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During character creation, you have the option to pick an additional Positive Trait (instead of just the one) at the cost of inheriting a Negative Trait, like Abrasive (impacts reputation), Dumb (locks certain skills), or Sickly (poor base health and toxicity threshold). It\u2019s a neat counterbalance from trying to min\/max the \u201cperfect\u201d character in a typical role-playing game; now we\u2019re being asked (if you choose) to intentionally create a flawed hero from the start.<\/p>\n
On top of the Traits there are a wide number of Skills to pick from like Engineering, Hacking, Lockpick, and many others. The logical approach here with all of this is to create a complimentary character based on all the available Traits and Skills (e.g. create a Stealth build that\u2019s good with hacking). But playing it safe isn\u2019t how I like to come to Obsidian games. The character creator doesn\u2019t explicitly spell it out for you, but it seems like all of this is designed so you could effectively create a \u201cbusted\u201d character, if you wanted to, one with a mishmash of abilities and still be able to have a great time \u2013 as my playthrough demonstrated with my mix of speech and stealth skills, coupled with the Sickly Negative Trait.<\/p>\n
Coming back to the mission at hand, once we arrived at Horizon Point Station our task had us finding a way through the security blockade, with a variety of options in how we wanted to go about completing this first objective ready for us from the start. I could loot a nearby guard\u2019s body to get their identification card, impersonating them on the intercom to call off the alarms. Or sneak through an air vent to get past a bunch of security bots \u2013 but dang it, I left my thief tools back on the ship. Thankfully Niles, one of the Earth Directorate, was willing to lend me his tools if I wanted to pursue that route. Or\u2026 we just go in guns blazing. And all of this is just in the first five minutes of the mission, a mere fraction of what the larger adventure is going to be for The Outer Worlds 2<\/em>. It\u2019s tantalizing to think how many more of these open-ended approaches are in the final game.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n