Actor Cameron Monaghan casually confirmed {that a} sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in improvement. In the course of the Ocala Comedian Con occasion, the voice and movement seize artist behind the protagonist Cal Kestis stated, “We’re engaged on the third. We’re within the means of doing it proper now.” The information comes as a shock, contemplating the collection director Stig Asmussen, who rebuilt and instilled religion in single-player Star Wars video games, lately left EA/ Respawn Leisure. Nonetheless, he at all times expressed curiosity in furthering and concluding Cal’s arc by a trilogy, with discussions of a sequel relationship again even earlier than 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was out.
Monaghan additional added (by way of Saix_XIII), “That is an enormous endeavor and there have been some conversations to date, however hopefully when all issues are stated and achieved, we’ll be capable of go in and make one thing actually cool for you guys once more.” On the panel, he was joined by Star Wars Jedi: Survivor co-star Tina Ivlev, who performed Cal’s teleporting romantic curiosity Merrin, nodding alongside and marking the primary unofficially credible affirmation for the threequel. Earlier than leaving, Asmussen claimed that he’d carved out the complete timeframe for Cal’s trilogy, including that Star Wars Jedi 3 would possible be constructed on Unreal Engine 5. Now it appears as if the collection will proceed no matter his presence, and might need to take care of some retooling to get some ‘proprietary’ improvement instruments to work with the brand new engine.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Evaluation
Earlier this month, Respawn Leisure dropped patch 7 for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, geared toward additional optimisation on PC with native help for Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling expertise. Each the PS5 and Xbox Sequence S/X variations additionally obtained efficiency enhancements that focus on 60fps. At launch, the sport opened to rave evaluations praising its story, alongside strong gameplay and stage design that borrowed from FromSoftware’s Souls video games. Nonetheless, it was additionally closely criticised for its poor efficiency, with uneven framerates even in areas with minimal exercise on display screen. It has been 5 months since launch — April 28 — and the sport seems to have considerably improved in that period.
Throughout EA’s Q1 2024 incomes name, held in August, it was confirmed that Respawn Leisure is within the early phases of constructing devoted variations of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for the last-gen PS4 and Xbox One. Just like different main AAA publishers, the studio fully skipped a launch on the older era of consoles for ease in optimisation and to render high-quality visuals with the brand new {hardware}, albeit on this case, the crew nonetheless hit some hurdles. For now, there is no such thing as a launch window for the brand new variations, however when it does drop, it ought to function an fascinating testing parameter to see how a lot graphical constancy was sacrificed to achieve 30fps on last-gen consoles — working on a tough drive.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Sequence S/X. EA hasn’t commented on a follow-up but.
