First of all, really happy to see the game doing well. I played during the Alpha and loved it. Am skipping through the cutscenes and catching up to where I left off (the mountain). Just fix the servers and you’re golden.
That said, I think Outriders is connecting with people for a few key reasons.
Shlooter without the bullshit.
There are no microtransactions. No timesavers. This is a Diablo style looter, not Destiny, Anthem or Avengers.
Barren Market.
Shlooters are a dime a dozen. Gears style shooters are far from it. There is Gears, Remnant and this. And this goes beyond the Gears formula with abilities and greater flexibility in play, allowing for more varied builds, without the unrelenting difficulty of Remnant.
Network Effect.
A demo can make or break a game. Outriders demo did a lot right for many people. Putting the game into Game Pass also increases chatter and since WOM is positive, ultimately sales on PlayStation, PC, Stadia and non-Game Pass Xbox as people want to play the game with others.
It’s just fun.
This is subjective. But, Avengers was not fun for me. Destiny is good but not great for me. Anthem was great when it worked, which was rare during the demo.
This game works (barring the odd server issue), is fun as shit and accessible. It’s also hard but fair on higher difficulties. It’s a fun game.
Just finished that one earlier as a Pyro and I have no idea how I survived that without dying. I ran up to the top and killed most the snipers at the beginning but it was tough.
I’m level 19 world tier 8 and no legendaries either. A bunch of epic gear and weapons but legendary evades me outside the one on my trickster at level 4 lol
On World Tier 4 and Level 5 overall. Just beat the first major boss. Really enjoying the game. I did have a disconnect during a side quest but thankfully, when I went back into the game, I was right where I kind of left off so no biggie outside of the inconvenience.
I would like to see an option to remove the blood splatter on the screen when taking damage as I will never understand why developers insist on implementing this when you have a health bar. I can see it if there was no health bar or the player turns the health bar off on the HUD but otherwise, I have never been a fan of blood splatter.
The other issue for me is the text inside descriptions of items and whatnot. I have to go within a foot of my 55" LG CX OLED just to read it. I’m going to have to check some of my TV settings because if it’s not the TV then it’s the game itself. Also have this issue with Valhalla but none of the other games I have played have this issue. It’s just Outriders and Valhalla.
Too many loading screens but thankfully, they last only a few seconds. As long as the servers stay good and improve, im not anticipating many (if any) other issues as I play through the game. Overall, it’s really good and im enjoying it.
EDIT: One thing I just noticed while watching a video. Bosses have their health bar above their head and on the screen underneath the world tier bar. Does anyone know how to get this shown? Because the first major boss I fought didn’t have their health bar shown underneath the world tier bar. Thanks.
I’m worried I’m not earning story-related achievements. My last one was Wavelengths and Wishes (Uncover the direction of the signal’s source).
I’m already on the Quarry. Shouldn’t I have earned at least Breaking the Seal (Open the Gate leading out of the Forest)? Have you guys earned this one yet?
There is a way to increase the font size in the Accessibility options menu. I always search for settings like this because I also regularly play on the big TV (curiously also a CX55, brilliant TV!).
Played for few hours and think I’m hooked. Some junk and annoyances, but the meat of the game is fun. The story so far is a bit meh, but I’m interested to see where it goes.
This game is a good testing ground for Halo day 1.
It means that they would probably need more servers than usual. PCF might have underestimated load. This was 100k max concurrent users on Steam. XB numbers might be higher. If they are using Playfab, they should be able to scale up the services for LiveOps.
So are you guys selling or disassembling weapons? So far been selling all my white and green rarity loot, and disassembling blue upwards to get the mods. Although I don’t know yet what to do with mods, there’s nowhere so far where I can use them?
You only need to disassemble the mod once to unlock it. Then I want to say in the second map there is a character you get that let’s you mod your gear. It’s pretty cheap to mod stuff and I’ve use it to keep mods that are useful or change them to skills in using instead of enhancing skills I don’t use.
But I’ve pretty much have gone down the break everything down even though I should probably sell stuff as merchants opened later that sell epic gear.
There’s definitely a random gap in story achievements in the middle; there’s like one every other mission in the beginning, then no achievements for 5 or so maps, and then three in a row near the end.
Also snipers are legitimately the scariest enemy in the game, no exaggeration.
@youngrumpyman I’ve disassembled everything and the titanium has been useful to upgrade my favorite gun as I unlock more challenge tiers. The vendor items are definitely good but they cost so much the guns you get from the campaign probably barely move the needle.
I did this but it’s not the size of the text but how it appears in the box when you highlight something and that little box to the right appears. They messed up the color of it or something because it looks like it’s white text on a white background and that just isn’t going to ever work. lol
