Outriders for PS4 and PS5: Known bugs and launch issues

Square Enix and People Can Fly’s sci-fi shooter Outriders has launched for PS4 and PS5, with a demo still available to download (a fairly prolonged demo, at that). If you have hopped into the latest title — which additionally occurs to be free by means of Xbox Game Pass — you will have bumped into some issues already. While no recreation is with out its faults — particularly one which depends on servers — they need to be famous all the identical in order that the builders can get to work on fixing them.

We’ve compiled a listing of main issues that individuals are experiencing, together with any workarounds that individuals have discovered to this point. One main concern you may most likely see a ton of: server disconnects.

Outriders Known bugs and tips on how to repair them

Server disconnects

You could also be experiencing intermittent server disconnects, and that is frequent for a web-based recreation throughout its launch window. People Can Fly has already identified one culprit behind the issue and implemented a fix, however that does not imply extra will not pop up as folks flood to the servers.

The solely approach you’ll be able to repair this? You simply want to attend it out — although you’ll be able to all the time attempt troubleshooting your internet connection on PS5 should you suppose the issue is in your finish.

The studio remains to be persevering with to research server issues in Outriders, so sit tight. This isn’t any shock for a multiplayer recreation at launch, even when it is disappointing. And you’ll be able to’t hop onto a brand new console or your PC and hope for one of the best. Server issues are persistent throughout all platforms in the intervening time.

What makes it worse is that although Outriders helps 3-player co-op, you’ll be able to nonetheless play it totally solo. You haven’t got to the touch its multiplayer in any respect should you do not wish to. It’s turned a ache level through the years that video games permitting folks to play in single-player all the time have to be related to the web. People are asking for an offline mode in Outriders, however the developer would not look like engaged on one.

All that mentioned, please do not forget that the studio is working exhausting to resolve these issues. All on-line video games expertise this at launch. Be affected person and it will easy out over time.

PS5 and PS4 cross-play disconnects with PC

One of the largest issues that gamers are reporting proper now are frequent disconnects when making an attempt to cross-play between console and PC. Apparently there was a desynchronization between the PC and console code that resulted in a backend mismatch that will kick gamers out in the event that they had been in a multiplayer recreation. The studio is conscious of the difficulty and is engaged on a repair, however sadly the patch won’t come in the present day and it doesn’t have an ETA on it. Rest assured, although, it’s a precedence for People Can Fly.

Though this impacts cross-play between PS4/PS5 and PC gamers, you’ll be able to nonetheless play between PlayStation and Xbox simply high quality. In the meantime, computerized matchmaking between consoles and PC has been turned off.

Game crashes

• Issue: Players have additionally been reporting that their video games hold crashing on PS5 and PS4.

• Fix: In this occasion the repair could also be so simple as checking the sport for updates and making certain you’ve got the day one patch downloaded.

• Issue: In a particular occasion, Square Enix has been made conscious of a crash that happens when gamers flip within the sidequest “A Bad Day” for their reward. As it seems, this crash seems to be linked to having Hell’s Rangers gear in your stock on the time.

• Fix: To repair this, place your Hell’s Rangers objects in your stash earlier than you flip within the quest. You can take them again out and equip them as soon as you have acquired the reward. Some gamers have additionally famous that having legendaries could possibly be inflicting this crash as effectively, so add these to your stash too if it retains taking place.

• Issue: Crashes through the “Mountain Outpost” expedition have been reported however are rare.

• Fix: Square Enix is trying into the difficulty however presents no resolution at the moment because it seems to occur randomly.

Stuck at signed in

• Issue: Anyone hopping into Outriders might discover themselves stick in an infinite “signed in” loop with no approach to entry to full recreation. This seems to be affecting PS4 and PS5 customers extra typically than different programs.
• Fix: Closing the sport and rebooting it totally ought to do the trick, although some have even reported that simply ready a number of minutes will get you previous the “infinite” loading.

UI/HUD disappears

While you’ll be able to flip the HUD on and off within the recreation’s settings, gamers have discovered that it generally would not present up even when it is toggled on. Return to the sport’s foyer and reload the sport to attempt and repair this. Reddit user Ossorin additionally gave their workaround that appears to have labored for a number of folks:

1. In the foyer, disable all of the interface choices.
2. Enter the sport.
3. Activate the interface choices in-game.

Inventory wipes

This stands out as the worst considered one of all. It’s unclear why it occurs and there’s at the moment no repair or workaround in place, however it’s possible you’ll randomly lose your hard-earned objects. People Can Fly is as soon as once more conscious of the issue and is working diligently to repair it. It’s unknown whether or not wiped objects are misplaced eternally or if there’s some approach to restore them sooner or later.

What issues have you ever encountered?

Have any extra issues you have encountered? This is not an exhaustive record, however these are essentially the most urgent that we have seen gamers report. For a full record of bugs and issues, you’ll be able to hold observe by means of this Reddit thread.

Lots of people have already been praising the sport, so hopefully, when these fixes are in place it may well earn a spot among the many best PS5 games on the market proper now.