With Outriders, a new co-op shooter from People Can Fly will be released tomorrow, Thursday. Not surprisingly: there is a Day 1 patch and specific information on further updates is already available.
We are eagerly waiting for Outriders, as the very successful demo made a good impression overall. However, there were also some approaches for improvements, some of which the developers have already implemented and imported as demo updates.
These will not have been the last patches, because it has now been confirmed that a Day 1 patch awaits you. If at all possible, it should be available on time for the release, although the developers admit that it could only be imported shortly after the release.
Patch notes for the Day 1 patch are already available:
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Many bug fixes and improvements, with a particular focus on the latter sections of the game.
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Performance improvements for pacing/stuttering that was observed during the demo
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Camera Smoothing improvements for cutscenes and dialogues. This should reduce the camera shake that some players are struggling with
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Cutscenes/dialogues frame rate improvements
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PC cutscenes will have the option to choose from 30, 60, 90 and 120fps
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Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 cutscenes will be locked to 60fps
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Xbox One and PlayStation 4 cutscenes will remain locked to 30fps
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Another update for the time after the release is already in the works and should appear in the first few weeks after the game is released. There are also preliminary patch notes for this, which show that the developers have apparently taken the feedback from the beta to heart:
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Controller adjustment options such as deadzone adjustment, acceleration settings and legacy layouts.
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Loading Time Improvements for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles
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Further Performance Improvements for Co-op games
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Crossplay friends list and invite system across all platforms. This will require you to be using a Square Enix Members account.
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Bug fixes including, for example:
Because it’s so beautiful, the system requirements for the PC version have also been updated and published. Overall, they are relatively moderate, but for 4K Ultra you need a high-end computer.
Minimum requirement (720p, 60fps, low)
- CPU: Intel i5-3470 / AMD FX-8350
- RAM: 8GB
- GPU: GeForce GTX 750Ti / Radeon R9 270x
- DirectX: 11
- Storage: 70GB
Recommended (1080p, 60fps, high)
- CPU: Intel i7-7700 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
- RAM: 16GB
- GPU: GeForce GTX 1070 8GB / Radeon RX Vega 56 8GB
- DirectX: 12
- Storage: 70GB
Ultra requirements | (2160p, 60fps, ultra)
- CPU: Intel i7-10700K / Ryzen 7 3700X
- RAM: 16GB
- GPU: GeForce RTX 3080 10GB / Radeon RX 6800XT
- DirectX: 12
- Storage: 70GB
Outriders will be released on Thursday for PC, PlayStation and Xbox, and it will be included in the Xbox Game Pass from day one. We are currently waiting for the servers to go online so that we can give you our impressions of the final game as soon as possible.
People Can Fly, the studio behind Gears of War: Judgment and Bulletstorm, is also focusing on action with its new game Outriders. We played the demo extensively on PS5 and PC.
