Welcome to Halcyon, a corporate-controlled star system where your choices truly matter. In The Outer Worlds, you'll navigate this treacherous landscape as the sole survivor of a lost colony, waking up decades later to a galaxy on the brink. As a first-person RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, you'll be making critical decisions, engaging in tactical combat with a variety of weapon types, and shaping your character's destiny through dialogue and action. It's a story-rich, open-world adventure perfect for those who love to explore and influence the narrative.
This guide is your essential companion for mastering The Outer Worlds. We'll break down the main story quests, from 'Stranger in a Strange Land' to 'Brave New World,' and highlight crucial side quests, faction missions, and companion tasks. Whether you're struggling with specific boss encounters, trying to recruit all six companions like Parvati or Ellie, or aiming to achieve one of the game's many different endings, this guide provides the knowledge to conquer the corporations and forge your own future in the depths of space.
Walkthrough
Navigate The Outer Worlds with our comprehensive quest guide. We break down main quests, side quests, companion quests, and DLC missions to help you explore Halcyon.
Walkthrough
Navigate The Outer Worlds with our comprehensive quest guide. We break down main quests, side quests, companion quests, and DLC missions to help you explore Halcyon.
Main Quests
Embark on your journey through The Outer Worlds! This guide covers all the main quests, from Foundation to The City and the Stars, helping you navigate Halcyon.
Main Quests
Embark on your journey through The Outer Worlds! This guide covers all the main quests, from Foundation to The City and the Stars, helping you navigate Halcyon.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Follow our comprehensive guide to The Outer Worlds' first quest, Stranger in a Strange Land, covering character creation, meeting Phineas Welles, and your first steps on Terra 2.
- 1After the opening scenes, create your character.
- 2Phineas Welles will explain your situation: you are a colonist from the Hope, delayed by 70 years, and require chemicals to revive the remaining colonists.
- 3You receive your first quest, Stranger in a Strange Land.
- 4Travel to Terra 2 to meet Hawthorne. Upon arrival, you discover Hawthorne has died and you inherit his ship.
- 5Head east downhill. Jump over a log when prompted (X/A).
- 6Turn southeast and crouch under another log (CIRCLE/B).
- 7Follow the path to a camp and loot an Adreno from a Marauder's corpse.
- 8Continue downhill, noting Canids on a ledge to the west. These enemies are harmless and will flee, so you do not need to engage them.
- 9Enter a cave to the north.
- 10Crouch and drop down a ledge.
- 11Pass through the cave, experiencing side-effects from cryostasis.
- 12Drop down a larger ledge, introducing fall damage, passive health regeneration, and your Inhaler.
- 13Continue through the cave system.
- The game introduces sneaking mechanics early. To sneak, crouch (CIRCLE/B). Enemies have detection meters (exclamation points) that fill white then red if they spot you. Breaking line of sight depletes these meters.
- With the NOVICE skill (20 Sneak points), you can perform Sneak Attacks for bonus damage. This will alert enemies, but killing the target may prevent full detection.
- Fall damage can be mitigated by passive health regeneration or using your Inhaler with consumables like Adreno.
- The Inhaler initially holds one consumable but can be upgraded to four slots by increasing your Medical skill. Adreno restores 25% health over two seconds.
Comes Now the Power
Follow our comprehensive walkthrough for 'Comes Now the Power' in The Outer Worlds, guiding you from Edgewater to the Botanical Lab and Geothermal Power Plant.
- 1Exit Edgewater via the northwestern gate and follow the road north. Take the northeastern fork to reach the Abandoned Outpost. You may need to fight marauders here.
- 2Northwest of the Abandoned Outpost, you can find a Primal Nest. Defeating the Primals here yields the rare Light Machine Gun 'Ol' Reliable'.
- 3Continue north to the Abandoned Industrial Zone, another marauder-infested area. These marauders do not respawn. Guillaume Antrim (bounty target for 'Fistful of Digits') and Zoe Chandler may be found here.
- 4Follow the road west, dealing with marauders near some cargo. Continue west to a fork, then southwest to more buildings and another fork. Head northwest from this second fork to reach the Botanical Lab.
- 5On the road to the Botanical Lab, you'll meet Grace Romero. She will initiate the quest 'A Few Kindred Spirits' and mentions a missing girl named Zoe.
- 6In the Botanical Lab, you can loot the area, talk to Stefan to further 'A Few Kindred Spirits' and purchase the rare 'Fiver' revolver. Talk to Thomas to start 'The Frightened Engineer', which leads to the Geothermal Power Plant.
- 7Talk to Adelaide in the Botanical Lab. She will ask you to reroute power to the Botanical Lab, dooming Edgewater. This starts the main quest progression.
- 8To progress 'Comes Now the Power', you must head to the Geothermal Power Plant. You can reach it by following the road southwest from the Botanical Lab, or by taking a pass southwest near the Botanical Lab, navigating through mines, following a river, and crossing a bridge.
- 9Upon reaching the Geothermal Power Plant, you will need to dispatch the automechanicals patrolling the exterior.
- 10Find a way into the Geothermal Power Plant through breaches in the fence, such as a hole in the northwestern corner. Be aware of the Canid corpses, indicating the area is not undefended.
- 'Ol' Reliable' has impressive durability, with minimal durability loss per clip.
- The marauders in the Abandoned Industrial Zone do not respawn.
- Zoe Chandler is present in the Abandoned Industrial Zone and is part of a quest, but you don't need to speak with her immediately.
- If you pass a [Science 15] check after finding Gold Teeth in the Botanical Lab, you can learn what Adelaide uses in her 'special fertilizer'.
- When traveling to the Geothermal Power Plant via the back route, be cautious of mines.
- The fence around the Geothermal Power Plant has several breaches, making entry easier.
- Progress in the main quest 'Comes Now the Power'.
- Potential to start or progress side quests: 'Fistful of Digits', 'A Few Kindred Spirits', and 'The Frightened Engineer'.
- Opportunity to acquire rare items: 'Ol' Reliable' (Light Machine Gun) and 'Fiver' (revolver).
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