Outriders

 Stadia
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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 54 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 8 out of 54
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  1. peryceptyk84
    Apr 14, 2021
    10
    The game so addictive that the crowbar couldn't unhook me from the computer. great plot, nice gameplay and nice graphics.
  2. Aarononeal5
    Aug 8, 2021
    8
    This game gets a lot of hate because of the developer support on the stadia support. But I’m going on just my experience. I had a lot of fun and made some friends over multiplayer. I put 80 hours in the game and felt I got my money’s worth. I understand others have had more trouble than I did though. And I don’t know why. I plan to come back to this game soon.
  3. SuperkenGaming
    Apr 13, 2021
    8
    Outriders
    Theres some potential here
    I love outriders, but there are definitely some things that stop me from loving it as much as I could. This is a 3rd person cover based shoote that can be played both solo and online with up to 3 players. I stuck to this games campaign solo and it took me about 14 hours to get through.. The game starts with you creating your own charcter, and the    Outriders
    Theres some potential here
    I love outriders, but there are definitely some things that stop me from loving it as much as I could.
    This is a 3rd person cover based shoote that can be played both solo and online with up to 3 players.
    I stuck to this games campaign solo and it took me about 14 hours to get through.. The game starts with you creating your own charcter, and the story here.. well it might as well not even exist.. I couldn’t tell you anything, I couldn’t even tell you how the game ends if I wanted to, basically a storm happens, youre frozen, youre unfrozen 20 years late futurama style, and you come out and wanna shoot stuff.
    The gameplay here is super fun and addictive.. most of the time.. thing gears of war meets mass effect meets the division.. obviously outriders feels nowhere near as polished and detailed as those games.. but for a first attempt in a series, this is a really good one… Something unique here that has promise but major issues is the tier system.. instead of choosing a difficulty, the game gets harder as you progress, everyone starts at story difficuolty, then you unlock easy, normal, hard, expert, and so on… however once you get to a tier you find too challenging aka too annoying youre free to drop back to any previously unlocked tier that youd like… and this is what I did on m way to tier 6, I dropped back to normal.. and why you might ask? I loved the challenge tier 5 was giving me.. however outriders is desined as a games of service game and for that reason, the checkpoints throughout the campaign are awful.. ontop of that there are insane random difficulty spikes… youll go from having an nice challenge to waves of enemies that have you wanting to bang your head against the wall, oyull get so close to the end, or completete the first wave and lose to some scrub and have to start all the way back at the beginning of wave 1 instead of the wave your died on.. enough to again make you want to drop down to normal difficulty.. however… even in normal these random spikes occur, theres even one enemy called the shaman warlord that is so unbalanced and overpowered that I had to drop down to story difficulty…
    Im sure I could have eventually beat them on normal, but story took 3 minutes, normal would’ve taken like an hour. It just wasn’t worth the effort,,, balancing in general I outriders biggest problem.. from random enemies feeling overpowered to random difficulty spikes and awful checkpoint system… so the gameplay can go from great to frustrating, the story is trash, why is outriders so good?
    Well that comes in the form of its looter hook… at the beginning of the game you choose one of 3 classes, and its so addictive to find weapons through this game and try to tailor them to your specific playstyle.. overcome these sometimes annoying challenges with a feeling god like power… as as you level up, youll choose 3 abilities to have at yoru disposal during combat… there is post game content though.. and plenty… the story mode is essentially you getting your character ready for the online bits.. even though of course you can play through the story with friends… but after the game is where leveling up your tier really starts to matter, this is where youll be challenging yourself to unlock new areas and collect all of these fallen pods…I however personally found the actual world of outriders to be pretty lack luster and uninteresting.. so naturally I have no interest in going off and grinding.. though I do believe the mechanics are fun enough here for plenty who would based on that alone…
    Outriders again has potential as a series.. would I play outriders 2? Yes…
    s again I loved the gameplay hook and Id love a sequal that balances everything out better.
    Am I clamoring for outriders 2? No.
    Again the story and world are lacking, and im not quite sure how the team over at people can fly can fix it.
    I give Outriders
    a 7.5/10    … Expand
  4. lallo1138
    Aug 10, 2021
    8
    A day-and-date release for Stadia, but unfortunately Google's platform had to wait three weeks to see a first patch announced by Square Enix. To be honest, pc and consoles had way more urgent issues to be fixed: no one had the inventory wipe bug on Stadia and all things considered the game runs well at 1080p 60fps (framarate mode) and 4k 30fps (resolution mode). As soon as the game will beA day-and-date release for Stadia, but unfortunately Google's platform had to wait three weeks to see a first patch announced by Square Enix. To be honest, pc and consoles had way more urgent issues to be fixed: no one had the inventory wipe bug on Stadia and all things considered the game runs well at 1080p 60fps (framarate mode) and 4k 30fps (resolution mode). As soon as the game will be patched, it will be crossplay with all other patforms and with an exclusive feature: "stream connect"; that allows you to see the view of the other players in the group.
    I am currently in the end-game with two of my characters, so the game on Stadia is definitely playable, the only input-lag is in the mind of the ones who don't know what "the" Stadia is :)    … Expand
  5. Laguii
    Aug 9, 2021
    9
    I am loving it. Never been able to spend enough time to actually reach end game in games like this before. I guess this is shorter and newer. Works great for me, but I know it gets lots of hate from community, idk. I do wish they would do more to bring Stadia up to par with console and cross play
  6. MRLNLY
    Feb 13, 2022
    9
    I only started playing the game after all the patches and it was great. I enjoyed the story line and the use of your abilities. I don't that the difficulty exponentially increased during boss fights bit that's no biggie. Good game all surfing and I never had any real issues

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  1. Android Central
    Apr 13, 2021
    50
    I genuinely like Outriders and find myself thinking about the flashy intensity of its combat periodically throughout the day, but I can't recommend the Stadia version of the game right now in good faith. There are just too many bugs and server problems still with zero indication from the developer or publisher that they're interested in addressing the problems whatsoever. The character classes are great, weapon modding is full of depth, and I enjoyed the story more than expected, so maybe once things get better, it'll be different, But right now, the Stadia version of Outriders is borderline broken.
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  2. GameSpot
    Apr 7, 2021
    80
    The moments where Outriders is taking daring swings at mixing disparate elements are when it's at its best. The game is surprisingly deft at combining things that shouldn't work together: Its story is often funny but similarly severe; its combat requires you to take cover and to charge; its abilities make you phenomenally powerful but prone to overestimating yourself. If you can find the balance in Outriders, People Can Fly's RPG-shooter finds ways to combine well-worn video game ideas into something new and fun. Especially when you're accompanied by friends and put the time in to really understand the game's systems, Outriders rewards you with epic battle moments and a sprawling scope. It left me wanting to continue venturing out into the wilds of Enoch to see what I might find there--and to smash whatever it was with seismic earthquake magic.
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