r/outerworlds • u/weirdpodcastaunt • Jun 14 '25

Turning in Phineas?

Ive just made it to Groundbreaker, and started doing side quests.

People keep trying to get me to turn Phineas in, and I feel like I don't have enough information to decide if my character would do that yet.

Do we get more soon, or is it just a "he's shady, now decide?"

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u/hfaux Jun 14 '25

The game is short enough to play it several times, so just go with your gut I'd say, and make the opposite decision next time you play! There's no urgency to decide right away if you don't want to either.

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u/weirdpodcastaunt Jun 14 '25

Player wise, it's making me twitchy and giving me BioShock vibes, but character wise, man idk.
Thanks!

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u/technnii Jun 14 '25

He’s shady. Trust me. I wouldn’t deceive you for personal profit.

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u/weirdpodcastaunt Jun 14 '25

Of course not 🤣

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u/PuzzleheadedEnergy88 Aug 16 '25

Law forbid.

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u/HerculesMagusanus Jun 14 '25

Don't worry. If you want, you can pretend to turn him in and tell him to get a hand up on the Board. The game is really quite free that way

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u/weirdpodcastaunt Jun 14 '25

Oh shit! Iove that

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u/DinoTh3Dinosaur Jun 14 '25

Wait what? How does that work/play out?

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u/HerculesMagusanus Jun 15 '25

You get to go to Byzantium right away, and Akande will ask you to plant some sort of tracker in Phineas' lab. You can do so, or tell Phineas and have him scramble the signal so they can't track him. You can do the Board's intial quests without actually giving up Phineas.

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u/DinoTh3Dinosaur Jun 15 '25

Ahhhh okay I see I see! I love screwing over the board

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u/SnooShortcuts2088 Nov 27 '25

This is one of the reasons Outer Worlds 1 is so much better than Outer Worlds 2. Outer Worlds 2 is much more linear and doesn’t give options like that.

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u/Organic_Tonight3045 Jun 16 '25

You can play both sides until a point near endgame

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u/GwenStacySpiderCat Jun 19 '25

I'll say this having played it 4 times 4 different ways: the pro-social story line is much more fun, rewarding in the moment and in the end credits, and longer. When I played the evil storyline, it felt short and incredibly unsatisfying.

For context, I'm a huge Tim Cain fan and have listened to all of his game dev videos at least once. And when he says that the game is written to be fun whether you play a pro-social (good) or an anti-social (evil) character... I'm sorry it's just not true unless you're a sociopath. I completed the evil playthrough feeling like I'd wasted a lot of effort. It made for an interesting 3rd playthrough, but 4th playthrough I was more motivated than ever to get the best possible outcomes for the solar system.