Outriders has been plagued with points since launch earlier in April, however one bug — that clears out your whole stock — has come to the forefront following the brand new patch launched over the weekend. Several Outriders gamers are reporting that they’ve misplaced as much as 100 hours of progress because of the “inventory wipe” bug, that has taken away all their treasured ‘Epic’ and ‘Legendary’ objects. Outriders developer People Can Fly has mentioned that fixing the stock wipe is their “top priority” and they’re going to additionally work to revive the misplaced objects — with some caveats.

“We are aware and deeply sorry that some users are continuing to encounter an inventory wipe. We are doing everything we can to resolve this issue, both server and game-side. Our plan is still to work on a restoration for all affected accounts,” the Outriders assist staff wrote in a tweet on Saturday following the discharge of a patch for PS5. On Reddit, People Can Fly admitted that the stock wipe bug has change into extra distinguished because the patch, in direct opposition to what it had claimed earlier than rolling out mentioned patch.

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Outriders stock wipe potential repair

“Earlier today we applied additional preventative measures on to our servers to guard against any Inventory Wipes. These are reducing the occurrence of this issue, but we are continuing to lock in additional countermeasures,” the Outriders staff tweeted on Sunday. “A potential prevention method to safeguard yourself if you run into this issue: the moment you notice that your gear has disappeared, immediately force close the game, then reboot it.”

And then afterward Sunday, Square Enix — the Outriders writer — added over on Reddit: “We have deployed additional server changes to prevent this issue from occurring and we believe the occurrence should now drastically reduce, but we are keeping a close eye on further reports.”

Outriders stock wipe restoration

It’s unclear whether or not the Outriders stock wipe bug has since lowered in frequency, however it would not assist all those that have already misplaced every part. People Can Fly has but to land on a date for the restoration course of — it is going to be within the “coming week(s)”, it mentioned — and it might’t assure that every part will return to the way it was. Only essentially the most invaluable objects (‘Epic’ and ‘Legendary’) will probably be restored, and these restored objects might not have the “exact same stats as the lost items”.

That final bit hasn’t gone down nicely with the Outriders group. Weapon drops within the recreation are randomised, which suggests the objects you get by even repeating the identical mission could have totally different stats (resembling injury, accuracy, stability, and clip dimension). Now, the devoted lot have spent tens of hours making an attempt to get weapons that work finest for them. Getting the identical weapon by identify is not sufficient for them, because it will not carry out to the degrees that their very own weapon did.

“Everything gone, 94 hours lost, almost complete build lost, this is a joke,” Reddit consumer Ok_Entertainment_112 wrote on Saturday. Fellow Redditor Wolphoenix titled his submit: “Adios Outriders, inventory wipe and not being able to load into my 80-hour main is my final straw.”

Outriders is obtainable on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X.

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