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.

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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.

The latest update for Star Wars Outlaws delivers performance optimizations, bug fixes, and other tweaks to the Ubisoft-published title.

The announcement was unceremoniously shared on X, with a dev update introducing Rechner, who "has recently taken the helm of Star Wars Outlaws as creative director." The new Imperial commander said the studio has been gathering data since launch and will focus on implementing feedback and continuing to grind down those lingering rough edges.

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.