Obsidian has announced that The Outer Worlds will be receiving DLC sometime next year.

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The announcement came in a post on the Obsidian forums titled, " A Special Thank You From Obsidian ," where the studio thanked its fans and supporters for their support. They went on to reveal that story DLC will be coming sometime in 2020, saying, "The journey isn't over yet as we are excited to announce that we will be expanding the story through DLC next year!"There was no other information about how long the planned expansions would be or what they would focus on from a story perspective, but Obsidian assured fans that, "Details will be made available at a later date."The post closes with a note from Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, Game DIrectors on The Outer Worlds:We just wanted to personally thank our team for doing a wonderful job and our fans for their tremendous support. And Tim would like to say what an honor it was to work with me.Whatever, Leonard. Now that we’ve finished, I expect that certain photographs will be destroyed, as per our agreement.We recently named The Outer Worlds the Best RPG of 2019 in our Game of the Year awards , and it was nominated for several categories at The Game Awards (hence the blog post).Are you excited for The Outer Worlds' first DLC? What are you hoping to see in it? Let us know in the comments, and be sure to check out all the big news from last night's Game Awards , as well as everything we know about the just-revealed Xbox Series X

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