People Can Fly's Outriders has thus far been a critical and sales success for the developer and publisher Square Enix, with Outriders and It Takes Two topping sales on Steam last week as concurrent player counts sit well above what another Square Enix-published title, Marvel's Avengers, saw at launch. That said it has seen a fair share of issues with server outages and other bugs, but People Can Fly announced a big update today confirming many of them have fixes on the way.
While server problems have been arguably Outriders' most discussed concern after it released, another big issue has been Outriders players reporting their loot getting wiped when they leave an online game before gear has fully loaded in. A loot-wipe glitch is problematic for any looter-shooter title, but this has been more of a serious concern in combination with unreliable server connectivity.
Thus, it makes sense why "Inventory Wipes & Restoration" would be one of the major sections in a multi-part developer news update posted by Square Enix on the official Outriders subreddit today. This section of the update says the rate of this bug occurring should be "greatly reduced" following Outriders' first big patch scheduled to release sometime next week, and there will be a one-off restoration sometime in the weeks to follow that will apply to any of the "most valuable tiers of items lost."
The restoration will apply primarily to Epic and Legendary loot, for example, with the post noting it will be "unlikely" to restore a full inventory of blue-tier gear. Everything will be added onto each players' current inventory rather than replacing it, though gear may not have the same stats and anything lost before an autosave will not be possible to return. Outriders cannot promise any specific timeline on the event, and it is still working on how to properly restore lost Accolades, but the post says it will work with players on missed or future restorations on an ad-hoc basis.
On top of this loot restoration, anyone who played during the game's launch window between March 31 and April 11 can expect a "Community Appreciation Package" as compensation for the issues. Future updates will also focus on re-balancing the game, making multiplayer more stable, and more.
People Can Fly promised to update players on what caused Outriders' server issues last week, and today's Reddit post did this and more. All-and-all it is a good sign for the team's transparency and intent to see Outriders grow into a truly successful multiplayer looter along the lines of Bungie's Destiny series. It should be worth seeing how much the game improves with its coming updates.
Outriders is available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.