Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has just received a big update for new consoles, greatly upgrading its performance on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. The game is currently playable on both platforms via backwards compatibility. The first Star Wars game from Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment was also made available on Xbox Game Pass via EA Play when the Xbox Series X/S launched back in November 2020.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was one of 2019's surprisingly great and successful games, and it was refreshing to see it succeed after publisher EA flopped with Star Wars Battlefront 2 (which Epic Games is giving away later this week) two years earlier. Jedi: Fallen Order was successful enough that a sequel is already in the works, which is just one of the games that Respawn Entertainment is known to currently be working on alongside its popular live-service game Apex Legends. The studio also reportedly plans to begin work on a new IP, which will be its first completely new one since Titanfall, whose universe and lore Apex Legends borrows.
Details on the new update for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order have been shared by EA, which announces that the game’s frame rate has been increased up to 60fps on the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S versions, simultaneously improving the visual quality of the game on each platform to varying degrees. The PS5 version has now disabled dynamic resolution and maintains a steady 1200p (with post-processing effects displaying at 1440p), while the Xbox Series S version's upgrade purely consists of the jump in frame rate. The Xbox Series X version of Jedi: Fallen Order seems to have benefited the most, gaining two graphical modes: Normal and Performance. Normal mode kicks the resolution and post-processing up to 4K, while Performance mode seems to run at a similar level as the PS5's new standards.
The new update for Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will most definitely make it look significantly better on the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S than on last generation’s consoles. The increase in framerate will make it easier to appreciate the game’s combat animations, particularly Cal’s smooth lightsaber moves. And with how beautiful some of the game’s worlds are, the update allowing the game to run at higher resolutions will definitely help those worlds stand out even more.
While some mid-generation games that got caught between the PS4/Xbox One and PS5/Xbox Series X eras deserve full re-releases on the newer, more powerful hardware, these free performance upgrades for early adopters of new consoles (especially Xbox players that already own them thanks to Smart Delivery) are still a great stop-gap measure. Of course, players may find these backward compatibility updates to the cutting edge tech already found in last-gen versions of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to be more than enough, which is an even more painless solution to this generation's slow and awkward software transition.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is currently available on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC.
Source: EA