8AM PT, 11AM ET.
Can’t beat the price of free. No parts of the game are missing, just for all of you patient folks.
Quick note: It is a remaster of the original game with the base game and the DLC expansions that were released for it, visual updates and a higher level cap and possible other tweaks. Some reports of stuttering and poor performance.
Apparently this is the Spacer’s Choice Edition. A remaster by another studio which some people don’t like.
There’s stuff on nexusmods which fixes it, but I don’t know if they’re any good.
That’s great! Thank you :)
I have been putting off playing the finale of the original edition on Steam until I could afford the DLC; I wonder if the Spacer’s choice version on Epic will pick up my save as it’s a new build?
Either way, thank again!
No problem! You can try making a new save on Epic, find the save file directories on both Steam and Epic then copy the Steam one over.
Oh fantastic, that’s a great plan! I can’t wait to try this :) Thanks again, loved playing the base game.
Counterpoint:
Epic Games Store
Way too big of a price to pay.
meh, free is free.
Lol, based.
Oh fuck off you big baby, we don’t need people like you in every discussion about free games on EGS, we get it, you’re mad that someone dared stand up to Gaben and his monopoly, go bitch somewhere else and let people enjoy the free games.
You sad excuse of a human being
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People bitch way too much about EGS. Yeah, we get it, it’s not steam and the dude that runs it pissed in their Cheerios once. Claim the free fucking game or don’t.
Every single god damn time there’s a post about a good free game on EGS, there’s always some tool who’s gotta mention how bad EGS sucks and that they only play the finest Linux games available. They act like they are stuck up losers. Let’s be completely honest. Gaming on Linux still blows.
Nobody gives a shit about your Linux gaming. Nobody gives a shit if you like Steam more. Nobody gives a shit if you have a beef with Tim Sweeny.
Just shut the fuck up already.
It’s even worse when you’re old enough to remember the same kind of people that were complaining about Valve creating Steam and forcing them to download it in order to play their games and then complaining that non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed and having to download part of the game at a time when bandwidth sucked… The same kind of people were saying they would forever boycott Steam but today they’re made that someone tried to break the status quo again.
non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed
The problem was/is their policy of allowing the non-Valve games to also require their own storefront launcher alongside Steam.
There was that one dark period of “Games For Windows Live” on Steam, but those issues are pretty rare nowadays.
That’s also an issue, but them becoming the default provider and having such a huge market share isn’t something that players should be happy about, they might be managed by someone that cares about players but Gaben could die tomorrow and get replaced by someone that doesn’t. Competition should be celebrated even if it’s not perfect.
Competition needs to do better than simply existing to be celebrated.
If I open a storefront that costs twice as much as Steam with none of the features you wouldn’t support it just because “it’s competition”.
I would certainly encourage the effort but tell you that you need to do better on pricing
Huh, I actually never used Steam until it came to Linux. I switched back in 2010 or so, and before that I either downloaded games directly from the dev or bought disks.
I don’t understand what was wrong with that model. I remember buying Minecraft directly from the website back in 2012 or so, and I did the same with Factorio (2014?). I remember playing Starcraft 2 with its own launcher, which again I got through the website. The same is true for League of Legends.
I don’t get why everything has to be through some launcher, though I do appreciate what Steam is doing for the Linux community, so they have earned my business (if it wasn’t for Steam, I wouldn’t play nearly as many games). But from an overall gaming perspective, I agree that having such a dominant platform isn’t good, and I would probably buy from other stores if they offered a decent experience, but I’m not going to jump through hoops to play games.
I was almost with you until you said that dumb shit in the second half.
Thanks for sharing
Um… No, I’d bitch about it being on Steam too. I just like actually owning my games.
Also, wow, fucking chill, dude…
True. I have 237 games claimed on there, but only 14 have over an hour play time. $0 spent on that store.
just pirate at that point
Or… Just claim the games and play them if you ever feel like it and don’t if you don’t?
Yup, I think I’ve downloaded like 5 and actually started like 3 (and haven’t put more than an hour on any). I’ve bought far more games on Steam that I already have from Epic than I’ve actually played on EGS.
It takes like 30 sec of my time to click on the link and checkout on my phone. If it took much more than that, I wouldn’t bother.
I don’t know why I still bother. I guess somewhere deep down in my soul I think there’s a chance EGS will stop sucking, and at that point I’ll be glad to have the library. That haven’t happened in the year or two that I’ve been claiming games, but I still do it anyway. Eh, whatever.
There’s some really good games they gave through the years and if you use a library aggregator like Galaxy 2.0 or Playnite you basically don’t notice what launcher it’s on…
Yeah, I just haven’t gotten to it.
I use Linux, so the convenience of switching Proton versions through Steam is worth buying the game again in most cases. I could use Heroic launcher, but the interface isn’t as nice and adding each game to Steam is tedious, especially on my Steam Deck (esp. since Steam has decent settings preconfigured in many cases).
So yeah, my laziness costs me some money. If EGS supported Linux, I’d probably buy some games from them. Likewise for GOG, but at least GOG has Linux builds of many games, so they occasionally get my money as well.
It’s such a waste of time and sanity to have to keep up with claiming.
I mean, it’s not the best choice… 😎
Another note: The “base game” on giveaway is the full game, don’t buy the Add-on. That’s for people to upgrade from the original+DLCs to the remaster, only useful when not on free giveaway.
Got excited until I realized it wasn’t the Outer Wilds…
Outer Worlds is a fun game. Outer Wilds is a game I won’t ever forget.
Yeah I had to check 3 times whether I got the game right or not between the two.
Outer Wilds is a game I won’t ever forget.
Me too, but because I mehhed it so hard that I was unable to finish it. Nice vibes though and fascinating premise, but the gameplay sucked for me and the story wasn’t compelling enough to counter that.
And I barely failed to get a refund in time :-|
This was my Outer Wilds experience:
I avoided the dlc for ages because I couldn’t see how it could top the main game. And then it did anyway.
It feels like a sequel honestly. Kind of incredible how many of the core mechanics from the base game they threw out in service of telling a new story differently.
Dangit, misread outer wilds… Thanks for the freebie heads up tho!
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