Outriders - New Horizon Primer and Dev Q&A

Outriders New Horizon Primer and Dev Q&A - 'We Don't Regret Not Doing GaaS'

It's now official: Outriders is getting the huge and free New Horizon update tomorrow, featuring four new Expeditions, the removal of the timer requirement for all Expeditions, a Transmog system that lets players swap a weapon or armor skin with another they already own at will, an overhaul to Tiago's Expeditions store (which now allows players to spend some resources and reroll a particular item drop's attributes), and a balancing pass for Classes, Skills, and Mods.

But that's not all, as the drop rate of Legendary items was increased by 100% across the board; an anti-duplication system will reduce the likelihood of getting items players already have; many fixes were made to crossplay (which includes Google Stadia, at long last), disconnections during coop sessions, various bugs, and more.

Square Enix also teased a full expansion titled Worldslayer coming next year, though we'll have to wait next Spring to learn more about that.

The preview and interview session we attended earlier this month, where Outriders proved to be as fun as ever, was squarely focused on New Horizon, easily the game's largest update to date. You can check out footage of all that below, showing each one of the new Expeditions (Molten Depths, City of Nomads, The Marshal's Complex, and The Wellspring). We've also got the full transcript of a group Q&A with People Can Fly Lead Game Designer Piotr Nowakowski, Creative Director Bartek Kmita, and Balance Game Designer Łukasz Osiński.

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