It didn’t take long for Outriders players to discover an exploit in the co-op game’s first big expansion, Worldslayer. Developer People Can Fly says “a large number of players” have been using the exploit to skip straight to the final Arbiter in the Trial of Tarya Gratar dungeon and farm this boss repeatedly. The latest Outriders patch addresses this exploit, but does it in a somewhat surprising way.
Rather than closing the loophole that allows players to dash straight for the final Arbiter, the latest Outriders patch expands the farming options available in the Trial of Tarya Gratar. The update adds guaranteed Apocalypse Legendary RNG drops to the Cliffside Path, Daughter’s Sanctuary, and The Arboretum Trove areas, giving players more reasons to play the complete dungeon.
The drops are RNG, but they’ll correspond to the targeted loot option for each trove, and the troves will also drop their targeted loot more often, according to the patch notes. The final Arbiter’s Apocalypse Legendary drop rate is getting reduced, but it’ll still have the ‘choice of legendary’ reward when you defeat it. The boss will also drop helmets less often, so you’ll have a better chance of getting a non-helmet piece of gear from that fight.
“Compared to before, where the amount of Apocalypse Legendaries obtained from a full run through of the Trial was a minimum of six, in the new system a complete run through all rooms in the Trial will net a player a guaranteed minimum of nine Apocalypse Legendaries plus RNG chances for others,” People Can Fly explains.
The new system should keep the trial from feeling too repetitive, the studio says. “The most efficient way of farming legendaries should therefore shift to something much more fun and
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