Speaking during an interview with Screen Rant, Jon Carr and Paul Hatfield, who serve as technical director and lead producer on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, respectively, has spoke on how the upcoming sequel is pushing the boundaries and evolving the tech the team has created.
Hatfield revealed that the team was eager to expand things that were not quite there yet in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Carr expanded on this, saying the tech they developed is being pushed to its boundaries in the highly anticipated sequel.
[Customization] was something with the first game where I say we took something to maybe 80 percent, that’s something that we felt as a team we could have done better if we’d had the additional time. And so with this project, day one we knew we wanted to expand it, and that’s exactly what we did. I mean, I run around with a mullet all the time when I play. [Laughs] It makes it so much more Star Wars to me that you can kind of make your own Cal; he still obviously is a protagonist, and he has a personality, but when it comes to player expression, that’s a huge thing and I think people are really gonna like that.
We’ve also pushed the boundaries in terms of, like scope and capability of the tech that we’ve built. The environment is much larger, we’ve put a lot of time into more advanced lighting systems, the texture and fidelity throughout the environment is pretty robust. And so there’s a lot of kind of pushing forward the tech that we’ve got to achieve a lot of it.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is slated for release on PS5, PC, and Xbox Series X/S on April 28, 2023. PSU recently went hands-on with the game and you can read our impressions here. The game is also set to take full advantage of the PS5’s DualSense controller, so you an expect to literally ‘feel the force.’
[Source – Screen Rant]
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