Star Wars Outlaws Accessibility Features Include DualSense Motion Aiming, Safe Climbing, and More

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As the release of Star Wars Outlaws approaches within a month with a completed game, Massive Entertainment has detailed its accessibility features. These include:

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Various gameplay options include fast travel between discovered locations, auto-grabbing ledges, safe climbing (making it impossible to fall), automatically avoiding objects on the speeder, and much more. Check out the list below.

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ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES LIST

VISUALS

  • High contrast settings – remove all color from the background, apply colors to important gameplay elements (e.g., ally, hostile aware/unaware, interactable, climbable surfaces), and with a choice of colors and transparency.
  • Colorblind accessible by design wherever possible.
  • Visual intensity configurable through a range of settings, including screen shake, depth of field, motion blur (general, camera, and per-object), and chromatic aberration.
  • View angle (FOV) configurable separately for default and while aiming.
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AUDIO

  • No audio reliance – important information is communicated by other channels in addition to sound.
  • Subtitles for dialogue and background chatter, with speaker names and optional directional arrows, and configurable size, background, and colors.
  • Configurable dynamic range for control over the volume difference between loudest and quietest sounds.
  • Choice of audio channels – stereo, 5.1, 7.1, 7.1.4 (support for ATMOS overhead speakers).
  • Separate volume sliders for master, music, effects, voice, cinematics, controller, and menu narration.
  • Dynamic audio mix with rules to ensure there are not too many sounds playing at once, for example by removing lower-priority sounds from the mix when in cinematics or during dialogue, and enemy weapon sounds prioritized based on threat level; and audio – level drop-off for persistent sounds such as speeder and ship engines.
  • Audio descriptions for cinematics – an optional narrated voiceover describing what is happening visually (English language only).
  • Positional audio cues showing the direction of nearby discovery opportunities, such as loot or side quests.

CONTROLS

  • Auto-walk to keep moving forward until a button is pressed.
  • PC supports keyboard & mouse, controller, and virtual keyboard via windowed mode.
  • Keyboard & mouse remapping.
  • Controller presets.
  • Sensitivity individually adjustable across mouse, controller, camera look, hip-firing, speeder, and ship.
  • Camera inversion across X and Y axis, configurable separately for on-foot, speeder, and ship.
  • Configurable deadzones – both inner and outer for both sticks.
  • Adaptive trigger intensity (Dualsense only).
  • Motion aiming (Dualsense only) – aim using the controller’s gyroscope, with settings for inversion, sensitivity, smoothing strength, and aim option to use roll for horizontal look.
  • Auto-align camera to horizon and movement direction.
  • Toggle sprint.
  • Fine control over vibration strength, with sliders for each type of information (e.g. weapons, melee, Nix, damage).
  • Change holds to presses – an overall setting that affects a wide range of gameplay holds.

STEALTH & COMBAT

  • Multiple difficulty presets with an extremely forgiving ‘story’ setting.
  • Individual difficulty settings for enemy difficulty, player health, and wanted difficulty.
  • Aim assist toggle, strong by default
  • Option to hold rather than repeatedly press to fire blaster.
  • Different playstyles supported through unlockable blaster-fire modes
  • Adrenaline rush feature to allow targeting of enemies with low precision and time pressure.
  • Auto-perfect reloading option.
  • Stealth assists- threat sense, awareness icons, and visualization of enemy footsteps (on by default but can be turned off)

NAVIGATION & TRAVERSAL

  • Fast travel between discovered locations.
  • Safe climbing – not possible to accidentally fall.
  • Auto ledge grab, with no overly long distances to jump.
  • Straightforward grappling with large hit areas and auto-dismount.
  • Auto object avoidance and ledge guard on foot and speeder.
  • Health regeneration for environmental speeder damage.
  • In-world map markers can be toggled on permanently.
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SPACE

  • Damage from colliding with objects can be turned off.
  • Stuns from ion weapons can be turned off.
  • Self-righting to automatically bring ship back to the horizon.
  • Incremental throttle – tap up/down instead of holding.
  • Choice between hold or toggle for speed boost and shooting.
  • Flexible combat style including strong aim assist and pursuit mode to adjust view and speed to follow targets.
  • Motion-sickness considerations through design of enemy maneuvers and speed adjustments.

MINIGAMES

  • Individual difficulty settings for the timing, precision, and level of visual assistance for each minigame.

NIX

  • Additional vocal and visual cues from Nix for nearby enemies, loot, etc.
  • Nix orders allow automated interacting, pickpocketing, attacking, and picking up, including during stealth, through large low-precision target areas.

MENUS & HUD

  • Accessibility presets for finding and turning on common combinations of accessibility settings.
  • Menu narration for menus and HUD including HUD readout of distance and compass direction to current objective with configurable speed, voice, volume, and which elements to read out.
  • Colorblindness presets to adjust the colors of interface and gameplay elements that use color (usually alongside other methods) to communicate information.
  • Clear default fonts.
  • Larger and smaller text options.
  • Replace stylized titles with regular font.
  • Increased contrast option, for higher-contrast background and colors.
  • Replace holds with taps across the interface.
  • Control reminders of some important controls directly on the HUD.
  • Configurable HUD with control over how often elements are shown; whether to show compass, map orientation, center dot size; and whether to add a plain contrasting background behind all HUD elements.

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