If you did not jump on the hype train, you can play the game.
It really is not that bad as Internet seems to think.
I played on PC at release and finished completing everything before patch 1.1 came out. Minor glitches here and there. Depending on luck there are/were some places to get stuck but these really were not that common. NCPD spawning distance (which Patch 1.2 apparently fixes) and crowd issues are the biggest problems in the game other than buying way to deep into the hype.
The problem CDProject has is that they made a lot of promises they never fullfilled. Dynamic branching quests? The only quest in the entire game that's interesting is the main quest and maybe one or two side quests. The vast majority of quests are typical grinding, extremely boring. Dynamic weather system with acid rain and unscripted sandstorms? That's never going to happen. Romance options? No, you have 1 choice. 1 choice, it's fricking ridiculous. Life paths? You spend MAYBE 15 MINUTES IN TOTAL on your lifepath. For corpo, you start the game > go to a meeting > go to a bar > end of life path. I can't believe an open world game released that makes dragon age inquisition look good from CDProject.
I mean the game doesn't even get the basics down like having proper AI and cops that don't just spawn in. 90% of the content is boring and that's considering the game is severely lacking content compared to other CDProject games. Hell even the witcher 2 has more content and that game had a fraction of the budget and manpower.
Doesn't matter how long they work on the game at this point. It's too late to make massive content additions and improvements. At best this game is a 7 mostly carried on the back of it's great looking world but that belies the fact that in many other regards it's below average.
I also did not jump on the hype train and yet to play the game.
After all I only started Witcher 3 when I bought the Box GOTY edition for 20+$
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'delivery included'
That and I would prefer to buy a new GPU before playing this so yea I ain't playing this game anytime soon but thats fine with me.
At least by the time I get to play the game it will be in a better shape.
'I heard/read that W3 wasn't exactly issue free at relase but I have no experience with that'
The witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time. That said I would not pay more than $20 for CP2077. It's definitely not worth a GPU purchase just to run the game.
The game has some serius design issues, fixing the bugs is great and all, even though this should have been done BEFORE release, but the game itself still fails to interest me at all. Its another sandbox games with a huge chest fo features that get used occasionally, it lacks the unique asthetic of the original trailer, and the scripted gameplay trailers showed a much more interesting premise.
Honestly I'll still pass. DIdnt pick up the OG release, and since then there have been plenty of other good games coming out to play. First impressions mean a LOT in such a crowded industry.
CDProject only committed to fixing the bugs. They conveniently avoided talking about major gameplay and content issues. The fact that they are not even fixing the police system and instead trying to hide the issue indicates to me that they intend to fix the game to a state where they can sell it without it getting pulled again and are fine with doing just that much. It's hard to believe this is the same company that made the witcher 3, apparently they got far too big for their britches.
I have faith in them, they just released it way to soon, for one or more reasons. I will do the wait until it's finished.
CDProject has made it pretty clear they are only interested in fixing the bugs. The guy who came and made the "apology" made sure to point that out. This is no longer the same company that made the witcher series. I would not hold out hope for massive changes to the game that fix fundamental issues.
Well that would be because it WASNT make by the same devs that made The Witcher games. The aligations of severe crunch were not coming from the CP2077 devs, they originally came from the W3 devs who left en masse after blood and wine came out. Most of the CP2077 team are working on their first game.
The dev is CDProject red. The guy isn't referring to specific people, he's referring to the dev studio as most people do. CDProject did tout on multiple occasions that the CP2077 team was working with the witcher 3 team years before the witcher 3 even launched. They had specifically mentioned how the two teams were learning off each other.
I mean, AMD RDNA2 Ray tracing performance is pretty bad so im not surprised. They lose more performance than Ampere RT on vs off.
There are no titles optimized for AMD RT yet so it's really TBD. Right now it's sort of an apples to oranges comparison, Nvidia is performing better on a code patch designed for Nvidia cards, which should surprise no one.
This game went from potentially game of the year to ~
overhyped game of the year in such a short time
Might be most disappointing of the last 10 years. Don't know though, I still think Mass Effect 3 takes the cake but just barely simply because that ending was worse than anything anyone could have imagined.
