{"id":77125,"date":"2026-05-01T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77125"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:36:37","slug":"the-outer-worlds-is-getting-grenades-nearly-7-years-after-it-came-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77125","title":{"rendered":"The Outer Worlds Is Getting Grenades, Nearly 7 Years After It Came Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Surprise! Seven years after it launched \u2014 and almost six months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-outer-worlds-2\">its sequel<\/a> was released \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-outer-worlds\">The Outer Worlds<\/a> is getting grenades. <\/p>\n<p>Developer Obsidian confirmed it would &#8220;be pushing a couple of updates to The Outer Worlds&#8221; in a detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/news\/app\/1920490\/view\/694259874864824927?l=english\">post<\/a> on Steam \u2014 the first since June 2023 \u2014 before introducing the explosive throwables, which are already a staple in The Outer Worlds 2, later this month.<\/p>\n<p>As well as some tweaks to the Store pages \u2014 more on that in a bit \u2014 the studio has pushed out this first modest update merely to test the pipeline and &#8220;fix a few issues that are in the game,&#8221; with a larger patch bringing performance fixes, lighting changes, a &#8220;host of other quest and gameplay fixes,&#8221; and the grenades rolling out a little later.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-value=\"the-100-best-xbox-games-of-all-time\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>It&#8217;s this second patch that will trigger the store changes. From May 27, the base game edition of The Outer Worlds will be delisted, leaving just the Spacer&#8217;s Choice Edition. While this won&#8217;t impact anyone who already owns the base edition \u2014 Obsidian assures us that &#8220;it won&#8217;t be going anywhere&#8221; \u2014 it does mean that anyone looking to pick up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise! Seven years after it launched \u2014 and almost six months after its sequel was released \u2014 The Outer Worlds is getting grenades. Developer Obsidian confirmed it would &#8220;be pushing a couple of updates to The Outer Worlds&#8221; in a detailed post on Steam \u2014 the first since June 2023 \u2014 before introducing the explosive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":77127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77129,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77125\/revisions\/77129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}