As previewed by Alice Bee, The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition doesn’t merely bundle up Obsidian’s spacefaring RPG with its DLC expansions. It’s additionally an sudden remaster, redoing and fine-tuning every part from companion AI and facial animations to climate results and dynamic lighting. It’s an attractive prospect for a game that by no means beforehand counted visuals as its sturdy swimsuit, although there will likely be a catch: the Spacer’s Choice Edition can have considerably greater PC system necessities than the 2019 unique.
Whereas the minimal specs as soon as requested for historic CPUs and graphics playing cards, just like the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, or Radeon HD 7850, The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition will need not less than a 6GB GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 590. And that’s apparently only for 30fps from the bottom high quality settings at 720p, not even a decision you’d get on any self-respecting gaming monitor.
The new really helpful spec, for High settings, 1080p and 60fps, goes on to checklist the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2070 and Radeon RX 6700 XT as prompt GPUs. A far cry from the (now relegated) GTX 1060 and Radeon RX 470 that the unique really helpful. RAM necessities are up as effectively: 12GB minimal and 16GB really helpful, up from 4GB and 8GB respectively.
These are surprisingly lengthy leaps, contemplating The Outer Worlds is lower than 4 years outdated, although in equity these necessities aren’t outrageously excessive both. Plenty of different 2023 releases have listed the GTX 1060 at the least GPU, and present Steam-crashing darling Sons of the Forest additionally names the GTX 1080 Ti as a really helpful possibility.
It seems like there are a great deal of graphical enhancements to have in trade, too. Word from co-developers Obsidian and Virtuos is that they’ve reworked visible results for explosions, weapons, environments and particles, added dynamic wind, cloud, and sandstorm results, improved how foliage reacts to wind, touched up water results, added extra dynamic lights, improved character fashions and animations, and added all-new NPC animations.
Sadly, the Spacer’s Choice Edition gained’t be a free improve should you already personal The Outer Wilds and its DLCs (Murder on Eridanos and Peril on Gorgon are each included). Though it will likely be offered at a “diminished buy worth” to house owners of the unique, must you need to take a look at that sharpening work for your self.
Here are the complete system specs, for posterity:
The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition minimal PC necessities
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- RAM: 12GB
- GPU: Geforce GTX 1060 6 GB or Radeon RX 590
- Storage: HDD or SSD
The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition really helpful PC necessities
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- CPU: Intel Core i7-8700 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- RAM: 16GB
- GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti or GeForce RTX 2070 or Radeon RX 6700 XT
- Storage: SSD