Outriders |OT| Hold Me Closer, Technomancer
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I'm gonna write up cliff notes on the journals / story setup for those who don't want to read them. This is basically just backstory from the journals and very early parts of the game.
- We've fucked up the Earth; we did her dirty and now she's having massive earthquakes and tsunamis that are making it inhabitable.
- Countries come together to build two spaceships capable of interstellar travel; the Flores (main ship) and the Caravel (scout ship). The Flores can hold 500,000 people max. The Caravel is a scout ship with Outriders in it (elite soldiers) that are going to scout whatever planet they find first before the Flores lands.
- They find a suitable planet (Enoch). On liftoff, the Caravel malfunctions and blows up killing all the Outriders. In a desperate move, they try to build a new Outriders team filled with mostly mercenaries.
- The Flores finally reaches Enoch after 83 years of travel. You're sent down with your squad to scout the planet.This is the start of the prologue.
- The Anomaly storm happens and you're one of the lone survivors. You're put in a cryopod.
- You awaken 30 some years later in the middle of a war between two opposing factions — the ECA and the Insurgents / "Exiles". The latter feel like they've been done dirty by the ECA because they helped build the First City and were basically discarded after. The ECA is more practical, they know the First City can handle only a fraction of the 500,000 people that were awakened on the Flores.
- Important note on the backstory while you were asleep 30 years: They had a decision to make about those 500k people. The Flores was running ou of power and couldn't support the crypods anymore, but they knew the city could only support 50k so they had two options, 1) Awaken everyone and deal with the dire consequences (famine, slums, disease, crime, etc), or 2) Let them die a peaceful death in their pods. They went with door #1
- The First City is a mess and then the nuclear reactor its powered by melts down. They create Rift Town.
- Ok now back to your awakening. You awake and learn all the stuff above that happened, including the fact that the anomaly storms rendered every piece of electronic unusable, like an EMP.
- Now here's the big hook... there's a SIGNAL! A digital signal that's being broadcast. This shouldn't be possible because the storms knocked out all the electronics. Even more perplexing is the fact that this signal predates your arrival to Enoch... what could it be? An advanced alien race? Time travel shenanigans? A top secret mission before the Flores?
That's the whole setup.
- We've fucked up the Earth; we did her dirty and now she's having massive earthquakes and tsunamis that are making it inhabitable.
- Countries come together to build two spaceships capable of interstellar travel; the Flores (main ship) and the Caravel (scout ship). The Flores can hold 500,000 people max. The Caravel is a scout ship with Outriders in it (elite soldiers) that are going to scout whatever planet they find first before the Flores lands.
- They find a suitable planet (Enoch). On liftoff, the Caravel malfunctions and blows up killing all the Outriders. In a desperate move, they try to build a new Outriders team filled with mostly mercenaries.
- The Flores finally reaches Enoch after 83 years of travel. You're sent down with your squad to scout the planet.This is the start of the prologue.
- The Anomaly storm happens and you're one of the lone survivors. You're put in a cryopod.
- You awaken 30 some years later in the middle of a war between two opposing factions — the ECA and the Insurgents / "Exiles". The latter feel like they've been done dirty by the ECA because they helped build the First City and were basically discarded after. The ECA is more practical, they know the First City can handle only a fraction of the 500,000 people that were awakened on the Flores.
- Important note on the backstory while you were asleep 30 years: They had a decision to make about those 500k people. The Flores was running ou of power and couldn't support the crypods anymore, but they knew the city could only support 50k so they had two options, 1) Awaken everyone and deal with the dire consequences (famine, slums, disease, crime, etc), or 2) Let them die a peaceful death in their pods. They went with door #1
- The First City is a mess and then the nuclear reactor its powered by melts down. They create Rift Town.
- Ok now back to your awakening. You awake and learn all the stuff above that happened, including the fact that the anomaly storms rendered every piece of electronic unusable, like an EMP.
- Now here's the big hook... there's a SIGNAL! A digital signal that's being broadcast. This shouldn't be possible because the storms knocked out all the electronics. Even more perplexing is the fact that this signal predates your arrival to Enoch... what could it be? An advanced alien race? Time travel shenanigans? A top secret mission before the Flores?
That's the whole setup.
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You sounded ridiculous.
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So I played through the prologue knowing next to nothing about this game going in except its a looter shooter.
Felt like the Walmart version of Mass Effect: Andromeda up until you get thrown in the cryopod, then it gets more interesting. It has this 360/PS3 era TPS feel to it, and I kind of really like that.
I've enjoyed People Can Fly's other games so I'll probably keep going with this, it's nice to know it has a definitive end point and isn't something like Destiny or the Division where you're supposed to keep going forever.
Felt like the Walmart version of Mass Effect: Andromeda up until you get thrown in the cryopod, then it gets more interesting. It has this 360/PS3 era TPS feel to it, and I kind of really like that.
I've enjoyed People Can Fly's other games so I'll probably keep going with this, it's nice to know it has a definitive end point and isn't something like Destiny or the Division where you're supposed to keep going forever.
I got all of that, but still dont quite get the signal part.
They find a satellite in the prologue (was it from the Flores?) and the MC writes down the coordinates? So the MC wakes up and has the signal coordinates on his hand (which he shows to people and no one just writes it down), so they can go to the coordinates, but they need to find the signal first ? so they get a sat uplink and head to the radio tower that points them in the general direction (but they HAVE the coordinates)... the signal stuff is just kinda messy.
Edit: Maybe it makes more sense as you go.
I'm about to hit lvl 16 and im a 1/4 into tier 8. Its crazy how different it is for so many people.
All good questions, I'm not sure. Forgot about the hand coordinates thing
Man I really wish there were more customization options. I assume none unlock throughout the game right? The hair color options themselves are so poor ;( I always make blue-haired characters, but here you make brown, lighter brown or black.
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Just dinged level 12 and about to reach tier 8. Could sidequests factor into this discrepancy?
Yeah the customization is poor and it was kinda funny that they made a point of saying "you can carry your customizations to the full game!"
woe is me if i had to pick one of the three faces and four hairs again for a new character. Thanks for saving my ten seconds PCF!
Sadly I'm pretty sure their mention of carry over was for loot customization, not character customization.
Edit: Oh right as the post below me says, the sigil/banner customization.
It's about the banner and sigil customization. Also in full game the truck one.
That's the actual customization that unlock stuff for
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I'm wearing level 20 gear, have barely died, and am only tier 6 - not sure if it's a server issue or something, but it really doesn't seem to be progressing towards tier 7. What's weird is, in the beta I was Tier 9 before I even got to this point I'm currently at.
the flags we put on the checkpoints?
.....why would i want to customize that. diablo 3 had something similar iirc, i dont think i ever used it
truck sounds fun though
Really enjoying the first few hours on PC. I've been lucky to have zero problems so far and once the skills start coming together, the game just goes to a whole other level. Enjoy that roaming around does have its rewards so there's a reason to explore. Think I'll be sinking quite a few hours into this, very happy with the purchase.
edit: anyone else getting crash reports after quitting the game on Steam? Never seen that Unreal crash window before.
edit: anyone else getting crash reports after quitting the game on Steam? Never seen that Unreal crash window before.
no idea, why not?
Shows up behind you in the lobby too. It's just a small thing
Had the same problem in the demo. Any time I quit the game I got an Unreal crash window.
took me a while to realize you have to hold the button for a while instead of pressing but you sound like you're far ahead to not know that
its just a minor issue too, im enjoying the game
its just weird how much more customization options something like borderlands have for example where you barely see your character and this one where you see your character all the goddamn time have like eight
what's the full game size on PC? I just installed the demo yesterday and played it. So if I buy it when I get off work does half of the file size come from the demo?
Just got to world level 7 and this is no joke. I don't know if it's because of the world level or this particular fight is just silly but trying to take down three elites at the same time when they're doing this much damage to you feels basically impossible.
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Issue here though its not a GAAS its a lengthy campaign that can be played single player, which many people (myself included) want exclusively solo.
So the comments from steam are quite fair, I have had problems playing the game all day and I had a day off to take advantage of. I am on PS5, if I could I would refund it and buy later on cheaper when its hopefully fixed like I could with Steam.
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Unfortunately this isn't working. I've played all last night on the demo and I had no issues.
Outside the long sign in time, it's been working fine for me -shrug-
But yeah, game ain't easy as Technomancer lol. I love how much empesis there is on the abilities though. Short cool downs and some really fun scaling on mods is neat. I'm using some that make my chain gun do more damage the more enemies it takes down while also giving it 100% more ammo and armor boosts. It really is the best part of this one.
But yeah, game ain't easy as Technomancer lol. I love how much empesis there is on the abilities though. Short cool downs and some really fun scaling on mods is neat. I'm using some that make my chain gun do more damage the more enemies it takes down while also giving it 100% more ammo and armor boosts. It really is the best part of this one.
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It's set to down on the d-pad, not sure about PC. So basically, rather than run over to something, you can just press a button and take everything in the area. I believe it also auto collects anything you didn't grab when you leave an area, but can't say 100% for sure.
Yes, it will pick up everything at or above the rarity you set the threshold at in the options when you die or leave a zone. You can also trigger a zone-wide autoloot by pressing down on the d-pad, which loots everything including quest items that are pickable.
I found it weird his few options there was, especially with things like colors, but then leave in the option to change your look at every camp
Does this have random loot drops like Diablo with epics, levendaries etc or fixed rng loot gear drops like Dark Souls
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Looks like completely random drops. Some missions guarantee a certain quality, and the fact that you can change mods on any piece of gear or weapon helps to alleviate getting "bad" rolls, but yeah...it's randomized, with drop chances for Legendaries/Rare determined by Player level and World Tier.
I can't tell if I'm supposed to be laughing at some of these cutscenes on purpose or not but yikes at a bunch of the intro.
Borderlands is pretty single player friendly already. This is in that vein rather than Division or Destiny.
Much better for SP in my opinion (as a 'former' Destiny and Division player).
Thanks for this. Saves time sitting through the boring cutscenes.
Not sure I can play Pyro. I like the fire concept, but the quick movement of Technomancer and Devastator is sooooo valuable imo. I find myself in the open getting sniped too much without an quick, easy way to get to them. I wish all classes had a move like that. Maybe even as default.
