Following new of “softer than anticipated” gross sales for Star Wars Outlaws, Ubisoft has introduced the open-world sci-fi journey will get its first little bit of beforehand introduced post-launch story DLC – starring Lando Calrissian – on twenty first November.
Titled Wild Card, it sees Star Wars Outlaws protagonist Kay Vess being employed to infiltrate a high-stakes Sabacc event. “However as she crosses paths with the infamous gambler Lando Calrissian,” Ubisoft teases, “she quickly learns that one other recreation is being performed.”
Wild Card arrives alongside two extra Star Wars Outlaws cosmetics bundles – Hunter’s Legacy and Cartel Ronin – which may even be a part of the Season Cross, and a free replace introducing new Contracts for all gamers arrives on the identical day.
Notably, eighth November can be the day Star Wars Outlaws will debut on Steam. Information of its impending arrival on Valve’s platform follows Ubisoft’s announcement all its new releases will launch day one on Steam (for the primary time since 2019) beginning with the delayed Assassins Creed Shadows on 14th February subsequent 12 months.
At the moment’s announcement additionally follows Ubisoft’s admission Star Wars Outlaws noticed “softer than anticipated” gross sales, resulting in second quarter monetary outcomes that “fell wanting [the company’s] expectations”. Regardless of Outlaws underperformance, Ubisoft instructed buyers its growth groups are at the moment “totally mobilised to swiftly implement a sequence of updates to shine and enhance the participant expertise” within the hope it’s going to “interact a big viewers in the course of the vacation season”.
The corporate expanded on these plans in a press release shared on social media, promising followers it was “onerous at work creating a number of titles updates which is able to carry optimisation, gameplay sharpening, and tweaks, in addition to high quality of life modifications contains changes to fight and stealth gameplay”. That is on prime of the beforehand introduced Hondo Ohnaka Story Pack – titled A Pirate’s Fortune – that is on account of arrive in spring 2025.
Whether or not all this can be sufficient to vary Star Wars Outlaws’ fortunes stays to be seen; Eurogamer’s Chris Tapsell felt the sport itself was basically flawed when it launched again in August. “It lacks the branching, open stealth of an Arkham recreation, the systemic choices of a Dishonored or the incisive, relentlessly satisfying pace of selecting enemies off in Murderer’s Creed,” he wrote in his two star evaluate. “It lacks the linear polish and charisma of Uncharted. Lacks the animation stream to its yellow-ledge platforming subsequent to a Horizon, or the sheer pleasure of taking platforming and making it into an precise recreation in itself, as in Star Wars Jedi.”
