r/outside

I hate this damned game sometimes.

Who thought this quest was a good idea? Apparently, there’s a bug where if you are in a party with someone, and they invoke the spell “I Need Some Space,” you have no choice but to accept this shitty quest where you have to wait out the spell duration timer? And the game doesn’t tell you how long the timer is? The hell am I supposed to do in the meantime? Like, damn, you’re my favorite adventure partner. You know I hate soloing and everyone else in the party is less fun than you. Use your chat window and stop casting hexes on me.

Whoever taught people that “avoidance strategy” is a legitimate way to play the game ought to be taken out back and throughly thrashed … 😡

As my characther deeps his bond levels in his family's clan, he realizes how dumb the other players can be.

Up until now there is'nt any bad endings or major failure in patience checks, but i find this trait dangerous and would like to remove it ASAP.

Manifestation 1:

>The veteran with "Mother" title in the clan has been accidentally portraying the "Father" player for years. (Both biological and still married)

>Every time my characther would get close to making a bad decision or generate a bad consequence, she would say "When your father arrives, you will be sorry for what you did", as if he were an executioner class.

>I only realized what she did when my char got into level 20. I had an bond episode day together, and decided to select some dialogue options i never tried before.

>Only then "Father" told me what was going on, that he knew my mother was doing that and she already asked her to stop, but she ALWAYS forgot and accidentally did it in my whole tutorial.

>Next day, she did the same thing. "Organize your room's inventory, otherwise your father will be mad at you", i recognized the pattern and pointed out to her. "Didnt father already told you to stop doing that?"

>"Oh, you are right. Sorry, i should have already stopped it"

I am shocked on how stupid can a person be, only stopping after 20 years just because his son pointed, even though her husband and daughter pointed as well

Mid-game recovery at Level 45 is entirely viable, but it requires shifting from standard progression to crisis management and raid leadership mechanics. When two-thirds of the raid group is AFK, griefing, or ignoring the objective (PTFO), the carry tax on the active duo will eventually trigger total [Burnout] and wipe the party.

1. Stop Solo-Carrying the Entire Raid

• Establish Hard Loot & Resource Boundaries: The two active players cannot bankroll or carry side-quests for party members who refuse to contribute gold, chore-cycles, or upkeep. Stop subsidizing non-contributing players' comfort tiers; let passive resource drain affect them directly.
• Reallocate Guild Roles: If non-PTFO members aren't generating gold, assign them non-negotiable base-maintenance tasks (food prep, base repairs, resource farming). If a member refuses both main-quest gold generation and base maintenance, they are actively dead-weighting the instance.

2. Optimize the Active Duo Synergy

• Align Primary Objectives: The two active players must operate as a locked duo queue. Sync up daily schedules, combine economy grinding, and share high-yield intelligence. If one is tanking short-term aggro (e.g., immediate bills or logistic fires), the other should focus on high-yield DPS (longer-term income scaling, certifications, or career pivot quests).
• Protect Shared Mana & Sanity: Schedule mandatory off-duty downtime away from the wider party to prevent collective morale collapse.

3. Triage the Level 45 Skill Tree

• Leverage Existing EXP Rather than Rerolling: At Level 45, starting a completely fresh Level 1 skill tree is inefficient. Instead, hybridize. Take the hard skills, life experience, and domain knowledge already accumulated and pivot them into adjacent, higher-margin roles (consulting, contract management, niche QA/tech lead paths, or high-barrier trade services).
• Ruthlessly Cut Maintenance Overhead: Downsize base footprint, eliminate vanity subscriptions, and shed depreciating assets. Lowering the monthly gold drain instantly lowers the party's required grinding threshold.

4. Set a Hard Raid Timer for the Roster

• Deliver the Objective Briefing: Call a party council. Lay out the math: the current base economy and upkeep numbers are mathematically unsustainable without full-party participation.
• Define Clear Timelines: Give non-contributing members a fixed window (e.g., 60–90 daily cycles) to secure a quest line, generate gold, or take full ownership of base operations.
• Prepare to Split the Instance: If inactive members refuse to play the objective after the timer expires, the active duo must plan an exit route (relocating base, restructuring lease agreements, or running a 2-player instance). Carrying non-functional raid members indefinitely is a guaranteed slow loss condition.

Focus entirely on protecting the duo's core stats, locking down stable cash flow, and refusing to absorb damage meant for players who won't press their buttons.

I’m already somewhat athletic as I weigh 190.My recruiter was telling me it’s possible to do it but how so? Someone who joined the Navy said: 1)eggs w/tons of cottage cheese, Peanut Butter packets, Chex mix cereal, (super hearty), eggs, sausage, hash brown, biscuits and gravy. 2) Do extra push ups w/pull ups as many as you can on the side before bed along with high reps,1.5 mile run, 2min plank. So it sounds to me higher reps and higher volume of exercises.

Any corrections?

Okay so I just discovered a crazy new strategy that will revolutionize speedrunning. When you entire a shop, pick up what you want to grab. BUT, instead of going to the cash registers to purchase, immediately dash towards the exit. If you do it fast enough, you will leave with the item in your inventory and without losing any money. This can be replicated as many times as possible to essentially get free items at every store.

Do be warned this does have a few drawbacks. I think this tech might be tied to the reputation system, because occasionally you'll get a Wanted level or NPCs and players will try and attack you. I recommend practicing this tech at department stores first, where the slower NPCs will have a harder time attacking you if it does happen.

Devs did not document this. Caffeine tolerance dropped to negative — even the decaf variant now triggers a 6-hour Insomnia debuff. Melatonin consumable has a razor-thin effective dose window; 3mg overshoots and applies Groggy for the entire next session. Have to shave a chip off the item and hope. NA sparkling wine also procs it somehow, which makes no sense given it has none of the active ingredient.

Meanwhile every other stat went up. Removed a co-op partner from the party and gained massive freedom, unrestricted kayaking and yoga access, and full control of the credits. Cannot overstate how much better the build plays now.

Is the sleep thing intended balance for the buffs, or do I need to file a ticket?

Any time I’m sitting within a 1m radius of my dog companion, the [drowsy] debuff is automatically applied. The only way I can guarantee the debuff is removed is by resting because getting up and leaving doesn’t always work.

So is this normal, or is it a feature specific to some NPCs? I thought companion NPCs weren’t supposed to use friendly fire, but sometimes he uses his [puppy dog eyes] ability to disable my movement. Then I basically have to rest unless I have enough willpower saved up override the movement disability.

The tutorial factions in this game never teach you how to do anything that helps you survive, properly grind, build a decent guild or make a playstyle that works well. And I'm not saying this as a meta slave - I don't need to be one of the players who owns enormous guilds on the leaderboard that have functionally infinite power and have trillions of points and min-maxes every form of EXP and point farming in both PvP and PvE to the point where the servers are on the brink of being unable to handle the lag and crashing entirely, I just don't understand why the tutorial levels teach you and force you to memorize random nonsensical trivia that don't affect your actual gameplay instead of actually giving useful tips like the different options you may have for grinding currency and power, how to form guilds with trustworthy players instead of scammers and noobs, and the penalty the lead guild of the current server imposes on all of us and the most efficient ways of reducing its impact on your gameplay.

Is something wrong with the game? I'm trying to get infinite money but I keep getting banned for using tax exploits. Why can Amazon use tax exploits, but I can't?

All I have are these “Crocs” and they’re only a couple of coins and buff the hell out of (comfort) but it’s really hitting my (charisma) stat and has my (style) hitting the negatives.

I am currently lvl 17, I didn't know what skill tree to take after finishing [School] event and picked the Tourism skill tree, but apparently it's completely useless and will get my character's career stats nowhere, the older players already signed my character to a university for this skill tree, I don't even like this skill tree nor do I have a lot of XP in it, I am afraid of getting [Student Debt] debuff for a useless artifact and waste 4 years of lifespan, what should my character do?

Hey all, the good news is that four months ago I opted to take the [sobriety] path after playing through the [drunkard] route for the past decade. There have been a lot of perks added to my character and it almost feels like a fresh NG+ playthrough!

However, the depression debuff is taking its toll on my character (level 33). My apothecary has me on one antidepressant potion per day and I am currently speaking to a wise sage once per week. I am also obtaining lots of exercise XP, but am still feeling awful! I can’t quit thinking about all of the errors and misfires I made while on my previous route playthrough and I don’t enjoy chatting or raiding with other players anymore. Any advice from anyone? I want to feel like my old noob self again from before I took the [drunkard] route.

Edit: real talk, thank you guys for the amazing advice. As dark and grim as the world and internet may be at times, you guys give me hope. I am feeling so much better today after reading everyone’s comments. Have a great week everyone and see you on the battlefield!

I was just chilling in the south France server and suddenly the ambient lighting decreased for a while, before the beginning of the night period. Should I update my drivers? Has this happen for anybody else?

Well, tell me which server you're playing on.

I started my quest on the Portugal server, and honestly, it wasn't bad at all. The server had some pretty decent buffs: amazing food, good weather, beaches everywhere, and upgrading your guild was surprisingly easy had a ton of members. The partyes were huge.

Then, at level 14, I transferred to the Switzerland server.

And holy shit, what a completely different meta.

The Switzerland server is basically a pay-to-win economy simulator. Making gold? Easy. Getting a decent job? Easy. Infrastructure? Absolutely broken. Public transport? Basically an overpowered legendary item. Everything works, everything is clean, and somehow the server has enough money to upgrade absolutely everything.

So economically speaking, Switzerland is a S-tier server.

But then I discovered the hidden.

Apparently, the Swiss developers decided that if you're going to have money, stability and a functioning society, you need to sacrifice the ability to make friendship and add mental sanity prety easy to lose points.

Want to meet new people? Good luck.

Want to make friends? Hard as fuck.

Want someone to randomly invite you for a beer?Critical failure. They have no time for that because people have a lot of alone quests that sometimes i don't get it.

Everyone is polite, everyone smiles, everyone says hello.

And then everyone goes back home and closes the fucking door or pretend to be busy.

I genuinely think there's a hidden server rule:

"You may interact with other players, but forming a meaningful friendship requires a minimum of 5 years of gameplay."

So yeah, Switzerland has insane economic buffs, but apparently the devs balanced the server by giving everyone a permanent Friendship debuff and depression malus quite easy to get since your main quest is quinda like work - get home - work - get home.

Still trying to figure out whether it's possible to remove it or if I need to buy the "Social Expansion Pack".

After two weeks of no rain events, I decided to go join a golf minigame with some family. Immediately after we paid and exited the clubhouse, we were suddenly hit with a Thunderstorm Event. I dunno if the RNG just decided “Fuck you in particular,” or what, but we literally haven’t seen a rain event in like two weeks before today

For a long time I thought this was the default for the vanilla client, but after hearing some people who mess around with resource packs talking about some of these things, I went down a research side-quest on the community-maintained wiki and it turns out these aren't default and there's a debug mode. It's purely client-side, so nothing bannable or anything, but the overlay is useful at times and the scene inspector makes it easier to learn things. It's made of several variants of the [Synesthesia] status effect combined with the [Ideasthesia] effect, and it lets me open secondary windows that show things like previously seen wiki entries, known questlines, a zoomable minimap and scene inspector (albeit limited to what the client has loaded), and even utilities like the physics simulator and block-based logic programming editor, all shown in a weird language that doesn't exist but I can understand. Even more interesting, the visual overlay always shows things like subtitles, geometric relations, projected corner angles, and trajectories, with a way to import them into the physics simulator. It tends to add very faint static on top of everything, though, and when the brightness is really low, sometimes it starts showing random fractals and sometimes faint objects. There's also this weird background window that's always open that shows colors and patterns based on music and sound effects.

Why are your play styles so different? Like you both speced into [Amphibious] and maxed out the [Bite force] skill tree for your reptile builds. but the Alligator class is seen as more timid towards the Human mains, while crocs are notoriously aggressive towards them.

Just wanted to ask

I was told I should check out this sub and consider posting it here. None of us were given a gaming manual when we were born. So I tried my best at writing one.

The Game of Earth: A No-Bullshit Player’s Guide by ZD Fanawe.

If you have kindle unlimited, it’s free on there.

(And no, I’m not making these posts to try to be the next New York Times best seller. Royalties on sales are ~$2. So please skip the hate and don’t buy into those game mechanics. If you do read it, I hope you enjoy it and would love to hear your feedback)