The workbench is likely one of the biggest instruments accessible to you in The Outer Worlds. You’ll discover one aboard your ship, the Unreliable, in addition to dotted concerning the varied areas you’ll go to over the course of your journey. Using the Workbench will be certain that you at all times have one of the best gear for the approaching conflicts by not solely tinkering with weapons with bits, but additionally putting in mods onto weapons.
The Outer Worlds mods information
Our The Outer Worlds mods information will be certain that precisely learn how to use it! We’ll go over tinkering to enhance weapons and armour, utilizing the workbench to use mods to weapons and armor, repairing broken gear, and extra.
- The Outer Worlds Workbench overview
- How to install mods – modify equipment in the Workbench
- The Outer Worlds mods
- Repair items using the Workbench
- Tinker equipment – how to improve weapons and armor
Main information by Ollie Toms, supplementary information and mods record by Dave Irwin
The Outer Worlds Workbench overview
The Workbench in The Outer Worlds is used for a number of duties, all of which contain sustaining and upgrading your weapons and armor. Below are the important thing features of a Workbench on this regard:
- Modify – you may select to change an present weapon or piece of armor so long as you’ve an acceptable modification so as to add to it. You can see a full record of all of your mods within the fourth tab of your stock.
- Tinker – you may spend Bits (the principle forex of The Outer Worlds) to enhance the extent of a chunk of kit, growing its effectiveness.
- Repair – You can restore broken weapons and armor, bringing its sturdiness (and due to this fact its effectiveness) again as much as 100% – supplied you’ve the Parts.
- Break Down – You can use the Workbench to interrupt down weapons or armor into Weapon Parts and Armor Parts, simply as you are able to do out of your stock.
Now let’s take a better take a look at the first features of the Workbench in The Outer Worlds, and learn how to use each correctly and to full impact.
How to put in mods – modify utilizing the Workbench
One of a very powerful facets of utilizing the Workbench to improve your gear is utilizing the Modify perform to connect mods comparable to scopes and magazines to your weaponry, or to your armor. To do that, work together with a Workbench, then navigate to the “Modify” choice, choose a viable weapon or piece of armor, and choose “Install Mod”. You’ll then be introduced with a display that lets you select between the accessible mods to connect to completely different elements of your chosen gear.
Most gear can have two or three slots the place mods might be put in, and every mod will solely settle for set up into a specific slot sort. For instance, you may’t add a Magazine mod to the Barrel slot of your weapon. You can swap between the accessible slots in your gear by choosing the icons displayed below “Workbench Modifications”.
Choosing the appropriate mods for the appropriate gear is essential for maximising the potential of your gear. For instance, a mod that reduces recoil may not matter an excessive amount of on a bolt-action rifle, however will probably be rather more helpful on an Assault Rifle or LMG.
Another essential side of putting in mods onto weapons, particularly, is that you would be able to set up sure Magazine mods to vary the Damage Type of your weapon, making it extra helpful towards sure enemy varieties. For full particulars on Damage Types, take a look at our The Outer Worlds Weapons information.
And lastly – there’s a semi-permanence to putting in a mod in a chunk of kit. You can change it with one other viable mod if you want, however the beforehand put in mod might be destroyed. So ensure you’re putting in the appropriate mod on the appropriate piece of drugs!
The Outer Worlds mods record
Now all concerning the mods, listed here are all of the mods yow will discover in The Outer Worlds. They’re separated by the three differing types: Ranged, Melee, and Armor.
Ranged weapon mods
| Weapon mod title | Type of mod | Effects of mod when outfitted |
|---|---|---|
| Exact-O-Sight | Sight | Post Armor harm dealt elevated by 15%. |
| Extend-O-Sight | Sight | Change scope to Extend-O-Sight. Weapon Range elevated by 25%. |
| FunTimes Barrel | Barrel | Critical Damage elevated by 25%. |
| Gyro Sight | Sight | Ranged weapon unfold lowered by 20%. |
| Mag-2-Melt | Magazine | Change harm sort to Corrosion. |
| Mag-2-Power | Magazine | Change harm sort to Plasma. |
| Mag-2-Ray | Magazine | Change harm sort to N-ray. Reduce harm dealt by 50%. |
| Mag-2-Zap | Magazine | Change harm sort to Shock. |
| Mag-Num | Magazine | Magazine dimension elevated by 50% |
| SpeedyMate Barrel | Barrel | Rate of fireside elevated by 15% |
| Super Scoper 2000 | Sight | Change scope to 6x scope. |
| Sure N’ Straight | Barrel | Ranged weapon unfold lowered by 25%. Ranged weapon sway lowered by 80%. |
| Whisper Quiet Muzzler | Barrel | Firing Noise lowered by 66.6% |
Melee weapon mods
| Weapon mod title | Type of mod | Effects of mod when outfitted |
|---|---|---|
| Mr. Acid | Attack | Change harm sort to Corrosion. |
| Mr. N | Attack | Change harm sort to N-ray. |
| Mr. Ouch | Attack | Increase Power Attack harm by 20%. |
| Mr. Power | Attack | Change harm sort to Plasma. |
| Mr. Zap | Attack | Change harm sort to Shock. |
| SpeedGrip | Magazine | Melee weapon assault velocity elevated by 15%. |
| SureGrip | Magazine | Melee weapon sturdiness elevated by 25%. |
Armor mods
| Weapon mod title | Type of mod | Effects of mod when outfitted |
|---|---|---|
| Anodized | Armoring | Corrosion armor score elevated by 5. |
| Backpack | Utility | Carrying Capacity elevated by 20kg. |
| Chrono-Field Aggregator | Gadget | Restores some TTD meter once you land a important hit. |
| Electro-charged floor | Gadget | Shocks enemies that strike you in melee vary. |
| Geographic Scanner | Utility | Interactable spotlight vary elevated by 5 metres. |
| Grounded | Armoring | Shock armor score elevated by 10. |
| Hunter Kit | Skill equipment | Ranged weapon expertise elevated by 5. |
| Insulated | Armoring | Plasma armor score elevated by 5. |
| Laminated | Armoring | N-Ray armor score elevated by 5. |
| Leaper Injectors | Utility | Dodge distance elevated by 30%. |
| Nightingale Step | Utility | Volume of footsteps lowered by 25%. Radius of footstep sound lowered by 25%. |
| Reactive Kinematic | Gadget | Gives you a defend projector. |
| Silver Tongue Kit | Skill equipment | Dialog expertise elevated by 5. Leadership expertise elevated by 10. |
| Skeletar-Muscular-Adreno-Stimulator | Gadget | Increases motion velocity whereas TTD is activated. |
| Tech Kit | Skill equipment | Tech expertise elevated by 5. |
| Thug Kit | Skill equipment | Melee weapon expertise elevated by 5. Defence expertise elevated by 10. |
| Toughened | Armoring | Physical armor score elevated by 3. |
Repair objects utilizing The Outer Worlds Workbench
Another essential side of sustaining your gear which the Workbench might help accommodate is the repairing of broken weaponry and armor. Each weapon or piece of armor you utilize has a sturdiness meter which progressively depletes when used. As it depletes, the gear’s effectiveness is lowered. For weapons, this implies decrease harm; for armor, this implies a decrease armor score.
Using a Workbench, you may restore broken objects, bringing their sturdiness again as much as 100% – in trade for Weapon Parts and Armor Parts. These Parts might be acquired by Breaking Down undesirable weaponry and armor (one other perform of the Workbench). But it’s essential to notice that so long as you’ve bought an Engineering Skill of at the very least 20, you’ll have the ability to do each these items (repairing and breaking down) out of your stock, and won’t have want of a Workbench to do that.
Tinker gear – learn how to enhance weapons and armor
The final (and presumably most essential) perform of the Workbench is to permit gamers to “Tinker” with present weapons or armor through the use of the “Tinker” choice on the high, and choosing the merchandise you want to enhance. Tinkering a chunk of kit will enhance its degree, bettering its harm (if it’s a weapon) or its armor score (if it’s a chunk of armor).
Doing this prices Bits, and the associated fee will enhance exponentially the extra instances you tinker a single piece of drugs. It’s additionally essential to notice that you simply can not enhance an merchandise’s degree greater than 5 ranges past your present character degree. So should you’re at degree 15, the best you may tinker a weapon as much as is degree 20.
Despite this, tinkering is amazingly helpful for ensuring your weapons and armor develop and enhance together with you; and it lets you stick with a selected weapon or piece of armor that you simply like, reasonably than being pressured to depart it behind as different much less attention-grabbing objects outstrip it by way of effectiveness.
Just ensure you have the Bits.
The Outer Worlds information sequence
- The Outer Worlds guide – Our high 25 ideas and tips for The Outer Worlds.
- The Outer Worlds Skills – You solely get one shot at establishing your first character, so this information will make sure you choose the appropriate attributes and expertise first time!
- The Outer Worlds Perks & Flaws – Perks are extraordinarily highly effective methods of bettering your character. Learn learn how to make greatest use of them (and the related Flaws system!).
- The Outer Worlds Companions – Learn all concerning the six Companions dotted about The Outer Worlds, learn how to discover and recruit them, and the way helpful they are often.
- The Outer Worlds Weapons – Make certain you’re well-equipped for the fights forward with our weapons information, which can clarify weapon varieties, harm varieties, and rather more!
- The Outer Worlds Armor – Just as essential as weapons is your selection of Armor. We’ll go over how Armor Rating truly works, and the several types of Armor accessible.
- The Outer Worlds TTD Debuffs – Discover learn how to use the Tactical Dilation Device and what capturing elements of the physique does.
- The Outer Worlds PC requirements and how to get the best performance – Learn which graphics settings you may swap off or flip down to offer your PC’s efficiency a giant body charge increase.
- The Outer Worlds holographic disguises – Find out the place all of the ID cartridges are in The Outer Worlds.
- The Outer Worlds science weapons – Find all of the science weapons in The Outer Worlds.
