Huge Star Wars Outlaws patch fixes a protracted record of launch points

Ubisoft rolled out a large replace for Star Wars Outlaws on Thursday, addressing a protracted record of complaints concerning the open-world Star Wars recreation as step one in its beforehand introduced roadmap to enhance the sport. If you happen to haven’t completed Star Wars Outlaws but — perhaps 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, digicam detection and highlighting environmental alternatives to scale back participant friction,” in accordance with Ubisoft’s patch notes. Kay Vess can also be much less more likely to be detected when utilizing cowl.

Kay’s speeder also needs to be far more pleasing to experience. Ubisoft says the replace improves the place of the speeder digicam, improves the speeder’s response and response when summoned, and improves collision detection with the setting “to scale back being knocked off the speeder.” In different phrases, small rocks have been nerfed.

The remainder of the sport’s patch notes lay out a protracted 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 carrying 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 also 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, because of your lack of instruments, is annoyingly straightforward to journey accidentally,” critic Todd Harper wrote within the overview.

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 industrial 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 on the market now on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X.