A new patch has gone live for Star Wars Outlaws, and the key takeaway from this update is that stealth missions should be less frustrating to play. Developer Massive Entertainment says that it has focused on improving stealth to give players more flexibility, and another welcome fix being introduced in the update is an improvement to speeder travel.
Stealth in Outlaws was fairly unforgiving when the game first launched, although this has been fine-tuned over the last couple of weeks. The new tweaks aim to reduce the frequency of instant-fail moments during specific missions, allowing players to have more options at their disposal to complete these sequences.
For speeder travel, the developer says it is “reducing collisions” with objects in the environment through this patch. A notorious bug in Outlaws, speeder travel could often result in Kay Vess experiencing low-orbit travel when she was flung from her vehicle while traveling on a seemingly safe route.
Massive says it also investigating other issues in the PC version of the game. “We are also aware of an ongoing issue affecting PC players after the 24H2 Windows Update,” the studio wrote in the patch notes. “We are working hard to identify both the root cause and its resolution. This investigation is taking some time; therefore, the fix couldn’t be ready for this Title Update. We’ll deploy one as soon as it’s ready and update all affected players.”
Other gameplay fixes include improved NPC behavior, increased auto-save opportunities in open-world hostile areas, and “Wanted” difficulty will now scale according to player progression. You can see the full patch notes below, which cover various other technical parts of the game as well.
This is the third major update for Outlaws, following its launch in August. While the game was generally well-received, it was criticized for a heavy number of bugs and early instant-fail stealth missions. Ubisoft’s stock took a huge hit after Star Wars Outlaws reportedly underperformed. and the company’s next big open-world game, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, was delayed to February 14, 2025.
Star Wars Outlaws Title Update 1.3.0 Patch Notes
Download sizes (version 7199763.TU3)
- PS5: 3.48 GB (version 01.003.000)
- Xbox Series X|S: 5.07 GB (version 1.0.3.0)
- PC: 4.88 GB (version 1.0.3.0)
Notable changes
- Implemented stealth changes to ‘False Flag’ and other missions to give players more flexibility in how they approach situations without the risk of failing
- Improved speeder travel by reducing collisions with objects in the environment
- Improved NPC combat behavior
- Increased auto-save opportunities in open world hostile areas (Imperial Compounds and Faction Territories)
- Scaled ‘Wanted’ difficulty based on player progression
- Improved AI speeder avoidance
Performance and stability
- Fixed an issue where the game would crash when ‘New Game’ was selected
- Improved overall stability and FPS drops
- Fixed an issue where the game could crash when using the Electrobinoculars on PS5
- Improved stability with GeForce Now
General gameplay
- Increased and improved quest checkpoints
- Improved manual and autosave features including allowing more opportunities to save in the open world, compounds, and syndicate territories
- Removed autosave restrictions for combat/detection
- Improved NPC and player animations
- ‘Wanted’ difficulty now scales based on player progression
- Fixed an issue where Death Troopers would not spawn from search parties
- Improved enemy AI and combat behavior
- Fixed an issue where the Stun Shot would miss if shooting from cover when unholstered
- Fixed an issue where the Boonta Brawler Belt did not increase grenade blast radius
- Fixed an issue where grappling hook haptics were not present on PS5
- Improved camera detection for defeated enemies
UI, HUD, and settings
- Improved UI when detected
- Updated the keybind for Hyperspace jump
- Added segments to the VRAM meter
- Equipment screen now has an option to mark all items as viewed
- Fixed an issue where the map cursor could disappear when using a controller on PC
Audio
- Made NPC voice lines more consistent with player detection
- Fixed an issue where there was no music on Renpali station
- Fixed an issue where multiple sound effects would disappear after completing the game
- Improved ground wetness/snow footstep sound effect playback
- Improved airtraffic sound effect playback
- Improved audio for collisions
Cinematics
- Improved textures during cinematics
- Fixed an issue with blurred images during cinematics and dialogue scenes
Camera
- Improved the camera when interacting with vendors
- Improved camera re-center speed on the speeder
Worlds, fauna, and flora
- Increased spawn rates for speeder races
- Made the Varaki predator on Toshara more formidable
Sabacc
- Fixed an issue where music and ambiance were missing
Photo mode
- Enabled splitting camera inversion from gameplay camera
- Added option to disable UI sounds in photo mode
- Camera speed applies to both panning and movement
- Enable switching between 16:9 and 21:9 modes
- Implemented a color picker UI
- Added a black, white and neon cyan Star Wars Outlaws logo
- Fixed an issue where some UI elements could be seen in photos
Accessibility
- Removed glitch effect while using Electrobinoculars
- Removed directional arrow for Kay’s captions when in standard gameplay camera view
- Added setting to show a visual reminder of the button used for Nix quick actions
- New settings from updates 1.2 and 1.3 added to accessibility presets
- Menu remapping section added, allowing some keyboard controls for navigating menus to be remapped
- The keys for Hyperspace menu and Hyperspace jump are now remappable through the keybind menu
- Added settings to invert X and Y axis of photo mode camera
- Moved menu narration to top of the UI menu & top of the vision preset menu
- Added setting to stop voice lines interrupting menu narration
- Menu narration now reads negative brightness slider values, the heal button while low on health, new quest notification, reputation changes in contracts menu, quest tracker ‘more info’ prompt, cloud upload/download notifications, that starting a Sabacc game requires a hold, and whether abilities of partially equipped gearsets are locked
- Fixed an issue where Nix sense was not affected by protanopia color preset
- Fixed an issue where ND5 and Gedeek would not appear as allies in high contrast mode for some missions
- Fixed an issue where some inputs would have a double action if remapped
Miscellaneous
- Fixed an issue where NPC speeders could collide with each other
- Fixed an issue with the intel location for Thorden’s itinerary
- Fixed an issue where the Trailblazer’s auxiliary devices couldn’t be used during syndicate quests