The Outer Worlds Trophy Guide & Roadmap

This trophy is for completing the game on any difficulty, regardless of what ending you get or how you get there.

Supernova can seem daunting, but the worst part of the game is basically right at the start when you’re in Emerald Vale due to your lack of weapons and equipment. Companions are also generally useless in combat on this difficulty and will immediately die if they lose all their health, so if you are bringing them with you for stat boosts you should change their settings so that they don’t engage in combat and stick close to you. If you’re going to go into an area to fight enemies you can direct them to stand in one spot with   so that they don’t get in the way.

When specing your character at the start of the game you should put your bonus points into Charm and Temperment so that they are both High, then the remaining bonuses into Dexterity and Perception so that they are both Good. For skills you primarily want to put everything into Dialog, Stealth, and Tech, then with some extra progress into Ranged. During the course of the game you should aim to get Ranged up to around 50 overall for Handguns/Longuns, then everything else into Dialog/Stealth/Tech. If you want the easiest way through the end of the game you want to be able to reach 100 Persuasion and 90 Science, then if you feel you can stretch it 100 Intimidate (you don’t need to do this with High Temperment though because you can boost that with a consumable for the one speech check at the end of the game that requires it).

In Emerald Vale you should aim to finish everything possible before making the choice of where to get the power core from and leaving the planet. Then once you get to the Groundbreaker you can work more easily on only finishing side quests with minimal or no combat. You can work the same angle as a playthrough where you aim to get all missables and play both sides, as this gives extra quests that require little combat and more objectives for extra xp. When you reach the end of the game and are making the choice where to send the Hope send it to Terra 2 so that Phineas gets captured, then you can get through the entirety of Tartarus with a UDL disguise and speech checks to avoid the final boss.  You can follow the general same route as laid out in the missables guide to get through the game, just avoiding the more combat heavy quests if you wish: The Outer Worlds Tips & Missables Guide

This might require actually improving 30 different pieces of gear, instead of any gear 30 times total.

You gain positive reputation by doing positive things for factions, like completing quests for people related to those factions. The first 3 factions that you can get this with are Deserters, Spacer’s Choice, and Groundbreaker. Deserters and Spacer’s Choice are both dealt with in the first area of the game, Emerald Vale/Edgewater. You can max both their reputation levels by completing all quests in the area for them, then facilitating the Deserters returning to Edgewater by having Reed Tobson agree to step down as head leader and allowing Adelaide McDevitt to become leader. Groundbreaker you can max by completing all quests available on it before you would be heading to Stellar Bay.

You gain negative reputation by doing bad things to a factions, such as completing quests in a way that would harm them or just outright killing members of that faction. The easiest way to earn this trophy is to do just that, kill a large number of members of the faction you want negative reputation on. If you are trying to get this near the end of the game and want to just save and reload for it you can travel to Monarch and just kill members of each of the 3 factions, MSI, Iconoclasts, and Sublight Salvage, who you should be able to find in each of their respective locations (depending on story choices). The enemies in each settlement are all around level 20, so if you’re near the end of the game around level 30 you should be able to just move through and take out anyone you see until you reach maximum negative reputation for the faction, then travel to the next location. Once you’ve reach maximum negative reutation with the 3 you will earn the trophy.

Some potential flaws you can show up from specific sources are:

• Plasma Weakness – Taking plasma damage
• Acrophobia – Taking fall damage
• Raptiphobia – Taking damage from Raptids

The weapons you can find easy, most of them that you can find in the first area of the game (Emerald Vale) will be Spacer’s Choice brand. Clothing is slightly harder to find though, and note that the Hibernation Suit you start the game in says it’s Spacer’s Choice but doesn’t actually count for the trophy. If you want to get this out of the way, you should be able to buy a Workers Outift and Mining Helmet from the Emerald Vale General Store in the city of Edgewater. Equip all 6 items at once to earn the trophy.

This trophy requires you to obtain two items of clothing and wear them together. These two pieces of clothing are unique and only one of each exist in the game, so do not sell or dismantle them before you have earned this trophy.

“A Nice Hat” can be found on Monarch in the Stellar Bay area. Head to South Ruins from in the city, and go to the first group of buildings. You should find a ruined church in this area, and inside at the back you can find “A Nice Hat” on a skeleton against the wall.

“Chimaera” is a piece of clothing you need to complete a side quest line for a woman in Byzantium for her to make for you. If you have Parvati’s companion quest at the step to get an outfit for her date the location will be marked on the map. If not, the store is on the South-West corner of the Prosperity Plaza area, named Jolicoeur’s Haberdashery.

When you speak to her she’ll first want you to model 3 outfits for her: An Iconolast, Marauder, and Spacer outfit. Iconoclast is easy, you can get it from killing Iconoclasts on Monarch if they’re hostile, or buying from the Quartermaster in Amber Heights. Marauder armor can be looted off Marauder enemies on Monarch or Terra 2. Spacer seems to be a bit trickier, I believe it wants you to use Sublight Salvage type armor. I got it to work with a “Sublight Contractor Helm”, and then a “Safecracker’s Jacket” that I found earlier in the game and was holding onto due to its +10 lockpicking. You might be able to find some actual Sublight armor for sale in Fallbrook from one of the vendors as that’s the main Sublight town.

After you have modeled all 3 outfits she will ask you to collect some items for her. Raptidon Flank Hide and Mantiqueen Chitin can be found easily on Monarch near the Sulfur Pools area, as there are multiple of both enemy types wandering around there. Primal Leather can be found on Terra 2 in Edgwater or on Scylla where Primals spawn, there are a few locations for each you’ll likely have ran into by now. Once you’ve got the required number of each head back to Byzantium and speak to her again.

Lastly she’ll ask you to go pick up an item for her she ordered to complete the outfit. Follow the markers around on a bit of a goose chase, then when you return to the store you’ll find that she has been killed by the UDL soldiers for some reason or another. Search her body to get her office key, then head in and grab the outfit off the table. You can now equip both “A Nice Hat” and “Chimaera” to earn this trophy.

1. Physical (no element)
2. Plasa
3. Shock
4. Corrosive
5. N Ray

The first 4 are fairly common, N-Ray isn’t though, the first N-Ray weapon I found was a unique one in Rizzo’s Lab on Monarch. You can find mods for N Ray damage, but they are extremely uncommon.

Once you have weapons of each damage type, you’re best finding a larger enemy that you can spend time hitting with each type of damage. Heavy armored marauders work, or any Mega creature on Monarch. You can do this by having your companions equip weapons of one or two of the damage types then do the other 3 yourself, or equip 4 yourself then switch to the 5th after you’ve used all 4 other types. Whichever way you choose to go, once you’ve hit an enemy with all 5 you can then kill the enemy and will be awarded the trophy. The enemy doesn’t need to be under the effects of any debuffs from the damage types when it dies, just needs to have been hit with all 5.

Then, you need to find a science weapon. These are unique weapons that can be found in the game, and their damage is based on your Science skill level. The first science weapon is on Groundbreaker. Coming from the dock go past the security office then left into the room with the red containers, then right into the room with all the beds. If you jump on the boxes to get on top of the left side beds and go to the wall there is a small gap you can go through.

Through this room will be a group of Outlaws and a large mechanical that you’ll have to deal with. After this, head to the right of the room where there is a door you use a keycard to get through. In this room you’ll find the science weapon Prismatic Hammer. This is a two handed weapon with some special effects on it.

Now to finally earn the trophy, you must equip this weapon and kill someone with it using a sneak attack while TTD is active. This appears to require doing it on an actual potentially hostile enemy. If you’ve not killed them the Outlaws in the Sub Level on the Groundbreaker will work, and if they’re not actively hostile to from paying off or persuading Captain MacRedd you can go behind one of the other guys and sneak them fairly easily. Get behind one and activate TTD, then aim for their head and swing at them. If you kill them in one hit you will earn the trophy.

For this trophy you need to kill an enemy while they are under the effect of at least 4 of the weapons. In my opinion this is the most annoying miscellaneous trophy in the game, as the effect time from the science weapons is relatively low compared to how long it takes just to switch weapons. For this you should give one weapon each to two of your companions, then use the other three yourself. Change the companion behavior to only use physical or melee depending on which weapons you gave them, and set their behaviour to closely follow you and be aggressive. Find yourself a decently strong enemy that you won’t kill them before you can swap through all weapons (I earned it from a heavy armor Marauder on Monarch). Kill other enemies near them first if there are others, then get ready on that enemy. You can probably wait for your two companions to start attacking them, then get in yourself. I’d advise doing the first attack normal, then activate TTD right away and switch weapons. Switching doesn’t drain TTD but attacking does, so if you do the first attack then switch you should be able to get two more attacks of using the other weapons before it runs out, which should prolong the time the enemy is affected relative to how fast you’re able to switch weapons. Cycle through to the third one, then kill the enemy using the third weapon (one of the two melee ones is best for the last one). If the enemy died while under the effect of at least 4 of the weapons you will earn the trophy. If not then you will need to find another and try again.

The Outer Worlds All 5 Science Weapon Locations:

Prismatic Hammer – Groundbreaker, through a gap above some beds near the entrance area (see Jack of All Trades trophy for more description)

Shrink Ray – Phineas’ Lab, on a table just to the right of the device you use to speak with him when he’s behind the glass.

Mandibular Rearranger – Scylla, in a building on the East side of the area.

Gloop Gun – Monarch Wilderness, in location UDL Lab. Get a keycard from upstairs to use the terminal, then hack it or answer with the following answers to open the gun container. Protect the Chairman, Berate him relentlessly, Arrest your spouse.

Mind Control Ray – In Rizzo Secret Lab at the end of the area where you activate the terminal to get the Alta-Vitae gas, there is an elevator shaft with two platforms. Jump to them then up to the next area to find this weapon.

Companion quests are unique side quests you can do for your companions which expand their backstory and potentially change their view. You need to do all of these in a single playthrough, so make sure to always accept companions joining you and don’t anger them or tell them to leave from the ship, or you won’t be able to do all of their quests. Aside from Parvati’s first quest you don’t seem to be able to fail these otherwise by just progressing the game, but it would still be recommended that you do them all as soon as you can so that they’re out of the way and you don’t miss anything and make saves before progressing each step in case you mess up dialogue.

• Parvati
  1. Drinking Sapphire Wine – When you go back to your ship and are supposed to speak to Parvati about Junlei, do this immediately before doing anything on the ship or it will potentially auto fail this quest.
  2. Don’t Bite The Sun – (Speak to her again later after completing Drinking Sapphire Wine to get this quest)
• SAM
  1. The Cleaning Machine – Acid Steeper is found in Storage Facility Location in Roseway Gardens, in the locked storage room on a shelf.
• Vicar Max
  1. The Illustrated Manual
  2. The Empty Man – When you find Reginald Chaney stop Max from attacking him, then forgive Max when you talk to him again so that he stays in your crew.
• Ellie
  1. Worst Contact
  2. The Low Crusade (Speak to her before heading out of your ship to Byzantium and agree to go meet her parents to get this quest)
• Felix
  1. Friendship’s Due (Speak to him at some point on the ship to start this quest)
• Nyoka
  1. Passion Pills
  2. Star Crossed Troopers (Have her with you when you head out of Stellar Bay and she’ll ask to talk, accept helping her out to get this quest)

Companions are special NPCs that you can have in your party with you as you explore the world. They help you in combat, increase your carry weight, and provide bonuses to your stats depending on who you have in your party. There are 6 total, and you get access to all of them about a third of the way into the story.

This trophy is missable as you can decide to not take companions with you. Because of this it is recommended that when offered you always agree to take them on the ship. You don’t need to take them with you while exploring if you don’t want, but you need them all for this trophy and All for One so that you can complete all of their companion quests.

• Parvati – Edgewater, during Stranger in a Strange Land when you speak to Reed Tobson, agree to have her come along.  Once you’re ready to leave Emerald Vale also choose to bring her along.
• Vicar Max – Edgewater, during Stranger in a Strange Land Parvati suggests speaking to Max, complete the quest he gives you called The Illustrated Manual and agree to take him along
• SAM – On your ship after Stanger in a Strange Land, inspect the robot on the top floor, then complete the quest The Cleaning Machine.
• Ellie – On Groundbreaker, go to the medical bay and speak to her, then complete the quest Worst Contact.
• Felix – On Groundbreaker when you first enter, talk to the man being harassed by a security guard, and get the security guard to leave him alone. Speak to Felix a bit now, then when you come back later Felix will ask to join your crew.  If he still stays leaning on the building where you first meet him instead of moving by your ship you can try talking to him there and he’ll have the join dialogue.
• Nyoka – On Monarch in Stellar Bay, during the main quest Radio Free Monarch, complete the side quest Passion Pills after speaking to Nyoka for the first time in the Yacht Club bar.

This is the first trophy you will earn in the game. After you complete character creation, land on the planet, and gain control of your character for the first time you’ll earn this trophy.

This is the second story related trophy you will earn, during the quest Stranger in a Strange Land. Once you have obtained the power regulator from Edgewater with whatever means necessary and returned to your ship you will slot it in near the engine at the back and earn this trophy.

This is the third or fourth story related trophy you will earn, during the quest Radio Free Monarch or Signal Point in Space. After you have obtained the Navkey from Gladys on Groundbreaker or from Sophia on Byzantium you can travel to Stellar Bay on Monarch and will be awarded this trophy.

This is the third or fourth story related trophy you will earn, during the quests The City and the Stars or The Puppet Masters. After you obtain the Byzantium NavKey and land there for the first time, you’ll earn this trophy.

This is the final story progression related trophy you will earn, when you head to the planet Tartarus. Before heading there, you will be warned that this is the point of no return, so before heading there you should make sure to make a save and get anything else done you needed to do before.

This trophy is earned during the main quest Kept Secret But Not Forgotten, and is earned once you reach the bridge of the Hope and then skip it to Phineas’ lab by Terra 2. Whether you let ADA skip the ship or do it yourself with level 2 Intelligence and a Science skill of at least 80 you will make the journey correctly and earn this trophy.

Note that the trophy Sunburn is earned in this same spot if you gave yourself lower Intelligence during character creation, which then lets you skip the Hope using the [DUMB] dialogue.

This trophy is earned during the main quest Radio Free Monarch or Signal Point in Space, and is awarded when you convince both Sanjar and Graham to stop broadcasting on the radio frequencies. Sanjar asks you to get him a device, which you should do and give to him. You then also need to get information of other corporations still operating on the planet.  Graham asks you to help him get printing press items and repair them, which you should also do. Once you got them both to stop broadcasting by completing their quests you’ll be awarded this trophy. There are potentially other ways to get them to stop (shooting everyone maybe) but following their quests this is how you go about it.

This trophy is earned during the main quest The City and the Stars or Signal Point in Space. Which way you earn this depends on who you’ve been following along with as an ally up to this point in the story.

If you’ve been sticking with Phineas you’ll earn this during The City and the Stars. You’ll be tasked with speaking to Minister Clarke about the drugs that Phineas needs. Get into the estate to speak with him however you may, then listen to him about how he’s being held in his apartment, and you should go to his office in the HHC building. Head in there using bribes and his key card, then go into his office. Go to his computer and print off a Ministry Keycard, and you’ll then be shown a cutscene of Minister Rockwell. After the cutscene is over you’ll earn this trophy.

If you’ve been working with Sophia you will earn this during Signal Point in Space. Once you return to her after dealing with the broadcasts on Monarch she will just show you the information outright without you needing to do anything else.

Sublight is one of the factions in the game that you can interact with. They’re a shipping company who’s operations aren’t always on the proper side of the law. For this trophy you have to complete the quest line started from Lilyn on the Groundbreaker.

She’ll require you have the Nav Key for Monarch before she’ll actually employ you, but when you do go speak to her and she’ll ask you to do a set of tasks for her starting on Monarch.

1. Space-Crime Continuum
2. The Ice Palace – Find the UDL ID card before you turn on the power for an easier time
3. The Chimerist’s Last Experiment – During this quest you should choose to not kill the Doctor, hear her out on her research and agree to help her (talk to Phineas) then bribe or talk your way out of the lab to the commander. Return to Lilyn after and she’ll basically fire you, but you still earn this trophy.

This trophy and Monarch Abides are mutually exclusive, you can’t do them both in the same playthrough without using save backups.

For this trophy after you’ve stopped the radio transmissions and got the info sent to Phineas or talked Hiram into working for the board a UDL ship will crash into the planet. Go get the targeting module, then you need to talk Sanjar and Zora into working with each other for their own best interests.

To have the Iconoclasts agree you need to have Zora overthrow Graham. To allow this to happen in the two prior quests you do for the Iconoclasts you need to side with what Zora wants, getting the extra food supplies from the smuggler, then getting the Twins back from the press instead of having them go in and help you.  After that once you have got the targeting module you can speak to her again and she’ll ask you to get some mission logs, which leads to the discovery that Graham orchestrated the pirate attacks. You then need to agree with her to overthrow Graham and kill him.  You can then talk Zora into potentially working with Sanjar if you have 55 Persuasion, or other skills around that level.

Sanjar can then be talked into working with Zora if you find her report from the Rizzo’s Lab in the same area you get the items for Sublight. You then talk them into meeting at the OSI church just outside the city, where you can basically give mostly neutral and encouraging answers to have them talk it out and agree to work together. Once they do you’ll complete the quest and earn this trophy.

This trophy and Peace in Our Times are mutually exclusive, you can’t do them both in the same playthrough without using save backups.

For this trophy after you’ve stopped the radio transmissions and got the sent to Phineas a UDL ship will crash into the planet. Go get the targeting module, then choose to give it to either Sanjar or Graham/Zora. You then ally with them to defeat the other faction. You’ll fight from whichever location you give the targeting module to to the other location and kill the other group’s leader just outside their area. As soon as the leader dies you’ll earn this trophy.

If you’re aiming to avoid missables during a playthrough I’d recommend save scumming this trophy, then revert your save and broker peace between the two groups instead because that doesn’t result in any important NPCs dying.

This trophy is earned during the side quest The Doom That Came to Roseway by completing the quest a specific way. You will obtain this quest when you’re on Groundbreaker by asking for other work. You will then head to the Roseway location on Terra 2 to answer a distress signal. A scientist tasks you with recovering the diet toothpaste research, and to earn this trophy you must get back the recipe and give it to him to complete the quest. During the quest you’ll run in to a bandit who has stolen the research out of his safe. To get it from her you can either agree to help her then persuade her to give up the research after before she leaves, or just kill her and take it, up to you. Once you have it, you must give it back to Anton to complete the quest, if you lie to him and say you don’t have it or say you’re keeping it you won’t earn the trophy and need to redo the side quest in another playthrough.

This trophy is earned in a way that requires making some specific choices during the game leading up to the point you earn it. It’s mutually exclusive of Ludwig was Right, but is something you can do with a save backup.

For this trophy at the start of the game you need to choose to redirect power to Edgewater, then convince the deserters to return but not have Reed step down as leader. Through story progression you then need to ally with Sophia and the board by turning in Phineas, then once you have dealt with the radio broadcasts on Monarch Sophia will congratulate you on helping the town next time you see her. You don’t need to do anything else for this trophy past that, you are awarded it immediately before she asks you to head to the Hope.

This trophy is earned during the main story quest Foundation. You can receive this quest if you choose to turn in Phineas and work with the board, and at the start of the game and redirected power in Emerald Vale to town. You can earn this using a save backup if you at first don’t convince Reed to step down. Proceed through thr story agreeing to work with the Board, and after you deal with the radio broadcasts make a save. Before going back and speaking with Sophia you can go to Edgewater and kill Reed, then go talk to Adelaide and get her to go back to town now that Reed is gone. You can now go speek with Sophia and she asks you to go to Edgewater and activate the Termination Protocol to have some robots kill all of the deserters. Once you have come back into the town and then cleaned up all the robots you will earn this trophy.

This trophy is earned by completing the side mission At Central which you can get when you first enter Byzantium. Once you enter the main area a man named Maverick Johnson will call to you, talk to him and agree to what he’s offering to receive the side quest.  Head over to the marked Odeon Pictures building then go upstairs to the marked area, then stand on the marked spot. You’ll go through some dialogue with the other actor, use your intimidate skills or just take the action sounding choices (I’d probably advise against shooting the other person). Once you’re done the scene go speak to Maverick again and you’ll complete this quest and earn the trophy.

This trophy is earned during the main quest The Demolished Woman on Byzantium. To get this side quest you must attempt to turn in Phineas to the board through Udom Bedford. After getting his seal back from Gladys he’ll get you to go to Byzantium to meet Sophia Akande, who will then give you this main quest to prove yourself to her.

Sophia asks you to “deal with” a cartographer named Rachel Lockwood. If you head to her office and break in, you can find out that she is hiding in the maintenance tunnels under Byzantium. Head down there and “deal with her” however you see fit which will award the trophy. You can then return to Sophia when you’re finished to complete the quest.

There are two ways you can earn this trophy. You either  need to from the start of the game during character creation choose to lower your Intelligence stat to below average, or repeatedly use the Adrena-Time so that its withdrawal effect lowers your intelligence temporarily. Getting yourself to “below average” intelligence stat allows you to pick “Dumb” dialogue, which is a requirement for this trophy. Late in the game you will travel back to the Hope, which is the ship your character was awoken from. When you reach the front of the ship you will need to skip it to whichever story destination you’ve been working towards, and can choose to do it yourself or let ADA do it. To earn this trophy you need to specifically pick the [DUMB] dialogue option after saying that you’ll skip it yourself. You will then be shown a cutscene wherein you send the ship straight into the sun, giving you a game over and awarding you this trophy.  If you are using Adrena-Time to do this you can use one, wait for its effect to wear off and it’s withdrawal to start, then use another to stack another withdrawal which lowers your intelligence further.