With its role-playing system, Outriders offers the perfect basis for a service game, but the developers decided against it and released the game as a complete package, without content updates, Season Passes or similar. But that doesn’t mean that the loot shooter will never be expanded.
What is the developer planning?
In an interview with the Forbes website, Bartek Kmita, the game’s creative director, stated that the game would not be neglected because of this. Because, according to him, there are still many stories that can be told in Outriders. The team is also ready to create additional content.
Classic add-ons instead of live service: Instead of smaller and regular content updates, you tend to think of larger add-ons. Because during the development you had to put numerous ideas to the files because they no longer found a place in the main program for various reasons.
“We have so many stories to tell and ideas that we want to take a closer look at that we just couldn’t fit into the original game. We’re happy to have more content in the future. Everything we do would be in the form of Adopt significant self-contained story addons.”
What exactly will there be? The developer has not yet given any more details. However, he explains that one is certainly considering increasing the level limit. With this you could earn additional skill points and continue to work on your builds.
Under one condition: Unsurprisingly, you only start developing appropriate extensions if the game is well received. So the chances are good. Because despite initial server problems, the title on Steam is the largest release from publisher Square Enix to date.
You can find out what else you need to know about the release of Outriders in our large FAQ.
Are Outriders good now?
After a total of ten hours of play, we can already give a conclusion on Outriders in the first part of our test. In this, Brent Dubin explains why the game’s fights are convincing, but also where there is room for improvement.
If, on the other hand, you still have problems getting started, our beginner’s guide for plus users will help you. In this, we not only help you with the choice of class, but also explain how the individual game mechanics work.