The Outer Worlds - GUNSLINGER BUILD - The Space Cowboy, Bounty Hunter, Outlaw Experience

what is up ladies and gentlemen my name is Scott from fudge Muppet and today I have for you the much-anticipated gunslinger build for the outer worlds this is the perfect character to fulfill your fantasies of being that lone gunman on the frontier of space the perfect experience of the shoot first ask questions later kind of guy but let's not pretend you're actually going to be asking questions later anyways corpses don't speak all too well in gameplay role-playing and esthetic of the character we have made it so that gunslinger gives you that feeling of being a lone ranger a bounty hunter who solves problems with bullets fired from his revolver or pistol if it's a one-handed gun you can guarantee this guy's great with it pulling effortless headshots and weak spot hits for maximum damage and the best part of this playstyle is the fact that you can't be touched we invest heavily in a dodge skill and augment his armor so that you have the footwork and finesse to avoid all incoming fire all the while responding with deadly accuracy and reflexes nothing is more satisfying than surging past an enemy cover only to initiate time dilation and boom headshot I will warn you this is not the character for you if you like to deal with your problems using a silver tongue a smoking barrel is the only problem solver that the gunslinger knows but without further ado let's dive into the character creation and let you know how to begin building this trick shooting quick drawing eagle-eyed outlaw so when you are first building your character you will need to pick attribute values ranging from below average to very high I'm going to go through every single attribute and explain the rationale behind my choices starting with strength we keep it as an average ranking we don't need strength at all but if we were to go below average we would end up with a penalty to our movement drain in time dilation which we do not want for a bill that makes great use of time dilation secondly we have dexterity and we've kept this at an average ranking now some may wonder why we don't increase this for the handgun skill ends to increase the reload speed for ranged weapons well simply put the 30% increase to reload speed is unnecessary as far as I can tell from our testing pistols reload really quickly anyways and in addition once this build is roll a full magazine will be all you need most of the time to clear a group of enemies but onwards to the mind attributes we have a very high intelligence not because it's necessary for this character to have tech skills or that this character from a role-playing angle is supposed to be some kind of Brainiac but instead it's for the massive boost to critical damage that we will get and when combined with high critical chance of handguns 100 we'll have a recipe for unloading massive damage anyways I guess you have to be pretty smart to get by in the outer worlds all by your lonesome next up is perception and as you can imagine for an absolute crack shot this character has perception at very high for maximum headshot and weak spot damage reflecting the gunslingers eagle-eyes and finesse then we have charm which will remain at an average ranking you don't need a lot of charm when you have a pistol to do all the talking we also have an average temperament because we don't have spare points to use and there's no point in taking away passive health regeneration some may argue that you could make charm and temperament below average and make dexterity high but I tested this and the missing health regen and reputation penalties are far worse than missing out from a 20% extra reload speed for a pistol that already reloads pretty quick but if that's what you want to do then go for it but the essential part is definitely the maxed out intelligence and perception so we have the attributes sorted let's have a look at our starting skill choices the absolute priority for this character is going to be ranged and defense you may notice that our long gun skill is higher which comes as a consequence of our attribute choices so it will take slightly longer to get two handguns 100 but it's well worth the intelligence and perception attribute investment now speaking of handguns that's the important skill here once you have it 250 focus on getting it to 100 and our second choice of starting skill to boost is defense which is entirely for the dodge skill which is the real game-changer here it's what takes this build from a similar experience to any character who uses a pistol and transforms it into a gunslinger the John wick style running and gunning fantasy now for aptitude you guys know I like the resistance based ones though it doesn't matter all too much because they are such small all insignificant bonuses anyways for the gunslinger I chose to have the beverage technician which gives three percent more drink effects duration which is completely irrelevant for this character outside of the fact that what kind of cowboy on the frontier doesn't love a drink of hard liquor so he needs to know how to make them now I actually built this character as a mix of Clint Eastwood style western cowboy Boba Fett's / CAD Bane John wick and Daario naharis from A Song of Ice and Fire which is why I chose the colored bead and name so you can follow that inspiration if you like but ultimately what matters is that he's a space cowboy gun slinging bounty hunter type who solves problems with bullets so now you know how to start how to set up this character let's talk about skills in terms of progression and then we'll move on to perks and flaws so when you get past the little tutorial opening and get to the unreliable you will get a level up and here is what I choose to do it's actually not dumped straight into range and dodge I actually for this character like to round out some of the skills that are just shy of 20 so we can access some of the quality of life benefits from their abilities so in the first level up I put two points into ranged two points into defense two points into dialogue two points into stealth and two points into tech so this character is not dialogue focused at all so why the persuade well getting persuade to twenty unlocks an ability which means humans have a 20% chance to cower in fear for three seconds after you first hit them which I thought was a cool added bonus for such a small investment and it fits the vibe of villains terrified of the John wick / Clint Eastwood type killer pack 20 gives us the ability to sell to vending machines which is just convenient lockpick gets boosted as a consequence medical 20 gives the second slot for the inhaler which is handy but most of all science 20 allows us to tinker weapons and gear and engineering 20 allows us to repair our weapons and gear in the inventory so that's what I like to do for the level 2 rounding out the character a little bit with some handy benefits for little cost but now the absolute focus is pounding the ranged skill until we have handguns 50 and then we are taking that to 100 ASAP over the next levels also the long guns 40 at the beginning will help us quite a bit considering many of the better weapons of the first area like the hunting rifle and assault rifle benefit from this I like to use a mix of long guns and handguns until my handguns gets to about 60 mainly because the light pistol isn't that great like most builds they won't really come into fruition at least until you leave the first area of the emerald veil that's when they start to take shape and for this character once you have a handgun skill at 100 you want to go all-in on defense till dodge 50 then take dodge to 100 a SAP like I mentioned this is what's going to transform this build into the ultimate gunslinger you'll have all the moves able to - distances in a blink only to turn around at the confused enemy and put a shot through their eye dodge 20 gives us the ability to - forwards dodge for T increases dodge recovery speed by 100% 60 dodge gives us plus 30% armor rating for five seconds after every dodge and all of this in context means we have some great defensive capabilities allowing us to get out of the line of fire and even if we don't quite miss the shot we get improved - defense through armor rating the dodge eighty ability is only relevant to melee characters but when you get dodge 100 we unlock an awesome ability which complements this zippy shooter playstyle very well after dodging your next weak spot hit within 5 seconds has a 50% chance to ignore armor entirely so in short this build will benefit a lot from moving quickly around the battlefield constantly dodging keeping your enemy guessing and wondering how you can move so damn fast our gear mods further enhance this dodging playstyle but we'll talk about this in the weapon and gear section the handguns 100 skill gives us heaps of critical chance and reduced weapons way as well as 50% more crit damage stacking on top of our bonus 35% from very high intelligence and we also get armor penetration but at level 100 we get the awesome ability which makes critical hits ignore 100% of armor so high crit chance with high crit damage that ignores 100% of armor is an absolute recipe for death and even when you don't crit your weak spot hits have a 50% chance to ignore armor if you've dodged in the last 5 seconds which we do all the time so in other words beefy armored targets are no sweat at all now beyond the handgun and dodge skills the choice of focuses really up to you but here's what I recommend specifically for this build we are solving problems with a gun so dialogue skills were the last thing I was going to invest in instead I think going for tech and stealth skills will be the most beneficial science will keep your tinkering costs down medical will improve your inhaler and engineering will improve your repair ability all these things that apply to most builds also lockpick and hacking will just give you general access to more areas and loot but I think that about wraps it up for skills it's time to talk about perks time-dilation is very important for this character it's going to give you that Red Dead Redemption quick reflexes feel and will want to pick perks that benefit an overall aggressive combat oriented play style for Tier one I would recommend getting the toughness perk which adds an additional 50% based health beneficial for survival early on and later it will pair well with harvester and the fact you play with tactics that exposes you to more potential damage slow the void and quicken the dead increase your time dilation meter by 25% and increase the recharge rate by 50% both big essentials for this character now the next perk I recommend is lone wolf which increases all your damage by 25% as long as you have no companions and this build will not I'll elaborate more in the companion section Chito giving you extra sprint speed is always nice to have for that extra combat speed and I found that high-maintenance reducing durability loss for weapons and armor by 25% was really damn useful considering we fire our pistols so damn much in tier two there are three standout perks here that will assist and incentivize that - into battle and hit them hard play style the aforementioned harvester perk gives you 15% health back on each kill which encourages you to keep going and going if you keep killing you keep living the Reaper perk restores your time-dilation bar by 25% for each kill which is more incentive to use that high momentum higher kill count play style but of course because this build relies on momentum we want to be accurate and efficient with our kills and headshots is the name of the game time dilation helps massively here and the perks scanner increases headshot and weak spot damage by 20% while using time dilation so you can start to see how these perks all feed into one another and then when you consider some of the tier 3 essential it gets even juicier confidence is an absolute must it means that the first shot after every kill is always a critical hit and if you are pulling head shot after head shot it can get you into a chain of critical kill after critical kill it's all about momentum the dodging the time-dilation the headshots steady hand is also really nice and fits the momentum playstyle perfectly making it so after every kill you experience a hundred percent reduction to weapon sway and movement penalty to accuracy making you a run-and-gun machine boom headshot is also fun causing headshot kills to cause 25% of the damage to nearby enemies but that one isn't 100% necessary this build can take advantage of quite a few perks so flaws may be a decent idea I found that for this build taking weakness floors worked out well because the playstyle was all about avoiding bullets killing quick and getting health back so I took the plasma and shock weakness flaws for some extra benefits earlier on now we're at the part where we talk about companions and for this build in particular this should be pretty easy because we have none firstly for this character I wanted that lone wanderer vibe so I think a companion kind of kills that secondly we want a buff our damage as much as possible because we don't have help which means taking the lone wolf perk for 25% extra damage with no companions now of course if you do want companions do not take this perk obviously we recommend doing no companions but if you must I think that role-playing wise Ellie and probably Nyoka makes the most sense here so enough about companions you should ideally play this as a lone wolf anyways but let's talk about what this lone wolf uses for weapons and gear let's talk to you first for this character there were a few feelings I was trying to mesh so he ended up with this space cowboy bounty hunter kind of look imagine CAD Bane mixed with Jango Fett he has a bit of armor but of course he has the Hat can't imagine a gunslinger without a cool hat earlier on you can use the protective safety harness or another medium armor you can also use the legendary sublight armor however we want to set that we can modify mods ourselves so I chose ordnance control armor gold by the endgame it makes you look like these dangerous gun-sling bounty hunter and the mods are anodized corrosion and armor the chrono-field aggregator the hunter kid for ranged skill but most importantly the leaper injectors which give us a bonus dodge distance of 30% this makes your Dodgers go really far and in this armor it almost feels like you have a jetpack assisting these massive dashes across the battlefield now for the Hat it doesn't actually help our playstyle it just looks damn cool this is the wide brimmed hat that I bought from Bronson in amber Heights it increases long guns by +5 and you can use long guns as a backup so that's partially beneficial but mostly it's just to look cool however ladies and gentlemen I do have an alternative aesthetic if you so desire for helping deal with clive in a boss track tree you will be rewarded with the sublight contractor helm which actually comes with a noticeable armor rating and a bonus 25% damage to creatures which will actually help you in combat it also makes you look like some badass mask to bounty hunter if that's what you would prefer but ultimately I chose to stick with the cowboy hat but now we know what he looks like to close you where's the hat he dons let's talk about the big iron on his hip for the gunslinger any handgun will do revolver bolt a pistol the vermin but my personal favorite is the automatic pistol the vermin fulfills that heavy revolver feel better but the auto mag still looks pretty gunslinger to me plus it was easier to find an automatic pistol ultra earlier on also Ariens flintlock is a legendary version that is useful for the early game I actually equipped two of these Auto mag pistols my primary was modified for critical damage magazine size and reduced weapon spread and handles most enemies but I also had one with rate of fire reduced weapon spread and shock damage for handling mechanical targets with ease in addition I also carried a hunting rifle ultra just for those occasional times where I wanted to pot shot from far away but obviously the main playstyle is running and gunning now I'll drop my perspective on choosing your weapon ultimately first fire isn't great for this build setup we want to find the high damage single-shot weapons so that when we land a critical hit or headshot it does a damage percentage increase based on the higher single-shot damage so for this the vermin revolver would be best but in my experience I found the Automag pistol to be a better sweet spot allowing us to have a higher magazine size but still sturdy shots but additionally it has less recoil and was comfier to fire accurately while zipping around everywhere but I think that just about does it for all the statistical information about this build the character creation skill progression perks floors companions weapons and gear now it's time to get into the backstory into the role-playing so the gunslinger was not always so over 70 years ago he was an A+ student through all his schooling and went on to university moonlighting as a beverage service technician or in the words of the common man a bartender one night he was closing up the bar locking up and leaving but four thugs ambushed him in the alley beating him up stealing the keys and raiding the bar of all its goods and bits as he lay there beat and bloody he took in every detail he could about their clothes their faces scars freckles etc eventually regained his composure and sought out help you would think that the next day when he returned from work after being in the police station recounting his story all night that he would be met with some sympathy from his boss well you'd be wrong losing possession of the keys to the premises was a severe breach of his employment contract and came with a penalty deduction of one month's pay plus he had to reimburse 35 percent of the stolen goods for negligence breaches a few weeks went by with no pay plus he had essentially emptied his bank account and on top of that the stress of it all caused him to fail tests and be late for assignments and what the hell was it all for anyways just to end up in a world of endless red tape bureaucracy and douchebaggery on Friday he spent the whole night awake contemplating his life with a TV playing in the background running all the classic Westerns he momentarily got distracted by one of the shows and ended up watching the whole thing he wished he could be just like that living a free life on the frontiers of the old world but fate was about to hand him his ticket advertising for the halcyon colony came on promising a new life a grand adventure in the outer worlds this was his chance to escape it all to live a life on his own terms he just needed the money though so with the last of his bits he bought a revolver a six-shooter just like in the westerns he had a plan for the next weeks at work through chatting and subtly investigating he tracked down one of the thugs that had ambushed him in the alley and wasn't all too hard to find them made him think that the cops must have been paid off to look the other way he found that they lived in an abandoned apartment block a few streets away the gunslinger knew this was his moment all that stood between him and halcion was these thugs late at night he entered that building with six bullets loaded into his revolver five minutes and six shots later he left the building dropping his revolver in the trashcan the next morning police found the four men dead three shot in the head one shot in the kneecaps and then additionally shot between the eyes the thug stash of bits had been cleaned out but by this time the gunslinger was already aboard the hope being frozen and sent to the halcyon system after being awakened by Phineas the gunslinger finds the unreliable and becomes the captain of his own ship he lives a life on his own terms and nobody ever again will get in his way or lock him down talking pleading discussing look where that got in before nowhere his whole life a smoking barrel of a gun however that bought him in new life shoot first don't bother asking questions is generally his motto in a role-playing sense the gunslinger is completely self-interested but does not crave after an essential financial gain he just wants freedom to feel alive on the frontier the only somewhat strict rule for role playing this character is to use your gun to solve problems so playing Kumbaya with all the factions isn't going to be a realistic option here the one faction I think that really suits this character well is the sublight salvaging and shipping faction aka hey band of space pirates but outside of that whatever suits him working for the board working for Phineas groundbreaker amasai doesn't matter as long as he gets paid and ultimately has freedom he isn't in it for any cause philosophy or ideology bits booze and bullets that's all he needs I particularly used the attack option in dialogue and it leads to some pretty fun scenarios but that ladies and gentlemen is the gunslinger build to wrap it up nicely remember bits booze and bullets sublight faction dodging shooting and wearing a cool hat that about wraps the gunslinger up leave a like if you enjoyed this build and subscribe for more outer worlds builds and related content in the future my name is Scott from fudge Muppet thanks again so much for watching and I'll be back to nerd out with you again next time

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Keywords: outer worlds, the outer worlds, outer worlds build, fudgemuppet, outer worlds gunslinger, gunslinger build, bounty hunter build, bounty hunter, outerworlds handguns build, sublight build, outer worlds cowboy build, cowboy, boba fett, cad bane, john wick

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Length: 20min 13sec (1213 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 02 2019