Anyone play it and can confirm if it's worth continuing my playthrough?
The whole experience feels different now. I would say reboot and start over. I'm level 4 now and the map seems more lifeless than before. I know that it is done to encourage me to go out and explore the city but I want to know where the adventure IS to go there. Gigs are now hard or nothing (so no, very easy, easy, medium, hard or impossile) BUT the good news is that I can only see 2-3 gigs at a time which makes a lot more sense since you could sequence break the gigs before.
Since I accidentally created a Ciri lookalike, I'm doing a melee build with with quickhacks (cheesiest of the cheese). I got into an NCPD hustle with 3 animals: all of them with melee weapons. Parrying is a lot less sensitive than before; hammer animal hit me while parrying and it only took a 5% of my life. Once he landed a hit he took 50% which I found reasonable. Got into another NCPD hustle with 4 scavs: I could ninja take down 2 scavs before one of them decided to randomely turn and find me; I rushed one with a sword for an instakill and parried instakilled the second one (with 1 blade skill). I tried shooting at 3 tyger claws with automatic weapons and they riddled me with bullets (level 1 guns skill but on-par smg and pistols.
I fought another 3 Tygers in the NCPD gig in front of Lizzies. Only the swordsman gave me trouble, somehow I decapitated one of the three with one swing.
I found that you can't slap higher tier mods on lower tier armor. I had a kurt kobain flannel shirt and random mod to increase street cred exp was incompatible with it. I still see a lot of armor perks but not enough evasion perks. I will be shooting myself in the foot if I go with mediocre armor and mediocre evasion into the late game.
I'm very interested how the gigs will progress. After dex drops you off you could go and do the Woman of La Mancha gig (which was free xp, basically). Now it's locked but the gig where you have to steal the cyber eye for Regina's friend is open. Interestingly, there are some gigs where Johny would have had a conversation with you (like the one where the vet stole a bunch of medicine and then kills himself when he finds out it doesn't work) that are not active but were active before patch 1.51. That's very kind of the devs, to not have people miss out on content just because they are autistic completionists.
Also, all cyberpsycho quests are open and have a different icon for them, that's another quality of life improvement.
And finally you can skip the braindance tutorial, unless you like hearing Judy say "choomba". I like Judy's socal, latin accent so I don't skip her dialogues.
