Everyone–even people with crippling phobias–should be able to enjoy video games. That’s why it’s becoming more and more common for developers to offer accessibility options that cater to specific fears.Perhaps the most common fear is that of spiders. Unfortunately, not everyone appreciates our eight-legged friends, so to bring arachnophobes intoStar Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn is offering a special mode just for them.Related:What Jedi: Survivor Is Doing With Physical Copies Should be IllegalAs reported by theDaily Jedi SurvivorTwitter account and verified byIGN, Jedi Survivor “will feature the ability to toggle an arachnophobia option in accessibility settings to remove spiders from the game entirely.” While we’re not sure if the Wyyyschokk from Jedi Fallen Order will return in Survivor, we have it on good authority that there will be at least one spider-like enemy facing Cal Kestis. And since it’s spiders we’re talking about here, probably way more than just one will be on screen at a time.
We don’t know exactly how Respawn will implement arachnophobia mode in Jedi Survivor.It could be like Groundedwith its escalating series of options that remove more and more detail from spiders until you’re just left with a floating sphere. That makes it awfully difficult to see the spider’s attacks since they’re often coming from one of its eight invisible legs.
Or it could be likeSatisfactory’s arachnophobia modewhich replaces all on-screen spiders with images of cats. That’d probably ruin the whole Star Wars vibe that Jedi Survivor is going for, but maybe instead of cats, the game replaces those spiders with Ewoks?
Or we could go down the route that manyarachnophobiamodsgo and just replace the spiders with a 3D representation of the enemy’s hitbox. That’ll at least tell you where to aim your lightsaber while simultaneously eliminating the multi-limbed insect that so many find so triggering.
It seems that spiders aren’t the only bugs players should expect in Jedi Survivor.The reviews are in, and a lot of people are noticing significant performance issues such as stuttering, blurry visuals, and strange graphical glitches. EA seems to be aware that it’s losing points with critics for these technical errorsand is promising a day-one patchthat’ll fix things up. EA is also promising “weeks” of additional patches that will “fix bugs, improve performance,” and “add more accessibility.”
We’re not sure what those accessibility options might be, butthalassophobia modeis high on my list.
