OUTRIDERS REVIEW UPGRADE

Straight out of the gate, Outriders doesn’t really try to reinvent the wheel and instead attempts to sit comfortably in the middle, sapping in elements from different games and putting slight spins on them. With the launch issues out of the way, let’s talk about Outriders’ core gameplay, which happens to be an amalgam of Gears of War, Mass Effect and any standard run of the mill looter shooter.

OUTRIDERS REVIEW UPGRADE

The servers finally stabilized to a bearable extent in the early hours of Sunday morning so I started grinding the story and doing a few side quests to ensure my character wasn’t too underpowered while keeping the automatic tier upgrade system on. Given how sparse the checkpoints are in the game, this means someone playing solo might have to do an entire 20-30 minute section of the game all over again, hoping they don’t disconnect again.Īfter numerous disconnections on Friday, forcing me to stop playing Outriders which I was supposed to be reviewing and go back to Apex Legends, I was unable to play the game almost the entire Saturday. Even as of this writing, 2 days after release, the servers are struggling and players constantly face disconnection in the middle of missions or boss fights, forcing them to start the process all over again. With the review codes being sent out only a day before launch, the servers come launch day were unable to handle the load resulting in delayed reviews. For some reason, People Can Fly decided to go the same route with Outriders and as expected, the result was nothing short of disastrous.

Over the course of the years, many games have attempted the same thing again and it has never worked well for the playerbase. Diablo 3 in 2012 was among the earliest games to make this mistake and was rightfully blasted by players and critics alike for hampering the player experience in such a way. Unfortunately, it is a singleplayer game that requires players to be always online even if they have no intention of playing the story mode with others.

While People Can Fly might have been pretty inactive on the mainstream game development scene since their 20 hits Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgement, the company had been working with Epic Games on a number of different IPs as well as ports and remasters of games.ĭue to the pedigree attached with their name and their previous two major games, there were certain expectations with Outriders but it seems like the developers didn’t exactly learn from the mistakes of other games and kind of dropped the ball with the launch of their first original IP in almost a decade.Īs I mentioned before, Outriders at its core is a singleplayer game. However, that is where the game’s problems start off. At its core, Outriders is basically just a singleplayer linear-ish story-driven game that can also be played in co-op. Sure, there might be way more looting than Mass Effect games but Outriders is still far from an MMO shooter like Destiny or The Division despite it feeling like one. Far from it actually and is much closer to shooters like Gears of War and even Mass Effect thanks to all the RPG elements thrown in. No, despite looking like it, Outriders is not a Destiny clone. Let’s get the main thing out of the way first.

In fact, after spending over 20 hours on Enoch in Outriders, I am still not sure how I feel about this game and its mashup of formulas and gameplay elements from various other games in the market. However, that difference isn’t exactly a good or bad thing. Now that the game is finally out for fans of the looter shooter genre to try, the final product is vastly different from Bungie’s MMO-lite shooter. The original reveal didn’t really do the game any favors and at first glance, it looked like a Destiny 2 clone but with third-person combat. Since its reveal back at E3 2019, Outriders has been met with some skepticism.

Outriders review