You have finished the story of Outriders and reached the endgame? MyMMO gives you 7 helpful tips and tricks that will assist you in the expeditions.
This is what to expect in the endgame: After you complete the extensive story of Outriders, there is still plenty to do. With the expeditions, you have a lot of loot to collect and missions to play.
This is how expeditions work: There are a total of 15 different expeditions. You unlock them gradually by climbing the challenge ranks. There are also 15 ranks, with each increasing the difficulty level and enemy levels significantly, while you also find loot with higher item levels.
In the end, you will be at the Eye of the Storm, the 15th expedition that concludes the story. Until then, however, you need to optimize your gear and builds to even make it that far and improve your completion times for the expeditions. You can find more information about the expeditions in our overview: Expeditions are the endgame of Outriders – This is how they work
But what should you consider in the endgame? We show you some useful tips and tricks that will help you get by.
Snipers are annoying – This is how you outsmart them
In Outriders, there are some particularly nasty enemy types that can make your life hell. Especially snipers can cause frustration.
They almost always hit from any position, and one hit hurts a lot; they would even hit your little toe if it just pokes out of cover. However, there are some tricks you can use against them.
This is how you handle snipers: As soon as you see a red laser aiming at you, you are in the crosshairs of a sniper. Take cover immediately. Now repeatedly press the aim button, but only for as short as possible.
Repeat this until the sniper fires his shot; he should actually miss you if you only peek out of cover for a fraction of a second. Now he will need some time to reload, so you can take him down.
Snipers also make a high-pitched sound when they shoot. If you have good reflexes, you might be able to dodge right before the shot. So keep an ear out for sounds when you see the laser flash.
Melee attacks can be extremely useful
This is how melee works: Each of the four classes in Outriders has its own melee attack. The Technomancer can freeze with his attack, the Pyromancer can burn, and so on. But melee attacks also have other advantages that can be particularly helpful in the endgame.
What does melee bring in the endgame? Especially against armored enemies or large monsters, this attack can save your life.
Against armored enemies:
- These enemies are protected by armor and usually armed with particularly powerful firearms, sometimes even with flamethrowers or mortars.
- The armor pieces can be individually destroyed with firearms.
- With a melee attack, you are much faster and destroy the entire armor in one go.
When under pressure, this can save you annoying aiming and let you take out bulky enemies faster.
Against monsters:
- Especially when fighting larger monsters, their charge attacks are particularly dangerous.
- They can knock you off balance and, combined with rushing hordes of enemies, can often mean death.
- You can prevent this by using a melee attack at the right moment.
- The monster will either be stopped or go through you without knocking you off balance.
Be aware that you will still take damage from the attack. So always have enough health points when using this tactic.
Don’t throw away blue loot right away
What does it bring me? In the endgame, everything usually revolves around epic (purple) and legendary loot. So why should you keep rare (blue) equipment? There are many reasons:
- You can cheaply level up blue items through crafting, even if they are too low level.
- Then you can upgrade them to the epic level with titanium.
- This way, you can re-gear yourself even when you have bad luck with loot.
However, make sure that the three main attributes of the gear fit your desired build. You can even throw usable parts into storage and save them for the next higher challenge rank when you can equip more powerful items.
Of course, blue loot is also still suitable for selling at the vendor.
You can recover shards
What are shards? These are the attributes that you find on weapons and armor. They determine, for example, your weapon strength or anomaly value.
By dismantling items, you can obtain such shards and upgrade other parts of your gear with them, as long as the shards have a higher value. However, these are consumed.
How do you get shards back? If you have invested shards in a piece of gear and later don’t need it anymore, you can simply dismantle it. This will return all consumed shards to you.
This, in turn, saves you from dismantling other items, allowing you to sell more overall.
You can save a lot of time when creating a second char
Maybe you want to create a second character in the endgame and play another class. There are some annoying things to consider.
You need to unlock all mods again, among other things. This is probably the most annoying part of the work. However, with one trick, it’s not a big problem.
This is how you can quickly unlock mods on your second chars:
- For this, you just need to collect some blue gear on your main character.
- Then you can place the desired mods on this gear through crafting.
- Next, put the pieces into your stash, which you always find in your camp.
- Now you just need to pick up the pieces on your second char and dismantle them.
This is a convoluted method, but it’s faster than re-unlocking the mods through loot collection. It would be simpler if the developers People Can Fly would make mods character-wide.
Focus on weapon strength
Why is this important? The higher you climb in the challenge ranks, the more your enemies can withstand. High weapon damage is therefore important to complete expeditions quickly, which in turn improves the quality of your rewards.
While it’s also important to withstand enough damage not to become cannon fodder, there are enough armor mods that increase your survivability. Therefore, you should focus on weapon damage to maximize your damage.
This does not necessarily apply to anomaly builds that are based on abilities. However, most will likely rely on firepower on the way to challenge level 15 until such builds come into play.
Armor has a hard cap
What does that mean? Armor is an important value in Outriders. It determines how much damage your gear absorbs. Especially in the endgame, a certain strength of your armor is needed not to be immediately overwhelmed by enemies.
Where is the limit? You can compensate for a maximum of 85% of the damage from enemies with your armor. Therefore, you should be careful not to increase the value too much. There are some skills and mods that temporarily boost your armor value.
You should therefore keep an eye on your value and also consider your equipment when deciding how much armor is needed. This does not account for status effects.
To mitigate status effects, you need to increase your resistance values, regardless of your armor. You can find more about which ones exist in our guide to Outriders: Vulnerability, Ash Effect, and Weakness – This is what the status effects do
What do you think of the tips? Do you find them helpful? Do you have any other useful tricks for the endgame? Share them with us in the comments.
