Outriders Patch to Fix Crashes, Bugs, and Crossplay Next Week

The life of an online game is never smooth, and Outriders is no different. People Can Fly’s RPG received its share of criticism due to a botched release that incorporated matchmaking issues, bugs, crashes, and whatnot, primarily due to server overload.

Following a few rough days, Outriders’ devs have revealed that a new update is all set to be launched next week via a post. The patch will resolve the stuttering issues that PC players encountered and tons of bugs while enabling cross-play.

Here are some of the major changes that the new update will bring to Outriders:

• Will Fix a performance issue where GPU is not being fully utilized. This should help with stuttering and DX11/12 issues
• 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

People Can Fly also gave an explanation behind the botched launch this weekend.

“Our team worked throughout the Easter weekend and around the clock to resolve the server issues players were experiencing,”

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“We completely understand how frustrating this experience will have been especially given the huge amount of players eagerly anticipating the launch. We had enough server scaling capacity but our externally hosted database was seeing issues that only appeared at extreme loads.”

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With the issue now set to be resolved, it wouldn’t be a shock if more and more players turn their attention to this third-person RPG.

Currently, there is no specific release date shared by the developers for the release of this Outriders Update. But it has been said that the devs are looking to launch it by the earliest and have asked enthusiasts to stay tuned to the game’s social media channels.

To read about the hundreds of new improvements that People Can Fly are looking to implement in Outriders, you can check out the devs post on Steam.

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.