The Outer Worlds 2 - A Cause Worth Killing For Walkthrough

A Cause Worth Killing For is the first main quest in The Outer Worlds 2, serving as both an introduction to the gameplay and the world’s mechanics. It offers multiple ways to approach objectives based on player skills and choices, emphasizing stealth, hacking, or combat.

A Cause Worth Killing For: Objectives

• Infiltrate Horizon Point: Your orders are to infiltrate Horizon Point under the guidance of embedded Earth Directorate agent, Augustine de Vries.

Scene

"Your team in en route to Horizon Point, a research station in the isolated system of Arcadia. The Chief of Special Earth Directorate Operations has tasked you with the recovery of intelligence explaining the link between dangerous rifts in space and the skip drives necessary for interstellar travel."

A Cause Worth Killing For: Step-by-step guide

Speak with Niles Abara to obtain the Tactical Time Dilation Gadget, helpful for combat and stealth.

Head to your cabin, retrieve the Takeoff Credentials, and insert them into the intercom to begin the debriefing with Augustine de Vries.

After the cutscene, use the Astrogator in the cockpit to navigate to Horizon Point Station.

Head inside and go upstairs to find and pick up the Power Fuse and insert it into the machine to restore the power.

Head downstairs to the intercom to handle the security bots. Out of the three options, choose the fourth option to go guns blazing.

Shoot down the security bots and proceed into the sector.

After fighting through the security bots, choose between two paths: Security Ops focuses on stealth and obtaining items like the Pumping Station Keycard using skills such as Lockpick, Hack, and Engineering. Central Dispatch emphasizes combat, leading to unique interactions later.

Head toward the marker and fight through enemies to reach the Transformer room (we chose the Central Dispatch combat route.)

Locate the Transformer Manual inside one of the lockers and use it to sabotage the Transformer.

Go to the Communications room on the first floor by climbing up the stairs from the middle compound and manually disable the communications.

After disabling the communications, use the elevator on the right to escape and reunite with the crew.

Wait for the bridge to activate, then defeat the enemies and proceed to Skip Labs.

Use the lift to go upstairs and continue forward, either fighting through the swarm or taking a stealth approach.

Go to the control room and manually open the doors to reach Augustine de Vries, triggering a cutscene that ends the quest.

A Cause Worth Killing For: Tips

• Use Tactical Time Dilation gadget to slow down time and is invaluable for stealth maneuvers and combat situations by giving you more time to react and plan.
• Some security hurdles can be bypassed by convincing NPCs, so boost Speech where possible and always experiment with conversation choices.
• Since you can approach security systems in different ways and choices have consequences, saving often lets you experiment with different solutions without losing progress.