Reticently Posted December 8, 2020 Author Posted December 8, 2020 Anyway, this will be the place to shoot the shit about our experiences with the next big AAA game. I'm an old Cyberpunk 2020 table top player, so if you have any really general background questions be sure to ask. Warning: I encourage people to hide their spoilers, but none of us are here to be the spoiler police.- READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! RSG3 1 Quote
RSG3 Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 As an old 2020 player is there anything you think we who haven't played should know before going in? Any lore or anything? I'm hype as hell. I can't wait. Today is the first time I've felt the new game I can't have yet itch since High School. Quote
Reticently Posted December 8, 2020 Author Posted December 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, RSG3 said: As an old 2020 player is there anything you think we who haven't played should know before going in? Any lore or anything? I'm hype as hell. I can't wait. Today is the first time I've felt the new game I can't have yet itch since High School. Rather than any one specific thing, I'd make sure you have a tempered expectation of the setting: it's high tech urban dystopia, but it's a high tech urban dystopia influenced strongly by how that might have looked to a science fiction author writing in the mid 1980's. Many of the themes remain salient today- mega-corporations supplanting the government for example. But some of the unforeseeable political developments that happened in-between for the real world didn't occur in that setting. The Soviet Union is still a thing in the game world, for example. DangerousJ 1 Quote
RSG3 Posted December 8, 2020 Posted December 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Reticently said: Rather than any one specific thing, I'd make sure you have a tempered expectation of the setting: it's high tech urban dystopia, but it's a high tech urban dystopia influenced strongly by how that might have looked to a science fiction author writing in the mid 1980's. Oh for sure. That is deffinitly half my hype. I love future retro. 1 hour ago, Reticently said: Many of the themes remain salient today- mega-corporations supplanting the government for example. But some of the unforeseeable political developments that happened in-between for the real world didn't occur in that setting. The Soviet Union is still a thing in the game world, for example. Yea I've done a bit of reading on the setting and the setting seems to diverge from our own heavily around the late 70s and 80s and just goes nuts from there. I'm really excited to see how CDPR interpreted the setting. Looks dope. Reticently and DarkSakul 2 Quote
beesuit Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 DarkSakul, DangerousJ and Shakunetsu 2 1 Quote
IcyBlackDeep Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 So immersive they're inducing photosensitive epileptic seizures? Yo let's go. Hawkingbird 1 Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 Preloading the game as we speak. Reticently and RSG3 2 Quote
Reticently Posted December 9, 2020 Author Posted December 9, 2020 Ugh, my kids daycare closed for two weeks due to CoVid, just in time to fuck with getting significant game time in, fml. DangerousJ and Hawkingbird 1 1 Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 Steam has a countdown. The game unlocks little over an hour from now. Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 9, 2020 Posted December 9, 2020 I think I'm coming down with something....may not work tomorrow. CYPNK-77 virus is really starting to hit me hard 👀 MillionX and Hawkingbird 2 Quote
M A R T I A N Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Waiting for it to patch. I heard there was a 40 gig day 1 patch but it says it only has to download 5 more gigs, which for some reason is taking almost an hour. Think the Steam servers are getting fucked pretty hard right now.... Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) It's already available to the master race. Just got done with character creation Edited December 10, 2020 by Hawkingbird CDB2k20, MillionX and Reticently 3 Quote
RSG3 Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Tch...super lame. But for real have fun guys. M A R T I A N 1 Quote
M A R T I A N Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Wait... I thought you had to play as the generic white guy on the cover. This just got a lot more hype Quote
RSG3 Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) Lol no man, full create a character. How did you miss everyone losing their minds when they learned you could customize your dick and balls? I'm jelly. He gets to play and doesn't know shit about it...i been following for 9 years and I gotta wait. Life is pain lol Edited December 10, 2020 by RSG3 M A R T I A N, Hawkingbird, DangerousJ and 1 other 4 Quote
M A R T I A N Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 17 minutes ago, RSG3 said: Lol no man, full create a character. How did you miss everyone losing their minds when they learned you could customize your dick and balls? You'd probably be surprised how much coverage of this game I managed to miss. I'm going in pretty cold Which led to some mild shock when I saw some of the options here on the character select... Reticently, Darc_Requiem, DangerousJ and 2 others 5 Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 I've been messing around in the character creator. I need to get back to the game 🤣 Hawkingbird and RSG3 2 Quote
YourFavGrandpa Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 I'm into Act 1 a little bit, right before the meet with Deshawn. I'll play some more before work tomorrow on PC. Was kinda tripped out a bit initially also, because my GPU settings went to Ultra everything. I'll put my thoughts regarding this in the PC Gaming thread in Tech Talk. Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 24 minutes ago, YourFavGrandpa said: I'm into Act 1 a little bit, right before the meet with Deshawn. I'll play some more before work tomorrow on PC. Was kinda tripped out a bit initially also, because my GPU settings went to Ultra everything. I'll put my thoughts regarding this in the PC Gaming thread in Tech Talk. So did mine I'm getting over 100fps thought. 105.9 to be exact. Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 I'm on the street kid path. I liked the montage after you finish the prologue. It sucks you don't get to play through any of it. Darc_Requiem 1 Quote
DarkSakul Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 OH FUCK, CYBERPUNK 2077 IS OFF THE HOOK. Hand to Hand needs some work, but otherwise the combat is excellent. And it wasn’t clear to me how to do a Take Down in that Tutorial area, on PC it’s your F Key once you get into position. Otherwise it’s what ever you action button is on consoles. Oh the “Glitches” everyone bitching about? Thats not the game that’s glitching. That literally part of the aesthetic, this is not mean saying its “feature not a bug”, no the glitchiness you see is literally a visual effect to sell you off that your a cyborg. It’s like the film scratches you see in LA Noir. MillionX 1 Quote
MillionX Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 this has been DELICIOUS so far...it's already worth every penny to me. I started with Corp path.... started off with my initial 7 points put into: Intelligence = 6, Technical Ability = 4, Cool = 6.... I intend for the hacking skills and a certain degree of stealth to be a major part of V's gameplan. That first bit of action played out so damn cool, man... I got hacks going on most of the enemies in that room... 1 dude I blinded with the "optics" hack... so I could easily just walk right up to him...shot him in the back of the head....yeah, the stealthy approach had already gone to shit by that point, of course. After that firefight we rescued someone, now I've leveled up for the first time and chilled out back at home. I'm assuming there will be plenty of opportunities for me to make V into a self-serving, duplicitous asshole...at least that's my intention for how the main character will be here. (*haha yeah that's usually how I like things to play out in any game where you get the option to *not* be such a nice, respectable person. It's always fun to see how things play out.) DarkSakul and RSG3 2 Quote
M A R T I A N Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 I mean, the game definitely has some glitches. I think it's pretty easy to discern between the intentional and unintentional ones. Haven't run into any yet that actually affect gameplay but, I've definitely seen some weird stuff like character's mouths not moving when they talk or cutscenes not rendering complete textures... or missing textures entirely. It's strange. Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 5 hours ago, DarkSakul said: Oh the “Glitches” everyone bitching about? Thats not the game that’s glitching. A friend of mine run into a glitch within 20 minutes of starting the game. I definitely see some with NPCs. Nothing Bethesda level but they are there. Quote
ZioSerpe Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 I'm in this thread to let you all know I'm gonna ignore this game with a passion, and I need to say I will ignore it in a public forum because that's how you do ignoring as far as the internet has taught me. Quote
DarkSakul Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 1 hour ago, ZioSerpe said: I'm in this thread to let you all know I'm gonna ignore this game with a passion Then why are you here? 1 hour ago, ZioSerpe said: and I need to say I will ignore it in a public forum because Go back to Sleep Samurai Reticently and Darc_Requiem 2 Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) Actually stopped fiddling with the character creator and made some progress last night. My actual V, I'm playing a dude, is sort of basic though. I was annoyed that you could not just have an earring in each ear without all the extra piercings. Like how, in such an expansive creator, is that not an option. They let you make Dirk Diggler but you can't have two earrings? 🤔 Edited December 10, 2020 by Darc_Requiem RSG3 and DarkSakul 1 1 Quote
M A R T I A N Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 There's an option to have earrings on each ear with no facial piercings. My character has them. But I don't think there's any that are symmetrical Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Just now, M A R T I A N said: There's an option to have earrings on each ear with no facial piercings. My character has them. But I don't think there's any that are symmetrical I didn't see one. My buddy and I were in Discord (I only hate it as forum replacement, it's a good Skype replacement.) and he couldn't find the option either. I just want two studs not trying to look like pinhead from Hellraiser. RSG3 1 Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 10 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said: So did mine I'm getting over 100fps thought. 105.9 to be exact. Once I hit the city that number tanked 🤣 Going to have to mess with some settings I want a locked 60. Indoor is super high outdoor is in the 40s-50s. DarkSakul 1 Quote
Vhozite Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 I need to get this off my chest...the driving is complete buns. Wasn’t expecting a damn driving sim or anything but this is lowkey ass. Not a big deal but it does bug me. Disciple0fAnrky and DarkSakul 2 Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Vhozite said: I need to get this off my chest...the driving is complete buns. Wasn’t expecting a damn driving sim or anything but this is lowkey ass. Not a big deal but it does bug me. Have you tried switching to 3rd person for driving? It helped me a lot. 1st person driving is cheeks in Cyberpunk IMO. 3rd person seems passable at least. Edited December 10, 2020 by Darc_Requiem Vhozite 1 Quote
RSG3 Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Almost time to wake up. Darc_Requiem, DangerousJ, DarkSakul and 1 other 4 Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 4 hours ago, Vhozite said: I need to get this off my chest...the driving is complete buns. Wasn’t expecting a damn driving sim or anything but this is lowkey ass. Not a big deal but it does bug me. Can you take cabs? I will do what I did in GTA4 and take cabs everywhere so I can avoid the driving. Quote
Darc_Requiem Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 3 minutes ago, Hawkingbird said: Can you take cabs? I will do what I did in GTA4 and take cabs everywhere so I can avoid the driving. There are fast travel points throughout the city. Not exactly cabs but it's something. Also, I recommend 3rd person view. It's not a great but it's manageable. You can't see enough in 1st person mode. Quote
Vhozite Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Might be my imagination but I think different vehicles handle differently, like they’re all bad, but some are better than others. Like the beginner car seems more manageable than basically any car I’ve stolen. All the bikes so far seem to understeer. Unrelated, but can you buy ammo from the gun shops? I’m assuming you can but the one I went to didn’t appear to sell any. Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 The soundtrack for this game needs to hit spotify. This game got bangers. DarkSakul, Darc_Requiem, Reticently and 1 other 4 Quote
RSG3 Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Time to wake up Samurai. Darc_Requiem and DangerousJ 2 Quote
Disciple0fAnrky Posted December 10, 2020 Posted December 10, 2020 Still waiting on this update thanks to my shitty internet 😆 DarkSakul, RSG3 and Darc_Requiem 3 Quote
Reticently Posted December 10, 2020 Author Posted December 10, 2020 So I did get a couple of hours playtime in before a total system reboot fucked me- maybe too much heat from all that ray tracing? Nomad background, 6 Reflex, 6 Tech, 4 Cool, hard difficulty. Outside of my PC fucking up, zero bugs worth mentioning. It shows that they designed this for PC, given the reports on console performance. Ray tracing wasn't bad, 3060 ti at 1080p 144hz, getting 55-72 fps with DLSS while looking pretty. Barely tweaked the optional graphics settings from the auto presets. Gameplay was crisp. The stealth seems mildly basic but it's serviceable. I low key hate combat hacking so far, still need to get used to it. And maybe too much shit is showing up on the scanner- really need to get used to picking out the useful bits from the cluttered flagged bits of trash you can pick up. RSG3 and Vhozite 2 Quote
Vhozite Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 (edited) Main bug I’m getting is plant environment textures not loading properly, like you can see them through buildings and stuff. The other one is not being able run after getting out of a car, but that’s fixed with a reload. Edit: I just got hit by my own car...10/10 game Edited December 11, 2020 by Vhozite Darc_Requiem, RSG3, DarkSakul and 4 others 2 5 Quote
DarkSakul Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 1 hour ago, Vhozite said: I just got hit by my own car...10/10 game That happen to me too, it was magical. beesuit 1 Quote
Disciple0fAnrky Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 Put most of it into physical and just a point each in the other attributes lol, going street kid on the hardest difficulty. Gonna just grab all the self buffs I can and forget about debuffing enemies and see where that gets me on this first run Quote
Hawkingbird Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 The melee combat is trash Disciple0fAnrky 1 Quote
Disciple0fAnrky Posted December 11, 2020 Posted December 11, 2020 lol everyone except the dudes driving me around having these weirdo cac accents Quote
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