I like the plot of the game. Everything related to the game-mechanics is utterly broken however: * Item-stats depend extremely on level. This was BS in Witcher 3, but in CP it is worse, because you end up with insane stuff like a tank-top having a higher armor-rating than a military ballistic vest. Immersion what’s that? * You can only craft one fixed set of clothing that more often than not really doesn’t match the look that you are going for with your character (netrunner-suit, but you have to wear the yellow hot-pants because otherwise you get punished with less armor). * Because they understood how stupid this is, they added a functionality that you can freely choose your look no matter what you equip. Why even bother with clothing at all in that case. Again: Incredibly immersion-breaking. * The damage you do again depends on your level and nothing else. You pump a full magazine into the head of the enemy? Tough luck, he is a higher level than you, so it does nothing. But we are showing all those damage-numbers on screen, because showing numeric values to remind you that you are playing a game is surely helping with immersion. * In order to fix the leveled item-problem, you can increase the level of the item with crafting components. The cost will grow linearly with the number of updates, so that it is completely unaffordable to keep using the same item you like. * Okay, so crafting is stupid, how about looting? Well, all the loot is almost completely random, so you again end up with drops that are completely unrelated to the NPC that you loot. Again, absolute poison for immersion. Especially if they visibly wear the item you want, but it is not an option to loot it, because fuck you, that’s why. The most annoying thing is that CDPR KNOWS what a good RPG is like: Gothic 1 and 2 had most of those issues figured out over 20 years ago and was an explicit inspiration for Witcher 1. And for crafting just look at Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
