It doesn't take long before you get the chance to swap sides and help the Halcyon board instead, drastically altering how things play out. ![]() This proves to be an excellent setup for a RPG that feels a lot like a blend of Fallout and Mass Effect. You will recruit your own crew through the first half of the game, and fly between set locations in the Halcyon system to progress the story and take on side missions. With that, you are dropped onto a nearby planet and through an unlikely accident soon gain control of your own spacecraft. Phineas informs you that you were selected to help him find a way to unfreeze the thousands of others. You enter the scene as human who was revived after being frozen in croystasis on a ship long thought lost, finally located by a slightly mad scientist named Phineas Welles who is wanted by the Halcyon board for assorted criminal activities. ![]() The game takes place in the Halcyon system, named for the corporation who owns and runs it, with a few settlements on planets breaking off from the control of the company, and sub-contractors who find ways to make money and survive in the system as well. ![]() The Outer Worlds forgoes dreary post-apocalyptic Earth for an alternate timeline science fiction setting, with interstellar space travel dominated by corporations who have claimed entire solar systems for themselves, with planets colonized and terraformed in the service of resource extraction and profit.
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