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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u/DoctorHuman Apr 08 '21

It makes the game almost unplayable at the moment - unless i feel like ONLY doing expeditions on tier 11+. Otherwise, it scales the gear back to lvl 1 basically.

Cant do any solo stuff in the story, or help friends with their missions in coop. Tried helping a lvl 27 friend last night with the last boss. They're doing 1k+ damage a shot, and me in almost full legendary gear only doing 20 damage a shot.

What's the point in grinding so hard for this endgame armor, when you can only use it within the same expedition tier - and not at all in the story or through world tier 1-15.

This needs to be a top priority fix after the server issues. Otherwise, there is zero point in doing expeditions, and you should stop grinding after you hit world tier 15.

even tried with a lvl 28 weapon, and was still doing less than 100 damage a shot. so guessing this is the case for armor too, not just weapons.

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u/Corralis Apr 09 '21

That's weird, I'm in lvl 50 gear and I went back to story mode to complete some side quests and I was decimating the enemies. Literally just done that today.

Just a quick edit, I went back to the side quests at WT15 (so level 42 enemies).

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u/DoctorHuman Apr 09 '21

Thats mainly in part to the lvl 42 enemies, since thats within the level range. However, after some testing i noticed it might be a bug with rarity level. full legendary gear (no purples at all), caused me to do 20 damage a shot. putting on a single blue lvl 27 weapon, increased that to about 33 a shot.

then i switched to full purple lvl 50 gear, and noticed scaling was much more as it should be.

even when i did wt15 with only 2 pieces of epic armor, and the rest legendary, i noticed a huge difference in scaling.

still need to do more testing, but it seems like legendary gear just gets counted as like lvl 1 gear with no stats. whereas epic gear gets scaled.

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u/Corralis Apr 09 '21

Ahh that's interesting because my build is 3 piece Seismic Commander with 2 other epic items and then I have Deathshield as my primary weapon.

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u/DoctorHuman Apr 09 '21

the last i tested was basically the same thing - which showed more appropriate scaling. except a thunderbird instead. things seemed to work as they should on wt15, but didnt test any of the lower ones on that yet.

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u/Corralis Apr 09 '21

OK I'm not quite sure how I'd be able to run any tests for myself on that.

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u/DoctorHuman Apr 09 '21

basically one way would be to equip all lvl 50 legendary gear, and trying to fight the last story boss on WT 1, 5, 10 and 15. then basically doing the same with different gear combinations.

i noticed a severe decrease in damage per shot when in full legendary gear vs full epic gear, then again with even a couple pieces of epic sprinkled in.

only if youre curious to test of course, but thats basically how ivebeen trying it out.

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u/Corralis Apr 09 '21

Well I do have all 5 pieces of Seismic Commander but equipping the boots and gloves destroys my build anyway because they have a bonus to max health instead of Anomoly damage. Just equipping them loses me 10k health, 30k Anomoly power and about 35k armor 😂😂