EA has detailed all the changes coming to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor in patch 4, as the development team continues to work on improving the game. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor launched with positive reviews but many users experienced a wide variety of issues with the game, especially on PC.The list of problems faced by Star Wars Jedi: Survivor fans included crashes, low frame rate even on high-end machines, and overall poor optimization. This resulted in many players leaving negative reviews for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on Steam, leading to it having a mixed rating on the storefront. EA has since released various updates for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and it has now detailed all the changes coming in patch 4.RELATED: Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Player Uses Clever Trick to Defeat Spawn of Oggdo Fans should note that patch 4 for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor goes live on PS5 and Xbox Series X/S on Tuesday, May 9, with PC players getting the update sometime this week. As revealed by the patch notes, update 4 of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor fixes a bunch of issues present in the game, with many changes exclusive to the PC version. This latest patch changes streaming budgets that will help in reducing traversal hitches, while making performance improvements for some visual effects. It also solves a problem with the HDR implementation on the PS5 version, while fixing various crashing issues.

Patch 4 for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor fixes several bugs, such as an animation issue that would break a sequence later on in the game. Among this list is a recently discovered game-breaking bug in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which was preventing gamers from playing through the story. Finally, the patch notes confirm that update 4 will fix minor translation issues while also improving text scrolling in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

The developer has shared a note on what fans can expect from future updates, with performance issues in the PC version of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor being the focus. It reveals that the team is working on improving performance on newer i7 and i9 CPUs, along with changes to CPU and GPU utilization while playing the game.

Overall, update 4 for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor makes some notable changes and fixes that will likely improve the user experience. PC being the focus of future patches probably doesn’t come as a surprise, as a recent analysis named Star Wars Jedi: Survivor the worst PC port of 2023.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Update 4 Patch Notes

Patch 4 Details

  • (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.
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  • (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.

More work continues

Additionally, here are a few known issues we’re currently investigating and working on for future patches.

  • (PC only) Improving performance on newer i7 and i9 CPUs that have efficiency cores.
  • (PC only) General performance improvements to improve both CPU and GPU utilization while reducing idle time, both with and without raytracing.
  • (PC only) Improving some hitching which can be attributed to streaming raytracing data, assets, and a gap in our prebuilt shaders.
  • Various bug fixes.
  • And more!

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is available now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.

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