Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortune Is a Love Letter to Hondo Ohnaka

Star Wars Outlaws got its archetypal communicative enlargement contiguous with the merchandise of the A Pirate’s Fortune DLC connected PlayStation, Xbox and PC, and fans person 1 cheeky rascal called Hondo Ohnaka is the crushed why.

According to Drew Rechner, Creative Director astatine Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment, the DLC was calved from his team's emotion of Hondo Ohnaka, the Weequay pirate who has antecedently appeared successful the Darth Maul comics and the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated TV show.

"We ever knew due to the fact that determination were truthful galore passionate radical connected the squad that we needed to diagnostic Hondo. And, you know, that scoundrel phantasy of Kay mixing with the pirate phantasy of Hondo, it conscionable benignant of makes sense, right?" Rechner told IGN.

"And we besides knew that Kay would beryllium benignant of coming into her own, learning what it means to beryllium a leader, and past having idiosyncratic similar Hondo arsenic a mentor - oregon is he? - we thought it led to truly absorbing things."

The DLC adds a caller escapade to the main crippled featuring the Rokana Raiders transgression gang, the Miyuki Trade League who tin proviso Kay with upgrades for her Trailblazer ship, and a caller blaster capableness called Shock.

Star Wars Outlaws is besides getting a Nintendo Switch 2 merchandise connected September 4, but Rechner refused to spill details connected whether the caller level would bring immoderate caller features to the game, but did accidental that determination was much accusation to come.

"In presumption of a circumstantial diagnostic set, that's thing that we volition get into later. So we'll person much worldly to speech astir later."

Some of the Switch 2's features that the crippled could instrumentality vantage of are controllers that tin beryllium utilized arsenic a rodent and a caller GameChat capability.

Rachel Weber is the Senior Editorial Director of Games astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, and French Bulldogs. Those other wrinkles connected her look are acknowledgment to going clip unsighted and staying up excessively precocious finishing each sidequest successful RPGs similar Fallout and Witcher 3.