As a part of its ongoing effort to show Star Wars Outlaws right into a sport that extra folks may truly wish to purchase, Ubisoft has rolled out its first developer replace, revealing that artistic director Julian Gerighty has been changed as artistic director by The Division and Avatar veteran Drew Rechner.
“I’m very excited to be getting into the position of artistic director on Star Wars Outlaws and to be working with the extremely passionate staff right here at Massive Entertainment together with our proficient co-development studios around the globe and Lucasfilm Games,” Rechner wrote.
“I wish to personally thanks, our neighborhood, to your constructive response to the sport. We see and love all of the fan arts, feedback, and movies you have created across the sport, and it continues to offer pleasure and inspiration to the staff. We really hope you are having fun with your journey throughout the Outer Rim with Kay and Nix up to now.”
Prior to taking up as artistic director on Star Wars Outlaws, Rechner served as affiliate sport director on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and The Division 2: Warlords of New York; he additionally labored beneath Gerighty as lead AI designer on The Division 2 and a sport designer on The Division.
Rechner has massive plans for the sport, which has already obtained a number of updates and an acceleration of Outlaws’ deliberate launch on Steam.There are three “key areas” on which builders are focusing: Combat, stealth, and controls, which he mentioned will “[embrace] participant selection greater than ever earlier than, whether or not it is sneaking by way of encounters, getting in blasters-blazing, or all the pieces in-between.” Details on upcoming modifications shall be shared in future updates resulting in the 1.4 patch on November 21, which is when Star Wars Outlaws will go reside on Steam.
While swapping artistic administrators on a sport that is solely been out for a pair months might sound slightly odd at first, significantly given Star Wars Outlaws’ “gentle” efficiency, on this case there’s nothing untoward occurring. With Star Wars Outlaws launched, Gerighty is shifting his focus again to The Division: He was tapped as the brand new govt producer of the sequence in 2023 when Ubisoft introduced The Division 3; as a part of that announcement, Ubisoft mentioned Gerighty would stay in his then-current place as artistic director of Star Wars Outlaws till the sport was launched.
