Star Wars Jedi have galactic shoes to fill when it comes to bounty hunters

There has rarely been a dull moment for Cal Kestis and the Stinger Mantis team since Cere Junda and Greez Dritus saved Cal on Bracca in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. That said, no one has pursued the Stinger Mantis crew as successfully and vigilantly in Star Wars Jedi series as the Haxion Brood, a group of bounty hunters that Cal was introduced to when he and BD-1 were kidnapped by them and forced to participate in an Ordo Eris battle arena against waves of enemies hosted by Sorc Tormo.




Bounty hunters have been a great source of spontaneous excitement and high stakes in Star Wars Jedi franchise so far, but whether that should remake the Haxion Brood for a third time or shelve it for another handful of different, random mercenaries is another matter entirely, especially if Cal himself is positioned to become a bounty hunter of sorts. Really, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor makes Haxion Brood a much more explicit threat than before. But while they operate in the same way to capture players, Cal now gains the upper hand and the hunters become the hunted this time in Star Wars Jedi: Survivortease a whole new arc for Cal in a future entry.

Star Wars Jedi turning Cal Kestis into a bounty hunter may lean towards Jango Fett's origin story


Star Wars: Bounty Hunter indulges in many optional “dead or alive” contracts that players can search for at their discretion. This concept is realized phenomenally in early chapter levels like Coruscant, where enemies are sparse enough that players can comfortably and liberally take their time scanning NPCs with Jango's slow-motion POV visor.

However, the bounty hunt becomes much more laborious and impractical in later chapters where enemies flood the screen in waves, flanking players and spamming them with explosive bolts or missiles from unseen distances, but it's still an engaging feature that makes the game feel more like a basic arcade shooter . In fact, the option to deposit live bounties means players must first mark a scanned prize target and then tie them up with Jango Fett's whip cord and interact with them, which is nearly impossible to do in the middle of a room full of enemies.


Even more difficult is trying to carefully eliminate all other enemies in a room first and save the prize target for last, but few options remain to secure a prize money in the mid to late game levels. Either way, these elements would make great ingredients in the next one Star Wars Jedi game, especially if Cal becomes an official bounty hunter himself since he's technically already become one Surviving while taking out targets for a plot Caij Vanda.

The only incentive for players to do so was bounty pucks for multiple abilities – some too

Surviving
s blaster stance and some for BD-1's droid slicing – and blaster cosmetics they could be turned in for, and there could surely be an even bigger reward in a sequel for hunting down characters and having the ability to turn it in where the reward alive.

Star Wars Jedi's Bounty Hunting is too integrated to store now


The Haxion Brood has not been dealt with permanently and with so many bounty hunters and bounty droids now felled by Cal, it would make sense for Sorc Tormo's pursuit to become even more persistent and vicious in a third game. But now that Cal had a taste for bounty hunting, it puts him in an interesting position to possibly search for bounty money himself, even without Caij tipping him off to locations of Brood affiliates patiently waiting for his arrival.

Surviving teasing that Cal could withdraw his lightsaber soon and put the fight behind him. Of course, with the Haxion Brood looking for Cal Kestis and the Stinger Mantis crew, the fugitive Jedi Knight might not have a quick means out of the bounty hunting business until it's a problem he's been solving indefinitely and it would be a shame to see that subplot arc suddenly dropped in a third Star Wars Jedi game without so much as a concrete resolution one way or another.


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