Star Wars: Outlaws

Hah, that password quest has other ways to be completed. And if you do it differently, then you may end up with that conversation requirement being forever in your quest log since the NPCs will never spawn.

Yeah that's the switch I pulled and nothing happened. Kay says we need to restore power to the lift. I did just that but nothing. The panel to maybe call the lift down after powering up the generator is dead too.
I tried finding a different way up for a long time and couldn't find any. Nor do the guides even mention the lift. They just tell you to parcours. Is the switch so obvious that it's not mentioned or HOW else do I get up there?
The guides are very confusing and I wonder if there are several ways to reach the sandcrawler. I think the diary part BEFORE I reach the outside again is the sandcrawler one... So then you'd be right and I'll only be missing one outside the mine. But I want to clear that loot up there, damnit!

Guess I'll either check if I have a manual save from before that step or leave and come back and make my way through the mine again. So annoying!

Cleared it out at last! The other 2 chests were up on the rocks behind the landing pad. Gosh that took forever. I didn't even plan to find all treasures in this game. I'm not usually this OCD. Most of the time it's fun though to navigate the environmental puzzles. This location is very cool but damn frustrating. Is also ran into the bugged out crack in the wall that happens when you find the key card after you've been in there already. Kay will abort the squeezing through animation. Killing yourself fixes it, lol. So that bug is still there.

Completed Legacy.

Well, shit. Didn't actually see that coming.

Don't want to finish the game yet, so instead of beginning Truth, Kay worked on clearing the air with the Pykes, who've been sending Death Squads after her since some minor misunderstanding with a power converter.

Trouble was, no one was giving her jobs for the Pykes, so Reddit came to the rescue. Apparently if you win at Sabbacc at the table in their territory in Mirogana, it gives you a reputation bump. You have to sneak in, but there are only two guards and once you're playing, they leave you alone. Winning was enough to go from Terrible to Bad, so the neutral Fixers were willing to offer Pyke jobs. Still on Bad, but at least Kay is back in the game.

You get a one time Reputation bump when winning at the table of any Faction at any planet. So you can try sneaking to them again at Tatooine, Kijimi and Akiva. Or just do a few contracts to be allowed free entry and waltz to the Sabacc tables.

I've got Crimson Dawn on Excellent and Hutts on Good.  Just want to make sure I leave a few 'free' gains in the tank in case I need them.

I have to add the low contrast situations seem to be inside the city mostly, outside it looks proper!

I think a 7/10 is fair, especially when somebody is big on combat/gameplay. I rate it a 8/10, with enjoyment being maybe even a 9. I had a blast with the game. But then again I don't really care if the combat is clunky and outdated. The game is 10/10 in atmosphere and art style to me and that is exactly what I expect from a Ubisoft game. They never disappoint in that area. Sure that's superficial. But the story isn't bad or anything. I thought it was a nice SW narrative and I liked the ending too.

Most of the side characters were cool. Kay herself as a fish out of water is fun BUT also kind of immersion breaking. Who would take somebody like her seriously? Especially tough as nails cutthroat criminals! It also doesn't make sense given her background imo. She grew up a thief, a street rat. She had it rough. Yet Kay comes across like a naive suburban college kid who's cosplaying an outlaw. It is a bit silly. That being said, I LIKE Kay. She's not annoying like so many modern "strong women". The humor was not over the top and ND-5 is just awesome. Very funny robot. My favorite character, as it should be in a SW game!

I believe the game would have received way less hate if the protagonist was male. Han Solo is a grown ass man with a big scary wookie bodyguard while Kay is a petite woman with a little pet and the worst liar in history.
It's not surprising some gamer dudes can't take any of that seriously. And the by the numbers combat does not help. Shit, I can't take it seriously but that doesn't keep me from enjoying the game. That's the difference. SW has always been silly. Outlaws is totally on brand.

BUT I won't deny that there IS the by now expected focus on female characters and the sidelining and vilification of white dudes.
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Certain eye rolling narrative decisions aside, I'm looking forward to the two story DLCs. Since I paid no money for this game I'll happily buy the DLC. I think it also helped my enjoyment of the game that it was free. For 70€ the game should have had better gameplay and better performance. But as I said before, no game is worth 70€ to me. I think for like 40€ this game is great.
And I'm really kinda sad it doesn't sell. The Ubisoft hate is really annoying and applied to any new release indiscriminately. And that's unfair to the devs who definitely worked hard to make this game feel like SW. So much attention to detail. It was such a joy to explore th different maps, the cities were bustling. And I'm not even that big of a SW fan. I believe the only SW game I ever played was as a kid, I don't even remember what it was called. It was basically a racing game.

This game felt like it was made for me. I never much cared for the lightsabers. Blasphemy, I know! Looked cool in the movies but it's not the combat I care for in a game. So Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor didn't interest me much. I saw the Outlaws trailer and I immediately wanted to play it.