Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Steam reviews hit 'mostly negative' as players slam performance issues—'F*** us PC gamers right?'
Another month, another big game release, another shitty PC port(opens in new tab). Star Wars Jedi: Survivor hit shelves yesterday and for all the tweaks, enhancements, and additional beards it boasts over its predecessor, its performance is leaving a lot to be desired. In Morgan Park's Star Wars Jedi: Survivor review(opens in new tab) for PCG, he lamented its «unacceptable performance» but hoped a promised pre-release patch would improve things. If Steam reviews and social media are anything to go by, it hasn't.
Jedi: Survivor currently sits at a 31% Mostly Negative review score on(opens in new tab) Steam, with legions of players posting descriptions of their many expensive, beefy rigs and how badly Jedi: Survivor manages to run on them.
«How do you push out a game with stuttering IN THE FIRST CUTSCENE!?» reads a review by a Steam user called AdamB(opens in new tab), who says they have a «a very good NVMe drive and system, and yet this game runs terribly». «It only took me 10 mins in a small enclosed area to get bad performance. Don't buy this game until it's fixed.»
Another, from Ty Rants(opens in new tab), says they're «Stuck between 36-41 fps regardless if anything is changed (performance mode, resolution, low, medium settings)» and notes that the game is just another in a long line of bad ports: «This now makes like the 6th AAA game to release broken on PC at launch this year alone. (**** us PC gamers right)».
Still, at least some players are taking the opportunity to write some seriously poetic stuff. A review from Spartan(opens in new tab) says the game «Runs like my ass after taco bell». I can only aspire to criticism so simultaneously concise and evocative.
It's the same story across the internet. Reddit user
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