Outriders’ first update has been detailed ahead of its expected launch next week, its patch notes revealing that it will address existing crossplay issues, improve matchmaking stability, and more.
A fix for the multiplayer crash that leads to players having their inventories wiped is also on the way in Outriders’ first big patch.
Publisher Square Enix and developer People Can Fly “are using this week to identify as many severe issues as possible, fix them and then thoroughly test the changes across all platforms.” This, coupled with the time require for console certification are the reasons behind the lack of a firm release date.
Here are all the changes currently coming to Outriders when its first update launches next week, as detailed in the official patch notes:
PC & Console Platforms:
- Once platforms have been updated to the same patch version, cross-play across platforms will become viable again
- Overall stability improvements for the matchmaking service
- Crash Fixes
- Will Fix a multiplayer crash that could result in client players having their inventory wiped
- Will fix the crash when completing the "A Bad Day" side quest.
- Will fix the crash that occurs in No Man's Land when your language is set to Spanish (Yes, we know. Video game code is a magical thing).
- Will fix crash on launch issues
- Will include many more "random" crash fixes
- We are confident that these fixes will address the majority of crashes reported, as there are only a handful of root causes but the crashes they generate appear in a number of places.
- Will fix the HUD disappearing in certain cases
- Will fix bugs that interfere with players re-spawning in multiplayer Expeditions
- Will fix bugs with players getting stuck on geometry (including when using Gravity Leap) or falling out of the world.
- Will change the default matchmaking setting from "Open" to "Closed".
- You will still be able to manually change this setting to "Open" through your game settings
- This change will prevent players from joining games where the host didn't intend to play in multiplayer. It will also cut down on AFK lobbies
- This will also help improve matchmaking times, as the queues will be less likely to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of constant matchmaking requests generated by "open" games.
- Many other minor fixes and improvements
PC Specific:
- Will Fix a performance issue where GPU is not being fully utilized. This should help with stuttering and DX11/12 issues
Additional fixes and changes are being worked upon to be delivered via our later follow up patch.
Outriders is out now on PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, and Google Stadia. Here’s the current state of crossplay between platforms.
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