Nice find man, definitely gives me a reason for a 100% handgun playthrough.. .well maybe I'll get some cool arms along the way, that projectile launcher did wink at me a few times
Gunslingers are pretty fun dude. Pistols can be fast, versatile, and devastating in this game. You make them your main thing. Can also easily be abused on the stat side. Like, 5 digit damage. Or you can be normal and still have fun using them.
I actually have the projectile launcher. I haven't really gotten the hang of it and the timing feels weird, but it can be pretty cool for certain situations. It really is more situational, though. You get one slow-deploying, but ultimately quick and powerful shot. It can be hard to time because of how it is both not immediate and very very fast, you really have to align that window of impact on whatever surface they'll be in proximity of when it fires, or lead it just right on them. And it has to either directly hit an enemy or a very near surface. Much more limited in terms of angles, which is always disadvantageous for AOE weapons. It's kind of like a weak rocket. Mostly nice for staggering crowds or pushing that one annoying guy who hangs back to fuck with you out of cover... or very quickly finishing him off when he's ducked, before he pops up and shoots again. I don't know, I'm just using the blue-tier one. I'm sure the legendary is pretty serious. The thing that most bugs me is it takes up your grenade slot. And you can switch over to grenades on the fly, but to then go back to the launcher, you have to go back and see the ripperdoc. It's free, but impractical. It's a launcher that's built into your hand, so I don't understand why the game is implying that you just rip it out wherever you happen to be to throw grenades again, and it's not like you lose the use of the hand to have the launcher anyway. It makes no sense and I'm not sure if it is intentional
I think I'd rather one of the slow iconic weapons with exploding bullets. Does the same jobs, but you keep the grenade slot and have something a little easier to direct and time.
Looks awesome but... its an FPS...
That's what makes it such a shame. So much customization with really detailed clothing/armor pieces, but none of it fits nicely with the game mechanics stat wise (such as: random pair of common bum clothes can have god stats while you get pieces of rare, interesting gear that may never come close) and you never get to see it. I only sort of see my character in the world because I've decided the Akira bike is the best way to get around. The whole conceptualization of their customization elements really just seems half-baked and not focused. It's weird to have all of that stuff in this game, where you can't really see your character well very often, while you saw plenty of the far less customizable Geralt in TW3.
I kind of hope some things get added to make it more worth it as part of a minor DLC. I feel like I *should* love this character customization, given how much I've enjoyed it in Bethesda games (with de-potatoing mods of course.) To actually have pretty flexible and granular control over appearance, WITH cool outfit options that actually have really good designs, textures, and meshes should be like a dream come true. It's got basically everything needed to surpass those games in terms of customization, but it's barely integrated into the gameplay at all and is weirdly restrictive. There's great character customization in the game, right now. But it's like it is locked behind a display case. I want to make and see cool cyberpunk characters with all of the stuff already included, and I can clearly see that it's possible. What hurts more is that it's more like it's not allowed.
I think I still look like a hobo with far too clean clothes and I also noticed looking in the mirror at one point my Afro went straight to skinhead... and no it never did grow back. I guess that diet on vending machines isn't working out too well either.
Ahahaha, at least yours eats. Mine just makes piles of batteries, wire, and surface mount components out of all of her food. She still has all of her hair and she's definitely not getting skinny so maybe they did include a junkfood debuff. Maybe if you put him on the RealFruit and RealWater it'll grow back
Come to think of it, that hobbled look might just be CDPR's making a clever move towards immersion. I mean, you mostly get your clothes from random dead, likely poor people you find in the future dystopian metropolis, and containers in strange places, in a place where there are literally piles of garbage wherever people can manage to tuck and stuff them. And you look like you do, too.
Maybe that's just a higher-minded metaphor for life in Night City
Huh?
