Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Dev Apologizes For PC Performance Issues
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor's launch day definitely hasn't gone the way that Respawn was probably hoping it would. The announcement of a mega day one patch and dodgy physical copies caused concern amongst the fanbase before release, but now horrible performance issues on PC have been added to the game's growing list of controversies. They're so bad that fans took to Steam to voice their displeasure, tanking the game's user reviews to "Mostly Negative" on launch.
The team over at Respawn Entertainment has now issued a statement regarding these performance issues on PC, apologizing to anyone that's been affected and promising that fixes are currently in the works. According to Respawn, the issues on PC are caused by a number of different factors, but explains that those on high-end PCs are seeing the worst of it. In particular, Respawn blames the use of multi-threaded chipsets and high-end GPUs as one of the primary causes, and reassures fans it's working on a solution.
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However, this apology doesn't seem to have quelled anger amongst PC gamers, who are more than likely fed up with the poor state of PC ports this year. Some are accusing Respawn of knowing about these issues but pushing the game out of the door anyway, while others are upset with the developer trying to minimize the issue by saying that only "a percentage" of players are experiencing issues.
It also seems like those who aren't playing on PC are experiencing plenty of issues too, something which Respawn hasn't addressed in its statement. There are several fans calling for fixes for the PS5 version of Jedi: Survivor as well, as HDR seems to be causing all kinds of graphical
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