The developer of Star Wars: Outlaws, Massive Entertainment, hosted a panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 the place they mentioned extra concerning the recreation’s characters, planets, and the sport’s exploration. Many of the sport’s builders additionally spoke to media shops to debate a number of the characters, and inspirations, and even deal with a well-liked fan principle relating to the sport and Kyle Katarn.
For those that weren’t in attendance at San Diego Comic-Con, StarWars.com revealed an interview with the sport’s inventive director, Julian Gerighty, discussing a number of the recreation’s many components. A six-minute behind-the-scenes featurette with Massive Entertainment was additionally made out there on-line on YouTube (supplied under). Alongside this, information shops reminiscent of IGN and Screen Rant have been in a position to present another particulars that got contained in the panel in addition to interview a number of the builders.
One of the main points given was about a number of the crime syndicates that gamers will work together with. Senior inventive government, Matt Martin says within the behind-the-scenes video that there are even some new syndicates by no means seen earlier than.
“We will see some actually cool syndicates, each from current lore and newly created for the sport.”
After saying this, the video shows new paintings of Kay standing face-to-face with Jabba in his palace. And whereas this isn’t a direct quote from the builders, IGN did state that through the panel, it was talked about that gamers will likely be spending a while in Jabba’s palace, working missions for him and even betraying him.
“We’ll even be spending a number of time at Jabba’s palace, it appears like, working missions for the Hutt himself and navigating the legal underworld he’s on the middle of. And sure, it’s doable not simply to work for Jabba, but in addition to betray him — which in fact has its personal set of penalties.”
One of the brand new crime households that gamers will likely be encountering is a bunch referred to as the Ashiga Clan. They are primarily based on the planet Kijimi, the snowy planet proven in The Rise of Skywalker, and artistic director Julian Gerighty had this to say about them when chatting with StarWars.com:
“The Ashiga Clan is a clan that we created in shut collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. They’re primarily based on Kijimi, which we noticed in The Rise of Skywalker. It’s a faction that we actually designed round this concept of a really hierarchical society that’s primarily based on honor, custom, and historical past. Their visuals are very a lot impressed by bugs, and so they suggest a gameplay problem for the participant by way of NPCs which can be actually contrasted to everyone else. So that’s not simply in fight, nevertheless it’s additionally in stealth. There’s a number of issues that they handle to fill out for us to have the ability to have a really totally different expertise for gamers in comparison with a number of the different syndicates that you just’ll meet, just like the Hutts or the Pykes.”
The builders additionally talked concerning the areas inside the recreation and a number of the inspirations behind them. Two of the key planets they mentioned have been Toshara and Tatooine. Toshara is a brand new planet developed particularly for the sport and that’s impressed by biomes in East Africa. Narrative director Navid Khavari had this to say about Toshara with IGN:
“It’s a brand new moon that we crafted along with Lucasfilm Games. It’s impressed by Eastern Africa Savannah. We took this method the place you’d have a thriving, bustling underworld capital metropolis, but in addition, huge open plains which you can simply hop in your speeder and take off down.”
Massive Entertainment additionally elaborated on one of many planet’s extra distinctive areas referred to as Mirogana. Mirogana is a metropolis that has been constructed inside a suspended rock, and that’s slowly been carved away by the fixed winds of the planet.
Kay’s speeder seems to be important in getting round Toshara. When requested by IGN if gamers will be capable of change the looks of the speeder, inventive director Julian Gerighty mentioned that “there will likely be some personalization in it.”
And whereas gamers will likely be spending a lot time touring round Toshara, Gerighty additionally hinted at some secrets and techniques gamers might be able to uncover on the planet, together with a uncommon enemy, and probably the power to find alien meals. IGN managed to get a quote from Gerighty on the panel:
“There are a few surprises I don’t need to spoil. There is a specific predator on Toshara that’s mind-blowingly cool. So you probably have a concern of frogs, this won’t be the sport for you. It’s okay, it’s very uncommon. The second factor is that meals is extremely essential to the world of Star Wars. And in the event you take pleasure in meals and discovering alien concoctions, that is going to be an thrilling expertise for you.”
Switching over to Tatooine, Gerighty, when chatting with StarWars.com, highlighted the tourist-like expertise that gamers will be capable of have when exploring iconic areas, together with Mos Eisley.
“It was an enormous problem as a result of there are such a lot of issues that exist on Tatooine that it’s turn into a puzzle to place issues collectively. But we went again to the supply. We went to a number of the DK visible guides, and we began constructing, ‘Okay, what are a very powerful elements, and what’s gonna take advantage of enjoyable for the participant to discover?’ So Mos Eisley is an enormous a part of it, however there’s additionally a number of the dunes, the canyons, and issues that you just actually anticipate. You know, the best hits of Tatooine that we try to put collectively.
We talked concerning the type of singular nature of open worlds to permit the participant to have company on their expertise. But there’s one other a part of it that I really like and that’s very Ubisoft in a method, which is digital tourism. And the digital tourism in a spot like Tatooine is nice as a result of I’ve all the time questioned how far the moisture farms have been from Mos Eisley. I’ve all the time questioned how the cantina was constructed. So all of these items, we’re attempting to do justice to the supply materials by actually recreating it as authentically as doable, with the assistance of Lucasfilm Games.”
Finally, inventive director Julian Gerighty spoke with Screen Rant a couple of well-liked fan principle relating to the character Jaylen that was seen within the first trailer for the sport. Even although the character bears visible similarities to the Jedi Knight collection protagonist, Kyle Katarn, Gerighty shuts out any correlation.
“It is just not Kyle Katarn. It’s a personality you’re going to be working with, that has their very own motivations. It’s unimaginable for us to speak extra about it with out revealing an excessive amount of!”
Star Wars: Outlaws is slated for launch someday in 2024 and will likely be launched on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X and S.
Jay Goodearl’s earliest reminiscence is of his father studying out to him the opening crawl to The Phantom Menace when he was simply two years outdated. He has been a Star Wars fan ever since.
