Leave Humanity Behind. Releasing Holiday 2020 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC (Steam). #Outriders is a 1-3 player co-op RPG shooter set in an original, dark and desperate sci-fi universe. As mankind bleeds out in the trenches of Enoch, you’ll create your own Outrider and embark on a journey across the hostile planet. With rich storytelling spanning a diverse world, you’ll leave behind the slums and shanty towns of the First City and traverse forests, mountains and desert in the pursuit of a mysterious signal. Combining intense gunplay with violent powers and an arsenal of increasingly twisted weaponry and gear-sets, Outriders offers countless hours of gameplay from one of the finest shooter developers in the industry – People Can Fly. Join the Official Reveal Stream for the World Gameplay Premiere this Thursday, 13th February at 12pm PT / 8pm GMT / 9pm CET and find out everything you need to know about Outriders.
Probably, after Hitman III drops, the next big title that will make its (slightly delayed) release date in early February. Also, one that doesn’t seem to be getting much attention from the games media yet. (Perhaps a sign that the developers have noted the huge hype that CP2077 built up pre-release, that ultimately caused them more issues than CDPR expected?)
There’s been a lot of progress on the game since @Wyvern first posted about it, and with a 02 February release date now planned, it might be a good point to pay it a visit again.
The blurb:
OUTRIDERS is a 1-3 player co-op RPG shooter set in an original, dark and desperate sci-fi universe.
As mankind bleeds out in the trenches of Enoch, you’ll create your own Outrider and embark on a journey across the hostile planet.
With rich storytelling spanning a diverse world, you’ll leave behind the slums and shanty towns of the First City and traverse forests, mountains and desert in the pursuit of a mysterious signal.
Combining intense gunplay with violent powers and an arsenal of increasingly twisted weaponry and gear-sets, OUTRIDERS offers countless hours of gameplay from one of the finest shooter developers in the industry – People Can Fly.
Outriders is available now for Pre-Order on Steam for PC (@czc), Xbox and Playstation. A Stadia release is also planned for later in the year.
There’s a lot more video material on the Official Outriders channel, including some developer diary-type episodes, and a lot of lore and backstory stuff too.
The demo will be available on the following Platforms:
PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC (Steam & streaming with NVIDIA GeForce NOW)
The download size for the demo will be:
PC: Minimum 24GB (possibly more after decompression)
Consoles: Minimum 22GB (possibly more after decompression)
Pre-loading is not currently planned to be available for the demo.
Crossplay will be available in the demo, but it will be in beta form and will need to be manually enabled via your settings.
Our Discord (Discord.gg/Outriders) has been set up with plenty of Looking-For-Group voice channels in case you’re looking to party up with any other players in particular. Come say hello!
There is no time limit, either for playing or for accessing it prior to launch. The demo is also planned to remain live beyond launch.
The demo includes the game’s prologue & opening chapter. This means that gear & enemies that you come across will be the early game variants. The further you get in the full Outriders story, the more twisted, exotic and powerful both gear & enemies will become
The demo runs up until the showdown with Gauss, the first rival Altered who may be even more dangerous than you. Some side missions unlock after defeating Gauss so you will be able to go back and explore the world.
The demo includes all 4 classes and 6 character slots. This means you can try out every class without needing to delete any characters.
Your Character levels are capped to Level 7. This will allow you to earn your classes 4th ability and be able to to mix and match your active skills in the demo. This will also allow you to earn 2 skill points that you can apply to your skill tree.
You can progress up to World Tier 5. World Tiers are our dynamic difficulty system. At level 5, your chance for higher rarity gear is increased, but the drop chance for Legendary Gear is still extremely low. More info here:
Resources will be capped at a certain (generous) amount in order to safeguard balancing for when you go into the main game.
Resources are mainly used within our extensive crafting system but can also be traded for better gear from the in game armorers. The crafting system unlocks in the full game once you’re beyond the demo content, but you can save your resources for use with that system. You will be able to transfer your progress if you play the main game on the same platform account (Platforms are PlayStation / Xbox / Steam).
Progress will not transfer between the Demo on Steam and the Full Game on the Epic Store.
The demo will not include any trophies or achievements, but your in-game accolades will transfer along with your regular progress.
You are free to stream any part of the the Demo. No restrictions. (But, please note that there is a trailer that plays at the end of the demo. As this trailer contains licensed music, we would recommend caution when streaming this section.)
#Outriders will release 1 April 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC (Steam & Epic). Coming to Stadia later in 2021.
Also, Nvidia GPU users may want to check for a driver update:
February 25, 2021
Our latest GeForce Game Ready driver brings you support for the newly released GeForce RTX 3060 desktop graphics card, along with support for the Outriders demo, NVIDIA DLSS in Nioh 2 - The Complete Edition and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, and NVIDIA Reflex in Rainbow Six Siege.
I played the first hour and I must say apart from some visuals there is not much grabbing my attention. It plays very much like a Gears of War type 3rd person shooter and the story does not interest me at all.
I will try it some more at a later stage, but right now I wont be buying.
