Cyberpunk 2077

I was really excited to see the game on sale in GOG after the release of 2.0. I'd heard that they really fixed the game up properly now, and was eager to see what all the fuss was about. Imagine my disappointment then, when I was still unable to customize key bindings, and the game slowed to a crawl every 2 minutes even on medium graphics settings despite my gaming rig sporting an R9 with 16GB RAM and an RTX 4080 (well over even the recommended specs). I ran the benchmark on Raytracing High and averaged 120fps, but during actual gameplay I got no where near that, and even with the fps locked at 60, still ran into consistant freezing despite my hardware not being taxed (cpu and gpu both under 50% and RAM staying steady at 12/16GB used). I love the setting and really want to love this game. But right now, I'm having trouble thinking of a reason not to refund it....

The game had its well documented problems to start but I played through it right after release on my old i7-7700k and GTX 1070. I managed to play through the whole game and really loved it. The characters are some of the best ever created and even with my old rig the graphics were impressive. There were a lot of problems...but now flash forward and I have a new rig with a 5800X3D and a 3080 ti and now this game is really amazing. Most of the complaints I had were solved and after coming abck to this game 3 years later its like playing a whole new game. The skills are completely redone and combat feels completely different. Plus theres actually car combat beyond sticking your head out as a passenger and shooting a few preset enemies during just a few mission. If this game had been released in this curent 2.1 state it would rival any game out for Game of the Year. I'm really enjoying jumping back into Night City and seeing all the new features in action. I can already tell you its a whole new game. I'm really glad I saved most of the side stuff until I came back to it because at least half of the game is new to me. I urge anyone who enjoys open world games to give this one a try.

In the first 60 seconds, I had a lens flare that completely glitched (becoming a pink garbled mess). Then, I walk out of the bathroom and I see trees being rendered through the walls. Whatever happened to “the game will be released when it is ready”? I am not saying the game is unplayable, but it is not polished either. You should hold off until you can play it without being reminded every 30 seconds that you’re not actually in Night City.

I can deal with the occasional bug, but this game runs like sh!t, if I turn everything down to low I get between 60 and 90 fps while running around which is great and the game manages to look good even at the lower settings until getting into combat that is and the game becomes a stuttery mess which makes it hard to even aim... I got a gtx 1080 so unless you are one of the lucky ones that manage to buy one of the latest GPUs don't even bother atm hopefully they will fix it soon enough

No transmog so your character looks like a clow as you need higher tiered gear for tougher enemies so you don’t get one shot but instead of looking, you know, like a cool cyberpunk you end up looking like a clown because there’s no transmog for the actual good looking clothes. My character floats when hacking, T poses everywhere, guns floating like a field in a farmers backyard, there’s no way to sort weapons and lock in your current ones in use so you end up accidentally selling all your weapons and before you realise you go to buy them back but just one will cost your entire net worth, did I mention eddies? Yeh very hard to come by so good luck buying a car you know the best way to transverse the city and while where on cars the driving sucks, like really, really sucks bad. Controller optimisation (I play on PC with a controller for this game because driving sucks so bad KBM is even worse so you have no choice, for me anyway) but the physical presets for controller are just terrible and even when you fix it it’s still terrible. Game breaking bugs where NPC’s just disappear, people in the world just pop in or disappear, quest markers point in the wrong area or just disappear all together and you have to restart a mission midway through it and it just kills the immersion. There’s honestly so much wrong with this game it’s not even funny, it should have been delayed even longer and never released in it’s current state. I could keep going but won’t as the issues are just to many to count and I just got to the title screen after the initial 6 hours prelog. Honestly I’m lost for words, wait for a deep, deep sale or just wait until they patch this mess.