STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor

Good with mods, devs don't deserve full price
Mods:

I nearly refunded this for experiencing consistent stuttering/lag despite showing 110-140 FPS. Stuttering in a fast-paced game like this is an absolute headache... but I found my fix.
Before refunding for stuttering issues, try seeing if this works for you:
1) Change settings via NVIDIA Control Panel:
Navigate to NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D settings > Program Settings > STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor
☑ Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow
☑ Threaded optimization: on
☑ Triple buffering: on
☑ Vertical sync: on
2) Change JediSurvivor.exe compatibility settings
Navigate to Steam Folder > Jedi Survivor > SwGame > Binaries > Win64 > Right click on JediSurvivor.exe > "Properties" > Compatibility
☑ Disable fullscreen optimizations
☑ Run this program as an administrator
☑ Change high DPI settings > override high DPI behavior by: Application
3) Change Graphics settings in-game
☑ Fullscreen
☑ Ray-tracing: off
☑ AMD Fidelity Fx: Quality
I noticed an immediate difference with these settings. I'm achieving 110+ FPS on Epic settings with DLSS off.
Specs: RTX 4090, i9 13900K, 32gb ram, 5gb/s m.2 SSD.
The game is pretty nice without the lag, so hopefully this helps someone. If I experience crashes/further stuttering, I'll update this review.

Thank you ea and internet for messing/bugging my achievements

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☑ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☑ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
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☐ 6
☐ 7
☑ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

After getting Fallen Order on sale I wanted to add to the collection while this was a good price. After reading reviews I was a little worried it would be a dumpster fire on PC. But for once, EA has seemed to fix something. I'm not running it on a NASA computer and still it looks amazing on Epic graphics. Very few frame drops, atleast running in borderless fullscreen. Happy to continue the saga before the newest game comes out. If it's on sale, grab it, one of the prettier games I've played in a while.

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor | ★★★★★
I'm just going to start by saying that it's utterly disgusting of EA to shove their broken-ass launcher (EA Play) and break all of the Steam features. Most of the things I actually used are not working, including Remote Play, Overlay, and Controller support. I'm not going to punish the game, though, for what the publisher did because as of today; the game's optimization was alright, but I wouldn't say it's at its best. Most of the issues I had were outside the game. So, as for my opinion on the game:
Jedi: Survivor feels like a game from that classic era of gaming where developers actually gave a shit. The gameplay is fantastic, the story engrossing, the acting better than most movies I've recently watched, and the exploration and amount of things to do are really entertaining and well-designed. Even though I was never the biggest fan of Star Wars, these games and Fallen Order have been great.
After a long slump of not having the energy & motivation to play vidya, this one makes me excited to actually grind games again.

Alright, anyone on the fence on buying read this.
The game is optimized by EA HORRIBLY, BUT- the community has improved the game performance dramatically.
There are two essential performance mods that give me smooth 60fps on Koboh (the worst performing planet for everyone) and over 100 frames in other areas.
1. SWJS- Fixes and improvements
2. Native resolution and blurry screen fix
^^These two are a must for playable gameplay. I went from 40-55 fps on Koboh on High settings (no RT) and massive stuttering to 60s-70s with the mods and the 100s when I enabled Frame Gen.
3. No more TAA and native resolution
Jedi survivor doesn't natively use your full resolution, this mod fixes that.
4. The annoying shader compilation that happens every boot can be toggled off by this mod:
Specs-
Ryzen 5 5600x
Xfx Speedster 6700
96gb of RAM
Various m.2 drives and SSDS (game is installed on an SSD)

A great example of how a sequel should be made. Characters and customization, details in level design, new mechanics and collectibles, everything is improved and expanded upon. (Yes including those UNNECESSARY platforming force tears.) You can really feel the love they put into their work.
Performance was decent with epic settings on my 3060 laptop. Never had any game crashing bugs but "Optimizing Game Files" on every launch and stretched/cropped UI on 16:10 annoyed me to no end.