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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could it just basically be like this mod? the mod they have up now doesn't work while moving or support switching using a controller though, plus I'd really prefer if EA and Respawn made an official patch that we can use on PS5 so we don't have to deal with the PC performance issues or having to buy the game again. https://www.reddit.com/r/FallenOrder/comments/13ay6mi/r457s_stance_swapping_mod_showcase/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
it would be a huge boost to quality of life to at least not have to go to save points to swap stances. i promise to be quiet for a very long time if they do 🙏
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Now then...
I tried CheatEngine (since I had that installed already) and used a table I found by googling "jedi survivor activate debug mode". After going through the steps, I've managed to activate the debug mode in the screenshot from the Nexusmod forum link. Activating the "Stance Cycle Mode" indeed allowed to use left and right D-Pad to cycle through all stances in order of Single > Double > Dual > Crossguard > Blaster > Single...
The equipped stance icons now display the next and previous stance. The extra crossguard parts disappear when switching to stances that are not immediately on either side of the crossguard. The fact that the stances are on a wheel also means you can't switch from, say, a crossguard to double, may hypothetically be a gameplay hinderance to some degree. I didn't try the mod, since the instructions don't recommend the controller (amongst other parts) and after doing Dark Souls with KB+M, I learned my lesson to not do that ever again with a melee souls-like.
I think this brings an interesting point. They knew that having the stance cycling is handy for testing, but they:
- Didn't think "maybe the players would like this option", or
- had no idea how to implement it (or didn't prioritise it due to deadlines, so maybe a future update? First game didn't have a form of NG+ until months later for example), or
- some smooth-brain (probably the same guy responsible for 8 slots in DA:I—no, I am not letting that go!) shot the idea down when someone brought it up and we'll never officially see it.
Fun fact, the Blaster stance is referred to as "Pirate" in the debug menu.
@N7Revit knew it was pirate inspired! man it sounds so close to finished, if they could just map that cycling to a single dpad button while you have the focus button held down, and have it set when you release, we're golden. I wouldn't necessarily mind if it took months to happen, but I gotta know whether it will before I end up breaking down and buying it again on PC just to use the wonky version.
- @GunpeiYaBoi Fair warning, it unlocks all the skills, including BD-1/gear ones. Upon one of the loads I got:
"Unexpected error
In this Save, you seem to have bypassed certain story elements.
Continuing to play from this point may encounter issues.
Continue in the broken state. This is not recommended. Things will likely be broken."
I didn't do a backup save prior... I will start again, let my sacrifice of nearly 70h be honoured (or mocked for not making the backup).
