Ever since Cere Junda and Greez Dritus rescued Cal on Bracca in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. This means that no one has pursued the crew of the Stinger Mantis so successfully and vigilantly Star Wars Jedi series as the Haxion Brood, a gang of bounty hunters to whom Cal was introduced 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 were a huge source of spontaneous tension and high stakes Star Wars Jedi franchise so far, but whether he should reprise Haxion's house for a third time or set it aside for another handful of motley, random mercenaries is another question entirely, especially if Cal himself is in a position to become a bounty hunter of sorts. Really, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor making House Haxion a far more explicit threat than before. But even though they appear in the same way to capture the player, Cal now gains the upper hand and this time the hunters become the hunted. Star Wars Jedi: Survivorteasing a whole new arc for Cal in a future post.
Making Cal Kestis a bounty hunter, Star Wars Jedi could lean on Jango Fett's origin story
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter indulges in a number of optional “dead or alive” contracts that players can seek out at their discretion. This concept is phenomenally executed in early chapter levels like Coruscant, where enemies are sparse enough that players can comfortably and freely spend their time scanning NPCs using the slow-motion POV of Jango's visor.
However, bounty hunting becomes much more laborious and impractical in the later chapters, with enemies flooding the screen in waves, flanking players and spamming them with blaster bolts or projectiles from invisible distances, but it's still an engaging feature that allows the game to feel like more. than a basic arcade shooter. The fact that you choose to turn bounties alive means that players must first mark the bounties' scanned target and then bind them with Jango Fett's whip and interact with them, which is almost impossible to do in the middle of a room full of enemies.
It's even harder then trying to laboriously eliminate every other enemy in the room first and save the reward objective for last, but there are few options left to secure the reward in the mid-to-late game. Either way, these elements would make fantastic ingredients in the next one Star Wars Jedi game, especially if Cal himself becomes an official bounty hunter, since he technically already is Survivors while eliminating targets for the scheming Cai Vanda.
The only incentive for players to do this was the rewards for a few abilities – some for
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blaster stance and something for slicing up BD-1 droids – and blaster cosmetics to exchange them for, and there could certainly be an even bigger reward for hunting characters and being able to turn the reward alive in the sequel.
The Star Wars Jedi replacement hunt is too integral to be shelved now
The Haxion Brood wasn't permanently addressed, and with so many bounty hunters and bounty droids now that Cal has defeated, it would make sense for the hunt for Sorca Torm to be even more persistent and vicious in the third game. Now that Cal has had a taste for bounty hunting, it's an interesting position for him to seek out bounties on his own without Caij directing him to the locations of Brood branches patiently waiting for them to arrive.
Survivors he teased that Cal might retire his lightsaber soon and put the fight behind him. Of course, while the Haxion Brood is looking for Cal Kestis and the crew of the Stinger Mantis, the fugitive Jedi Knight may not have quick bounty hunting funds until it's a problem he solves indefinitely, and it would be a shame to see that happen. that subplot arc suddenly dropped to a third Star Wars Jedi a game with no specific distinction one way or the other.
