good game bad optimisation

Will keep this short.
The second adventure of the jedi knight Cal Kestis and friends, this was a great game with very emotional storyline and cinematic action sequences, only held back my its very poor optimization for PC.

Waiting for the 3rd one to complete the trilogy of a great star war game saga.

Unexpected from such a new EA title and especially the devs of such a dumpster fire that is apex legends but this game is GOLD. They took everything from the game before and improved every shortcoming,

Fallen Order had some negatives like how a majority of enemies were either just space-animals or other enemies that did not use any "proper" weapons, there were too many stale climbing sections as if the game was trying to a be a star wars uncharted spin off, there was a lot of boring back tracking n such due to a lack of fast travel and the overall progression was a bit linear and anti-climactic as one of the lightsaber stances is exclusive to special attacks instead of being its own thing, these shortcomings were blamed for time limitations at the time but they seem to have considered everything this time around.

They return the BOTW-esque puzzle rooms in this game but make more use of BD-1 by giving it certain gadgets, playing with a keyboard, most of the BD1 related controls were very finnicky and since key binding is very weird as in how it handles different actions with the same bind, it was a pain in the ass trying to find fitting binds that did not damage the flow too much, there's also bugs with these controls where they tend not to work if you make them overlap with other binds.

They go much deeper into the RPG sides by letting you focus on builds with different lightsaber stances but they only give you 1 respec per run which is weird. thankfully there are mods that remove that limit, there are also mods that let you use any stance at any time (when you usually can keep just 2 stances and have to switch at a checkpoint in the normal game) which definitely felt like the proper way to play, especially in NG+ where you get enough points to maximize every tree.

The negative reviews are mostly about optimization issues in the first 45~ minutes of the game, Personally, with a high-end computer my game never dipped too low, sometimes on the "main hub area" of one of the prominent planets I get a couple seconds of bad frames and sometimes in very fringe cases a hard crash but I'd rather blame my extensive modding than the game itself as it never happened in my first run which I played completely vanilla.

The menus are pretty clunky and there can be some issues at times that have some somewhat elaborate fixes but it's mostly fine.

In NG+ you're given a very promising option to play the game in a "oneshot" mode where all attacks dealt and received are amped up which makes the experience very immersive, as you'd expect lightsabers to cut right through people and blaster shots to hurt like hell. I realllllly wanted to have fun with this as I really enjoy "oneshot" type games and game mechanics but I feel like they really fumbled it here as none of the game is optimized for this playstyle, some bosses are designed to just tank hits, some enemies are designed to just deal alot of chip damage, some enemies are designed to be fast but weak, some enemies hit hard but are slow. but when everyone's near one shot, those tank bosses just go down without a fight, those chip damages take you down to 1 hp, the slow enemies oneshot you without warning, the fast enemies are harder than any boss. and the worst part is that the health potions are absolutely not even thought of. the mode isn't exactly oneshot for yourself but any damage basically takes you down to about 10%, but the health potion always heals like only half of that, so if you want to actually heal to be able to withstand another attack, you need to hit it twice but by the time you hit it again, you'll probably get caught by an enemy, it hyped me up so much but turned out to be the biggest afterthought of all time, I was very disappointed.

But that's about it for all the negatives, and even those, most would consider as nitpicks, but that's all I could find, I love every other aspect of this game, the gameplay is solid, the story is solid, the characters are solid, the sidequests are mostly solid, the exploration is solid, the customization is perfect and I would really recommend the customization mods like outfit manager also. the enemies are mostly great, I loved the light saber wielding bounty hunters the most.the companion interactions are smooth and useful. it's the perfect way to tackle a jedi game and I absolutely cannot wait for a sequel