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'''General information'''
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===Middleware===
 
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Outcast: A New Beginning
Outcast: A New Beginning cover
Developers
Appeal Studios
Publishers
THQ Nordic
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows March 15, 2024
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Third-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Shooter, TPS
Art styles Realistic
Themes Sci-fi
Series Outcast
Outcast: A New Beginning on IGDB
Outcast: A New Beginning on MobyGames
Outcast
Outcast 1999
Outcast 1.1 2014
Outcast: Second Contact 2017
Outcast: A New Beginning 2024

Outcast: A New Beginning is a singleplayer third-person action, shooter and TPS game in the Outcast series.

General information

Official Discord server for game series
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Gamesplanet logo.svg
Icon overlay.png
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
Icon overlay.png
Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\O2\Saved\Config\
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1013140/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\O2\Saved\SaveGames\*.sav[Note 2]
<path-to-game>\O2\Saved\SaveGames\preview\*.sav[Note 2]
%LOCALAPPDATA%\O2\Saved\SaveGames\*.sav
%LOCALAPPDATA%\O2\Saved\SaveGames\preview\*.sav
Steam Play (Linux) <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1013140/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, SFX, Dialogues, Voices
Surround sound
No center channel, conversation dialog plays through all speakers
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio OGG Vorbis, Wwise, XAudio2

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i3-7530K
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 40 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
DirectX 11 compatible
SSD recommended.
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
  2. 2.0 2.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Verified by User:S3bsta on 2024-03-22