[Closed] Cyberpunk

I will get it I'm sure but I'll wait a bit. I guess I was quite excited for the first launch date but I can't quite combine "must get it on launch day" and "launch day was in April". Not complaining that they delayed it to improve it, far from it but it just killed my day 1 feels.

Anyone else wetting themselves with eager anticipation at the release of this?

basiclaly yes, only thing im unsure about is do I hold out until I get a new xbox.

I’m still playing The Witcher 3! Would need a new machine to play Cyberpunk and it is very tempting. What can I sell? 🤔

Will be waiting for the next gen patch for ps5 until I buy/play this.

Probably will at some point, but I have a bunch of free Epic games to get through, then I want to play Beyond a Steel Sky, Star Wars Squadrons and maybe Jedi Fallen Order first!

Would need a new machine to play Cyberpunk and it is very tempting.

I'm waiting for 5600X chips to become available, I have a 3600XT that I can return up to the end of January and a pile of bits to build a new machine.

I watched a trailer/production 'reel' for this recently, looks great. Noted that they've put alot of work into the engine note sound effects... seemed a bit misguided for a game set in 2077? Although maybe that the Punk bit.

I'm going to get it when it comes out but given my recent history with big releases inc Death Stranding, TLOU2, and Metro Exodus I'm resigning myself to it being shit.

I want to get it - but had been hoping to hold out for a 3080/6800xt/Xbox Series X as my 1080 is getting long in the tooth. Proving hard to get one of any of those though.

I was but I’m now concerned it’s going to flop. I’m going to wait for the price crash and then pick it up before the PS5 release for it.

I don't think it will flop. Cd Projekt haven't really done a bad game so I have faith. I rarely buy games on release however willing to take a punt this time 🙂

It looks ace but I've been burned before by games that look good. Ill wait I think.

only thing im unsure about is do I hold out until I get a new xbox.

If you get the Xbox One version, you should get the Series version upgrade for free.

Cd Projekt haven’t really done a bad game so I have faith.

True but they’ve only ever done a handful before.

I've got fairly new machine (2070 Super etc) so will do what I always do; play it for 5 hours then realise single player games end up being a bit of a chore and give up on it.

Interested in a Google Stadia system and the game is being bigged up by them, trying to convince me that it’s an epic and worth signing up on its own.

So... will it be / is it good enough to merit investing £50 plus some sort of monthly sub?

3 days for those of you that are counting down. I know what I am going to be doing come the 10th :). Looks up my street, slower paced and more true RPG than FPS pretending to be RPG.

Gah, I was waiting for Mechwarrior 5 and they've bumped the Steam/GOG release of that into the new year so as not to clash with Cyberpunk. "Why not just for a few weeks", they were asked? "Well we're planning ahead for when they delay it again" 🙂

I am expecting massive day one backlash tbh. Bugs and "won't run on my machine". Mostly fixed in a week but people'll still be discks about it forever. Expectations and excitement are way too high

Reviews are mixed

9/10 ign

4/5 independent

pc gamer 78% - play in two months when bugs are ironed out

polygon - it's transphobic junk made by backward euros

I'm mildly looking forward to the Guardians review....

I await IGNs next review. They’ll give it 4/10 IGN are the most unreliable source for reviews. .

I'd originally decided to wait on the PS5 version next year but as it turns out AC:Valhalla is a buggy mess and save games can corrupt I need something else (sort of playing Ghost of Tshusima as well). So I think I'll get it at launch and hope the save files are compatible. Multiplayer "sometime in 2022" is a bit of a disappointment though!

Probably NSFW...

https://press-start.com.au/news/pcmac/2020/12/08/cyberpunk-2077-genitals-penis-dick-physics/?fbclid=IwAR2VAnX76Vl3LN84j7jIu3T7FgsD1XAx-D5WjPspmxBBizpnBjAmwA1XuEY

Honestly, when moving between the two penis types, there’s a serious amount of jiggle. It’s almost mesmerising. Some serious work obviously went into the penis physics, which I definitely appreciate.

Some poor dev spent the last year of his/her life fine tuning 'penis jiggle physics'.

I can't really imagine it'll be that good... same as all games that promise the earth but are rushed to completion! Apparently life as a CD Projekt dev for the last 6 months or so has not been a pleasant experience.

+1 zilog

I think the one to look out for will be Starfield by Bethesda.

I can’t really imagine it’ll be that good… same as all games that promise the earth but are rushed to completion! Apparently life as a CD Projekt dev for the last 6 months

They have form in producing excellent games so I am prepared to give it a punt. I wouldn't say it's been rushed either - it was originally due for release months ago (April then Sept) and CDPR have pushed it further and further back to be sure it is at least playable at launch.

The pressure on devs is nothing new. There was a story in the news about the Rockstar devs leading up to the release of RDR2 and it was pretty much the same. Insane pressure, no time off, 18+ hour shifts, *having* to fix things in unreasonable timescales etc.

I watched a trailer/production ‘reel’ for this recently, looks great. Noted that they’ve put alot of work into the engine note sound effects… seemed a bit misguided for a game set in 2077? Although maybe that the Punk bit.

I guess you did not know its based on Cyberpunk/Cyberpunk 2020 game that has been around since the late 80s. The whole destroying the environment and petrolheadness is very much built into the setting!

All that work, all that source material, an open world with immense detail and I can't read any of the reviews without thinking it sounds like a [graphically brilliant] bog standard linear fps with an opportunity to get lost for a bit and some rpg character development bolted on the back.

I hope its awesome but I really hoped it would be a decent rpg first and an fps second. Probably serves me right for ignoring everything but the screen shots and title before the last few day's reviews started.

I'd have preferred a Witcher 4 if I'm honest as I prefer that sort of setting but I'm hoping CP2077 will still grab me. It's been in the works for years so I expect the core of the game to be very polished, I'm sure there will be some bugs but the last delay was mostly about sorting those out in a Day 0 patch so hopefully there won't be anything game-breaking (I'm looking at you AC:Valhalla).

I wouldn’t say it’s been rushed either

You can say that again, the announcement trailer was 7 years ago...

Going to wait until the devs fix the large amount of bugs that are inevitable with large openworld rpg titles. This title is meant to be the one they don't rush, and nothing (of value) gets cut.

Unlike the (cut) Novigrad pestilence main quest in the Witcher 3, that was meant to be linked with the last Keira Metz side quest.

I would not be surprised if some of the "rush" and delays are due to releasing the game as a crossgen title.

martinhutch
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Some poor dev spent the last year of his/her life fine tuning ‘penis jiggle physics’.

I wish it were the same person that developed the boob jiggle for Dead Or Alive receiving some karma.

Did think it's a bit odd that allowing people to customise their character's body is described as "sexualised". Having a dick isn't sexualised, it's just a thing that some bodies do. When was the first Tomb Raider? We've been able to tune breast size, lip size, butt size in rpgs forever, given all that it's more weird that this is the first time in a big title that we've been able decide whether or not to have a foreskin.

I'm just disappounted you can't have a robocock tbh. Take 10 humanity cost, lose one empathy.

Just finished the prelude and wow - so far very impressed. Night City is huge and beautifully put together. Seems very alive and 'real' - proper atmosphere to it. The controls are very different to Witcher and just about any RPG I have played so take a bit of getting used to but they make sense when playing. Haven't found any real bugs yet either.

Couple of tips without giving anything away. Even during the prelude there are a load of side quests etc. I skipped them but will go back and replay so as to tick them off. Also it is worth exploring back alleys for loot. Collect everything and cash junk in at various places to start getting a bit of a bank balance.

Yes there are some shooty bits however much of it can be done stealth also and there is lots of scope for character development and plenty of RPG elements. Story seems well constructed so far as well. Must stop now as working tomorrow but can see my evenings planned out now for the foreseeable 🙂

Seems to be a buggy mess on Xbox and PS4.

Think I’ll wait.

It's crashed multiple times on my One X. Annoying, but the game seems great otherwise. Hopefully a patch fixes the bugs soon.

It turns out, all that time on the dick physics was better spent than you'd think

https://kotaku.com/peoples-dicks-are-clipping-through-their-pants-1845849381?utm_campaign=io9&utm_c

My flatmate spent faaaar too much time playing around with the boob and schlong configurations this evening!

Are all you lot KHHVs as well?? 😁

Seems to be a buggy mess on Xbox and PS4.

If some of the videos at 720p/30fps I've seen are to be believed, I'm impressed at how they managed to make it run so badly.

I recently made the conscious decision to buy new/expensive games on CD as I have a habit of playing them for a few hours before getting bored. At least with CDs I can move them on.

I may just pick this up but, like always, I have so many jobs to get done that if I do get into it I’ll be piffed at throwing that time away.

Played it for a few hours yesterday, it's not grabbed me yet but that's mostly because I'm rubbish with a console controller so the combat is more of a struggle than it should be. I'd seen a lot of reports about it looking crap on a PS5 but it looks OK to me, certainly not next gen (it's not 4K for starters) and some textures are a bit fuzzy but it's far from unplayable or headache-inducing as I've seen some posts on reddit saying.

I wouldn't be surprised if the console version has stuff tuned to med/low. On those settings the game looks like GTA5 which is a much older game.

Apparently some of the video card drivers (especially Nvidia ones) were working a bit clunky with Cyberpunk. A fresh install of the drivers seems to solve it. My friend went from 20fps to 100fps with that. I don't know how this will affect consoles though.

The good thing is that CDprojekt are known for fixing their stuff and all this will probably get ironed out.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the console version has stuff tuned to med/low. On those settings the game looks like GTA5 which is a much older game.

Still shouldn’t run at 15 FPS and crash regularly though. Not to mention the graphical glitches.

That went well.

https://twitter.com/cyberpunkgame/status/1338390123373801472?s=21

Big games on release day are always a gamble - it's just how it is.
I resigned myself years ago to wating a few months for the inevitable large patches to be out. Possibly even a price drop too.

I’ve been caught before too there is no excuse for a game 7 years in development, delayed time after time. It’s what made me suspect it would be a buggy mess though. It’s a shame as a lot to of people have  worked hard on this. I hope they do sort it though. It’s rare for a developer to issue refunds for a bad game so credit to them.

Maybe if they'd focused less on the massive dildos...

I remember buying 'Vampyr' on a bit of a whim when it was about a year old, got a bit stuck so looked for some online tips/strategy type guides, and most of what I saw was people saying what a buggy mess it was... luckily it had had several game changing huge patches by the time played it so was never an issue.

On the otherhand, I bought bad company 2 on release, and aside from the occasional wtf bug, it was pretty much spot on... luck of the draw really I suppose.

Does make be wonder about the various business models in use though, so some outfits rely on big early sales to fund fixing known issues?

I know a few devs who work in the games industry, for some of the biggest names, and they are quite often frustrated and burned out nearing a big release or big expansion or a big patch, working crazy hours out of a sense of team play and commitment to a project for little reward to meet deadlines.

Being in the games industry sounds really cool and interesting, which I'm sure it is in part, but it's not as rosy... not nearly as rosy as it can appear from the outside. One guy I know much blames the collapse of his marrage on having to pull long days and 'all nighters' during 'crunch' periods to get products ready.

I was going to get this for my Xbox One S, but it's supposedly all but unplayable on that. It might be harsh, but from reports / reviews I've read it's ambitious but you need a next gen machine to play it like a last gen game.

I'm planning to get a Series X when they're back in stock, it might fixed by then.

Filed for my refund today. What a mess of a game, so many bugs and game breaking glitches.

I've put around 30 hours into this game so far (been off work since launch day). Playing on Xbox one s.
Yes it's buggy, but what new release doesn't have issues. My main complaint is the low frame rate and being thrown back to the home page when things get busy on the game.
I won't be getting a refund, because I can deal with the issues. The game is certainly playable, but far from complete.

Other issues I've run into are multiple of the same NPCs spawning and doing the same things in unison. NPCs and cars randomly spawning mid screen. Objects randomly ending up stuck in characters and no way to retrieve them.

Good things about the game are that it seems huge map wise. Level of detail in the game is high although graphics wise it's pretty poor, I'm guessing playing older gen console will be the reason for that. Hopefully I'll be getting the new Xbox soon so will report back on different it looks.

I’ve put around 30 hours into this game so far

Would've taken 15 hours if the frame rate wasnt so low....

Sounds like a car crash of a game at the moment, hopefully they'll fix it, but I doubt it'll ever run at a decent frame rate on the one s.

Google offering free stadia premiere set with cyberpunk currently, just got my voucher code for the pack

Google offering free stadia premiere set with cyberpunk currently, just got my voucher code for the pack

ermm... GLHF? hehehe

graphics look shite and the low frame rate is shocking.

Yes it’s buggy, but what new release doesn’t have issues.

Yeah a few bugs or issues is expected. What you’re describing though is a mess, I don’t want a game that regular crashes back to the start, a poor frame rate for the device it was released for or unplayable in parts due to bugs.  They’ve admitted themselves it’s not really suitable for last generation consoles like they promised without a major fix. Currently it won’t look massively different on the new gen as it’s not even optimised for those, there are plans though. Hopefully it will be the game it promised to be in a couple of months.

it's like the origeional Crysis all over again, it was realesed for hardware in mind that wasn't really commercially available, or at least didnt have wide spread ownership.

What's really funny are the low vs ultra settings comparison videos - there's barely any difference. Shadows, reflections and draw distances slightly improved but not enough that'd youd notice whilst focusing on playing the game.

So much for full fat raytracing.

😂

So much for full fat raytracing.

Appartntley proper RT has a massive effect on frame rate (and subsequently a massive hardware overhead)... is it an elephant in the room, I wonder.

Why are people so obsessed with the next new lighting teqnique? is it really that good? buy our new hardware now to find out at a -40% frame rate!

Sorry, I'm being really cynical. 😉

Admittedly I am running the PC version but on an older 1080ti gpu and it runs fine for me and looks, IMO, pretty amazing. Yes, I’m noticing more bugs like weird physics when people die and cars etc appearing in places that they shouldn’t but overall I am still really enjoying it.

I’m finding that just pootling around and developing my own character is good fun and things develop accordingly. You get beef or kudos with various gangs or factions and Night City is just huge. The main plot just seems like one long tutorial and then the fun is doing your own thing - in that respect it is more RPG than any game I have played.

I will admit it seems very poor on last gen consoles though which is disappointing but at least CDPR have held their hands up and are offering a no quibble refund. That in itself is pretty rare these days.

well i bought the game on my old xb1 and asked microsoft for a refund on the saturday which they declined,so was slightly peeved to say the least.

have now contacted cd projekt red for a refund.

the game does look great on pc but the way it is now on old xb1 it needs a hell of a lot of work to sort out the issues.

a gaming pc is out of the question for me as is a next gen console too atm.

am sure the game will be great once issues are sorted out.

Damn, Google stadia offer now finished. Was going to get it today but it has gone.

Shows you how behind the last gen consoles were - that PS5 video looks about the same as the low setting on PS5. You could buy a budget 500 quid gaming PC that’s actually in stock right now and it’d look as good as that. That’s put me right off the latest gem consoles.

The PS4 one is just terrible!

You could buy a budget 500 quid gaming PC that’s actually in stock right now and it’d look as good as that. That’s put me right off the latest gem consoles

It’s not optimised for PS5 which is why it looks as bad a budget gaming PC.

Appartntley proper RT has a massive effect on frame rate (and subsequently a massive hardware overhead)… is it an elephant in the room, I wonder.

Yet here we are with this.

I will admit it seems very poor on last gen consoles though which is disappointing

it's a brand new game with new 'stuff', what made you think it would run well on an old xbox?

it’s a brand new game with new ‘stuff’, what made you think it would rin well on an old xbox?

The fact they implied it would?

hahahaha

being diplomatic, was it developed for console, 1080 @30fps? or PC?

being diplomatic, was it developed for console, 1080 @30fps? or PC?

Developed for consoles and PC.

Or do you mean developed for PC and then converted to console use? From my basic understanding that’s. or such an issue anymore either with modern game engines.

Damn, Google stadia offer now finished. Was going to get it today but it has gone.

I can't even imagine the internet connection you would need to play that game over Stadia. I got a Stadia when google wee giving them out for free played a few games but there was so much lag.

Looking at it probably dial up.

I await IGNs next review. They’ll give it 4/10 IGN are the most unreliable source for reviews. .

Posted 1 week ago

And called it.

https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-for-xbox-one-and-playstation-4-review

That's hilarious... How do you get a 3, if 4/10 is "take it back to the shop"?

IGN are shockingly bad at reviews. Possibly as by all accounts underneath the mess is a good game, I will probably still get it but only when it’s a bargain and working fully.

I ended up taking the plunge and got the free Stadia offer. All in, it cost me £50. I had no gaming hardware at all, so it's a cheap and relatively risk free way to get stuck in.

Only a few hours so far, and no bugs or glitches at all.

I can’t even imagine the internet connection you would need to play that game over Stadia

The internet connection I'm rocking is 65Mbps. Using this and the free sub to 'Stadia Pro' I can play on my tele at 4K and HDR seamlessly.

It looks amazing, like watching a film and there's no discernible lag. Sounds great too - especially the cars as you raz about the place.

Parts of the game are quite hard though! But all in all, well pleased.

I won't be asking for a refund and handing it back.

Streaming must be the way forward. There's a PC as big as a house somewhere running my game. I presume even if you have a fancy pants console or PC there'll still be lag if the internet connection is poor, so the key challenge is connectivity. I'm lucky I have decent, cheap BB.

Not a massive gamer, but for a few quid a month, it works for me and much cheaper / less cash intensive than laying down for a console or PC.

YMMV

Yeah at £50 I would go for it, at £140 I'm not so sure

Streaming must be the way forward.

definitely the future!

Probably not, all that (esp. High def) streaming is not very good for the environment.

Probably not, all that (esp. High def) streaming is not very good for the environment.

But in fairness, rather better than each user having a dedicated console brimming with rare earth metals that has a lifespan of little more than 5 years! Not to mention each user's own console drawing power to do its own electronic gymnastics in rendering high def graphics.

Streaming is the (much) lesser evil from an eco perspective, but still an evil.

Whilst it's not the prettiest game in the world even on my PS5 and it does have a lot of bugs (crashes out of the game once every time I've played it so far.) It's still a great game and not since Red Dead 2 have I thought I would play one mission and it take 3 hours to get to the start of it as I'd got caught up in a load of side quest on the journey over. If you've got the hardware to play it on the latest console or PC or the bandwidth to play on Stadia and you like open world games I'd definitely recommend it.