Игрок 5516·Рекомендует·49 ч в игре

Outcast – a new beginning is an adventure game. It is a soft reboot of the original Outcast game, set a few decades after that. The environment was changed quite a bit, the society is rebooted as a different one. But I liked this new approach. At 48+ hours it was much longer than I expected. The game has a large area to explore. In fact doubly so, as verticality is used to great extents, sometimes to very excessive scale. Even the starting village has a lot of vertical expanse, and a lot of locations will have (sometimes very large) vertical expanse. Jetpack jumps will be used a lot, even for just exploring around. To make this vertical segments less annoying, there will be bouncing mushrooms, that can propel great distances up, and act as fixed transports between various spots. Gliding will also have an important role in the game. A lot of optional puzzles will be based on it, but even some main story related segments will require it. The collecting of the pistils main story part was what pushed me away from full keyboard and mouse play. I first tried it with the keyboard, but that was very cumbersome. That precise gliding was much more easier with an analog input from a controller, compared to the digital nature of keypresses. In fact from then on, I played mostly with the controller, resorting to keyboard and mouse only for the fighting segments. But those fighting segments were awkward with the controller, so I had to use keyboard and mouse for efficient play. Ideally I would have been playing it with a Steam controller, but no such luck for me. You can freely save outside of combat – and outside of challenges. So if you make past some hard phases of a challenge, you cannot just save that and retry from that part, the save will be from before the start of the challenge. On the bright side, should you fail the challenge, or see that it goes wrong, you can restart it anytime almost instantaneously. The graphics of the game is surprisingly good. There are a lot of lavish locations, with various biomes. The starting zone is jungle like, with great trees, and later there will be a lot of variations. There were a lot of complaints about the stuttery graphics in the forums. Initially there might have been some stutters for me, but several hours into the game they largely disappeared, the gameplay was smooth for me. The voice acting of the game is excellent. And there is actually tons of it, much more than I expected. The protagonist is fully voice acted, with a lot of lines. And the natives are voice acted by skilled actors, conveying their out of common way attitude. Not only the voice acting is great, but the background music too. The original game was praised for its exceptional music, and that carried to the sequel. Honestly, I’m not sure whether the original music was reused, or similar tracks were composed for this game, but the quality is there. The game has a non linear approach to the story. You can try to solve the problems in one place, but eventually the quests will require you to visit other places first in order to progress. The story of the game is good for most of the game, feeling like an organic development. Then towards the end of the game there will be a time-skip, leading to a situation of radicalization of the natives. Their relation towards the protagonists shifts in a jarring way. The conclusion of the game feels disjointed. It feels as if you skipped an episode in a series, or more realistically a team running out of budget with the end events already finished, missing a linking up to that part. The very final climatic part will be literally deus ex machina. As you travel, there will be plenty of occasions for side activities. The most straightforward activity in the game will be just destroying enemy bases. Some of those is required for the story, but there are a lot of optional ones. You can unlock some weapon upgrades there, and generally just farm some talent tree related currencies. The enemies will respawn in them after a while, should you want to farm some more. The base size varies from small to some quite large, sprawling setups. Also several important base will have entirely unique setup, like a late one set on a volcano, or another one in the middle of the sea. Some late game bases are protected by a force field, and will be accessible only as the mains story progresses. A variation of the killing activity is the clearing of gork eruptions. You will have to defeat all the planet native animals related to the node, and collect the seed of corruption. These won’t respawn, but there will be a lot of them. Doing them is a great way to farm some animal related drops, which can be used to craft various potions. There are two variations of gliding challenges. One of them is merely to collect white seeds on an aerial path. The challenge is to not deviate too far from the path, as then the challenge will reset. For a very long time I thought that I have to go through some blue energy blobs too, but as I found out very late, they are not a requirement, only the white seeds has to be collected. Actually, you can solve most of them just with jumping and walking, without much need for gliding. The reward is some gliding related upgrade currency. The second variation is a time limited one. You will have to follow an energy orb, and most of the times gliding will be required. For simpler ones the time limit is generous, but harder ones have much less room for error. The reward is permanent health increase. The main quests are somewhat time gated. After gathering everything needed to proceed, there will be an undisclosed amount of delay before they progress on. When the quest progresses forward you will get a notification. In fact, the game will auto propose some quests periodically. You can safely ignore them, but a lot of times I just accepted them, and processed along. A lot of quests require gathering certain ingredients. There is a minimal required amount, gathering that much will allow the quest to progress. Your inventory can be upgraded. As far as I know, sellable items will stack indefinitely, but useable items, like crafting materials, ammo, potions will be limited. Eventually those limits can be increased. The two main skill trees are for your jetpack, and for your weapon skills. There is sorta a third skill three, consisting of weapon upgrades. Unlocking some key jetpack skills will be mandatory for progress, but there will be plenty of story related rewards to unlock those. Some weapon skills makes encounters much more easier. In special, once you manage to unlock tackle, dealing with smaller robotic enemies becomes much easier, and fun. It makes shield bash basically obsolete. Late in the game you can oneshot even the heavy robots (with a sufficiently charged up shot, that is). You will have access to a few extra skills, like one that freezes the enemies for a short time around you, but its recharge was so slow that I basically never used them. Through the storyline you will unlock an alternative weapon too. While infinite in ammo, after each type of shot there is a few minute recharge. The acid bee attack for example can take out even the large spider tank in a short amount of time. Soon enough you can travel freely to already unlocked teleport gates from anywhere. I found out fairly late that the mid-field teleport gates don’t require a collected energy source, and can be activated simply with interacting with them. They make moving across the map that much faster. As far as I know only the village teleport gates require an energy source retrieved from an enemy base. This is clearly an AA budget and value game – without the sales number that it should merit. The game was stable for me, it didn’t crash (except when I tried the experimental DirectX12 mode).

Игрок 8304·Не рекомендует·3 ч в игре

Playable but extremely mediocre action game. This game isn't terrible but it fails to bring any new ideas to the table, ultimately leading to a rather dull experience. Despite all the ideas it borrows from sources like Avatar or Far Cry, nothing is done to the same standard. Being a very average game in such a crowded market means I simply can't recommend it.

Игрок 4656·Рекомендует·33 ч в игре

It is a beautiful and horrible creation at the exact same time. This is a worthy spiritual successor to the original game. The lands have never looked more absolutely beautiful; the environment artists have truly pleased the Yods with their breathtaking work. We are back again as Cutter Slade. Only now, he is not Ulukai. He is merely the Message. The core story of our plight is fine, the pacing is incredibly bad, turning our struggles into a disjointed slog. Worse, the villans who threaten us feel like a bunch of evil cartoon characters rather than a genuine menace. Because of the curse these creators placed on our world, I would personally avoid any future games by these specific writers and game designers. May the Yods have mercy on them.

Игрок 9657·Рекомендует·22 ч в игре

Playability, map rich of nature, specialised perks for gliding and flying, best time ever spend!

Игрок 1910·Рекомендует·27 ч в игре

Za málo peněz, hodně muziky. Hra se dá koupit velice levně a za ty prachy super. Nejlepší je prostě ta pohyblivost po mapě a využití jetpacku, to nemá chybu. Jinak příběh ujde, ale nic převratného, takže nejlepší na hře je opravdu ta volno a pohyblivost v rámci mapy a soubojů, to bylo skvělé. Grafika taky pěkná, na PC hratelnost super.

Игрок 4348·Не рекомендует·14 ч в игре

Very generic RPG, open world and exploration is okay, navigation jump/glide controls are not good with mouse/keyboard. Combat has 2 enemy types, ground walking shooting, flying shooting, that's it. Every quest is a fetch or kill quest. Best aspects are culture of the alien race and open world exploration, but even those are mostly cliche and not unique to the genre. I would not waste the time, even on steep discount.

Игрок 6478·Рекомендует·96 ч в игре

Beautifful, a little complicate by time, when you need to know how to make the story advance, a lot of thing in parallel, and the story is week, it could have been great, the daugther was suppos to be the center of the story but after a quater of the game her involvment stopped almost completely, fortunately the game is fun but could have been much more deep.

Игрок 6645·Рекомендует·41 ч в игре

Had fun with the game. A few audio glitches and two crashes. It was a nice adventure.