A brand new patch has gone reside for Star Wars Outlaws, and the important thing takeaway from this replace is that stealth missions needs to be much less irritating to play. Developer Huge Leisure says that it has centered on bettering stealth to offer gamers extra flexibility, and one other welcome repair being launched within the replace is an enchancment to speeder journey.
Stealth in Outlaws was pretty unforgiving when the sport first launched, though this has been fine-tuned over the past couple of weeks. The brand new tweaks goal to scale back the frequency of instant-fail moments throughout particular missions, permitting gamers to have extra choices at their disposal to finish these sequences.
For speeder journey, the developer says it’s “decreasing collisions” with objects within the surroundings via this patch. A infamous bug in Outlaws, speeder journey may typically end in Kay Vess experiencing low-orbit journey when she was flung from her automobile whereas touring on a seemingly secure route.
Huge says it additionally investigating different points within the PC model of the sport. “We’re additionally conscious of an ongoing subject affecting PC gamers after the 24H2 Home windows Update,” the studio wrote in the patch notes. “We’re working exhausting to determine each the foundation trigger and its decision. This investigation is taking a while; due to this fact, the repair could not be prepared for this Title Update. We’ll deploy one as quickly because it’s prepared and replace all affected gamers.”
Different gameplay fixes embody improved NPC habits, elevated auto-save alternatives in open-world hostile areas, and “Wished” problem will now scale in line with participant development. You’ll be able to see the complete patch notes beneath, which cowl numerous different technical components of the sport as nicely.
That is the third main replace for Outlaws, following its launch in August. Whereas the sport was usually well-received, it was criticized for a heavy variety of bugs and early instant-fail stealth missions. Ubisoft’s inventory took an enormous hit after Star Wars Outlaws reportedly underperformed. and the corporate’s subsequent massive open-world recreation, Murderer’s Creed Shadows, was delayed to February 14, 2025.
Star Wars Outlaws Title Update 1.3.0 Patch Notes
Obtain sizes (model 7199763.TU3)
- PS5: 3.48 GB (model 01.003.000)
- Xbox Collection X|S: 5.07 GB (model 1.0.3.0)
- PC: 4.88 GB (model 1.0.3.0)
Notable modifications
- Applied stealth modifications to ‘False Flag’ and different missions to offer gamers extra flexibility in how they strategy conditions with out the chance of failing
- Improved speeder journey by decreasing collisions with objects within the surroundings
- Improved NPC fight habits
- Elevated auto-save alternatives in open world hostile areas (Imperial Compounds and Faction Territories)
- Scaled ‘Wished’ problem based mostly on participant development
- Improved AI speeder avoidance
Efficiency and stability
- Fastened a problem the place the sport would crash when ‘New Sport’ was chosen
- Improved general stability and FPS drops
- Fastened a problem the place the sport may crash when utilizing the Electrobinoculars on PS5
- Improved stability with GeForce Now
Common gameplay
- Elevated and improved quest checkpoints
- Improved guide and autosave options together with permitting extra alternatives to save lots of within the open world, compounds, and syndicate territories
- Eliminated autosave restrictions for fight/detection
- Improved NPC and participant animations
- ‘Wished’ problem now scales based mostly on participant development
- Fastened a problem the place Loss of life Troopers wouldn’t spawn from search events
- Improved enemy AI and fight habits
- Fastened a problem the place the Stun Shot would miss if capturing from cowl when unholstered
- Fastened a problem the place the Boonta Brawler Belt didn’t enhance grenade blast radius
- Fastened a problem the place grappling hook haptics weren’t current on PS5
- Improved digicam detection for defeated enemies
UI, HUD, and settings
- Improved UI when detected
- Up to date the keybind for Hyperspace soar
- Added segments to the VRAM meter
- Tools display screen now has an choice to mark all objects as considered
- Fastened a problem the place the map cursor may disappear when utilizing a controller on PC
Audio
- Made NPC voice traces extra in line with participant detection
- Fastened a problem the place there was no music on Renpali station
- Fastened a problem the place a number of sound results would disappear after finishing the sport
- Improved floor wetness/snow footstep sound impact playback
- Improved airtraffic sound impact playback
- Improved audio for collisions
Cinematics
- Improved textures throughout cinematics
- Fastened a problem with blurred photos throughout cinematics and dialogue scenes
Digicam
- Improved the digicam when interacting with distributors
- Improved digicam re-center pace on the speeder
Worlds, fauna, and flora
- Elevated spawn charges for speeder races
- Made the Varaki predator on Toshara extra formidable
Sabacc
- Fastened a problem the place music and ambiance had been lacking
Picture mode
- Enabled splitting digicam inversion from gameplay digicam
- Added choice to disable UI sounds in picture mode
- Digicam pace applies to each panning and motion
- Allow switching between 16:9 and 21:9 modes
- Applied a colour picker UI
- Added a black, white and neon cyan Star Wars Outlaws brand
- Fastened a problem the place some UI components could possibly be seen in photographs
Accessibility
- Eliminated glitch impact whereas utilizing Electrobinoculars
- Eliminated directional arrow for Kay’s captions when in normal gameplay digicam view
- Added setting to indicate a visible reminder of the button used for Nix fast actions
- New settings from updates 1.2 and 1.3 added to accessibility presets
- Menu remapping part added, permitting some keyboard controls for navigating menus to be remapped
- The keys for Hyperspace menu and Hyperspace soar are actually remappable via the keybind menu
- Added settings to invert X and Y axis of picture mode digicam
- Moved menu narration to high of the UI menu & high of the imaginative and prescient preset menu
- Added setting to cease voice traces interrupting menu narration
- Menu narration now reads destructive brightness slider values, the heal button whereas low on well being, new quest notification, repute modifications in contracts menu, quest tracker ‘extra information’ immediate, cloud add/obtain notifications, that beginning a Sabacc recreation requires a maintain, and whether or not skills of partially outfitted gearsets are locked
- Fastened a problem the place Nix sense was not affected by protanopia colour preset
- Fastened a problem the place ND5 and Gedeek wouldn’t seem as allies in excessive distinction mode for some missions
- Fastened a problem the place some inputs would have a double motion if remapped
Miscellaneous
- Fastened a problem the place NPC speeders may collide with one another
- Fastened a problem with the intel location for Thorden’s itinerary
- Fastened a problem the place the Trailblazer’s auxiliary gadgets could not be used throughout syndicate quests