This is making me want to start a new play through. Finished it once when the game first came out and havenāt touched it since.
Maybe I can go back and take my time this time trying all the different side quests š¤
The patch sounds like a pretty big overhaul so Iām waiting for that before I start playing again. I just wish we had more than a week between the patch and the expansion.
I started a new playthrough a few days ago, and Iāve been loving it. I will probably start another once the new dlc comes out. Is there anything I should try out before that?
You can finish the main quest to get a different ending. If you already done that, you can mess with your builds, read shards near the site of the side quests to learn more about cyberpunk lore and have fun with the side quests since gameplay will a bit different after phantom Liberty since they will be changing some gameplay mechanics.
Me personally Iāll play the main and sides slowly and go photomode most of the time.
Nice Choom,
I purchased the game and played through at launch, despite (and partly because of) the bugs. I admit, there was annoyance, but humor as well at the random naked t-pose while on a bike.
I also had (and still have) a 3090, so got to play at basically max settings (except ray tracing).
It was fun. I did another play through when they released the RT overdrive update and enjoyed it just as much. Didnāt end up using RT overdrive after the first hour or so as the performance/quality wasnāt there on a 3440x1440 display (either bad frame rate, or super low res).
I bought this game, played it 3 hours on launch, failed to refund it. Give me 3 reasons to reinstall this on steam and try it again.
Did you play it shortly after it launched, or some time after? The game was very unstable and buggy for a while after it released, but itās been largely improved since then. Thereās still a few minor bugs that are kinda hard to fix (usually scripting issues with some quest lines that can be broken, but I think most of those have also been repaired), but otherwise itās very solid now.
Also, are you playing on a current-gen system? PS4/XB1 are going to have really bad performance, even with the updates.
If you didnāt quit due to performance problems, why did you decide not to continue? Maybe I could shed some light on things youāre missing out on.
I played on PC only. I played it within a day of launch. It has been so long that I hardly recall. I believe it wasnāt the most smooth experience, but more so than that, I didnāt enjoy the gameplay. I didnāt feel like my bullets were making a connection. The world felt more contrived than I thought it would.
I also feel like perhaps I bit into the hype to the point that I hadnāt seen the forest for the trees. During my time playing, I realized I wasnāt that into the whole cyber punk concept to begin with. Thatās my fault obviously. Shameful though that I didnāt set myself up for a successful refund.
Iām not gonna convince you playing again if you really feel like it is not for you. Maybe someday you might feel like giving it a go again and play it, so hopefully you will enjoy it that time. So for now, thank you for supporting CDPR financially! š
P.S. I am not a CDPR employeeeeeeee
The game is actually very close to what it promised initially. Obviously some things just arenāt possible (you canāt open every door to every building unfortunately) but cyberpunk has really come into itās own in the past few years. Not to mention that Phantoms Liberty is going to essentially be a soft relaunch along with a whole new story and world map. Iād say itās at least worth a couple more hours of trying it out.
Ahh, I gotcha. Iād definitely recommend giving it another shot if itās been a while! Some of the early weapons youāll find will have some pretty poor stats, but once you get past the main āintroā quest (without spoiling anything, itās after V and Jackie part ways), youāll unlock basically the full game at that point, with access to a lot more options for weaponry.
I also wasnāt a huge fan of the gunplay in this game, so I ended up going with a netrunner build, so most of my combat was done a lot slower and from safe distances. If you ever try rolling another character, I definitely recommend going that route, instead. Dump the majority of your points into netrunning and cyberware, and also spec into stealth, and youāre basically the worldās most dangerous computer virus, IRL. Drop a few points into some melee abilities and keep a katana or some throwing knives equipped, and youāve got yourself a really fun ācyber ninjaā character going at that point. I prefer this playstyle, personally, because it feels a bit more appropriate for the world youāre playing in. It also keeps you safe from a distance, but capable to defend yourself up close, without needing much in the way of firearms. While you can absolutely run-and-gun your way through it if you want, I feel like you miss out on a lot of what makes Cyberpunk so special that way.
That said, if you come across any āsmartā weapons (instead of bullets, they fire homing projectiles that auto-track enemies), those definitely felt a lot more fun to use for me. The only gun I really keep equipped is Skippy (a smart pistol thatās tied to a really fun quest) because itās great for those situations where youāre waiting for your skill cooldowns and need to drop an enemy or two and donāt feel like aiming.
Alternatively, you could also just ābypassā the combat by dropping the difficulty to just breeze through the story and the environments. Despite a lot of the gameās flaws, it has some of the best narrative Iāve seen in a game in ages, so the story is absolutely worth digesting even if the gameplay isnāt your cup of tea, in my opinion. The game actually poses a lot of really interesting philosophical questions to the player (if you enjoy some of the themes in Black Mirror about technology, identity, and ethics, then youāll probably dig Johnnyās quest line), and goes into some pretty dark places. Iām usually not the kind of person to be emotional with movies or games, but there were several moments in Cyberpunk that had me really invested in the well being of some characters and making choices not for myself, but for them.
But also, if itās not for you, then itās not for you. Thereās a lot of parts of the game that I can see being an absolute turn-off for some people, and I get that. It can be gross, immature, and even unnecessarily disturbing at times. Sometimes the humor doesnāt land, and some characters just arenāt memorable or even likable. But, at the very least, the story is absolutely fantastic, and thereās very little I can criticize in that regard.
If youāre into anime at all, maybe also check out the Edgerunners show on Netflix. Itās fairly short, and focuses on its own completely separate story from Vās, in a slightly different point in time than the game takes place in, and with its own characters, so itās not related much to the gameās story (and thus, wonāt spoil anything about the game). But it does a pretty great job at capturing the feel of Night City and the characters in it, and uses a ton of songs from the game, too. Iām not a huge anime fan, so I couldnāt really say how it compares to other shows, but the artwork and action sequences are fantastic. Honestly, I feel like the anime is a better starting place if you want to get familiar with the world of Night City.
This is probably a lot more than you asked for, lol.
