The scope of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is enormous, as it encompasses all nine mainline films in the Star Wars franchise. Further, TT Games had previously developed LEGO Star Wars games beforehand, and needed to apply a massive overhaul to gameplay and visuals in order to incentivize these changes for a new nine-film adaptation.
Even besides its expansive story missions and individual Episode levels, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga elaborates upon each planet and has a plethora of side missions and activities for players who want to freely roam between Episode missions, as well as after they have fully completed each Episode. The latter is advised because players will have a wider breadth of characters unlocked. However, multiple technical issues have occurred. Today, the game's latest patch aims to address several issues and also add new content for players.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga recently released patch notes for its May 2022 update from WB Games Support. Warner Bros. notes "fixes to stability, quality, progression, and performance issues" in general. But it also states specific fixes made in the update, such as where Maz Kanata would not appear in Episode 7 in order to continue a story mission; a level trigger for a mission would not appear in Episode 3; and "the camera would be stuck on Tatooine indefinitely" in a free-play mission.
Moreover, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has also added new Capital ships — Fulminatrix, Home One, Invisible Hand, and Venator — that include "34 additional Kyber Bricks to collect." It is not disclosed why these ships were added in particular, but it may have to do with the frequency that Capital ships would spawn in Local Space. Either way, fans are likely pleased about more content in this form.
Unfortunately, this patch does not address many of the enduring issues players experience with LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga on a daily basis. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga's Galaxy free-play mode has many bugs that swap enemy AI to random NPCs, players' selected characters will often swap to random characters after a cutscene plays, and many other instances of frequent bugs will cause crashes or negate progression in any conceivable activity.
With any luck, these issues will also be addressed and ironed out in a future update. For now, these fixes improve the quality of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga for casual players who may only want to enjoy each film adaptation without going through Galaxy free-play, and other necessary fixes will hopefully arrive shortly.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Source: LEGO Games Support