When fighting Rayvis in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, you may notice that you aren’t able to defeat him after depleting his life bar. To see how you can potentially fix this soft-locking bug, you can take a look at this troubleshooting guide from Seeking Tech.
Why the Rayvis glitch occurs
Based on our own experience, as well as reports from players, this glitch is activated if you managed to beat the second form of Rayvis but died at the same time. As a result, you will see a cut scene start to play before getting a game over screen asking you to respawn from the last save point.
When you respawn and fight Rayvis again, you won’t be able to beat him in his second form even if you completely depleted his health bar. Thus, this soft lock will leave you stuck at this point in the campaign with no way of progressing further.
You can find videos of the glitch being activated and the resulting soft lock below (via the Maro YouTube channel):
How to fix
The only way to fix this bug is to wait until Jedi Survivor gets a patch that addresses this issue. The good news is that the development team at Respawn Entertainment has acknowledged the glitch and is working on a solution. You can find the comments from a representative of the company below (via the EA Answers HQ website):
- “Thanks for all the info and videos here. Working on a fix for this now so that you can still progress if this happens.”
Therefore, make sure you check if there is a new title update available for the game on your PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X.
We also recommend keeping an eye on the official EA Star Wars Twitter page to see when a new patch will be arriving for Jedi Survivor on your platform.
If you don’t want to wait that long for the patch, then you can try starting a new save file and then play through the game again until you get to the Rayvis boss fight. You should be able to progress a lot quicker by playing at an easier difficulty and skipping cut scenes.
Once you get to the problematic boss fight, you should make sure that you don’t die at the same time you deliver the killing blow during the second phase.