Having difficulty staying connected to your friends playing Outriders on console? You’re not alone. Square Enix took to Reddit and requested players not to attempt PC/console cross platform play until a fix has been released.
In preparing the Day 1 builds for PC and Consoles, we discovered a desynchronization between the PC and Console code. This results in a backend mismatch which causes players to be kicked out of a multiplayer game that includes both Console and PC players.
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This is definitely a bit of a let-down for players who were hoping to loot and shoot with their friends on different systems. The publisher went on to say,
Should you invite a Console player into your PC game via an invite code (or vice versa), the game will initially connect, but one player will eventually be kicked out of the game. We highly recommend against doing this until we have patched all versions of the game.
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Several players have reported problems when it comes to logging into the game over the past 24 hours. Outriders launched yesterday, so the devs need to work fast to make sure players don’t start abandoning the game, calling it another Cyberpunk 2077 situation. Square Enix has said in a statement that the team is working on a fix ASAP.
We will provide news on its release as soon as we are able to.
Square Enix
In the meantime, players who purchased the game on either Steam or Epic Games Store should be able to play together.
Connection problems are fairly common when it comes to new multiplayer games, given the sudden increase in traffic due to the release of the game. But there also seems to be several other issues which PC gamers are facing, including spotty performance. Outriders had some fairly demanding specs, especially if you want to play on Ultra, but this seems to be more an issue with the game than the users’ systems.
We are aware of an issue with our DX12 implementation that can cause PC players to encounter stuttering, a hard crash or shader cache issues due to an overloaded CPU. We are investigating this urgently and hope to provide a resolution in the near future.
Square Enix
You can find a list of workaround in this Reddit post along with official updates on other issues such as blurry visuals and items falling through the map in this roundup.
The issues have created a very ‘mixed’ reception of the game on Steam. If you were planning on picking up Outriders, it may be better to wait a week or two so all the kinks can be ironed out and your experience is as smooth as possible.
About Outriders
Developed by People Can Fly, Outriders is a co-op third-person shooter RPG. It allows for both single-player and multiplayer gameplay.
Outriders will take you to an alien planet called Enoch that humanity is trying to colonize as Earth is no longer sustainable. The human civilization goes to space to look around for a mysterious signal that can help mankind survive.
However, such efforts go off track because the expedition team faced “The Anomaly” Storm. After it ends, you wake up with remarkable abilities and survey those corners of Enoch where danger lurks.
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