Outriders is a very solid game though there are some aspects that may turn people off at the beginning. Here’s my advice on what to avoid, how to play and how much of a chance to give it before you throw in the towel and say it isn’t for you.
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Love the game, but dislike the constant game crashes, when using my inventory :-/
Put in a couple hours tonight on my Series X… it's just not satisfying. Gun play is meh, cover system movement sucks, the powers are alright…yet not enough to make up for the rest.
Just not a game made for me I suppose.
Watched my buddy struggle just to get into the game day 1 only for the game to be a stuttery, buggy, and crashing mess that was pretty much impossible to play. Then the cutscenes are unwatchable and matchmaking was broken. Kinda hard to like a game you can't play and seems pretty broken on last gen consoles.
Disagree on cover usage. You can use cover especially against the human enemies. The trick is to not “snap” into cover. Move around cover and utilize it as a shielding mechanic. The Tecnomancer can get so much ridiculous healing from turrets that they can actually play the game like the division and be viable. The key thing is to know when to sit in cover and when to move around. That’s part of learning the game. But to say never use cover and just run around? I think you’re taking a pretty myopic view of what they are presenting to us as an experience.
I only use cover to reset my cool downs as a trickster. It’s only a few seconds
A week later and i've yet to get a single multiplayer session.
I love the constant challenge the world tier system gives you. I'm currently at level 22 and world tier 11. I'm playing as a pyromancer, and it can be hard to stay healed in the beginning, but once you get a decent build going, you can heal all the time. I'm trying to do every mission, and go through the story without touching world tier, and I'm playing solo. We'll see if I make it :).
The only thing blocking me from Outriders is permanent Internet connection required, F that!!
Pyro was a rough start. Around WT 6, and WT 11 I hit big walls. But end game im ridiculously powerful. I even went off-meta with an anomaly build and I'm melting everything solo. Finished all the hunts and bounties on WT15 and never died once. Its all abt those mods.
Reading the comments I forgot people have to pay for this game, this game is so fun!! Once you accept it for the AA screen tearing laugh at everyone that gets blasted as soon as the conversation ends game that it is!
I did get on game pass and been playing co op with a friend, both on series X and have been lucky only 2 disconnects since launch, so my opinion is based on this factors.
This mediocre game is a success because it has nothing competing against it at launch, and SE marketing department excels at promotion…proof being look at the influcers who revealed first impressions if this near its original launch date versus the 4/1 launch date.
The equation is (challenge x reward) + investment = Fullfillment. The challenge you overcome must reward you in equitable amout and you must be invested in order to be fulfilled. Aka have fun aka a game be for you.
Artificial difficulty systems like World Tier or Torments lead to dissatisfaction because the player is cognizant of the system's design flaw. They dont have high enough numbers to overcome the challenge. This is made worse in Outriders because you're punished for throwing yourself against the wall seemingly to incentive you to grind progression exp. Instead of balancing your power progression through out the game using mechanical mastery of games systems, we get these artificial difficulty settings that say "hey youre not good enough maybe you should earn less", this falls flat in the face of logic for the player who knows they in fact can overcome all these enemies in these combat encounters if only certain arbitrary numbers were higher.
Roflmao I’m playing a Trickster at level 21 and I’m playing with friends who are level 24 and 25 at world tier 10. I die a lot… Mostly because I’m fighting things way out of my level get surrounded and die:) Honestly I can one shot most normals, but elites and bosses absolutely kill me really quick even with me teleporting around as soon as the bosses notice me and I can’t shake them off me. Quite often I die before my shield can save me:) By myself it’s patheticly easy….
Honestly gunna say I’m asking for my money back if they don’t do any fixes today. I crash everytime I leave an expedition and lose everything. Happened about 10 times, and that’s just this morning
Some advice that is helping me
I’m farming gear in a quest at “the stronghold” located after the forest.
Grinding a quest called “the other ingredient”
It’s a quest to kill a few monsters for somekind of tree sap
You kill two or three mini-boss monsters.
Got the WT15 solo with a few legendary and epic builds
It’s a bit of a grind until this point
You will get a ton of titanium and epic gear drops just redoing this quest
Haven’t beaten the game yet
Just tinkering with some builds
Dig your articles online. I didn't play destiny all last week. Got to the first boss and first legendary weapons which made me play more but quickly got dejavu as it was rinse repeat. Still has me hooked in for story telling as I haven't finished it yet. Keep dropping world tiers to progress as the game will throw as many adds on solo as 3 player team. Keeping at it though. Thx for your insight
Great video. I don’t like Trickster cause I don’t like being up close to enemies. I’m more of a sniper type, so I went with Technomancer and I love it. And I get to freeze enemies. I also played the world tier and got to WT13, but I beat the game at WT5.
Sorry. I watch to the end but….nope.
I couldn't even get to the class selection (on third attempt) before this game soured on me. From the opening Square-Enix logo screen riddled with screen tearing, to the opening cutscenes being sometimes full widescreen to sometimes letterbox, or some are skippable, some are not. When I finally got to shooting, the controls were sloppy and unrefined. I think everyone is so ready to try the "next Destiny" they are giving this game more credit than it deserves.
"No one started with trickster and hated it".
Yeah, that would be me. But I loved the Pyromancer from the first kill. Also, while Volcanic rounds are good, I'm more into the thermal bomb + Eruption combo, is a great way to clean areas. Plus, add some "Improved incendiary rounds" T2 to something that can shot a lot of bullet very quickly, Use Feed the flames for emergency healing, interupt key enemy skills and to stop rushing enemies, add some anomaly power to the mix and with that I've managed to solo everything so far down to expeditions.
Thank you for this video! I wasnt enjoying the game, it wasnt clicking for me and I wasnt sure why. I was playing solo pyromancer.
Have started fresh as a trickster and having much more fun now! Now have a better understanding of why everyone is enjoying the game.
What is the point of this kind of videos?
Im having problems beating the first captain boss
I was liking the demo a good bit but wasn't sold on buying the game until I hear a youtuber say the same thing about the cover so I stopped using it so much and basically only entered it on the rare case I needed to reload and the game because 3X more fun after that
Phuck this game
Im pissed……..you literally need that damn fortress mod for devastator to do the damage need for t14 and t15…..smh
Alroooyt!
I've been having a blast with it. The theorycrafting is very fun.
I was maining the Technomancer, but started a Pyromancer and haven’t looked back.
Once I went for a Phoenix build (Tempest) which allows for solo revive and once maxed its 100%.
I have dropped Volcanic rounds after getting the funeral pyre with the Shadow comet mod which is a double tap for most enemies.
It’s a little tough at the higher tier especially in the frontier mission “Clear a path to the gate”.
I was running at LVL28 WT13, but once I dropped it to about WT10 it was manageable.
After 15-20 hours, Paul is right. Don't put the world tier too high. It's honestly not worth the aggravation. I ended up settling on World Tier 2-4 for most of the campaign because World Tier 5 is quite hard. It's called "Expert" for a reason. You need: 1) good gear, 2) a good build and 3) a good grasp of the skills to actually go above World Tier 4.
it's a bit late, but i'm not into hard games anymore since my job challenges me a lot.
so turn the world tier down to enjoy the story (wich is actually kinda nice) was the only option for me. lol.