Outriders Players Report Losing All Progress After Latest Patch

Square Enix’s co-op RPG Outriders is still suffering from a major glitch that wipes out player inventory, but the situation has now been made worse with a patch that eliminates all player progress as well. Disgruntled players are claiming they’ve lost up to a hundred hours of invested grinding time in the game thanks to a faulty patch that was meant to fix a different major issue.

While Outriders was beset with bugs and glitches basically from the start when it launched on April 1, its biggest woes started off a few days ago when a glitch began randomly wiping out player inventory without any particular rhyme or reason. This, in addition to ongoing server crashes and connectivity issues, left players understandably frustrated, especially higher-level fans who had put in hours of grinding to accumulate their arsenals and raise their levels. With all that hard-earned progress erased, these devoted players found themselves completely at the mercy of high-level threats in the game.

In an effort to fix the situation, the game’s developer People Can Fly released a hastily-prepared patch to fix the inventory issue, but, as Eurogamer has reported, the patch has caused far worse issues than it’s fixed. Players are reporting that their games are crashing at random, and upon reloading, their characters are naked on the login screen, as all of their inventory has been wiped completely clean, and a connection issue prevents players from using their characters at all, which essentially means all player progress is lost. People Can Fly has, of course, issued an apology for the problem on Twitter, and promises to do everything it can to amend the issue.

However, that’s a pretty empty promise at present considering the team’s poor track record for solving problems, and players aren’t buying it. Even an offer of legendary weapons and other goodies is doing little to abate the anger of players who put in tens of hours into the game only to be left with nothing, especially those who are grinding for “god rolls.” Players who have already finished the game and are grinding to build their characters to the absolute limit, with the help of weapons that have premium stats, are particularly worried because People Can Fly has already clarified that restoring lost items, along with progress, may not result in the same stats as the original items that players had obtained. For those grinding for god rolls, that means that their progress is still more or less lost, even if their inventory is restored.

It’s not a good start for Outriders, and it doesn’t seem like things will be getting any better any time soon. While the game garnered significant critical praise for its many other strengths, the quality of the game itself is going to go largely unnoticed if no one can actually play it without issue. Hopefully People Can Fly will get these glaring issues sorted out sooner rather than later.

Source: Eurogamer, Outriders

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