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Been seeing tons of videos of this on Highlight Reel and on social media and, gotta say, it looks pretty fun and incredibly satisfying to play. Thinking about snagging it on PC but, since money is always tight, I wanted to first see if anyone here has been playing it and what their thoughts are?

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@development said:

Yep!

I'm reading Transit by Rachel Cusk. The second book part of her 'Outline' trilogy. Really great so far. She has this incredible talent at presenting really believable, at times mundane, yet impactful vignettes into everyday modern life, usually in a big city. She also has an acute awareness of class and status but not in a way where she bashes you over the head with it. These little episodes usually end up being about how people are all fundamentally insecure and sad and lost, no matter what. Highly recommended.

Then I'm going to move onto The City & The City by China Miéville. Apparently this one was a huge source of inspiration for the Disco Elysium developers. Based on the premise alone, I can totally see that. Really enjoyed his book "October" on the Bolshevik Revolution. Will try and report back.

yep, i'm pretty much in the exact same position here. still have a PS4 pro on a nice 4K TV, so i'm set there for a while

Had to recover for the first day and a half of this year, but then I jumped into some good old Modern Warfare and Warzone. But only because Ubisoft Connect seemed to be down last night when I wanted to boot up AC: Valhalla. Weird.

Anyway, can't go wrong with a "classic"

I now find myself firmly in this camp. I've actually been having pretty smooth, if not solid, performance on my PC. I haven't experienced any game-breaking bugs. Nothing too crazy or distracting either. Mostly just fun visual stuff. Sure, the objectively broken NCPD AI and terrible traffic/crowd AI is such a bummer to witness and immediately takes me out of the world.

But I don't know, playing this game just royally bums me out . As I'm sure has been well established by now, bugs aside, there is just something so fundamentally lacking in this game and particularly its open world. I actually quite like the main story line for now (I'm about 12-15 hours in I think?) and most characters I find compelling enough. I do want to see it through and I suppose I could totally mainline the main story line right now and have a pretty decent experience.

But I simultaneously know deep down that this game could be so, so much better. I want to lose myself in its open world. I want to be incentivized to explore the world, discover things, and have my character grow as a result. I don't want to simply mainline the story and basically just get 20 hours out of this game. That feels like such a bummer given the game's (purported) scope. I feel like in doing so, you'll just miss out on the richer and broader experience.

Even if that "experience" is perhaps not exactly there yet, I do trust that CDPR will start a pretty steady patching campaign early next year. And hopefully by the Spring/Summer or so, there might even be some new content or general improvements that'll make the experience that much more pleasurable. I hope the strong post-launch support of TW3 can provide us with some hope here. Remember when they patched in an "alternative" movement style/control scheme in The Witcher 3? At least, I think that was patched in? And cleaned up the UI some? Anyway, those changes made a world of difference for me. It's simple things like that that could make Cyberpunk worth losing myself in, I think. Even just fixing the damn police AI and ideally NPC AI would be lovely.

But there are so many other special games to play right now, not to mention what's about to come out. I started Disco Elysium shortly before Cyberpunk came out and was immediately hooked. Damn. Now there's an RPG. Guess I can return to it now! And I can't believe I'm even saying this, but as a general fan of open world/checklist-type games once in a while, AC: Valhalla looks to be a way better open world experience this year. Wild to even hear myself say that. A Ubisoft open world game is...more immersive than perhaps Cyberpunk? Guess you can't predict anything anymore in this day and age.

I live in Germany and my family in neighboring Switzerland. Getting there would be pretty easy right now, there are plenty of flights and trains or even car share rides (though they're probably pretty fucking expensive at this point), but I'm simply not risking it. My father has had issues with his breathing and blood pressure for years now and my mom, while quite healthy for a 60 year-old woman (knock on wood), is simply not where she used to be at. Add on a close family friend who is 79 and has struggled through prostate cancer — it's just not worth it.

On top of all that, I'd like to have ideally returned back to Berlin in time for NYE to hopefully do at least something small with close friends. But if I were to have traveled and returned, I'd have been stuck in mandatory quarantine, alone in my apartment, on New Years' Eve. That would be pretty bleak, no?

I understand those wanting to go back to see family and I just really hope these folks are super careful, ideally isolate for a week beforehand, wear masks, keep distance and are just overall responsible. My roommate is heading down to Bavaria to his family, where cases are perhaps the highest in the country, and I dread him bringing the virus there or (more likely) back to Berlin.

@notkcots said:

Anyone else have any experience with this process? Or can vouch for it? Nvidia Geforce Experience indicates it has the latest drivers installed, dating to the 9th, and my performance has mostly been stable and good, especially since the latest hotfix patch from yesterday. But, always curious to see if I can get it to become any better.

EDIT: After much fiddling around, I managed to do this last night. I think it improved my performance slightly, but not by much. Not like my performance was all too bad before. But I'm still getting some dips down to the 30s and 40s when driving around dense areas. Oh well.

I'm only about two hours in but, pretty good!

I just got a new, very beefy gaming rig primarily for this (first gaming PC ever!) and it's got an RTX 3070, Ryzen 7 7200x, 16gb RAM and I'm running the game on an SSD. Settings range from high to ultra on a 1440p monitor. Ray Tracing set to medium, DLSS set to performance. V Sync off

I chose Street Kid and so when I'm inside buildings or in less densely populated areas, it runs super smooth. Easily 60 FPS or higher, 70-80 at times. However when I step out into denser areas, as well as when I drive — the frame rate certainly takes a hit. Though nothing drastic. It cruises down to about 40-45. Rarely touches 30. Not perfect, but maybe to be expected. And it's certainly playable. Hoping it becomes more stabilized in the near future though.

All in all — can't complain! However I know I'm lucky to have such a beefy PC. Seeing the base PS4 and Xbox One footage today was pretty horrifying. Really glad to have avoided that.

EDIT: Oh, and — no crashes. No real bugs to report either. Maybe some slight visual jank, but nothing terribly noticeable. Again, I'm only 2 hours in, so we'll see how things go. The game definitely patched when it launched at 1am. And the download was quick!

PS4 Pro because I literally have no other option at the moment and am far too broke to get a PS5 anytime soon (nor is there much need to given the dearth of exclusives). I might inherit my brother's old gaming laptop soon once he upgrades to a full blown gaming PC but even this laptop is ~2-3 years old by now. So I do wonder — how screwed will I be by playing this on a Pro? As in, how much of a hit will I (and all other current gen players) take in terms of performance, visuals, "immersion" and perhaps the overall experience? I guess no one really knows just yet. I just really hope the performance is stable at the very least. Fingers crossed for there being a classic "Better resolution vs. Higher frame rate" option in the settings.

Edit: I should specify I'm playing through a 4K TV which does HDR so...not all bad!