Cyberpunk 2077

Patch 2.0 brought a lot of controversial changes (and old bugs I haven't seen since 1.3). It really makes me wonder who is overseeing the whole project. How do you reintroduce old bugs in a new patch? The game was fun pre 2.0. There was a lot of freedom in playstyles and the systems made some sense. Now, so many changes force you into certain unfun paths. Its like each team in charge of changing systems never talked to each other. Hundreds of clothing don't give armor, but one specifically does. Perks now unlock at lvl 4, 9, 15 and 20, instead of at roughly every 2 levels, but the lvl 20 perks are worse than lvl 15 so no reason to get 20 in anything except tech. Skill checks are broken. Mission balance is broken. Perk balance makes no sense. The police system is broken, despite their marketing being all about the new police system. A lot of builds are broken, leading to more railroading. Previous patch had a lot of variety in play styles, whereas now players are railroaded into a combat build because all of the feats they showcased in the ads had to be pumped up in power essentially nerfing other builds because enemies scale now. These won't be fixed because CDPR does big untested patches instead of a lot of little ones. You had one job, CDPR. Build and improve on the base game, not create something from untested scratch.

Updated the game recently and now I have a gaudy launcher.... for my launcher. What? Why? Oh, to throw the ultimate upgrade in my face. Got it. I started playing this game in earnest about a month ago and thought they had ironed out most of the game-breaking bugs. I was indeed wrong. Still getting stuck inside of things, cars spawning inside of each other and blowing up, and UI bugs that persist through saved games, requiring going back hours of progress to fix once you've found out what's going on. The story and environment are good. The gameplay (specializing Netrunner, etc...) isn't very satisfying on my current build, but I will start a different build soon and see if I like that better.

CDPR have done a lot right with this game considering the troubled launch in 2020. The improvements were rightly appreciated by the fanbase after initially being left feeling jilted. Start to finish the story is engaging if a bit kind in some instances. So the wrong that I feel and which would be felt by most gamers using AMD hardware i.e graphics cards. As much as Nvidia teamed up with CDPR to have their technologies front and center it stings a bit seeing how poorly optimised the game is for AMD GPUs. Now for the reason I decided to make this comment. We have just seen the introduction of DLSS 4 and MFG coming with the new RTX 50 series however FSR 3.1/2 has been out almost a year yet the update for the game that was released this week only catered for the updated DLSS. It shouldn't have to be this way.

The game is nothing special just ur normal dumb looter shooter adventure Could of come out 8-10 years ago and nobody would even blink at it The terrible endings made me just uninstall and not want to play it again

They actually improved a lot with the 1.5 patch. It makes the game more fun and ads things that should have been there from the start, but this patch definitly gives me hope that cyberpunk can climp out of its grave. I will definitly improve my rating once the game is were its supposed to be and I actually am excited for that