OUTRIDERS News

Nvidia users can pause Outriders, because online-only single-player is dumb

You don't need me to remind you that online-only single-player is dumb and such restrictions are completely arbitrary, but Outriders has gone and provided an incredible reminder of just that thing. Normally, you can't pause Outriders when you're playing solo, because hey, it's an online game, right? But if you're on PC and have an Nvidia GPU, you can put the action on hold whenever you need to.

All Nvidia users have to do is hit Alt-F2 while playing to activate Ansel, as Reddit user Aced-Bread has discovered (via PC Gamer). Ansel is essentially Nvidia's cross-game photo mode, and just like any good photo mode, it freezes the action to let you fly the camera around and take pictures. In other words, it pauses the game.

You can't just use this to annoy teammates when you're playing online, either. You can still activate Ansel while you're in a co-op session, but the action will continue as normal while it's active. You know, because it's a multiplayer session, where you shouldn't be able to pause, as opposed to a single-player mission, where you should.

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"Просим прощения за все неудобства": People Can Fly прокомментировала неровный запуск шутера Outriders

Выход динамичного шутера Outriders от команды People Can Fly, состоявшийся в начале текущего месяца, оказался омрачен рядом неприятных технических ошибок.

Неожиданный хит: Шутер Outriders сместил Valheim с первой строчки в недельном чарте Steam

Компания Valve опубликовала глобальный чарт продаж в Steam по выручке за неделю, завершившуюся 4-го апреля.

Outriders and It Takes Two are Steam's top sellers

All good things must come to an end, and so it is that Valheim's streak as Steam's top seller is done, dethroned by Outriders. It Takes Two, and The Binding of Isaac, round out the top three, the Viking game coming in at fourth.

Despite some ongoing server issues, Outriders has shot straight to top of Steam's chart this week, having re-entered the top ten last week ahead of its full launch. It Takes Two, the co-op game about working through a divorce, is in second, having become a bit of a sudden hit, and The Binding of Isaac: Repentance is at third, the final expansion in The Binding of Isaac series of roguelike games.

Horizon Zero Dawn makes another appearance, the open-world game arriving for sixth, and Evil Genuis 2 releases to seventh place. Crowns, the in-game currency for mounts, pets, and more in The Elder Scrolls Online, managed to slide into eighth, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is down one spot from last week, to ninth. Cyberpunk 2077 manages to hang in there, tenth once again.

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Outriders servers "are continuing to improve"

Unfortunately, Outriders has not had the smoothest launch, suffering server issues as soon as the full version became available. Developer People Can Fly has been hard at work resolving the problems, and says the situation is gradually improving.

The official Twitter account has been tweeting routine updates on servers and other issues. At the end of Saturday, April 3, the studio commented that things are getting better, and the devs are working flat out to make the action-adventure game playable for everyone. "Our servers are continuing to improve as the team is working hard to stabilise them in the longterm," reads the message.

Outriders has attracted a high player count, and a number of other bugs and glitches have emerged over the last couple of days. The team is referring people to a Reddit post that serves as a master list of known issues, and fixes and workarounds. One quest, 'A Bad Day', was causing stuttering and crashing that's since been fixed. In a follow-up tweet, the studio says it plans to "share more specific details" in a post-mortem about what's actually happening to the servers, and what the solutions were.

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