Your one-stop shop for tips and tricks for Star Wars Outlaws

After the relatively short prologue, where you’re introduced to the game’s main character Kay Vess, her sidekick Nyx, and many of the game’s core mechanics, you’ll inevitably be catapulted into a galaxy far, far away. There’s a lot to get through, and aside from the occasional story mission, there’s little direction. That’s why we’ve put together several Star Wars Outlaws tips and tricks to help you get your footing in the galaxy’s criminal underworld!

Tips and tricks from Star Wars to find your way in the criminal underworld

While it’s not an immersive simulation, Star Wars Outlaws offers numerous ways to complete objectives. You can move around stealthily, escape to rooftops, or use guns to get out of situations. There are also several gadgets at your disposal. That’s a lot for a new player to process, so we have a growing list of tips and tricks for the game!

Don’t be afraid to fight

Although Star Wars Outlaws relies heavily on stealth mechanics, things don’t always go to plan. You either engage in combat or reload a previous save to salvage a stealth infiltration. Sometimes it’s better to choose the former. The game’s combat is neither complex nor scary; it’s incredibly straightforward and, frankly, quite rewarding. You’ll feel like a badass in the Star Wars universe as you pop out of cover to get off a few well-placed blaster shots before ducking back down.

As you take out enemies with your trusty blaster pistol, which kills with a few headshots, enemies will occasionally drop their blaster rifles. They pack a bigger punch and fire fully automatically, but are limited. You use up the charge and then drop the rifle again in favor of your blaster.

Interact with NPCs

I’m guilty of primarily running around an open world to follow main story quests. But that’s a mistake. As is all too common with games like this, Star Wars Outlaws’ side stories shine where the main story falls short. That’s not to say that every NPC you interact with along the way offers a compelling backstory and a side quest worth your time. Many don’t, but you’ll miss out on potential rewards and quest lines if you ignore passersby.

Take this guy in the screenshot above, for example. He has no significant impact on the overall story; he’s a down-on-his-luck gambling addict who scrounges for credits outside the cantina on Toshara. If you help him out with a loan of, say, 100 or 500 credits, he’ll pay you back with interest. Or not. It’s a gamble!

Collect information

You’re now part of the seedy underworld of Star Wars Outlaws, which means you can’t always play fair. Sometimes you’ll need to play dirty and use inside information to get ahead, like stealing a datapad with betting information on an upcoming race or gathering dirty intel on a target that you can use to successfully cheat your way in or out of situations.

For example, if you encounter a security guard who is blocking you from entering, explore the area. You will surely find clues that will give you an advantage.

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Explore the area before infiltrating

While it’s true that you’ll spend a lot of time in the game’s various towns and settlements, you’ll eventually leave the relative safety of the walls to explore the wilderness on the speeder bike. As you continue the journey, you’ll come across smaller places of interest, including camps, canteens, and grounds. Some of these prove mundane. Others, less so. They’re teeming with life, most of it hostile, and there’s plenty of loot.

Before you rush headlong into a fight with nothing but your blaster as backup, find high ground and scout the immediate area with your binoculars. You can spot and mark up to ten objects or enemies, and once marked, they’ll stay marked as you infiltrate the POI. You’ll know exactly where wandering guards are, so you can easily sneak past or around them.

Complete false flag

As you work your way through the quests on Toshara, you will inevitably end up in Jaunt’s Hope. It is a small settlement where Waka takes the Trailblazer for repairs, and it serves as a central location as you explore the planet outside of the downtown area. Over time, you will gain the False hope Main quest from Eleera. She wants you to delete some data from an Imperial station in space above Toshara, and despite Waka’s claims that the ship isn’t ready, you are.

False Hope is something of a final tutorial. After you complete this main quest, the game opens up even further. You can explore, travel between locations, meet new characters, and tackle side quests. If your goal is to see and do everything each planet has to offer, then play through the main story until you reach that point, and then go wild!

As Insider Gaming continues to play through Star Wars Outlaws, we’ll be giving you more tips and tricks. Don’t forget to bookmark this page or keep the tab open – we update it regularly!