Last gen we had Destiny, and the gen before that we had Borderlands. 'It started quite pragmatic, because we needed a system that would help us teleport the players and stream some other content to start to load the other arena,' Kmita told me.īut why have cutscenes showing your character transition, performing banal actions such as opening doors, climbing ledges and jumping across chasms? After all, it's not like Outriders is the first co-op game to offer different arenas for players to explore at the same time. The game isn't able to have all players running around entirely different arenas at the same time.

And without dedicated servers, Outriders needs to bring all players together when one wants to enter a new area. Outriders can be played three-player co-op throughout the entire game. But there's another reason for this jarring transition: co-op. So, what's going on? I caught up with creative director Bartek Kmita, and lead designer Piotr Nowakowski from People Can Fly to find out.Īs you'd expect, there is loading of the new area going on here.

Video games have had more elegant, less immersion-breaking loading transitions for years (who can forget the slow shimmy through a tight gap before entering a new area?). When the cutscene ends and I'm back in the action, I'm in this new area. Then, we get the cutscene for the jump across. In the clip I tweeted, you can see my character approach the gap in the bridge, then I press and hold square (I'm playing on PlayStation 5) to enter a new area. There are parts of the demo, which revolves around the quest hub of Rift Town, where you can find yourself caught in a loading cutscene vortex as you move through different areas.Ĭlearly, these cutscenes are hiding background loading. The issue is sometimes exacerbated by the prevalence of these cutscenes. And then when you materialise on the other side, the armour is magically back on. It doesn't help that in these cutscenes your character magically ditches the armour you've just been wearing to show their face and hair. This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies.

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