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

[ZOK]

13 hours ago, Sarlaccfood said:

Oh man the amount of times I bring out fists in a gun fight is so embarrassing. 
 

Not if you’ve got gorilla arms…it’s embarrassing for them!

[JoeK]

44 minutes ago, ZOK said:

Not if you’ve got gorilla arms…it’s embarrassing for them!

 

Ah, gorilla arms and a handgun. All I needed to cause untold misery to the already unhappy citizens of Night City.

[MardiganX]

1 hour ago, ZOK said:

You have made a critical mistake. Katanas are Wired, mantis blades are Retired.

 

Also melee is for gorilla arms.

Do gorilla arms get fixed to the melee button if you have them? 

[JoeK]

1 minute ago, MardiganX said:

Do gorilla arms get fixed to the melee button if you have them? 

 

Oh yes. 

 

[MardiganX]

I get it. So gorilla arms are a brutish, clumsy adaption of the melee attack (sends gorilla arm users wild ) but mantis blades have to be treated as a weapon because they allow you to block and parry. Cool. Still a shite way of doing it.

 

Feel a switch to the projectile launcher might be better and then move back to a decent sword. Especially if its wired? Is that a night city way of something is cool / lit / legit / a vibe or whatever else people use nowadays in place of normal words?  

 

Also... is it only Johnny's revolver that reloads that absolutely stunning way? I'd happily switch to an underpowered gun if its reload animation was the same as Johnny's.

 

[Thor]

31 minutes ago, MardiganX said:

Also... is it only Johnny's revolver that reloads that absolutely stunning way? I'd happily switch to an underpowered gun if its reload animation was the same as Johnny's.

Only that gun. Has a good melee option as well. 

[MardiganX]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

Only that gun. Has a good melee option as well. 

 

Which understandably leads me to my next question. Who do I have to kill to get that gun? Just give me a name.

[Thor]

3 minutes ago, MardiganX said:

 

Which understandably leads me to my next question. Who do I have to kill to get that gun? Just give me a name.

Keep playing.

[MardiganX]

I’m roughly 10 grand away from being able to buy the Type-66 Cthulhu and I don’t think I’ve been this excited about acquiring something in a game since I first used Cerberus in DMC3

 

It looks like a slightly more aggressive version of Pattinson’s bat mobile and once I get it I can’t see me needing another vehicle. Perhaps a better bike at some point but I’ve spent the last 6 or 7 hours doing missions purely to generate funds for this car. I’m obsessed!

[Floshenbarnical]

On 30/03/2023 at 11:17, MardiganX said:

Is there anyway to assign a weapon to a sidearm type role rather than having to cycle through all your equipped weapons when you use quick switch. Find myself leaving weapon slots blank rather than take options into combat with me to avoid unnecessary cycling or using the weapon wheel. The sword I was using is redundant since now I loaded myself up with Mantis Blades 😍 but having to switch through them if I want to change between 2 guns feels like a very simple thing that should have an easy way to resolve, no?

 

Can't relate, as I now exclusively fill my slots with throwing knives.

 

On 31/03/2023 at 03:52, ZOK said:

Not if you’ve got gorilla arms…it’s embarrassing for them!

 

Reminds me of

 

 

5 hours ago, MardiganX said:

I’m roughly 10 grand away from being able to buy the Type-66 Cthulhu and I don’t think I’ve been this excited about acquiring something in a game since I first used Cerberus in DMC3

 

It looks like a slightly more aggressive version of Pattinson’s bat mobile and once I get it I can’t see me needing another vehicle. Perhaps a better bike at some point but I’ve spent the last 6 or 7 hours doing missions purely to generate funds for this car. I’m obsessed!

 

Aw man you could've gotten it for free

[MardiganX]

56 minutes ago, Floshenbarnical said:

Aw man you could've gotten it for free

Yeah, I posted earlier about the moment I realised I was going to have to pay when the relevant side mission blew up in my face because I didn’t do some earlier actions a specific way. Thought I was all set for getting the keys as a gift… until it was clear I wasn’t, haha.

[Hawklord]

Finished this on Series S way back when it came out and now enjoying a 2nd play through on SX since all the fixes. I don't remember this Death Stranding Easter egg though. Very cool 🙃

 

Spoiler

 

[pulsemyne]

Holy shit it looks so much better

 

[Isaac]

That genuinely looks incredible. Like CGI in some cases.

[5R7]

3 hours ago, pulsemyne said:

Holy shit it looks so much better

 

 

 

 

 

best get saving!

[Uzi]

On 10/04/2023 at 14:19, pulsemyne said:

Holy shit it looks so much better

 

Played with new pathtracing for a little while and it is genuinely the most impressive lighting I have ever seen in a videogame, ever. End of story. Completely transforms the game visually and adds a whole new layer of immersion. Runs smooth as butter too with DLSS3. 

 

I mean it only costs 2k to play it that way, but jeeeeeeeeeeeeez

[JoeK]

12 minutes ago, Uzi said:

Played with new pathtracing for a little while and it is genuinely the most impressive lighting I have ever seen in a videogame, ever. End of story. Completely transforms the game visually and adds a whole new layer of immersion. Runs smooth as butter too with DLSS3. 

 

I mean it only costs 2k to play it that way, but jeeeeeeeeeeeeez

Try it with standard dlss and balanced…looks a little cleaner and still with a clear 60+ fps rate!

 

 

[NecroMorrius]

I've been playing for a couple of hours and it's wild. The pathtracing is at times subtle and at times gobsmacking. The real wow factor though is watching it run at 19fps at then sliding the DLSS/frame generation dial to the right and watching it jump to 120fps. Seriously, what? I get that the 4090 is unobtainable/unwanted for sane people, but I'm shocked at how playable it is for such a huge increase in visual quality. This is absolutely the future. It's the first time something has really felt "next gen" to me since seeing the jump to 3D or the jump to HD. 

 

 

 

[JoeK]

I do wonder if the issue we will have throughout this gen is that the 4090 will rarely be used to do this sort of thing as much. This is real next-generation shit we're seeing here, and it's not really something that many people are going to be able to experience themselves, so I do wonder how many devs will do the honourable thing of devoting time, money and resources into something so spectacular for a fairly limited return in the investment? 

 

It does mean that the legs on the 4090 may well mean it'll be able to perform spectacularly well for years to come...

 

..were I not an idiot who buys these things like penny cola bottles when I was a lad .

[bobontheway]

Looks like Nvidia are rolling out Cyberpunk Overdrive to GeforceNow which is very tempting.

[pulsemyne]

Makes you realise just how shit the ports of RE4 and TLOU were on PC. When a 3060ti can run path tracing with DLSS on ultra perfromance and everything cranked full at 30fps at 3440x1440 in a open world game like cyberpunk.

[layten]

12 minutes ago, pulsemyne said:

Makes you realise just how shit the ports of RE4 and TLOU were on PC. When a 3060ti can run path tracing with DLSS on ultra perfromance and everything cranked full at 30fps at 3440x1440 in a open world game like cyberpunk.

Guess which games had AMD involved and which Nvidia.

[Isaac]

There's definitely room for improvement in this, despite how incredible it looks.

 

I don't think the path tracing handles headlights quite as well as it currently could, and pedestrians still have the tendency to look like they are floating a bit in the shade (they need to cast slightly stronger shadows in the shade basically).

 

However it's an incredible achievement, and as they've stated they will keep patching it.

 

It's a proper glimpse into the future of games.

 

I guess the other major downside is when the lighting looks this good, it really makes the other assets stand out as 'videogamey', in a way they didn't with rasterisation.

[Uzi]

10 hours ago, pulsemyne said:

Makes you realise just how shit the ports of RE4 and TLOU were on PC. When a 3060ti can run path tracing with DLSS on ultra perfromance and everything cranked full at 30fps at 3440x1440 in a open world game like cyberpunk.

Whats wrong with RE4? Its been flawless for me

[pulsemyne]

It has VRAM issues that causes the game to crash. You can avoid it but a game should not crash when out of VRAM.

[Angles Morts]

7 hours ago, Isaac said:

I guess the other major downside is when the lighting looks this good, it really makes the other assets stand out as 'videogamey', in a way they didn't with rasterisation.

That animation transition 21 seconds into the Digital Foundry video

GTA 4 was better at that!

[Floshenbarnical]

Came here to reminisce about Placide, whose name is ironic because he is an irritable prick, but also appropriate because he’s dead

[pulsemyne]

Ever since the overdrive patch came out I've been playing this again and just going around doing side quests and killing cyberpsychos. I'm back to really enjoying my time with the game. So much so that I'm going to buy a 4070 just to make it run better (not that it runs that bad now I just want better framerates and a higher DLSS level for clarity).

[Kingpin]

3 minutes ago, pulsemyne said:

Ever since the overdrive patch came out I've been playing this again and just going around doing side quests and killing cyberpsychos. I'm back to really enjoying my time with the game. So much so that I'm going to buy a 4070 just to make it run better (not that it runs that bad now I just want better framerates and a higher DLSS level for clarity).

That’s what I did. No regrets - it looks incredible and >60fps at 1440p. 

[Sabreman]

I just rolled credits on this. 101 hours on the clock, and I did absolutely everything it threw at me. It's one of the best games I've ever played–at times almost despite itself.

 

An important bit of context is that I generally can't play first-person games, and sometimes even third-person games with aggressive camera movement can mess me up for hours. I've tried all kinds of remedies over the years and the vast majority of times it hasn't worked. Amusingly, of all this stuff I managed to comfortably make my way through Doom 2016 in 3-hour sessions munching Joy Rides travel sickness pills. Essentially though, I wrote this game off the moment they announced it was first-person.

 

Enter the PS Plus limited trial. What had I got to lose apart from my lunch. I popped a pill, went in, and the moment the trial ended clicked through to buy the game and continue. I could play it, no problem whatsoever, for hours at a time. I then proceeded to do nothing else in my spare time for the next couple of weeks, until a PS5 hardware failure stuck a big pause on the whole shebang.

 

The main thing is... I have never been able to play a game like this before. The total immersion in the world was absolutely vital to the experience. Only a handful of times over decades of gaming have I truly felt like I was inhabiting the character, being them in the story. I was V every step of the way, and I role-played exactly who I wanted her to be. This is fundamental stuff to anyone else who routinely plays through first-person adventures, but I can't understate how much impact it had on me. I lived in Night City for 100 hours and never fast-traveled. I somewhat recklessly rode a motorcycle around the city but I never let it become a video game (before I exclusively switched to the bike I genuinely waited in traffic). I just kind of behaved like a human would. Towards the end of the game there was a lot more traversal going on, but by that time I was basically the Bionic Woman, so even that fit. I went into the Badlands for the first time and was astonished by the scale of its emptiness, but it felt right. I loved the way that emptiness almost imperceptibly transformed into the suburban sprawl, then the density of the city centre with its towering blocks and holographic signs. And the game is beautiful, 'even' on the PS5.

 

I found the storylines captivating, occasionally deeply affecting and nuanced. I cared about the characters. I made tough decisions and saw them through. I weighed up the consequences of my own desires against the 'best' thing to do. I behaved destructively purely to spite The Man. I believe I led V to an honest and fitting ending, and I was totally satisfied with it. I think the performances are great across the board, and was very impressed with the writing, from dialogue to the codex and the abundance of flavour text throughout the world.

 

As a game it's... a game. It's not reinventing anything, and in fact gets mired in systems and tropes that it should rise above. It compels you to pick everything up, enticing you with that purple or red glowing icon that turns out to be the fiftieth example of the same handgun. I don't want to craft in games, ever, and only did here to raise cash at the tail end while I was running around buying the remaining vehicles I could. I put all my points into Intelligence and Hacking, reasoning that this would be how I wanted to play a Cyberpunk game. If I'm shooting everything it's any other FPS. If I'm stealthing everything it's a stealth game, and they are horrible. No, I'm a hacker. Frying brains and fritzing security systems. This is where it breaks down a bit, and I had to discipline myself to not simply solve all encounters from 100 yards away while sipping a NiCola. NCPD scanner encounters are the worst for this, and there are dozens upon dozens of them. I'd balanced the game out pretty well I thought, but I still had maybe 25-30 of them to do after I'd completed absolutely everything else. Thankfully this Ubisoft-style icon clearance didn't last long and didn't quite break me out of my engagement. It's almost as if the game gets in the way of the story and the world at times, but what's the alternative? A visual novel? I still enjoyed the freedom I had, and in a perfect world the range of options for tackling every mission should be able to keep things fresh.

 

It's not a place you can sit and observe. Open world jank is present and correct, and while I never encountered anything game-breaking I did have a hefty share of busted animations, wacky AI and glitched HUD moments. I figure this stuff never gets fixed, but I looked at the copious patch notes from launch and thanked my lucky stars I wasn't in a position to even try the game before 1.6.

 

I'd still maybe cautiously recommend the game to anyone on the fence over its launch issues, but for me, clutching a dog-eared copy of Burning Chrome to my chest, it felt like some kind of a masterpiece.