UPDATED: Emilia Clarke Not Playing Qi’ra In ‘Star Wars: Outlaws’; New Details About Extra Content
UPDATE: A spokesperson for Ubisoft has confirmed to Star Wars News Net that Emilia Clarke will not be reprising her role as Lady Qi’ra in Star Wars: Outlaws. In a statement, they said:
“Players will encounter Lady Qi’ra on their journey as Kay Vess and the team collaborated closely with Lucasfilm Games to ensure that the voice talent we worked with embodies the energy of Lady Qi’ra. We will share more about the cast at a later date, but we can confirm that she is not voiced by Emilia Clarke.”
You may find our original story below.
Qi’ra has been confirmed for Star Wars: Outlaws, according to Game Informer’s newly released cover article on the game. Details about the game’s world, syndicates, and mini-games also emerged. Additionally, fans also received news about Star Wars: Outlaws’ different editions that can be purchased, as well as additional content planned after release.
Today, more news broke out as Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment released a story trailer for Star Wars: Outlaws. The game takes place between The Empire Strikes and Return of the Jedi. It features the new character Kay Vess as a scoundrel working for various Star Wars crime syndicates.
The new trailer showed a Crimson Dawn character, yet fans were unable to make out if this character was Qi’ra from Solo: A Star Wars Story. Game Informer is now saying that players will interact with Qi’ra in the game, according to the report available for Game Informer subscribers:
“Jabba the Hutt, leader of the Hutt Cartel, stands out as the most recognizable underworld boss Kay crosses paths with, but she’ll also deal with Lady Qi’ra (who many know from Emilia Clarke’s portrayal in Solo: A Star Wars Story) of Crimson Dawn, Queen Ashiga of the Ashiga Clan (a new syndicate created for Outlaws) and Gorak of the Pyke Syndicate.”
New details about the game’s planets and locations were also discussed. Julian Gerighty, the creative director at Massive Entertainment, explained how the team is aiming for denser, tightly-packed cities and outposts with a lot to discover. Gerighty also elaborated on how planets have orbits players can fly around in before jumping into hyperspace:
“If you open up the map, the location that we’ve built for Mirogana [one of the game’s main cities] is quite compact. What we wanted to do is to have something very dense in activities rather than super expansive where you get lost, and there’s not much to do. It’s very, very focused on providing a dense, busy city experience …
For planets, we wanted to have an orbit around them with lots of different points of interest, things to do, battles to get in, places to explore. 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 another planet.”
Game Informer also talked about some of the mini-games players can partake in. The main character Kay has a hairpin that can also be used as a dataspike to unlock certain doors. Doing so triggers a “rhythm-based lockpick mini-game.” Sabacc is also present in the game but the article stops short of confirming whether it’s playable or not. However, the wording from lead systems designer Matthieu Delisle strongly suggests so, as players get invited to more and more high-stakes tables:
“If you have a good reputation once you’ve worked good rep with the Pyke Syndicate, for example, you’ll be able to freely go in and then you can get access to a bunch of opportunities. That can be things like jobs for the syndicates, merchants with some of the better stuff for sale, intel, rumors, and can also be high-stakes Sabacc tables.”
Narrative director Navid Khavari also did a trailer developer breakdown:
Additionally, more details about the game’s various editions and extra content have been released. There will be three editions: standard, gold, and ultimate editions. The two higher-tiered editions will come with downloadable content and access to future story content being released later in the future. Be aware, however, that even the physical copies of the game must connect to the internet to install the game.
Star Wars: Outlaws is set for release on August 30 for PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S.
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