Outriders may be receiving new content in the future, though it won’t follow the live-service models of games like Fortnite, Destiny, and Call of Duty. People Can Fly’s looter shooter has seen huge success so far, heading Steam’s Top Sellers list following its release and becoming Square Enix’s most successful Steam launch. Now, People Can Fly is looking at what the future of Outriders could be.

Prior to launch, People Can Fly stressed Outriders would not be a live-service game, so fans shouldn’t expect frequent content drops, battle passes, or monetization elements like a cosmetic store. But the fact that the developer isn’t looking to run a live-service game doesn’t mean Outriders won’t receive new content. Instead, People Can Fly wants to deliver substantial content updates for the game’s dedicated players.

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Currently, there is no concrete roadmap for additional content coming to Outriders; it seems People Can Fly was waiting to see how the game was received and wanted to focus on getting Outriders out the door before planning new updates. But thanks to its successful launch, Outriders will likely get more content in the months and years to come. Here’s what People Can Fly has said about upcoming DLC so far.

People Can Fly’s Plans For Outriders DLC

Speaking to GamesRadar+ last year, People Can Fly creative director Bartek Kmita cited Blizzard’s Diablo as a source of inspiration for Outriders. Diablo 2 and 3 both received substantial expansion packs that added new areas, classes, and items to the game, and that will likely carry forward as inspiration for Outriders‘ DLC plans.

“Diablo wasn’t a game as a service. They just released the big expansion packs. They were doing it in a different style. Maybe we’ll go that way, or even do some other things. But for sure, we will not abandon the game if players like it.”

In a recent interview with Forbes, Kmita expanded on this idea, saying the studio is “happy to create more content in the future” if people like the game enough. Many stories the developers came up with didn’t make it into Outriders at launch, Kmita said. Some of these could end up being added later as DLC, and they would only take the form of “significant expansions with self-contained stories.”

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While Outriders won’t be receiving frequent content drops, there will be updates to improve the game as a whole. Developers are already working to fix Outriders‘ launch issues and balance its classes and abilities. On top of smaller updates like this, People Can Fly seems keen to introduce bigger Outriders content drops, as long as the game is able to maintain an adequate level of popularity.

Source: GamesRadar+, Forbes

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