Star Wars Outlaws Accessibility Features Guide

Star Wars Outlaws hits consoles and PC on August 30, 2024. In order to ensure the game can be enjoyed by players with varying needs and preferences, Ubisoft included a wide variety of accessibility settings in the game’s menus that can be tweaked before and after beginning the game.

The game offers “Accessibility presets” in five categories: Gameplay, Cognitive, Colors, Vision, and Hearing. These categories allow players to make changes to multiple accessibility settings with a single action. For instance, if players turn the game’s “Motor Preset” on, Kay will always sprint while running, auto-perfect cooling will be turned on for Kay’s blaster, and more.

Players can customize the settings in each preset before activating it to best suit their preferences. Or, if players only want to change a single setting, rather than making multiple changes at once, each individual setting can also be accessed through the different categories on the game’s main Settings menu.

Here’s a full breakdown of the different accessibility settings players have access to in Star Wars Outlaws. Rather than describing the Accessibility presets, we’ll be looking at each setting individually.

Gameplay

Enemy difficulty (affects enemy health and awareness of player actions)

• Choose one: Story, Regular (default), Challenging, or Hard

Player health (affects how much damage players take and the grace time between damage events)

• Choose one: Story, Regular (default), Challenging, or Hard

Wanted difficulty (affects how difficult it is to escape when wanted by the Empire)

• Choose one: Story, Regular (default), Challenging, or Hard

Auto-perfect cooling (automatically cools the blaster weapon perfectly)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Always sprint

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Fall protection (whether or not Kay will automatically stop when reaching a dangerous edge)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Explorer mode (removes guiding color from navigational elements)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Screen shake intensity

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

View-angle (change the view angle when not aiming)

• Choose 75 - 115 in intervals of 5 (75 by default)

View angle when aiming (change the view angle when aiming)

• Choose 65 - 105 in intervals of 5 (65 by default)

Kessel Sabacc card header (choose how Sabacc card values are displayed)

• Choose one: Symbols, Stylized numerals (default), or Simple numerals

Kessel Sabacc fast mode (speed up enemy turns)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Kessel Sabacc helper logs (“Whether events during Kessel Sabacc trigger additional log lines.”)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Kessel Sabacc cheat minigame (whether the cheat mini-games require inputs or complete automatically)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Lockpicking rhythm challenge (whether the lockpicking mini-game utilizes rhythm-based inputs or not)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Lockpicking difficulty (affects the difficulty of and precision needed for lockpicking)

• Choose one: Easy, Default, or Hard

Lockpicking visual cues (turn on additional visual cues to assist with lockpicking)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Slicing (“Enable a puzzle challenge for slicing electronics.”)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Slicing attempts (changes how many attempts you have to complete a slicing challenge before failing)

• Choose one: Fewer, Default, or More

Slicing numbered buttons (replaces images with numbers in the slicing mini-game)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Galactic Street Food challenge (affects whether this mini-game has a timed challenge or completes automatically)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Galactic Street Food difficulty (affects the difficulty of and precision needed for the Galactic Street Food mini-game)

• Choose one: Simplified or Default

Fast-Talk (enable or disable Kay’s Fast-Talk ability once it’s unlocked)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Fast-Talk timed challenge (affects whether the Fast-Talk mini-game has a timed challenge or completes automatically)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Nix prompts (affects whether Nix’s actions require a prompt to complete or complete automatically)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Collision damage prevention (affects whether or not your ship takes damage when flying into objects)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Ion stun prevention (affects whether or not ion damage causes your ship to be stunned)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Auto throttle in pursuit mode (affects whether or not your ship will automatically control the throttle when in pursuit mode)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Controls

Show controller layout (allows you to choose from multiple control layouts)

• Choose one: Default, Alternate, Left-Handed, Southpaw, or Left-Handed Southpaw

Advanced controls (This sub menu allows you to change your aiming sensitivity, hip fire sensitivity, speeder control sensitivity, stick dead zones, and more).

Aim assist (this setting “Makes your weapon aim slightly closer to the closest target.”)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Toggle sprint (whether sprinting is activated by a single press of the button or holding the button down)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Invert camera X axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Invert camera Y axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Invert speeder turning axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Invert speeder pitch axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Invert speeder camera X axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Invert speeder camera Y axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Invert starship X axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Invert starship Y axis

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Display and graphics

Screen calibration (This sub menu allows you to change the game's brightness, as well as change settings for "HDR mode," HDR Peak," and "HDR UI Peak.")

High contrast mode (“Highlights gameplay elements to improve visual clarity.”)

• Choose one: None (default), Full, or Full + world

High contrast mode allows players to set their desired world color, ally highlight color, the highlight color on hostiles when they are aware and unaware, the interactable object highlight color, and the climbable surfaces highlight color. Each chosen color can be further customized by setting its saturation, brightness, and opacity.

Cinematic display mode (forces a “cinematic aspect ratio, regardless of the screen size”)

• Choose one: Fill screen or 21:9 (default)

Quality (choose the graphics quality preset)

• Choose one: Quality or Performance (default)

Motion blur intensity

• Choose 0-10 in single digit intervals (5 by default)

Camera motion blur intensity

• Choose 0-10 in single digit intervals (5 by default)

Per-object motion blur intensity (set the motion blur intensity for moving objects)

• Choose 0-10 in single digit intervals (5 by default)

Film grain (whether this visual effect is on or not)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Chromatic aberration (“Show color distortion on text and icons.”)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

User interface

Interface text size

• Choose one: Small, Default, or Large

Simpler fonts (use one font for everything in the game)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Capitalize key words

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Colorblind presets (select from multiple presets related to different kinds of colorblindness)

• Choose one: Default, Protanopia, Deuteranopia, or Tritanopia

Increased contrast colors (“Increases the contrast between user interface colors.”)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

HUD visibility (choose how often the game’s Heads Up Display elements should be visible)

• Choose one: Contextual HUD (default), Minimal HUD, or Full HUD

HUD icon size (change the size of HUD icons)

• Choose one: Default, 120%, or 150%

HUD background (“Add a background behind the HUD to increase contrast and readability.”)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Player compass (whether or not the compass is displayed in the user interface)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Center dot (whether or not a dot is displayed in the center of the screen)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Center dot size (when the center dot is activated, change the dot’s size)

• Choose 100-200 in intervals of 20 (100 by default)

Nix quick actions (whether Nix’s quick actions have an icon, a dot, or are hidden)

• Choose one: Icon (default), Dot, or Hidden

Markers (choose whether objective and activity markers are always displayed or only appear when pinged)

• Choose one: Ping (default) or Always

Distance unit (select the game’s distance measurement system)

• Choose one: Metric (default) or Imperial

Control reminders (whether or not the game displays control reminders at the side of the screen)

• Choose one: Always off, Default, or Always on

Threat sense (“Show or hide threat senses for nearby enemies.”)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Enemy state icons (“Show or hide the icons that show how aware enemies are of Kay.”)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Rotate map to player view (whether or not “up” on the map should always match the way you’re facing)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Menu narration (toggle text-to-speech on menus and other UI elements)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

When menu narration is turned on, players can customize this feature by selecting their desired narration volume, voice, and speed. They can also control whether or not narration is read for the HUD, gameplay objectives, health status, and weapon status.

Language and subtitles

Voice language

• Choose one: English, French, Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese

User interface language

• Choose one: English, French, Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese

Speech subtitles (whether or not subtitles are displayed for all spoken dialog during the story or only for translations of different languages)

• Choose one: Translated only or All (default)

Users can change the background color, text color, and speaker name color for these subtitles.

Background speech subtitles (whether or not subtitles are displayed for all background chatter, or only for translations of different languages)

• Choose one: None, Translated only (default) or All

Users can change the background color, text color, and speaker name color for these subtitles.

Sounds subtitles (whether or not captions are shown related to the game’s sound effects)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

When “sounds” subtitles are turned on, players can change the background and text color for these subtitles.

Text size (change the text size for all subtitles and captions)

• Choose one: Small or Medium (default)

Directional indicators (whether or not an arrow is displayed beside subtitles and captions to show which direction the speech or sound is coming from)

• On or off toggle (on by default)

Audio

Focus Mode (“Whether to play all sounds, or to hide the less important sounds to let you focus on the ones that are critical.”)

• Choose one: All (default) or Critical only

Audio description (whether or not the game will play a spoken description of what’s happening during “major cinematics”)

• On or off toggle (off by default)

Audio description volume

• Select 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

Audio mix (“Which type of hardware the audio should be optimised for.”)

• Choose one: Auto (default), Home theatre, Television, Soundbar, or Headphones

Dynamic range (“The difference between the loudest and quietest sounds.”)

• Choose one: High (default) or Low

Music frequency (“How often music will play when exploring the world.”)

• Choose one: Low or Default

Master volume

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

Music volume

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

Sound effects volume

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

Hit feedback volume (“The volume of the feedback that your hits have landed on their target.”)

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (50 by default)

Voice volume

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

Cinematics volume

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

Controller speaker (change the volume of the controller’s speaker, where applicable)

• Choose 0-100 in intervals of 10 (100 by default)

Disclosure: Game code provided by the publisher.