Obsidian’s dystopian sci-fi RPGThe Outer Worldshasn’t been out for long (less than a week, in fact), but players are already hard at work uncovering every possible route through the game. That includes speed-running, and oneThe Outer Worldsplayer has managed to beat the game in record time: his playthrough clocked in at under 25 minutes.
AtypicalThe Outer Worldsplaythrough will obviously take a good deal longer to complete; the general estimate for most players is over 40 hours of gameplay. Popular speed-runner YouTuber Jabo set out to test just how wildly shortened that number could be and reached his goal through a very deliberate set of in-game choices.
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Earlier this week, Jabo actually made a couple of attempts before setting his current record: the first speed-run clocked in at 30:54, before the second and current playthrough came out today, lasting for exactly 24 minutes and 21 seconds. Now,The Outer Worldsisn’t a short game, nor was it intended to offer a short main story campaign, so naturally Jabo skipped through gigantic sections of the game and got a horrible ending in pursuit of his goal—on purpose, of course. To achieve such a specific and fast ending, the YouTuberselected hisOuter Worldscharacter’s skills–or lack thereof–to suit the task, which required (among other things) an intelligence ofzero.
The description for Jabo’s video went into a little more detail, with spoilers, on how to complete a speed-run ofThe Outer Worlds. “So this runutilizes a lot of new tricks; first of all, we have the jump at the start of Monarch that skips running around the entire level - this saves around 90 seconds but makes fighting in the later sections a little bit harder as we are unable to get the revolver Mk2,” he wrote. “Second off, the ending for the run is much different - it was discovered that there’s a (dumb) ending that sees you, the player, take the 0 intelligence attribute and fly the ship of the Hope straight into the sub,killing yourself and everyone on board. This skips the later sections of the run, saving around 2-3 minutes.”
So there it is: players can, in fact, completeThe Outer Worldsin a hilariously short amount of time, though most wouldn’t want to. For those wanting a more natural in-game experience, expect to spend a little more time completing objectives—and consider giving the player character at leastsomeintelligence,among other useful attributesand equipment.
The Outer Worldsis available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
