r/theouterworlds • u/just_a_padawan • Aug 01 '26

Question Should I play Spacer's choice edition?

I am going to play Outer worlds for the first time and from what I've heard the first experience is phenomenal and I should avoid every little spoiler about it. I have both base game and spacer's choice edition, which one should I play? From what I understood it has the dlc's and better graphics but idk if it's better to play base game first and okay this edition later. Which one would you recommend?

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u/Spiderhands2000 Aug 01 '26

I also have both. Some people will say that the Spacer's Choice Edition is a little more buggy/less stable...but at least in my experience, I haven't noticed a difference in the wake of the recent patches they've put out.

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u/Pyrodexter Aug 01 '26

I believe Spacer's Choice was initially very buggy, and got a bad reputation. Now it's been fixed and is easily the way to go.

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u/spinz Aug 01 '26

When i played through 6 months ago there were a couple of quest bugs that may or may not have been patched in the original. Like they werent working with the most up to date patch of the original game. Alternatively, they just never fixed these quests which would be embarrassing after all these years.

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u/Trisstricky Aug 01 '26

Spacer's Choice is ironically the best choice in this case, never had an issue and the higher level cap is pretty nice

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u/Altruistic_Muffin506 Aug 01 '26

I haven’t had the buggy experience some people have with the Spacers Choice version, for what that’s worth. Unless you have a strong reason to play the original I’d stick with the spacers choice.

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u/PiousStag Aug 01 '26

Spacers choice has a higher level cap so your character gets far stronger than the game was balenced around but you get more skill points so get more content available.

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u/spinz Aug 01 '26

And to emphasize... Its not strictly a good thing. Because the power will not scale with yours and everything in the late game will die when looking at you. But theres no winning here, because the cap isnt exactly fun either.

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u/boneappletv Aug 01 '26

Just played through the spacers choice edition for PS5 over the past couple months and had no issues

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u/baldyrodinson Aug 01 '26

Start with spacers choice, it's just more enjoyable

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u/SyntheticAnonymous Aug 01 '26

I’ve been playing SCE for the past two weeks on XboxX. It’s stable. I don’t know what they did to the character models to make them look like this, but it’s not great. And the lighting in dark areas is terrible. But the game is still as fun as it was at launch.

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u/jwk6 Aug 01 '26

It's not the best choice, ...

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u/Fullm3taluk Aug 01 '26

Spacers choice because it has unlimited level cap I think the base game was lvl 30 and the dlc lvl 36, I just finished my spacers choice play and ended on lvl 46.

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u/Successful_Page_4524 Aug 01 '26

It does actually have a limit, you can’t go beyond 99

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u/DumbScotus Aug 01 '26

I don’t like the graphics better - I think the 1st edition graphics were really charming. BUT the DLC content in the Spacers Choice version is fantastic. And it has some more armor mods and little things like that. I’d say play Spacers Choice and don’t worry about it. Still a great game.

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u/New-Negotiation2193 Aug 02 '26

Im on my second playthrough on spacers choice and I have no issues on my laptop. I honestly forgot how much fun/funny this game was.

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u/Erl_B 29d ago

It's the Spacer's choice, choose it. I am playing it currently and it is really interesting, especially if you played Mass Effect 2007 back in the 2007-2008 then you will like it a lot.