenized builds. “We would often see characters good at everything, which by the end of the game, minimized your personal experience with your character,” said Koenig.

Skills now feel more drastically different but significant in their own right. “We wanted to focus on making each individual level-up and investment really important. There’s less confusion about when I should invest in one Skill or the other. If I want to be a player that’s all about guns and using medical devices, I know which Skills I really need to care about. By having them separated and not in groupings, it lets characters be more specialized.”

This change also helps create more build variety beyond “a traditional stealth-focused build, combat-focused build, or speech-focused build. There’s a lot of blending of concepts, playing with other systems and incorporating those into a pretty broad but unique range of different player profiles.”

Skill Specialization is still available, like Engineering, which provides one percent damage resistance and the ability to +1 difficulty and lower mechanical systems. On the other hand, Hack allows for unlocking +1 difficulty and lower terminals while dealing ten percent more damage to Automechanicals. As you level up, their bonuses also become stronger.

The Outer Worlds 2 launches this year for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. Check out the latest gameplay and stay tuned for its Direct on June 8th following the Xbox Games Showcase.

Obsidian will reveal more details and gameplay at a dedicated Direct following the Xbox Games Showcase on June 8th. However, about 11 minutes of new footage courtesy of IGN showcased the player’s journey to the N-Ray Facility to hunt down some Dawn Assassins. On top of improved visuals and animations, it also features several new weapons and a new companion, the bloodthirsty Aza.

The Outer Worlds 2 sees you as an Earth Directorate agent investigating some mysterious rifts that are wreaking havoc in the galaxy. They arrive on Arcadia and must figure out a solution or go down a different path, whether in a strategic, gung-ho or totally dumb fashion. Stay tuned for more details in June.

Shared via IGN, Microsoft and developer Obsidian Entertainment have released close to a dozen minutes of gameplay footage. The footage shows a mission that tasks the player with making their way through an enemy-controlled facility, which, of course, means there’s plenty of action and combat shown off, in addition to glimpses of dialogue choice mechanics, visual improvements over the first game, and more. Check out the video below. 

The Outer Worlds 2 is due out sometime this year for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC, with a specific launch date yet to be announced. Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks and months.

Alongside new gameplay, the Direct takes fans inside the studio’s walls, with development team members providing new information and insights. The duration is unknown, and given how wildly the past two Directs for Starfield and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 varied, it’s hard to say.

However, it offers hope that The Outer Worlds 2 will launch this year. Obsidian debuted its latest gameplay trailer at The Game Awards 2024 and touted the sci-fi RPG as being twice as big as the first game. There are new weapons, NPCs, and worlds to explore, and it looks to offer a notable visual jump (with ray traced reflections seemingly supported).

Stay tuned for more details in June. The Outer Worlds 2 is coming to PS5, PC and Xbox Series X/S.

Touting The Outer Worlds’ trademark humorous tone, the trailer states that The Outer Worlds 2, which took nearly thrice as long to develop as the first game, will be twice as big as its predecessor was, and will also feature plenty more weapons, action, and plenty of visual and technical enhancements.

Interestingly enough, Obsidian and Microsoft have also confirmed that The Outer Worlds 2 will be a multiplatform game at launch, and will be available for PS5, joining the likes of DOOM: The Dark Ages and Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 as first-party Microsoft titles that launch for multiple platforms.

The Outer Worlds 2 is due out sometime in 2025 for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC. Another Obsidian Entertainment-developed RPG, Avowed, launches in February.

In a recent video interview with Limit Break Network, Urquhart said, “I’m impressed with the team…We were very lucky. We have a lot of people on that game that get it, who have worked on the first one and worked for us a very long time. So I’ve actually been really impressed by it.”

Urquhart also noted that the developer had a “really hard time” during the COVID-19 pandemic, which followed its acquisition by Microsoft. “We were trying to get The Outer Worlds done, and we’re trying to get the DLC done, and we’re trying to move Avowed forward. We want to get The Outer Worlds 2 moving, Grounded’s moving, and Josh [Sawyer] is on Pentiment…

“There’s just all this stuff happening, and to be honest, we were kind of a crappy developer for about a year, year and a half. There was talk of, ‘Do we stop work on The Outer Worlds 2 and just throw the whole team on Avowed?’ Grounded wasn’t Early Access yet during some of these conversations.

“I appreciate Microsoft and the teams and everybody and that we kind of, you know, we said, ‘No, we will get there. We will get there with all these games. Are they going to be on the timelines that we originally thought? No, but we’re going to get there.” He noted how Grounded and Pentiment turned out well, Avowed is “looking great” and The Outer Worlds 2 is “looking incredible.”

The Outer Worlds 2 has been announced Xbox Series X/S and PC, though it doesn’t have a release date (and its PlayStation launch is seemingly undecided). It’s reportedly been in development since 2019, with Fallout co-creator Tim Cain announced as a consultant earlier this year.

In the meantime, Avowed will be launching on February 18th, 2025, for Xbox Series X/S and PC after facing a short delay. It’s also confirmed to appear at Gamescom later this month.

However, as spotted by Twitter user Faizan Shaikh, the LinkedIn profile of production director Dan Maas shows that the team at Obsidian has been working on a project since September 2019, which is a month before the release of the first game. This is certainly an interesting bit of information, that the developer already had plans in place for a sequel to a new IP. There’s still no official information about the game’s release date, although if it has indeed been in development for that long, it might end up launching earlier than anticipated. 

Obsidian Entertainment has also been working on another action RPG, Avowed which, according to a recent report, is in pre-alpha at the moment- to read more on that click through here. Meanwhile, a report has also claimed that a team led by Pillars of Eternity director is also working on an RPG named Pentiment– read more on that through here.

'The Outer Worlds 2' is in development since September 2019.
– 'The Outer Worlds 1' Was Released in October 25, 2019.
– So TOW 2 was in development before release of First one..so Late 2023 or early 2024 Release Window maybe Possible. pic.twitter.com/yLAL37K8Bm

— Faizan Shaikh (@FaizShaikh7681) November 24, 2021