I don't play it, as I despise these generic looter shooters that have no soul, and are just there for the dick waggers, but this dev post is really fucking clueless;
"However, as mentioned above and observed in a few discussions recently, these mechanics are not 100% clear and, in some cases (e.g. spike damage protection/death protection & invincibility), are “secret” mechanics with hidden cooldowns. Understanding these mechanics is a key aspect of understanding damage mitigation or one-shot kill instances and related issues."
Secret mechanics? And then "Understanding these mechanics is a key aspect of understanding.... etc."
How do you understand something that's secret?
You built a game for the type of people that need every detail to do the math to be the best, like WoW raiders back in the day, but you have 'secret' and 'hidden' things?
Those are known as bugs. Their game is dead and they know it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/outriders/comments/nmc4vg/outriders_latest_news_and_known_issues_mayjune/
Errr, i don't get your complaint OP. Discovering mechanics that are not obvious on the surface is half of the reason to even play looter shooters of any sort. In fact, i am fairly positive WoW raiders back in the day did everything short of raiding Blizzard HQ to discover stuff that was not documented in public sources. Because we had similar stuff being done with significantly smaller games.
And for the record, i don't play Outriders and won't play it either because fuck online-locked single player games. But your point is just grasping for straws.
Once a game is unleashed on the public, the players figure shit out very quickly. They figure out each actual mechanic on their own through insane amounts of testing and communicating with others. And when over and over shit is inconsistent, they know it is broken.
The passionate players have figured out it is a shitfest, and the devs have no answers. Just wait and see where it goes.
You'll see.