I’ve already said that Outriders has problems almost exclusively because of technical issues, because the basics of its loot trigger are solid, but the game is riddled with quite large bugs.
Right now, the team is focused on the latest big problem, the lack of damage mitigation in certain circumstances, which means volatile kills, but it turns out that other players with much worse disorders fall through the cracks.
One of those players is a friend of mine, Lord Cognito, an incredibly positive guy who has reached his breaking point with Outriders. In short, it’s been a little bit playing the game in the five, almost six weeks since its release on April 1. .
First, like many people, it went through the notorious inventory cleanup error that destroyed all of its appliances and did not allow it to connect, which began to look a week after launch, and the appliance was only restored last week. it’s not the only challenge you’re having. On several occasions, you now face an “authentication” error that requires a combination of clearing the cache on your Xbox and reinstalling the entire game to resolve it, and the challenge continues to occur. having to do all this every single time you were looking to play, it’s no wonder that in five weeks I didn’t even have enough game time to finish the whole campaign, totaling only about 6 hours, achieving the jungle dominance that I don’t have. I even think it’s the midpoint.
He’s not alone. I’ve noticed that other players revel in authentication disorders that require the same kind of elaborate fix, which doesn’t work at all. Other players have had all their fast-moving issues erased from the map and cannot progress. These are serious and primary disorders, however, there has been virtually no communication from People Can Fly about them or permanent arrangements for them. I worry because fewer players suffer the worst of those mistakes, they can be absolutely ignored.
Outriders is a strange case because it’s a game that didn’t feel like it was rushed, it’s already been delayed twice and there wasn’t a genuine urgency for it to happen, and yet this great list of big insects has accumulated. Since the release I was lucky enough to escape all the big ones (except all of them, since some benefits don’t work), however, for some players, even betting the game on the baseline was almost impossible.
All games have technical disorders in those days and yet the range of Outriders insects has been at the same level. These are not glitch faces worthy of a meme or wondering enemies, but insects that are simply . . . devastating for the game’s fitness and players who paid for a name they can play lightly last month. Arrangements and compensations are expected to arrive soon.
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