Star Wars Outlaws

Difficulty Differences: How to Change Difficulty

Star Wars Outlaws Difficulty Differences How to Change Difficulty

This is a guide to difficulty settings in Star Wars Outlaws. Learn about difficulty settings for story, combat, and minigames, as well as how to change difficulty below.

All Difficulty Differences

Difficulty Settings

Setting Difference
Story Difficulty Preset ・Controls the difficulty of the game's story encounters.
Individual Difficulty Settings ・Controls the difficulty of the enemies you encounter.
・Allows control of player health and how much damage one can take.
・Controls difficulty related to the Wanted System.
Minigame Difficulty ・Controls how precise the inputs need to be for the Lockpicking, Slicing, and Galactic Street Food minigames.

Story Difficulty Setting Presets

Story Difficulty Description
Explorer Focus on the story and exploring the galaxy.
Presets:
Individual Difficulties: Story
Lockpicking DIfficulty: Easy
Slicing Attempts : More
Galactic Street Food Difficutly: Simplified
Adventurer Find adventure and thrilling combat.
Presets:
Individual Difficulties: Regular
Minigames Difficulty: Default
Outlaw Live the outlaw lifestyle and embrace its challenges.
Presets:
Individual Difficulties: Challenging
Lockpicking DIfficulty: Hard
Slicing Attempts : Fewer
Galactic Street Food Difficutly: Default
Scoundrel Take on all that the galaxy and Empire can throw at them.
Presets:
Individual Difficulties: Hard
Lockpicking DIfficulty: Hard
Slicing Attempts : Fewer
Galactic Street Food Difficutly: Default

Star Wars Outlaws will allow players to modify how difficult the story can be. There are 4 types of story difficutly settings: Explorer, Adventurer, Outlaw, and Scoundrel.

Individual Difficulty Settings

Individual Difficulty Options
Player Health
Enemy Difficulty
Wanted Difficulty
Story
Regular
Challenging
Hard

Outside of story instances, Star Wars Outlaws will also allow players to fine tune certain aspects in combat.

You will be able to change enemy difficulty, increase or decrease player health, and modify how the difficult the Wanted System of the game is.

Minigame Difficulty Settings

Minigame Difficulty Options
Lockpicking Easy
Default
Hard
Slicing Attempts More
Default
Fewer
Galactic Street Food Simplified
Default

Minigames from Lockpicking, Hacking, and Galactic Street Food can also be changed. This difficulty setting dictates how precise your inputs need to be when playing minigames in Star Wars Outlaws.

Setting the difficulty of the minigames to the easiest option essentially reverts the minigame to a button mash that'll lead to an automatic pass.

How to Change Difficulty

Change in the Gameplay Experience Menu

Change in the Gameplay Experience Menu
All of the difficulty settings in Star Wars Outlaws can likely be modified in the Gameplay Experience settings menu of the game.

From there, you can select and toggle among the available options to suit your desired difficulty for the best experience.

Best Difficulty Settings

Select Story for the Plot

Select Story for the Plot
For players that want to focus on the adventures of Kay and Nix, we recommend selecting the Story difficulty.

Select Higher Difficulties for a Balanced Playthrough

Select Higher Difficulties for a Balanced Playthrough
However, if you want to approach both story and combat in a more balanced approach, we recommend selecting the higher difficulties present in the game.

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