To be fair Witcher 3 was a bugged mess when that was released and they're still patching it 5 years later and releasing ray tracing for it soon for free. History says they will sit this through for years, not just months but we'll see. Still shouldn't have gone out in this state on consoles mind.
Gaming Cyberpunk 2077 (PC, PS4/5, Xbox One)
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To be fair Witcher 3 was a bugged mess when that was released and they're still patching it 5 years later and releasing ray tracing for it soon for free. History says they will sit this through for years, not just months but we'll see. Still shouldn't have gone out in this state on consoles mind.
I am going stealth route and the fact that you can't retrieve the knife when you throw it bothers me, hoping it was not intended and is just a bug.
I hope that happens, nothing to suggest it won't I guess. I feel bad for the actual development team because it seems like this was a decision made by the upper management with pressure from their shareholders.
It would be ironical if that is the case considering that the stock price has gone 27% down. Tomorrow is gonna be fun, with many reports of Sony giving refunds and Sony having made a complain to CDPR, I expect it to go down tomorrow too.
Think I’ve played just over 20 hours but I’m only just at the start of act 2 as I’ve been doing the side content mainly.
I don't think that's quite the same. With GTA V, people expected that Rockstar would do what they did plenty of times before, just even bigger and better. You knew exactly what to expect - they had a successful formula that they had been following for what, fifteen years at that point? It was always expected to be evolutionary, not revolutionary (and let's face it, revolutionary it ain't).
Cyberpunk was in a lot of ways an unknown quantity - after all, it's quite a radical departure from CDPR's customary fantasy stuff - and was hyped to be the game to end all games. Instead we got a sci-fi Witcher 3; I'm very happy with that, others might not be. But it was never going to live up to the hype. It could have come a hell of a lot closer, though, if it had been a stable, polished game at release. Which shouldn't be a big ask at all. They dropped the ball in this regard.
I'm getting deeper into Act 2 now and it's getting better and better. Lots of great quests, I bought a weird and trashy car, and pimped out my cyberware. The city is brilliant.
They say they've already recouped development and marketing costs...
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announcements/current-report-no-65-2020/
So the relatively tiny amount of refunds being given is basically this...
https://www.cdprojekt.com/en/investors/regulatory-announcements/current-report-no-65-2020/
So the relatively tiny amount of refunds being given is basically this...
No idea why you quoting me before reading what I was replying to.
Sorry mate, I read from page 39 to 50 and was just replying to that comment in isolation. I assumed you were asking what reason would some ask for a refund.
That's probably it. I'm playing it and while it's not been buggy, it is graphically toned down on the base PS4 (with a low FPS). But the actual game has been superb so far. Nothing comparable to the likes of Watch Dogs for me.
Played two hours with no crash on my PS4 
I'm trying to play as a reasonably honorable Nomad but keep doing bad stuff Should save that for my Corpo run. I'm wondering how the female V would run or if it's all the same (dialogue options/romances etc)
I'm actually really liking the story and characters and world setting although I'm only at the beginning of Act 2. Just wish all the faults weren't there and the AI was better.
I'm trying to play as a reasonably honorable Nomad but keep doing bad stuff Should save that for my Corpo run. I'm wondering how the female V would run or if it's all the same (dialogue options/romances etc)I'm actually really liking the story and characters and world setting although I'm only at the beginning of Act 2. Just wish all the faults weren't there and the AI was better.
That's fair enough. I'm still looking forward to playing this in a week or so.
NPC behaviour, Cyberpunk vs GTAV...
My brother was saying that this game was completely unplayable and laggy with textures popping in and out on his PC. I told him to move the game to SSD and now its totally playable and smooth.
Yeah I dread to imagine playing this on a standard HDD
Its actually been relatively smooth for me on PC. Had no crashes, and no gamebreaking bugs outside of a single instance where I jumped into a barbed wired fence and couldn't get out. The only semi-recurring glitch I've seen is looted item info not disappearing.
I feel for the console crowd, hopefully CDPR fix it up sharp. Behind the ugly technical horror show there's actually a fantastic experience to be had.
If we can get a decent amount of bugs sorted, next gen graphics, and improved npc or at least police behaviour, there’s a good game to be had.
Sounds like a lot but we know the next gen update is on the way and can only imagine they’re working away furiously on the bugs. NPC is the only thing up in the air. Hopefully they’ve been working on that already and it just wasn’t ready.
The Metacritic score is still just for the PC version. I imagine if/when e.g. the PS4 version gets reviewed it'll be considerably lower.
It's been cracking me up tbh
Yeah I dread to imagine playing this on a standard HDD
Its actually been relatively smooth for me on PC. Had no crashes, and no gamebreaking bugs outside of a single instance where I jumped into a barbed wired fence and couldn't get out. The only semi-recurring glitch I've seen is looted item info not disappearing.
I feel for the console crowd, hopefully CDPR fix it up sharp. Behind the ugly technical horror show there's actually a fantastic experience to be had.
I'm on the high preset with a 7 year old HDD, 1060GTX 6gb, i5 3570k and it's very stable at 1080p/30fps. Not ideal of course, or anywhere close to the experience others are having. But it looks pretty good and runs better than I expected honestly.
CDPR statement re: current gen status
Bit of a lame apology that. They knew exactly what they were doing.
Well that’s positive at least. If this was EA or Ubisoft, they would have run for the hills already.
At least they haven't tried to spin it in any way now that the shitstorm's happening. That's appreciated in today's world.
Having said that, I agree that they had to know it runs like arse on base consoles and still released it in this state. So they have precious little goodwill now and for good reason.
Get those patches coming thick and fast.
I've just aquired the flathead. Am I still in the prologue?
Have read that outside of high end pcs, Stadia is the best way to play this game, anyone playing on Stadia??
I've been playing it on easy and ignoring all the RPG parts. More fun that way!
Anyone else seen how resetera are handling this game? They won't allow any threads outside of the one big thread
Anyone else seen how resetera are handling this game? They won't allow any threads outside of the one big thread
It's certainly playable on PS5, and I assume XSX. A lot of people are opting for Stadia over previous gen though
What? That sounds terrible.
Not a big RPG guy. I did the same for the witcher. I'm just enjoying the world and the story.
How can you play a RPG while ignoring the RPG parts ?
See above. Not a big RPG guy. I did the same for the witcher. I'm just enjoying the world and the story.
What? That sounds terrible.
I don't get how that works either. Surely at some point you have to invest some skills points or whatever or risk falling behind the curve.
I sort of agree. No store will accept a return anyway if the box has been opened.
By ignoring, I don't mean not looking at it at all. Just that on easy, non of your decisions matter too much as you can just shoot your way out of trouble.
There is nothing unusual about paying a game for the story.
There is nothing unusual about paying a game for the story.
I haven't tried PS5, but on PC with a i5-7600k and GTX1080 (I built in 2017 so almost 4 years old) it looks better and plays smoother than the Stadia '4k' version in my opinion, but I only played up to Lizzies Bar on Stadia.
This really is the darkest timeline.
So, you're role playing ?
The minute you assume control of the character is the moment you're role playing. Whether you're keeping to the games narrative or going free-style and jumping off cliffs, you're still role playing because that's the game.
CDPR's stock has fallen a further 16% today. Since the game was launched the stock went from 400+ to 270, despite the game having one of the best launches ever (and the best day 1 launch for PC games).
Why the feck CDPR thought that releasing a half-baked game is actually going to be a good idea?
Why the feck CDPR thought that releasing a half-baked game is actually going to be a good idea?