EA’s ensuring ‘as many players as possible’ can enjoy Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

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EA has produced an extensive overview of all the accessibility features that will be added alongside Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s release on April 28. 

A ton of new features are designed to help all players get the experience they want from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Players can choose various visuals, difficulty options, subtitles and closed captions, control customizations and gameplay modifiers. There’s even a “slow mode” that’ll slow down the action in order to make combat and platforming easier for players. 

“The Slow Mode has been a particularly exciting feature to work on because of its versatility,” senior director of development Jonas Lundqvist said in a blog post(opens in new tab). “It opens up some of our platforming to be more accessible, allows for different reaction times and  helps make the game generally more accessible to a larger audience.” 

EA has learnt a lot from previous games like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and now it is prepared to put what it learnt into practice. “We were fortunate to receive great feedback from the community when we released the original game back in 2019”, Lundqvist said. “That experience, and those learnings, have been hugely important in getting us to where we are today”. 

Thanks to high community engagement EA has now got a great idea as to what its community needs to have the best possible experience traversing the galaxy. “Together, we are opening the game up for more players to enjoy”, Lundqvist said. 

EA isn’t stopping here, though; even post-launch, the publisher is committed to upkeep accessibility options for Jedi Survivor. “We are far from being finished, but these types of design choices Respawn made are illustrative of how we want to approach making games for all our