Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

[HeyYou]

I think some of the voice acting was done through skype lmao. Panam doesn't have any dialogue in the new ending almost like they couldn't get her actress in for another session. The voicing with Jago is unacceptable. It's probably some random developer with a cheap voice changer. Took me right out of the game it's supposed to be a serious quest then you have that clown like wtf happened lmao

You can call Panam or visit her in the camp to talk about your progress in the DLC and she sounds fine, the ending choice was likely intentional.

As for the DLC, remarkably good writing that makes you sympathize with two shitheads with immense flaws. I still chose to save Songbird, because despite her killing all those civilians in the stadium I went nomad V and he's going to choose to fuck over the feds and give someone freedom if he has the choice. New ending is just ass, however, and even more of a torture porn ending than the literal bad ending where you off yourself.

 

[SpellforceFan]

New ending is just ass, however, and even more of a torture porn ending than the literal bad ending where you off yourself.

It's only shit if you choose certain dialogue lines. V can be pretty positive about it, planning on being a fixer and the like. Nomad V can just go back roaming, since most of nomads don't have combat chrome either. Fixer V will likely work with Rogue, since she messages them and says they're always welcome at Afterlife. If you are disappointed at romance interests blowing you off, you have only yourself to blame - what kind of affection starved retard pursues romance in video games, that's one step away from jap dating sims.

 

[HeyYou]

It's only shit if you choose certain dialogue lines. V can be pretty positive about it, planning on being a fixer and the like. Nomad V can just go back roaming, since most of nomads don't have combat chrome either. Fixer V will likely work with Rogue, since she messages them and says they're always welcome at Afterlife. If you are disappointed at romance interests blowing you off, you have only yourself to blame - what kind of affection starved retard pursues romance in video games, that's one step away from jap dating sims.

I was referring more to the general "you've sold your soul to the NUSA" vibe. Not nearly to the level of the Devil ending, but with how Reed says he can get you a job at Langley and how oddly long the recovery period was the implication I got was that the NUSA is very much now trying to keep you under their thumb especially since that's the ending where the NUSA is starting to make overt moves towards Night City now that Arasaka pulled out. All your romance options being mad at you is just the icing on the cake and what makes me think the devs somehow thought "wait, this ending isn't quite bleak enough yet."

 

[SpellforceFan]

I was referring more to the general "you've sold your soul to the NUSA" vibe. Not nearly to the level of the Devil ending, but with how Reed says he can get you a job at Langley and how oddly long the recovery period was the implication I got was that the NUSA is very much now trying to keep you under their thumb especially since that's the ending where the NUSA is starting to make overt moves towards Night City now that Arasaka pulled out. All your romance options being mad at you is just the icing on the cake and what makes me think the devs somehow thought "wait, this ending isn't quite bleak enough yet."

I could sympathize with Myers's plan to unify states again, so I'm not against helping that happen. V is free to go wherever, Reed merely offered an option. I'm not surprised at how long the coma took, since they had to regrow V's limbs, skin, eyes and more to compensate for their new chometardation.

Romances getting cut off is from an objective standpoint a negative, though I personally never tried to romance anyone in the game (any games really, unless it offers a stat/item/unique bonus unavailable anywhere else) since it's cringe.

 

[Hatchetman]

I could sympathize with Myers's plan to unify states again, so I'm not against helping that happen. V is free to go wherever, Reed merely offered an option. I'm not surprised at how long the coma took, since they had to regrow V's limbs, skin, eyes and more to compensate for their new chometardation.

Romances getting cut off is from an objective standpoint a negative, though I personally never tried to romance anyone in the game (any games really, unless it offers a stat/item/unique bonus unavailable anywhere else) since it's cringe.

Bioware does exist in that world so I highly doubt it would take 2 years to grow stuff back. It's like V asked "why they didn't try nanites" they were a thing since 2020 and even the Animals use them to get their Physiques. I think @HeyYou may be onto something with them keeping V under their thumb. Granted I am not saying they would give V Bioware, due to its "Control" issues, but they had options to help V. I kind of wonder if the 2 year coma was induced on purpose by the NUSA because V does know a huge ass state secret and what better way to keep tabs on V than have all their ties cut and gimp them on purpose.....

 

[Zetsubou]

Literally killed every voodoo boy I've met and characters still get surprised that I'm hostile to the faction. There will never be a day where you can have a guy speak French (even if it's nigger french) infront of me and let me shoot him and I decide not to pull the trigger.

Phantom Liberty had a key cutscene that required dialogue with a voodoo boy to progress and it just refused to let me fail.

I killed all his gangbangers after mocking them with my list of dead VBs and then directly threatened him and the game just told me that he unblinkingly helped me with no strings attached because reasons.

Then V had a moral dilemma about if it was right to be mean to the poor voodoo boy hardened netrunner while standing in pools of brains and bad hair. I should have had to find an alternative solution or face any kind of consequence at all.

Atleast he died as he lived, speaking French.

 

[ce gars]

Is this where we make fun of CDPR still not being able to get this game in a stable state for 3+ years? I pirated it last week to finally give it a try and I'm astonished at how much of a mess this game still is in terms of stability, to the point that when I was fucking around trying to get Takemura's next quest in his chain to actually go through I wasn't sure if it was bugged or just intentional. I slept for several in game days, fast traveled everywhere, reloaded an old save to the mission before to redo it, I did half the fucking gig side quests in the game, slept some more, and then the one side quest I did for some random dude with a malfunctioning dick finally made it pop afterwards. And then I had to do the whole dance again going after Panam's final set of sidequests.

I'd say it feels intentional, but with some of the other ridiculous bugs I've come across like dudes ragdolling into the sky after takedowns, having to download a mod to get the mini-skill perks to actually work properly, and the AI going bananas constantly for no reason makes me think it isn't.

 

[Hatchetman]

Is this where we make fun of CDPR still not being able to get this game in a stable state for 3+ years? I pirated it last week to finally give it a try and I'm astonished at how much of a mess this game still is in terms of stability, to the point that when I was fucking around trying to get Takemura's next quest in his chain to actually go through I wasn't sure if it was bugged or just intentional. I slept for several in game days, fast traveled everywhere, reloaded an old save to the mission before to redo it, I did half the fucking gig side quests in the game, slept some more, and then the one side quest I did for some random dude with a malfunctioning dick finally made it pop afterwards. And then I had to do the whole dance again going after Panam's final set of sidequests.

I'd say it feels intentional, but with some of the other ridiculous bugs I've come across like dudes ragdolling into the sky after takedowns, having to download a mod to get the mini-skill perks to actually work properly, and the AI going bananas constantly for no reason makes me think it isn't.

That's actually a launch bug that they fixed that came back in 2.0. You just gotta exit and relaunch the game and time will work again for quests.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Is this where we make fun of CDPR still not being able to get this game in a stable state for 3+ years? I pirated it last week to finally give it a try and I'm astonished at how much of a mess this game still is in terms of stability, to the point that when I was fucking around trying to get Takemura's next quest in his chain to actually go through I wasn't sure if it was bugged or just intentional. I slept for several in game days, fast traveled everywhere, reloaded an old save to the mission before to redo it, I did half the fucking gig side quests in the game, slept some more, and then the one side quest I did for some random dude with a malfunctioning dick finally made it pop afterwards. And then I had to do the whole dance again going after Panam's final set of sidequests.

I'd say it feels intentional, but with some of the other ridiculous bugs I've come across like dudes ragdolling into the sky after takedowns, having to download a mod to get the mini-skill perks to actually work properly, and the AI going bananas constantly for no reason makes me think it isn't.

Are you playing on a potato? Been pretty stable and bug free for me.

A 1050 isn't going to cut it dude.

 

[derpherp2]

I could sympathize with Myers's plan to unify states again, so I'm not against helping that happen. V is free to go wherever, Reed merely offered an option. I'm not surprised at how long the coma took, since they had to regrow V's limbs, skin, eyes and more to compensate for their new chometardation.

There's a huge difference between making a deal with THE PRESIDENT OF THESE UNITED STATES and NIPPON STEERU SO POWERFUL FUCK ALL WHITIES.
For one the fucking nip is such a degenerate he will literally steal his own son's body. to the applause of the fucking freak that is Hanako. While your "friend" Takemura goes all 'lmao ownedd bye fag' and sips on 10000% authentic miso souppo.
For the other Reed actually has a moral compass and isn't a literal ronin whose morality is centered around said fucking freak and goes all 'sad boy V-domo pls help ;( ' when you fuck him over.
For the other, actual Cyberpunk lore has massive implications of the 'saka takeover. Since the guy doing the takeover is actually a rockerboy on par with silverhand. So you're stepping on someone's fucking toes day fucking 0.

Dogtown is your own story, for once. And you get to write the fucking ending, for once.
The only other time you can do that is killing yourself. Which is so fucking dystopian-cliche I actually do want to kill myself.

 

[ce gars]

exit and relaunch

I managed it without relaunching the game, but it's nice to know I'm not crazy and that it is broken.

Are you playing on a potato? Been pretty stable and bug free for me.

5800X3D+RX6800 with 32GB of RAM, and the game is running on an NVMe. I've seen many people complaining about how buggy 2.0 is, so I know it isn't just me.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

I finally finished the DLC cure ending. Most of it fell flat for me, I didn't give a shit about Songbird before she betrayed me, I certainly didn't didn't give a fuck about her bitching that I betrayed her after that. The gameplay after the Maxtac section was utter dogshit as well. I didn't sign up for a stealth horror game with almost no actual mechanics where you just trial and error your way out of instant kill animations. As for the actual ending it was fine even if it was a downer for no good reason.

 

[SpellforceFan]

5800X3D+RX6800 with 32GB of RAM, and the game is running on an NVMe. I've seen many people complaining about how buggy 2.0 is, so I know it isn't just me.

It's buggy, but surprisingly optimized for me, and it hadn't crashed on me once. If you've pirated it through fitgirl's repack, then we've been using the same version.

The gameplay after the Maxtac section was utter dogshit as well. I didn't sign up for a stealth horror game with almost no actual mechanics where you just trial and error your way out of instant kill animations.

Not a fan of it either, but I appreciate them trying something new. I've been playing stealth archer stealth netrunner anyway, so it wasn't that difficult. Next time I won't pick that route, because maxtac fucked me up and rewards (blackwall cyberdeck or smg) were worse than what I had.

 

[faint horizons]

*I tried to minimise all non-scav casualties unless I knew they were evil. Corpo V has lived through being trapped in an immoral job. It was surprisingly easy on Normal, the cheap overheat quickhack is non lethal, body blows with blunts and gorilla fists are non-lethal and there's always takedowns or sneaking past with optical camouflage. The game is Cyberpunk 2077 not Cyberpsycho 999

This is an interesting way to play. I always sort of try to find justifications for wanton murder. For example, in the original Deus Ex, I non-lethally take down most of the NSF terrorists, and when JC has to cut and run from UNATCO and figures out that the Powers that Be are sending actual murdersquads who've killed thousands without hesitation, I end up upping the ante too.

For context, I think there's lore about how Johnny Silverhand's arm is a very taxing piece of tech, so much that he can black out and end up doing regrettable stuff.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

Does the game even attempt to justify why V doesn't tell anyone they're going in for brain surgery?

 

[Mega Black]

I always sort of try to find justifications for wanton murder. For example, in the original Deus Ex, I non-lethally take down most of the NSF terrorists, and when JC has to cut and run from UNATCO and figures out that the Powers that Be are sending actual murdersquads who've killed thousands without hesitation, I end up upping the ante too.

This is the kino way to play. In Human Revolution I keep my lethality relegated to the current situation. Spare generic thugs and security officers, kill illuminati glowies and terrorists. Cyberpunk doesn't really feel like a game where playing non-lethal is especially rewarding though.

 

[SpellforceFan]

Does the game even attempt to justify why V doesn't tell anyone they're going in for brain surgery?

You can talk to love interests and update them on what you're doing in PL, and at the end you are told that the procedure shouldn't take longer than a few weeks by a pajeet looking doctor (admittedly, everyone in C2077 looks like a mutt or a nigger so it's hard to pin down his nationality, but I chose to believe he's a street shitter). V being in a coma for 2 years was unexpected.

 

[11 Herbs and Spices]

Does the game even attempt to justify why V doesn't tell anyone they're going in for brain surgery?

You can talk to love interests and update them on what you're doing in PL, and at the end you are told that the procedure shouldn't take longer than a few weeks by a pajeet looking doctor (admittedly, everyone in C2077 looks like a mutt or a nigger so it's hard to pin down his nationality, but I chose to believe he's a street shitter). V being in a coma for 2 years was unexpected.

The PC doesn't actually say he's going for surgery. When I called Panam, you just say you're leaving the city for a small amount of time. I don't remember them directly saying they're undergoing treatment or surgery.

I think the writing was supposed to imply your character is being mum about it because it's working NUSA to even get this but it doesn't ever directly say as much in the dialogue. Your character is just a retard to make the ending sad.

 

[ce gars]

It's buggy, but surprisingly optimized for me, and it hadn't crashed on me once. If you've pirated it through fitgirl's repack, then we've been using the same version.

I've been using the GOG version which is 2.01. It runs well and I've only had one crash, which was probably my fault since I was fucking around with some AMD settings. Despite the buggy nature I'm sort of surprised by how much fun I've been having with it. I decided to play it as a non-lethal, stealth-oriented hacker type. As non-lethal as I can manage at least. Sometimes an EMP grenade lands too close to a gas canister and takes a dude or two with it, shit happens you know.

More surprising is how much I kind of give a shit about what's going on in the story. I kind of dig a lot of these characters, except for the poster boy Johnny though. I can't take him seriously: he's supposed to be this big legend rockerboy who hates corpos with a burning passion but I don't know if it's Reeves or the direction he was given or the writing of his character or all of it but he's just not selling it to me at all.

 

[BillionBisonBucks]

More surprising is how much I kind of give a shit about what's going on in the story I kind of dig a lot of these characters, except for the poster boy Johnny though. I can't take him seriously: he's supposed to be this big legend rockerboy who hates corpos with a burning passion but I don't know if it's Reeves or the direction he was given or the writing of his character or all of it but he's just not selling it to me at all.

It's perhaps giving CDPR too much benefit of doubt, but I feel like Johnny not at all living up to his legend was an intentional juxtaposition against Jackie's hero-worship of those same legends.