Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Review (Benjamin Dean)
Decided to try it out and see how bad the performance really is. Well, it's weird to say the least. I'm on RTX 3070 (mobile) with Ryzen 7 5800H and 32GB of RAM. Legion 5 Pro laptop. On average I'm getting ~50-60 FPS. Now, the interesting part:
Changing graphics preset to Low only adds around 10 FPS in total.
Changing the resolution from 1440p to 1080p shockingly has almost no effect.
Any volumetric effect on screen costs 30% of framerate.
Even the main menu hovers around 57 FPS (Just like in The Last of Us Part I).
In short, there is obviously something fundamentally wrong. Especially considering it doesn't look much better than Fallen Order. The game had 5 patches at the moment of this review and it's baffling how it wasn't fixed yet. As far as I know, at launch it ran twice as bad and it took one patch to get it to the current performance level. Meaning that they made some stupid mistake that took a very short time to fix. Then, in the next patch, they messed up with the resolution scaling. Also, just one line in the config file.
This is some dangerously serious level of incompetence. The last nail in the coffin is an "apology" statement they made. Which was hardly an apology. Instead of admitting they did something wrong, they blamed Windows 10, hardware and users for making a bad decision in pairing their CPUs and GPUs.
That'll be $70, please.
UPDATE:
So, Patch 6 was just released, and it seems like in a month they were able to fix only a few minor issues. Performance problems were completely ignored. They also haven't mentioned anything about the performance problems on their official Twitter or anywhere else, which kind of indicates that they are pleased with the money they made. I got my refund.
UPDATE #2:
I've seen a lot of "Get better hardware" comments on the Discussions board and I just want to remind everyone that you shouldn't patch the problem by throwing money at your PC just because some multi-billion dollar company underpays and overworks their developers to the point they just don't care about optimization anymore.
It's not a user's fault. First of all, there are quite a lot of games that are much more graphically impressive and have no performance issues. And second, do "System Requirements" exist only for the store page decoration?
UPDATE #3:
To make the situation even more ridiculous, a modder by the nickname Snight01 released a mod that fixes the occlusion culling issues and Ray Tracing crashes. The issues that Respawn wasn't able to fix after 6 patches.