#Outriders review mod#
#Outriders review mods#

The reward for completing these missions is, of course, high-level gear. The first couple, I managed to be able to solo, but after that, I've had to jump into matchmaking - which I'll touch on in a minute. These are demanding missions that throw a ridiculous amount of enemies at you with no checkpoints. The focus in the end-game is Expeditions, of which there are 15 to play.

When you finished the campaign, you have those aforementioned side quests available, and you can always replay missions to increase your WT level. I love this system, and it encourages a different kind of playstyle being on low health constantly is a thrilling aspect of this game. The enemies will be using cover more than you - you have superhero powers! You must get aggressive to trigger your passive, or at least shoot enemies to leech their health. In fact, playing Outriders like it’s The Division is straight up the wrong way to play the game. You cannot play Outriders like a typical third-person shooter sitting behind cover for hours. Each class has a passive way to earn health, and abilities and weapons can be modded to gain health from enemies. My Doom comparison earlier is because Outriders pushes you to make plays to gain health back. However, I can already see hardcore players attempting to beat the game with the highest WT level as a solo player, and I'm all about seeing that flex. Playing solo on the higher difficulties is far from a breeze, but it is possible. Playing through the entire campaign solo, the highest World Tier I managed to get to was WT8 before dropping it down for the game’s final bosses. Choosing to play on higher World Tiers will increase the enemy levels and the chance you'll earn rare and legendary weapons. But there's no fun in that, and Outriders takes a page out of Diablo's 'Greater Rifts' system. Paying attention to your character build is less important if you keep Outriders on a lower difficulty.

#Outriders review mods#

Picking up a nice piece of high gear loot is excellent, but if its mods are for abilities or guns you're not using, you may be doing yourself more harm than good. Finding and stacking the right weapon and armour mods once you reach mid-game and above is essential.

#Outriders review mod#

On top of the skill and spec system, Outriders also contains a fantastic weapon mod system where you simply need to have scrapped a weapon containing a mod once to be able to place it into whatever weapon you want forever. Placing skill points in the wrong place or for builds you're no longer focused on isn't a problem either, as you can clear and replace your skill points whenever you want for free. Picking the right skills means I can increase my base gun and burn damage from my Volcanic Bullets. This skill turns my magazine into literal fire as I pierce enemies and set them alight. My max level 30 Pyromancer is concentrated in the Volcanic Bullets ability. The Devastator is a tank that can create shields and blast enemies from below Pyromancer uses fire spells to engulf foes in heavy damage and immobilise Technomancer favours long-range with support abilities including a turret finally, the Trickster is an assassin class that can blink behind enemies and out again while slowing time.Īs you reach the mid-game, you'll realise that your class can be built to focus on key abilities. The four classes in Outriders each have distinct abilities and play styles. When you've levelled up a couple of times and started to unlock your character class abilities, that's when Outriders truly begins to shine. You can find the usual suspects when it comes to guns, be it a machine gun or a shotgun you work your way through enemies with a spray of bullets. The first few missions are somewhat slow as you play the game as a regular third-person cover-based shooter. Whether it's solo or co-op, Outriders leads to some intense and thrilling fights where all of your abilities and guns feel powerful. You are really here for guns and powers, two things that Outriders does very well and with style.

At 20-25 hours to beat the campaign, the story does pick up in the latter half, just in time to leave a nice cliffhanger for a potential sequel. You'll know if you're down for paying attention to it or skipping all the cutscenes. Outriders’ narrative is mainly filled with gruff-looking characters doing bad-ass grunts or one-liners. However, everyone else who has these powers are using them for evil, so your character decides to form a motley crew and head out across the planet looking for a way to stop the storm and answers to lingering questions from the day you landed on Enoch.

Would you believe 30 years later, things are only worse? The remaining humans are at war because, well, because humans do that, and you've awoken with new-found 'anomaly powers.' You're one of a few special ones that survived being hit by the storm and came out the other end like a superhero.