Bulletstorm, Painkiller and Outriders developers People Can Fly are "suspending or parting ways" with over 120 people, shelving one video game project, downsizing another, and "restructuring some of our support teams" in the face of market turmoil.
]]>People Can Fly, the developers of Bulletstorm and Outriders, have cancelled development of a co-op action RPG codenamed Project Dagger. The Polish company informed investors of the decision to cancel the game, which was initially to be published by Take-Two, earlier this month.
]]>It looks like Bulletstorm and Outriders developer People Can Fly are working on a Microsoft IP, but no one knows which one just yet. This comes from People Can Fly themselves via a statement provided to Polish financial site Interia Biznes, where the studio shared that the game currently has the title Project Maverick (via Eurogamer). All of the funding is coming from Microsoft, with a budget ranging from $30-50m.
]]>Square Enix and People Can Fly have unveiled more details of the endgame for Worldslayer, the upcoming first paid expansion to their online co-op action RPG Outriders. Outriders’ creative director Bartek Kmita says there’s “hundreds of hours of meaningful progression” in Worldslayer’s endgame, which sounds like a lot, but the focus is mostly on the replayable big new Trial of Tarya Gratar dungeon. Check out the full broadcast below for some shooty footage.
]]>Square Enix have announced tonight that People Can Fly’s online sci-fi co-op looter shooter Outriders will get its first paid expansion, Worldslayer, on June 30th.
Worldslayer is adding in new story content to the Outriders’ world of Enoch – always good to hear – and a new endgame. It all centres around the creepy original Altered, Erishkigal, who exudes some serious Zuul vibes and is named after the Sumerian goddess of the underworld. I googled it. With Worldslayer, People Can Fly say they're delving more into the extraterrestrial shenanigans of Enoch’s backstory.
]]>This week's episode of the Ultimate Audio Bang is, once again, all about the big releases. Battlefield 2042's in a bit of state, so we talk about the many patches scheduled to fix it up. We've also heard that those banned in Call Of Duty: Vanguard will be banned across the entire series, which is nice. Halo Infinite's multiplayer surprise launched and Outriders DLC appears out of nowhere too. Imogen rounds off the news with her Apex Legends ranked update. Has she reached the platinum dream?
]]>Square Enix had said that Outriders was successful enough for them to justify expanding upon it, and so they shall. During a stream today they announced a big free update is coming to People Can Fly's looter-shooter on Tuesday, with a full expansion to follow in 2022. This week's free additions will include new Expeditions and a transmogrification system so you can make your wizards look all fancy.
]]>Outriders seemed poised to be one of those games. You know the sort - the kind that's good fun to play but not exciting enough to get much attention. I expected to make a glib remark about Outriders in 2022 and be fully roasted for it by no more than six people. Outriders, it seemed, would be a real Stadia of a game.
Not so, say Square Enix. In a press release today, they say the looter-shooter has had 3.5 million players in its first month, which is successful enough that they're looking towards "expanding on Outriders in the future."
]]>Outriders launched with some of the worst bugs imaginable for a looter shooter, leaving some players unable to connect to the game and others with loot being lost from their inventory. After weeks of testing, developer People Can Fly have finally released an update to redress the problems. Though they can’t guarantee a complete restoration of items to those affected, they're promising to return the most valuable items plundered by the evil bug.
]]>Class-based shooter romp Outriders has been on a ride this month, tackling bugs and issues since its April 1 launch date. People Can Fly solved crossplay issues earlier this month but have still been struggling with an inventory bug that's been snatching the loot out of players' pockets. They're still working on that one, they say, but their biggest patch to date solves other problems like crashes, a sign in issue, and a long list of other improvements.
]]>Outriders, unlike certain other looter shooters, is an entirely PvP-free affair. While this may be a disappointment to some, the good news is that there are no qualms about giving the player the tools to become hilariously overpowered. No matter which of the four classes in Outriders you pick, you'll have the ability to become godlike with the right setup.
But despite the potential for growth in all four classes, we all know one of them must be labelled the very best class in Outriders. We'll go over the strengths and weaknesses of all four classes below, along with our thoughts on the strongest class in the game right now.
]]>A Legendary farm in Outriders is a location or method where you can easily get guaranteed Legendary items as loot. And seeing as Legendaries in Outriders are often outrageously powerful, I think everyone can see why Legendary farms are quite the hot topic.
Below we'll walk you through two contenders for the best Outriders Legendary farm that we've found so far, and exactly how to go about farming those Legendaries so you can perfect your character's loadout.
]]>Any talk about the best armor in Outriders has to begin with a discussion of the Legendary armor sets and pieces. These powerful gold sets of gear boast enormous power and scaling potential thanks to their unique set bonuses and mods, and can form the backbone of many a fine Outriders loadout. Below you'll find a complete list of every Outriders Legendary armor set and one-off armor piece in the game and the benefits they'll grant the wearer.
]]>Outriders, like many looter shooters, saves its true potential for overpowered builds for the rarest pieces of loot. If you want the best guns in the game, you should look no further than the Outriders Legendary weapons, which each sport a unique and often devastatingly powerful weapon mod. We've gone through every single Legendary weapon in Outriders below, with full details on their weapon type and attached mods.
]]>Outriders may have had a rocky couple of weeks since it launched at the start of April, but People Can Fly's new looter shooter does have a Destiny-like moreish-ness that makes it jolly good fun to play, especially when its headshots erupt in such spectacular fountains of gooey, red space chunks. It's entertaining stuff, as we said in our Outriders review, and from a performance point of view, it seems to be running relatively smoothly now that most of its early bugs and crossplay kinks have been ironed out.
However, to my eyes at least, some of the environments on old planet Enoch can sometimes look a little, well, plasticky. Outriders is a handsome-looking game, don't get me wrong, but stare at its glossy visual feasts for too long and their clean lines and smooth textures betray a distinct lack of nitty gritty detail. Even in its torn-up battlefields, there's very little roughage in the wilds of Outriders, as if every rock and mud track has been buffed and polished within an inch of its life, even on Ultra quality settings. But there is a way to bring back some of that missing detail to Outriders, and that's by enabling the game's Nvidia DLSS settings if you've got an RTX graphics card.
]]>The four classes in Outriders each offer unique approaches to killing, healing, and becoming utterly overpowered with the right gear and skills. The Technomancer is no exception: follow the below walkthrough to create the very best Outriders Technomancer build, and you'll find that no enemy can withstand more than a couple of seconds of your anomalous onslaughts.
]]>The Pyromancer is one of the flashiest classes in Outriders. Their proclivity for pyrotechnics affords them quite a bit of flexibility in their builds: you are free to focus on weapon damage or ability nuking potential as you see fit.
Below you'll find two of the best Outriders Pyromancer builds we've found, which offer very different but equally viable approaches to creating the strongest possible Pyromancer.
]]>Ever since the demo failed to wow people back in February, it was pretty clear that Outriders had a ceiling. Not an outrageously low ceiling, but a ceiling nonetheless. Still, even with launch issues a lack of anything extraordinary, it's actually a pretty decent video game.
]]>Out of the four classes in Outriders, the Devastator has the highest potential for sheer obstinate survivability. With the right Devastator build, you can get about as close to invulnerable as Outriders will allow: and lucky for you, we've got two such builds below.
Our best Outriders Devastator build guide will first walk you through an extremely powerful solo Devastator build, before delving into an equally powerful build designed for co-op endgame missions.
]]>Outriders allows you to choose between four powerful classes for your character after finishing the prologue; and of those, the Trickster is one of the most popular. Excelling at close-range skirmishes and extreme damage spikes, there are plenty of great tools out there for creating an overpowered Trickster.
Our best Outriders Trickster build guide will walk you through two top-tier Trickster builds: one for solo play and one for dedicated endgame & co-op play. Both offer rather different playstyles but each will make you into a nigh-unstoppable force of nature.
]]>Looter shooter Outriders hasn't had the smoothest of starts, with cross-platform play being borked since launch, and a bug that's wiped player inventories. A recent patch has re-enabled crossplay, but the inventory wipe bug still lingers.
]]>Outriders is a looter shooter, a type of game in which space-trousers will sometimes come whizzing out of enemies after you kill them and lay there on the floor, glowing seductively, until you pick them up and appraise them. Occasionally these new space-trousers will be rarer than the pair of space-trousers you’re currently wearing, so you put them on and feel marginally happier about your day, until the unavoidable realisation that an even better pair of space-trousers must still exist - swooshier, with better stitching and inscrutable magic abilities - compels you to continue on your merry onslaught.
]]>Outriders' story missions alone take approximately 25-30 hours to complete, according to Square Enix. Add to that the 25-strong armada of side quests to get stuck into, and it can be quite easy to get overwhelmed with all the missions in play.
Our Outriders story missions and side quests list below will detail every single mission and story point in the game, organised by location. Apply some downward momentum to your mousewheel and see for yourself!
]]>People Can Fly's new third-person looter shooter Outriders had a rough start to life when it launched last week, with performance issues on PC and a fair amount of server downtime. To make up for the frustration caused by the launch fuss, they're gifting players an "appreciation package", which will contain things like a legendary weapon and other goodies. They've also revealed some of the fixes coming in the game's first big patch, which is scheduled for next week.
]]>Outriders, like all looter shooters, has the player spending a lot of time looking down at the floor vacuuming up all the loot dropped by enemies. Or it would do, if it hadn't also given us the wonderful Auto Loot feature which allows you to pick up all nearby loot with the press of a key. Keep reading to learn how to use Auto Loot in Outriders.
]]>Various abilities and attacks in Outriders can interrupt enemies, forcing them to abandon the ability they were about to cast that would've put rather a dampener on your day. Learning how to interrupt bosses and enemy attacks is an extremely useful skill in Outriders, so this guide will teach you everything you need to know about interrupting attacks.
]]>Outriders, despite its bumpy landing and intermittent server issues, is proving to be a very solid new looter shooter. And many players who have been busily grinding through missions and enemies now want to know just how far they can push their character. What is the max level your character can reach in Outriders? What about enemy levels, and item level caps?
This quick Outriders max level guide will walk you through each of these endgame level caps, with explanations of how the levels change depending on your World Tier and Challenge Tier.
]]>Outriders has no simple difficulty setting in the options menu like many other games. Instead, it has a World Tier system. The higher your World Tier, the more powerful your enemies, but the better your rewards.
Learn how to quickly increase your World Tier level with this Outriders World Tier farming guide. We'll show you what every World Tier does, and the best spot in the game to go for increasing your World Tier fast.
]]>Outriders and its playerbase is suffering from more than a few server issues, glitches, and other irritations - not least of which is the infamous "no HUD" bug which is confusing a great many new players.
If your HUD or crosshair is missing on Outriders PC, don't fret. This guide will show you how to fix the Outriders no HUD bug and return your UI so you can shoot straight once more.
]]>I find it difficult to get excited about beefcakes hiding behind low walls inside grey metal warehouses, because that's what I spent the mid-noughties doing. (And in games.) The looter shooter Outriders has pedigree behind it however, due to developers People Can Fly, and folks who played the game's demo reported that it was dumb, satisfying fun.
It's out today and I'm tempted to give it a go - although reports of performance issues on PC will probably cause me to hold off for now.
]]>Nvidia have announced a new free game bundle for their RTX gaming laptops. It's only going to be around for a short period of time, but until April 15th anyone who buys a qualifying RTX laptop from a participating retailer will also bag themselves a free Steam copy of Outriders, People Can Fly and Square Enix's new upcoming third-person looter shooter. It's not just RTX 30 laptops that qualify for the bundle, either, as older RTX 20 series laptops will be eligible as well.
]]>I've given the free demo for third-person looter-shooter Outriders a whirl, and it is very much what you'd expect from a game that requires shooting, alongside some looting. Although I did crash to desktop a lot, and the strength of the motion blur gave me a headache. That was less good. Thankfully, a patch for the demo is on the way which is set to fix these issues and some other annoying bugs too.
]]>I respect Outriders, a looter shooter that pushes precisely zero boundaries. In fact, it pushes them backwards. It says, "See all these boundaries?", then points to scuffed copies of Gears Of War for the Xbox 360 and the original Destiny, exclaims "Well get a load of this!", and slaps the two together.
Having played the demo last night with a couple of friends, I can confirm that I like this reverse direction the devs have taken. I had an okay time. And I was totally okay with that. Not everything needs to be brilliant nowadays, sheesh.
]]>A decade after the charmingly crass FPS Bulletstorm, Polish studio People Can Fly are returning with new game Outriders. It's a third-person looter-shooter with three-player co-op, set in an edgy sci-fi world. What I've seen in videos so far hasn't really got me jazzed. But from today we can try it for ourselves and see what it's actually like, because a free demo just launched.
]]>As with oh so many games originally planned for 2020, Bulletstorm devs People Can Fly's shooter Outriders has slipped into 2021. They've announced a new date now, a bit later than the February mark they'd previously mentioned. The good news is that they'll be putting a free demo in players' hands in February instead and launch will happen not too long after in April.
]]>I'm afraid there'll be no muscle-bound spacemen down the chimney this year, children. Outriders, the brutal third-person roadie-runner from the folks behind Bulletstorm, has had its plans for a Winter release scuppered by the mess that is 2020. People Can Fly's RPG shooter is now slated to arrive this February - but at least there'll be full crossplay when it finally arrives.
]]>It's been a little too easy to write off People Can Fly's upcoming "RPG shooter" Outriders. A particularly beefy Destiny 2, from what's been teased so far. The loot-shooter that's willing to show some heads exploding. But today saw the devs post their first in-depth look at Outriders in what intends to be a series of monthly broadcasts - and there's some fascinating depth behind all the exploding goons and burst heads.
]]>Following a terse announcement last E3, People Can Fly and Square Enix have started gabbing more about their new cooperative "RPG shooter", Outriders. Parts look gruff and grim and in a too-familiar way, a bit too mid-noughties, but then someone gets murdered so hard with blue beams that they're left a big ol' dancing skeleton and ah gwan I'll not rush to judge. I'll cut People Can Fly a lot of leeway after their sweary trickshot FPS Bulletstorm and its disinteskellies.
]]>People Can Fly, the Polish studio behind Bulletstorm, today announced a new cooperative shooter named Outriders. This is the mysterious game they announced with Square Enix back in 2017 and... we still don't know much more now. It's set in a sci-fi world with demonic-looking beasties and guns clad in horn and bone and such and... nope, that's about it. The announcement trailer confirms that despite science, people get dirty.
]]>Trying to keep up with E3 2019 is a fool's errand, and the foaming river of content streaming down the internet's face doesn't always make it easier. So here's a round-up of every news story from the show we think matters to you, with links to our full stories (and bantful liveblogs) where relevant. We'll be updating this hourly, so keep coming back.
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