Star Wars Outlaws' Krayt Dragons Are Pulled From The…

Star Wars still remains one of the biggest pop culture phenomenons today, and the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws seeks to give players a unique adventure only the Star Wars franchise could provide. Stepping into the shoes of scoundrel Kay Vess, Star Wars Outlaws promises to allow fans to explore the galaxy in an open-world environment. In collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Massive Entertainment decided that the best place for this Scoundrel Fantasy would be between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

While it's easy to aim for a retro experience in the Star Wars universe, the development team is pulling inspiration from many of the multimedia projects the series has had over the years to create a cohesive universe. Some of these inspirations include sightings of enforcer droids from The High Republic novels and The Clone Wars TV show, the planet Kijimi before its appearance in The Rise of Skywalker, and the Crimson Dawn crime syndicate from Solo: A Star Wars Story. In a recent interview, The Best War Games sat down to talk to numerous members of Star Wars Outlaws' dev team, including art and world director Benedikt Podlesnigg, to discuss their inspirations and references. It's hard to narrow down what to use between all of these available sources, but in the case of Krayt Dragons, Massive Entertainment had a bit of a helping hand.

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By Anthony Taormina

Star Wars Outlaws Uses The Mandalorian Krayt Dragon as Reference

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While the skeleton of a Krayt Dragon appears in A New Hope, its first major appearance would actually be in the game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. They would also appear in KOTOR and, most recently, The Mandalorian. Each time they look a little different, leading us to ask how the Krayt Dragons in Star Wars Outlaws were designed. Not only are they inspired by The Mandalorian, but it goes a step further than that.

Krayt Dragons in Star Wars Outlaws

The Mandalorian show seems to put to rest many of the artistic liberties that Krayt Dragons suffered from design-wise, once and for all. At the very least, it seems like Lucasfilm aims to at least make the species consistent because LFL helped Massive Entertainment with its own Krayt Dragon for Star Wars Outlaws. When asked about how Outlaws aimed to adapt the beast from the desert, Podlesnigg revealed exactly how Lucasfilm assisted them with the Krayt Dragons.

"We were lucky that during the production of the game we had the Mandalorian fighting a (different) Krayt Dragon…. We worked closely with LFL who made the show CGI model available to us so we could be as close to the reference as possible."

Using The Mandalorian's CGI model as a reference for Star Wars Outlaws puts a new meaning to "pulling from the source material," as it's surprisingly very literal in this case. However, Podlesnigg does mention that the Mandalorian fights a different Dragon, so there is they still have a unique look only found in Outlaws. Fans can encounter this deadly beast when Star Wars Outlaws releases on August 30.

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