Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Launches to Mostly Negative Reviews on Steam
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now available. The game's release is overshadowed by technical issues, although the first patch has already slightly improved the situation.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor by Respawn Entertainment, sequel to the big hit from 2019, has launched.
- The game was released today on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X.
- The standard PC edition can be purchased on Steam, EA App and Epic Games Store for $69.99. Console versions available at PlayStation Store and Microsoft Store for the same price.
- EA Play subscribers can expect a 10% discount. The full game is included in theEA Play Pro subscription.
- In addition to the standard edition, a so-called Special Edition is also available, which offers virtual bonuses such as additional skins for the main character, his weapons and the BD-1 droid.
Poor technical condition of the game spoils reviews on Steam
Prior to its release, news broke about the game's poor technical condition. Publisher Electronic Arts has already announced that Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will be patched for weeks.. The game's problems were received badly by players.
- The first player reviews on Steam are poor - only 23% of them praise the title, which is categorized as a "mostly negative" reception.
- When reading player reviews, it's clear that they like the game itself, and the problem lies in the optimization. Something is clearly messed up, as for many even a strong reduction in detail levels does not help.
Below we cite some sample reviews from Steam.
"I have a GeForce RTX 4080, i9-13900KF and 32 GB 6000 DDR5 and the latest Windows 11 drivers, and I get about 30 frames per second."
"The game is extremely nice, but has terrible performance. I'm using 3090 FE and 5700x - in 1440p I get 30 fps in some areas. In others I have mostly constant 45 fps. Lowering the settings and using FSR makes no difference (...). It's a great game, but definitely wait unless you have 24 GB of VRAM and don't mind playing games at 30 frames per second."
"Apparently, a 3080 is not good enough to run this game."
The first patch is already here
Although bad, the game's optimization could have been even worse. After all, the first patch was released at launch, and benchmarks show that it has significantly improved performance.
The improvements offered by the update are well illustrated by video prepared by the Geralt Benchmarks channel. Previously, on a PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor and a GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB XLR8 GPU, the game on Ultra settings and in 1440p often displayed barely 40 frames per second, while after the patch it achieves an average of 66 fps.
The devs still have a lot of work ahead of them before Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will reach an adequate level of optimization, but the first steps on this path have already been taken.
Finally, it's worth quoting the official system requirements of the PC version of the game, although given reports of optimization problems, the following specs should be taken with a grain of salt.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - minimum requirements for PC
- Processor: Intel Core i7-7700 / Ryzen 5 1400
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8 GB.
- DirectX version: 12
- RAM: 8 GB
- Disk space: 155 GB
- Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor - recommended requirements for PC
- Processor: Intel Core i5 11600K / Ryzen 5 5600X
- Graphics card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB / AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT 8 GB.
- DirectX version: 12
- RAM: 16 GB
- Disk space: 155 GB
- Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit
