Concurrent Players for Outriders Hit a New High After Server Fix

Following a great reception to its demo, Outriders was enjoying a ridiculously good launch. And then the game’s servers began to falter. For three consecutive days since launch on April 1, players were unable to access the game from brief to extended periods of time.

But while numbers dipped on Sunday, Outriders beat its monumental numbers from Saturday and reached a new concurrent player high on Steam.

On Saturday, People Can Fly’s RPG shooter had over 1,00,000 people logged in which ended up dropping to 30,000 on Sunday due to the aforementioned server issues. But as soon the servers were fixed, the game saw not only a resurgence, but also a spike in players as the game crossed its previous six-figure count to hit 1,20,000 concurrent players.

According to the game’s Twitter account, even the game’s developers couldn’t digest Sunday’s impressive figures. But they also went on to offer a bunch of fixes to the game’s many persisting problems in the same thread. For instance, players are unable to get past the game’s “Signing In” loading screen, and sometimes lobbies can lock up too.

With server issues hampering player experience, it is likely that People Can Fly have been working ‘round-the-clock (a.k.a. crunching) to fix any ongoing issues. They have also gone on to assure players that they plan to do a “post-mortem” to figure out the core of the problem at the earliest.

Whatever the people behind the game are doing to fix it, it seems to be working quite well. But is Outriders on the way to become the next Valheim? Stay tuned for more updates.

About Outriders

Developed by People Can Fly and published Square Enix, Outriders is a co-op RPG shooter.

Set in the backdrop of an original, dark and desperate sci-fi universe, the players are put in the shoes of an Outrider, humanity’s last hope trapped on a dangerous and untamed planet called Enoch.

Outrides combines intense gunplay, violent powers and an arsenal of ever-increasing twisted weaponry and gear-sets with rich storytelling which spans a diverse world.