![]() Still, one month into launch, People Can Fly had nothing to say about the more egregious flaws: the unpredictable connectivity, the wholecloth inventory wipes. People Can Fly addressed that, and other issues, in a major patch that came out about a month after release.If they didn’t kill you in a hit or two, they’d stagger you In the initial build of Outriders, snipers lined up shots instantly and seemingly never missed. Players who were able to tolerate the turbulence quickly found a new thing to hate: The fucking snipers.Outside of server woes, players balked at a line that certainly sounded like a real-world reference to terrifying events on January 6, 2021: “More like that time I had to save your sorry arse from that redneck mob storming D.C.” Turns out, it was pure coincidence.Instead, it nerfed abilities for the temporal space magic-using Trickster class, and also made it so you couldn’t earn legendary weapons from certain side-quests. The first patch, which dropped about a week into Outriders’ life span, didn’t fix any connectivity issues or whatnot.Not great for a game based on gear! People Can Fly said it would likely only be able to restore high-tier gear. But Outriders faced a more pressing issue: During its second week, players started reporting a serious bug in which they’d log in (after a wait, in some cases) to find their entire inventories eliminated. ET, People Can Fly took the servers offline for several hours. During the game’s second game day, People Can Fly publicized a website that allowed players to check on the real-time status of Outriders.Outriders was also plagued by the standard issues that come with online games: poor connections, dropped connections, total failure to make connections. (Fact check: Anywhere from five minutes to roughly half an hour.) Even worse, the hack that fixed a near-identical issue from the demo - the trick of “turn it off and back on again” - no longer seemed to work. Players ended up stuck at a sign-in screen that would last for what felt like an eternity.Players who had to restart the game ad infinitum saw a whole lot of this f***ing bird. And since Outriders, despite being fully playable as a single-person game, requires constant internet connection, many players were left out in the cold. The demo was plagued by some connectivity woes - including some seriously busted crossplay functionality - but nothing on the scale of the full launch. That attention might’ve been a double-edged, as players flooded servers that weren’t able to handle the influx.Also, wise Xbox players cancelled their unwise preorders. Two weeks before launch, Microsoft announced that Outriders would come out on Game Pass day-one, ushering a wave of new attention to the already buzzy game. ![]() The week it was released, the demo clocked as one of Steam’s top downloads. Obviously, players instantly started farming for legendary weapons. ![]()
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