Outriders News Update 9.2.21 | Weapon Buff Mods | Changing META? Changes to Legendary Sets

Описание: Today we have the Outriders News Update for 9/2/21. Today we go over the weapon mods that got buffed today, discuss the MOD META and what the devs think about it. Also, underused legendary sets are going to see changes. Additionally, we discuss what is coming in the next Outriders patch. All this and more in today's News Update!

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News Update Highlights:

Main Patch is not yet ready.

Weapon Mods Buffed
Winter Blast has had its AOE range increased to 5m (Previously: 4m)

Ultimate Anomaly Surge has had its damage increased by 137% (From base 25 to 34.25)

Claymore Torrent has had its explosion damage increased by 210% (From base 30.6 to 64.26)

Ultimate Storm Whip has had its damage increased by 140% (From base 23 to 32.2)

Strings of Gauss has had its damage increased by 262% (From base 24.5 to 64)

Topic for Discussion – The Weapon Mod Meta:
You may notice that a few of the above mods falls within a very particular category of mods:

Most of them are “single-target” or “cleave” mods.

The current mod-meta in Outriders currently centers around 3 “Pillars”.

A) General AOE damage mods

B) Moaning Winds and the Quick-Cycling meta

C) Fortress

Below is an overview of how we see the current situation.

Pillar A: General AOE damage mods
According to our player data and community observations, there is currently an over-reliance on AOE damage mods, which is most likely the result of the way most enemy encounters in Expeditions are structured. Players usually face hordes of enemies against whom such AOE mods are the most efficient method of playing

This means that there is a strong under-reliance on ST Mods, which is further exacerbated by some of these ST mods generally under-performing.

Storm Whip is an excellent example here, as its previous damage potential strongly under-performed, meaning few players chose this mod over other, better alternatives.

Pillar B: Moaning Winds and the Quick-Cycling meta
Moaning Winds is one of the most dominant “active” mods currently in use.

This combo is especially effective in single player, where enemies cluster around a single, rather than two or three players.

Note: The above is over-simplified, but the intent is to mainly explain the concept.

Moaning Winds is therefore vastly out-performing its intended potential, making it one of the best “active damage” mods in the game while also inviting a rather unorthodox playstyle.

Pillar C: Fortress
The third and by far most problematic pillar is C: the Fortress mod.

The way Fortress currently works usually provides a passive and consistent 43% damage increase to damage the player inflicts.

We also continue to be very aware that a timer based Endgame is part of the problem in that it forces a DPS oriented build, rather than a survival or just pure “fun” build.

Note that we are also working on changes to certain under-utilized Legendary Armour Sets. However, as these changes will also required code-work, we'll talk more about them closer to their release.

Patch News:

Further improved the visibility of the Brood Mothers Surge AOE skill limits.

Fixed a bug that was preventing players from reviving themselves and other players after using the Trickster's Borrowed Time skill.

Resolved an issue that prevented secondary characters from picking up Journal Entries if they had already been collected on a different character.

Added an AFK status for players on friends lists.

Changed the behaviour of the Devastator's Impale, so that the game will detect impaled enemies as dead even before they disappear.

The Devastator's "Reflect Bullets" skill will now protect from Sciathan projectile attacks.

Fixed a bug that could prevent Devastators from being able to consistently dodge if they had the Auto Reflect mod active.

Fixed a bug that could cause client shots to sometimes deal no actual damage to enemies.

Fixed a bug that could cause the Technomancer's Plague Sower set bonus to not proc consistently.

Fixed a bug that could cause the Plague Sower and the Cannonball Legendary Sets to not retain their set bonus after a transition.

Fixed a bug that could cause certain mods like "Grand Opening" to not proc if the player was on their last magazine.

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