When playing The Outer Worlds, you will often make choices that can either negatively or positively impact your relationship and reputation with the different factions in the game.
Reputation is a metric that tracks player status based on encounters with other groups, either in terms of actions performed or dialogue choice and quests. As this happens, you get lower vendor prices with discounts between 15% and 33% within that faction. Plus, the faction members will treat you nicer.
Reputation levels in The Outer Worlds
Let’s examine the opportunities that influence your reputation in The Outer Worlds.
| Status | Effects | Positive Reinforcement | Negative Reinforcement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neutral | 0 – 29% | 0 – 29% | |
| Agreeable | Vendor prices reduced 5% | 30 – 49% | 0 – 29% |
| Friendly | Vendor prices reduced 15% | 50 – 79% | 0 – 29% |
| Revering | Vendor prices reduced 25% | 80% + | 0 – 29% |
| Agitated | Vendor prices increased 10% | 50 – 79% | 80% + |
| Scared | 30 – 49% | 80% + | |
| Repulsed | Kill on sight + vendor prices increased 50% | 0 – 29% | 80% + |
| Bitter | Vendor prices increased 10% | 30 – 49% | 50 – 79% |
Now, negative reputation is earned by hurting the faction or make them angry enough so they become hostile and attack you on sight. If that happens, you can’t ever patch things up.
Improving Reputation
The quickest way to cozy up with and boost your reputation among a faction is to finish quests that you get from their members. These mostly consist of you picking up items and delivering them to the faction member who gave you the task. These are a great source of XP and give you slight boosts in reputation.
To earn more reputation through quests, try completing them without any buffs.
How to Increase Reputation by Punching
When you meet Nelson Mayson, he is convincing you to help him. Before you agree, ask him to answer some questions. Now, in his next dialogue, you need to punch him in the face.
Next, tell Nelson he asked you to hit. This will increase your reputation.
Quests That Impact Reputation
There also some quests that feature different factions and depending on how you finish them, earn you one faction’s favor along with the other’s animosity.
Sometimes you get quests specific to that particular faction and you just have to complete it to boost your reputation among them. Other times you have to finish certain quests in specific ways to garner the favor of one faction while harming the other.
The table below lists every way you can improve your reputation with the different groups and factions in the game:
| Faction/ Group | How to Increase Reputation |
|---|---|
| Deserters | During Stranger in a Strange Land quest divert the power to Botanical Lab and convince Reed to leave Edgewater and tell Adelaide. Also, complete A Few Kindred Spirits and The Frightened Engineer. |
| Spacer’s Choice | Convince Thomas and Grace to return to Edgewater and complete The Long Tomorrow. |
| Groundbreaker | During The Distress Signal quest, give research to Gladys and complete Solution Vital and The Silent Voices. |
| Auntie Cleo | During The Doom That Came to Roseway give Anton his research, and The Amateur Alchemist give Vaughn the research results. |
| Sublight | When you first meet Catherine in Fallbrook be polite to her. Complete Space-Crim Continuum, The Ice Palace, and The Chimerist’s Last Experiment. During the Spratkings quest get Nelson’s drug back to him and take out Clive at Slaughterhouse Clive. |
| Monarch Stellar Industries | Complete BOLT with His Name and Errors Unseen. During The Grimm Tomorrow quest, get Grimm his tossball poster, Herrick’s Handiwork quest get Caleb raise, The Stainless Steel Rat take care of Elijah’s Gang, and lastly, during Canid’s Cradle give Sanjar the module. |
| The Board | Complete Balance Due, The Puppet Master, The Demolished Woman, Long Distance, At Central, and Why Call Them Back from Retirement quests. Convince Thomas and Grace to return to Edgewater, give medicines to Constable Reyes during The Long Tomorrow, and pay off Jessie’s debt/put her to work during Worst Contract. |
| Iconoclasts | Free Huxley during BOLT with His Name, complete odd jobs for Bronson in Amber Heights, find Ash’s Keepsake Box in Little Memento. Complete the Pay for the Printer and Sucker Bait quests, and lastly, give Graham the module during Canid’s Cradle. |
So as long as a faction isn’t hostile towards you, any existing tensions with them can be resolved by doing them favors or finishing quests in their favor.
