Respawn has scheduled Patch 4 for Star Wars Jedi Survivor for this week.
The patch should go live for consoles today, May 9, 2023. Respawn has not set a date for the PC patch, but it should be up before the end of the week.
It doesn’t look like this patch will fix all the game’s issues, but it will address some of the more immediate issues that Star Wars Jedi Survivor has.
We can also see that more fixes are coming for PC, which also explains why that patch is coming later.
Here is what Respawn has confirmed is coming with this patch:
- (PC only) Updated occlusion behavior for raytracing, reducing idle time stalls.
- (PC only) Updated streaming budgets that will help alleviate traversal hitching.
- (PC only) Performance improvements for some VFX. (Coming soon to console)
- (PC only) Updated data handling when toggling raytracing, improving non-raytraced performance.
- (PS5 only) Fixed an HDR value mismatch that would cause HDR setups to display incorrectly for PS5 users.
- Fixed various save state errors.
- Fixed a streaming issue that causes some streaming scenarios to end on a black screen.
- Fixed an issue where one of the vents did not properly activate in Stone Spires.
- Audio fix for a narrative moment where music was behaving incorrectly.
- Fixed lightsaber marks not displaying correctly in some scenarios.
- Fixed a scenario where the player could enter a progression blocked state in the Lucrehulk.
- Fixed an elevator to prevent the player from falling through it and entering a progression blocked state.
- Fixed a bug where Rayvis would become unbeatable.
- Fixed a severe animation issue that would break a late game narrative sequence.
- Fixed a collision bug where players can get stuck inside a Meditation Chamber.
- Added a note explaining that some of BD-1’s abilities are not available while in combat.
- Improved text scrolling.
- Minor text translation fixes.
- Various crash fixes.
While Star Wars Jedi Survivor has joined the cast of 2023 games launching with performance issues, it does stand out somewhat from the likes of The Last of Us Part 1 on PC and Redfall.
Star Wars Jedi Survivor received glowing reviews across the board. While this does reflect positively on Respawn’s overall game design, it’s hard not to question if reviewers had failed to inform gamers properly about the impact these performance issues had. Gamers definitely did not concur with those reviewers that the performance issues can be forgiven.
