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Oh, they do exist on PC, but they are easier to stomach when the game runs somewhat reliably at 60 FPS despite those bugs. Loading times are also much faster on decent setups in comparison to consoles.

I have encountered several game breaking quest bugs that could only be resolved by reloading a previous save, sometimes sacrificing a good half hour of progress. If for some reason I didn't have any spare save files at those points, that would have resulted in a soft lock of my playthrough.

The console release is a disgrace and I'm glad Sony had the balls and responsibility to pull the game.

 LordofHats wrote:
It's quite telling on Metacritic;

PC: 80+ (7+ user score)
Consoles: ~50 (3+ user score)

Most of the bugs and glitches people are complaining about don't exist on PC, or aren't as frequent and the play experience is consequently much much better. It's why I call the game fun but imperfect. I could bitch about the things I don't like for hours, but at the end of the day I still had a lot of fun running around and shooting heads through walls.

The actual gameplay (combat) is excellent. Every gig has multiple routes in...even if some seem blocked off by Body/Technical Ability requirements. There's a lot of places where you can shoot through glass to get inside, which includes windows on the roofs. Also, for the single target kill missions you can frequently KO the target and carry them out which leads to slightly different results.

My biggest pet peeve with the gameplay remains that it is built around your Cyberdeck to an extent and you can't unlock new ones quickly. The fastest one I know you can get is by level 7 (Reflex 6 to start, all points into Reflex) and than there is a Ripperdoc that sells an uncommon Sandevistan...the only one I've seen in game.

Really? My experience is the opposite. You can buy what seems to be the best quickhacking deck fairly early in the game from the doc south of the big roundabout (where you get dropped off after the first talk with dex) for 50k and 10 street cred. I bought that deck and never replaced it.

The dirth of itemization is another thing that I think kind of weakens the game. You can basically have your entire cyberware set up loaded and running by level 10-12 and you'll likely never replace any of it for the rest of the game.

I think I screwed up Judy's quest with my new character..

Judy's questline should trigger again after you've completed the main story mission Gimme Danger.

If you pay Vic what you owe him, then he's got a couple of nice cyberdecks (purple and gold) for sale that don't appear to require any street cred.

Wow I hear refunds promised now from Xbox and Best Buy stores as well.

I know they said already that preorders had paid for the game development but I wonder how many will be returning it and how that will impact the company. I see some folks losing jobs - hopefully its more the management that put them in this situation vs. the devs and folks who have been forced to crunch just to get it to the current state (let alone to a good state on all platforms by Feb 2021)

I just hope they can turn the game around and improve it with content. If they properly support the game I could see myself playing it throughout next year quite a bit. If they abandon it then it'll be the last game I purchase from this company.

Eumerin wrote:
If you pay Vic what you owe him, then he's got a couple of nice cyberdecks (purple and gold) for sale that don't appear to require any street cred.

Also, if you're a psycho completionist you can make well over 100k during Act 1 by doing everything. I bought Blue Mantis Blades...even though you can get Legendary for free after Act 1, the Legendary Sandevistan he sold, Double Jump legs, and a few other 5-7500k Cyberware items.

You can also get a free Legendary Monowire in Act 1 and it wrecks everyone...Strong Attack spam stun lock.

I dunno, there are plenty of glitches but I really don't see why there's so much interweb hate, I've been having a blast playing the game so far. But then, I also loved Anthem.

Maybe it's just the last gen consoles? They probably should have said it's for next gen only, and maybe released a last gen version in a few months when it's more stable? I do remember getting PUBG on Xbox and that was a train wreck for me, I tried to get a refund and Microsoft was just like lolno.

 Necros wrote:
I dunno, there are plenty of glitches but I really don't see why there's so much interweb hate, I've been having a blast playing the game so far. But then, I also loved Anthem.

Maybe it's just the last gen consoles? They probably should have said it's for next gen only, and maybe released a last gen version in a few months when it's more stable? I do remember getting PUBG on Xbox and that was a train wreck for me, I tried to get a refund and Microsoft was just like lolno.

Everyone on a console is playing the Current gen version - the next gen version is not out yet.

Glitches is an understatement and half the story - content is another issue for many interms of the AI problems - like the teleporting police who can't chase you outside of missions etc

Played quite a bot of Anthem - its ok

 trexmeyer wrote:

Eumerin wrote:
If you pay Vic what you owe him, then he's got a couple of nice cyberdecks (purple and gold) for sale that don't appear to require any street cred.

Also, if you're a psycho completionist you can make well over 100k during Act 1 by doing everything. I bought Blue Mantis Blades...even though you can get Legendary for free after Act 1, the Legendary Sandevistan he sold, Double Jump legs, and a few other 5-7500k Cyberware items.

You can also get a free Legendary Monowire in Act 1 and it wrecks everyone...Strong Attack spam stun lock.

Counter intuitively, the monowire scales with Street Brawler perks, not blade perks.

Just for anyone who picks it up XD

One of my more minor pet peeves is the largely unhelpful/uninformative tool tips. The game could use some more clarity on what perks effect what gear.

Looks like another PS patch this morning

I preordered this game long ago, and have not downloaded it yet. I am in no hurry as I have other games to play and my SSD is currently full.

Maybe by the time I get around to installing it it will be more stable.

The controversy has been useful as it has drowned out spoilers and means I still have little idea on the meta-plot and can blind play it.

 Orlanth wrote:
I preordered this game long ago, and have not downloaded it yet. I am in no hurry as I have other games to play and my SSD is currently full.

Maybe by the time I get around to installing it it will be more stable.

I have a policy of just not buying big name games at least until I see reviews and usually not for several months after that. Gives time for bugfixes, patches and for DLC-included versions to come out. Anybody who buys such a game on day one (or even worse, pre-orders it) cannot reasonably act surprised when this sort of thing happens.

I just remembered that Grimes was a VA for this game...and found out that she is Lizzy Wizzy. I've played that questline twice and had no idea that it was her. Freaking wild that some indie artist I've been listening to for a decade blew up like this.


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 Elemental wrote:


I have a policy of just not buying big name games at least until I see reviews and usually not for several months after that. Gives time for bugfixes, patches and for DLC-included versions to come out. Anybody who buys such a game on day one (or even worse, pre-orders it) cannot reasonably act surprised when this sort of thing happens.

Agreed. . . But, at least for us PC players, and insofar as I've experienced, all of the bugs that *I've* had are not game breaking, and are of the usual sort of early game bugs where you can laugh at them. Only time I had a playthrough session broken, was when I lept past my NPC companion down a ladder, that companion was programmed to be in front of me, so as they followed their pathing and got in front of me, they punted me through the wall and into the eternal fall of doom.


And if past CDR games are any thing to go by, I'd suspect we'll get DLCs and updates for a few years at least. . . IIRC, Witcher 3 got its 2nd DLC what, 2 or 3 years after launch? something like that? and I keep seeing it getting updates on my Steam queue so there's some kind of support for it out there.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Elemental wrote:


I have a policy of just not buying big name games at least until I see reviews and usually not for several months after that. Gives time for bugfixes, patches and for DLC-included versions to come out. Anybody who buys such a game on day one (or even worse, pre-orders it) cannot reasonably act surprised when this sort of thing happens.

Agreed. . . But, at least for us PC players, and insofar as I've experienced, all of the bugs that *I've* had are not game breaking, and are of the usual sort of early game bugs where you can laugh at them. Only time I had a playthrough session broken, was when I lept past my NPC companion down a ladder, that companion was programmed to be in front of me, so as they followed their pathing and got in front of me, they punted me through the wall and into the eternal fall of doom.


And if past CDR games are any thing to go by, I'd suspect we'll get DLCs and updates for a few years at least. . . IIRC, Witcher 3 got its 2nd DLC what, 2 or 3 years after launch? something like that? and I keep seeing it getting updates on my Steam queue so there's some kind of support for it out there.

I did run into a "Game breaking bug" but CDPR gave a work around that I managed to use. so not a biig deal

Well, I just beat the game, with about 56 hours of playtime according to my savefile. Still actually have lots of side missions to do.



I'll do another playthrough sometime next year after the game has had some DLC added into it.
Stardew Valley just got a major update, so I'll play that again next.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

Spoiler:

Crappy ending, really. V only has a few months left to live due to her organic brain now rejecting her.

So just beat the game myself

The DLC is going to be


Side note...having played entirely too much I've decided the biggest issue in the game is that way too many quests are locked deep into Act 2. There's an entire chain that's only accessible once you've unlocked the final quest and I think players will skip over it because of it's late accessibility. As of this post less than 1% of players had finished the chain according to Steam. Also, the act 2 side missions (specifically missions) are probably the best part of the game story wise. Hint: If it's a side mission, it likely has a follow up quest in 1-2 days, but their trigger system needs to be fixed.

The cyberpunk genre is cynical. That doesn't require it to be nihilistic, and with how little anything you do seems to impact you or the world around you it feels very nihilistic.

having just started a second playthrough I've some thoughts on the endings etc.

Well lets be real. Male V has a bad voice actor. I'm not sure why. It was like that in Mass Effect too imo. The male VA just delivers their lines so flatly and without any flair, and in Cyberpunk with a bizarre Phillie/Jersey accent that sounds really fake.

I have 30 hours played, part of the way in to act 2.

Game is good on PC. I see some issues I would like fixed, but I see that coming in the future. Missions are fun. Side Quests are fun. Gigs are fun sometimes and sometimes frustrating. I hate any time an NPC drives. The rail system kills me. Melee is super fun, I love it. I am about to respec and go for a Fist build, Body/Cool/Int. Focus heavy on Cold Blood.

Very excited to see how things shake out.

PS: Johnny has grown on me, I hate him less than I initially did. Also, I am not fond of the voice actor for V.

I'm playing through this currently (on Xbone even…).

I don't like how hectic the mission system is. While I'm about to go towards a mission Place, I'm getting like three phone calls about new missions… Just let me get on with the current one please.

I have a cop waiting for me in a diner and I've changed the current missions twice already (when Judy or the Nomad chick call, I'm not gonna say no to them over some stupid breakfast with a po-po). I don't know how many days the cop has waited for me in the diner now…
And the Yakuza guy… Don't keep me waiting… How many days ago was that?

I get it. Time is really not the essence, but it kind of breaks the immersion how long the NPCs are willing to wait for me to return to them.

I wish I would get to do the missions at my own pace.

I recently got a glitch where, when driving around, all the other vehicles on the road lacked collision. Made getting through traffic much easier when I can just drive through everything.

I'm playing Xbone and so far the game has been perfectly playable. Haven't run into freezes that lasted more than a few seconds and while have met a few glitches here and there, nothing game ending.

Mostly a bit annoying stuff like when I'm sitting on a couch and a conversation starts that gives me the option to stand up, V will get up from the couch, but remain crouching. I cannot trigger the standing upright mode.
So during the whole conversation it feels like I'm a child, looking up at the adults talking… Lol.

The Graphics on the Xbone are fuzzy, but as long as the gameplay runs smoothly I can live with that.

I don't even care about the idiot NPC pedestrians and drivers. I don't really pay attention to that. It was kind of funny when I parked my bike on the sidewalk, the pedestrians started panicking and ran away in terror.
Yeah, that's right, don't touch my bike!

 Col Hammer wrote:


Also, what is the point of doing all of these side missions when I know

Spoiler:

I'm gonna eat my gun in the end? This is a bit of a downer for me...

You heard of fething spoiler tabs right?