The journey to fix Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has begun.
Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment recently released a series of patches to fix some of the issues of the latter's latest entry to its Star Wars Jedi series.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is the target of negative criticism and ridicule for its many issues, such as framerate dips even on medium settings despite mid-to-high-end graphics cards, crashes, and more, per Eurogamer and Kotaku.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Patch Details
Respawn Entertainment's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor team mentioned on the game's official Twitter account that it had released the first wave of patches to fix the many issues plaguing it.
According to the post, the patches the development team made are for all platforms, but all of them were made immediately available on Jedi: Survivor's PC version for a good reason. It doesn't properly work regardless of whether players have a high-end PC or not; the game's console versions of the game were hard hit by its bugs, but not as bad as the PC version.
Respawn Entertainment's first patch for the PC came on May 1, which contained performance improvements for non-raytraced rendering. Meanwhile, it released patches on May 2 to fix the following issues to the game, improving the game's performance on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S:
- Multiple crashes across PlayStation and Xbox Series X/S and various areas of the game.
- Crashes tied to skipping cinematics.
- Issues with dynamic cloth inside the Mantis.
- Various rendering issues.
- Issues with registered Nekko colors not saving.
- Issues with registered Nekko disappearing from the stable.
- Issues with cinematic dialogue overlapping.
- Various collision issues.
- Issues with enemy Al remaining in T-Pose during photo mode.
- An occasional freeze that can occur while talking to Doma.
- A bug that caused BD-oil's VFX to not render properly.
- Issues where players were getting stuck inside the Chamber of Duality if they didn't save after leaving the chamber and die.
The patch also contained Performance improvements across PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Keep in mind that Respawn Entertainment made these patches immediately available to PC gamers; they're now available to download and install.
Respawn Entertainment mentioned that it is still working on more patches to further improve Jedi: Survivor's performance and fix its issues across all platforms.
The Problems With Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor was a long-awaited game that expanded game protagonist Kal Kestis' story after the events of the first game, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Unfortunately, the numerous bugs, glitches, freezes, and crashes gamers experienced while playing the game, especially PC gamers, hindered their experiences to the point that they began review bombing the game's Steam page.
Many called out the game's more prominent issues, such as its crashes, freezes, framerate drops, and poor performance even with mid-to-high-end PC specifications.
However, Respawn Entertainment did address the game's issues, saying that it is committed to fixing these issues "as soon as possible."
