History Funny / TheOuterWorlds

* Activating the station for [=SubLight=] brings activates several facilities such as facility lights, security protocols, air recyclers and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers toilet flushers.]] That last one receives an error.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqpYIrP_IRc Co-game Directors Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky react to a 12-minute speedrun]]. Their commentary is a mixture of confused and impressed.
-->''"I'm really happy that this doesn't break; that this works."''
** They may have even encountered a bug. Usually when he needs to talk to someone, he skips through as fast as possible. One line of dialogue appears to be unskippable for some reason.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDYtI7kUU4k The trailer]] for ''The Outer Worlds 2'' tells very little about the game beyond some pretty vistas and action shots--which is part of the joke: the narrator spends the entire runtime [[ParodiedTrope making fun of uninformative teaser trailers]].
--> '''Narrator:''' That "WWUUUAGH" sound can only mean one thing... we must gaze over an epic shot of a world. ''[[MundaneMadeAwesome And there should be]] {{lens flare}}s!''
** Funnily enough, if you look closely at the hero's "silhouette", it's virtually the same model as that of the default protagonist!
** Doubly funny is that Phineas' voice actor (Pitor Michael) is the one narrating the trailer! Makes you wonder how he felt about his first outing...
** Ultimately, all this flash presentation is just a front, as the trailer admits they haven't done the hero's character yet. Or the environments. Or anything except the title. And the title is...''The Outer Worlds'' '''''2'''''!
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* Legally, Ellie is dead her parents are collecting the insurance payouts. You want to contest these claims to an insurance agent, since Ellie's been palling around with you, but she doesn't buy it.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Nothing like a little PercussiveMaintenance to make some progress in the name of science!]]

** And you can follow it up by predicting the exact shape the final boss fight will take, and the murderer will just get frustrated at the Unplanned Variable's attitude, saying "you just couldn't let me have my moment, could you?"

** According to [[https://www.polygon.com/features/2020/3/17/21179387/the-outer-worlds-dumb-mode-fallout this interview]], the whole thing is an easter egg to an idea for ''New Vegas'', where a low intelligence Courier's story revolves around finding ice cream, which sadly never came to fruition.

* When asking [[TheDon Sedrick Kincannon]] about his alibi, he plainly answers that he couldn't have killed Helen... because he was busy committing a different, completely unrelated murder.

* This exchange:

-->'''SAM:''' (regarding the early retirement program) A lethal cleaning solution is the best cleaning solution. Don't smear germs around - kill them so they can't come back.

** If you manage to get a hold of the mascot hat and wear it while talking to him, [[DevelopersForesight you get a unique dialogue option where you gleefully point out that you're wearing the same hat]]. The vendor says "[[FreudianSlip they got you too?!]]" before catching himself and uncomfortably shifting back to his usual monotone.