People Can Fly Doubles Outriders Legendary Drop Rates In New Patch

The developers have no reason to balance and limit the drop rates of the game's most powerful gear outside of just wanting players to grind and pad their playtime. When this artificial playtime padding gets to the point that players could end up spending hundreds of hours in Outriders and still not get every Legendary gear, then there's something fundamentally wrong with how the game is designed.

Thankfully, the latest Outriders update changes that.

By doubling the drop rate of Legendary gear in Outriders, People Can Fly has effectively solved one of the game's biggest problems. In addition to this, the studio also removed the "level brackets" for the Legendary gear. This means that these powerful gear will now drop for anyone at any level. The developers also set in place a new feature to prevent duplicate Legendary gears by re-rolling duplicate items for a chance to get something new and/or unique.

As a bonus, People Can Fly has improved the luck system in Outriders so that "players should no longer experience very long droughts without a Legendary item dropped during endgame."

Of course, these measures aren't perfect. For one thing, you can still technically get duplicate gear. It's just that the chances of that happening are much lower now. You'll also still want to grind for Legendary gear at higher World Tiers or in Expeditions as gear still scales based on difficulty level. Not to mention, PCF didn't exactly make it clear just how long the "very long droughts" are.

Still, the changes to the Legendary drop rates are long overdue. It's this kind of massive drop rate increase that should incentivize players to keep on playing. It should be more than enough to get completionists grinding again.