Contents show Prioritise Key Parts Disabling cameras Pick a Syndicate Most choices don’t affect the story It’s only illegal if you get caught Contracts are your best friend Take quests from your ship Check your ship’s storage Use Nix in combat Raid Imperial watchtowers for quick cash
In Star Wars Outlaws, Kay Vess is very much an underdog using all sorts of sneaky strategies to stay alive, and if you want to do well in the game, there are a few tricks of your own that you might want to try out.
We’ve gone through and listed some of our favourite pointers that will help you out massively in your playthrough. Whether it’s little things that will make your life a little easier, or things that will save you from dying in the middle of a quest, here are our top Star Wars Outlaws tips and tricks.
Disabling a camera is often easier than turning it off. Image captured by VideoGamer
Disabling cameras
In stealth sections, you’ll often come across security cameras that will set off an alarm if they catch you. Sometimes, there’s a computer nearby that can disable them, but you can also disable them by simply shooting them with your blaster’s ion module. This will raise suspicion, but not the alarm, letting you sneak past undetected.
Unique outfits for each Syndicate provide some massive buffs. Image captured by VideoGamer
Pick a Syndicate
There are four Syndicates in Star Wars Outlaws, and performing quests for them will increase your reputation with one, while decreasing it with another. You might want to try and balance them all, but you should instead pick one and try and max out your reputation with them. High reputation provides powerful items and buffs, and access to unique quests. Check out the rewards for each Syndicate and aim to collect them.
Go for whichever Syndicate you like best. Image captured by VideoGamer
Most choices don’t affect the story
At the end of plenty of quests, you’ll be given the option to help out one Syndicate over another. This doesn’t actually impact the story, nor the rewards you get – it only affects the reputation you have with each Syndicate. So if you’re with Crimson Dawn but worrying if choosing them will have a bad outcome, don’t! Just stick with whoever you want to impress more.
Remain unseen to minimise any loss of reputation. Image captured by VideoGamer
It’s only illegal if you get caught
Sometimes, while you’re in the middle of sneaking around, it can be tempting to go all guns blazing and blast your way through. But say you’re stealing from the Hutt Cartel for Crimson Dawn and you never get caught, you’ll gain reputation with Crimson Dawn, but lose none for the Hutt Cartel. Stealth isn’t just important for staying out of trouble, it keeps your name in everyone’s good books.
The riskier the mission, the higher the pay-out. Image captured by VideoGamer
Contracts are your best friend
Contracts are quests you complete for Syndicates, and boy are they worth doing. Not only are they the fastest way to net yourself some reputation with a certain Syndicate, but they also tend to come with some nice rewards, whether that’s a huge sum of credits or a ton of materials to use for upgrades. And as your reputation grows, more contracts with more lucrative rewards become available – it’s a winning cycle!
Use this terminal on your ship to take on new quests remotely. Image captured by VideoGamer
Take quests from your ship
If you’re looking to take some quests, you have to go and find one of the brokers to see what they’ve got on offer. But if you’re lazy, like us, you’ll be pleased to know that you can actually take on quests from your ship. Head to the room next to the cockpit and interact with the table to get a list of quests from every world to choose from.
Cosmetics you earn often have passive buffs, so check for them often. Image captured by VideoGamer
Check your ship’s storage
Every now and then, you’ll get some rewards for the quests you’ve completed delivered straight to your ship. On your way out via the landing bay, check to your left and you’ll see a briefcase. Interact with it, and you can collect a variety of rewards from credits to cosmetics. Once you’ve got ND-5 on board, he’ll remind you if you’ve got something to collect, too.
Nix can jump on enemies, momentarily incapacitating them while you finish them off. Image captured by VideoGamer
Use Nix in combat
Nix gets plenty of use when sneaking around, whether that’s distracting guards or activating switches. But you might not realise that you can use him in combat too. As soon as you enter combat, you can hold down the button to activate him, and then press and hold the ‘Protect Kay’ prompt in the bottom left. This will set him loose to automatically start attacking enemies, briefly incapacitating them and relieving a bit of pressure from you.
As well as stealing from and distracting enemies, he can jump on their faces to briefly stop them from attacking.
Towers have scant defences, making them easy targets. Image captured by VideoGamer
Raid Imperial watchtowers for quick cash
If you’re in need of a quick buck for whatever reason, one of the best ways to do that is by raiding some Imperial watchtowers. These are typically lightly guarded, and you can dispatch all the stormtroopers in no time flat, and they’re full of loot, and usually a container or two containing a bunch of credits. Sometimes, you might even find a terminal you can slice where you can transfer arrest credits for another nice wad of cash.
