After the Xbox Games Showcase 2025 live presentation, we got a deep-dive on some of the publisher's biggest upcoming games, including Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2. One segment zeroed in on "Choice & Reactivity" in the expanded RPG, and we were treated to a few of the backgrounds available for our custom characters. One of them is the Roustabout, a wrongly glorified loser and my new favorite.
Instead of a "blank slate" stranger, explains game director Brandon Adler, The Outer Worlds 2 starts you as an Earth Directorate agent. "You can think of them as like space cowboys or space sky marshals," he says. "They're the good guys that go into places and kind of fix everything that's wrong."
