Back before it was delayed (June? July?), CDKeys was selling it pre-order for $35 or so. There was enough hype at that point and CDPR was a “do no wrong” developer in a lot of people’s eyes that I figured I’d roll the dice on it for that price.
That’s awesome.
After Witcher 3, it was hard to picture them not being perfect. And their awesome DRM policy really makes them cool. I guess this one will be fine when fixed.
I hope in the next 12 months even, it gets all fixed up.
Witcher 3 was a buggy mess at release. It was a couple of years, I think, before it really hit its stride.
This game isn’t even that buggy - the REAL issue is that it doesn’t run on baseline consoles (I hear the PS4Pro does OK but the base PS4 struggles). On PC my only complaints are the brain dead cop AI (but at the same time, this isn’t GTA, and if I aggro the cops I’ll fight for a few minutes just for fun and then reload - so not the end of the world) and the inability to get a haircut or plastic surgery (comon, it’s the future - I should be able to pay a ripperdoc for a brand new face. Hell, just let me redo character creation from scratch).
I noticed that mousewheel clicking doesn’t work for me on my steam link, where I stream the game from my computer to the TV and play using Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, where the input passes through the Steam Link and to the computer. For some reason it ignores the middle mouse button. Had to remind grenades to G.
Agreed there. I’ve had one or two amusing physics glitches so far but nothing that took away from the game or hurt my play. There’s numerous humorous glitches on Twitter, etc but they also sold a bajillion copies of the game and it had over a million players on Steam at launch so you can still collect a lot of funny bug videos even if they’re relatively rare on a per capita basis.
My worst bug so far – happened once or twice - during a firefight I’d try to toss a grenade. Somehow- I think because grenade by default is middle mouse button and switching weapons can be done by scrolling, and I accidentally switched weapons while pulling the pin on a grenade- I got bugged out. When I’d try to throw a grenade my guy would wave his arm around uselessly.
After the fight I saved and reloaded and this fixed the issue.
The other big complaint I hear is about how many NPCs won’t talk to you, just giving a generic line (often a variant of “fuck off”) and how many stalls and such are not interactive.
To this, I say… look at a game like The Witcher or Skyrim. You have a few settlements with maybe 20 or 30 intractable NPCs, a few more background NPCs, and in between you have forests, deserts, tundra. You have wildlands. Sometimes you might run into someone in the badlands, but they’re usually bandits, or a merchant with one line and a handful of items. They aren’t full fledged characters, unless they’re an event spawned quest NPC.
In Cyberpunk, aside from the wasteland around the city, you don’t have big open stretches between settlements. The whole map is one HUGE settlement. Instead, you have buildings or a blocks with a handful of stores and some interactive NPCs; between these “settlements” you are still in an urban environment, but that’s just set dressing - you might run into a quest, or a store that is usable, or some hostile NPCs. But to expect the entire open world to feel like one giant RPG settlement? That’s not going to happen.
And as for random NPCs not wanting to talk to you - walk up to a random person walking in the opposite direction in NYC and try to strike up a conversation, and let us know how well that goes…
For me on PC it probably has had fewer bugs then any other initial release of a major game recently. I had 10-20 times more bugs in RDR2, probably 5 times more in the average Ubisoft or Bethesda game or really anyone else. I am personally still loving every thing about it, and it is in my top 2 games of the last half decade. It may have the best characters and acting of any game ever, (and I really don’t think that much of Keanu that much in general)
I absolutely believe you. This is a PC game that was ported to console, while the majority of the other games you’ve mentioned were console games ported to PC. You can really tell the difference on both ends.
I don’t want to hijack, this whole thread, so I’ll say this and drop it. But the game “conversation” is dominated by consoles, far more than reflects reality, IMO. You are 100 percent. For example, RDR2 was a console game, badly ported to PC. Fallout 76 was a PC game badly ported to consoles. Fallout 76 was a much less buggy game on PC than RDR2 was, but the memes, and console dominated you Tube conversations, would never let you know that.
Cyberpunk is a great PC game. I think they will eventually make it in a great game on Series X, because so damn close to a PC in a box this gen , with far more GPU than it will needto achieve that. Series S, I think will become a good game, maybe not great. PS5 I’m not sure about. Just because of CDPR’s strengths, I assume it will slot in a fraction of a tier below High-End PC/Series X.
They should have cut bait on last gen a long time ago, They’d have saved their rep, and made a lot more money over all, if they had focused on PC, released Next gen 6 months later, and switched focus to DLC for 2-3 years. But now they are kinda stuck using huge resources to polish the turd they sold for those, at full price.
I presume they will get them up and running for PS4(base) and Xbone in the next 12 months. It’s gonna have to be a $20 deal for people to come back.
You are right, and that’s why Jurassic World Evolution (which could and should have been Planet Zoo with Dinosaurs) didn’t get nearly as much crap as it deserved. But that’s the same reason that JP: Operation Genesis was so underdeveloped for its time, too.
They just issued a press release that basically says in Jan and Feb they’ll be releasing patches 1 and 2 to get the game playable on current gen consoles, then upgrade to next generation consoles after that. And I’m sure any next generation updates will come to PC too.
I just hope they cut their losses on DLC and never release them for PS4 and XBONE. Make the DLC mazing by focusing on PC and next gen consoles.
But I doubt this will happen.
I don’t know if that’s such a good plan for multiplayer games; many of those sort of require you to start early and get experience/gear as the game and player base ages, and if you come in two years later, you’re only playing against the hardest-core players of the game. For me, it’s not fun to come in and get my ass handed to me by some guy who’s played nothing but that game for two years. It’s better to start out on day 1 when nobody knows anything and get experience in tandem with the more hard-core players. They’ll eclipse me, but the disparity will never be that huge.
For single player games, waiting a year or two is a great strategy though; they’ll be patched, there might be DLC by then, and the price will often be lower. No real downsides other than having to wait.
Yep.
I’m optimistic that by June, my gaming laptop will be able to run this on lowest settings. If not, whatevs.
I think you should be able to do it if you don’t mind Potato Settings. You’re a hair under their minimum requirements technically.
Potato settings would be fine. I legit would have accepted a game that looks like Fallout 3 or New Vegas. I’m not picky.
I absolutely do not buy that. I could be wrong. but the whole thing makes no sense. After 8 years of development, 8 months of delay, the last three being full crunch, they are suddenly going to fix a game performing that badly in two months?
They may get on top of the worst bugs, but it will still be a badly neutered version, with vastly reduced assets and poor graphics.
They didn’t start active development until after Witcher 3 came out, so it’s not really 8 years. But yes the game will always run as if you’re running it on a last gen console.
If anyone hasn’t played Witcher 3, the full game plus DLC’s is $14.99 on Epic. I got that deal in the summer and put 60+ hours into it. I encountered, I think, one glitch the entire playthrough. That game ran perfectly.
It’s probably in my top 5 games of the last 10 years.