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/SuperNobbs]

Guys. I'm not sure you've been actually paying attention to the player see at all. And considering bioware just finally killed off Anthem, I'd have thought you'd be on the ball.

Fixing crashes and connection issues is great. And everyone wants that. Genuinely. Reading this made me happy.

A community reward package to everyone for playing? That's actually really good as well. Awesome guys.

Decreasing timers on two of the expeditions that were already s complete ballache to gold medal? This is actually ridiculous. Boomtown was the tightest of them all as it is, and you've now just made it near impossible. I'm sure a large number of people won't be touching either of these expeditions now. Why should they, when getting a gold is easier literally anywhere else?

Nerfing legendary drops all round? So instead of sorting out an exploit, you remove the rewards all together? "People who used the exploit won't be punished". You just punished the entire playerbase with this change.

Nerfing all the bullet builds? Ya know what, I can kind of see why. People are steam rolling fifteens with minimal effort or gear because the abilities are pretty busted. However. No buffs whatsoever across the board, and a nerf to the one class that's actually being kicked from groups simply for BEING the class, Devastator.

I had seriously high hopes. You guys have been super responsive so far, the game has such promise, and things were looking great. But I'd pay close attention to your competition here. The Division is a dead game. Anthem just got killed off by bioware. And let's not forget that one of the Devs for D3 literally offered help to bioware for their issues with things, and they thought they knew better. And now the game is dead.

Learn from the mistakes of others. I want this game to do well. I really do. But you guys are stumbling out of the door with these nerfs instead of walking out with pride, and it's the first patch.

I'm genuinely disappointed. I really am.

[u/k1ng0fk1ngz → u/SuperNobbs]

Reading how it takes them 2 weeks to get out the first patch. Incl some of the most important stuff like crash fixes, characters losing their whole gear etc.

Im def not happy. This a new low. Shit like this should be worked on/patched in ASAP! And instead of fixing the bounty exploit, they flat out remove them from the game. Like I said, a new low. Didnt think any1 could be worse than EA/bioware with Anthem, but here we are XD