Star Wars Outlaws is a good Ubisoft open world journey with its justifiable share of issues. Within the days after it was launched, I seen lots of people griping about Kay’s speeder: it was far too straightforward to fall off the factor when crashing into rocks, bushes and different environmental objects. I imply, that is realism for you. However realism is annoying, and other people simply wish to go tremendous quick on their sci-fi motorcycle with out the danger of annoying wipeouts, thanks very a lot.
Ubisoft has issued a serious new patch for Outlaws that, amongst different issues, smoothens the driving expertise. Specifically, the studio has “improved speeder collision with the setting to scale back being knocked off the speeder”. I simply booted the sport and did a bit of mosey round Toshara and, nicely, it is kinda arduous to guage while you’re actively attempting to crash, however brushing towards partitions at excessive velocity resulted in my bouncing off them, quite than off my bike (I ended up driving right into a swamp and dying as a substitute).
Different features of the speeder expertise have additionally been tweaked: in concept, it will not act as erratically while you name it. I did discover throughout my preliminary playthrough that the foolish factor would skid round for a bit after which draw to a cease at an annoying distance. Relatedly, these taking part in with a bigger FOV than the default will discover that the speeder’s digicam is much less wonky now (apparently it wasn’t being centred appropriately).
The opposite main change ushered in is to the “total stealth expertise”, which looks like it will need to have been a variety of work: all the things from the vary of AI detection by means of to the quantity of baddies in any given area has been adjusted, and better of all, interactable environmental components at the moment are highlighted. I kinda preferred Outlaws’ stealth: it was a really meat-and-potatoes method that put me in thoughts of, nicely, different Ubisoft video games. However I will need to have been within the minority, and I assume it is higher now that, when Nix units off an enemy’s grenade greater than as soon as, the enemy is compelled to combat again quite than go into investigation mode.
Another highlights: for these utilizing a controller, now you can lob grenades with a single button press—you used to should entry a mini-menu to do it, which I discovered very annoying. A bunch of annoying quest bugs have been ironed out, together with the shortage of a ‘Takeoff’ button when you must take off throughout ‘The Wreck’. Listed below are the complete patch notes, and truthful warning: there’s a variety of them.
Star Wars Outlaws launched to fairly combined opinions; our Morgan was amongst those that dug it. “Star Wars Outlaws is Ubisoft’s most formidable recreation in years, however it performs the fundamentals method too secure,” he wrote.