Star Wars Outlaws™ - Become the Galaxy's Greatest Scoundrel on Ubisoft+

Robbing the galaxy's most dangerous organizations is among the most thrilling things you can do in Star Wars Outlaws™, and getting away clean takes stealth, trickery, and sometimes even outright betrayal. As Kay Vess, an in-over-her-head scoundrel on the run with her adorable merqaal pal Nix, you'll frequently deal with crime syndicates, weighing how your actions will affect your reputation with them - and your dealings can create plenty of opportunities to snatch credits from different worlds and redistribute valuable supplies to your own pockets. With the arrival of Title Update 2, now is the perfect time to start carving your own niche in the galaxy's underworld with a Ubisoft+ Premium subscription, which grants access to the Ultimate Edition (including the Season Pass, Rogue Infiltrator Bundle, Sabacc Shark Bundle, and digital art book).

Kay is many things - pilot, adventurer, fast-talker, gunslinger - but first and foremost, she's a thief. And while she may sometimes seem inexperienced, she's very good at it. Growing up in the Canto Bight Worker's District, Kay was trained to survive as a pickpocket, and when Star Wars Outlaws opens, she's getting by on small-time cons and petty thievery. When a big opportunity goes south, circumstances force her to flee in a stolen (and highly capable) starship - and so Kay is unleashed on the wider galaxy.

Everywhere Kay visits while assembling her heist crew - the lawless desert planet of Tatooine, the savanna moon of Toshara, the jungle planet Akiva, or snowy Kijimi - there are plenty of opportunities for a scoundrel like Kay to pocket interesting and useful items, which range from discarded crafting materials and recordings of Outer Rim soap operas to valuable components you'll need to upgrade your blaster, ship, and speeder. Some of these are laying around out in the open; others push Kay to solve increasingly complicated puzzles with her blaster, her companion Nix, her grappling hook, or some combination of the three. Still others are floating out in space, guarded by pirates, syndicates, or the Empire.

And then there are those that require you to enter areas guarded by stormtroopers or syndicates to find what you're looking for. Sneaking around unseen is thrilling, but this is also one place where Kay's reputation with the four syndicates - the Pyke Syndicate, the Hutt Cartel, Crimson Dawn, and the Ashiga Clan - comes into play. If you've built up trust with one or more syndicates by doing jobs for them, you can just breeze into their territory to snatch valuables or commit sabotage (if hired to do so by a rival syndicate) before nonchalantly strolling back out.

Congratulations, you've just played the galaxy's most fearsome criminal syndicates for saps. It's immensely fun and empowering - so long as you don't get caught, of course, which is an even bigger risk if you decide to make a play for the syndicate vaults hidden deeper in their territory, in places where Kay will never be allowed to just walk in. If things don't go to plan, you might only be kicked out (with a loss in reputation, leading to fewer opportunities and maybe even outright hostility from that syndicate), or you might have to fight your way through their guards, which will damage your reputation even further. But as Kay herself frequently says, they'll get over it. Eventually. If you find ways to get back in their good graces.

One of those ways is what might, in this hypothetical situation, have led to Kay's reputation loss in the first place: pulling jobs for the syndicates you want to impress, which you can take on from shady contract brokers around the galaxy. This often involves sabotaging, stealing from, or spying on rival syndicates, which - again - can be easy or difficult depending on your relationship with your targets. Succeed, and they'll be none the wiser, but you'll get paid and improve your rep with your client. Fail - especially on jobs where you've got just one chance to succeed - and you may lose standing with both client and target, which can spell trouble (up to and including syndicate assassins). And if you don't mind losing a bit of standing, you may even get the chance to betray your client for better or different rewards from another party. Remember: it's just business. They'd probably do the same to you.

Part of what makes all this infiltration fun is that some of Kay's thieving tools come with minigames; her Data Spike rethinks lockpicking as an enjoyable rhythm game, and her Slicing Kit essentially turns hacking into a code-guessing game with symbols instead of numbers or letters (solve it quickly, and you'll score some credits in addition to whatever else you were after). Kay's greatest tool might be Nix himself, though; the little merqaal can pickpocket passersby (including stormtroopers), or distract guards long enough for Kay to sneak past them or quietly take them down. If you're unsure if you've grabbed everything in an area, triggering Nix's senses will highlight anything you missed - and if something shiny is far away, you can always send him to fetch it for you.

Nix is also one of the ways you can cheat at Kessel Sabacc, Star Wars Outlaws' breakout minigame and one of the most fun ways to make money, no matter which corner of the galaxy you're in. Getting a low-numbered pair of cards might seem simple, but there are a surprising number of variables at play - like the shift tokens you and your opponents can use to tilt the rules. You've got something they don't, however: a sneaky merqaal who can peek at everyone's cards and let you know what they're holding. As Kay travels and meets friendly experts, she'll be able to add their skills to her repertoire, learning to covertly draw twice the cards and fix the dice when determining the value of Impostor cards.

There's plenty more than thievery to discover in Star Wars Outlaws - exploring wide-open worlds on your speeder, blasting your way through Imperial outposts, and taking on pirates in space dogfights with the Trailblazer (before snatching their loot) are all rewarding ways to experience Kay's adventure. You can start playing the Ultimate Edition today with a Ubisoft+ Premium subscription on PC via Ubisoft Connect or Xbox Series X|S, or purchase Star Wars Outlaws on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC (via Ubisoft Connect and Epic Games Store).

For more on Star Wars Outlaws, check out 10 Things to Look Out For, the PC specs and features, and post-launch roadmap, and visit starwarsoutlaws.com.