Outriders August 12 Update Patch Notes

Outriders has today (August 12) launched a new update, so here’s everything that’s been changed and added with this patch. This is a fairly beefy patch, bringing with it a host of not just bug fixes, but balance changes for various classes and other sections of the game. It’s also worth noting there’s a list of known issues with the recent updates, some having temporary fixes and others still being worked on. We’ll be sure to provide those towards the end though. Without further adieu, here’s everything new with today’s (August 12) Outriders update!

Outriders August 12 Update Patch Notes

Fixes

• Crash Fixes

• Improved multiplayer so that rubberbanding & packet loss should now be reduced for players under 350ms

• The Anti-duplication system will no longer take your equipped items into account when checking whether to re-roll a dropped duplicate.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the Pyromancer’s Thermal Bomb to lose all charges and enter full cooldown if a player was interruped while casing the skill

• Improved the targeting of the Trickster’s Venator’s Knife so that it should now more consistently target a player’s intended enemy.

• Fixed an issue that could cause the Trickster’s Hunt the Prey to not turn the player towards an enemy’s back if aiming down sights immediately after activation

• Fixed the Technomancer’s Borealis Monarch Set so that it will now correctly grant the 90% damage increase to any frozen targets

• Resolved an issue with the Devastator’s Statue Set and changed its description to match its behaviour

  • The New Description is:

  • The Old Description was:

    • Using either Tremor or Golem increases Firepower by 100% and Weapon Life Leech by 100% for you and your teammates

    • The old functionality meant that the Statue set bonus could end after 8 seconds. Reworking this set means that the bonus can now be maintained for longer.

• Fixed an issue that could cause low damage threshold mods to trigger immediately after death or after respawning.

• Fixed an issue whereby players who are level 50 could appear as level 1 while in a party. Note that this issue may still be visible when in lobby.

• Fixed some out of sync subtitles

Buffs

Pyromancer

• Feed the Flames

• Volcanic Rounds

  • The Resistance debuff provided by the Susceptibility mod has been increased to 50% (Previously: 34%)

  • The “Reload Boost” and “Lava Shots” Mods have had their perks swapped.

  • Reload Boost will now increase Anomaly Power (Previously: Firepower)

  • Lava Shots will now increase Firepower (Previously: Anomaly Power)

• Ash Blast

  • Ash blast has had it’s base skill cooldown reduced by 4 seconds, from 27.5 to 23.5 seconds

  • The buff duration of the Death Sentence mod has been increased by 3 seconds, from 5 to 8 seconds

Trickster

• Borrowed Time

• Slow Trap

• Time Rift

  • The cooldown of Time Rift has been reduced by 3.4 seconds, from 15.4 seconds to 12 seconds

  • Increased the DOT damage of the “A Little Bit of Pain” mod by 71% (from base 0.35 AP to 0.6 AP)

  • Condensed the DOT duration of the “A Little Bit Of Pain” mod to 6 seconds (Previously: 10)

  • Increased the Armour and Resistance debuff provided by the “Time Crack” mod to 35% (Previously: 25%)

  • Increased the Weapon Cleave damage provided by the “Pain Transfer” mod to 20% Weapon Damage (Previously: 10% Weapon Damage)

Technomancer

• Pain Launcher

• Scrapnel

  • Reduced the base cooldown of Scrapnel by 5 seconds, from 22 seconds to 17 seconds

  • Increased the base damage of Scrapnel by 19% (from base 0.756 AP to 0.9AP)

• Cryo Turret

Devastator

• Boulderdash

• Endless Mass

  • Enemies affected by Endless Mass can now be damaged and killed during the animation

  • Changed the “Wide Horizons” mod so that, on top of the range increase, the mod will allow Endless Mass to ignore the enemy skill “Absorbing Skin” used by Alpha Perforos and Brood Mothers

• Reflect Bullets

Armor Mod Buffs

• Personal Space will have its damage bonus increased from 15% to 25%

• Critstack will have it’s Anomaly Power boost increased by 21% (from base 5.79 to 7)

• Stand Tall will have its base Firepower bonus increased by 20% and its base Anomaly Power by 16%. (From base level 10 Firepower and 15 Anomaly Power to 12 Firepower and 17.5 Anomaly Power)

• Perseverance Shield will have it’s base shield value increased by 40% (From base 25 to 35)

• Blazing Aegis will have the armor increase it grants increased by 21% (from base 46.35 to 56)

• Plate Dodger will have its armor value grant increased by 12% (from base 58 to 65) and its duration increased from 5 seconds to 7 seconds.

Weapon Mod Buffs

Outriders August 12 Update: Ongoing List of Currently Tracked Issues

Note 1: This is not an exhaustive list of things being worked upon. This is also not a list of patch notes for the next patch. Upcoming patches will address issues that may not be listed here.

Note 2: “Investigated” means that we have been able to successfully reproduce an issue on our dev environment and are currently looking at the root causes of said issue. If we have not yet been able to reproduce a specific issue, it may not be listed here, but that doesn’t mean we’re unaware of it.

• State of Stadia

  • Stadia still needs to be brought in line with other platforms with regards to fixes, bug resolutions and crossplay support.

  • We are continuing to do this work on aligning all platforms, but do not yet have a definite date for when this will be possible.

  • We appreciate that this work is taking longer than expected and do apologize for this.

• Matchmaking privacy settings may set themselves to Open without input from the player

• Xbox problems related to signing in

  • Our latest patch significantly increased Xbox sign in times for the vast majority of players. However, a small number of players appear to be affected by a secondary issue, which can cause them to do “alternative account sign in” workarounds.

  • We are investigating this matter and are in touch with a few affected users to investigate their accounts in order to identify the issue

• Mods and Resources may be lost

  • This issue appears to be quite rare, making it very hard for us to reproduce it and identify it’s cause.

  • For anyone affected by this, we recommend getting in touch with our Square Enix Support Team (), who now have appropriate tools to be able to grant you specific mods and resources that you may have lost. Our support team will also be able to gather the appropriate information to aid us in our investigation.

• Sprinting with your Sprint option set to Hold (instead of Toggle) may cause the player character to drift to the side

  • Issue being investigated

• Entering the drained lake during the third enemy encounter in the Scorched Lands Expedition can cause client players to stutter

• Certain enemies, especially Alphas, may break out of Frozen CC as soon as they are damaged

  • Issue being investigated

• Game stutters when multiple Crawlers are on screen, in particular during certain Expeditions

• Certain Mods not working (properly or consistently), in particular when you’re the client during multiplayer sessions

• Grand Opening Mod (and other mods) may not activate when a player uses their last magazine

• Using the Tier 3 Armor Mod “Pain Transfer” with either the Tier 2 or the Tier 3 “Damage Link” mod drastically reduces framerate.

  • Issue being investigated

• Tricksters may be unable to revive others or be revived themselves in Multiplayer if using Borrowed Time in Expeditions

• Technomancers Plague Sower Set does not consistently apply it’s bonus.

  • Issue being investigated

• Technomancer Turrets May fall through the ground

• Journal entries/pick ups not appearing on secondary characters

• “Damage Blocked” Stat on Expeditions results screen occasionally appears inconsistently or abnormally low

• A cutscene during the “The Mentor” Questline may not trigger, meaning players cannot progress past this point

  • Issue currently being investigated

  • Temporary Workaround: In your lobby, change your story checkpoint to an earlier one, then re-attempt this quest.

While not exactly bringing much in terms of content, the August 12 update does bring some big balance changes to Outriders. The Pyromancer, Trickster, Technomancer, and Devastator have all seen a big round of buffs and quality-of-life fixes to help make the characters feel just a bit better. And as always, having a host of bug fixes is never a bad thing. Not too shabby today.

Outriders and the August 12 update are available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Google Stadia. For more information regarding this update, check out the official Reddit post.