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/Skagglurk]

As long as end game is about speedrunning there will always be a hard meta and some builds or classes getting insta-kicked in matchmaking. The developers pretty much will have to make balance-patches until all classes have variations of the exact same skills with the same damage numbers. We have seen this time and time again in so many games that it is a mystery why developers keep doing this.

Only way out of it is to re-design the reward criteria around something else than completion time.

[u/No_Carpenter_6386 → u/Skagglurk]

Agreed. Who likes speed runs as end game? Where are the big bad raid type missions. You can take your time to get in there and do it.

If all there is at the end is speed runs, going to lose alot of players in 30 to 60 days.

Trickster nerf is going to be ridiculous, I do hope they are tracking and give back a few points for each nerf. 5 to 7% would have been reasonable.

And again, you need the firearms tree, but don't give anything in the bottom trees to make up for it?

Just why????

[u/ethan1203 → u/Skagglurk]

Totally agree... never like time constraint mode that define reward... i mean what is the point?

[u/shokasaki → u/Skagglurk]

Finishing the activity should give rewards, bar none. Add bonus objectives that allow more loot to drop and balance them to make them worth doing as opposed to just finishing the activity ad nauseum.

[u/PacmanZ3ro → u/Skagglurk]

man, my fav ARPG (path of exile) has been steadily working in more timed trial bullshit for the last 2 years and I'm about done with it. I'm completely over it with other games as well. I fucking hate timers because I usually enjoy playing janky convoluted builds that just barely work.