Someone has played the Outriders demo 254 hours so far • Eurogamer.net

Someone has played the Outriders demo 254 hours so far • Eurogamer.net

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Someone has played the Outriders demo for 254 hours so far.

The demo, played by more than two million people, took place on February 25th. Developers can fly made the announcement about this player’s performance yesterday, March 12th. This means that this puzzle player clocked 254 hours in just 15 days.

It also means that someone has played the demo on average just under 17 hours a day since it came out.

It’s worth noting that the Outriders demo is an important part of the first part of the game, and that progress – including the acquisition of loot – continues in the retail game if you buy it.

It is also noteworthy that you can repeat much of the content in the demo repeatedly in hopes of capturing a superpowered item from an enemy.

I’ve already reported on how People Can Fly can work to adapt the way the demo works to combat heavy farming for legendary class items, which the players did in anticipation of the game’s release on April 1, 2021.

(People Can Fly later stepped in again to change the Outriders demo in response to complaints about this previous change.)

So, who is this riddle player who has been watching the demo for over 250 hours? One player responds to People Can Fly’s tweet with a screenshot showing an Outriders character with a stockpile of legendary weapons.

The player, @TortureUFC on Twitter, said: “It was probably me with the 254 hours played lol.”

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“The first five days were incessant opening of coffins to the patch,” @TortureUFC said later.

This refers to People Can Fly’s first heavy farming for the demo. Shortly after the Outriders demo is launched, players discover an “outdoor cave” via a triple chest barrel that allows them to farm legendary items without any battle. People Can Fly tackled this by making boxes no longer drop legendary items, forcing players to repeat his quest instead.

(As mentioned, People Can Fly later further adapted the demo to drop the legendary Gauss chest.)

Here is a clip from @TortureUFC sticking out two legendary weapons in a row from the Outriders demo:

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Also noteworthy is the purple quality armor on @ TortureUFC’s character. These purple armor items were on sale from sellers at the center of the demo for a limited time, but People Can Fly pulled it off after players worked on the items by changing their system clocks to quickly change to a sales update.

In other Outriders news, People Can Fly recently patched the demo to add a motion blur switch, matchmaking enhancements, and bug and crash fixes. The patch also makes small adjustments to the frame rate output for certain articles in sections to dim the impact of the annoying camera shake.

Here are my impressions of the Outriders demo here.

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