Ubisoft has made a peace offering to PS5 players who were advised to restart Star Wars Outlaws to avoid progress-breaking bugs… in the form of a trinket and some Ubisoft Connect currency.
As we told you yesterdayRecently, Ubisoft sent emails to some PlayStation 5 players asking them to update their copy of Outlaws to the latest version, following a major bug-busting patch. Ubisoft said players should start a completely new save after this, as they would be unable to fully progress in their existing save.
Obviously, this didn’t go over particularly well with players who started playing on an older version of the game – including those who had paid extra to get early access, and had already put many hours into it.
Now, in a follow-up email, Ubisoft has said that it is making up for the mistake by giving affected Outlaws players a trinket for Kay’s ship the Trailblazer and 100 Ubisoft Connect credits that can be used to unlock in-game rewards or discounts in Ubisoft games, and are usually earned by completing in-game achievements. Ubisoft said that it hopes the offer will make players’ return to the Outer Rim “a little more special” this time around.
“We fully acknowledge that asking you to start a new game isn’t the best experience, especially during an Early Access period, and for that we apologize,” Ubisoft’s email reads.
The company said it is now “actively working” on adding the Ubisoft Connect currency to players’ accounts. In the meantime, the trinket can be found in the Trailblazer’s delivery crates when players arrive in Toshara. New Moon of the Outlaws is designed for a game inspired by the African savannah,
The email concluded, “We appreciate your patience, and hope you enjoy the game.”
We recently gave Star Wars Outlaws two stars out of five.
“It lacks the branching plot of an Arkham game, the open stealth, the systematic choices of an rejected Or the sharp, relentlessly satisfying pace of gunning down enemies in Assassin’s Creed,” reads Eurogamer’s Star Wars Outlaws review“It lacks linear sparkle and charisma unsolved“It lacks the animation flow for yellow-edged platforming next to the horizon, or the pure joy of taking platforming and making it an actual game in its own right, as in Star Wars Jedi.”
