Outriders, the new sniper / RPG hybrid from developer People Can Fly and publisher Square Enix, has already been released. If you are just starting the game, you will probably notice that it is quite simple and there is not much complexity to handle. That said, there are some features and mechanics that the game quickly skips over or never explains, and they are quite useful. Therefore, we’ve outlined nine tips below to help you become a first-rate Outrider.
Along with these tips, we have gathered many other Outrider guides. Be sure to consult them if you are looking for more information on Outriders, which is available for Xbox Series X | S, Xbox One, PS5, PS4, PC and Stadia. (The game can also be played via the Xbox Game Pass.)
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Lead with a punch
Sure, you have a lot of incredible superpowers in Outriders, but each class has a pretty devastating melee attack as well. All melee attacks have a side effect: Devastator causes bleeding, Pyromante causes burning, the Trickster causes slowness and Technomancer causes ice. In trouble, these melee attacks can save you when you’re leaning against a wall and waiting for one of your abilities to reload, but their primary use is attack. And sometimes there is no better way to start your attack than to run straight to the enemy camp.
When you use a melee attack during the run, your character will jump in the air and hit the ground to deliver an explosion of area of effect – a powerful opening move for any attack, especially if you are playing as the tank – like Devastator or dishonest Trickster and are looking to get up close and personal anyway.
There is always a better weapon
In Outriders, you’ll find loot all the time and the game does a great job of constantly feeding you better weapons and armor. At the beginning, keep selling old equipment and equipping the most powerful. This will not only help you face the mini-bosses and bosses at the beginning of the game with the ideal power level, but it will also allow you to try out several different types of weapons. Don’t get too attached to anything – trust us, there is nothing you will find at the beginning of the game that you want 10 hours later.
Reduce, reuse, recycle
After the introductory chapters of Outriders, you will unlock the creation. This is where you should start paying a little attention to what you are driving. Keep upgrading to the best you have, but whenever you encounter Rare or Epic items (or, if you’re very lucky, Legendary items), take the time to look at the mods they have. When these weapons and armor can no longer be destroyed, take them apart instead of selling them. This will give you the mods on these items, which you can craft in any Rare or Epic weapon or armor you find.
Loot is good, but it could be better
Be sure to modify your equipment frequently. While some mods have general benefits, such as recovering health from deadly shots or adding burning damage to your weapons, many of them are geared to the benefit of specific constructions. You don’t have to wait until the end of the game to start forming your favorite style of play. Every time you exchange an old piece of equipment for something new (which, again, you must be doing all the time), take the opportunity to create your favorite mods in your new equipment so that you can continue to master your style ideal game.
If you are a Trickster and prefer to use Time Blade instead of Cyclone Slice, for example, it makes no sense to equip gloves with the Healing Slice mod (get health for each enemy killed with Cyclone Slice) instead of gloves with the Slasher mod (Temporal Blade can be used twice before cooling), regardless of whether the former has a higher power level than the latter. But, through creation, you can transfer the mod from the second pair of gloves to the first – you now have the best of both worlds, a more powerful armor and a mod that will really benefit you. As long as you keep selling all the equipment you don’t need and spend a few seconds to mine the resources as you find them on missions, you’ll be swimming in craft materials. Just keep modifying your equipment.
Swipe to serve
If you are concerned about loosing the loot, activate the Outriders auto-loot feature. Open the options menu and navigate to the game tab, where you will see a slider that can be adjusted to determine what type of weapons and armor you want to automatically loot.
Keep your privacy
By default, Outriders will allow any and all players to participate in your game. If you don’t want people to randomly enter your game, you’ll need to adjust your privacy options. Open the options menu and go to the game guide. From here, you will see an option to change the game’s privacy. You can adjust it so that only your friends on the chosen hardware can join the game or close it entirely, requiring people to receive an invitation from you to join.
Respect yourself
As you level up, you unlock points that you can invest in a three-pronged skill tree. You won’t be able to unlock enough points to buy all the skills in all three branches, but don’t worry too much. Not only can you respect your skill points whenever you want, you can also do it freely. So experiment with different skills and see what can work best for your chosen building.
In addition, you can respec your skill tree to help with your loot game when you are cultivating better equipment. Certain skills in the skill tree for each class make your character better with certain weapons and allow him to find them more easily. For example, the Trickster’s killer tree is full of skills that increase the class’s effectiveness at close range and help the Trickster find weapons more easily to destroy the shop up close, such as the Shotgun Master (increase shotgun damage by 15%, increasing shotgun weapons reduces the chance by 12%).
If you are curious, all four classes have a skill that helps you cultivate assault weapons (assault rifles, light machine guns, machine guns and double machine guns). However, only Devastator and Trickster have the ability to help them grow shotguns (Pump Action Shotguns and Automatic Shotguns), and only Pyromancer and Technomancer have an ability to help them grow rifles and snipers (Marksman Rifles , Automatic Sniper Rifles, and Bolt Action Rifles).
Change the world, tear S ** t Up
Just because you have unlocked a new world level does not mean that you will always have to play at that world level. You must play at the highest world level you have unlocked as often as possible, just to ensure that you still receive items that will increase your power level. However, if you are stuck in a fight, just lower your world level, overcome it and increase the world level again later. There is no penalty for doing this, and it is better than playing frustratingly in the same section of the game for longer than necessary.
Claim your worldly rewards
Each time you unlock a new world level, you will receive a new reward. To accept the prize, you need to open the World Tier menu – it will not be unlocked automatically. At first, your rewards don’t have much to write about, as they are rare equipment or resources. However, you will eventually start obtaining epic and legendary items. So be sure to claim these rewards to unlock some powerful gear in the middle and end of the game.