Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

[KonradCruise]

So I powered through a few hours of this, playing as the best DMC5 vergil I could create and using katana only unless getting stuck in would result in me getting swiss'd six ways,.
My verdict is :
Texture pop in : everywhere even for the friends I have running this on SSDs and 8+GB virtual memory
Atmosphere: I wish it was more like satellite reign, the news broadcasts and advertisements are compellingly immersive enough that I spent 15 minutes just watching whatever came on in the elevator. Things feel a bit washed out for how neon the setting is on the streetside, Crowd density on high is decent, but they sometimes pop in just like the textures.
Combat: is serviceable, feels spongy though. Buying the katana with its 150DPS at the start of the game on hard is essentially cheating for the early missions.
I do not like the RNG looter shooter mechanics, if I wanted some diablo loot I would go back to playing Inquisitor: Martyr
Driving: It handles like hot ass and the instant travel terminals are literally ever 5 paces why would you not use them other than immersion?
Music: SHIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET followed by grating nu-metal followed by cutesy wutesy jap idol music. No synths were used in the production of this material. but I will begrudgingly accept that this would be the hell of living in night city, sort of like how the modern U.S south has only 40 R&B and rap hiphop pop radio stations and no rock/metal.
dialogue: the correct choice to advance the story is highlighted in yellow, sometimes you get to actually make a choice, in which case there are multiple yellow options
Character customization: I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING because I was unable to make a 4 foot tall black manlet with a pompadour.
Everyone is ugly barring a few notables and the miltech corpotess
I have not crashed once in around 5 hours.
Lastly there is often audio skipping near the end of character lines that cuts off the last 3-5 words of whatever is being said, its like crowbcats spiderman video at its worst.

And bonus george floyd doing his best Sundowner cosplay:

 

[Whitegirlsdon'tlikepigs]

have you tried it with rtx on? i'm still on a 5700xt

You can see my fps bottom right. Like some places and people don't look bad then there is just a a lot of shit that looks rushed that sticks out.

This is with rtx on maxed out.

 

[Swiss46]

It spawns the car a set distance away on a street so there is a chance for your vehicle to teleport in and crush someone before driving to you.

 

[The_MmmBop_Gang]

I'm really loving the atmosphere, though that probably has more to do with the fact that I'm playing on PC where crowds are dense and there is a lot going on. Minimal glitches and shit, too. Sure, it's kinda shallow but it feels, sounds and looks great to me. I'm loving the weird, janky combat and the hacking is pretty fun too. It feels kinda like a new game from a bygone era with a fresh coat of paint.

YMMV and this isn't going to be some groundbreaking game of the decade but from what I'm seeing its definitely not a bad game and it seems to be right up the alley of anybody looking for a fun sci-fi cyberpunk open world game.

Now, I am still in the prologue and things have yet to really open up for me, but it really does feel like a bigger, flashier, somewhat more shallow deus ex human revolution to me. The menus and UI are kinda muddled and shit though, but I can't help but enjoy this game even if it is flawed and kinda janky.

I've only seen a couple bugs where NPC phones would hover around their models instead of being held in their hands and some other minor pop in issues. I do feel bad for console players though since this launch has been a disaster. But there is some great shit here, IMO, and maybe after a month or two it'll even out kinda like the witcher 3 did after patches. Who knows.

I'd say it's worth a rental at least but we don't really have that luxury these days

 

[myiqis53]

I'm on a 1080 on medium, and getting like 40-60. The driving isn't as bad as I expected it to be, it doesn't feel too shitty, just like borderlands.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Played a few hours of it - So far, it's like, not bad even despite being buggy as fuck and having a few questsissues. But man, what's with all the fat retards and shitty rap music? It feels like I went to a bad hood in Atlanta quite a bit of time.

 

[Lame Entropy]

I'm playing it maxed out on a 3080..........its really not all that good. HOWEVER there is a lot of fucking objects outside.

Have you updated your drivers?

 

[Rotollo]

Been in a call with a friend and the game has somehow crashed like 11 times despite being over recommended specs lmao, still a fun game apparently tho

 

[Bumblino]

A person in my life works in nvidia R&D, They only made 7,000 3080s for the initial WORLDWIDE launch, they couldn't ramp supply to the point they needed because of covid but after the launch because demand stayed so high and it generated so much media they decided to lean into it because it was driving their stock up to record numbers without ever needing to invest in hyper costly manufacturing due to covid. No proof but my summation is sony and xbox just copied the strategy because the tech industry is stupid incsetual

So I was right, we'll eventually reach a point where they don't ship products but just will make it look like they do to hike up share price. Now that's the real cyberpunk experience.

 

[Tard Repository]

Played a few hours of it - So far, it's like, not bad even despite being buggy as fuck and having a few questsissues. But man, what's with all the fat retards and shitty rap music? It feels like I went to a bad hood in Atlanta quite a bit of time.

The music is godawful, and to think CDPR spent thousands on that alone. Should've gone the GTA route and just licensed a bunch of existing songs for use since they went GTA on everything else - or better yet just lean more heavily into the futuristic "synthwave" aesthetic and licensed some Perturbator, MN84, etc.

 

[Nom Carver]

The music is godawful, and to think CDPR spent thousands on that alone. Should've gone the GTA route and just licensed a bunch of existing songs for use since they went GTA on everything else - or better yet just lean more heavily into the futuristic "synthwave" aesthetic and licensed some Perturbator, MN84, etc.

It would actually have been pretty neat if they got a bunch of artists together to make actual cyberpunk-esk albums to tie in with the game. Good bands, I mean. Not the dangerhair that plays a ukelele and claims she can make cyberpunk music.

 

[PadThaiLover1]

thank you kiwis for your insights, trying to go off of steam reviews for this game is going to be impossible because the good reviews are filled with corporate coomsumers who suck CD PR dick, I unironically think they are the gaming version of Tesla without any of the vision of Tesla. The negative reviews are pretty consistent from what I have read here which is good to see.

 

[Sithis]

From what I've seen the game isn't quite as horrible as expected on PC but then again I've only seen the first few missions in various streams. The problem for me is that I'm not going to spend another $1200 on building a new gaming PC that can run it without many issues. I already have a PS4 and am planning to upgrade to the PS5, and from what I've seen the console version is absolute dogshit with crashes, bugs and other issues.

Some bugs I can laugh at and appreciate, like the backwards flying dragons of Skyrim. And those types of things are easily fixed. But it seems like there is a lot more issues going on with console players than comical misdirected NPCs.

Unless the game gets a major overhaul on consoles I'm gonna pass even if it goes down to $10.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Character customization: I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING because I was unable to make a 4 foot tall black manlet with a pompadour.

 

[DeusVult]

PC releases the same time globally. Does nobody understand time zones?

Yes, as a matter of fact extremely few people understand time zones.

 

[Zebedee]

Well... I was actually looking forward to this.

Thank you fellows for letting me know that it’s absolute garbage. I think I’ll spend my money elsewhere.

 

[ThatOneLurker]

>Urbanized futuristic setting
>Where is the pollution

Like bro the industrial age was centuries ago. Where is the pollution coming from? Did they bring all the manufacturing jobs back to America? Is that fancy CHOOH2 super gas highly polluting? This isn't the 80s. "high tech stuff = tons of pollution" isn't a trope anymore.

Fallout's backstory involved everyone using ALL THE OIL on earth and then nuked EVERYTHING but apparently there is no long term weather change but who cares because that game is perfect but Cyberpunk 2077 should have smog from (???)

What he means is Cyberpunk dystopia typically looks like this.

Cyberpunk is dystopian by nature. The world is dying, having been long drained of all it's natural resources. The Earth is covered in sprawling cities, and things like animals and trees have gone extinct—we clone/create Android/robotic version replacements of these things.

Cyberpunk was inspired heavily by GiTS and Bladerunner—especially Bladerunner, so the world depicted in the classic rulebooks more closely resembles Bladerunner and that was when the game took place in 2013-2020. This takes place 57 years later, after multiple New Wars and Night City got NUKED and it just feels like GTA. It looks like tech noir/neon Tokyo, but it's missing the overwhelming claustrophobia where it feels like humans are animals stuck together in a huge sprawling cage—crammed together with trash rising up your ankles everywhere you go.

It's not necessarily bad. It feels Cyberpunk, but at the same time it also feels lacking. This doesn't look or feel like the Night City that has been depicted for the last like forty years(?). I dunno how long this franchise has existed. I'm a zoomer who played it with my older brother lmao.

For example, take a look at the original concept trailer for 2077 and compare it to what we got.

Looks way more like the above and much, much more like the Night City from the books—right down to the advertisements and holograms. None of this weird gay shit with trannies and degenerate stuff.

 

[Miller]

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How'd I do?

cybernetic Hannah Hays

 

[ThatOneLurker]

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How'd I do?

Not bad.

 

[myiqis53]

Shit's broken on PC, night city is fucked for some reason, and crashes the game.