UPDATE MARCH 6, 2021: People Can Fly intervened again to change the Outriders demo in response to complaints about an earlier change designed to combat heavy farming.
The developer released a server-side update to allow Chief Gauss’s chest to drop legendary the day after yesterday, preventing all chests from dropping legendary items.
Update on chests that take down legendary in the Outriders demo:
After hearing reasonable feedback from the community, we allowed Chief Gauss ‘chest to drop Legendaries again, as we should in fact reward the bosses’ races.
Other chests still can’t bring down Legendaries.
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“After hearing reasonable feedback from the community, we allowed Chief Gauss’s trunk to make legendary again, as we should in fact reward the boss races,” People Can Fly said in a tweet.
However, other chests still cannot bring down legendary ones. This means that the popular triple breast race without previously available combat remains unavailable to those looking for legendaries before the launch of Outriders on April 1st.
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ORIGINAL STORY MARCH 5, 2021: The Outriders demo is popular – more than two million people have downloaded it – but it also has some problems that developers are eager to solve.
Chief among them is heavy farming for powerful items, which players are doing in anticipation of the game’s release on April 1, 2021.
Progress on the Outriders demo continues in the main game, and you can repeat much of the content in the demo, over and over again, in the hope of stealing a superpowered item from a chest or enemy.
So, players are cultivating the demo to fill their mod library and acquire several legendary ones (I myself managed to get a legendary while playing).
In a post on reddit, developer People Can Fly said that this “front loading” of the progression within the demo can affect the balance of the progression system in the main game.
“Of course, it’s up to each player to decide for themselves and we don’t want to stop people from growing the demo for the equipment if they like it,” said People Can Fly.
“However, we would like to ensure that this process is not overly simplistic, easy or subject to exploitation.”
It didn’t take long for Outriders’ demo players to discover a “lootcave” through a triple chest race, as well as a vendor exploit, and use them for heavy farming.
This is how it works (soon, it worked): reach world level level five (this gives you the best chance of a legendary drop available in the demo), select “confront the altered in the tower”, point of the lobby story, load the game and then run around opening the next three chests. No combat needed. After opening all three chests, go back to the lobby and repeat.
In response, People Can Fly will release a backend update for the demo at 3 pm UK time today, March 5, which redirects agriculture to the game mechanics “which may be more enjoyable for players to play and repeat” .
To do so, epic items will no longer appear in stores and vendors in the demo, and chests will no longer leave legendary items. Instead, rewards from side missions (in repeated races) will now have a chance to drop legendary items. The result of this is that those who want to farm legendary in the demo will now have to actually play the side missions.
Note: the drop rates for enemies are not being changed. So, go ahead and kill that captain. Again and again and again.
There are more changes to the demo. People Can Fly said a patch, scheduled to air next week, adds a motion blur button for all platforms, reduces matchmaking time and blocks PC crashes.
Moving to the game’s release, People Can Fly said he is looking at the camera’s annoying shaking during the scenes, will improve the coverage system and is looking for a way to help players restore items that have mysteriously disappeared.
Meanwhile, People Can Fly said it noticed cheating in the Outriders demo (which didn’t take long!), With some players using third-party software to alter game files and save data in their favor. For an online cooperative game, this is obviously a problem.
People Can Fly said it can identify cheaters “relatively easily” through its back-end system and promised “its actions should not affect its regular game or cooperative experience”. Fingers crossed.
Solid things everywhere. Check out our Outriders demo impressions to see what we think of the game.