Outriders has been updated - 30.04.2021
major updateOUTRIDERS · published
Hello Outriders,
We have just released a significant patch for Outriders. More on that further below.
As you will know, we’ve been spending a lot of time on our Character and Inventory restorations process. It has been hard to provide an exact date on its go live date so far, mainly because it has hovered on the very threshold of releasing for some time, but a small number of edge cases have forced us to reiterate and retest the process several times over. The greatest difficulty we’re facing in particular relates to giving characters the correct item levels, as item levels are calculated using three different variables: Character level, highest unlocked World Tier and highest completed Challenge Tier. The complexity of these three variables together on individual affected characters is taking some time for us to get right. Our tests indicate that restoring higher level gear than they should have leads to character problems, so we are not able to issue a blanket one size fits all solution here.
As our restoration tests have progressed, our latest patch was cleared for release.
While we had hoped to run the restoration process before releasing the patch, this unfortunately is not possible, so we have made the decision to release the patch today so that players can benefit from its fixes while we continue to iterate and work on the restoration process.
We will update you as soon as we have more news on the progress of the restoration and the community appreciation package that will follow it.
PATCH NOTES
While there will be some major fixes that we’re sure will be appreciated by players, this patch includes the fixes & resolutions for many smaller and minor bugs that were reported or discovered during the demo and launch period of Outriders, but were unable to be amalgamated into the hotfixes we worked on during the same period.
NOTE: THIS PATCH DOES NOT RESTORE INVENTORIES OR FIX CHARACTERS ENCOUNTERING THE “CANT CONNECT TO SERVER” ISSUE. THESE RESTORATIONS/FIXES ARE CURRENTLY BEING WORKED UPON.
HIGHLIGHTS / Tl;dr:
Only the bundled patch highlights are listed here at the top of this thread. There are many more specific and detailed patch notes and fixes listed further below.
- Fixed a number of crashes throughout the game.
- Fixed a number of issues, bugs and crashes associated with multiplayer.
- Lots of resolutions for gear, mods, skill, quest, level & lighting bugs
- AI snipers now give players more time to dodge their shots.
- Reduced the amount of knockback from creatures in the Stargrave expedition.
- There is now also a greater delay between spawns and a reduced number of the offending creatures.
The above highlights have been selected based on key community topics of discussion. For further fixes, we would recommend either finding notes via CTRL + F / “Search in Page” or reviewing the categories that interest you the most.
NOTE: These are predominantly bug fixes to resolve issues whereby the game was not working as intended. While this is not intended as a rebalancing pass of the game, some bug fixes here may change the way certain skills work. Where an intentional rebalance has occurred, we have earmarked this with . Please do not consider this a proper balancing pass as it is simply a small number of changes for which a patch was required.
Patch Notes INDEX:
- Resolutions that apply specifically to the PC experience
- General Resolutions and Changes
- Multiplayer Resolutions & Changes
- Gear, Skills & Mods Resolutions
- Enemy, Boss and NPC related Resolutions
- Quest & Expedition specific Resolutions
- Audio and Dialogue Resolutions
- Other changes and minor Bug Fixes
Resolutions that apply specifically to the PC experience
- The available FOV for configuration has been increased from 90 to 130.
- Fixed an issue whereby old crash dumps were not being properly cleared from the player’s system.
- Note: These are the 300MB files that were previously left behind.
General Resolutions and Changes
- Fixed a large number of crashes throughout the game.
- Resolved an issue that could cause players to get stuck on the “Sign In” screen.
- Fixed several lighting, shadow, and reflection issues within levels and cutscenes.
- General level improvements including fixing collision, textures, LOD, OOW visibility, and grounded various floating assets. Also resolved a number of situations where the player could get stuck in the game world.
- Numerous cover fixes for specific locations, including character alignment, cover-to-cover transition, and blind fire.
- Camera movement has been improved during various cutscenes when smoothing is enabled.
- Improved visibility of the crosshair.
- Improved visibility of tutorial popup notifications.
- Sidequest icons will now no longer persist on the map after completion.
- The crosshair will no longer disappear when looking at allies.
- Fixed edge case progression blockers and objective issues in numerous main and side quests.
- Fixed an edge case issue whereby swapping characters could lead to a loss of the player inventory.
- The Over levelling System/Scaling Multipliers have been adjusted
- The system will activate one level later, when your average gear level is a minimum of 3 Levels higher than the enemies you’re facing
- Outgoing damage will now be reduced less
- Improvements made to Incoming damage scale, meaning players will feel more powerful without completely eliminating the threat of enemy NPCs
- Conditions that will trigger the system have been cleaned up, which will eliminate unintuitive behaviour such as damage increases when using low level weapons
Multiplayer Resolutions & Changes
- The default background matchmaking setting has been changed to Closed . This change can still be reverted manually in your settings.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent clients from joining the host.
- Resolved performance issues that appeared right after loading into a co-op game.
- Improved the loading time for players gear when joining a co-op session.
- Fixed a bug whereby a client could load into a corrupted lobby if the host lost internet connection whilst loading into a game.
- Fixed an issue where the host would be unable to select a story point that other clients had not unlocked.
- A notification will now also be displayed to the host warning them that the clients may not have unlocked that part of the story.
Gear, Skills & Mods Resolutions
- Crafting
- Cost of improving Rare to Epic and levelling up Epic gear from levels 1 to 30 have been lowered.
- This will make improving items cheaper in the early game
Enemy, Boss and NPC related Resolutions
- AI snipers now give players more time to dodge their shots.
- Reduced the amount of knockback from creatures in the Stargrave expedition.
- There is now also a greater delay between spawns and a reduced number of the offending creatures.
Quest & Expedition specific Resolutions
- Fixed a bug that caused the stash to lock if the player died in the Bad Day side quest.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Bigjaw monster hunt sidequest from being completed if the player died during it.
- The navigation line during the Relics main quest has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug that made the Historian quest in Deadrock Pass inaccessible if players initiated combat after triggering the exit prompt.
- Fixed a bug in the Sacrifice main quest that prevented progress by not updating the objective correctly.
- Fixed a bug that allowed players to charge the obelisk before the appropriate cutscene had been completed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Story achievements to not unlock correctly when their criteria was met.
Audio and Dialogue Resolutions
- Miscellaneous subtitle fixes to bring them in line with the VO in terms of content and synchronisation.
- Fixed Audio clipping that occurred in some cutscenes.
- The SFX volume for Yagak’s abilities have been adjusted.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the battle music track to not end after combat.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the battle music to be active for players who were nowhere near combat.
- Menu music now stops when viewing the credits.
- Credits music no longer plays if music volume is set to 0 in the audio settings.
- Fixed an issue whereby a Male character would have female VO in the forest when playing in Polish.
- Other audio fixes and improvements
Other changes and minor Bug Resolutions
- Added protection for when claiming items from the inbox when the stash and inventory are full.
- A co-op exploit where multiple Legendary rewards could be obtained from the Historian / Bounty / Monster Hunt questlines has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the player from claiming the World Tier 10 weapon reward.
- Fixed a bug that caused the HUD to appear when players were only 80% loaded into levels.
- Increased the framerate of the video clips on the class selection screen.
- Text corrections in the Journal and tutorial screens, as well miscellaneous localisation issues.
- Fixed a bug that was causing incorrect colour schemes to appear for the banner and truck customisation
- Fixed a bug that could prevent movement after exiting dialogue sequences.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the inventory from opening if the Inventory Button was spammed
- Additional backend fixes.