It was like 'ok I'm terrified and I'm just spraying bullets.'"Ĭain and Boyarsky wanted flaws to force player to adopt different play styles when special situations come up. I think we had one where your aim would go down but your fire rate would go up if there was a robot around. "There were a whole bunch of flaws that we never implemented, but we had things like if you'd take more damage from robots you could also give more damage to them. "The specialized perks were more related to the flaws," Cain said. That would entice players to try different things, but time and budget restraints prevented them from fully implementing anything other than what we see in the final version of The Outer Worlds. Cain and co-director Leonard Boyarsky told me they wanted to have specialized perks for each flaw that you couldn't obtain any other way. The flaw system wasn't originally designed to have to pay out perk points if a player accepted negative attributes. There's something really cool about having a character that isn't just a list of cool powers and extra things they can do that normal people can't." "It's really just something that makes your character different and unique.
People think of character creation as all these cool things you can do," Cain says. "What I like about this makes the character creation a lot deeper. It's all part of an effort to have your character change as you hop from planet to planet. That's why perks unlock throughout the campaign and why you assign skill points to categories until you reach a certain threshold and specific skill categories open up. You create your character as you play and not just in the character creation screen and when you level up. You can play as a charismatic gunslinger who hates robots or a tossball stick-swinging lockpicker with paranoia. It's all part of Obsidian's plan to have new types of gamified role-playing elements in their Fallout-esque first-person RPG. You can choose to accept or reject a flaw when they come up, though each one is permanent once accepted. You can also get addicted to drugs after taking too many and some stats will be lower when you go through withdrawals. If you fight a lot of robots you can get robophobia and lose dexterity and perception points when near mechanical enemies. The Outer Worlds' flaw system reacts to how the player chooses to advance through the story. "The flaws are the game telling the player 'here's what you did, do you want to react to it? You got hit by a lot of plasma, do you want to be plasma susceptible? You fight a lot of robots, do you want to be scared of them?'"Ī character that isn't just a list of cool powers "Character creation is the player telling the game how they want to play," he added, mentioning that Cthulu board and computer games helped inspire this system.
We wanted the player to pick a few things about the character and then other things get decided later.We also wanted to combine it with the reactivity of the game." " One of our goals was to not do all the character creation upfront. He's co-director of The Outer Worlds and also the game design legend known for creating the original Fallout. "The flaw system was an intersection of two different goals," Tim Cain told me. Or I could just decline the choice altogether and move on. I can choose to accept the penalties associated with the flaw in exchange for a point-one I can use to unlock one of the several perks that give my player character things like more health or bag space. They think I have Raptophobia or the fear of Raptidons due to repeated encounters with the beasts. Spacer's Choice, one of The Outer Worlds' fictional megacorporations, had found a flaw in me.
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