Star Wars Outlaws acquired its first story enlargement at this time with the discharge of the A Pirate’s Fortune DLC on PlayStation, Xbox and PC, and followers have one cheeky rascal referred to as Hondo Ohnaka is the explanation why.
In accordance to Drew Rechner, Inventive Director at Ubisoft’s Large Leisure, the DLC was born from his workforce’s love of Hondo Ohnaka, the Weequay pirate who has beforehand appeared within the Darth Maul comics and the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV present.
“We at all times knew as a result of there have been so many passionate individuals on the workforce that we wanted to function Hondo. And, you realize, that scoundrel fantasy of Kay mixing with the pirate fantasy of Hondo, it simply type of is sensible, proper?” Rechner advised IGN.
“And we additionally knew that Kay could be type of coming into her personal, studying what it means to be a chief, after which having somebody like Hondo as a mentor – or is he? – we thought it led to actually attention-grabbing issues.”
The DLC provides a new journey to the primary sport that includes the Rokana Raiders crime gang, the Miyuki Commerce League who can provide Kay with upgrades for her Trailblazer ship, and a new blaster functionality referred to as Shock.
Star Wars Outlaws can also be getting a Nintendo Change 2 launch on September 4, however Rechner refused to spill particulars on whether or not the brand new platform would deliver any new options to the sport, however did say that there was extra data to come.
“When it comes to a particular function set, that is one thing that we are going to get into later. So we’ll have extra stuff to discuss later.”
A number of the Change 2’s options that the sport might benefit from are controllers that can be utilized as a mouse and a new GameChat functionality.
Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Video games at IGN and an elder millennial. She’s been a skilled nerd since 2006 when she acquired her begin on Official PlayStation Journal within the UK, and has since labored for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, horror films, horror video games, and French Bulldogs. These further wrinkles on her face are thanks to going time blind and staying up too late ending each sidequest in RPGs like Fallout and Witcher 3.