Star Wars Outlaws Syndicates Reputation System: Everything You Need to Know

This guide explains how the Syndicates Reputation System works in Star Wars Outlaws – the effects of Positive and Negative reputation, what rewards you get for increasing reputation with each syndicate and recommend Reputation Building Strategies!

How to Change Your Reputation
Positive vs Negative Reputation
- Positive Reputation
- Negative Reputation
Positive Reputation Threshold Rewards
Syndicate Territories, Restricted Areas, and Vaults
Reputation Building Strategies

Crime syndicates are the main beneficiaries of your (mis)deeds. They are powerful enough to make deals with the Empire and control a much of the territory, commerce, and work available on the planets you’ll explore.

Having a good reputation with each crime syndicate is incredibly valuable, but what improves your relationship with one often angers another, so you’ll need to make decisions that are most advantageous for you.

Your reputation can change with 4 of the galaxy’s syndicates, the Pykes, Crimson Dawn, the Hutt Cartel, and the Ashiga Clan.

How to Change Your Reputation

Most of your in-game interactions will affect your reputation with influential syndicates. You can improve your reputation with a relevant syndicate by completing contracts for them, sharing valuable intel you come across, and making choices during missions that support them.

Aside from completing contracts, improving your reputation with one syndicate will often damage your reputation with one of their rivals, assuming they would find out. Consider if you have plausible deniability or if the higher-ups have evidence of your involvement.

You can worsen your reputation with a relevant syndicate by betraying them during a mission or getting caught trespassing in their territory, stealing from, or attacking them.

Improves Reputation	Worsens Reputation
Completing syndicate-affiliated Contracts	Getting caught trespassing or stealing
Sharing Valuable Intel	Leaving survivors
Choosing to support them during missions	Choosing to betray them during missions

As the old saying goes, “it’s only illegal if you get caught”, so you won’t face any consequences if you manage to slip through undetected or leave no survivors if you attack them.

Positive vs Negative Reputation

Syndicates don’t trust you until you’ve done something for them. Neutrality isn’t good enough for criminals, so your reputation will be Poor. Initially, you won’t have access to their territory, and you’ll get thrown out if you get caught sneaking around.

Positive Reputation

When you get a Good reputation, they’ll let you roam around most of their turf freely, and if your reputation is Excellent, they won’t mind if you take whatever you find, provided it’s not in a Restricted Area.

You’ll also gain access to additional Contracts and won’t have to go through Brokers to get them. Syndicate-affiliated vendors will also give you a significant discount and sell you some exclusive items.

Negative Reputation

If you have a Poor or worse reputation, you won’t be allowed into the syndicate’s territory and will have to sneak in through a vent or other unsecured area. While inside, you won’t be able to use your weapons, fast travel, or save the game. If you get caught, you’ll be thrown out and lose everything you collected.

If syndicates know who you are in a bad way, they won’t want to work with you. Affiliated vendors will jack up the prices significantly, and they’ll outright refuse to sell some items to you. You’ll have to get Contracts through a Broker, and some of them will be off limits.

Outside of cities, they’ll attack you if they see you anywhere in their territories, and if you manage to garner a Terrible reputation, they’ll periodically send out lackies to hunt you down and attack you.

Positive Reputation Threshold Rewards

The first time you cross into a new positive reputation threshold (Good, Excellent, or Max Excellent) with a given syndicate, you’ll get some rewards sent to the delivery box on your ship. It’s basically a gift basket of crime.

Reputation Threshold	Rewards
Good	Themed Blaster Paint Job
Excellent	Minor Charm Upgrade Materials Box
Maximum Excellent	Themed Outfit with Set Bonus Matching Nix Customization

We have a guide to all Syndicate Themed Outfits and Cosmetics with detailed overview and explanations for how to get each one of them!

Pyke Syndicate Reputation Rewards

The Pyke Syndicate rewards are themed around the Pykes’ strong relationship with the Empire. Their armor set looks like an ISB Uniform and makes it harder for Imperials to notice you, allow Adrenal to build faster and provide buffs from using it, and strengthen the Power module for your blaster.

You receive a bundle of upgrade materials for your ship and a Minor Charm that allows you to throw more grenades. In my opinion, the latter is more useful with the Hutt armor.

Pyke Syndicate Crest — Click on an image to enlarge it.

Ship Parts Bundle — Click on an image to enlarge it.

Crimson Dawn Reputation Rewards

Crimson Dawn rewards look elegant and luxurious. You’ll blend right into their ranks with a black and gold uniform that grants buffs to stealth.

You also get a bundle of upgrade materials for your speeder and a Minor Charm that makes you even more stealthy.

Crimson Dawn Crest — Click on an image to enlarge it.

Speeder Parts Bundle — Click on an image to enlarge it.

Hutt Cartel Reputation Rewards

The Hutt Cartel rewards are colorful and fun. You’ll look like you just raided Sabine Wren’s closet, as the Boonta Brawler set incorporates bounty hunter armor with pink and yellow paint splatter. The set buffs the damage of your explosives while making you more resistant to others’ explosions.

The Hutts also give you a bundle to upgrade your blaster and a Minor Charm that makes you take less damage from melee attacks.

Hutt Cartel Crest — Click on an image to enlarge it.

Blaster Parts Bundle — Click on an image to enlarge it.

Ashiga Clan Reputation Rewards

The Ashiga Clan outfit is perfect for a trip to the frozen tundra of Kijimi. You’ll be bundled up in a white coat likely lined with durasteel, as the set is all about making you more tanky.

You get a bundle of upgrade parts for your blaster, just like you get from the Hutts, and the Minor Charm makes you heal when you defeat an enemy with a melee attack.

Ashiga Clan Crest — Click on an image to enlarge it.

Syndicate Territories, Restricted Areas, and Vaults

Syndicates control territory inside and outside cities, and regions of outer space. If you have a Good or Excellent reputation, the associated syndicate will let you traverse their territory freely.

Some region of each territory is always off-limits, regardless of your reputation with that syndicate. They’re called Restricted Areas.

The main entrance is typically heavily guarded, though there’s always a way to get inside. Keep in mind, if you get caught, you’ll be attacked on site and have to fight your way out.

It’s worthwhile to break into Restricted Areas because that’s where the syndicate keeps their Vault, which hold a great bounty of treasure. There’s always a computer outside the Vault that stores the locations of the Vault Keys.

The Vault is always in the Restricted Area in the syndicate’s territory within city walls, while the outer territories hold the Vault Keys. Sometimes, one of them might be in space.

Reputation Building Strategies

Broadly, you will have different reputations with the different syndicates. Unless you want to do a boatload of Contracts, strongly supporting one Syndicate will involve sabotaging another, and you need to be consistent with your support.

There’s a good chance that if one syndicate adores you, another will hate your guts. You can absolutely do this, but the game is harder and overall experience more uneven.

You’ll need to rely on stealthing through more areas without being able to use your blaster, and some items will be obscenely expensive or downright unavailable. If you’re enough of a jerk to get a Terrible reputation, they’ll even send people after you.

You’ll have a more even experience and face less obstacles if you try to remain in good graces with every syndicate you encounter, though doing so will make it take a lot longer to get one of those max rep outfits.

When you’re faced with a choice to support one syndicate and sabotage the other, consider if one of them will know it was you, and how much they will care. Try to get the most bang for your reputational buck.

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