Recent reviews by Zockopa

As other reviewers mentionend before me: This game is a unique blend of RTS and FPS.
And its a successfull one. I played this often back in the day and there was more than a
handfull very polished mods for it out that prolonged the games life considerably. Single-
as well as multiplayer mods.
The remastered version is meanwhile also very polished and a bunch of good mods are
available in the workshop as well that expand and enhance the experience.
So personaly for the 20 bucks this is a no brainer if you are into this kinda game. Its a true
classic from the time when "creativity" was written in big letters over every dev studio and
the 3D gfx rush was in full swing.

The AT-WAD is a very good close range weapon that suffers from a too small mag.
The Kotenok simply lacks the punch to be useful
The RLG-7 simply is the regarding handling and attachments the best RL in the game.
I mean its nice to have a scope with infrared vision for it. But it definitly lacks the punch.

The bikes are VERY convenient to criss-cross the landscape by simply outrunning
the evil robots and nearly every point on the map is reachable by them.
The three variants are different in speed and style and all are better then the free
one.
The only drawback is that with a way faster travelspeed the map shrinks considerably
which can be a disadvantage especially for new players,because the game leans heavy
towards exploring every nook and crany in the map which requires a slower pace.
And its a given that one needs some time to get decent weapons ingame,so the danger
is that once you dismount your bike as a newbie you are in dangereous territory and get
your butt handed to you because the players weaponry simply isnt up for the task.
So imho this pack is better suited for veteran players than for beginners.

This pack includes the most effective and universal MG in the game the PM-71
and one of the most rarely dropping weapons in the game the Vintovka 1891.
I guess you can count those who got a 5*Vintovka on the finger of one hand....
The Pistol and MP are good but offer no advantage over the equivalent weapons
in vanilla GZ: the Klauke and the KPist. And both also come as exp. versions.
But its just 5 bucks. Well,they couldve included resistance skins for the weapon..

My first impression is that this is a solid MOO-style 4x game which gets
cautiously expanded without wrecking the playability through inbalances
and bugs like many other more prominent titles in this genre do.

What realy hurts is that if you play with mods you are basicly forced to
buy the DLC in order to continue play with the mods you played before
because the community updates their mods with lightning speed.
Which btw basicly makes this game still enjoyable to play. Vanilla with
DLC`s alone is going downhill since at least the last three DLC`s and the
latest one realy is a large step in the wrong direction. Just a example:
Fixed numbers for landbased and carriersquadrons ? No longer shot down
planes are gettin replaced by stockpiled ones,but the entire squadron must
be replaced ? I mean who thinks that a reduction in flexibility while reducing
the comfort will be a good idea ?

After some hours with this game my impressions are mixed.
While the ship designer doesnt work like suggested in the often
mentioned ad-video above,i enjoyed designing ships with it and
the thought provoking challenge to come up with a well balanced
design for each class of ship for different time periods.
Imho what i missed was a refit option for the costum battle part.
Other than that the designer offers good flexibility for finetuning.

The actual battle part of the game needs a lot of work. And here
my critizisms are in line with what was mentioned by other reviewers
before me. The fact that the game steals you of the opportunity to
assemble and organise a fleet is a bummer,imho, You choose the
count of each shipclass and then the game assembles and organises
the fleet. Ouch. I thought the player is the admiral....

Anyway,do i recommend this game ? Yes,if you are aware that it is
still a WIP.

PS.: What if find very anoying is the way designs are saved. It is all
automatic and you are unable to modernise older designs. So as an
example you made a well balanced small destroyer in 1920. You are
unable to get this design in,say,1930,to modernise it,but are
constrained to make a new design,which also will not be available
even a ingame year later.
Also the pich and roll values are far high for small vessels.

If you look what ships the AI designs in your enemies fleets,it becomes
clear that they are made without the same restrictions the player is
facing. So there goes any ambition to "realism" straight out of the window.

Imho Alpine Unrest is the best DLC so far. It not only expands the game with an
additional island but also adds the dangerous Apocalypse Class family of robots
and a bunch of well done missions to the base game. Given,that this DLC came
out some time ago i wonder when another DLC of this caliber will be released,because
there are still,as of mid may 2022, three islands - one of them rather large - so far
still not playable.

Imho with this two DLC`s included,which fit seamlessly into the maingame and
truly expanding it, Outer Worlds becomes a very good game with a satisfactory
playing time. If it wouldve been released with this two missions included in the
first place im sure critical voices wouldve been considerably more moderate about
it.
Personaly i rate it similarly high as other top class fps/rpg`s like Prey,Dishonored
DX:MD or Bioshock.

I guess it needs a year or so for modders to fix this mess of a DLC.