Ubisoft is getting ready to celebrate May the 4th, announcing that a x event featuring Darth Maul as a playable character will arrive in the game.
13.04.2024 - 13:21 / thegamer.com / Ubisoft
Star Wars Outlaws will gatekeep content behind premium editions and a season pass, including a mission centring around Jabba the Hutt. As per the Ubisoft website, you'll have to pay either $109.99 or $129.99 to access Jabba's Gambit on launch day, as the $69.99 base game won't include this season pass-exclusive mission.
This update to the Ubisoft website was spotted by the news outlet Areajugones (as shared on ResetEra) and shows that the season pass won't just give players access to future DLC. Rather, it will gatekeep anyone with the base game out of accessing a mission from the very first day of launch, a move that's being met with backlash.
"Just as Kay is putting together a crew for the Canto Bight heist, she receives a job from Jabba the Hutt himself," reads the description of the season pass-exclusive mission. "Turns out that ND-5 owes Jabba a debt from years ago, and he has come to collect..."
The season pass will also give players unique cosmetics for Kay and Nix. After launch, it will let you access "two additional narrative expansions", although we don't know what these will centre around, or when they will be released.
Joining Ubisoft+ will grant you access to all of the bonus content, but this will set you back $17.99 a month.
While this is not a new practice for Ubisoft, it comes amid a renewed backlash against DLC - particularly day one DLC - in single-player games. This kicked off with Dragon's Dogma 2, which launched alongside microtransactions, something typically found in live service games.
The same can be said for season passes, as these are often used in live services that release content on a staggered basis. However, they have appeared in many single-player games before, letting players pre-order DLC expansions before they've even been revealed. But in this case, we know what the mission is and we know it will be ready for launch day, it's just being withheld from anyone who doesn't buy the season pass.
In any case, Star Wars Outlaws launches on August 30. It will be available three days earlier on August 27 to those who bought the more expensive premium editions, which also include the season pass and extra cosmetic items.
Ubisoft is getting ready to celebrate May the 4th, announcing that a x event featuring Darth Maul as a playable character will arrive in the game.
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Star Wars Outlaws’ promise of a vast map where players are able to seamless travel from open world planets and moons into outer space has been one of its more enticing aspects, but there’s still plenty yet that we don’t know about when it comes to what kind of content and gameplay opportunities the game’s space areas will bring. Developer Massive Entertainment has said that space in Star Wars Outlaws will be “full of things to do”– but what things exactly?
Star Wars: Outlaws isn't just an open world retread of existing Star Wars locations, like Tatooine. It contains a whole new moon of developer Massive Entertainment's creation - Toshara, which is home to the Pyke criminal gang and visually defined by huge deposits of crystalline orange material and cities hacked out of mountains. What's it like adding a whole bloody world to Star Wars? Here are some quick thoughts from Massive Entertainment's creative director Julian Gerighty.
Since unveiling the eye-watering $130 Ultimate Edition of Star Wars Outlaws last week, Ubisoft has been under fire from fans furious a full-priced single-player game would even warrant a Season Pass in the first place. Worse, acquiring the Season Pass is the only way to «play the exclusive Jabba's Gambit mission at launch».
Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment are promising an expansive open world experience with the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws, which is being billed as the ultimate scoundrel fantasy, and though that will involve a lot of juggling of different criminal syndicates and maintaining your reputation with each different faction, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to find the time to sit down and, say, play some cards.
The classic card game Sabacc will finally be playable in Star Wars Outlaws, as revealed by the game’s ESRB rating. Ubisoft and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora developer Massive Entertainment announced that they were working on an open-world Star Wars game back in 2021, but it wasn’t until last June’s Xbox Games showcase that fans learned what it was going to be about. Star Wars Outlaws will put players in the role of Kay Vess, an aspiring outlaw looking to make her mark on the criminal underworld by pulling a massive heist against the rising Zerek Besh organization.
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A spokesperson for Ubisoft addressed concerns over Star Wars Outlaws' controversial Jabba the Hutt DLC mission. Fans of a galaxy far, far away have rallied against the publisher for the price point of its Star Wars Outlaws special edition packages, which come with price tags ranging from $109.99 to $129.99. The community was particularly displeased with the reveal of an exclusive DLC mission for Jabba the Hutt, which will only be playable for users who purchased one of the special bundles or the season pass.