In a brand new interview with GameInformer, Star Wars Outlaws senior narrative methods designer Alice Rendell and lead methods designer Matthieu Delisle discuss in regards to the varieties of encounters that gamers will discover of their time with the sport. The 2 speak about, amongst different issues, the repute system in Star Wars Outlaws, which could have a huge impact in your encounters within the recreation. Take a look at the interview beneath.
Based on Delisle, your character’s relationship with the assorted factions within the recreation, particularly within the seedy prison underbelly of the Star Wars universe, will current you with totally different alternatives and threats. Delisle talks about how the repute system took place as a result of the studio needed to inform a scoundrel-based story.
“Very early on, we knew that we needed to do a scoundrel story,” says Delisle. “And we knew we needed the sport to be about alternative and penalties, so fairly naturally, repute got here as a medium for the participant to work together with the sport.”
The duo goes on to speak about how protagonist Kay Vess is a free scoundrel, and the way reasonably than out of friendship or loyalty, she takes benefit of the totally different factions all through the sport simply as a lot as they make the most of her. Based on Rendell, each mechanic within the recreation has been constructed on prime of its repute system.
Gamers will get to take full benefit of the repute system, even staking their very own repute to try to earn more money on the aspect by betraying sure characters or factions. In the case of the precise have an effect on your repute may need on the sport, an instance supplied by Rendell is that Kay is perhaps tasked with getting an merchandise from a faction, and so they may select to steal it, or if their repute is sweet sufficient, simply stroll in and take it.
All of this ties into the truth that every faction could have its personal territories, and gamers should care for not hanging across the territories the place their repute is poor for too lengthy.
Star Wars Outlaws is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S on August 30.
