I killed everybody’s favorite Outer Worlds companion, and Obsidian just told me how
Parvati Holcomb is everybody’s (or at least, lots of people’s) favorite character in The Outer Worlds. The brilliant yet sheltered engineer has charmed players with her sweetness and determination, and her companion quest offers a rare spot of hope in a dystopian world, letting you help her find love with the captain of a rough-and-tumble colony ship. That’s what I hear, anyway — because when I played The Outer Worlds, I killed Parvati. Thanks to developer Obsidian, I finally figured out how. And the solution required some pretty clever sleuthing.
Obsidian just patched a bug that lets your companions “die” outside the hardcore Supernova mode — something that should be impossible. On normal difficulty levels, companions fall unconscious...