A brief Star Wars Outlaws Endgame Q&A [Spoilers]

Don't read if you don't want to know how the game ends.

Note: I’m trying something a little different with this short post. My main interview with Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty is elsewhere on Game File, and was sent out to subscribers. But this extra part of our chat is being published online-only, for people who actively want to read about more spoiler-heavy topics.

Jet Kordo’s oddly numbered smuggler caches

One of the most satisfying rabbit holes in Star Wars Outlaws is a sequence of quests that are tied to an unseen scoundrel named Jet Kordo. Players are given access to the first portion of this substantial but optional quest when they’re ready to leave the game’s first big planet, Toshara. If you activate the quest, you’ll begin tracking down Kordo’s hideouts, that are spread across Outlaws’ planets. You’re given a gadget—a holotracker—to find them, which is accomplished through audio clues and holographic maps.

After you find Kordo’s first hideout, Outlaws reveals that the holotracker has a second function: to beep when it is near Smuggler Caches, which are loot-filled chests tucked into remote spots in the game’s worlds. These caches aren’t marked on the player’s map and are easy to miss. They’re also numbered in a peculiar way that suggests there are either a lot of them or that Kordo skipped a lot of numbers. I asked Gerighty if there really is a full numbered set and if there’s a reward for getting them all.

His answer was basically, no and no, but here is it in full:

Jet Kordo was a travelling scoundrel too, so the numbers in-between he may have hidden elsewhere as he’s a bit unpredictable. There are about five on each planet and nothing is recovered from collecting all the caches, finding them is more the reward in itself along with the materials you find within. Jet Kordo is also linked to the ‘Scoundrel legacy’ quest and there are gear item rewards for that quest.

ND-5’s restraining bolt

I also asked him about a player request I saw, regarding the appearance of protagonist Kay Vess’ partner droid, ND-5. A major plot point in Outlaws involves ND-5’s forced servitude to his owner, Jaylen Vrax. A restraining bolt on his chest keeps him in check, forcing him to follow Vrax’s orders. Remember, this is a spoiler article… At the end of the game’s main storyline, Vess frees ND-5 and defeats Vrax. After that happens, players can return to Outlaws’ open world to explore and play through optional side missions. ND-5 is with her, but still has the restraining bolt on his chest. “I saw that,” Gerighty said of the fan request to remove the bolt from ND-5’s character model if the player has completed the main story. “I haven’t brought it up with the team, but it has to happen.”