Star Wars Outlaws

[wildturkey]

This looks dope. That transition from open world play to space play is awesome.

 

[Battlelyon]

Looks good, worth a play. I'll play it some time in the future maybe next year.

 

[Clayton]

I suspect I'll only get this if I hear the story is great.

This game feels about 4-5 years too late. We have two decent Star Wars story-based adventures. One space travel Star Wars game. A boat load of Disney+ shows with strong merc characters and cute little sidekicks. I'd also say that cinematic games and open world games dont organically blend themselves together as they usually have different set rules. Something like RDR2 gets away with it because it has top tier writing and the open world is the deepest out there.

I'll wait and see, though.

 

[wildturkey]

New trailer and a release date; August 30 2024

 

[Battlelyon]

Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods

I've got a bad feeling about this.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[wildturkey]

Star Wars Outlaws' $110 and $130 editions prompt a collective sigh from potential players tired of season passes and ill-advised early access periods

I've got a bad feeling about this.

www.pcgamer.com

Special editions are for suckers

 

[wildturkey]

This looks amazing tbh. Almost too good to be true. Fingers crossed it delivers

 

[Think McFly Think]

This looks amazing tbh. Almost too good to be true. Fingers crossed it delivers

Man, I hope so. It does look really good.

 

[wildturkey]

Man, I hope so. It does look really good.

It sounds amazing. Apparently there's a rep system that you have with the 5 syndicates and Empire and the game can differ on how you play and your rep with each group. I really hope they aren't overhyping this game because it looks like it could be the best Star Wars game ever.

Those transitions from planet to space alone are crisp as fuck.

 

[Think McFly Think]

It sounds amazing. Apparently there's a rep system that you have with the 5 syndicates and Empire and the game can differ on how you play and your rep with each group. I really hope they aren't overhyping this game because it looks like it could be the best Star Wars game ever.

Those transitions from planet to space alone are crisp as fuck.

Yeah I was impressed, if they can successfully integrate a bounty syndicate system with meaningful changes to the story, I’ll love the replayability aspect of it, the deeper the better.

There’s so many games that have claimed “choices matter” and some definitely implement it better than others.

I’m buying this game no matter what though because I love Star Wars.

 

[Think McFly Think]

There was a lot of backlash towards this game all summer, reviews so far make it seem like it’s not all that bad.

 

[wildturkey]

There was a lot of backlash towards this game all summer, reviews so far make it seem like it’s not all that bad.

Backlash was from the typical group that bitches and whines about everything. Everything I've seen so far is positive reviews. The common gripe seems to be the space combat is a little disappointing, saying its not bad but its sorta bare bones and could have been a lot better. But other than that, it looks like a great game.

 

[Clayton]

Apparently the sales on this were poor enough to tank Ubisoft's stock

 

[wildturkey]

Apparently the sales on this were poor enough to tank Ubisoft's stock

They haven't released sales numbers though. Tech took a hit across the board today. It's much more likely that than anything related specifically to the game

 

[wildturkey]

Picked up the game today. Not very far into it. Basically just did (most of) the tutorial and got to the first planet. All the takes out there about how it starts slow but opens up and gets pretty fun look like they're true. The opening tutorial level is pretty standard fare, but its also not particularly designed well for a tutorial. They just kinda dump you into the game and don't really explain much how things works. Also, the lockpicking mini-game suuuuuuucks. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to make that shit work even with the UI help. Luckily there's tons of settings in this game and you can disable it, which I did. Now that the game is starting to open up, I'm looking forward to seeing what it has to offer

 

[wildturkey]

Spending more time with this game, I'm still on the first planet you travel to (Toshara) but I've done the first space mission. I'm liking this game quite a bit. People complaining about the stealth on this game must not be that good at stealth. You gotta use Nix and your surroundings a lot. If you do that, the stealth isn't near as hard as people are making it out to be. I'm having fun with it. It really does feel like you're in Star Wars. I find myself getting distracted all the time just traveling around checking things out. There's a ton of detail here and like I said, I'm really just on the first planet. The game hasn't truly opened all the way up for me just yet.

It's not perfect though. There was certain times where its not very intuitive at all. Like I mentioned earlier, the tutorial elements don't do a particularly good job of explaining so its easy to get confused on certain controls or even miss them entirely (for example if you double tap B on Xbox, you'll do a dodge roll. It never tells you this even though its really helpful in a firefight). There's also some mission where its not clear where you're suppose to go or what to do. Been a couple of times where I got stuck midmission like "wtf does it want me to do?" and after awhile, I just broke down and looked it up on Youtube. There's also a few bugs around. So far nothing game breaking for me where you can't progress until its patched but more minor annoyance type things. Couple of examples here; there's a minor mission that I completed but my journal log never updates it as complete. Like game wise, its done and I have my rewards and move on to the next mission, its just the log never updates. Another side mission where a character says he wants you steal something using stealth, I do it but then the guy says "Why did you go in gun's blazing?" and is mad about it. I still get the rewards, but the dialogue is bugged. There's also been a couple of datapads that I should be able to read but it won't let me open them. Looking it up online it says they aren't major to the mission,so again its just a minor annoyance.

Overall though, I'm pretty pleased with it. I recommend it picking it up, especially if you're a Star Wars fan

 

[Think McFly Think]

Spending more time with this game, I'm still on the first planet you travel to (Toshara) but I've done the first space mission. I'm liking this game quite a bit. People complaining about the stealth on this game must not be that good at stealth. You gotta use Nix and your surroundings a lot. If you do that, the stealth isn't near as hard as people are making it out to be. I'm having fun with it. It really does feel like you're in Star Wars. I find myself getting distracted all the time just traveling around checking things out. There's a ton of detail here and like I said, I'm really just on the first planet. The game hasn't truly opened all the way up for me just yet.

It's not perfect though. There was certain times where its not very intuitive at all. Like I mentioned earlier, the tutorial elements don't do a particularly good job of explaining so its easy to get confused on certain controls or even miss them entirely (for example if you double tap B on Xbox, you'll do a dodge roll. It never tells you this even though its really helpful in a firefight). There's also some mission where its not clear where you're suppose to go or what to do. Been a couple of times where I got stuck midmission like "wtf does it want me to do?" and after awhile, I just broke down and looked it up on Youtube. There's also a few bugs around. So far nothing game breaking for me where you can't progress until its patched but more minor annoyance type things. Couple of examples here; there's a minor mission that I completed but my journal log never updates it as complete. Like game wise, its done and I have my rewards and move on to the next mission, its just the log never updates. Another side mission where a character says he wants you steal something using stealth, I do it but then the guy says "Why did you go in gun's blazing?" and is mad about it. I still get the rewards, but the dialogue is bugged. There's also been a couple of datapads that I should be able to read but it won't let me open them. Looking it up online it says they aren't major to the mission,so again its just a minor annoyance.

Overall though, I'm pretty pleased with it. I recommend it picking it up, especially if you're a Star Wars fan

I saw in an article a week or so ago that they released a pretty meaty patch for the game, have you messed around with the game post-patch at all @wildturkey ? Anyone?

 

[wildturkey]

I saw in an article a week or so ago that they released a pretty meaty patch for the game, have you messed around with the game post-patch at all @wildturkey ? Anyone?

Yeah. Apparently its fixed some things but oddly enough, I never had any issues with that most of it fixed. That's not unheard of, btw. Sometimes bugs affect some but not others. Had a couple of game crashes but not frequent. There's a minor side quest "Advanced Slicing" that's still bugged for me and others that hasn't been fixed yet. And after the patch, there's now a bug in the data log. For example, when you first go to a new area, an entry is written in your log giving you some info about that location/person/etc. You get a notification that there's a new entry, you go to read it and it clears the notification. Well now since the patch, every time you travel back to a location, the log tells you its a new entry even though you could have been there 50x already. There's also a minor annoying bug where when you load your save, it doesn't actually bring back to where you left off. Like progression wise its fine, but your location might be quite a distance away from where you actually last played, which is annoying since now I have to trek back to the location. It's not game breaking, but just a minor annoyance. So it fixed some things, others haven't been fixed,and it also created a couple of new bugs. There's a new scheduled patch coming in a couple of weeks so we'll see what happens with that.

So far though, I still haven't ran into anything game breaking. I'm enjoying the game

 

[wildturkey]

One tip that I want to pass along; once the game opens up and you can travel to multiple planets, its better if you bounce around and do missions on all of the planets instead of clearing out a planet and moving to the next.

The way this game is designed, you learn skills from different experts and each expert is located in different places. So there might be a useful expert skill tree you miss out on until late in the game because you went planet to planet instead of just bouncing around. The game doesn't really make this clear to you despite being designed this way. Once you land on a planet, stuff happens that makes you want to stay there and do stuff but its fine if you just leave and come back later.

I'm just now figuring this out about halfway in. There's some actually pretty useful space flight skills that I didn't realize I could unlock that would make space combat so much easier.

 

[wildturkey]

FYI, the game is currently 25% off for Black Friday sales. I recommend it, especially if you're a Star Wars fans. A new DLC for the game released today as well. With the latest release, pretty much all the bugs are out of the game and a lot of the early complaints were overstated by angsty fans. Developers did cave a tiny bit though because in the latest update, they've taken some stealth elements out of the game. Instead of an insta-fail in certain situations, you can now shoot your way out. People who complained about this imo just sucked at stealth because they have no patience. I haven't had a single problem with the stealth gameplay IF you use Nix as the game intends you to do.