Outriders Boasts Highest Concurrent Player Count After Servers Stabilize
The now infamous shooter game Outriders has reached a whole new milestone today on Steam; the multiplayer co-op looter shooter is boasting the highest concurrent player count since its release after the servers were finally stabilized. This is surely a big relief for the developers, who have likely been working non-stop since launch to fix the server issues that have been plaguing the game all week.
Outriders is one of the biggest titles on Steam right now, following a massively successful demo earlier in the year and a somewhat rocky start to its official release. While fans of the demo were eagerly pre-purchasing the game in time for its April 1 release, it seems that the studio was not ready for the strain players would put on the game's servers. Numerous players were unable to even log in to the game; others only got brief snippets before server issues shut them out once again.
It seems that the devs have managed to overcome the server load issue, as the official Twitter account for Outriders sent out a tweet on April 4th confirming that the servers are back online. Not only are the servers operational, but it looks like the devs have already been rewarded for their work, because the player count for Outriders has hit its highest concurrent peak since launch. Over 100,000 players were online on Saturday by 9:00 a.m. PT. However, this number soon dropped back down to only 30,000, possibly due to the game's rampant server issues. The developer team restored the servers once more, and the player count then rose to over 116,000 concurrent players after 2:00 p.m. By the next morning, Outriders was going strong, with 125,000 players logging on that afternoon. This is an impressive number for the studio, one that the devs should all be proud of reaching.
It can't be easy to maintain such crowded online servers, especially as new crises pop up moment to moment. To make matters worse, the online community is a consistently erratic one, and the very vocal complaints leveled at the developers by the Outriders community can't have made for good morale. It's a shame, because by all accounts, Outriders is a truly enjoyable game when it works, as rarely as that seems to be.
Not all of the issues have been fixed as of yet, but the developers can't be blamed for prioritizing the glaring server issues. Many players have reported getting stuck on the initial “Signing In” loading screen, missing HUD load-outs, and some lobbies have been known to lock players out completely. Hopefully, after some much-earned rest, the team at People Can Fly will be able to get on top of these issues and start making Outriders the enjoyable game that fans of the demo know it can be.
Source: Outriders