Essential Tips for Star Wars Outlaws Beginners

• Double tap B or O to roll away from blaster fire or into cover.
• Use Nix to distract enemies, flip switches, and grab items.
• Eat street food with Nix to unlock extra abilities.
• Upgrade your ship before starting the final missions.
• Investigate areas to find new missions and quests.

21 Things To Know Before Playing Star Wars Outlaws

Star Wars Outlaws is Ubisoft's new open-world Star Wars action game. Before you dive in, check out these 21 tips to become the best scoundrel in the galaxy.

General Tips

Double tap B or O to roll away from blaster fire or into cover. Use this move frequently to avoid damage.

Hold the Up button on the D-pad to activate a special vision mode that highlights nearby enemies and objects. Use this mode often to locate baddies and solve puzzles.

Nix, your pet-friend, is very useful. He can distract enemies, stun people, flip switches, grab items, and steal things from NPCs. Use Nix to stun someone during a firefight while you focus on closer enemies.

Eat street food with Nix to unlock extra abilities. Find the street food stall on Kijimi to get the upgrade that lets you distract multiple enemies at once.

Combat Tips

Don't worry about triggering alarms when slicing (hacking into computers). Failing doesn't trigger alarms; you just don't get bonus credits.

Lockpicking involves a minigame that can be tricky. Tap your controller to the beat to get a better feel for when to hit the button.

Prioritize completing expert missions to gain access to useful abilities. Check their challenges to know what to do and get better quicker.

When you unlock a new ability, make sure you actually activate it in the expert menu.

Upgrade your ship before starting the final missions. Trust me, you'll thank me later.

Use the electricity mode on Kay's blaster to quickly kill droids, fry and disable shields, and stun low-tier enemies.

The stun ability is useful during combat. Use it to drop most enemies from any distance.

When sneaking, be aggressive. Disable alarms and use the stun to take out enemies from afar. Tell Nix to blow up barrels and use your one-hit melee attack from behind.

Gameplay Mechanics

In Star Wars Outlaws, you earn a wanted level like in GTA. If you max it out, a squad of Death Troopers will spawn. Reload the most recent autosave to find the camp closer.

You can fast travel to other planets. Open your map, find a fast travel point, and click it.

You can also fast travel back to your speeder bike. Open the map and fast travel to it.

Investigate areas to find new missions and quests. Walk around big towns or cities, talk to everyone, and read data pads to get intel for new side quests.

Managing your reputation with in-game criminal syndicates is easy. Win their favor back by talking to vendors and offering useful data.

Hold on to data that you can sell to syndicate vendors to improve your rep quickly after betraying them.

Avoid contracts in hostile territory. Wait until you bump up your rep so they don't shoot you on sight.

You can keep playing after the credits roll. Don't feel like you need to do every side quest before finishing the main story.

Revisit people to get more profits over time. Some NPCs will pay you multiple times for helping them.

Continue reading for more tips and tricks to master Star Wars Outlaws.