It was revealed recently thatStar Wars Outlawswill be launching on Steam on November 21 with that release coinciding with the game’s first season pass story pack, Wild Card. There’s no telling whatStar Wars Outlaws’ future might look like beyond these DLCs anymore and anyone who adores the game or hasn’t given it a chance yet should find time to do so if there’s any hope in it not being shelved promptly thereafter.
Indeed, it’s a sad time forMassive’s open-worldStar WarsepicasOutlawshas reportedly performed poorer than Ubisoft had hoped. Ubisoft has since offered a post-launch update roadmap and stated how it intends to improve the experience, which is debatably a radical decision given how rich with detail the game’s open world is. Nonetheless, the two pieces of downloadable content onOutlaws’ horizon are particularly exciting and Wild Card alone should be fantastic as it centers wholly on one of the game’s strongest features: Kessel Sabacc.
Sabacc Stands Out in an Open-World Star Wars Game Packed with Content
Supplementary, absorbing mini-games have become less of an engaging gimmick and more of a full-blown standard in a lot of open-world games sinceThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, especially when they involve a collectible element and an associable side quest. Sabacc is no different. Thein-universe gambling card game is a no-brainer forOutlaws, where players actually get to indulge in this poker-esque mini-game and collect applicable shift tokens throughout the open world.
Kay Vess can also gamble at fathier races or play numerous arcade games in her travels on any remote planet, but Sabacc is fully intricate and even has a cheating feature tied to Expert skill tree unlocks.
Players can earn the ability to unlock a skill check QTE when rolling dice froma Jawa hotfixer named Teeka, for example, and use a skifter to try to have the die land in their favor. Between sand and blood cards, a dice roll related to Imposter cards, and a Sylop card ensuring a Sabacc pair with whatever other card players have in their hand, there’s a lot to comprehend before shift tokens and the passive or active effects they possess are enabled.
Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card Couldn’t Be Coming at a Better Time
With Wild Card arriving at the end of November, not too much time will have passed since the launch of the base game. That said, because there may be so little to accomplish in Sabacc by the time players roll credits on the main campaign, it is terrific that there isn’t long to wait until more will be available.
Star Wars Outlaws’ Expert quests are highly incentivized as early as they become unlocked, though that may not be on everyone’s agenda. Unless players are making quick stops on each planet rather than landing on one and exploring it for at least the next several hours, it’ll inevitably take far longer to seek out Experts and eventually access the skill tree they then work toward via prerequisite challenges, achievements, and items.
So, by the time players actually obtain the two extracurricular cheats and all optional shift tokens, there’s a low likelihood that there’ll be a Sabacc table they haven’t already won at.
Sabacc certainly isn’t scarce in the galaxy, but there is little reason to play a table more than once because players are only gifted a unique reward when they initially win, leaving only a meager amount of credits to win thereafter. Plus, if it’s credits players seek, they’d be better off pursuing them during more fruitful endeavors such asStar Wars Outlaws’ syndicate-crossing contracts. Wild Card will presumably provide many more tables to compete at, and if new cheats or shift tokens are debuted it’ll be phenomenal to resuscitate that collectible pursuit and layer Sabacc with even more gameplay nuance.
