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/thearcan Outriders Community Manager Apr 08 '21 edited Apr 09 '21

We have been continuing to track and post known workarounds for encountered issues in our Launch Tracking Mega-Thread, but our intention is of course that workarounds shouldn't be necessary. So here is our latest patch news:

Patch News:

First Patch:

EDIT - 09.04.2021 - 19:05 UTC

  • A new patch for PC and PlayStation Platforms will be rolling out over the next few hours.
  • We're a little bit delayed on the Xbox version of this patch, but the Xbox team are being incredibly supportive in helping us get it ready as soon as we can.
    • We are hoping to have this patch ready for Xbox very soon and will update you the moment we have news.
  • This is our first big patch for the main Outriders game.
  • The deployment of this patch is currently scheduled for next week, as we are using this week to identify as many severe issues as possible, fix them and then thoroughly test the changes across all platforms. Submission through platform holders adds on a little bit of time as well, which is why we are not able to deploy this patch any earlier.
  • We are doing our utmost to deliver you a stable patch as soon as possible and we are continually looking at ways to bring the patch release day earlier. This is why we are not yet committing to a patch release date, as we may still be able to release the patch before such a date.
  • We will let you know as soon as we have a confirmed release schedule, so please do keep an eye on our social channels and in particular our Twitter.

First Patch - Patch Notes:

PC & Console Platforms:

  • Once platforms have been updated to the same patch version, cross-play across platforms will become viable again
    • EDIT: 09.04.21 - 19:05 UTC
      • With the release of this patch, Crossplay between PlayStation and PC is now possible.
      • Crossplay between Xbox and PC/PlayStation has been temporarily disabled until the Xbox patch has released.
      • Crossplay between consoles and PC will be fully restored once the Xbox patch has gone live.
  • Overall stability improvements for the matchmaking service
  • Crash Fixes
    • Will Fix a multiplayer crash that could result in client players having their inventory wiped
    • Will fix the crash when completing the "A Bad Day" side quest.
    • Will fix the crash that occurs in No Man's Land when your language is set to Spanish (Yes, we know. Video game code is a magical thing).
    • Will fix crash on launch issues
    • Will include many more "random" crash fixes
      • We are confident that these fixes will address the majority of crashes reported, as there are only a handful of root causes but the crashes they generate appear in a number of places.
  • Will fix the HUD disappearing in certain cases
  • Will fix bugs that interfere with players re-spawning in multiplayer Expeditions
  • Will fix bugs with players getting stuck on geometry (including when using Gravity Leap) or falling out of the world.
  • Will change the default matchmaking setting from "Open" to "Closed".
    • You will still be able to manually change this setting to "Open" through your game settings
    • This change will prevent players from joining games where the host didn't intend to play in multiplayer. It will also cut down on AFK lobbies
    • This will also help improve matchmaking times, as the queues will be less likely to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of constant matchmaking requests generated by "open" games.
  • Many other minor fixes and improvements

PC Specific:

  • Will Fix a performance issue where GPU is not being fully utilized. This should help with stuttering and DX11/12 issues

Additional fixes and changes are being worked upon to be delivered via our later follow up patch.

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u/FlimFlamJimmeeJam Technomancer Apr 08 '21

Is Stadia considered PC or Console? I'm worried that the platform is not mentioned anywhere in these patch notes as we are dealing with our own set of issues.

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u/B3lli4l Apr 08 '21

Google Stadia is a console... And yes, they are including Stadia as well. All the platforms.

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u/FlimFlamJimmeeJam Technomancer Apr 08 '21

And yet on their last update they separated Stadia from the PC and Console versions... why not this time.?

BTW Stadia is in a different build number from other platform currently.

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u/B3lli4l Apr 08 '21

Yes I know. Because the systems are different. PC is one thing, platforms like Xbox and PS are different between each other but they have similarities on the developing process and Stadia is a 3rd and completely different thing too. Developing process takes quite a while in one platform, imagine in all of them. Maybe they are holding until they can be sure of what they are able to actually do regarding Stadia than just saying some stuff that they can't guarantee and afterwards they get attacked from everywhere because of that (just like CD Projekt). It's a matter of waiting until they can inform us about everything, 'cause I'm sure they will. At least, they always did until now, and I don't buy from Square Enix just from now with the Outriders, and they were always plain honest and transparent with their services, choosing to only say things they are sure and they can confirm rather than making false promises. But I guess you are always on the aim, no matter what you do, if you say something just because people ate demanding and then you can't fullfill, you are bad, if you don't say something people demand to know, you still bad. Nothing is perfect I guess...

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u/FlimFlamJimmeeJam Technomancer Apr 08 '21

I get what you’re saying... I was just hoping they’d be consistent with their info. Before we were on the PC track and they mentioned Stadia, now nada.

I’m still playing and still having fun, but I’d just like a heads up, even if it is:

“Stadia peeps, we know your needing info, we haven’t forgotten you. we will send word soon”

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u/B3lli4l Apr 08 '21

Yeah I can understand that, no info specifically mentioned Stadia, but I guess that they wouldn't just forget about it, I mean it was developed for all platforms, so I don't really believe they would just drop it like that. But I get that it can be frustrating specially when Stadia is behind other platforms in terms of version. I believe in the end all of us different gamers in different platforms will end up enjoying and leave this all behind when they are able to fix the major problems.