Star Wars Outlaws

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generally speaking, the game was quite a lot of fun, despite a couple graeat annoyances. tl;dr: only on sale, not full price, i got the ultimate edition for like 30€ for one, i experienced two major bugs, that happened each a couple time 1. if i left the game paused and went afk until my monitor went into standby (not the pc!), the game would have major fps drops that forced me to restart it 2. occasionally Kay, or some object, would become a light source, making it impossible to see anything, but i could usually fix that by just looking in some random direction noteworthy mention: there was another visual bug, where i could see fire or other light effects through the ground/wall, but it wasn't too bad other than that, the game was a lot of fun, Nix and ND-5 being the best characters, it did feel like star wars. the story itself was not the most interesting, but had it's ups and downs. the choice between stealth and guns blazing was nice, although weird that enemy-npcs would say i killed someone even though they just went k.o. something another review said was about the game being incredibly "woke", which, in my opinion, is utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. it was rather refreshing to not have such a male-dominated setting in a game. that review talked about how the empire consisted of only male white humans, which is wrong, they consist of only humans (because it's the empire, they're xenophobic, less racist or sexist). there's nothing being shuffed in your face, things just are, if someone has a same-sex relationship, it just is (e.g. Shuma talks about needing enough credits to return to her partner, as she is waiting for her) the gambling exists, it's not that difficult, out of all the sabacc games i played, i lost like four times, and once you learn all the cheats, it's even easier. fathier races are pretty boring, never bothered unless i knew who would win the combat is interesting. i played on the highest difficulty. i died a couple of times, but most of my deaths were outside of combat. in combat, you have your blaster-pistol, grenades, melee and pick-up blasters. i neglected grenades mostly, primarily relied on my pistol (especially after getting a specific upgrade) and the occasional pick-up. melee was mostly for stealthing. there is almost always the option to stealth or not. weapon feeling was decent enough. exploration is a thing, the maps are pretty open with lots of locations to explore, but it was incredibly annoying. i like to try and jump up my way, but most surfaces didn't allow that, you just slide back down. kay sometimes started jumbing in random directions. i died most times just falling into death pits than enemies, because kay wouldn't jump or cling to the wall