Trailblazer\u00a0<\/em>was created in close collaboration with Lucasfilm Games to ensure it feels like it fits into the Star Wars galaxy. Elements like silhouettes, realism, and personality were all considered to make something believable within the galaxy.<\/p>\nFor the Star Wars Outlaws team, having the basis of the game be about crafting a scoundrel adventure meant that space gameplay was a must to complement the on-world element. “What we were trying to work out is, ‘How do we create a gameplay experience with a multitude of different possibilities?’ because we always knew we wanted to do a huge open-world game and have space travel, hyperdriving, several planets, several locations to explore,” creative director Julian Gerighty says. “I think that’s the play of fancy for the outlaw. It really is when you think of, ‘What would I like to do as an outlaw in Star Wars?’ It is stealth. It is combat. It is fisticuffs. It is hanging out at the cantina and having choices \u2013 meaningful choices \u2013 as a scoundrel, as an outlaw. It is flying. It is jumping on your speeder and going from one settlement to another. It’s all of those things. So, it was important for us to have that ambition and push not just the technology but also the design team to have all of those things at the highest possible quality level.”<\/p>\n
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Much of my gameplay session was spent exploring the underworld of Toshara within the city walls of Mirogana in particular. However, near the end, I had the opportunity to venture outside the walls on Kay’s speeder. “There is a huge element of exploration \u2013 the openness, the vibrancy, the boldness of landscapes, visuals, and all these elements that you get from it just going with your speeder outside to find locations and exploring bits of the world,” art and world director Benedikt Podlesnigg says. “And from this, you also have among the stars. We take our ship flying to space, which is vast but also very risky. It’s wondrous, it’s lucrative, but also there’s a lot of unknown about it.”<\/p>\n
Though I don’t get to see it, Podlesnigg describes how one of his recent gameplay sessions went. After exploring Toshara, he jumps into the\u00a0Trailblazer<\/em>\u00a0and takes it out into orbit because he heard some intel that somebody in a space station was looking for an item he had in his possession. As Gerighty explains to me, planets and moons have an orbit around them that serves as an explorable area for Kay while aboard the\u00a0Trailblazer<\/em>. Once you reach the edge of the explorable area surrounding the planet or moon, you hyperdrive into the orbit of your destination.\u00a0<\/p>\n“This is problem-solving for video games, basically,” Gerighty says. “We wanted to have an orbit around it with lots of different points of interest, things to do, battles to get in, places to explore. So, the orbits for each one of the moons or planets that we created had to be populated with lots of different things, and we didn’t want to create endless space, so you hyperdrive from the orbit of a planet to the orbit of a planet. So, all of the space areas that we have are full of things to do.”<\/p>\n
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