Star Wars Outlaws Gameplay Dev Breakdown Details Reputation System, Space Combat, and More

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Star Wars Outlaws’ announcement at the Xbox Games Showcase earlier this week took many by surprise, while shortly after its reveal, Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment also showed off a lengthy gameplay walkthrough for the upcoming open world action-adventure title. Now, the publisher has released another video, which adds developer commentary to the recent walkthrough, providing additional context and information. Check it out below.

For starters, new details have been revealed on some of the key characters who’ll be accompanying protagonist Kay Vess on her journey. There is, of course, her loyal, furry companion, Nix, who, according to the developers, is a Merqaal. A new kind of creature created for the game, Nix is a “rare and exotic” creature, whose home planet is “a mystery”.

As we saw in the gameplay demo, Nix will also aid Kay during gameplay in several ways, like distracting guards, attacking on command, helping out with puzzles, fetching weapons (like Chorizo in Far Cry 6), helping discover secrets, and more.

Another one of Kay’s companions featured prominently in the recent showing was a droid, who’s named ND-5. He’s a BX commando droid who was built by the Separatists back in the day, and thanks to his experience fighting in the Clone Wars, he’s very much a battle hardened personality. He now works as an underworld enforcer, and begins working with Kay for a big high-risk job that they see as the opportunity of a lifetime.

Players will, of course, also be visiting plenty of planets and locations in Star Wars Outlaws. The dusty rock that the recent demo was set on is Toshara, a moon described as a “hive of underworld activity”, which Massive Entertainment conceived and created in close collaboration with