How to get credits in Star Wars Outlaws fast

If you want to get Star Wars Outlaws credits faster, then you'll need to know the tips and tricks to making money. Gaining more and more credits is vital to fund Kay's scoundrel lifestyle from useful materials, outfits, and quite importantly, upgrading the ship. However, with so many different missions and activities across this open-world adventure, it can be hard to know where to focus your time if you’re in the money-making business. You can gamble, cheat, steal, or work your way to a fortune, but some methods of earning credits are better than others. Here’s everything you need to know about the best ways to make Star Wars Outlaws credits fast.

Best ways to earn credits in Star Wars Outlaws

Here are the fastest ways to make money fast in Star Wars Outlaws: 

• Selling valuables: The easiest way of getting money, valuables can be looted, stolen, and sold all over the galaxy, so visit merchants to sell what you find regularly for extra credits. The value of sold goods is also not affected by your Reputation with the various Star Wars Outlaws criminal factions (although buying is). Just be wary of selling especially valuable trinkets that carry a "could have some use later" message.
• Play Wandering Sylop: Wandering Sylop machines can be found in a few places across the galaxy, but the first you'll find one is at the bar of Makal's Gambling Parlor in Mirogana on Toshara. Win all four rounds of the minigame by finding the sylop card and you'll be up by 323 credits. These machines do have a cooldown, however, so you can't play multiple times in a row and need to wait what seems like several in-game days.
• Winning bets on fathier races: Betting on Star Wars Outlaws fathier races can be very profitable, earning you 200-400 credits or more, if you know who to bet on. You'll often find tips and insider info on fixed matches to check our guide for more info there.

Star Wars Outlaws credit-earning tips and tricks

There's plenty of things to look out for to boost your money earning in Star Wars Outlaws. Completing Star Wars Outlaws missions of any kind (story missions, Contracts, or even intel side missions) usually see Kay get paid, and there are several other reliable ways of getting credits:

• Successfully slice computers and other devices: Every time you complete the Star Wars Outlaws hacking minigame before you reach the end of the white slots and go into the red, you'll receive a small sum of credits, with harder slices providing a better payout – it's not much but it's better than nothing.
• Break into keycard vaults: As you explore you'll come across secret vaults belonging to each of the main gangs and even the Empire, containing exclusive rewards and credits - the Crimson Dawn Vault and Pyke Vault can be found in the first few hours. However, all of them are sealed unless you find the three keycards, though luckily there's always a computer nearby you can slice into to learn the rough locations of these keycards.
• Winning at Sabacc: While not very lucrative due to the time it takes to play a full game of Star Wars Outlaws Sabacc, you can earn money from succeeding at this high-stakes poker-like, and it becomes even easier once you have a good grasp of the rules and cheats.
• Plunder Imperial bases: In general, seeking out treasures on your map and in landmarks is a good way to get credits in Star Wars Outlaws, but raiding Imperial bases can get you large credit payouts. Look out for any computers to slice into within a base as they might uncover intel about the loot and security systems, helping you find the most valuable things without many issues. Remaining undetected is ideal but if things go wrong…
• Slice into Imperial computers and steal back your own money: Make sure you visit an Imperial terminal after you've had a bad run of getting arrested or eliminated by stormtroopers – for example, maybe during the Star Wars Outlaws Slicing Kit quest. Hack into the terminal and pick the "transfer arrest credits" option to steal back what the has Empire fined you for each failure. Picking the "clear wanted status" option is also a good way to lose your Star Wars Outlaws wanted level to lose some heat.
• Buy from merchants that you have a good Reputation with where possible: Faction-aligned merchants, such as Lalini from the Star Wars Outlaws Rejected intel quest, offer discounts if you have a positive Reputation with the Faction they work with, usually getting you a 10% discount on their stock. Buy the merchant's Faction stock too, and they'll appreciate your custom so much that the discount increases further. Obviously, the reverse is true too where having a Bad or worse Reputation with a faction will result in increased prices, so avoid shopping with merchants who aren't fans of Kay and Nix.

As our Star Wars Outlaws review notes, the game has some interesting systems at play, such as the Reputation system, and it's just enough to get it onto our list of the best Star Wars games.

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