Cyberpunk 2077 - PS5 and XSeries versions out now + major patch

[glb]

Some cars handle much better than others; the Caliburn you can find in a shipping crate is a monster of a car.

 

Motorbikes are still the best way to roam Night City though.

[JoeK]

I'm obviously going to assume loads of people have done this, but I do think 

 

Spoiler

dialling up Jackie's phone after his death and 'talking' to him

 

is such a lovely little touch. It's a very real thing to do I think.

 

I think this is quite the amazing game now, I really do. I'm fairly stunned at how much of a turn-around I've had on it. It's just fab.

 

 

[Festoon]

Hello, give me Phantom Liberty now please.

[ZOK]

On 31/12/2022 at 09:18, Stopharage said:

I’ve finally, finally started this game after buying it on release on PS5, then again on the Series X. 
 

Are there any recommended, OFFICIAL, RLLMUK-approved settings that this should be played with on the Series X? Visuals and controller settings seem a bit off at the moment but may just be me needing to get used to how different they are compared to the other games I’ve been playing recently. 

Turn all hud items off that you can - including the mini map.

[TehStu]

On 31/12/2022 at 10:31, glb said:

Some cars handle much better than others; the Caliburn you can find in a shipping crate is a monster of a car.

Ah, yes, was just awarded a Quadra Type-66 and that's way better than a lot of them. Still suffers from making you feel like your windscreen is a letterbox, although a lot of cars in a lot of games suffer from that.

 

As an aside, I looked it up to make sure I spelled it correctly and found this on a wiki:

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Rockstar Energy Drink, in collaboration with Cyberpunk 2077, carried out a contest which one of the rewards was a custom 1970 Mustang inspired by the Quadra Type-66.[2]

I was thinking it looked like McQueen's mustang from Bullitt. Nice.

[JoeK]

I am currently driving this...

 

 

It's not bad, and the interior is lovely. Although like all driving bits in games I am useless at controlling these things from an in-car perspective!

 

The thrill of weaving in between cars in Night City is absolutely amazing though - probably better than any other game I've played.

[TehStu]

2 minutes ago, JoeK said:

The thrill of weaving in between cars in Night City is absolutely amazing though - probably better than any other game I've played.

There's nothing like it, some parts of the city are so populated it's absurd. Actually, almost annoying if you're in a car, although it's just as well there's no damage because I'd break a car every 100 yards otherwise. But yeah, you can be zipping up to a set of lights or down a busy highway on a bike and passing cars left and right like one of those numpties on YouTube. I've binned it in so many unexpected ways (like, did not anticipate a car coming at me from a particular junction) that it's very much as well I don't go anywhere near a bike in reality

[Festoon]

Lol.

[smac]

57 minutes ago, JoeK said:

I am currently driving this...

 

 

It's not bad, and the interior is lovely. Although like all driving bits in games I am useless at controlling these things from an in-car perspective!

 

The thrill of weaving in between cars in Night City is absolutely amazing though - probably better than any other game I've played.

 

I like tooling around in the Nomad version - but all of the variants look cool. My favourite car by far.

[TehStu]

Tip: don't put off doing the street fighting/boxing side quests. For one of them, the fact you had to put down 18 grand to win his sniper rifle unnerved me. But it was laughably simple at my level, and the rifle is . The first time I fired it at bad guys at an NCPD thing, the achievement for taking out 2 or more with a rifle dinged up. Scope is terrible though, so not ideal for picking them off.

 

Anyway, running out of NCPD stuff, sadly. Only a few in one district left. Going to actually have to start doing the story.

[glb]

I can't for the life of me manage the fist-fights, even on normal. That sniper rifle dude beat my V to a pulp 

[TehStu]

Oh, I'm like level 46* or something. I was going 20 body but stopped around 10 (?) and putting the rest in reflexes as I realized I'd get a tonne of perk points from blade/pistol/rifle use. I have gorilla hands (physical) too, which may have helped. But it was 3 or 4 blows and he went down. I think 500+ health helped, the little sod tried to gank me after he lost and I think managed to stab me with a neurotoxin knife which took half my health. Or, at that point in the farce I happened to notice I was at half.

 

 

* may as well clean up side quests, hit the level cap, and then start Act 3 of the story at this rate.

[glb]

Ahhhhh, okay. Only just installed gorilla arms last session. Will give it another go, and retry the training, which from what I recall is about the first thing I encountered after leaving my apartment for the first time. I wanted to run free in the city with my boobs out but the game was all, punch this robot because reasons that aren't entirely clear yet.

[TehStu]

7 minutes ago, glb said:

Will give it another go, and retry the training

I totally forgot to do that, that's the robot right outside-ish V's first apartment, right? Doh.

[JoeK]

3 hours ago, TehStu said:

Tip: don't put off doing the street fighting/boxing side quests. For one of them, the fact you had to put down 18 grand to win his sniper rifle unnerved me. But it was laughably simple at my level, and the rifle is . The first time I fired it at bad guys at an NCPD thing, the achievement for taking out 2 or more with a rifle dinged up. Scope is terrible though, so not ideal for picking them off.

 

Anyway, running out of NCPD stuff, sadly. Only a few in one district left. Going to actually have to start doing the story.

That boxing match was one of my faves. I’d only recently put on some gorilla hands, and by god it was a bit of a slaughter!

 

The big lady however is proving tougher…but she’s always so happy when she beats me I can’t complain too much.

[TehStu]

Actually, how do I swap gorilla hands? I've got a few different types I've looted. When I go to a ripperdoc, I don't really see them all listed. I fancy switching my physical damage ones to poison. I figure land a couple of blows, then stand back and let nature take its course.

 

Do I need to find a ripperdoc that'll specifically sell the poison version, and then basically just have them install it?

[Uncle Mike]

I was 4 Body, all my points were in Intelligence, Cool and Tech, and I still breezed the boxing fights (admittedly at high level) just by equipping a pair of gorilla arms I'd looted or been rewarded with somewhere.

[glb]

2 hours ago, TehStu said:

I totally forgot to do that, that's the robot right outside-ish V's first apartment, right? Doh.

Yup, that’s the one.

 

Beat up the sniper rifle dude. Realised I was being too impatient with the combat, which drained my stamina. Slowed down and he was fairly straightforward to get rid of.

 

You weren’t wrong about the sniper rifle either. Jesus H. Christ

[TehStu]

2 minutes ago, glb said:

You weren’t wrong about the sniper rifle either. Jesus H. Christ

After firing it and a couple of bad guys essentially insta-gibbing, I was looting the scene and realized, to my absolute horror, a LOT of civilians were dead. I'm hoping that was actually the crime scene thing and it wasn't my doing.

[JoeK]

Christ, the Sinnerman mission is all sorts of bonkers. I’m fairly certain I haven’t seen it through to its full conclusion, so looking forward to loading up an earlier save to see what happens.

 

 

[TehStu]

That's NCPD wrapped up, few gigs to go. I know it's stupid but I'm keeping each area at 1 to go in case I need an achievement for MS rewards.

 

Anyway, working on I think Heywood and I bought the 6 wheel car. It's actually good to drive! Because it handles like a boat it actually handles like a normal road car. You're not going to scythe through traffic, but if you want a car without binning it on every corner, this is the one Also from that area, the Apollo bike. Kinda looks like a scrambler with a pizza box on the back. Excellent for traffic. Not too fast, again you can corner without worrying about binning it (although bikes slide in a way more predictable fashion in general in Cyberpunk, I find).

 

I did a side quest with Rogue

Spoiler

Got Johnny's 911! Glorious. And pistol, which is hilarious to use in the cyberspace sequences

 

One mildly annoying thing was her tendency to sneak in a fashion that tended to get me caught, and stir up a hornet's nest. I found myself frequently going camo armour to carefully bump a guard off and hide them before stuff hit the fan.

[JoeK]

Blimey, I'm actually quite impressed with how they allowed me to broach the delicate romance with Panam. I didn't take the obvious route I might have taken a couple of decades ago, when I was considerably more horny than I am nowadays, so it ended remarkably nicely for all concerned.

 

Jolly good show.

 

I'm still not a huge fan of romances in games, but as far as they go it was pretty good. 

 

And after all I that I discovered a Cyberpsycho that fucked me up real good for a while. 

 

I got the poor bugger though...and more lovely eddies.

 

Man, this is so fun now.

[Sane]

Thanks everyone that recommended trying the ray tracing mode on series x. I usually blindly go for performance modes but I gotta say it really looks great like this and the 30fps is very smooth. I think I'll stick with it. 

[Popo]

19 hours ago, Sane said:

Thanks everyone that recommended trying the ray tracing mode on series x. I usually blindly go for performance modes but I gotta say it really looks great like this and the 30fps is very smooth. I think I'll stick with it. 

I’ve just installed the PS5 version and very much agree - the trade off is worth it, this is an incredible-looking game. 
 

I played a bit on Stadia and chose the street urchin character, but this time I went for full on corpo bastard mode and the flying car section through the city is nicccccccce. 

[Kayin Amoh]

I guess different strokes for different folks, the ray tracing mode on X made me want to spew.

 

Not smooth. Not. Smooth. Maybe it's acceptable with a variable refresh TV or monitor thing?

[glb]

Yeah, tried PS5 ray tracing and it was too jittery. Tried with motion blur on and that was even more bleurgh. Never been that arsed about frame rates but guess now I am.

 

Still, Night City looks pretty swish in 60fps mode, thankfully.

[JoeK]

Yeah, if I had to choose, then I'd always go for fluidity - especially in heated moments of combat. 

 

But I refuse to bow to the whims of Sony and Microsoft and thus bankrupt myself in order to play on PC.

 

You may worship at my altar if necessary

[danbot]

The ray tracing on PS5 offers MUCH better returns with interiors. Does very little outside.

[Floshenbarnical]

17 hours ago, danbot said:

The ray tracing on PS5 offers MUCH better returns with interiors. Does very little outside.

i agree that the effect is more dramatic indoors, or in story-related places, but I disagree that it does very little aside. I’ve switched it on and off until I’m blue in the fingers, and it brings the whole city alive

[davejm]

How much content is in the Edgerunner update?  I don't have the game installed at the moment (I've finished the main game a time ago), but I'm considering doing so for the update if there's a fair chunk of content to play.  And is it worth watching the Edgerunner show before or after?