Another tip for newbies: Never underestimate the buff you get from just drinking water. It's a significant amount of stamina regained over time, and will be a lifesaver in the early game.

In regards to combat and stagger/impact damage, that Sheen didn't explain fully: whenever an attack that hits the enemy brings them below 50% of the grey stagger bar, that attack, and every subsequent attack until they fall (when at 0%), which stagger them. How much you take from their bar depends on the impact damage stat of your weapon. So instead of just fishing for openings between their combos, and getting a hit in, you should instead use those openings to try to get the enemy to below 50% stamina/stagger bar, so you can really whale on them until they get up again, and then repeat. If you're extra crazy, you can let the enemy keep regenerating just a little bit of stagger bar, so they don't go down to 0%, and you can effectively stunlock some enemies to death. The Push Kick ability you start with is insane for setting up attacks that the enemy can't retaliate on, as it takes most enemies down to 50% straight away, so all you have to do is land a hit with your weapon after to stunlock them with a combo to keep staggering them. Only the big chunky enemies won't go down to 50% straight away, and if you're packing a high enough impact damage weapon, you can even still bring them down below 50% on the first attack after the kick. If you're a melee character, you should always have Push Kick on your bars, and use it in combat as it is probably the fastest 'attack' in the game, with the most impact damage. Once I figured this out, melee combat became much easier to handle to the point where its only my greed that gets me hit

Vandavel and purifier can be done after joining any faction, do these while waiting 3 days for the main quest. Blood under the sun can be started by heading to an inn after the attack of berg with the corresponding faction quest. All 3 parallel quests can be done really quickly. While also letting you visit all towns and pick up some skills for your build etc. The scholar circlet is god tier with enchantments. Almost any build of mine uses it in one way or another.

because of missions being timed I usually recommend that new players focus on learning combat/earning silver/learning to navigate the different areas before joining a faction. That way you can take your sweet time learning combat(you'll need it), and eventually even go explore harmattan and mess with enchants or hex skills without worrying about starting the rust and vengeance mission. Having said that, I still somehow accidentally activated the mission without ever joining a faction one time. (I think it's from exploring a dungeon associated with rust and vengeance?) You do not want to be a noob and roll up in some of those antique plateau dungeons

Another tip for your free skill from Burac: Don't take Talus Cleaver, the one-handed axe skill. It's trainer is also in Cierzo. Up on the deck next to the Kazite Spellblade trainer.

Thanks to your videos and streams I actually made it out of the starting zone, started a faction quest and got Murmure yesterday (following your video, haha).

Such a great vid, so helpful. If I may add a great farm I run. In the Abbrasar desert there are so many ornate chests around 10. You have to do the arcane magik side mission and defeat the 3 golems in the dungeon to unlock the purple stone altar chests around the desert. It’s where you get one of the tsar stones. Fairly easy to do early, and you can reset these chests as many times as you want :)

I wanted to find a game to play with my gf because she refuses to play rocket league with me. Anyway, I stumbled upon this game about a week ago. We are 15 hours in and my god is this game hard. But she’s hooked! It’s really fun. Thanks for the tips!

I finished the game once and I only _just_ learned about how *stagger* works. 😅 It's one of the major differences between combat in Outward and combat in FromSoft games. In the latter, most light enemies and the player will almost always stagger with each hit, which makes combos from fast weapons deadly effective unless they manage to roll out of the way or get a guard up. That this happens in Outward only after significant *stability* damage isn't necessarily clear to new players, making every enemy feel like a less deadly Crucible Knight if you don't really try and hurt their *stability.*

I when I was just starting playing found 2-habded axe skill is useful as first skill and weapon. 2-handed axe does lots of damage on its own. The trick is to activate skill after regular attack, which basicaly causes to do 2 attacks without cooldown. Enough to kill most of enemies like bandits and trogs. And 2-handed axe skill does just massive damage.

Man Sheen that was some very clean combat! Especially with the claymores…time to make a claymore build!

I just started a new character and the build i made is stupid op and still has plenty of room for extra perks/ improvements since ive still got another full tree i can invest into. Friendly immaculates halberd Full set of tenebrous armor from levant for the +20% ethereal damage Any backpack Mist boon Enrage and focus spells Bloodlust Lockwells revelation Shamanic resonance Sigil of wind + mana push to cast ethereal bolt Moon swipe Not all perks shown are necessary but do play well into the build, also ive only used 2 breakthroughs so far so there is plenty of room for improvement but as it stands i can stunlock a wendigo and kill it in a few hits lol

Late game tip, how to get dark stones in caldera (it has no corruption)- every time you use blood sigil , spam conjure even if the turret is up, recasting it gives you corruption.

Important items I didn't hear in this video- The 7 day reset applies to enemies, loot stashes, and placed items (by player or pre-set) and you must stay out of the area for the full 7 days. Player houses do NOT reset the inside. So placing a campfire and alchemy station in your first house will never disappear. 3 day respawn timer is applied to merchants inventory, repeatable quests, and natural resources and you do NOT have to leave the area. Always drop your bag before a fight, keep "OH NO" items in your pocket, like health potions, so you can run away and heal. Also, you can dodge like an NPC without your bag on if you have stamina (the moment your bar fills while on the ground, you can dodge off the ground away from the NPC). Google the rest as you need, like weapon speed and trainer locations.

i literally just noticed the addition of the time & date on the quest screen and couldn’t remember if i was just forgetting it not being there, so thanks for confirming that it was new. also, thanks for adding my tip about Burac, and i like the addition of using the cloth knuckles to get the rage boon- nice little combo👍. mostly i always just felt people were screwing themselves out of a free skill that they would have a hard time to find. i think the 1 handed axe skill is also found in cierzo from the other kazite trainer, so if you’re unsure of what weapon you want for you build, maybe hold off on taking that one too if you plan on bumming around chersonese for a while (or like a month like I tend to do 😅) edit: oh, and thanks for the confirmation on the 3 days thing. i was also just looking for some definitive info on that but no matter where i looked everyone was just so wishy-washy about it. someone would say yes, and then someone would reply, “well hold on a minute,” and then the 1st person would second guess themselves and then never follow up and it was annoying. so thanks for some solid confirmation. good to know than now that i’ve joined the Mission i can finish up purifier and go do Vendeval even tho the 3 days are up. generally great basic guide for when to do the parallel quests. just hard info to find otherwise and its nice to finally have an easy reference point without having to scour the wiki. solid 👍

I love that towns reset in DE. Now, whenever I spend a significant amount of time away, the first thing I do is loot the town.

another tip is save b4 you open a chest if you feel cheated reload, do not quit to menu or it will save. alt f4 or taskmenu end task then reload and the chest contents will be different ea time 2.don't underestmate the power of the dry mushroom bar! it gets rid of hp burn so you can have max hp without sleeping. soothing tea gets rid of mana burn bitter tea gets rid of stamina burn. there are other things but these items are so easy to get

Thanks for the vid. Here's a comment for the algorithm.

My advice is to not over eat. Food in this game offers great buffs but unfortunately the more food it was stores the more you could overclock your hunger meter and get extremely tired. Gluttony and all that.

Early game money strat! get a pickaxe-go to the mountain-farm mana stones- 1/3 to drop hackmanite that sell for 50s-sleep and repeat

While the first skill choice is not that important. I Personally think Halbert is the best choice (for early cleaver fun) and 1h mace is the worst (exept if you want to go spellblade). - 1h axe is also in cierzo so not a good choice - Spear and 1h swords are good choices since running to levant is quite a journey in early game if you are inexperienced.

I would add one more tip on the sets. You don't need to match the "set", it's even more beneficial to mix different pieces from few "sets". When you look on the item's stats and possible enchantments...that's where depth hidden for me.

thanks man youve helped me tons with these videos

i like how u tamed hyena to fight wendigo 4:45

love your outward videos been playing this on and off since it came out, and lmao didn't know you could buy a house in each town jeez. I haven't perused all your videos but some co-op tips would be great if you don't already have one as I mainly like playing it co-op

1h axe also learn from one of kazite teachers in Cierzo i love take it with rage from Burac

Tip videos are always welcome.

Thanks that was very helpful

just a quick question: if you go to harmattan after the first faction quest mission you start automatically rust and vengeance, so if you visit harmattan before choosing and starting a faction nothing should happen am i right? because in an earlier video you showed a quick way to make bucks in harmattan and that wouldnt be available before the endgame by following this order

I haven't seen a pearlbirds mask in so long. It's been more than 5 playthroughs at this point.

I’ve been loving this game. I’m like 40 hours in. Il admit tho I had to call my guy code sonic. When I first heard about the cheat I was like oh il never use that. Then I started getting about and thought man I wish I had it 😂 so I made a new character and played with the cheat. Without it I’d of gave up as even with it. The thought of going all the way back to my house really bums me out. I’m trying to get one of the other houses. However I’m constantly over encumbered. And im doing the quest where you need the four keys,that and the constant barrage of negative status effects is killing my motivation. For example. I got the kelvin Greataxe I think it was called. With the antique plate armour. Only to find out having that weapon means I’m constantly freezing my tush off and catching a cold. This on top of catching constant disease and corruption whilst traversing these dungeons to find these keys has really just sucked the enjoyment out for me at the moment. Is there any tips you know of or a mechanic I’m missing that can make life a little easier. I carry the different weather potions and cures and teas. But again it’s weight. With the weight of cash too encumbered is a constant state for me.

I'm curious to see which tips will be on this list!

You can also learn talus cleaver the one handed axe skill in cierzo from the second kazite trainer so dont get it from burac. ;)

You should make a video on best food to make, especially for early game

Great video

What should I do if I want to join the Sorobor Academy faction? Won’t that activate the Rust and Vengeance quest automatically since they are in the same city?

I've had enemies suddenly dodge/roll even if they are staggered. That's why enemies with infinity stamina are unfair. your staggered is linked to a limited out of stamina. you always fall down eventually. The computer won't fall down until it's staggered is completely gone. it's an asinine mechanic at that point.

Just subed

Is Outward definitive edition available for PS4? Ironically, I have seen any definitive information online.

Hey guys, new player here. Where can I read more about the infernal timers as they make zero sense to me??? Thank you...

I feel it's almost the same as the last video lol

I hate that the towns reset now. I used to have alchemy set, cooking pot and plant tent in each city as some master vagabond. Now it delets it. Fcking stupid annoying.

game got me hooked....looks nice on ps5