My 3 day Redbox rental is at its end and I won't be bothering with the game again until there's some performance patches or if next gen systems can play it notably better. Playing on the XOne S was painful and futile. It started bad on Bogano and only got worse as it went along. At the end of the Saw Gerrera mission, the sheer amount of enemies fighting at once (a security droid, 2 flametroopers, 2 melee troopers, 4 normal troopers, and an AT-ST) turned the game into a slide show and crashed my Xbox back to dashboard twice. Later on a return to Zeffo, I reached my absolute frustration point during a particular boss fight (the Second Sister encounter while looking for the second tomb/artifact).
The fight was 1v1 in an indoor circular cave environment with no overwhelming or significant lighting effects to speak of. Lightsabers were the only real particle effects. And yet every time the boss would perform a heavy attack -- the glowing red effect -- the Xbox would stutter anywhere from 0.5 to a full second, completely throwing off the evade timing window. My evade wouldn't happen until after the hit registered thanks to the stutter. I died half a dozen times not because the boss was difficult but because the system couldn't keep up. I tried moving the game onto an external SSD drive but that offered zero improvement.
All of my frustrations with this game are tied to performance. Not combat design or level design or puzzle design.
