Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor

Haven't been to Dathomir, yet. Technically, I still haven't left Zeffo... I think I'll head to Kashyy...the Wookiee planet next. The Jedi Master dude I'm chasing referred to it as a dark place of death - or words to that effect - basically, game dev code for, "this place is hard, don't go there too soon"..



While I think the initial breathless "so good/OMG GOTY/THIS is Star Wars" etc reviews may have been more about what the game was not, rather than what it is - i.e. it's not MP, not GaaS, no lootboxes etc, I do think it is very good and one of the great things is that there is literally no hand holding on the puzzle stuff. It's what games used to be and while I understand why they've moved away from that, it's hard not to feel a sense of nostalgia for it when you do encounter it in a modern game.

I will concede that Fallen Order takes it maybe a little too far, though.

Its always possible, but I find its the chain blocking and stuns that make or break the fights for me.  So if they are parrying everything I am doing and interrupting my stronger attacks it just feels like its taking forever, but if I get a good couple of hits in at the very start it makes the fight completely different.

I know I plan on playing on Easy like I do mos tgames due to my disability but I inten dto at least rty to enjpo yit once I get around to it after I'm finished with MEA.

How well did you "control" Cal into making the jump from a ramp onto a rope? Pretty sure I started to get artistic points for the ways I was trying to make that catch.

The on I mentioned I think took me a dozen times for I was just missing the rope after going down an ice slide in the first tomb on Zeffo.  That is definately the one rope I had the most problems with as long as you don't count the glitches I encounters where the game forgot I was using a rope and started to swing the rope back and I continued forward just floating in the air following the trajectory I stared on the rope while still in the character pose of using a rope.

Is it a rope where you grab it after an ice slide, then swing to a wall run part? If so, then if you look around while swinging, you will notice there are TWO more ropes nearby and a chest at the end. You can easily miss it if you just follow the obvious path forward. But making the 3 rope jumps is a bit tricky without Force Pull.

It happens to me once in a while and I am on a SSD. In my case it's definitely related to loading a new area, but the stutter is really minimal and rare, no impact on gameplay and feels more like a second of frame rate drop instead of the freezing some people report. Since it's the UE4 engine, it might be connected to the CPU usage. A fast single core performance might help as well. I am on a 4.8Ghz atm, but can check stock turbo speeds at 4.3Ghz and see if there is a change.

Its a problem with the Unreal Engine at least that is what Digital Foundry has published about the game.  It can happen on any platform and will happen when the game is doing a lot of I/O work so when you are transition between different environments.  They have said it has happened in other games as well, but I don't buy enough games to know how true that is.  What they said is how full your HDD is, how optimized your HDD is (don't do this on a SSD), your type of HDD you are using, even how old your HDD is and probably other things can impact that load issue.  There are probably other factors as well that can contribute.

The game runs great for me as well, even with those rare loading slowdowns that are apparently engine related (I am one to talk, bunch of years ago I used to be happy to play a game on Medium settings even with stutters here and there and 40FPS ). So no complaints. But! I have seen some YT videos where those slowdowns are a few seconds of like 2 FPS performance and downright freezing. So yeah, happens to me too...just not like that

Yeah the slow downs are 100% related to having an HDD (and the engine issue). Nothing is remotely close to capping out while playing, at least from what I can see. Oh well maybe I'll *finally* buy an SSD. It's a shame because I have to pause cut scenes at their starts so they don't look HORRIBLE.

Also anyone really hoping that the make a second game and add in more RPG elements? like better skill progression/loot actually having stats?