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‘Star Wars Outlaws’ Creative Director Isn’t Following Ubisoft’s Lead In Appeasing Trolls

'Star Wars Outlaws' creative director Julian Gerighty isn't wasting time trying to reason with people who have nothing to offer but outrage.

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As rage factories howl about Kay Vess' looks, Star Wars Outlaws lead says there's no point engaging with 'bad faith' criticism: 'No nuance and no possibility of real dialogue'

"All we can do is make the best game possible."

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Star Wars Outlaws' lead says "bad faith" discourse discussing protagonist Kay's looks are "not worth engaging with"

"And she's beautiful, come on"

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Star Wars Outlaws director was inspired by a samurai action game more than Red Dead or Assassin's Creed: 'My biggest reference was Ghost of Tsushima'

"...what I loved about it was this purity of having a player fantasy and really leaning into it," says Ubisoft's Julian Gerighty.

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Ubisoft Massive had to "break" The Division's "staccato" pacing to make Star Wars Outlaws' open world

It's a very new take on open worlds for Ubisoft Massive

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Ghost of Tsushima was Star Wars Outlaws director's "biggest reference" when it came to making his own open-world game

"This is the story, the world, the character, everything fits together with the gameplay guiding everything"

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey helped shape Star Wars Outlaws because its director "could pick up the phone and talk to" Ubisoft's other devs about the technicalities of shaping their open world

"How did you do this? What was too big for you? What was too long a distance for traversal?'"

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Star Wars Outlaws: what to expect from Ubisoft’s galactic adventure

Set in the year between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Outlaws follows Kay, an ambitious street thief as she plots a giant heist. We meet the gang behind the gang

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Star Wars Outlaws lead wants you to know it's not just another Ubisoft open-world game: "We are hyper conscious of the Ubisoft house style ... Massive is quite unique"

"And Star Wars itself suggested some different ways of doing things"

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Star Wars Outlaws planets take five minutes to travel across on a speeder and are around three times the size of Assassin's Creed Odyssey map zones

Massive Entertainment has shared brand-new details about Star Wars Outlaws' planets.

TechRadar

Star Wars Outlaws will feature a fog of war on every planet until you discover the sights yourself

Star Wars Outlaws will feature a fog of war that will cover the game's many maps.

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Ubisoft says a Star Wars Outlaws planet is the size of '2 or 3' Assassin's Creed Odyssey map zones put together, which takes about 5 minutes 'nonstop' on a speeder to cross

The desert world of Tatooine will be even bigger, though exploring it all might be a bit dry.

PC Gamer

Swedish Game Studio Channels Fandom In 'Star Wars Outlaw'

From Yoda figurines to Lego stormtrooper helmets, Star Wars is everywhere around the Massive Entertainment video game studio that's about to unveil a hotly anticipated title drawn from George Lucas's iconic franchise.

International Business Times

Star Wars Outlaws is one of the most ambitious open-world games of 2024, and it was inspired by a single sentence

Preview | I visited the Massive studio in Malmo, Sweden for a behind-the-scenes look at Star Wars Outlaws, from its inception to its open-world ambitions, and more

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Why is Star Wars Outlaws the first true open-world Star Wars game? Lucasfilm says "there are only so many studios in the world who build games of this scale"

"Making Star Wars open-world games is the next level of difficulty"

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Most planets in Star Wars Outlaws only take "4 or 5 minutes" to cross on a speeder – the size of 3 Assassin's Creed Odyssey zones stitched together

"It was less about how big, but more about how long in terms of traversal with the speeder it would be"

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Star Wars Outlaws director says Uncharted wasn't a "reference point," but "if you're going to be compared to somebody, it might as well be the best"

Let offbrand Han Solo and Indiana Jones fight

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As Star Wars Outlaws draws a mixed response from early previews, its creative director promises the demo was "just a part" of the full open-world adventure

The demo is "a starter rather than the main course for the game," Julian Gerighty says

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Star Wars Outlaw's fan-favorite creature Nix is more than an adorable companion, its director sees him and protagonist Kay as "one character"

Nix serves as an "extra long third arm" for Kay Vess, as well as being her cute bestie

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In Star Wars Outlaws, I escaped an Imperial space station, swiped a relic, and fell in love with Kay and Nix's teamwork

Preview | I tried out three different missions in Star Wars Outlaws and Kay and Nix's teamwork was a constant highlight

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‘Star Wars Outlaws’ Could Be A Welcome Sci-Fi Take on the Classic Open-World Formula

'Star Wars Outlaws' shared new gameplay details during Ubisoft Forward, highlighting the game's descent into Star Wars' alluring criminal underworld.

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Star Wars Outlaws defaults to Ultrawide to make it "one of the most cinematic games of all time"

Kay Vess' adventure will feel like the original Star Wars trilogy

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Star Wars Outlaws has cameos that should please "oldheads and youngheads" alike, but don't expect to be hunted down by Boba Fett

"There are a few canon Star Wars characters that we'll meet across the adventure"

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Star Wars Outlaws creative director says the Jedi "didn't even enter the picture" when deciding what the open-world game would be about

Instead, protagonist Kay Vess was inspired by fan-favorite scoundrel Han Solo

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Are we sure Star Wars Outlaws is a Ubisoft game? Its director says there are no map towers to climb out in the open world

It sounds like we'll just, you know, explore instead

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