It’s been a week and a half long for the booty booty Outriders, a game shaken by eleven days of missing features, server problems, and the noise of the player. The latest wave of problems began on Friday afternoon when developer People Can Fly pushed out a patch for PC and PlayStation consoles, with an Xbox version to follow at a later time and unspecified.
Then, at 6:17 pm ET, People Can Fly dit the PlayStation 5 version of the patch would also arrive late. The next morning, that PS5 patch went live. In the afternoon, the patch for Xbox consoles it was live, too, but for a good 24 hours or so, crossover gaming only existed between PlayStation 4 and PC players.
This is a notable divergence regarding the operation or not of cross-play since the release of Outriders. During the demonstration, Outriders Compatible with cross-platform games on all platforms, albeit in beta. While you could often party without problems, juggling players on all platforms used to cause disconnections and framerate stuttering. Square Enix he said Kotaku at the time that Outriders “would have a 1.0 release version of [the] cross game system at launch “.
After Outriders released, the crossover game between PlayStation and Xbox worked though it was not functional between consoles and PCs. Of course, once PC gamers were able to officially join the fight this weekend, many console gamers didn’t. It’s funny how these things happen.
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For now, cross game appears back online completely. (I’m playing Outriders on PS5 and I still haven’t been able to test it with PC players, but last night I played several hours with a friend from the Xbox Series X. We only disconnected four times.) But there are other issues.
On the one hand, there is the issue of inventory wipes. Over the past week and the change, players have reported total inventory wipes: they would start to see all their much-earned weapons and armor gone. The patch that was released over the weekend suppose to “a multiplayer lock that could cause client players to clear inventory.” And yet, as Luke reported last night, some players still see their inventories suddenly disappear. (People can fly he says, in case of inventory cleaning, you should “force close immediately [your] game “and reopen it.)
People Can Fly is planning a solution sometime in the future in the form of a massive restoration of lost gear. Unfortunately, the developer dit it would probably only be able to restore gears of epic (purple) or legendary (yellow) level, consigning anything weird (blue) or inferior to the garbage data of history for good. Also, some statistics about restored equipment may not appear exactly as they were.
And then there are the problems of rebalancing. But Outriders is a totally player-environment-no-player-player-plan public mode game People Can Fly detailed some nerfs. Most notably, the Trickster class received a significant increase in reuse time due to its large Twisted Rounds ability. These changes caused outrage, and players went to social media to describe the election as “shit“,”shit“,”shit shit“,”shit“, And other phrases of this nature.” You don’t have to look far to find comments that cross the line Outriders the team has been working hard over the weekend two weekends in a row. But even if it were not so, harassment is never justified).
As compensation for the problems the players have experienced Outriders, the developer will also give a legendary weapon and some titanium, a top-notch resource used in the game’s creation system, to the higher-level character for players who have logged in. Outriders before yesterday. So no, you won’t be able to create six characters and score six legendary weapons. You have no idea. (People Can Fly has not yet announced the date of this “thank you gift”).
It’s a little annoying because underneath it all live a really great game: a solid shooter with a ruined shooting game, a convincing loot hunt and some seriously serious powers. The story also grows in you, no matter what you may think at first. Let me say this: Outriders it’s the first game in a long, long time that made me want to finish the workday so I could start playing. And these problems do not seem to hinder the success of the game, at least not yet. Outriders is currently the third best-selling game on Steam and the second most popular game on Xbox Game Pass, according to the digital showcases of the two retailers.
The question, of course, is whether or not it is Outriders you can keep up the momentum despite the extra luggage. If these problems persist, players will bleed naturally, frustrated by the appearance of the game, and burned by fixes that don’t actually fix anything. But on the other hand, there are not much more to play right now. And People Can Fly has done yeoman’s job of communicating problems, solutions, and deadlines to the player base, with at least one update or missive turned off every day since launch. It remains to be seen how long these players will last a game that is currently less than perfect.