Stances
I have Jedi Survivor on PS5, it's running fairly well but has frame dips around running water, resolution drops in Rambler's Reach, and a couple of crashes when traveling between planets, but that ha...
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I was thinking exactly the same. It's just arbitrarily nettlesome (yes, I used thesaurus for that, how did you know?). I can change the appearance while in combat, but not the stances that are definitely on the lightsaber? C'mon!
Though here's my suggestion to retain the flow and use controls that already exist in the game, while retaining the meditation/workbench switching mechanic somehow:
You keep the two main stances in their slots, that remains, but where do you assign the other three? There's the Focus button that you use with the buttons on the right side of the controller—square/triangle/X/O, or X/Y/O/A, or whatever some nutter not using a controller may be using—right? Then let's use the D-Pad buttons for the other three (obviously configurable as is the rest, but that would be the default, and let's be honest, probably the only sensible option).
Say you have the Dual Wield in left slot and Double-Bladed in the right slot. If you want, say the Crossguard, you hold focus and press right D-Pad. Blaster? Focus+bottom D-Pad (deliberately left the heal button unaffected by that combo). Single? Focus+left D-pad.
Now what to do with the meditation/workbench switching... That's where we assign where goes what—which ones go to the primary two slots, and which go to the secondary Focus+D-Pad slots and their order.
Alternatively, having it in the Character menu is an option too, and although it would be a little more clumsy to use, it is probably easiest to implement since there is a page for stances already, it would just need controls added to allow the stance selection.
Anyone yelling "But this will remove the strategic part!", they probably liked the 8-slot limit in DA:I and are wrong (I still haven't forgiven that one). If it's there and you don't want to use it, that's fine; but if it isn't there and you want to use it, tough. Doing the latter is just silly. You still have to chose the right tool for the right situation, but taking just two tools and leaving the rest of the toolbox at home is not smart, nor strategic.
I like that as a solution for keeping the workbenches, but honestly I want the full immersive experience of having Cal Kestis's Swiss Army Saber. I was also thinking you just have the focus button with the dpad buttons just cycle through the stances. And the workbenches to me are still useful for trying out new parts for your saber and BD-1 and they could keep the blaster modifications to the workbench; while it makes no sense that he can't just use all of the lightsaber's configurations, I completely buy that he needs a workbench to modify his blaster.
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