Star Wars Jedi Survivor has a brand new replace that makes accessibility targeted enhancements.
Patch 8, out immediately, January 11 throughout PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X and S, introduces two new options and several other enhancements to sluggish movement in an effort to make the sport extra accessible, developer Respawn mentioned.
The patch provides a brand new high-contrast mode that lets gamers desaturate the setting and use colours particularly for narrative and gameplay components, making them stand out extra.
Elsewhere, a brand new audio ping performance lets gamers each passively and actively ping the setting, giving the power to echolocate objects and interactable components close by.
As for sluggish movement, the replace provides extra presets that allow gamers toggle between each their very own customized worth and three new presets. The presets are set at 30%, 50%, and 75%, and can be found by means of the shortcut menu.
“This may enable customers to change between a number of completely different sluggish movement values, and never simply the customized worth and the default sport velocity,” Respawn mentioned. And at last, the patch additionally incorporates some fixes for efficiency and stability throughout all platforms.
“We’re so grateful for the suggestions you’ve supplied and happy with the refinements we’ve been in a position to carry to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to this point,” Respawn mentioned. “After all, our crew is all the time desperate to study extra about our gamers’ wants, so don’t hesitate to tell us if you happen to run into any extra points.”
Star Wars Jedi Survivor Replace 8 Patch Notes
- A brand new excessive distinction mode that permits gamers to desaturate the setting and use colours particularly for narrative and gameplay components, making them stand out extra.
- A brand new audio ping performance that permits gamers to each passively and actively ping the setting to offer them the power to echolocate objects and interactable components close by.
- A number of extra sluggish movement presets that allow gamers toggle between their very own customized worth and three new presets.
- The presets are set at 30%, 50% and 75%, and can be found by means of the shortcut menu. This may enable customers to change between a number of completely different sluggish movement values and never simply the customized worth and the default sport velocity.
- This patch additionally incorporates some fixes for efficiency and stability throughout all platforms.
Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order launched in 2019 to essential and business acclaim, with greater than 20 million gamers and over 10 million copies offered. It spawned a sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which launched in April 2023.
The sequence stars younger Jedi Cal Kestis who fights in opposition to the Galactic Empire in a narrative set within the years after Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith. In September, Cal Kestis actor Cameron Monaghan mentioned the unannounced however inevitable Star Wars Jedi 3.
“We’re engaged on the third,” Monaghan mentioned. “We’re within the means of doing it proper now. That’s an enormous enterprise and there have been some conversations to date. Hopefully when all issues are mentioned and achieved we’ll have the ability to go in and make one thing actually cool for you guys once more.”
Earlier than leaving developer Respawn, former sequence’ director Stig Asmussen mentioned he seen Star Wars Jedi as a trilogy.
“I all the time needed to see this as a trilogy,” he instructed IGN in March. “How can we take Cal and the crew to new locations past what we have been doing within the first sport? We had a fairly first rate concept of timeframe the place we needed Survivor to happen, what the stakes have been going to be, what the tone of the sport was going to be, what Cal was going to be up in opposition to, and the way the crew was going to issue into that. And there’s concepts of what we might do past that as properly.”
Asmussen left EA on a excessive be aware, nonetheless, with IGN’s Jedi Survivor overview praising his crew’s efforts.
“It’s a sequel that does just about all the pieces higher than the unique – which was already an distinctive Star Wars sport,” we wrote. “If Respawn makes another like this it’ll full one of the best Star Wars trilogy in 30 years, arms down.”
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