Star Wars Outlaws

Whatever happened before, this is a fun adventure game. Not an action game, but a fun and beautiful to look at adventure game. Yes, its can sometimes feel like an AC reskin, but we're here for the SW worldbuilding. Ultimately, it's a recommend.

I'll preface this with saying that I believe this has the potential to be a top tier open world game, one of the best I've played recently! It is however a technical mess, memory leaks, poor optimisation, crashes (3 in 3 hours is a joke)

[h1]Ein Star Wars Spiel. Aber nur der Versuch einer Open World?[/h1] [b]Empfehlung:[/b] Grundsätzlich empfehle ich [b]Star Wars Outlaws[/b] sämtlichen Spielern, die RPGs, Shooter im Generellen oder Stealth Spiele (Hitman bspwl.) mögen. Natürlich ist eine Sympathie für das Star Wars Franchise hier zwingende Voraussetzung. Vorweg, ich spiele das Spiel jetzt zum zweiten Mal durch. [h2]Einstiegsverhalten & UI[/h2] Das Spiel gibt ein notwendiges Tutorial an die Hand, welches sich gar nicht so anfühlt. Alles eingewoben in den Prolog der Story. Daher gibt es hier grundsätzlich Nichts zu bemängeln. Das UI ist weitestgehend übersichtlich. Den Punkt vertiefe ich später noch einmal. [h2]Gameplay [/h2] Das Gameplay orientiert sich an klassischen (Open World) Ubisoft Titeln. Das Spiel versucht einen Spagat zwischen diversen Ubisoft Titeln zu schlagen, bspwl Watchdogs und Asassins Creed. An diesen Punkten verspielt das Spiel leider zu viel Potenzial, weil es zwar sämtliche Mechaniken (bspwl der Greifhaken) versucht einzubauen, aber keine Mechanik wirklich perfekt ausarbeitet. So bleiben viele Mechaniken oberflächlich und leider nicht wirklich notwendig. Die Schusswechsel wurden mittlerweile deutlich nachgepatcht (insb. V1.4) [h2]Missionsdesign & Gegner[/h2] Das Missionsdesign ist leider, ubisofttypisch, ziemlich oberflächlich. Die Story ist ganz nett, greift bestehende/kanonische als auch neue Planeten auf. Abseits der Hauptstory, wo ein paar wirklich interessante Charaktere auf Kay treffen, wird der Spieler/in mit vielen eintönigen Nebenquests gelangweilt. "Hole hier eine Info ein", "Bring X nach A", "Liefere Fracht.." etc. Dafür, dass das Spiel stark auf dem Rufsystem der Verbrechersyndikate aufbaut, wird mit den Missionen einfach zu wenig gemacht und die Auswirkungen sind zu gering. Die KI wurde deutlich geglättet, sodass inzwischen ein deutlich besseres Schießen möglich ist und die Gegner auch entsprechend agieren. (bspwl Deckung suchen) [h2]Audio, Grafik & Technik[/h2] [list] [*] [b]Audio:[/b] Der Soundtrack liefert authentisches Star Wars Flair. Die Musik ist atmosphärisch und unterstreicht das Gefühl, sich im Star Wars Kosmos aufzuhalten. Insbesondere der Soundtrack bei Verfolgungen oder beim Abheben und Landen ist grandios komponiert. [*] [b]Grafik:[/b] Optisch weitestgehend sauber, solide Inszenierung, schwache Animationen. Die filmische Darstellung hängt nicht selten hinterher. Das Spiel braucht viel Rechenleistung um auf hohen Einstellungen genießbar zu sein. Die Texturen wirken häufig zu unsauber. [*] [b]Technik:[/b] Das Spiel wirkt nach dem massiven 1.4 Patch deutlich stabiler, trotzdem hängt die Kamera immer noch zu häufig, Screen Tearing oder auch die generell stoische Steuerung ist nach wie vor vorhanden und stört. [/list] [b]Endbewertung[/b] Star Wars Outlaws ist ein tolles Star Wars Spiel das sich um die verbrecherische Unterwelt innerhalb der IP dreht. Die Erwartungshaltung der Fans war leider etwas Anderes und ist dem Spiel höchstwahrscheinlich auch zum Genickbrecher geworden. Auch wenn das Spiel nicht fehlerfrei ist, so hat man als Fan der IP eine Welt in der man sich frei bewegen kann und einfach mal Abschalten kann.

This game is probably these worst, most unstable game i have purchased. This game is so stupid. I have ran into so many bugs that the game is borderline UNPLAYABLE. I often run into the bug where you just fall through the floor and are unable to clip through to the playable area again, often requiring my to load a previous save because if i just save and exit it will load the game in side the bugged area. That has happened more times than i can count. or your game will get to a location and upon loading the area the game will crash, and then upon launching the game again the game will crash upon loading the game, which i have to load a previous save AGAIN. I absolutely HATE this game. I hate it. and i wish i could like it because I'm a huge star wars fan and the universe of this game is so interesting. But the game is just so poorly optimized and, like i said, borderline unplayable. Id like to preference this as i am not a reviewer. I do not play games for a job or career. I spend my hard earned money on a game that is just broken. The game has to be in such a bad state for someone like me to leave a review. Point is, the game is gorgeous. The game is also UNENJOYABLE because the game is in such a bad shape. I will probably NEVER recommend this game to ANYONE. and its a shame. If you are looking at buying this game, DONT. I hope you save your money and buy something else.

This is my all-time favourite Star Wars game. I downloaded the Demo some months back when it was discounted 95% off and just £5.00 roughly, but hated it. I was confused at the mechanics, couldn't find where to go, and felt nothing for any of the characters. I chose not to buy it as it didn't seem worth a fiver. I'm so grateful to the friend who convinced me to give it a second chance. Starting properly at the beginning of the game, I quickly got hooked into the story and started caring about the main characters. Baffled why they chose the part they did to be the Demo, but this is genuinely the most immersive and Star Wars feeling open world game. I've played hundreds of hours, and will definitely play hundreds more. Ignore the Demo - download the full game.

you getting a negative review for not having it on steam family

i would encourage anyone who likes open-world adventure games to play this one. It is enjoyable and has many unique gameplay elements with tons of things to do. Fair warning, it does take some time to get your footing in the game, so some patience is required through the first four to six hours. At the time of this writing, i've got about 40 hours in. I've read several of the negative reviews, and it seems most are performance-related. For my part, i've had no performance issues at all and no crashes. It runs great on both of my systems, one of which is a mid-range AMD Ryzen gaming laptop, and the other is high-end Intel / Nvidia desktop. i was put off a bit during the tutorial missions, which gray out saving for a few hours at the beginning of the game. After that, though, and after getting through the learning curve, the game became very interesting and enjoyable. The environments are huge, and through the first 40 hours, i've only worked through two planetary locations and have advanced the main story maybe 20-25 percent. The combat is fun, especially the ship combat; with only a couple of upgrades to weapons and shields, you will be able to hold your own against the many pirates and hostile factions in the space environments. These are large and varied, set mainly in the orbits of the planetary locations. the upgrade system is fair, with stepped progression. the reputation system between the various factions is a little difficult to manage, especially when you start taking contracts and have to make decisions about which faction you are supporting at the expense of another. your faction standing has real gameplay consequences, which i personally think adds an interesting facet to the overall experience. I have noticed that quest markers are not designed to be pin-point accurate. usually the markers will get you in the ballpark of where you need to be, and then you have to figure it out from there. There's not a lot of hand-holding, is what i mean to say. I did get a bit annoyed with the arrest system at first, if you get caught in a restricted area by any given faction while snooping around or working a contract. But with a little practice using the companion mechanics, and some ability upgrades, maintaining stealth becomes manageable. I'm finding this game to be a breath of fresh air; the creature and character details are amazing. the cities are populated and vibrant with excellent design. the planets and space environments are interesting and offer unique challenges. the game encourages you to explore and talk to people you meet in various places. I think a great deal of thought and care went into the gameplay architecture; it is one of the very few games i have played where i actually bother to learn the primary mini-game - - in this case, Kessel Sabacc, as there are quests and DLC which require you to play it. If I have a complaint about Outlaws, it would have to be the minor glitches i have experienced with cloud sync between devices. none of these glitches have lost me any save data however, thanks to a nifty feature that allows you to upload or download any save to or from the cloud manually. Overall, I'd say it's one of the most interesting games i've played this year. And with the present deep discounts on the price, it's a must-buy for star wars fans, even if you don't end up liking it as much as i do.

You know, there is a great game here buried underneath so many bugs and so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you only occasionally catch glimpses of it. Quest markers sometimes lead you where you need to go, sometimes they point you within a hundred meters, sometimes they don't show up at all. Maps are pretty much useless unless you just need to know a general direction. Pathing is largely linear when comes to exploration, most interesting locations will have one way to arrive and you have to figure out what it is only to get rewarded with trash. Faction system is absolutely ridiculous - you can do several quests for a faction and then lose literally everything you had with them a more because a non-optional, unavoidable, story mission forces you to choose which faction you are going to lose all progress with. Loot is useless. Credits are pointless. Side quests are mostly filler -but at least they work, whereas main quests are well designed but often broken. Save system is malicious and capricious. Every time you make a mistake it will auto-save immediately, whenever you want to make a save to explore or to experiment the option will be unavailable. To compound on these miseries, autosaves will resurrect dead enemies in the area as well as retain reputation hits for decisions you haven't made yet if you reload after deciding to do something else. Oh, and the clothes you buy with DLCs? You won't have access to them in the beginning, when gear with stats are unavailable, but you will get access to them later when you have access to better kit. Aside from all these things, the rest is great. It feels like one development team made a good game and then some other team took over and tried their best to sabotage it. Pity, because it would take so little to redeem this title. Honestly, the reputation hits have become a deal breaker with me. It wastes so much of my time and frustrates so much of my intent. I haven't even finished the first planet and I am pretty sure I am finished playing this game.

A bit hard to recommend if you aren't a fan of the Star Wars universe, its a love letter to it, but it's a ubisoft title and its been rushed out of the gate, the game has quite a few bugs, if you use a steam controller or ps controller the game has a bug with steam input and will flick your camera downwards randomly. It also had a bug with flickering textures if i ran the game above 60 fps lol. So i ended up increasing the quality and limiting the fps to 60 halfway through the game. Don't get me wrong the game is fun and the locations are really well done, the highlights of the game for me are your companions and the few cameos some iconic characters do. Story is decent but predictable. The performance is a bit rough knowing the few bugs i already mentioned before, i was able to run it at 83 fps capped until i got the texture flickering bug, i could have run it with a higher fps number but it's not worth doing in the summer heat. Rest of the game at 60 due to the bug but my gpu was using way less power, except on toshara and akiva, those 2 planets will kick your gpu in the nuts with the foliage, i was still able to run at 60 native and maxxed for most of the game (no ray reconstruction) @1440p, on those 2 planets i just used DLSS quality. Overall if you always dreamed with driving around a speeder around some Star Wars planets and doing missions for the syndicates while having a sidekick and not beign an OP Jedi, this is your game. I would still recommend grabbing it on sale, the DLCs are Ok, i liked the Wild Card dlc way more than the pirate one.