Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Will Take Place Partly On Coruscant
Part of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor will take place on Coruscant, but the popular planet may not be an open-world environment.
Coruscant, one of Star Wars’ most iconic planets, has been officially confirmed as one of the playable planets in the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Following a six-week delay, the most anticipated sequel to one of the best Star Wars games ever made is scheduled to launch on April 28, and the development team in charge of the game has promised to cut down on the backtracking by adding the best function in gaming.
The latest trailer for the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor showed us Cal Kestis’ return to Coruscant, his home before the Jedi were wiped out at the end of the 2005’s Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith—though some events are also depicted in the 2008’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Coruscant was already teased in the previously released story trailer, but the new in-game footage points to the capital city playing a significant role in the game’s narrative, though according to IGN, it may not be an open-world environment.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor’s director Stig Asmussen confirmed that Coruscant would be one of the explorable planets in the upcoming sequel, though it may not be a fully explorable area. This was further corroborated by EA’s Star Wars communications lead, Andy McNamara, by stating that Asmussen never claimed that the Coruscant is a freely explorable open world but one of the explorable destinations within the upcoming game. So, as things currently are, nobody actually knows just how much of Coruscant we’ll see in the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
The trailer depicts Cal making his way to the Imperial Palace on Coruscant, where the order to initiate the Jedi Purge, or Order 66, was called in by the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious. So, narratively, we might see one or two battles on Coruscant’s surface and some pretty cutscenes to go with the narrative, or we might even get a fully explorable bustling metropolitan planet that the gamers would love to explore and turn every rock on.
Beyond Coruscant and Koboh, people at Respawn Entertainment are pretty tightlipped about what other planets we can expect to explore in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor or what other content we might get. We saw a dark desert planet in several instances in the trailer, which admittedly doesn’t look like Koboh. Additionally, we already know that lightsabers will be some of the most powerful weapons in the game, and definitely more powerful than they were in the original game, and that the game’s protagonist, Cal, is now notably stronger—able to fight the entire Empire.
The upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is scheduled to release later this month on Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC, and the gaming community—both on consoles and personal computers—is already preparing its mass storage devices (SSDs) for the game’s massive install size of whopping 150GB—double that of World of Warcraft Dragonflight DLC and three time as much as Wolfenstein: The New Order, which is currently available for free on Amazon Prime.
