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i bought it but i'm waiting server stabilisation, it's not great because how popular the game is.
i bought it but i'm waiting server stabilisation, it's not great because how popular the game is.
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Outriders |OT| Hold Me Closer, Technomancer
- Thread starter shawnoftheshred
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I was struggling with Pyro until I leaned fully into Volcanic Rounds and making it so I have 100% uptime on them. Combine that with powers that inflict Ash and mods that increase damage to marked and Ashed enemies and you shred everything in seconds while constantly healing. It's ridiculously powerful.
Exactly.
The game is a weird mix of Monster Hunter+Diablo that plays like Doom Eternal with the no cover focus and constant movement and fast paced combat.
I'm loving my technomancer so far.. I think I will try Pyro after I'm done with this one.
Just came here to say that this game is an absolute fucking blast, and I am not at all surprised that the people who made Bulletstorm delivered this.
The combat is SO fucking satisfying.
Oh, and I agree that the cover is for the enemies. You gotta run in and attack and roll and close kill and get your shield and heath up with the mods.
The ballet of carnage is sublime, and I think this shit is so lit.
The combat is SO fucking satisfying.
Oh, and I agree that the cover is for the enemies. You gotta run in and attack and roll and close kill and get your shield and heath up with the mods.
The ballet of carnage is sublime, and I think this shit is so lit.
I was having such a bad time with this in the early going until I got some decent weapon drops. I was only getting shitty shotguns and sniper rifles that were so low with the firing rate that it made the combat feel so slow and frustrating. It took until about level 4 with the Reunion mission to get a decent blue assault rifle and getting a regular rifle that let me do some real damage without needing to hide in cover, which is the worst part of the game since everything pops you out of it so easily. That was about the time that I finally understood that the powers for my Pyromancer should just be spammed as soon as they're available instead of being precious about it. Once I could withstand more than a second of damage, the game finally got to be an enjoyable experience instead of one that made me want to rage quit and delete the damn game.
It's the one downside of a loot game that if you're not getting good drops, the experience suffers so much.
It's the one downside of a loot game that if you're not getting good drops, the experience suffers so much.
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Level 30 (equipping level 40 gear), World Tier 13, 7 Legendary weapons including a duplicate, one Legendary hat. I believe most of the drops were tied to ends of missions that guarantee a Legendary, but also World Tiers exponentially increase the drop chance, so it might have been that.
If memory recalls I got a Legendary for unlocking World Tier 12 and World Tier 13. A good chunk of others were for completing specific encounters/quests later in the game's campaign.
Same. I got gear that increases my clip size and allows me one reload with volcanic rounds too.
Dont forget you can level up your weapons, just lvled up that legendary assault rifle you get from the story (I love the lightning proc) to lvl 29 and changed the second mod to a mod where frozen enemy kills explode (and my turret is always freezing enemies).
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They can get pretty strong. The one I have is one shotting the normal ads, less effective on captains/heavies, but also with the right mods you can inflict vulnerable or freeze to make them sitting targets for repeated headshots...
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Yup, Volcanic Rounds and Perpetuum Mobile were the gamechanger for me too.
Guess im doing a second playtrough or a new character until the servers are fixed. Had lots of fun until jou need to coop. Out of 25 tries now i had one succesfull expedition.
There are some really weird difficulty spikes. For some reason, in this particular fight I'm at in the Wreckage Zone, I'm the one getting wrecked. 🤣
The enemies are just doing so much more damage all of a sudden and there are so many of them that it's really dang hard to even take a moment to breathe. I'm kinda stuck with a gun that takes three seconds to reload, too, so that doesn't help.
The enemies are just doing so much more damage all of a sudden and there are so many of them that it's really dang hard to even take a moment to breathe. I'm kinda stuck with a gun that takes three seconds to reload, too, so that doesn't help.
The entire thing kinda reminds me of Lost Planet.
Hopefully Outriders will be successful enough to receive a meaty expansion.
Not even a little bit. My trickster tree doesn't even follow a particular path. Tried to reach as many nodes that either multiplied skill damage, reduced cooldown or helped with returning health in some form. Then find mods that that help that even further. The guns themselves are always powerful enough on their own.
The hourglass that is displayed on some mods means that there is a "x seconds" cooldown on them before they trigger again?
It's secretly the best thing about this game.
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If you are struggling, bump yr World Tier down until you get some better drops/synergies. The game is at its hardest when you just up a World Tier, because enemy level goes up but your gear is going to be underlevelled for a little bit. The lower World Tiers are for extreme power fantasy easy mode, the highest one is pretty much Always going to feel like it's forcing you to play well and gave synergized, good gear. I've bumped up each time and am now at 13 and loving the loop, but nothing wrong with a slower pace!
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Oh and Tesser is right-there's one boss fight that's a pretty crazy difficulty spike. I got him, but there's really not much room for error, and not much time to learn what yr up against before getting shredded, with some builds. I could see losing an entire World Tier bar to him if I hadn't luckily *just* leveled it up.
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Not sure if there was a stealth buff to shards from Dismantled gear, or if I just have a lot more purples to dismantle these days but man...all of a sudden leveling up my favourite pieces instead of hoping for better drops, feels like a viable strategy at Level 40.
...basically, they've been pretty transparent and the fact that they even patched the demo seems like a good sign.
They've talked about looking into everything from controller sensivity, PC stuttering, better cutscene solutions to shakey cam, as likely coming, and also mentioned things like loadouts, crossplay voice chat, favouriting items, etc. as things they know are requested but aren't sure on yet.
...basically, they've been pretty transparent and the fact that they even patched the demo seems like a good sign.
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Feel like the demo did a pretty big disservice to this game because it gets so much better shortly after it ends. Would've benefited by the demo being a section from the mid game instead of the first hour.
I know I should switch to Temporal Rounds with my shotty-focused Trickster build, but goddamn it it's just so boring compared to Temporal Blade. Leaves me Interrupt-less too, which is a death sentence in some encounters.
Pretty much, i'm happy the game is finding a crowd even after that demo. Like i said previously its like they handpicked the most boring part of the game to present it. It gets so much better after that
Ok now it makes sense. Game felt so much like gears/bullet storm I am loving it!
This game is crashing *all the time*. It's so tiresome. The devs needed to ditch or shorten the squenix intros and animated intros before getting to the 'press a to start' button. It crashes so much that they need quick fixes to lessen the amount of time it takes to get back into the game.
The problems are so numerous and regular that it saps the desire to play, since you never know when your efforts are going to be for naught because of a fucking crash.
The problems are so numerous and regular that it saps the desire to play, since you never know when your efforts are going to be for naught because of a fucking crash.
I managed to clear it without lowering my world tier. I was having real trouble with the snipers that took off most of my health with one shot so I just rushed them and blasted everyone in my way with a shotgun. It worked... eventually. 😂
If you can get a weapon that has the lighting mod on it, I'm fairly certain it procs an interrupt. I switched to one on a lark when I was fighting a Brood Mother and it seemed like she couldn't cast any of her AOE, trash mob buffs, or armour on herself when I was hitting her with lightning over and over.
Yeah I can't seem to get away from my two turrets and 3 grenade set up, I like them doing a lot of the work.
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I haven't finished it yet so I can't say how long but if you are coming here for narrative, you should just play something else.
What other games? Destiny 2 definitely waits for all to load.
What other two are you running? Venators knife can interrupt if it's strong enough.
Hunt the Prey and the time bubble. Just the first three but I loooove the loop they create. Might try Venator's Knife, though.
Have they said there won't be any expansions/dlc? Seems kind of lame.
Today I feel, saying you're not a 'gass' game, just sounds like you're not supporting your game. In Outriders case, it feels like they got it backwards, because it has all the disadvantages of typical gass, with online only requirements and server issues, but no benefit (long term content support). Monster Hunter is a good example of a games that is clearly gass, but still allows you to play offline and whatnot.
May I ask what you are playing on? I am playing on both a XSX and XSS and the biggest issue, signing into the Authentication Servers seems to be fixed. There is lots of little stuff that could be fixed but I am finding the core game play outstanding. I am not getting any crashes, and my only real problem with the intros is the very loud music while I wait to sign in.
I have not played any multiplayer so I cannot comment on that. I am waiting until I finish the campaign for the first time. Spoilers and all that (and I read everything which really slows down the game - few people are willing to suffer that in multiplayer).
Now if you don't like the game, you don't like the game - and nothing here is going to change your mind.
The time bubble is great but that cooldown is pretty high for the time it lasts.
I actually enjoyed what was in the demo. I do love the gameplay though. I just want the story to deliver on what was set up in the demo.