Star Wars Outlaws Minigames: What Is The Slicing Minigame Explained

Star Wars Outlaws features a great variety of minigames that players can enjoy or challenge themselves away from the dangerous scenes of the criminal underworld. Slicing (or hacking) is one of the few minigames that appears in-game, although mainly through the various main and Faction/Syndicate quests and Contracts.

Slicing is less prevalent than the Data Spiking/Lockpicking minigame, but it will demand plenty of attention, focus, and brainpower to hack into terminals and computers and access valuable information. This guide mentors Scoundrels into becoming master Slicers by explaining the minigame's gameplay and providing general tips and tricks, and settings to consider in Star Wars Outlaws.

What Is The Slicing Minigame In Star Wars Outlaws? Explained

Slicing is Star Wars' take on hacking, which Kay Vess will do quite a bit of throughout her adventures across multiple planets and locations. Often, she'll need to illegally gain access to terminals belonging to the Imperial or one of the syndicates to retrieve valuable information (or make them disappear), Credits, and, of course, get Stormtroopers off her trail.

The Slicing minigame is a guessing puzzle game where Kay will encounter a grid of three boxes across three or four rows. The main objective is to correctly determine the order of symbols (or numbers if turned on) to uncover the solution and gain access to the terminal.

They'll be provided with a handful of symbols (or numbers) to the left of the grid, and they can select a symbol or number for a position before entering the solution. Likewise, they'll get a few attempts to correctly find the solution and be alerted if the symbol or number is correct and in the right position.

The way to determine if their guess is correct or not is color-coordinated in the following ways:

• Blue: the symbol or number is correct and in the right position.
• Yellow: the symbol or number is correct but not in the right position.
• Red: Both symbol or number and position are incorrect.

There are a few tips and tricks to make Kay's experience slicing terminals much easier, the first of which is completing The Slicer Expert chain quest. This quest not only sees Kay hacking a few terminals and computers to complete objectives, but at the end, the Slicer's NPC contact gives Kay the Slicing Kit, which allows Kay to access Advanced Slicing terminals and computers.

Another general tip to make Slicing less frustrating occurs after completing The Slicer Expert chain quest. Access the Abilities tab, select The Slicer, and pin the Slice Kit Upgrade (The Slicer) ability to follow the progress, as this upgrade requires getting eight Chalcopyrite, three Direct-Energy Circuits, and the Code Breaker Chip to unlock.

Once this upgrade for the Slicing Kit is unlocked, Kay can use it when hacking terminals as the upgrade increases the energy for the Slicing Kit by two and uses energy to trigger Jokers while slicing. This upgrade can also be unlocked through The Veteran Expert but requires 30 Chalcopyrite, 15 4XB Calculation Units, and an AF-2 Cypher Key, which increases energy by two and triggers Jokers while slicing.

The additional energy for the Slicing Kit can be used to unlock subroutines; however, this requires the Slicing Kit to be unlocked after completing The Slicer Expert chain quest. This allows Kay to do some Advanced Slicing and unlock various features like subroutines, of which the best to utilize is the Syntax Sorting, which automatically places all Yellow symbols or numbers in their correct positions.

How To Disable The Slicing Minigame Settings In Star Wars Outlaws?

Akin to our previous minigame guides for Data Spiking/Lockpicking and the Galactic Street Food Challenge, players can indeed turn off the minigame or toggle with the various settings available. To completely turn off the Slicing minigame, from the Pause Menu, navigate to the game's Settings and select the Gameplay option.

Scroll through the list of all available settings until they've found the Minigame subsettings, and they can turn off the Slicing minigame. In doing this, it's being reported that turning off the Slicing minigame prevents the occurrence of bugs and glitches happening in-game, but we have yet to confirm this.

Regardless of whether players choose to turn the minigame on or off, they can toggle a few more settings below it based on their in-game experiences across the Outer Rim. This includes adjusting the number of Slicing attempts, which can make it challenging to slice a terminal correctly, and turning on the numerical icons that appears on the terminal to make it easier to read.