Star Wars Outlaws Post-Launch Roadmap Announced - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 August 2024 / 1,663 Views
Publisher Ubisoft and developer Massive Entertainment have announced the post-launch roadmap for Star Wars Outlaws.
The roadmap reveals the Wild Card story pack will launch in Fall 2024 and A Pirate's Fortune story pack will launch in Spring 2025.
Read details below:
Two upcoming story packs are included in the Season Pass and will also be available for standalone purchase.
At launch, Season Pass owners will obtain the Kessel Runner character pack with outfits for scoundrel Kay Vess and her companion, Nix, and get access to an exclusive mission called “Jabba’s Gambit.” All players will meet Jabba the Hutt in the main game, but those with Season Pass access will gain an additional quest from the notorious Hutt Cartel. Just as Kay is putting together a crew for her big heist, she receives a job from Jabba the Hutt himself - ND-5 owes the Hutts a debt from years ago, and Jabba has come to collect.
After launch, Star Wars Outlaws Season Pass owners will be able to continue their journey across the galaxy with two story packs, that will also be available for separate purchase.
Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card – Coming Fall 2024
Kay is hired to infiltrate a high-stakes Sabacc tournament, but as she crosses paths with the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, she soon learns that another game is being played.
When this first story pack is released, Season Pass owners will also get the Hunter’s Legacy Bundle and the Cartel Ronin Bundle with additional outfits for Kay and Nix plus cosmetics for Kay’s speeder and her ship, the Trailblazer.
Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate's Fortune – Coming Spring 2025
The Trailblazer’s reputation precedes Kay as she runs into veteran pirate Hondo Ohnaka, who is looking to settle old scores with a ruthless gang of pirates.
Star Wars Outlaws will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Ubisoft Store on August 30 for $69.99.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Nothing can prevent this trash from being a very expensive flop for ubi. Combine that with the impending disaster of AC Shadows and layoffs are a coming!
Why is shadows set to be a disaster?
Seriously? Do you not follow gaming news? It's a game made to push liberal propaganda instead of giving gamers a fun entertaining game. Another attempt at getting "The Message" across. It doesn't stand a chance.
Seems more like you're making a mountain out of a molehill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
Graphics look shoddy, and some of us would rather play as a character other than a Black gaijin in Japan.
There is a second playable character. But also the black one is based off of a real historical figure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke
Wikipedia??? LMAO you do realize Ubisoft was caught red handed editing the wiki page for Yasuke, who was never once a samurai in any context. In fact the Japanese government is getting involved now to stop this misinformation spread about him even being close to samurai status. He was a pet made for amusement nothing more. The guy is a DEI checkbox addition instead of adding an actual Japanese Samurai that everyone wants to play as. Add to that he's also gay in the game lol So enjoy AC: DEI while the vast majority tune out this propaganda game.
It's not going to be a disaster. It will probably be one of the best selling AC games of all time. I have no idea how people are fooling themselves into thinking otherwise.
However, it was seriously disrespectful of Ubisoft to twist Japanese history, especially of a period that is so important to Japanese culture, simply so it would be more appealing to a western audience and, more importantly, western media.
A foreigner who was there for less than three years becoming a super-Samurai and killing actual Japanese Samurai left and right is pretty much like spitting in their face. Ubisoft does not have the right to trample someone else's history just to advance their own agenda.
Going off the Encyclopaedia Britannica, that say that Yasuke was given a sword by a clan leader, which historians believe gave him the rank of samurai.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yasuke
In the context of the game, though it fits. The Assassins often send members to other countries (Ezio to Turkey, Basim to Norway and England etc). The devs have said Yasuke is meant to allow for the perspective of a foreigner experiencing Japan for the first time, so likely in-game he’s a from a foreign branch of the Creed sent to Japan, and is gifted samurai armour by the leader of the Japanese branch (who will likely be Oda Nobunaga). That’s not ‘spitting in their face’ but adapting documented historical events.
https://x.com/Mangalawyer/status/1812588750465359972?lang=en
The "author" who helped Ubisoft shape Yasuke even went into hiding after getting caught editing information to fit his made up narrative.
Sure, and you can give a gun to a random person off the streets and say, "you're a SEAL now," but do you think they'll suddenly turn into John Wick? Do you think they'll have the respect of the other SEAL team members because they were given a rank out of the blue?
And the way people are telling the Japanese how to feel about THEIR OWN CULTURE is insane. But hey, guess what, a westerner can go to your country for a few years, pick up a katana, and they'll be better at being a Samurai than Japanese warriors who have literally dedicated their entire lives to that ideal. You'd better like your people getting slaughtered by a westerner or you're a racist.
It shows you exactly what Ubisoft cares about--the western market and the western media. If they're just using Japanese history to that end then they could at least be respectful about it.
Ah yes. The so-called 'roadmap'.
Ahhhh glorious cut content to be sold at a later date.
Glorious internet reguired to play a SP game.
Glorious modern crap.
I don’t think its necessarily cut from the cut to sell later. Often these missions have not relation to the main campaign, so you don’t really lose anything for the base playthrough.
That said, I still cringe when they’re planning a post-launch roadmap when the game isn’t out yet.
Its 100% cut content.
With modern gaming you can play one and play them all, so do not worry about it. This game is as casual as they come these days and has the classic generic Ubisoft signature gameplay.
Like these tacked on missions or not, the idea that they're all shaved off with the intention of selling them back to the consumer is mostly overblown.
Firstly, pretty much EVERY game has "cut content". Writers have always said that elements that distract from the main narrative or turn out to be too ambitious for the development cycle are cut away during production. This makes sense, given that both movies and books go through the exact same process. If modern games were smaller than before then you might have an argument but the reality is that they generally have more content than ever. In fact, I commonly see people complaining that games now are longer than they'd like.
More importantly, cutting stuff out doesn't really make much sense. It's typically a lot easier to just make up new stuff that can be tacked on without any continuity issues. Since DLC became standard, a lot of it is probably planned out in pre-production right from the start.
There are exceptions, of course, but the truth is that most of this additional content simply wouldn't exist in any form if DLC wasn't a thing.
I am sure everyone knows online requirement is another way of saying 'kiss my arse, I am syphoning your data'.
Oh gee Ubishit. Need online to install a single player game. Strip of a bunch of content sell t down the road a "roadmap" to give the illusion it has more value. How can anyone fall for this shit? Keep your butthole chin Star Wars game.
This game is gonna suck major ass, have you seen the previews? Paid for simping journous say is great yet you can see the trashfire of a game on the footage.
i will wait for the game of the year addition complete package
