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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
Outriders First Patch Details Revealed: Bug Fixes, Balance Tweaks And More
KEY POINTS
The patch will go live some time next week
The balance changes in the patch notes are currently live
The first patch for People Can Fly’s super-powered looter-shooter “Outriders” has been announced, with a variety of bug fixes, performance improvements and balance changes taking the spotlight.
The game has been plagued with a multitude of issues since launch, including frequent disconnections, random crashing, buggy in-game interactions and a whole laundry list of things that simply don’t work. People Can Fly and their partners at Square Enix have been working on ways to fix the issues and while some bugs are definitely on the chopping block for this patch, other problems are still waiting in line for a proper fix.
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.