Outriders gets a free update tomorrow, and a paid update next year
<p class="">Announced this morning, Outriders is back, riding out with a free update, New Horizons, out 3 AM tomorrow AEDT, as well as a tease for a more extensive expansion, Worldslayer, planned for 2022.</p>
Announced this morning, Outriders is back, riding out with a free update, New Horizons, out 3 AM tomorrow AEDT, as well as a tease for a more extensive expansion, Worldslayer, planned for 2022.
Developer People Can Fly had an Outriders Broadcast this morning, the first since launch. Following that, they put out two new videos this morning, a combined trailer for both of these updates and a spotlight on the New Horizons update.
The New Horizons free update (seemingly a very different New Horizon to Animal Crossing) starts the trailer and promises “Endgame 2.0”, with the addition of four new Expedition Missions, no timer Expeditions and an improved loot drop system. This is capped off with a transmog system that is completely free and limitless, and many more improvements coming in the update.
In the spotlight video, People Can Fly expanded on these promises and acknowledged some of the people’s issues with the endgame at launch. With the new untimed Expeditions, the developer hopes that it will further build diversity and balance the rewards. Legendary loot has also seen an increase in drop rates, the ability to purchase at a vendor and a choice of three legendaries at the end of the Eye of the Storm Expedition.
The new Expeditions will connect you with characters and events experienced in the main campaign and their own mini-stories. The new expeditions are called Molten Depths, City of Nomads, the Marshalls Complex and The Wellspring. The first of these will be available to new expedition players, and the rest unlock as you progress through the Expedition Challenge tiers.
Outriders’ quality of life improvements include the ability to skip the intro video, which my eardrums are very thankful for; better customization for controllers; crossplay across all platforms; improving the stability of servers and general buffs across all the classes, especially to some of the lesser-used skills. Some of these have been delivered already, but People Can Fly took the opportunity to remind us that this was the case. In-depth changes and patch notes can be found on the Subreddit
The Worldslayer tease was very much just a tease, but Square Enix’s Lucy Hale said during the Outriders Broadcast:
“There’s not much more to say when it comes to Worldslayer, other than it’s a fully-formed expansion to the game that takes the Outriders to the furthest reaches of Enoch in an all-new story that poses their biggest challenge to date”.
The Outriders Community Manager confirmed that the update would be paid here.
Are you going to jump back into Outriders with this update or await more details about the expansion coming next year? I, for one, didn’t give it the time it deserved and will look forward to jumping back in when I have the time.
Dylan Blight
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