Ubisoft rolled out a large replace for Star Wars Outlaws on Thursday, addressing an extended record of complaints concerning the open-world Star Wars sport as step one in its beforehand introduced roadmap to enhance the sport. When you haven’t completed Star Wars Outlaws but — possibly since you have been irritated by the sport’s wonky stealth and speeder mechanics — this patch may simply be for you.
Replace 1.2 for Star Wars Outlaws tweaks the stealth expertise “by adjusting AI detection, the variety of NPCs and their positioning, patrol pathing, digital camera detection and highlighting environmental alternatives to cut back participant friction,” in accordance with Ubisoft’s patch notes. Kay Vess can be much less prone to be detected when utilizing cowl.
Kay’s speeder must also be far more pleasing to trip. Ubisoft says the replace improves the place of the speeder digital camera, improves the speeder’s response and response when summoned, and improves collision detection with the setting “to cut back being knocked off the speeder.” In different phrases, small rocks have been nerfed.
The remainder of the sport’s patch notes lay out an extended record of much-needed enhancements for Star Wars Outlaws, together with squashing some game-breaking and simply plain annoying bugs. There are additionally some presentation changes, like up to date animations after takedowns and an up to date melee animation after Kay punches an enemy sporting a helmet.
Star Wars Outlaws was criticized at launch for bugs and efficiency points. Further updates, together with one which guarantees quality-of-life updates, are deliberate for Oct. 24 and Nov. 21. Ubisoft can be bringing Star Wars Outlaws to Steam on Nov. 21, and guarantees extra updates to the sport’s stealth mechanics on that date.
“Far too many stealth missions contain a ‘don’t get caught’ or ‘don’t let the alarm get raised’ fail state that, as a consequence of your lack of instruments, is annoyingly straightforward to journey accidentally,” critic Todd Harper wrote within the evaluate.
Star Wars Outlaws’ technical and gameplay points contributed to “softer than anticipated” reception for the sport, in accordance with Ubisoft. Within the wake of Outlaws’ cool vital and business reception, Ubisoft delayed one other of its open-world video games, Murderer’s Creed Shadows, in an effort to additional polish that title earlier than its launch.
Star Wars Outlaws is accessible now on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X.