Star Wars Jedi: Survivor gets another stability patch on all platforms

Here are the patch notes for Jedi: Survivor’s fourth update

Marco Wutz | May 9, 2023

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor gets another stability patch on all platforms /

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s gameplay has been well received among critics and fans, though the experience for many players is severely marred by a multitude of technical issues. While PC is affected most by these shortcomings, it’s not exactly smooth sailing on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S either.

EA has vowed to fix these issues with a series of updates and has been consistently putting out new patches, the latest one being made available on May 9, 2023, but players are rightfully angry about yet another faulty triple-A game release.

We’ve got the full patch notes for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s fourth update right here, so you can check out if any of the problems you’ve encountered have been fixed.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor patch notes – Patch 4

(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.

Known issues currently under investigation:

(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.

Published May 9, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg