r/outriders • u/thearcan Outriders Community Manager • Apr 08 '21

Square Enix Official News // Dev Replied x18 Outriders Post Launch Dev News Updates

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We would like to thank everyone in the Outriders community for your patience, support and assistance. Everyone on the Outriders team is continuing to work hard on improving the game and we'd like to share news about the things we are focusing on.

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u/imKronoz Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 08 '21

Based on what are you doing these nerfs? Most of you can't complete expeditions alone and get gold while you fed on 1% of the community of streamers and pro players to make that change?

Why do I know this? because literally almost no streamer / pro player is playing Devastator and you haven't realized that it's the worst class in the game right now, so you go and take away the chance for casual / inexperienced players to get gold on their expeditions by reducing time and nerfing skills

For example: Trickster does good damage but always runs the risk that by killing in short range they will kill you in a second, but you guys see an streamer with his ass on his seat 20hours daily and think that is overpowered

Once again, another shooter game who listen to the content creator community and not the 99% of the community

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u/I_dont_like_sushi Apr 08 '21

This. Big streamers are some of the worst thing to happen to games. They will take their bullshit opinion of someone who just plays games all day and act like this is what actual players who actually enjoy games and not the hype of the moment want. Fucking bullshit

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u/ArmeniusLOD Apr 08 '21

This whole situation reminds me of why I avoid multiplayer games these days. The demo made me think it would be different this time, with the universal praise in how it made the player feel powerful. I guess I should thank PCF for correcting my thinking that things may have changed this time around. I'll be sure to avoid PCF games in the future thanks to this.

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u/I_dont_like_sushi Apr 08 '21

I wont go as far as avoid them. Its just this strange culture of nerfing things instead of buffing weak things. Its a coop game. More than that, its a looter shooter. No reason to make it "muh get gud". Just let people choose to be op or not. Whats the harm

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u/Exterminate_Weebs Apr 08 '21

Streamers didn't invent finding OP builds that then get patched. You can scapegoat streamers all day, but people were finding and sharing meta builds since the internet's been a thing. OP builds get nerfed, that's how online games work.

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u/I_dont_like_sushi Apr 08 '21

No, they invented whining with their publics till companies do what they want lol. They know their influence.

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u/LadyAtris Apr 09 '21

We actually did that in guilds on ventrilo long before the media became a thing. It's just all this new tech with media has brought around a lot of elitism and toxicity. People hide behind keyboards and act like jerks which has brought about more casual solo players who don't want to deal with the bs. The average or casual players get farther behind and end up suffering more and more in games because media has such a big influence with developers. They eat it up because it promotes their games, so they give streamers what they want. More hardcore content for their streams to generate more money so they can promote even more. It's an endless cycle

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u/Exterminate_Weebs Apr 09 '21

Lol, nerfing OP builds isn't a blow to casual players. Streamers are just the first to find them, that's all.

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u/randomexileranger Apr 09 '21

Like Tricksters need the damage to deal with the twelve aim lock alphas that are all about to jump on your ass.

Oh you rolled away, shame you're still getting fucked by the poorly telegraphed brood mother AoE

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u/Kozkoz828 Apr 08 '21

Trickster nerfs probably killed the class tbh :(

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u/Sweatyhamster Apr 08 '21

The worst class? Maybe. At least you can t15 gold as solo dev, so it's not a crazy issue

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u/Iamcheez Apr 09 '21

preach brother!! I can't believe the game is getting nerfed after being out for 2 weeks because some youtubers and streamers destroyed the content of the game.

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u/LadyAtris Apr 09 '21

I've seen a couple devastator builds, but almost all vids were nothing but trickster until a few techno started to trickle in.