At the time of writing this I have 40+ hrs in the game, spit between two life paths. I’ve not experienced any performance issues on high settings with my setup: i7-9700K, GTX 1060 6GB, 48 GB RAM. I’ve experienced a few bugs, most of which were corrected by ether game or driver updates, including vegetation appearing in the wrong layer and NPC dialog going silent or playing out of sync. One intermittent bug that has not been resolved is that occasionally melee weapon hit boxes will stop registering, i.e. the weapon will not make contact with anything. Its shown up 4 times in the 40+ hrs I’ve played. This bug can be overcome by switching to a ranged weapon, firing once and switching back to the effected weapon. Though there is an easy work around, its still very annoying when it happens. Cars are very awkward to drive with keyboard, though for some reason motorcycles handle fine. Combat is engaging, though it would have been better if the A.I. changed it’s behavior more when you fight with melee instead of guns. Ranged NPC will still take cover, even if it backs them into a corner that they can’t get away from you inside of. Stealth is viable in most missions, though there are places where its not posable to go undetected. As for the story, the first few hours have more unskippable set pieces than I would like. It wasn’t a problem my first time though them. But, after I had seen them once, I just wanted to get through them so I could play the game. The voice acting for the main NPC’s and the PC’s are emotive and well delivered. The one exception is Johnny Silverhand. Keanu really phoned it in, his dialog is wooden and occasionally stilted. That, combined with the rest of his character, makes him completely unlikeable. The story (what I’ve seen of it so far) is internally consistent and each beat coherently follows. In closing, I’ve found the game to be very enjoyable and difficult to put down. I highly recommend this game to anyone who has the recommend specs for it.
