It's great that you are having a good time with the game on PC. I also get the impression that the PC version is far better than the console versions
I also agree that this game generally looks amazing (on PC) because of the raytraced lighting. It will be interesting to see how much of that they will be able to implement on PS5/XSX.
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Some things are indeed half baked/rushed, like the police system or scripted "scenery" NPCs. Again, kind of thing which is perfectly normal for a big, new IP and will be patched and more developed in a few months. But hey, who cares since we live in hot take times?
You lost me here. The "they will patch it later" argument really rubs me the wrong way. The game is out now. It's not a beta or early access, they charged money for it and at least on consoles it's an absolutely disastrous release.
I'm playing on PS5, the arguably best console experience at the moment as it runs at a somewhat steady 60fps the majority of the time and the shooting is actually really, really great once you've tweaked the options a lot. 50 hours in and the game has crashed 30 or 31 times now, not excluding the insane amount of other bugs in the game that I run into constantly. You can actually, and I've seen this several times, sequence break the story by playing missions out of order - missions that I might add you get at the exact same time.
I've broken a man's neck only to have a long conversation with him afterwards. Any other game would have made you fail the mission but Cyberpunk gives zero shits and powers on. I've seen countless enemies falling over each others feet killing themselves and others from the impact. This is actually quite funny most of the time but when you have been searching for the last guy to kill in a mission for minutes only to find him bend over a table seemingly dead but not really, the immersion breaks massively.
I've had my character unload his entire shotgun by his own will into a laptop after the game froze up, which caused me to break stealth and made all the enemies angry at me.
I've had the inventory system break to the point where it started displaying raw game code relating to the item id in the description.
I've had fast travelling suddenly not working any more.
Swapping weapons doesn't alway work. Same with waypoints on the map.
Prior to v1.05 the game would regularly reset all my settings to default which was especially annoying as I need to tweak about 20 settings to get a decent working aim. At least this has been fixed.
And many, many, many more bugs.
Just about the only type of glitch I have yet to experience is falling through the game world. But I know that's a feature and I'm just waiting for it to happen.
Having played thousands of games in my life I can honestly say that this is by far the most broken ass game I've ever played. It absolutely deserves all the criticism it's been getting. What's the point in buying a game if it is borderline unplayable? Why should we accept that they will fix it at a later date? Good for everyone who plays it then, but my first impressions will forever be ruined. They can't fix that.
Most of us probably have access to the internet, but believe it or not there are some that still don't have their consoles connected or have very limiting caps on their connection. I actually reached the cap on my internet connection so I had to play v1.00 when I got the game. If v1.06 (current patch) is a mess you wouldn't believe what they are shipping on the discs. Not only was it ugly as hell and ran at a super low resolution at 30fps on PS5. There were so many graphical glitches everywhere, around the borders of the screen, weird light leakage and a sudden strobing effect on the character creation screen that could cause seizures.
I had to stop playing it after a few minutes. Didn't even bother leaving the bar at the start of the game.
I know that many have the opinion that what's on the discs is redundant today and by default unplayable without day one patches, but this is not really true in most cases. Most games will still play fine. Cyberpunk on the other hand takes this to a whole new level. These discs really are absolutely worthless which is why I claimed my refund for the game. This game is such a fucking mess that it doesn't deserve to have a physical release.
With all that said and done I think this game could have been quite good had they delayed it a couple of years. I'm also a fan of Fallout and in all fairness Cyberpunk plays A LOT better. The city is also unbelievably well made and really fun to drive around. I love how varied every district is and their use of color is superb.
The story seems alright so far, a mix of Altered Carbon and Johnny Mnemonic. Never mind that most of the voice acting is bad, I actually think they use Keanu Reeves in a neat way. Usually hollywood actors in videogames are used sparingly and never does anything for me, but this time they sure did put Keanu to work
This is probably the most unique thing about the game as it otherwise does nothing we haven't seen several times before.
I could go on and on about the things that doesn't work particularly well, but I'd rather end by listing some of the positives about the game:
The shooting can be amazing with a controller but does require a lot of tweaking. Good on them to at least allow us to customise just about every aspect of the aiming.
The level up system is quite solid. Better than Fallout 4 but worse than 3. I feel that it encourages you to vary your gameplay a lot, which I like. At least it does on Very Hard.
Though you are being bombarded with missions constantly and it's hard to keep focused on what you're doing currently, I have found some of them to be quite good.
I'm trying to power through the game now before CDPR wants me to ship it back to Poland. Had everything worked perfectly with no bugs to speak of I would probably rate this a 7/10. I will never understand where the hype came from - Witcher 3 wasn't that great TBH
As is I can't in good conscience recommend this game to anyone. If they do a proper re-release on PS5 with updated discs I might consider buying again.
Hopefully Cyberpunk will be remembered as the premium example how not to release a game, for a long time to come. Everyone loved CDPR - the company that could do no wrong - and they fucked it up more than EA, Activision or Ubisoft usually do. I hope this will be a reminder to all publishers to finish their shit before pouring it onto discs and relying on patching it later.
I also hope more people will remember Cyberpunk next time they consider preordering anything. Preordering is stupid, especially if they are buying digitally. It only causes games to be rushed and by doing so they are acknowledging that it's okay to release broken games.
