Ubisoft rolled out a large replace for Star Wars Outlaws on Thursday, addressing an extended record of complaints in regards to the open-world Star Wars sport as step one in its beforehand introduced roadmap to enhance the sport. For those who haven’t completed Star Wars Outlaws but — perhaps since you have been aggravated 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,” based on 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 rather more pleasant to journey. 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 surroundings “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 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 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, as a result of your lack of instruments, is annoyingly straightforward to journey by chance,” critic Todd Harper wrote within the evaluate.
Star Wars Outlaws’ technical and gameplay points contributed to “softer than anticipated” reception for the sport, based on Ubisoft. Within the wake of Outlaws’ cool crucial 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 Collection X.
