I finally played Outriders. Things are looking pretty ok from my end, but definitely some things I would like to see made better. Here are my thoughts on the game and on the demo.
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Datto. Get some meat on them bones. You looking thin, kinda concerning.
Cover is not for u its for the enemies. Ur supposed to be healing by being offensive.
THis seams like it wants to be PoE and destiny at the same time.
Destiny killed itself for me before it even started. This game is looking much more interesting to me than Destiny ever did 😊
The main thing for me that turned me off of the game is how linear the level design is. Every single quest is "press a button to load into an area, kill things in that area, get something to let you press a button to enter the next area, repeat till you reach the area with a boss, then fast travel out of the zone." Like the crafting seems neat and some of the bosses are cool but the main meat of the game feels like I'm stuck on rails. I'll be waiting for reviews and if this part of the game doesn't improve beyond the prologue area I'll likely give it a pass.
As someone who's quite enjoying the game thus far (via the Demo), i think you're one of the only people I've heard who really gets it: it's not Destiny with Diablo/POE-inspired systems, it's Diablo/POE with Gear of War-inspired combat. When your mental model shifts to what this game is actually trying to be the whole thing makes a lot more sense.
IMO, the only critical problem the game has is the cover system. It just needs to work better. There are many other problems, but none as big as this one. That said, as I said above, I'm still enjoying it. The active skill play is really exciting and feels so different from other games I've played with this kind of combat. Truly exciting and visceral.
As a final note, I'm been thinking about the "drab" environments, and I actually like them. Having all those muted colors makes the skills/spells REALLY pop. That makes your stuff feel more powerful AND help the enemy's attacks to read better (which is really important). So, my guess is: that was a deliberate choice. I think it was the right one, too, since, at the end of the day, the game is really all about the skills.
I LOVE the cover system…it makes me FIGHT!! It cracks me up. I am so crutch playing Division 2 and Destiny 2…I love how frantic it is!!
Datto moves his hands like gta san andreas npc’s.
This looks like a skinned version of the Division, from the hiding and rolling to the quick shooting and health tics. So I would say if you like Division, you would like this.
Your supposed to EAT pizza with your red bull man .
You don’t use the cover system datto lol come on man!
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Glad to have got this game for 40$ it's worth about that. Not expecting a 1000+ hour time sink game either but a couple hundred maybe before its put down? Not terrible..
The devs have giving an update on all the things they are going to fix for launch day and they will be updating the demo as well.
They way he said "you cant jump" made me laugh but was funny and tbh it felt like everything u said was fair and mostly how I also feel about the game
Lol destiny quality shooting a.k.a LASER BEAM EVERYTHING
YOU GAVE THE LIL GUY A HOODIE OH MY GOD
I don't remember which content creator set it but the cover system is more for the ai than it is for you the player and frankly with that in mind the game makes a lot of sense
It plays like GoW and nothing else because well…guess who made GoW ?
5 Kinda important side notes that Datto did not mention in this video which are quite important if you're considering this game.
1st is that it runs like absolute shit.
I have 1080Ti and I7-3770k and the demo installed on a SSD to boot. Something like destiny runs 120FPS stable on ultra 99% of time, And I run stable 60 fps In modern warfare both warzone and normal multiplayer on high-ultra settings, And no this game is not the cutting edge of video game visuals to justify this kind of bad performance.
This game runs 30-40 fps on High-medium mix settings, The powers in this game fucking tank your fps, Especially the lingering powers from technomancer and trickster.
2nd t is that the FPS get EVEN WORSE if you play with friends, When there is a bunch of enemies shooting, explosions going, and 3 outriders doing their things, The fps is ''stable'' 15-25 during combat.
3rd this game has very strong motion blur when ever you run, Which cannot be disabled, Maybe it can be in the final copy, But in the demo you could not, So if you don't like motion blur I don't recommend this game, Unless it gets fixed when the game launches.
4 You will have to make a Square Enix account to play this game, While not an issue for me, Some people do not like this.
5 Firewall Issues, If you want to play this game with friends there is a 50/50 chance that the game wants to get full PC access from your firewall settings, And you can google why that is not a very good thing. And mind you this is completely random, Some players need to give it full access to not get booted out of lobbies while others need to do the usual tick 1 box option about private/public networks.
And yes this was a free demo so who knows how it was optimized, And just in case it was a drive issue I had installed latest drivers on day 2 of the demo and there was no improvement, But I personally will not be buying this game if the performance does not improve.
Though, I cannot say this was the experience for everyone, But these were the common issues for me and my Destiny raid group. And naturally there are better places to seek advice than youtube comment section.
But if any of this was useful, You're welcome.
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Not a game developer, but I imagine it’s really going into each cut scene and anchoring the camera. Wouldn’t it be nice if it was just a feature they could just ‘turn off’?
Datto was once a voice over gameplay footage. Good to see you happy and progressing
I like how everyone is comparing outriders to destiny when it's far, far more like borderlands.
Dedo you can’t repeat and hire tears you have to earn those tears and presumably you would already be on that tear I mean basically you just leave the default settings alone and as you play it will keep tearing you up you’ll earn tears just like you earn levels and began will keep getting progressively more difficult and you’ll get progressively better loot am the only way you can redo a mission at a higher difficulty as if for some reason you had turned the difficulty down or taken off the auto farm world tier level leveling so that it wasn’t leveling you up
Dude you got the cover stuff backwards to this is really not a cover of a shooter though the cover really should not used used much by any class except the arm technancer the rest of them should be all moving around cover is more for the enemies than it is for you I mean what I’m saying is is that specifically two of the characters play better if they’re never in cover the Pyro Manser mom is kind of a take it or leave it there are situations where he needs at situations where he doesn’t and OK even a technancer can you know Betty bop around killing shit occasionally but as far as team play goesIt would be best to stay in back and sniping shit because he gets huge benefits bonuses to that
Dude that’s the boy joy the glasses can’t heal from cover they have to be up close and personal killing ship the Byron lancer Camphill unless things are marked when they die contact romance or is the only one that can literally play the whole game from cover if he wants I am in eventually the Pyro Manser gets the ability that portability let you mark everything you can see I’m in overtime and scream it gets mark so you can literally market and then everybody’s killing it and you’ll be getting heal from it so you can be Betty bop in around killing shit to but that’s what you have to keep in mind is that two of them get heels just from killing shit up close and personal one of them gets heels only when it’s marked I’m enemies with hips with its abilities and the other one heals from doing damage. So he can sit in cover and heal himself all day and he can heal his friends to Benchley by the way but that’s why cover is not hyper critical to three of the four classes three of the four glasses should be Billy Bob and are all making sure ships dying because that’s how they get their heels
Dedo hook up my controller to your PC and tried playing it with the controller you’ll see why this game is designed for consuls that is designed with controller play being the prominent control method with a controller you just push the joystick laughed and hit the arm circle button and you just roll left on the cover then there’s a rolling you see an asked another free to cover you hit They ask and you roll right into another piece of cover but they’re right three of the four classes and spend a whole lot of time and cover and it’s really up to the fourth class whether they want to or not they don’t have to
Login as a trickster and go guns blazing no just gung ho run off at shit push down oh wait you’re not on the joist and not on a controller again maybe it’s about playing it on a PC that’s a problem on a controller with at least two of the classes I would just run up to them either punch them or jump at them with the trickster they would freeze and before they can get out of the freezer dad and I get a heel and if there’s two or three hipster three dad and I get a heel yeah it really is best on a controller
Fuck the RPG Ed Sheeran just shooter what does game has his federal loop done correctly so that it’s enjoyable from start until endgame it has a good action combat system it’s not the best movement system and it’s kind of floaty but is perishable everything about the gameplay is fun yes the levels are very linear and it’s just you know you go from one arena to the next but it’s still fun and zero fun when you do it the second and third I mean I’ve got I’m on my third play through where I completely leveled off for glasses and deleted them and started over so I probably have 30 hours into it and it’s still fineDoing those levels over again then I don’t look at any of the cinema headaches anymore I just said circle and skip them
I remotely similar to either of those games either if you wanna compare to anything compared to run there from the ashes
Another thing as I said I probably have 30 or 40 hours into it already went on the PS4 a plain Jane PS4 I am running to minimal issues I mean yes the voice in case you the motion more issue the Home fact that you get all the loading screens are so many in inconsistent to there’s a lot of disjointed shit like the prologue should’ve been a lot smoother since it was mostly cinematic and you know it’s not the best voice acting there’s a number of things but it’s more fun than destiny for sure the common part I mean that’s crazy I can be standing 50 yards oh wait me and you know what attention they are in this game will come and look for you three arenas back if you have a phone call on your run away because she will come after you I mean it’s kind of normal yeah I want to come still waiting for a Ted Bob Bob from sniping you there are you you stick your head out to get shot instantly you wait for them to stick their head up and then you know I’m in it’s the same kind of deal but it’s not like any of those games people are talking about you always look the best in a killer no but it’s a lot of fun and I would rather play it then destiny I don’t trust bungee anymore I don’t trust massive anymore I especially don’t trust EJ Activision or any of the other big AAA publishers this game is going to be a day 16S assuming the full game runs just as well as this does high I’ve seen very little real damn breaking issue a couple of times logging in or just certain spot and I had to close it and started over I haven’t tried any Goa but I understand people are using that without any issue now
Come on man you make your cash off of Destiny 2 alone, you are a slave to it. Why review other games?
Sweet another Destiny killer..
That goddamn camera is killing it for me
"Very heavy RPG nature"? I can understand the RPG elements that action/shooter games like this, Destiny, Division etc. have, but saying that this has a very heavy RPG nature shows either (a) complete ignorance of what a true RPG is, where it started & some typical examples such as Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale etc or (b) some vague knowledge that doesn't stop you from using the term wrongly & thus diluting/destroying its actual meaning.
DONT bother playing…rather FARMING legendaries. They keep VANISHING even after the patch. 18hrs to get em and POOF!!!! Gone…what a freakin waste of time. No doubt the full game will be as well.
Loving the game so far
From my experience, the online coop sucks. It's super laggy, and you sometimes just kinda teleport around. Me and a couple of friends played the intro solo, had a good time, then joined up and hated it. Wouldn't recommend if you plan on playing this with friends.
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all those hunters that jump everywhere gonna hate it !!!!
God damn your head is big.
Clearly a bad game that's going to make far too much money because of dishonest reviews the game is complete trash and will die just like anthem but probably not fast enough
So I tried it on console first because I have a ps5 and it just feels so unfinished, the shooting, the walls, and some of the abilities. There’s a slam on the electric stealth class that just seems kinda out of place and weird. The gameplay can be fun, but I kinda get pulled out when I open a door and then have to fade in and out. Also maybe this is just console but every ducking cutscene had an audio bug, it would overlap every time.
This looks like a combination of Gears of War and Mass Effect.
Reminds me of remnant from the ashes
I'm sure it's been said, but the game cover is NOT for you, it's for the enemy. You heal by doing damage, so the player wants to attack aggressively and not stick in cover.
My issue with this game is the 2 games I play……. Destiny 2 and Path of exile. D2 has mastered shooting and movement. POE has mastered builds and crafting. It makes outriders feel mediorcire in those 4 aspects which should be the selling points.