Hello everyone. Sorry I did not post this last Sunday, my friends got engaged last weekend so I was celebrating with them and my mind was elsewhere. Anyway, I have been playing The Outer Worlds 2. I picked the “Gambler” background and some characters in the game have made very hurtful remarks about it. I dont have a problem, I can quit any time I want. Hope you all have a good week
I found parrying with the shield carried me basically up through the Mistlands, having a lot of time in Sekiro helps lol. Edit: I forgot to mention a successful parry will stagger your attacker, making any attack you hit them with do critical damage
Everything in the swamps is weak to Blunt damage, so a mace is recommended. At this point I think the game wants you to figure out making Mead, as the poison resist mead makes things a lot easier, almost trivializing the boss. Likewise in the Mountains, your frost resist mead is gonna be required till you can kill some wolves and make a pelt cloak. I found a kinda cheese way to fight the dragon boss: placed objects and buildings will take damage, but if you hoe a pillar of earth up it’s indestructable, making for a comfy spot to have a reprieve. In fact ‘earthworks’ like that are basically the most reliable static defences you can really use, a favorite trick being to settle a small island off the coast and slowly expand it. I can’t really recall any particular tips for the Plains or Mistlands really, they were just a severe pain in my ass til I got the hang of parrying everything.
And that’s about as far as I got, since I only just managed to get to the Ashlands just to get wiped out by some beastie there before having set up a camp, so I just lost a ton of stuff I wasn’t super willing to go get.
Mistlands was such a garbage zone, aggressive los breaks that don’t impact enemy ranged units and awful vertical terrrain to constantly drain your stam. Just an utterly miserable experience
The boss was also a bunch of garbage I haven’t a clue how you’d beat with like, stock gameplay and no cheese. I literally corpse ran it down even when it was super inefficient lol.
we couldn’t keep up with ads and deal with the boss so my group ended up bailing on the game cause I refused to keep farming food*
*I actually really liked how they did their design around food buffs for the early game but as you progress it is so much work it’s unbearable. I found myself logging on multiple times through the week to do harvests and cull herds just to have food for the group runs once a week.
They actually made food somewhat more bearable a few updates ago: now you can craft “feasts” which are like a few themed food dishes combined into one big placable shared plate that anyone could take from and it had 10/10 charges, slightly better food buffs for like an hour.
This is extremely funny to see happen when you parry an arrow