The best factions of Star Wars Outlaws that you’ve built up your reputation with will grant you all sorts of rewards, including excellent clothing, new skins, access to special areas, and discounts at various merchants. Maintaining a good reputation with the various factions in Star Wars Outlaws is a key element of the game, and one that you can use intelligently – or get horribly wrong and end up pissing everyone off. If you need help managing the various crime syndicates and choosing between them, here are the best factions in Star Wars Outlaws and how to build a good reputation with them.
What is the best faction in Star Wars Outlaws?
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Of the main Star Wars Outlaws factions you can focus on when building your reputation, none are inherently better than the others – it’s more a matter of what you want to prioritize – but if you have to choose one, we’d say it’s either the Hutt Cartel, or the Ashiga clan, the fourth faction that opens when you first reach Kijimi.
The Hutts have a lot of good traders and dominate Tatooine, one of the probably slightly tougher worlds, so it’s helpful to have them on your side there. The Ashiga are less present throughout the game, but their rewards for high reputation are very good, with one of the best Star Wars Outlaws outfits. Being smaller also makes them harder to get in the way and piss off during normal gameplay, so it’s easier to keep them on your side.
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There are four main factions in Star Wars Outlaws that you can influence with your reputation (not counting factions you can’t turn to, like the Empire or the Rebel Alliance). Each of these factions has a niche that usually dictates the type of goods their vendors sell, as well as the type of jobs and contracts you can receive from them.
- The Pyke Syndicate: The Pyke Syndicate consists of smugglers and black market traders and places great value on spaceships and modern weapons.
- The Purple Dawn: As assassins, blackmailers, thieves and manipulators, Crimson Dawn focuses on stealth and behind-the-scenes control.
- The Hutt Cartel: As enforcers, beasts, and mercenaries, the Hutts rely on physical violence and aggression.
- The Ashiga Clan: The Ashiga are a territorial clan of alien insects led by a queen and are only unlocked when you first reach Kijimi.
How to increase your reputation in Star Wars Outlaws
In Star Wars Outlaws you can earn your reputation in several ways. but the best are contracts: These side missions tend to build a solid relationship with the faction you’re doing the quest for. Quests usually end with a decision where you can betray the quest giver for some extra credits, but if you don’t, you’ll probably get a good, clean profit from their opinion of you.
In the meantime, here are some more recommendations for building your reputation:
- Pass on data to faction smugglers: Throughout the game, you can find data that is a valuable resource. Giving it to a smuggler belonging to a particular faction will boost your reputation, and certain data is highly valued due to that syndicate’s contextual habits – the Pykes love information on spaceships, for example, and Crimson Dawn likes blackmail material.
- Don’t get caught: Sooner or later you will have to face off against all of these factions, but provided you never break cover, they will never know you were there. It is only when you start shooting or are discovered that your reputation drops.
- Look for random events: Whether in space or on Earth, you’ll occasionally receive markers for nearby conflicts. These are your chances to step in and help whoever is in trouble – even if it may mean upsetting others.
- Accept that you can’t please everyone: While it’s possible to form multiple factions like you, it’s ultimately really difficult. Since they’re all practically at war, supporting one faction means you’re upsetting another. Realize that you probably won’t be able to make them all your friends at once unless you’re willing to really put in the effort and complete lots of quests without blowing your cover.
Our Star Wars Outlaws Review praised many of these systems, and although we had our problems with them, it was enough to get on the list of best Star Wars games.
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