EA is promising - or perhaps warning - that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in line for multiple patches over the next few weeks that will improve the game's performance and fix bugs.
"Our first patch will arrive on launch day across all platforms," EA says in a tweet. "In the weeks ahead, we’ll deploy patches that will fix bugs, improve performance, [and] add more accessibility features. Stay tuned for more updates!"
Cal’s newest journey in a galaxy far, far away has begun and we’re excited for you to experience it!Our first patch will arrive on launch day across all platforms. In the weeks ahead, we’ll deploy patches that will:- Fix bugs- Improve performance- Add more accessibility… pic.twitter.com/pUtyoGopP5April 26, 2023
Reviews, including our own Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review, dropped today, and while our own Ali Jones - who played on PS5 - didn't note any egregious technical issues, other early players have flagged a range of concerns on both consoles and especially PC. Our friends at PC Gamer found that the performance on that version is downright "unacceptable" at points, with double-digit framerate drops around seemingly simple background loading.
It's worth noting that Jedi: Survivor reviewers played without the benefits of the day-one patch EA has promised, and it's possible that some of these issues may be alleviated by the time you actually get to play later this week. But that's standard practice with game reviews, and the fact that Jedi: Survivor - for all its apparently excellent qualities - is taking more criticism than most pre-release games for its performance issues is concerning.
Unfortunately, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor does little to improve what most needed fixing with its predecessor Fallen Order. Cal still feels loose to control, and while I’ve been playing on PS5 before a Day Zero patch dropped, the build I played was buggy as hell. pic.twitter.com/l6cStW5vicApril 26, 2023
I ended up kinda pausing my playthrough of Star Wars Jedi Survivor after about seven hours due to some pretty nasty pre-patch technical issues. Hoping everything is in ship-shape by the time the game comes out. It seems fantastic, but it crashed for me on PC quite a lot.April 26, 2023
Star War Jedi: Survivor is a GOTY candidate; it's also incredibly demanding, to the point where even a 7700X has drops below 60 FPS at 4K due to a CPU bottleneck. I had a great experience with the PCI reviewed it on, but it's hard to ignore despite how much I enjoyed the game. https://t.co/ildqeVsV6kApril 26, 2023
EA's tweet is not directly responding to this criticism, but it's tough to see this promise of weeks of post-launch patches as anything but an effort to get out in front of problems with the game's performance. Here's hoping that the game runs decently at launch and these patches can make some big improvements mighty quickly.
