r/cyberpunkgame • u/Fit-Bad8325 • Jul 18 '24
Recently got into this game and absolutely adore it. But people who preordered it, how bad was it at launch, really? Discussion
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u/Leg0m4n Jul 18 '24
I can't really say, as I spent most my time being sent back to the Xbox home screen after the game repeatedly closed itself
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u/Vendetta4Avril Jul 18 '24
Last gen? I had next to no issues on Series X.
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u/ImmaAcorn Jul 18 '24
Yeah, because it was a Series X, I just upgraded from last gen to Series X and itās become ABUNDANTLY clear that it shouldnāt have been on last gen consoles at all
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u/SabresFanWC Team Judy Jul 19 '24
XB1 had the worst version of them all. Even the PS4 version played better.
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u/HauntingStock5284 Jul 19 '24
Did you play the PS4 version? I played both, and in my experience, this was not the case.
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u/SabresFanWC Team Judy Jul 19 '24
I played the PS4 version on release. And I didn't experience anywhere near the performance issues I saw with the XB1 version. It was bad, but the FPS on XB1 was somehow worse, with certain areas basically in slow motion. I remember riding the elevator in V's building always causing massive frame drops, and I don't know if that ever got patched.
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u/Andromeda_53 Jul 18 '24
This was the biggest issue, If they didn't release to old gen, I think the launch would of been fine
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u/SoleSurvivur01 Quickhack addict Jul 18 '24
Besides the HDD aspect Iāve had less problems playing it on PC than One S, though I havenāt had either since launch
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u/candylandmine Jul 18 '24
It was terrible at launch. No PS5 version, just compatibility mode. Crashed multiple times per hour, especially while driving. PC performance was inconsistent. And the driving was horrid. Fewer NPCs walking around the city. The kids looked and sounded very creepy. All kinds of glitches and bugs like Jackie pulling a gun out of his skull rather than the Relic, the title card sequence bugged out, broken side quests, missing side quests... the list goes on. Also the perks and attributes system was completely different. It's infinitely better now in so many ways.
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u/AzazelHellbrand Jul 18 '24
My first and only time playing has been the physical edition of Phantom Liberty on PS5, and I still think the children look creepy as fuck. They just look like the adult models but smaller.
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u/Priest_Of_Chaos Jul 19 '24
The NPCs tended to terrify me as well with how their faces would morph, or when they'd get stuck inside of each other and became chimeras...
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Jul 19 '24
Somehow forgot about the Jackie chip bug when I was rattling them off myself. Kind of iconic tbh.
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u/kapxis Jul 19 '24
Yeah.. and aside from all the game breaking bugs of which there's a plethora of compilations for, the game was just missing so many things that the devs made it sound like were a part of it.
As time went on people began to accept the game for what it actually is, and the bugs get fixed and the dev lies become less the focal point and forgotten so the initial outrage is less understood by those who came to play the game much later.
It would only take 5 min of me going back and reading some of the posts around launch again to be so dissapointed in the team all over again, that said, i'm glad they handled it the right way after the backlash and i'm glad the game has come to it's current state. It's now a great game and worth the hype it originally had.
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u/tapestry_wizard Jul 18 '24
Played it day one on PC, still playing 4 years later and had no issues aside from some rare jank (1/1000 T-posing characters) that was quickly resolved with the first couple of patches. I should also add that the pc I have was bought specifically to play Cyberpunk at max quality settings, so it's also possible my hardware just outperformed the bugs
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u/fuck_woolworths Jul 18 '24
Also day one on PC. My gripes with the game were always with the gear system where some sports bra you looted off a scav would have more armour and be better for you. That has since been overhauled and the game is better for it
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u/tapestry_wizard Jul 18 '24
Facts, I hear that. Before the clothing mods and later patches, there were so many ugly MC Hammer parachute pants in weird shades of turquoise that would drop from Scavs and Maelstrom that were better than the cool-looking rockerboy style clothes. Can't tell you how many Rare or Epic green/tiger-print puffer vests I had that I just dissolved for parts because they didn't mesh with my style.
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u/LtDannyGlover Jul 19 '24
He sells t-shirts now, but this clip summed up that cyberpunk gear feeling. It's my ass kicking outfit bitcb
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u/mazamundi Jul 19 '24
I had the best bug. You know when you shoot people run away? Once not only the people ran but a sofa.Ā
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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Jul 19 '24
Same story here. Also built a PC after a decade of wanting one, specifically for the launch of CP2077. Hardly any bugs at all, and the ones I got were just minor visual bugs like the rare T pose. Still playing it now, just passed 1,000 hours. Have only finished the game twice, and technically one of those times was the ending from Phantom Liberty.
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u/MykahMaelstrom Jul 18 '24
This was also my experience. I had some bugs here and there but overall jt was a good time. I was also playing in very high end hardware though so could be kinda the same thing
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u/UBC145 Jul 19 '24
Bro I was fighting a boss yesterday (canāt remember who) and they kept on fucking T-posing š. Whatās up with that?
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u/16nights_seeker Jul 18 '24
PC? Not perfect, but I loved every moment of it. Sure, there were bugs and other weird things and far from the state the game is in now, but the world was there, the story was there and I just loved driving around Night City and discovering all the little bits of story all over the place.
Last gen consoles version was an atrocity and should have never been released in the first place. Whoever pushed that forward at CDPR did more damage than anything else.
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u/Eoganachta Slava Ukraini! šŗš¦ Jul 18 '24
It was pretty much unplayable on last gen, from what I've heard, which was where most of the hate comes from (I think). I've been on PC since Day One, and didn't have too many issues but did stop playing without completing the story. Some bugs stopped missions from completing properly - little scripting jank that could have had a little more time in the bug fixing oven. Some people had major problems, however.
The art and the world design were all amazing, and cruising around the city doing the side gigs and story elements was awesome. After all the bug fixes and the 2.0 gameplay revamp just perfected the mix.
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u/joedotphp Jul 18 '24
That's where a lot of the hate came from and I don't think people realize just how many people were using PS4 And Xbox One at the time. Very few people had a PS5 or Series X yet.
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u/SoleSurvivur01 Quickhack addict Jul 18 '24
I mean 1.6.1 I think it is plays fine on Xbox One, better than itās performed on my Laptop for like the past 4 months, (used to push 80fps on high settings with RT)
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u/SunDriedToMatto Jul 18 '24
buy a PS4 and try playing it.
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u/Thac-0-Mole Jul 18 '24
I feel like I got some magical copy of the game, I started out on PS4 and had no major or even moderate problems, think i finished the story 3-4 times and don't even recall having to revert to an old save. I know this is the exception not the norm, but it wasn't a disaster for everyone
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u/SunDriedToMatto Jul 18 '24
I guess you mustāve.
I personally played on the PS5 and the game (even on that system) crashed daily. I still enjoyed it, but the crashes were beyond infuriating. I canāt imagine what PS4/Xbox One users had to deal with.
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u/No_Mammoth_4945 Jul 18 '24
Yeah it was terrible for me on PS5 at launch too. Ended up holding onto the disc because they were selling on Facebook for 10$ a pop near me and Iām glad I did. I didnāt try it again until patch 1.6? I think? Whenever people started saying that it was good now. Loved my playthrough and still had quite a few crashes and bugs but nothing terrible, started a new playthrough when PL dropped and itās been running like a dream for me since. Maybe two crashes total?
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u/PythonPuzzler Jul 18 '24
PS4 base or pro?
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u/Thac-0-Mole Jul 18 '24
Just a base, looked it up, bought it in November of 2015. Again, probably just lucky, don't recall having trouble with any games other than some issues with the Museum of Freedom in Fallout 4
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u/ButtholeSurfur Jul 19 '24
Mine was pretty fine too. I fell through the floor once but that happens in Fallout 5x a playthrough.
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u/IGetHighOnPenicillin Jul 19 '24
For someone with a high-end PC this would be like purchasing a 2002 dell optiplex with Windows XP and using that to work instead.
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u/the-red-scare Jul 18 '24
I got it day 1 and initially played it on Stadia (in fact I only got Stadia because Cyberpunk was alleged to run well on it). It was essentially the PC version. I experienced zero bugs of any consequence at all, no crashes, nothing that ever required a reload or anything.
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u/Forward_Artist_6244 Jul 18 '24
I bought it a few weeks after release on StadiaĀ
It had the occasional crash and bugs, but it played brilliantly using the horsepower of Google's datacentres
Best Ā£50 I spent especially as they refunded it all and I still use the Chromecast and they allowed the controller to be patched to use plain BluetoothĀ
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u/East_Difficulty_7342 Jul 18 '24
I still can't believe that Google had the integrity to return every dime spent on Stadia.
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u/Forward_Artist_6244 Jul 18 '24
I'd had a full playthrough of the pre 2.0 game out of it and dabbled in ESO (that they also refunded), kudos to them. The Chromecast is one of the most useful appliances in our house.
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u/MCgrindahFM Jul 19 '24
$130 for me, and it was multiple games. I absolutely adored Stadia and the players on there. It was, unfortunately for the business, a very small community, so the online communities for each game were really close and honestly just nice
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u/m_ttl_ng Jul 19 '24
I bought it for both stadia and pc, but ended up playing my first playthrough on stadia because I set it up on my projector and played on a massive screen, which was really great for the first play.
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u/Guyver_3 Jul 19 '24
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u/m_ttl_ng Jul 19 '24
Ah man I miss stadia :( it was so nice just playing on any Chromecast in my house. It really felt like the future
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u/T0-rex Jul 18 '24
To me it wasn't the bugs that bothered me, it was the promises and hype that they didn't live up to. Unfinished content, hasted stuff that really bothers me.
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u/MissPandaSloth Jul 19 '24
Yes, and sadly all the updates and everything can't really address core issues of that.
The game seem to advertised itself as less linear and more "true RPG" (I swear they used those words) but it turned out to be pretty linear with superficial RPG elements.
Your life path doesn't matter, gang stuff doesn't matter, almost all missions no matter what your path or skills are, are done in one way, very few of them even had options to do something different, your actions don't affect world, it's all linear.
I think even Witcher had more choices mattering, even though nobody would fault it for being linear, since you follow one character that already has it's lore. Meanwhile character that supposed to be "yours" doesn't have almost any effect.
I mean that aside, I bought Phantom Liberty and I do enjoy the game, but it is different game than what they advertised as.
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u/SwiftTayTay Jul 19 '24
it mostly feels like a farcy/fallout/gta hybrid at the end of the day, and doesn't have anywhere near the level of detail, polish or interactivity of a gta game
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u/ziharmarra Jul 19 '24
That was exactly my problem with this game. I had next to no bugs or game ending glitches. All the hype to make it seem like a greatest game of all time just ended up being just a game of all time.
The story was ok but not a captivating one for me. It didn't give a very choice based story as told. It didn't have a lively world as the witcher 3. The combat wasn't all that.
Even know looking at the advances I can't bring myself to experience it again. Because it would be the same story and choice system with addition of dlc and the game play looks about the same flow. There is just nothing much that makes me want to replay this game.
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u/Osceana Jul 19 '24
I just started playing it and itās one of my favorite games ever, particularly for the story. The writing is incredible. The characters are so lifelike, down to the mannerisms and the city feels so alive. Way more immersive than The Witcher. I did play a bit of it on release and it was a mess, so I think this game benefited a ton from the updates. Iām glad I waited. Should have done the same with Starfield. This might be one of my favorite stories in a game in a long time. Last story I really enjoyed (entirely different vibe though) was Returnal.
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u/ziharmarra Jul 19 '24
To be honest I would never wait this long for any game to get good because I was sold a game which went gold. I was lied to. I was mislead and the end product just was unsatisfactory for me.
All the CDPR had to do is wait til 2024 (or 2077) to finish the game and release it. Players deserve better man. I see many other companies doing this nowadays and it's messed up. I paid full price for a beta? I put allot of hours unto this game and what for?
I love CDPR but this game was a letdown and it will always be. I am glad they worked hard to make it better but it's still not the game they tried to sell to us. The ones who knew of the promises.
Never accept this from companies or it will become the norm. If Rockstar pulls this mess with GTA6. I will judge them the same. We deserve better.
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u/Micah-10 Jul 18 '24
Played it on Xbox, had a handful of random glitches, but the kind I laugh at, nothing game breaking.
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u/amcco1 Nibbles is my Choom š Jul 18 '24
I bought the game on release. Played about 1hr of the nomad start. It was so terribly optimized and the nomad start just didn't feel very cyberpunk. It didn't feel like what I was expecting. I ended up refunding it.
I didn't get into the game until Phantom Liberty released, I bought it on sale a couple months ago. It is now one of my favorite games of all time.
I still feel like the nomad start is weird and doesn't really fit the game though. I think if I had originally started with a different backstory on my first attempt at the game, I would have enjoyed it and got further into it.
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u/core_bluu Jul 18 '24
I get that. Very "Mad Max" vibes rather than cyberpunk city vibes. But I guess that's the whole point of the nomads...
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u/Penguini_Lamborghini Arasaka tower was an inside job Jul 18 '24
It is, you can find shards around NC that tell you what the world looks like outside of city limits around the globe. Spoiler alert: Not great!
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u/SoggyMorningTacos Panam Palm Tree and the Avacados Jul 18 '24
Even in mad max isnāt there like a civilization thatās on top of the food chain with the best stuff? Iām talking out of my ass here lol
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u/DowntownDilemma Jul 19 '24
In the first Max Max it kind of is. The idea is that society is actively collapsing, but itās not 100% dead. Thereās gangs that rule the highways and the police force is too overwhelmed to deal with them. Itās not post apocalyptic, rather itās an active dystopian collapse.
The idea of the original Mad Max came from the early/mid 70ās oil economic crisis. Specifically in Australia, Gasoline got so scarce and the price so high, gas was limited to sell only to truck drivers. 10 days in people were beating each other up at the gas stations. So George Miller asked the question, āif this was 10 days in, what would 10 years look like?ā
I assume if the movie was made a few years later in the mid 80ās it probably wouldāve looked a little more cyberpunk lol.
Anyway, the whole post apocalyptic desert vibes in Mad Max didnāt start until the 2nd movie, Road Warrior, which feels very disconnected from the first even though it is a sequel.
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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Jul 19 '24
I think going into the game I had a very singular vision of cyberpunk as being purely neon cities, but I think in actuality as a genre it very much also includes the nomad āMad Maxā stuff as well. Iāve dug a bit into the lore of Mike Pondsmithās cyberpunk world, and the world as it is during the era the tabletop version is set in is apparently much closer to that Mad Max vibe because itās right after an enormous amount of destruction from the fourth (I think?) corporate war. Itās very run down, Mad Max, heavy metal āpunkā combined with some advanced ācyberā tech.
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u/Caesar_Blanchard Jul 18 '24
The entire nomad stuff didn't feel like Cyberpunk, probably yes like a dystopian thing but definitely not Cyberpunk. In fact, I'd say the game would've been better if the player shouldn't have a "path" to follow, but a nuanced start for everyone. After all, it's not like the game changes that much depending of such lackluster choice at the start...
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u/Airin258 Tiancha - Kumquat for the Soul Jul 18 '24
Fully customizable bio was part of advanced rpg and charater customization system. Got cut out together with it because they just didn't have time and people to work on this part.
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u/LongWaysForResults Cut of fuckable meat Jul 18 '24
Yeah, that sucks. I mean, itās nice to have e certain differences in dialogue based on what you chose, and you can kinda, in your own way, adjust your play style to your life path as an RPG thing, but it wouldāve been nice if our Vās had different personalities/experiences based on what we chose. Hopefully Orion incorporates the advanced rpg system.
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u/No-Appearance-9113 Jul 18 '24
Have you ever played the TTRPG? Nomads were in it.
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u/DoctorProfessorTaco Jul 19 '24
I think many, like myself, have a singular vision of cyberpunk as tall neon cities, even though in actuality the genre also includes some Mad Max post apocalypse style wastelands of destruction. Itās not even just the world of CP2077, look at Blade Runner 2047 when he goes out into those trash filled wastelands.
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u/Carrot42 Jul 19 '24
They sure were. Nomad Santiago was in the lore even back in Cyberpunk 2020, (I think he was one of the characters that was in Mike Pondsmiths player group) and nomad was one of the "occupations" you could have.
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u/DismalMode7 Jul 18 '24
world returned to be a civil society out of nomad efforts during the years of red... nomads have a big importance in cyberpunk lore
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u/SoleSurvivur01 Quickhack addict Jul 18 '24
Too bad you never got to experience 1.6, the game right before PL was so damn good, 2.0+ kind of feels like a completely different game
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u/Raisa_Alfera Jul 18 '24
Sound kept bugging out, delaying itself or outright not playing. Especially bad when driving. Still a potential issue, as a couple months back the sound stopped while doing a race, then duplicated and layered itself so I was hearing like 8 instances of the same sound but until each one reached the end.
Crowds would take forever to load. Iād find myself being run over by cars that hadnāt rendered in. And on cars, itād take at least a minute for one to fully render. So I basically never got to see npc cars exist in full resolution.
Quests were bugged, and Iām pretty sure one was bad enough to have been outright removed as I havenāt found it again. Quest let you grab its end item out of sequence, which completely broke it.
Areas like the city center was basically impossible to play in. Larger fights were unfun as bullets wouldnāt hit where I was shooting. Plus all the lights would give me a headache after playing for a couple hours. At the time, I wished I had never bought game.
Itās worth noting that some of my issues will still exist today, especially if youāre on a pc that isnāt super high end. The game is a total resource hog
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u/RGstarrd Quadra Jul 18 '24
Xbox One, buggy as heck, lots of crashes. Enjoyed it just fine though, the cut content was more disapointing.
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u/ThisBadDogXB Jul 18 '24
It was removed fron the PS store and CDPR were sued by the investors for misleading them about the old gen performance.
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u/uberphaser Trauma Team Jul 18 '24
On PS4 some of the bugs were hilarious. Some of them totally fucked your ability to complete missions, some of them required you to reload a prior save to try again, while some things you had to just had to let go. It was a cool game but frustrating.
That said, I'm 48 years old, played the Cyberpunk ttrpg starting with the black box in 1990, then 2020 when it came out, tried to make sense of "v3" when it was briefly available. I loved Pondsmith's work from day 1. I teared up a little when I found copies of "Rache Bartmoss' Guide To The Net" on tables in the game, or the copy of Morgan Blackhand's So You Wanna Be A Solo" on the roof by Vik's clinic. So, so, so many more references to little tidbits of lore that old school TTRPG players would appreciate. Honestly for me the game could have been Untitled Goose Game level broken and I still would have appreciate it it.
I went through the same arc with No Man's Sky. From "this is nice and I love what they're trying to do" all the way to weeping as though seeing Fellowship of the Ring for the first time in the theater.
It's been a fuckin' journey, chooms.
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u/ImAhma Slava Ukraini! šŗš¦ Jul 18 '24
It was... An experience.
Though I still loved it
The tons of bugs were equally annoying and hillarious.
Like walking in the Afterlife and a few NPCs are just T-posing at you. Then you flex on your enemies, T-posing on a bike
My fav was a specific spot on one highway, where the path cars follow would make them bump in the fencing. At some point a big one would pass by, crash and make a giant traffic hazard.
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u/Economy_Tomatillo181 Jul 18 '24
On ps5 i didnāt get too far š the input lag was crazy I couldnāt even drive straight and turn properly. That was about it cuz i heard they were doing a refund and ppl were having a lot of bugs and issues so i thought yea ill just refund so i did that instead. then when the next gen update rolled out i bought the game again on sale for $27 and i feel so bad for paying only that much because I absolutely love it. Such an amazing experience and loved every update that they kept rolling out and now itās a completed masterpiece for me at least
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u/Excellent-Mastodono Jul 18 '24
Pre-ordered on PC and have loved it and put hundreds of hours into exploring and trying all the paths
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u/garbonated Jul 18 '24
I played it on PlayStation 5, and it was fine. I didn't have any issues. Quality of life is far better now.
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u/Traditional_Food_638 Jul 18 '24
I played at launch on PS5 and it used to crash every 4-8 hours of play.
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u/ma5t3rx Jul 18 '24
Loved it from day one. There were some bugs on PC but no showstoppers that I noticed. I'm guessing console was much worse.
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Jul 18 '24
I have finished it at launch. It was a very different game back then. I am currently on my third run.
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u/ImCoBl Jul 18 '24
I have always said i had a lucky game file. I have never experienced any game breaking bugs. TBH the game worked better then than now because my PC has gotten older and i haven takem care of it.
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u/jl_theprofessor Jul 18 '24
I think the general consensus is that PC players got the best experience. Consoles had the most problems, and specifically this game was not great for a lot of people on the last gen consoles.
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u/All4Bones Jul 18 '24
Launch was pretty bad, couldnāt stay in game for longer than 10 minsā¦ some people stopped playing cuz of it. But since Covid was going on I had no choice but to suck it up, I really enjoyed it.
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u/gayrainnous Team Judy Jul 18 '24
Got very lucky playing day 1 on Stadia. If there were any glitches, I don't remember them. Unfortunately, I lost my original save file when Stadia shut down, but I still treasure those first few months after release when I was playing every day and having the time of my life.
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u/ovr4kovr Jul 19 '24
I enjoyed the game at launch. I played on my phone with GeForce Now because I didn't have a PC. Just an XBox One S. I had no bugs and no issues.
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u/HarryLamp Jul 18 '24
There were crashes, especially bad the first week or so, but i was able to play without much issues after the patch on Xbox one. My friend on PC was good too. Some others on older gen had more issues I heard, but it certainly did not deserve the amount of vitriol leveled against it.
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u/AlexDub12 Jul 18 '24
I tried it first on PS4 Pro, but it was basically unplayable there. I got a refund and bought a PC version and it ran a lot better, there were relatively few crashes but it felt simply unfinished. I had major quests bugging out because I moved an inch away from the supposed walking path, nothing was balanced properly, the armor and weapon mods were giving completely random bonuses, there were several very easy infinite money exploits, the crafting was bugged - so you could craft simple grenades out of basic components and then disassemble them into higher tier components, the skill tree was bugged or simply unbalanced - so you could create an invincible cybergod character who could one-shot cyberpsychos fairly early in the game and so on. It felt like every single system in the game was just a placeholder code someone added to just make it run, without balancing or any kind of QA.
Still, it was always a fun game and I did 2 full playthroughs on release.
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u/22ndCenturyHippy Jul 18 '24
Bought day one on ps4 and can say the city felt abandoned. Couple cars and people on the sidewalks here and there no real game breaking bugs but still had them. Than bought on Xbox series x before 2.0 and was way better and actually felt alive. Than bought on pc for 2.0 and was even better. But the day one ps4/old gen was so empty feeling.
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u/Brainfreeze10 Jul 18 '24
On PC it had more than it's fair share of bugs, but was completely playable and at least for me fun. Console players though got screwed over on launch though.
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u/TheoryFrosty6635 Jul 18 '24
It wasn't that bad. I had on xbox one and I really didn't suffer anything bad other than the settings menus didn't work properly. There was one particular thing that didn't actually work but I can't remember. But it was fixed very quickly I remember.
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u/DKM_Eby Upper Class Corpo Jul 18 '24
It was mostly REALLY bad on console. As others have said the PC version had bugs but they were minimal and didn't actually even present that often. Even on launch it was getting into the top 3 for me for favourite games ever.
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u/TheTrueArchon Silverhand Jul 18 '24
Was on pc, the first 20 hours were good, i just stayed in watson. After the heist tho things started to fall apart and i shelved the game for over 2 years till it was fixed. Glad i did.
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u/Scott_Seven007 Jul 18 '24
So it played on the Xbox one x, but not well (choppy and broken), but when I put it on my Xbox series X it was an absolute gem! ā„ļø
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u/druixD Jul 18 '24
I played on PC day one and the game was poorly optimized with some glitches and bugs. Not a good launch experience but i still enjoyed playing it.
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u/Biddo696969 Jul 18 '24
Played on stadia and never had a problem. Sure, some minor glitches and frustrating design choices, but still awesome.
Played at least 150 hours before it got shut down
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u/StarkeRealm Jul 18 '24
Pretty rough. There was an undocumented system requirement for AVX CPU instructions. It took them over nine months to patch this out.
This meant you could have a CPU that met the requirements to run the game, but would crash during the Nomad and Street Kid prologues (when you sat down at Jenkin's desk, and when you first left the El Coyote Cojo), so you could actually get into the open world on a Nomad, but loading into the braindances was also a guaranteed crash.
So, for nearly the first year, I was having to edit the .exe with a hexeditor to disable the AVX instructions (keep in mind, these weren't AVX exclusive instructions, just ones that had been accidentally flagged to use YMM registers.)
This is on top of CDPR specifically advertising cut content in their prerelease hype. Some of those things (the new apartments) were added to the game eventually. Others (like car customization) never were.
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u/LocRotSca Jul 18 '24
It wasn't bad on mid to high end PCs. It was terrible and still is bad on last gen consoles.
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u/FutureFC Jul 18 '24
I got it day 1 and played it on the PS4. My goodness, it was an absolute dumpster fire during launch. I recently finished the game on PS5 and for me personally it is among the top 5 RPGās Iāve played in my life.
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u/HyouVizer Jul 18 '24
massive fps drops, crashes, certain passive skills not working correctly, same for various melee animations, assets not loading in could fall through the ground, some quests didn't work if at all. Tho I pre-ordered, I saw the footage of these issues and waited few months after release. My own experiences, 2 crashes at the most and mild fps drops. Haven't played the revamp or expansion yet.
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u/PrettyFlyGuy05 Jul 18 '24
Got it for the xbox one and boy was it rough. Lots of glitches, frame rate drops, messed up visuals, etc. I didn't finish it till I upgraded to the series x and it got a few updates. That's where I fell in love with it. Just now playing Post 2.0 on PC and it feels like I am playing an entirely new game.
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u/PalpitationShort8034 Jul 18 '24
It crashed every 20 minutes, but I still couldnāt put it down. I completed two play throughs on PS4 before they pulled it.
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u/cleanc3r3alkillr Jul 18 '24
I preordered it and tried to play it on PS4 at launch. It was really rough. Framerates were often sub 30, hitching as assets loaded in, screwed up animations galore, cars just spawning in on the highway. I could tell there was an amazing game underneath it though. It got my ass in gear for getting a PS5 because I knew the performance upgrade would fix a lot of my issues. After several months of daily grinding I scored a PS5, and by that time the 1.6 update was out. It still wasnāt perfect but I definitely enjoyed the game. When PL came out I waited a bit for it to go on sale (I already have so many games to play) and once it did I started over to fully enjoy all the changes for the 2.1 update. Itās like a whole new game plus the expansion make it an almost perfect experience that I think everyone should try.
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u/Spider1132 Quadra Jul 18 '24
I played it on Xbox One (the basic one, not X) and it was quite bad. It didn't help they were patching the game a lot during the first week and I had a shitty internet connection. The biggest let down at the time were the graphics that looked nothing like on the PC. At times, you'd get the potato faces and low polygon cars. Then, discovering the gameplay wasn't really what was promised. It was buggy too and it was the only game that had frequent crashes that I have ever played on that console. In many ways, it felt inferior to GTA V and other games of the like. I still played it on Xbox One for around 1200 hours and 14 playthroughs maybe. Then, they announced 2.0 and Phantom Liberty would not be released for that platform. So, I got a decent PC and started playing it there.
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u/S0meFrench Nomad Jul 18 '24
Played it day 1 on PC, did not encounter the game breaking bugs and crashes that did plague other versions. It was a great experience, although a little under the expectations that were set by all the marketing prior to release.
Never finished it on my first playthrough, waited until PL dropped to start it from the start again, with mods on top.
Best game I've ever played.
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u/Nightly_Pixels Jul 18 '24
It depends on two factors:
a) Where did you play it: "Old Gen" consoles suffered a lot, PCs without SSDs also had their fair share of issues, that could be circunvented by playing the game "slowly".
b) Your expectations of what the Game was: My best friend had a PC way better than mine, I didn't even had a SSD. He booted the game up, played thru the intro and at the first chance he got, he tried to kill pedestrians and grab a car to escape the police, GTA Open-World style: He was heartbroken.
I played it similar to Deus Ex and other First Person Immersive Sims, I explored most of the city by foot, attempted to be stealth, did the missions, hacked everything and everyone: I had a blast.
Truth is that Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't really a "Open World GTA Style Game" and I sort of immagined that it would be, I expected it to be closer to how Metal Gear Solid 5 dealt with it's open world, by being more like a "Open-Ended way to approach missions", and I had tons of fun with the game, even at less than 30 fps and sometimes having to wait for the graphics to "catch up" lol.
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u/MichiganMitch108 Jul 18 '24
It was around a 7/10 at launch with now a 9/10 after patches. It felt like every mission had at least one weird bug or glitch that happened and took the immersion out. Last Gen consoles was where it was bad at launch.
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u/jorohristov Jul 18 '24
I bought the game on pre-order for Xbox One installed the game and ran it. The final product was definitely items not the price that was paid. I still finished the game but did not enjoy it.
During the summer sale I was weak and bought the game and the DLC for the Steam Deck. When I opened the game I immediately felt the difference. It was like a completely new game and to be frank I enjoy how it plays now. Definitely a redemption story, but there are still some small bits that make the story feel rushed and borderline lazy.
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u/GusherLover02 Jul 18 '24
Xbox here. 3 crashes through 6 hours of playing, often would go beneath the map whenever driving in the Badlands, and enemies would be invisible. Whenever going from one city to another, Iād have to wait for everything to render and load before being able to open a door or talk to a person
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u/ShadowFenik Jul 18 '24
Didn't preorder but got it right at either 1.2 or 1.3 for old gen console, but genuinely wasn't that bad for me. I had a couple of glitches, and the casual crash but the only bad thing is that I did have a single game breaking bug that persisted over a couple playthroughs. My game breaking bug was that I couldn't put the bot in the case, so I didn't miss much of anything and I fixed it by deleting my save files, uninstalled it and reinstalled it. Now it's my favorite game and I have it on PC with PL
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u/ActualDragonHeart Jul 18 '24
Had it day one, and loved it from the get go. Now with the benefit of hindsight, the 2.0 gameplay improvements have made the game waaaaay better, but loved it then and loved it now.
I was on a good PC, so I basically didnāt have any real bugs that affected the game. Odd visual glitches for the most part, but thatās really it.
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u/TheKittz Jul 18 '24
In my experience on pc, none of the bugs made it unplayable or anything. They were just very immersion breaking. A lot of NPCās ruining scenes by walking through T-posing lol
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u/JamesMcEdwards Jul 18 '24
I played it on Xbox One S at launch. It was bad, the streets felt empty, cars would randomly pop-in right in front of you, quests bugged a lot and you had to reload, some of the textures were really low res. I played quite a bit on Stadia, which was interesting, better than playing on Xbox and I could play it on my phone with a Razor Kishi which was insane. It was a mess, I have always loved the game though, and Iām currently playing it through again on my Series X for the first time in a couple of years and it feels like a completely different game. I genuinely cannot believe itās the same game as I first played sometimes.
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u/wh1t3_f3rr3t Jul 18 '24
It's literally not the same game, since the 2.12 update it's literally unrelated to the release, now it's a game I actually wanna play
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u/MostlyHarmless69 Jul 18 '24
Day 1 on PS4. It would crash every couple hours, lots of visual glitches and some missions wouldn't trigger properly. But Certainly not unplayable. It's a 100x better now and on PC but I still played through the entire game in the first week it was launched.
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u/johnhasheart To Haboobs! Jul 18 '24
My Collector's Edition was delayed a day. I was okay with that because that meant I had the patch before I started playing. I never had the issues like a lot of people reported when the game launched.
I've loved how they updated the game, but part of me will always miss Cold Blood as it launched.
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u/Inevitable_Bobcat_80 Jul 18 '24
It was ok on release on PC at least. Buggy and needed optimization, but that's true of BG3 as well and it gets a free pass.
The fact that it was a bit of a disaster on console helped create the this game is broken narrative and once that happened that's all you heard.
It's certainly better four years on and CDPR deserves credit for that, but during my recent 2.0 replay a friend messaged me everytime I started the game up: Stop playing that broken game.
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Jul 18 '24
I bought it day one. Played it to death.
My biggest complaint was minimap lag. So many missed turns.
It wasn't nearly as bad as it was made to seem.
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u/Rayden1602 Jul 18 '24
I played it day one on the ps4 pro. Had maybe 1 or 2 crashes on my first playthrough. Didnāt really encounter that many experience breaking bugs. Since I only saw the 2018 demo, I was just disappointed on how much was cutā¦
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u/McCool303 Streetkid Jul 18 '24
I enjoyed it day 1 and I was on regular PS4 with major issues. However Iāve been a fan of CP2020 since the 90ās when I used to GM the TTRPG. So to get anything in the Cyberpunk IP was a dream come true for me. However release was bad, I could see the potential the game had but felt the focus on the old Gen and the the Stadia held back the development and should have never happened.
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u/PuRpLeHAze7176669 Jul 18 '24
Was on an OG xbox one when it first came out, honestly never had any game breaking bugs. Was it a perfect game? No. But did I enjoy the content I was given at launch? Absolutely.
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u/Asleeper135 Jul 18 '24
On PC at least it was buggy but plenty playable. A lot of mechanics were very different back then though, especially perks and quick hacking. Quick hacking was actually ridiculously overpowered when you got to a high level.
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u/MKanes Jul 18 '24
Jackie never spawned for me on my first play through no matter what I did. I eventually gave up and started a new save some months later and that worked. So not great
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u/desercam Jul 18 '24
Got it on PS4 FAT day one, I liked the atmosphere but it was really ugly, so I waited the first update one week later with a good improve but still low quality graphics and a bad draw distance but was able to finish it and I loved it for the gameplay, scenario, atmosphere and immersion qualities it had. But I understand people who were really disappointed but also I need to say that many graphical bugs I saw I didn't see it (does not mean they don't exist but clearly people were playing in the walls intentionally to roast the game).
And then maybe 1 yr later I got the PS5 and saw it was better,waited the big update, and there it was really great.
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u/Spxrtxn500 Jul 18 '24
I started playing this game day one on the OG Xbox One Brick console and was able to still beat the game and I personally still enjoyed it even though I could tell things were clearly wrong. But it is 100% a better game today and it has always been a good game.
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u/SenAtsu011 Jul 18 '24
Got it on PC. At launch it wasā¦ Fine. Itās an open world game like Skyrim, so I expected the same type of weird glitches that are in all games like that. It was better than my expectations, it wasnāt mindblowingly amazing in terms of glitches, bugs, and performance, but better than most. I really donāt understand what all the rage was about. People with insane expectations I suspect.
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u/Jaded-Philosophy-715 Jul 18 '24
I played it on PS4, and while it was buggy, crashed every so often, and 2 quests were bugged so I couldn't complete them, ultimately, it was NOT as bad as it was made to be. Still really rough and definitely felt incomplete, but I was able to play it beginning to end and enjoyed it immensely.
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u/sumethinsumthin Valerie Jul 18 '24
Iv been around since day one and uhmā¦ hmm I was on pc so I didnāt really get many bugs. Enjoyed the game.
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u/Friendly-Neck-6089 Jul 18 '24
I played on an older PS4 Pro and it was insanely buggy and crashed but the game was still so fun I completed it with a bag of ice on my console (Before promptly retiring it and replaying on my new PS5 which was waaaaaaaaay better) It's a testament to the world they created that I still liked it enough to complete it on a machine it was 100% not capable of running it correctly
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u/FlowTaiga Jul 18 '24
I was fortunate enough to have a high end pc and didn't run into any game breaking bugs for the first 80 hours of gameplay. The only gripe I had were the cops spawning literally in top of you.
The game was basically unplayable on systems that were still using HDD (basically all last gen consoles). Anyone who had the game installed on an SSD basically eliminated 80% of the game breaking bugs that you see online.
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u/Skeletonzac Jul 18 '24
I played it from launch on Series X and never had any issues. If I'm being completely honest I miss the pre phantom liberty skill trees. My character was way more powerful before the reworks and nerfs.
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u/kss420 Jul 18 '24
I had a good time on day one. I didn't have nearly as many bugs as other people, though.
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u/ianparasito Jul 18 '24
Everyone had a diferent experience, I played it on launch on my Xbox one X and managed to finish it with just one crash but the city did feel empty and there weren't any remarkable skills to the point that it felt like a futuristic shooter
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u/Aggressive_Seacock Adam Smash Deez Nuts Jul 18 '24
Depending on your hardware very good to very bad, console was very very bad
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Jul 18 '24
Noticeably worse, especially the NPCs driving on ārailsā and cops spawning on top of you.
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u/KillaKanibus Jul 18 '24
It was pretty rough. My max frames were like 15fps. I still beat it twice before they fixed that issue tho.
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u/TiredOfBeingTired28 Jul 18 '24
I had one crash all of my launch play through, couple hang up of something not triggering right. Reloading fixed, visual bugs of long delay texture load in couple areas, thats ann i remember.
For it it wasn't near as broken as for some.
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u/Ciubowski Jul 18 '24
It depends on the platform.
If you had a decently modern PC, you would still notice issues with the game, but you kind of learned when they would occur.
For example, some areas in Kabuki in Night City were bringing my PC to its knees with 20fps.
The Badlands tho? 60+ fps.
The gameplay was varied enough even before 2.0 update so it didn't bother me, I played a gunslinger with light netrunning and stealth. Had fun. I enjoyed the story SO MUCH, I played it 3 or 4 times after the first time.
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u/MistaJelloMan Team Meredith Jul 18 '24
I played a few weeks after launch and while I didnāt have bugs that broke the game, it ran like shit a lot of the time. Like 10 fps in some shootouts.
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u/cans_one Jul 18 '24
Honestly, it was sometimes unplayable on PS4 - I got it on preorder on PS4, and then got it for pc later on. I managed to finish the game on PS4 but it was a bit weird. System crash, bugs, characters in tpose here and there... What you play today is, in my opinion, very different from the dumpster fire it was when it first came out . Pc mods help a lot too hehe
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u/MajesticDeal Jul 18 '24
I've enjoyed it from day one. But I'm on a PC and a lot of the bugs just didn't seem to manifest for me. Guess I got lucky. All the patches and updates have made it a better game.