Actor Cameron Monaghan casually confirmed that a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is in development. During the Ocala Comic Con event, the voice and motion capture artist behind main character Cal Kestis said, “We’re working on the third one. We are working on it now.” The news comes as a surprise as the series’ director Stig Asmussen, who rebuilt and instilled confidence in the Star Wars single-player games, recently left EA/Respawn Entertainment. However, he has always expressed interest in furthering and concluding Cal’s arc through a trilogy, with discussions of a sequel dating back even before 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was released.
Monaghan further added (via Saix_XIII): “That’s a big undertaking and there have been some conversations so far, but hopefully when all is said and done we can get back in there and make something really cool for you guys. ” He was joined at the panel by Star Wars Jedi: Survivor co-star Tina Ivlev, who played Cal’s teleporting romantic interest Merrin, nodding along and marking the first unofficially credible confirmation for the threequel. Before leaving, Asmussen claimed that he had allotted the full time frame for Cal’s trilogy, adding that Star Wars Jedi 3 would likely be built on Unreal Engine 5. Now it looks like the series will continue regardless of its presence, perhaps making some tweaks to make some ‘proprietary’ development tools work with the new engine.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Review
Earlier this month, Respawn Entertainment released patch 7 for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, aiming for further optimization on PC with native support for Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology. Both the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X versions also received performance improvements targeting 60fps. At launch, the game received rave reviews praising its story, in addition to its robust gameplay and level design borrowed from FromSoftware’s Souls games. However, it was also heavily criticized for poor performance, with choppy framerates even in areas with minimal on-screen activity. It’s been five months since release (April 28) and the game seems to have improved significantly in that time.
During EA’s Q1 2024 earnings call, held in August, it was confirmed that Respawn Entertainment is in the early stages of creating special versions of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for the last-gen PS4 and Xbox One. Like other major AAA publishers, the studio completely skipped a launch on the older generation of consoles for ease of optimization and to render high-quality visuals with the new hardware, although in this case the team still encountered some hurdles. For now there is no release window for the new versions, but if it does come out it should serve as an interesting test parameter to see how much graphical fidelity has been sacrificed to gain 30fps on last generation consoles – running on a hard drive .
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is available now for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X. EA has not yet commented on a sequel.
