Those who tried to play
Outriders over its launch weekend were likely affected by the game’s many server issues. Developer People Can Fly promised specific details on what happened during that time. As well as providing those details today, they’ve also revealed a free Community Appreciation Package for those who weren’t able to play during that period.
The short version of what happened is that the game “had enough server scaling capacity but our externally hosted database was seeing issues that only appeared at extreme loads”. This is an issue that didn’t crop up during the demo so the team didn’t see it coming. There’s a full tech-heavy insight for those who are interested that goes into things like RAM caches and more, which created a number of issues. To prevent these issues from occurring again, the team is releasing a patch next week that deals with the majority of crashes and matchmaking issues. A further patch will be released in the future to mop up a few
Everything is going to be fixed
Post launch
Dev News Update and Patch Notes are finally here, and here’s everything mentioned from the team behind
Outriders, for the game’s current state.
In case you have been living under a rock, the new IP from Square Enix and People Can Fly, Outriders, took the gaming world by storm with its awesome gameplay loop, but horrendous server status, performance issues and a lot of game-breaking bugs. The action-RPG had a lot of hiccups since day one, with players around the world not even being able to log into the game.
Outriders Patch Notes: First Update April 8, 2021
The very first
Outriders update is on the way to players on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Google Stadia. Referred to as the First Patch, this inaugural update carries a lot of different balance adjustments and tweaks. Notably, Outrider’s first patch includes heavy nerfs for both Technomancer and Trickster, plus balance adjustments to everything from weapons to missions and rewards. Keep reading for the full Outriders patch notes for the update released today, April 8, 2021.
Outriders First Patch: Changes and adjustments
There is a lot to parse in the patch notes for Outriders’ first update. Most of the changes reflect adjustments and bug fixes as reported by the community, specifically improvements to network connections and matchmaking. Outriders has been plaguedwithconnectionissues since launch, and this patch should help smooth out some of the many wrinkles preventing players from joining matches.
This is our first big patch for the main Outriders game.
As of today, the deployment of this patch is 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