Should I buy it on the PS4 right now or wait for a month or two for the bugs to be fixed?
Gaming Cyberpunk 2077 (PC, PS4/5, Xbox One)
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Yes much much better on visual mode (to me) so far. Looked horrendous on performance mode.
I'm not very far into it though
Can't tell you what to do but PS4 seems very buggy and not s good experience.
Stadia seems good to me so far but I'm not very far in. Possibly the cheapest way to get the game too.
CDPR really dropped the ball on this one. With all these delays the last thing I expected was an unfinished game. How naive and wild was the original release date.
I'm probably 4-5 hours into the game (2-3 for other people given I spend half my time absorbing the world) and other than the duplicate phone hanging in the air twice, and a few textures here and there, I haven't seen any major bugs or crashes. The bigger deal imo is the downscaled graphics/fps which would be an issue for some. For example, I advised my brother to not play it now and hold out a few months longer. Whereas I knew I had to play this now. So it depends on you and your interest level.
Btw I'm playing on a base ps4.
Is it supposed to look like a mix between the graphics of Robotron 2084 with the performance levels of an episode of Bagpuss?
They've done a great job if so.
They've done a great job if so.
Can't wait to get this free on the Epic store in February.
no quick save?
F5 is quicksave. And it is extremely quick. The icon pops up for me for literally about .1 of a second.
agree that save folders would be useful, although I can’t see myself wanting to have multiple playthroughs going at the same time.
One thing that’s become clear to me from playing the game is that the reviewers were playing the game in an entirely different way to the way I’m playing it. Clearly that’s not unexpected as they have to rush to finish the main story but there’s not a chance in hell I finish this game in 20-30 hours.
I remember GameStop saying how they didn’t really have much money or buy cars and cyberware which is blowing my mind a little as I’ve already made about 100k just from doing the side missions and looting. I’ve bought the mantis blades and a new 40k car and I don’t even feel like I’ve scratched the surface yet.
Thata always the issue with reviewing games of this nature, they are very hard to rush through.
I remember GameStop saying how they didn’t really have much money or buy cars and cyberware which is blowing my mind a little as I’ve already made about 100k just from doing the side missions and looting. I’ve bought the mantis blades and a new 40k car and I don’t even feel like I’ve scratched the surface yet.
Thata always the issue with reviewing games of this nature, they are very hard to rush through.
About 12-15 hours into the game now, mostly done sidequests/main story.
Experience so far has been pretty positive, there are some strong areas in the game but I think that's ruined by some utterly awful bits.
I guess my blame for this mess lies with management trying to appease shareholders. Can't delay it any further because they miss out on the christmas boom and stock price takes a hit. So pressure was on to get it released for that 'boom'.
I do think over the years they've threw bits of content/promotion out to hype us up when as we can clearly see now, some of those elements aren't even in the fecking game or have clearly had bits cut from them (prologue cough cough) again, I all blame should really lie with management here.
Positives
*The location and design of the world is stunning and I'm still way off what some are experiencing with top end machines. Driving through night city, music blasting is bloody good fun.
*Characters and story have so far been very strong imo. I'm not that far in yet but I'm really enjoying it.
*The seamless transition between areas with no loading screens, talking to characters etc but also being able to just walk away from a character mid chat. I did that in a side mission earlier as I had a decision to make on whether I thought a person was lying. Walked away and explored the area further, found some evidence and went back. In the vast majority of games, you'd of had to of made a decison there and then.
*Gameplay wise: Gunplay is actually better than I was expecting. Hacking and stealth are enjoyable, I think that'll be my focus this playthrough.
*Quest areas for the most part have been great, fun to explore and lots of different ways to work your way around the objective.
*Choices: I'm not sure how much choices will affect things in the long run but it's nice to see dialogue options can make a difference. Sometimes, you can have someone join you in a mission that wouldn't of been possible if you'd said something else or not bothered talking to them. Can talk your way out of alot of situations, feck different people over.
Negatives
Bugs: most have been minor and not really affected gameplay or prevented me from doing anything unlike Valhalla on release which had multiple gamebreaking bugs.
Police: comically bad
Skills/Perks: I like the idea and It's definetly not the worst I've seen in a game but many of them are just 'stat' boosts and some trees don't really have anything exciting.. I think the hacking one is the only one that actually has a few perks that actually interest me. Been a few occasions where I've had multiple perk points/levels and I've just not been assed to use them because it's just a tad 'meh'
Inventry management: I'm not a fan, it's a bit confusing and it's fecking painful when trying to sell weapons etc because you can easily sell what you've got equipped. Find it painful looking for upgrades when I have 60 weapons in my inventry
Loot: I did enjoy the loot system at first but after a while it gets a bit bland, seeing items around is well done. I just don't feel that 'satisfaction' when you pick stuff up, it's just uhh what did I just pick up, oh lets trawl through all the weapons in my inventry to find out. Much prefer say dark souls system even if you're picking the same thing up, atleast you can clearly see what the item is.
NPCs: terrible ai whether driving/just walking around the streets.
Cut content: It's pretty obvious a lot of things have been cut from the game. I.e braindances, you can buy them from vendors but can't use them? This could have been the perfect way to find 'additional' quests or treasure hunts etc. The Prologues started so well, I've played two of them so far.. I think this is one of those things they had plans to add depth and management being management decided to market it and hype people up to boost stock prices and then in the end they had to cut it down, couldn't cut it out because it'd been hyped up and it was probably a last minute decison to cut it down. I could understand them being short if they actually had a decent conclusion rather than the
*lack of random side activities. I know this isn't a big one but it does make a difference, Witcher 3 had gwent and it was very well fecking done.. this has... nothing? No Cyberpunk theme game with some depth?
Definetly some more positives/negatives I've missed
Overall, considering the hype it's disappointing. It's not terrible, it's actually pretty good fun and considering I struggle to get into a lot of games this has me extremely hooked.
Cdprojekt red have utterly fecked their reputation purely due to the utter shite they gave base console users and the decietful way they went about it would make EA proud. It's disgraceful and you can't defend it. I've played Horizon, God of war, Red dead redemption 2, Witcher 3 etc on base consoles and all of them looked significantly better. I thought people were exggerating when they were mocking the graphics for console users.. oh no.. it's worse than PS3/Xbox 360 GTA for feck sake.
They've definetly fecked their reputation built up over years, gone in an instant just to appease fecking shareholders.
PS: I've had my stadia premiere come today via DPD. Deal ends on the 18th, so definetly worth it.
Experience so far has been pretty positive, there are some strong areas in the game but I think that's ruined by some utterly awful bits.
I guess my blame for this mess lies with management trying to appease shareholders. Can't delay it any further because they miss out on the christmas boom and stock price takes a hit. So pressure was on to get it released for that 'boom'.
I do think over the years they've threw bits of content/promotion out to hype us up when as we can clearly see now, some of those elements aren't even in the fecking game or have clearly had bits cut from them (prologue cough cough) again, I all blame should really lie with management here.
Positives
*The location and design of the world is stunning and I'm still way off what some are experiencing with top end machines. Driving through night city, music blasting is bloody good fun.
*Characters and story have so far been very strong imo. I'm not that far in yet but I'm really enjoying it.
*The seamless transition between areas with no loading screens, talking to characters etc but also being able to just walk away from a character mid chat. I did that in a side mission earlier as I had a decision to make on whether I thought a person was lying. Walked away and explored the area further, found some evidence and went back. In the vast majority of games, you'd of had to of made a decison there and then.
*Gameplay wise: Gunplay is actually better than I was expecting. Hacking and stealth are enjoyable, I think that'll be my focus this playthrough.
*Quest areas for the most part have been great, fun to explore and lots of different ways to work your way around the objective.
*Choices: I'm not sure how much choices will affect things in the long run but it's nice to see dialogue options can make a difference. Sometimes, you can have someone join you in a mission that wouldn't of been possible if you'd said something else or not bothered talking to them. Can talk your way out of alot of situations, feck different people over.
Negatives
Bugs: most have been minor and not really affected gameplay or prevented me from doing anything unlike Valhalla on release which had multiple gamebreaking bugs.
Police: comically bad
Skills/Perks: I like the idea and It's definetly not the worst I've seen in a game but many of them are just 'stat' boosts and some trees don't really have anything exciting.. I think the hacking one is the only one that actually has a few perks that actually interest me. Been a few occasions where I've had multiple perk points/levels and I've just not been assed to use them because it's just a tad 'meh'
Inventry management: I'm not a fan, it's a bit confusing and it's fecking painful when trying to sell weapons etc because you can easily sell what you've got equipped. Find it painful looking for upgrades when I have 60 weapons in my inventry
Loot: I did enjoy the loot system at first but after a while it gets a bit bland, seeing items around is well done. I just don't feel that 'satisfaction' when you pick stuff up, it's just uhh what did I just pick up, oh lets trawl through all the weapons in my inventry to find out. Much prefer say dark souls system even if you're picking the same thing up, atleast you can clearly see what the item is.
NPCs: terrible ai whether driving/just walking around the streets.
Cut content: It's pretty obvious a lot of things have been cut from the game. I.e braindances, you can buy them from vendors but can't use them? This could have been the perfect way to find 'additional' quests or treasure hunts etc. The Prologues started so well, I've played two of them so far.. I think this is one of those things they had plans to add depth and management being management decided to market it and hype people up to boost stock prices and then in the end they had to cut it down, couldn't cut it out because it'd been hyped up and it was probably a last minute decison to cut it down. I could understand them being short if they actually had a decent conclusion rather than the
'Highlights video.. which was the same in both street/corpo and to top things off what happened to the characters that set me on the fecking misson in the first place? Can kinda guess in Corpo but streetkid?
Definetly some more positives/negatives I've missed
Overall, considering the hype it's disappointing. It's not terrible, it's actually pretty good fun and considering I struggle to get into a lot of games this has me extremely hooked.
Cdprojekt red have utterly fecked their reputation purely due to the utter shite they gave base console users and the decietful way they went about it would make EA proud. It's disgraceful and you can't defend it. I've played Horizon, God of war, Red dead redemption 2, Witcher 3 etc on base consoles and all of them looked significantly better. I thought people were exggerating when they were mocking the graphics for console users.. oh no.. it's worse than PS3/Xbox 360 GTA for feck sake.
They've definetly fecked their reputation built up over years, gone in an instant just to appease fecking shareholders.
PS: I've had my stadia premiere come today via DPD. Deal ends on the 18th, so definetly worth it.
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I really loved Mankind Divided, thought that it was better than Human Revolution (though of course, not as good as the GOAT).
How many hours are you in to hit 100k? I'm about 30 hours in and i'm trying not to finish the last arc of the main quest. I've done most of the major sidequests I think. I generally loot and sell weapons, armour + junk. I have 45 k atm but have also bought quite a bit of cyberware. Havn't bought any cars though.
For people who've played it alot longer now, is there still any reason for the in-depth character customization ?
I think I’m probably 20 hours in but I really haven’t done any main quest. Just been clearing areas and all the quests/police reports in an area. They pay quite a lot. I’ve also been doing all the quick hack/breach events which pay me £600+ per machine. There’s often 3-4 of those machines in a base.
Edit: just to clarify I don’t currently have £100k on my person as I’ve spent a fortune on cars and cyberwear. Think I have 20-30k currently.
You can spend as much time as you want staring at your tits in the mirrors
I don't think so.
How do you rotate between cars?
I picked up a nice gold one the other day from a gang base but wasn’t sure if there was a way to keep it.
I picked up a nice gold one the other day from a gang base but wasn’t sure if there was a way to keep it.
fecking Knights of the Old Republic 2, with all its bugs and unfinishedness, managed to do this in 2005! Amazing that barely any game followed suit. It's what I missed the most on the Witcher 3 as well.
My PS5 arrived yesterday and, well, my experience of the game immediately improved a lot. Smooth 60 fps and quick loading screens. Got to the start of Act 2 and loving it now.
It isn’t revolutionary, admittedly, but the atmosphere is fantastic and so far I very much enjoyed both stealth and shooting.
A real fecking shame about the state of the release because yeah, the game deserved better.
I miss Gwent
I'd have been happy if they just updated its design to fit this world and put it in the game 
On the 'selling what you have equipped' thing: on console at least it's pretty difficult to accidentally sell an equipped item as the game throws up a confirmation window where you have to confirm with a different button.
Cheers mate.
Is that post one of the patches though? F5 was the first key I tried. Unless I hit a bug or just didn't notice the icon with it being soon quick
How will they fix the terrible ai in this game? Will it be doable with a few patches? Seems like it won't be easy to fix. And it's easily my biggest complaint with the game so far.
Cheers mate.
Is that post one of the patches though? F5 was the first key I tried. Unless I hit a bug or just didn't notice the icon with it being soon quick
Think it's just the speed, even when I'm looking at it while doing f5 it's easy to mis
I'm getting my Stadia controller and Chromecast tomorrow and my internet at my new place starts in Wednesday. Can't wait to play this in a few days!
I don't know enough about game dev to know how difficult it is but I doubt they're ever gonna get it even close to the level they promised of "over 1,000 unique NPCs that have their own unique daily routines."
That's cool and all but anyone heard about that Arasaka aircrart carrier docked in night city?
Isn't a pain in the ass to get refunds from Sony? I doubt there are that many doing it.
Yeah same. It'll be a very small number. Can't imagine it having a bit impact on rounded sales figures.
Cheers mate.
Is that post one of the patches though? F5 was the first key I tried. Unless I hit a bug or just didn't notice the icon with it being soon quick
nah it’s always been there for me. As you say though, it’s so quick that it’s easy to miss the icon
Good. CDPR needs to be heavily punished for this abomination. What they did was a total joke and they should not get away with it.
Initially I thought that I might get the game back eventually, but I think that I will just skip entirely. feck it, a game that would have needed another year or work getting releases is such a feckup from a company who apparently does things the right way. I know that they have a lot of goodwill based on previous games but they just burned it all.
Just started act 2 and it’s getting really good now
Ive had no problems so far and after the patch the other days the visuals seem better on ps5 (or I’m just used to the graphics now)
Ive had no problems so far and after the patch the other days the visuals seem better on ps5 (or I’m just used to the graphics now)
Ya probs hit the wrong key, old man xCheers mate.
Is that post one of the patches though? F5 was the first key I tried. Unless I hit a bug or just didn't notice the icon with it being soon quick
As in refunding? Or giving money back but letting you keep the game (doesn’t sound likely)? Sounds like he doesn’t know words
Only hope is it was already being done but not finished, or not working, so just needs fixing? And in the meantime they made em dumb as shit
The game has really grabbed me by the bollocks.
Anyone feeling like it's a little directionless try maining the story until Act 2. I feel like the world has opened up much more. I've spent the afternoon clearing out most of the side quests in Japan Town.
Anyone feeling like it's a little directionless try maining the story until Act 2. I feel like the world has opened up much more. I've spent the afternoon clearing out most of the side quests in Japan Town.
Don't think I have ever read so many differing reviews - is it possible all the good ones are on the PS5?