As part of its ongoing effort to turn Star Wars Outlaws into a game that more people might actually want to buy, Ubisoft has rolled out its first developer update, revealing that creative director Julian Gerighty has been replaced as creative director by The Division and Avatar veteran Drew Rechner.

Star Wars Outlaws is an offline single-player game that came out over two months ago, but Ubisoft is increasingly treating it like a post-launch live service game with continual updates and, now, a new director.

Ubisoft's troubled Star Wars Outlaws has a new leader, vision, and a big update on the way that will overhaul the game - from combat to animation and more.

As of this week, Drew Rechner will be replacing Julian Gerighty on future post-launch direction of Star Wars Outlaws.

The developers behind Star Wars Outlaws lay out their three primary focus areas for improving the open-world Star Wars game in future update patches.

In addition to thanking fans for their positive reactions, the developer underlined that the team was closely monitoring player feedback and preparing for major changes. As Rechner specified, SW: Outlaws will see improvements primarily in combat, stealth, and controls.

Changes are coming to three key areas that those who’ve played Outlaws for any extended period of time could guess, and a fourth, unexpected change. The aforementioned Julian Gerighty is no longer creative director on the title, and instead Drew Rechner has taken up the role.

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Ubisoft has shared a developer update for Star Wars Outlaws, and with it comes the news that Drew Rechner, a Massive Entertainment veteran whose credits include Associate Game Director for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Tom Clancy's The Division 2: Warlords of New York,

Outlaws' Creative Director Drew Rechner has teased the game will be receiving its "biggest update yet" in Title Update 1.4 on 21 November.