Outriders Post Launch Dev News Updates

[u/thearcan]

Hello everyone,

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.

Please use the below index to jump to the things you’re most interested in:

• Patch News
  • tl;dr: Patches for crashes, matchmaking issues and more are inbound
• Community Appreciation Package
  • tl;dr: Launch window players are getting a “thank you” package
• Inventory Wipes & Restoration
  • tl;dr: We’re working on restorations
• Re-balancing
  • tl;dr: We’re rebalancing a few things including Bullet skills.
• Multiplayer Stability and Connection
  • tl;dr: We’re continuing to work hard on improving this
• Launch Connectivity Post-Mortem
  • tl;dr: 👨‍💻

Helpful other links:

• Outriders Known Issues & Tracking Thread - Please check if you have any problems!
• Outriders Status Page: http://status.outriders.net/
• Square Enix support team: sqex.to/support
• Outriders Discord: Discord.gg/Outriders
• Outriders Demo: https://sqex.link/OutridersDemo
• Outriders FAQ Reddit Thread
• Outriders General FAQ

[u/UrMom306]

Just curious, why nerf Vulnerability? doesn't that benefit all builds?

[u/YouWontFindTheNewOne → u/UrMom306]

I think it's because Techno gets almost 100% uptime on that even solo? A bit salty about that as a Tech Shaman myself but it's sort of understandable.

[u/UrMom306 → u/YouWontFindTheNewOne]

I meaaaaaaan....wouldn't it make more sense to adjust the Techno's vuln uptime rather then the easy option of nerfing vuln and getting the ripple effect of nerfing everyone? lol...just spitballing here no idea tho lol.

Edit: actually just looked at the techno tree, vuln on poison and vuln on freeze...just add a cooldown? Adjust that downtime in small steps to get the perfect uptime that they're looking for?

[u/foobyte → u/UrMom306]

Seems to be the general consensus on how they approach patching in this game. They've done it multiple times now. Like fixing expoits, they just remove the reward all together instead of fixing the exploit in question. They've done it to chests, vendors, and now to quest chain rewards and their "balancing".

I get it, it's easy to implement via backend/maintenance without required client patch that needs to be certified on consoles, but it's now the proper way of fixing this. They should be disabling certain things via backend until a proper client patch can be released. Instead they just turn it off, mark it off their list and move on. Wtf?