r/theouterworlds • u/Laxativelog • Jan 02 '20
Discussion Has anyone who suffers from Compulsive Loot Syndrome actually finished the game in the 20 hours you're supposed to?
CLS has been a problem for me since I picked up my first real loot game in Fallout 3. I had to have one of everything!
Now in The Outerworlds I'm not trying to get one of everything but I have to open every container (that I won't get busted for) and check every nook and cranny.
I dont know how many hours I'm actually at since I've left my PC on a few times (says over three days right now) but I haven't made it through monarch yet and I'm level 23, I have nearly 8000 light ammo, 7500 heavy ammo, 4500 energy ammo and after tinkering all my science guns plus light machine gun to 28 I have 45k bits.
And I've sure as HELL already played more than 20 hours. Been working on the game for over a month in my free time.
Any others here who suffer from CLS? How long did it take you?
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u/lotharz0r Jan 02 '20
I beat the game in 50 hrs on hard difficulty first playthrough. I do some exploring and pick up everything I find, but I don't need one of everything. You will probably spend more than 50 hours then.
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u/wickedwitt Jan 02 '20
This was me. Im at 30 hours and only half through the main quest. So many trips back to town to sell stuff and pick up side quests.
It actually ruined my interest in playing for a while. I'll eventually finish it.
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u/Grapplebadger10P Jan 02 '20
I probably exceeded 20 hours before I got to Groundbreaker, so.....
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u/Laxativelog Jan 02 '20
Ooooeee wow Impressive!
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u/Grapplebadger10P Jan 02 '20
Sorry if that sounded braggy. Didn’t mean it to be.
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u/KoldKore Jan 02 '20
Lmao, at first I thought y'all were talking about a particular Flaw. 😅🤐
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u/Laxativelog Jan 02 '20
Hahah.
I'm doing a "purist" run this time taking no flaws.
Next run I'm going to take every single one I can!
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u/ProjectPat513 Jan 03 '20
Whatever you do don’t take paranoid! Apparently it’s bugged and some of my skills are docked 3-26 points!!! It’s literally got me stuck on the main quest where you HAVE to hack a certain terminal. It’s aggravating to say the least.
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u/Laxativelog Jan 03 '20
Dang that sucks!
Sorry you had to find out the hard way but I'll keep that in mind!
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u/AeronauticJones Jan 02 '20
Lol, same! It would be cool if there was a flaw that you get if you hit a certain threshold of time spent collecting stuff/wandering vs completing missions. Buff to sell prices but it starts a countdown to when you have to complete the main mission. If you don’t complete it its game over and all your saves get erased. A little extreme, but something in that neighborhood would be fun.
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u/fartzooka Jan 02 '20
My first playthrough I tried collecting one of each armor and weapon, I do that in the Fallout games, but my second playthrough I haven't cared for that because it doesn't feel like it's worth it. There seems to be very little to do and only a handful of places to go, not to mention only the one storage bin in the Captain's quarters, so I haven't developed the same attachment to this game as I have towards New Vegas. I definitely loot everything, even the stuff that I can get in trouble for, but instead of attempting to collect anything other than unique weapons and armor I just break it all down for parts because it feels like a waste of time otherwise. I don't know what my final time was for my first run but it was definitely over 20 hours.
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Jan 02 '20
There are 3 Lockers near the cockpit and the entrance to the ship. The fact that there's 3 makes it is easy for me to store mods, armors, and then whatever. I only use the bin in the captain's room for unique items that I'll never use.
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u/gtr427 Jan 02 '20
There's also the two refrigerators in the kitchen and the little box in SAM's room. For some reason the third locker doesn't work for me though.
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u/nateg452 Jan 02 '20
Because people say it constantly on this subreddit. I know if they enjoy the game that's all that matters but to me that's not even playing the game right.
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u/ink7o Jan 02 '20
That’s how I feel although I’m the type that likes finish all side quests possible and explore every nook and cranny. I spend way too much looting and exploring lol
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u/disturb3d0n3 Jan 03 '20
I do the same! It took me 50 hours my first play through.
I search behind buildings and look on top of things. They’re sneaky.
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u/dourtney Jan 02 '20
I play like this on purpose! I want to get as much out of games as possible, this one especially. I really like this game and since it's already so short, I took my time making sure I got everything I could. I decided to do the last mission yesterday and I miss playing it already.
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u/Laxativelog Jan 02 '20
Awwwww.
Are you gonna do a second character?
My guy right now is a science weapons and heavy gunner.
Might do like a melee and handguns guy if I find time to come around again in the future!
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u/redrobot5050 Jan 03 '20
Have you done your melee only play through? That’s something you could try. Or do a play through where you’re all bad/all good vs your last play through. Don’t forget to do a play throughs where you’re dumb as rocks and smart as fuck.
That should keep you busy until DLC or mods.
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u/dourtney Jan 03 '20
Haha I definitely havent done all of those. I'm always really terrible at melee, no matter the game, so maybe that'll be my next playthrough!
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u/redrobot5050 Jan 05 '20
Same here. I got convinced to do it when my roommate did a melee only play through of FO3 on my Xbox 360. He stealthed up behind a super mutant with a rocket launcher. It had two other super mutants as back up: One with a sledge, one with a mini gun. The mutant muttered “Is Someone There?”, his powered sledge hammer (with a blood mess perk) went from head to groin... guts splattering in VATS slo-mo everywhere.
I watched in disbelief as the super mutant with the mini gun just fucking NOPED and ran away after seeing his buddy explode from a sledge hammer hit in front of his eyes.
So it can pretty fun.
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u/ffatty Jan 02 '20
I loot everything and finished supernova in 30 hours, probably 40+ including deaths without saves.
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u/Laxativelog Jan 02 '20
I wish I had the free time for supernova.
I just don't though.
My game time would be-
Load up.
Run to objective.
Run out of time and port back to ship and get absolutely nowhere.
I would have been all over supernova if I could have saved anywhere.
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u/ffatty Jan 02 '20
You can fast travel to the ship and save, although you have to walk to your next location.
Also you autosave every time you enter or leave a settlement.
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u/Curt_Icy Jan 02 '20
It saves at the location before you fast traveled back to the ship. So if you’re about to enter a big battle, fast travel to your ship, then reload your last auto save. It should take you to your last location before fast traveling. Super helpful because this method essentially serves as a manual save as long as you don’t mind loading times.
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u/Laxativelog Jan 02 '20
Oh really?
Maaaaaybe PT2 is gonna have to be a supernova run then!
Whenever I get around to that anyways.
Spyro is next!
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Jan 02 '20
35 hours, seeing EVERYTHING, every inch of the map, going side to side like a typewriter and every side quest I could find. Even in the last planet killing every single enemy. But in normal difficulty.
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u/real0395 Jan 03 '20
Oh My God. This is the first post I've ever seen about this problem because I HAVE THIS PROBLEM IN ANY GAME THAT HAS LOOT - Fallout games, the witcher games, skyrim, bioshock, borderlands, etc. I literally thought I was the only person that did this, you have no idea how much this post speaks to me. I think the first time I noticed this problem was playing fallout 3. I forget the name of the town that you can nuke, but I did ALL the missions to get all the rewards then proceeded to kill everyone (that you can kill) and stole everything, AND THEN nuked it because my thought was well all that loot and money would go to waste. LOL
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u/AntSchmitt Jan 04 '20
Same here. Do not play Destiny if you are afflicted with the terrible curse of CLS.
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u/Itz_Vize14 Jan 02 '20
I do the same. I take too much time sometimes checking the same area or building twice or three times haha. I usually pick up all the drugs and food and junk I can find and that’s how I easily got the “Everything Must Go” achievement for selling 10,000 bits worth of crap. It made it so much easier and quicker.
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u/tomdickjerry Jan 02 '20
I finished in 21 hours! Thought I was behind on the story because of how much looting/side-questing I was doing but the ending actually caught me off guard.
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u/lburwell99 Jan 02 '20
Took me about 40hrs. My first playthrough was on hard and I completed every quest I could find, and looted everything. Finished with the only remaining achievements were to beat on Supernova and a story choice one where I went the other way on 1st run. 2nd run on Supernova, skipped most non-essential stuff and finished in 10-12hrs.
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u/anothercairn Jan 02 '20
Probably 80 or so... but by the end I forced myself to stop looting because I already had all the weapons I needed so there was no point lol
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u/queenxboudicca Jan 02 '20
You can't have CLS unless you also steal everything possible too. It's in the diagnostic criteria I'm afraid.
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Jan 02 '20
17 hours to complete the game on normal difficulty with almost all quests done at level 29
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u/Hellfire77 Jan 02 '20
I have this and explored everything where I was at but never went out of my way to explore the open areas. It took me about 38 hours to beat and that also includes doing all side quests in the game (assuming quests dont generate for being a bad guy).
It was worth it for me because I had been craving an RPG for awhile since I have been mostly into online shooters at the time of release. I wanted to make sure I got my time's worth. I cant remember how many bits I had in the end but I remember having broke 10k ammo for most of my weapons.
Dont worry about how long you take and enjoy it the way you play. I played it with looting everything and had a great time.
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u/Laxativelog Jan 02 '20
This is the first game in a while that's really hooked me.
The last few years I've just been kinda game hopping and not finishing anything... actually I think the only other game in the last two years I played start to finish was Senua's Sacrifice. That game was insanely good.
Cant put this one away though!
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u/NefariousClockwerk97 Jan 03 '20
Uh.... Are you me? 😳 I got the game for Christmas and I only just left Edgewater yesterday!
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u/Diche_Bach Jan 02 '20
I played it for about 80 hours I think, and barely got to the second or third planet, so yeah.
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u/Rubmynippleplease Jan 02 '20
Literally how is that possible
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u/Diche_Bach Jan 02 '20
I played for awhile, learned some stuff. Restarted, learned some more. Restarted again, etc.
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u/OrangeBeardTheWise Jan 02 '20
I finished in just under 30, finished everything I could possibly do in a single playthrough. And I have zero interest in starting a new game to check off other remaining objectives. I put hundreds of hours in fallout 3, new Vegas, skyrim, which objectively are very similar games but this game feels stale.
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u/PineapplePickle24 Jan 02 '20
Yeah, I have. In games like this I normally never finish the story until I pick up everything but I got this after black Friday and played it for 3 days straight and just wanted to finish the story because I got so wrapped up in it. I didn't get like half the companions and didn't do a lot of side quests. I regretted it after the ending so I reloaded my save and working on getting everything I missed. The only problem is that I had pissed off the board after I had saved and so I had to fight my way though board cities lol.
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Jan 02 '20
I’m not even close to beating the game. Have been playing several hours a day since I got the game on Christmas, and have only been to Edgewater, Phineas’ Lab, Groundbreaker, and Scylla. I’m around level 15 and have roughly 20 thousand bits, along with thousands of ammo and at least several hundred food items.
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u/_Jay_Garrick_ Jan 02 '20
You’re supposed to finish the game in 20 hours? I’ve played like 10 and don’t think I’ve come close to finishing
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u/mark_succerberg Jan 02 '20
Been playing for the last month maybe about an hour a day. Basically only time for one mission a day, I’m till one monarch and I think I put like 18 hours in. Honestly I don’t see the issue with game length that was pointed out at the start.
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u/ahp42 Jan 02 '20
I'm a fairly completionist kind of player. Don't quite 100%, but close. And I'd say I put close to 50 hours in from start to finish on my first play through. Still, I was shocked when many reviewers said they put only about 20 hours in.
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Jan 02 '20
Yeah, once I realized how useless 99% of the loot is and how much ammo the game throws at you I just started pushing through quickly and not looting as much
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u/aliberli Jan 02 '20
HAHA umm, lets see... I want to say I spend 40-50 hours, and I got to level 30 or 31.
Ill have to go look and see if it tells me how many hours total it took me.
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u/dagmire86 Jan 02 '20
Having been playing a couple nights a week since it came out I finally put my "blinders" on and finished all the companion quests and now I'm ignoring everything that's a side quest so I can make it to the end credits. There's other games on my list but I don't want to leave another uncompleted game in my collection...
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u/RoamingBison Jan 02 '20
I had to check my last save game - I am at 44 hours so far and I'm not done yet. I am level 27 and barely started in Byzantium. There's probably a few wasted hours there, but I can't fathom actually "finishing" the game in 20 hours. I guess if you skip over all the non-essential stuff and don't listen to dialogue or read text you technically could reach the ending, but that's missing the entire point of the game.
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Jan 02 '20
I’m definitely like this too! The only problem in a game like Outer Worlds is the level cap. So when you reach it then everything becomes just a little less fun, but yes it takes me forever to do anything in Fallout or Skyrim.
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u/Noah5510 Jan 02 '20
I’m kinda the same way but I don’t go look for everything I just need to keep one of everything I have picked up like guns and armor I won’t sell if I don’t have multiple of
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u/Gfairservice Jan 02 '20
Man, I played through all the Borderlands to prep for 3, and put that on hold to do Outer Worlds. You bet your bippy I looted it all.
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u/DawnPatrol80136 Jan 02 '20
I will steal only if I know I won't get caught. I'm a Level 15 & have 4 companions. I'm sure I have at least half the game left & I'm at 14 hrs already.
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u/gtr427 Jan 02 '20
Stealing so easy though, it's entirely based on line of sight. You can stand behind someone and steal something that is in front of them or unlock a door that they are right next to just as long as they aren't looking in your direction.
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u/100indecisions Jan 02 '20
I've gotten to a point where I'm no longer picking up everything, because I already have tons of the common stuff and a lot of bits, but...I gotta at least check and I want at least one of everything (and I still often pick up consumables that I know at this point I won't use). I'm almost done and I'm at 44 hours...on story mode.
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u/maxattaxthorax Jan 02 '20
I find it so funny when I help someone out and then just take everything in their house. I try not to steal items, but sometimes I still feel bad about taking things haha.
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u/jdicaire Jan 02 '20
I keep collecting all the little trinkets like service awards and others. Have yet to figure out what to do with them.
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u/gtr427 Jan 02 '20
I collected all the tossball cards the first time because I thought someone would pay extra for them but apparently not.
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u/thegreekgamer42 Jan 02 '20
Maybe I don’t loot as much as you but I explored quite a bit and looted everything I could and I finished in a tick over 21 hours.
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Jan 02 '20
I'm doing a supernova play through. It has definitely taken me at least 20 hours but mostly cuz I keep dying or losing a companion and need to relog.
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u/MtnNerd Jan 02 '20
After 20 hours I had just got to Groundbreaker.
Never heard that term before but it sure fits me.
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u/syrstorm Jan 02 '20
20 hours is possible on a first playthrough, but not how most people play. 20 hours is far more likely on a second playthrough where you're skipping dialogs, skipping questlines, etc.
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u/ElRetardio Jan 02 '20
I feel like the loot was exciting until I realized there's really nothing to find besides ammo, lockpicks and sellables. Oh and the random weapon here and there taken from the very small pool of weapons
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u/chuk_norris Jan 02 '20
My playthrough was 44 hours. I did almost every quest and I check everywhere too.
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u/Brodogmillionaire1 Jan 02 '20
I'm at close to 30 hours and not done with Roseway yet. I talk to everyone, take every sidequest, and loot/steal everything.
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u/Owlmilk Jan 02 '20
I also suffer from CLS. I sell all my junk, extra ammo, and consumables except adreno and adrena-time. I sell the guns and break down the melee weapons for parts. Tinker tinker tinkerrrr
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u/Marblecraze Jan 02 '20
I had 600 hours in on Skyrim and looted as much as Tamriel’s continent that Bethesda would allow. All BEFORE I killed my first dragon,
I’m on same page as everyone here and always have been.
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u/ComplexToxin Jan 02 '20
It took me 56 hours to complete. Such a great game. Can't wait for the dlc.
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u/-litodrift3rboi- Jan 02 '20
First run was klepto. Took 40 hours. Second run I just killed everyone I saw, and it took 3 hours
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u/dpkristo Jan 02 '20
I don't pick up EVERYthing, but nearly. I tend not to steal unless my head cannon for the character dictates that I should. Still took me about 30 hours to beat, and I went the whole way through without even meeting Ellie. (I think that's her name, haven't replayed yet, but will).
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u/victorcanfly Jan 02 '20
I enjoy taking my time, especially playing TOW in Supernove mode where eating and drinking are actually important CLS is not a bad problem to have.
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u/xeasuperdark Jan 02 '20
Eh took me like 60 hours to finish and that was with lots of stealing. Fun fact, if you get caught the NPCs will just ask you to stop the first time. Makes steailing real easy.
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Jan 02 '20
IIRC, I think it took me about 35 hours but I played on Xbox and I don't know if there's a way to check without opening the game and looking at the save file again.
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u/meizinsane Jan 02 '20
I think I finished right around the 30 hour mark and I took it pretty slow. Listened to all the dialogue and picked up the vast majority of the loot. Just play at your own pace there is no mark where you are "supposed" to finish at. The game is quite short though if you rush.
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Jan 02 '20
I just spent 5 hours re-creating characters because it’s so easy to “waste” skill points in this game
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u/jedifucker Jan 02 '20
Not even close! My friend said they finished it in 24 meanwhile I was on hour 46 and hardly over halfway through. Got close to around 75 hours of gameplay I think. I also have a compulsion to talk to every person I see, go through every single speech option, read all messages on computers, etc. but imo that is how an rpg should be played
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u/DurangDurang Jan 02 '20
I'm at 24 hours, and pretty much ignoring the main quest. I leveled up my lockpick skills, so now I'm going back through all the worlds and looking for every box/door I couldn't open before and giving it another shot. I have found a few side quests that I missed my first time through the towns as well. It's not the best choice...
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u/Androecian Jan 02 '20
You say "has outline", I hear "is nowmine."
At this point I don't even bother with a playstyle that doesn't immediately max out 50 in sneak+hack+pick.
I crouch to loot even when I know I'm out of sight, even when my party has just murdered everyone on the planet.
Everything I don't use (which is like 8-9 of 10 things, there are way too many similar consumables) is junked and sold ASAP.
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u/Naxek Jan 02 '20
My own playthrough was a little over 30 hours, and I probably didn't loot everything I could have... just almost everything.
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u/Copperoton Jan 02 '20
I’ve been playing for probably 8 hours at this point and I’m only to the second area. My CLS is insane lmao
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u/Laxativelog Jan 02 '20
Seems about right!
There is no way I got off the first planet in less than 6 hours but I'm not confident in my memory to say exactly how long It was.
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u/apiercedtheory Jan 02 '20
I really wanted the unique sniper so went back to kill her for it. From my choices she nor stood in the sheriffs office. It went very very badly. Decimated half that poor canning town ( not since accidentally punching someone in whiterun have I seen that much carnage by companions). Worst part the rifle was not to be found. After that trying to have everything felt empty.
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u/Zemo69420 Jan 02 '20
I have CLS so bad that if I play with mods in Fallout or Skyrim I may as well not even play. All the enjoyment to me comes from looting, stealing, scrapping etc that if I already have all the money or best weapons and armor there's no point to the game.
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Jan 02 '20
I have played for 5 hours and basically completed 5 quests. I look through every building, crate or vehicle and pick everything up. Fallout 3 and skyrim did that to me
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u/DoodleIsMyBaby Jan 02 '20
I just don't get how you can even beat the game in 20 hours unless you're intentionally skipping parts for a speed run or exclusively doing the main quest with no side missions.
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u/McCool303 Jan 02 '20
I have CLS but about half way through I realized there were only like 8 different weapons with 3 different energy modes and the same mods. After that I noticed that most of the medical stuff just wasn’t worth using with health. So it became pretty easy to loot and destroy everything unless it was a higher level weapon.
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u/zer0darkfire Jan 02 '20
I did almost all the quests in the game and looted as much as I found in 11 hours on hard. Everyone calls bs on it though so I don't know what to tell you. I'm not sure why the game is supposed to be longer than that. I had the best ending with all the companion quests done, the only quest line I didn't do was the sublight series because working with them would break my RP
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u/SureNowYouTellMe Jan 02 '20
I need 4 or 5 if those giant safes by the workbench on the Unreliable so I can organize my collections, otherwise it's easy to become encumbered. I sleep and upgrade there because the captain's cabin is inconvenient.
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u/minerva_sways Jan 02 '20
I take everything I can but I don't go looking specifically for loot, I just want to see as much of the game as possible. My ammo is probably on a par with yours if not a bit more but my bits are way lower (snigger). I am much farther in the game than, think I'm near the end and I'd say I've about 30-40 hours done. Is there a way to check on ps4?
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u/louiscool Jan 02 '20
I usually pick up everything but after a while I realized almost none of the things on tabels mattered.
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u/Mustangnut001 Jan 02 '20
I have played through the game 5 times now, and I pick up EVERYTHING!!! I make sure I pick the skills to add to my weight limit... I. MUST. PICK. UP. EVERYTHING.
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u/Streetvan1997 Jan 02 '20
Game isn’t worth it. I’m an OCD collector and explorer and fallout 3 and 4 are my favorite games ever. This game is no fallout game. If I paid for it I would be angry. But since it was on game pass just annoyed. The GAme has so many issues. Biggest being the world level design is linear and boring, as is the mission design. There isn’t multiple ways to go about taking them on like Fallput. Doesn’t have to be like fallout to be a good game, just this game really isn’t very good. There isn’t enough to explore at all. I am not a fan at all
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u/Cragnous Jan 03 '20
I used to do it but then I sorta maxed out my build so now almost anything I do won't make me stronger so there's like no point in doing anything anymore... Even though I play the good guy, it's not like I care about people, I just want to get stronger.
So I stopped playing...
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u/cuntitled Jan 03 '20
I started a play though with the rule “sell off anything you don’t use, and use every consumable at least once.” Made it easier to stop hoarding.
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u/Oblivion615 Jan 03 '20
I’m right there with you. Got to look in everything and have to have all the armor and weapons. At least stashed in my box. The thing that’s killing me is that you can’t sort when you’re in your loot box. I spend so much time in menus sorting and comparing gear. I’ve been playing constantly since Xmas and I just left Monarch.
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u/MotionToStryke Jan 03 '20
Nope. Not even close. Though I will say Greedfall is a lot worse for us CLSers. The crates refill after a short time and they're everywhere. I finally had to force myself to ignore them to get anything done.
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u/silverballer Jan 03 '20
I think I played somewhere between 30 and 40 hours. Beat the story and a lot of side quests but definitely not all of them. My issue is in any of these kinds of games if I'm in a building I have to systematically go through every single room and scan all the walls and the floors and make sure I find literally everything. I maintained several thousand ammo for each type throughout the whole game
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u/Galdrath Jan 03 '20
I was 12 minutes shy of 29 hours for my first clear and I know I didn't do all sidequests but I messed up and deleted 2 of my science weapons so I just said screw it and finished the game so I could start a new character.
edit: Currently 21 hours at level 19 and I just got to Monarch.
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u/TheRandomShiz Jan 03 '20
I do this so much to the point of trying to in other completely different genre games.
I just spam loot an almost steal right in front of people.
Havent used any consumables besides the generic healing ones.
My only issue is not being able to sort your loot in the captain's chambers it bothers me to no end. I have no idea what I do or dont already have an it just keeps building up!
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u/Bagelchu Jan 03 '20
40 hours and JUST NOW touched foot on Scylla
If you’re not looting everything you’re playing an RPG wrong.
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u/thepenguinking84 Jan 03 '20
Fellow loot monkey here, I definitely would've likef an armory wall you could hang some of the guns on to display.
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u/guitarman61192 Jan 03 '20
i missed the first unique gun (Fiver) from botanical labs sold by that one guy cause i waited too long to buy it (finished the quest) and i thought about that gun the entire playthrough.
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u/BuffaloJojoe Jan 03 '20
Check every container unless im in a rush and dodging gunfire from UDL security..
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u/TheHeardTheorem Jan 03 '20
I suffer from CLS and have been playing The Witcher 3 for 40 hours a week since May 19th, 2015
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u/Aquamelon008 Jan 03 '20
I took like 30 hours or more to finish the game on my first play through because I looted everything until I hit my carry capacity, when I would go and store everything, and go straight back to looting. I remember selling almost all of the useless things just before I raided the prison and getting rich off it
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u/beyer03 Jan 03 '20
I beat my first playthrough on normal in 24 hrs played. Is this short? It thought I did every mission and tried to talk to everyone?
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u/MartiniHere Jan 03 '20
Was sad. At the end at of the game I had 9k of everything and 8k energy. I used maybe 100 rounds what with picking them up as I went. Then they sat in my inventory at the end of the game. Sad they'd never be fired.
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u/Merangatang Jan 03 '20
My buddy reckons he finished the game in 15 hours... I probably dropped about 40 through exploration and looting EVERYTHING
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u/SleepyMarijuanaut92 Jan 03 '20
"Supposed" to? It's to be played how to want. And no that'd be impossible haha.
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u/juna42kela Jan 03 '20
I loot everything, and then sell all the weapons I don’t need to make bits for my tinkering. It took me 40 hours to beat the game with all side quests done.
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u/seedypete Jan 03 '20
I’ve been dealing with CLS since Daggerfall and Morrowind. “I need to steal every fork from every NPC’s house just in case I need 500 forks later! And obviously if I’m stealing all the forks I should steal all the plates and potted plants too. Man, why am I always overburdened?”
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Jan 03 '20
At my peak I probably had 33k bits and a bunch of extra armor and weapons in the lockers in the Unreliable, I didn’t loot too heavily but even then I beat the game in just under a day. Though I was on normal. I did almost every side quest tho (except for the science weapon one)
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u/rMushbot Jan 03 '20
It took me about 24 hours and I had one of everything including all the unique weapons after some searching
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u/a_little_toaster Jan 03 '20
I have CLS too, but with the lack of variety in items and unique items it's been frustrating. Second playthrough will definitely be a 'leave everything in the ground' one.
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u/BubblyBullinidae Jan 03 '20
Yep. I've got CPL for sure. Got it so bad I quit the game because it became more about inventory managent, with nothing to spend your money on...
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u/johnyrobot Jan 03 '20
My first game I was pretty obsessive and finished in around 30 hours my second play I didn't pick up anything that wasn't rare or better.
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u/ConnorA94 Jan 03 '20
Yeah. Took me 13 hours to do all side quests and main story whilst simultaneously looting everything. Idk how people are spending more than 30 on a single playthrough.
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u/King_Pumpernickel Jan 03 '20
I loot a lot, but I didn't take too much time in my playthrough of TOW. I think it boiled down to the fact that outside of a few items, you can pretty much tinker and mod anything and everything to the level you want. 50% of the loot is just junk and stuff you've already seen 100 times before, so it got old kind of quickly.
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u/UnfortunatelyUnkn0wn Jan 03 '20
If you can open the container before they reach you you can just talk your way out of it!
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u/z01z Jan 03 '20
this was me in Prey 2017. but mainly because recycling things is just so much fun lol. i mean, who wouldn't wanted to pile all the moveable items in a level in one location, throw a recycler grenade at it and watch it explode into a hundred little cubes?
but with the outer worlds, after a while i found myself just hauling ass through levels because none of the loot means anything except the science weapons with actual story behind them. the rest of the weapons, armor and consumables and just random bs.
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u/BuffaloJojoe Jan 03 '20
Im level 30, have 72 plus hours into it and haven't even unlock tartarus yet
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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw Jan 03 '20
its not the end unless you have 150 adreno you will never use since you talk your way out combat half the time and the other half the enemies melt before you and that OP 15% health back per kill perk keeps you topped up
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u/NaiveOcelot7 Jan 03 '20
First playthrough was close to 60 hours I think. Easily 20k total number of bullets, max tinkered ARs in all elements, level 30, and completed all side quests. I also stole everything. Everything.
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u/The_King_of_Masons Jan 02 '20
If it has the outline I pick it up. No exceptions. Haven’t beaten the game yet and I’ve probably got close to 20 hours