Star Wars Outlaws Gets Another Switch 2 Patch, Further Improves Performance And Visuals

I am absolutely getting a copy of this... especially now that I got a 512 GB SD Express card. I just dont know if its my next purchase... im torn on this, Guardians of Azuma, Fantasy Life I & Cyberpunk.

Glad to see they are continuing to improve on it!

The game does look great, and I have been enjoying it. I don't regret paying full price; Granted, we know ubi will likely have a sale on it 1-2 months after it launched, if not by black friday.

Imagine that in the days, DAYS leading up to release, the reports were all copy and paste negative nonsense about how rough this was… and a lot of people just believed it. ‘Just because you read it in the magazine or see it on the TV screen don’t make it factual…’ those lyrics are dated because the medium has changed, but other than that, still sadly accurate.

Call me if there's a physical release.

Yeah, defo a good 'un on the Switch. I even bought the PS5 version so could continue using the cross progression between the two. Well done Ubisoft for this cracking conversion.

@AmplifyMJ Footage released by Ubisoft weeks before release looked poor. Can't blame people for reporting on what the company that made the game is releasing.

I'm thrilled it turned out well. But Ubisoft held footage of the release code extremely close to the vest.

I've been enjoying this game and it's great to see they are supporting it really well, after clearly putting a lot of effort into the port. I hope it sells well for them.

My only real criticism is the ray tracing, I'm glad it's there and it works well a lot of them time, but when it looks like a kind of popping and fizzing it's quite distracting. I get that it's due to the use of less rays, and cuts were inevitable, but I wonder if the Nvidia hardware present in the Switch 2 can do a little better. Anyway, that aside, still an awesome version of this game and a Switch 2 essential!

@Divide_and_Wander oh, so bigger cards are out already?

@Nintendo4Sonic - The 512 GB ones, yes. Popped into a Best Buy (I live in the US), and when I couldn't find them anywhere, I asked and they had them in the back.

I dont know about availability of 1 TB express cards yet, but I know at least one store in New York City has an 'end of October' timeline for Lexar ones.

@Divide_and_Wander thanks, I just checked on Amazon. But they're pretty expensive yet.
I will definitely wait a bit.

@Divide_and_Wander Get Fantasy Life, Azuma is surprisingly underwhelming visually compared to even the Steam Deck. Found the gameplay nothing special either. Only get Cyberpunk if you mostly play handheld, the Rez looks great there and the VRR smooths out the frames greatly, especially if in the city or in the desert or any big open area. The docked performance is not good unless you're in a linear story section, no matter how much ppl glow up this port online. Fantasy Life is a little rough on Switch 2 also compared to the Steam Deck, but it's pretty and super addictive.

@Nintendo4Sonic @Divide_and_Wander also DO NOT buy Lexar cards!!!! Stick with SanDisk, and Samsung secondly. SANDISK performs the best, and Samsung is close. Look it up.

@Dang_69 - Thanks for the feedback on the games! Im definitely not in the market for Lexar cards, it was more a heads up that 1 TB cards are nearly available. I had a bad experience with them during my wildlife photography days where I lost several hundred quality shots when the card corrupted. Never again, haha.

The 512 GB card was SanDisk, as is all my other various memory cards.

Dunno why, but I've enjoyed this game far more on Switch 2 than I did on PC/Legion Go S or PS5

@Divide_and_Wander Cyberpunk should be your next big purchase/download. I got it the day I got my Switch 2 and I can’t put it down. It’s absolutely terrific and it is still being patched a bit here and there to this day and it runs like a dream on the system.

@Orwellian87 I will add, occassionally (and usually in Dogtown) the game seems to really appreciate a quit to main menu and the console being turned off (not sleep.) I noticed sometimes it can feel like it's starting to struggle (after bloody hours of playing lol!) and this sorts it right out.

@WoomyNNYes That sparkling is there cause the Switch 2's raytracing capabilities are a bit lacking. It cannot shoot enough rays to display light and reflections cohesively, it has to do it over several frames, which leads to a noisy image.

Don’t compare it to ps5 - I’ve got on both and I’m loving switch 2 version.

That settles it, I'm buying it. This kind of post-launch support is awesome.

Still no mouse mode :/

I'll wait for the first time it goes on sale. Too much else to play atm

Great game, was much better than expected.

@PanFriedSoup It's probably the shock that Switch 2 can run this game so well plus a few other factors such as the game actually being fixed since launch, it was nigh unplayable at launch and all the discussion about it has been negative until it came out on Switch 2. Still sitting in the eShop charts so I don't think you're alone.

@Rebusmind Pretty sure it's not related to the amount of rays but the resolution of the game's output before DLSS. Since it's being upscaled, the RT is shining lights but there isn't enough pixel data to reflect it so it creates a shimmer effect. You'll notice when you dock the console this problem is much less noticeable in the same areas, and some of the more well lit spaces also don't suffer from this.

Just a minor correction but I could also be completely off base.

@GrailUK good to know.

This is the best looking game on Switch 2, IMO.

@AmplifyMJ Was not expecting to see lyrics from "Tabloid Junkie" in these comments, but here we are. That is a great song. Still very relevant, it's just social media now.

I don't know the exact size of the update, but my router's bandwidth monitor was reporting in the realm of 4.7GB for the update to a game that's roughly 20GB. I think this is the real reason why the game is not on cart.

Good to read! Outlaws is brilliant, so I'm pleased the developers are monitoring and fixing these issues.

I'm a bit puzzled by the first comment that they will definitely buy Outlaws after a recent purchase of a 512 GB SD card. Surely no one has blown their 256 GB internal storage already? Outlaws isn't even a big game at 21 GB.

I sense people are rushing into these expensive Express SD cards prematurely. Wait until you actually need one. By the time you do, they probably will be half the price. The 256 in my Switch is only 70% full. Two friends never bought a card for their Switches.

@Divide_and_Wander My vote goes for Guardians of Azuma. Not the most visually impressive game of the lot, but a good story with fun characters and great gameplay that lets you choose how involved you want to get in managing each aspect of your domain. A truly underrated gem, in my opinion.

@AmplifyMJ If this was, let's say, CD Projekt Red before the original launch of Cyberpunk, then people would have a point of being caught with an egg in their face, but this is Ubisoft. They haven't been doing too hot the last couple of years, so it's unsurprising that people would believe the port was terrible.

Did this release do enough for Ubisoft to make a sequel? I am hopeful that one day they will release sales data.