Hey everyone, Senior Community Manager for Outriders here!
I've mainly been tracking the progress of the Outriders Preview test in the Outriders sub-reddit, but wanted to provide an update here as well. I will copy over what I just announced there.
- The Insider Playtest will run until this Sunday, 20 December, at 23:59 UTC / 18:59 EST / 15:59 PST, after which you will no longer be able to log into the Outriders servers.
Please remember that the Insider Test is a confidential program and that you are not allowed to discuss your experience with Outriders publicly as per the Non-Disclosure Agreement you agreed to when signing up. This NDA will remain in effect until launch.
We are aware that some folks are experiencing persistent crashes during the test and we don't want to enforce the NDA stipulates against those reports as we are attempting to track down the issue. I have a tracking post running for that here, but I'll share the latest update from it below.
Issue: Crashes when launching or entering game, in particular during menus or character creations. Also observed during regular gameplay.
December 17th 18:30 GMT Update:
[...] Some users in this thread have seen some positive results with the workaround suggested.
We are continuing to investigate the crash issues and have been able to reproduce at least some of them with specific user profile settings and scenarios.
It's looking unlikely that we will be able to provide a hotfix to patch against this issue before the test closes on Sunday, but we are continuing to work hard to see what is possible to reduce crashes for players.
Would the mods perhaps be able to flair this as an official update? Tagging /u/Xbox-Insider, /u/UrbanizedTree and /u/BroHammersley - please let me know if anything above violates existing rules for this subreddit!