At the beggining the thing that most annoyed me was the bad optimization, after updating drivers and lowering my resolution (which is the first game in years that I have to do this) the framerates somewhat stabilized.
Now, yes, this game has a lot of bugs, and at the beggining I could bare with them, some random out of place inmmersion breaking bugs. BUT at some point they became gamebreaking, enemies could spot you and hack you through the walls wich makes the stealth and covering useless. And the final straw basically was that at some point of the main story my character got stuck in a floor because the only way to get out was getting a key from an npc wich fell to his death traspassing the floor making looting him impossible, so yes, at this point I gave up to this game. I am very dissapointed.
Runs pretty bad, unless you have an absolute monster of a PC you are likely to be disappointed in the performance you get.
Noticed visual and audio glitches as soon as I started playing, keybindings are also lacking
I can see the game becoming something great, like Fallout New Vegas, give it at least a few more months, and maybe even up to a year.
Next time CDProject just focus on the PC version and when that has been polished to a sheen, then start looking into the console version, because as bad as the PC version is, the console version is much much worse.
Don't spread yourself so thin next time, and get your priorities in order
Where to start i was hoping when I played at release it would be at least met some of my expectations but no apparently the game lacks:
1. Optimization & textures
2. Frames drops
3. Glitches & bugs ( for example my health drops to zero and still going and killing npcs)
4. Quality of the scene from top of building was unacceptable no rendering & I didn’t see the beauty of the city in one the missions.
5. One the scenes jack giving me his gun from his head instead of shard !
6. Physics is not as expected & NPCs are full of flaws alot of improvement required.
7. Cops are too OP and spawns everywhere from thin air thats so unreal and exaggerated
8. I was driving bike suddenly my character was standing naked on top the bike i was what the hell just happened !
9. Its playable but expect a long list of bugs which could ruin the experience for some.
10. No car customization & character’s movements feels horrible not to mention gun-play is bad
11. CDR hope you fix all the bugs & your game becomes stable & well optimized in all platforms
The game itself is okay, but:
- the installer is horrible: it writes everything to the temp folder, then everything again to the target installation folder. Double the SSD wear, thanks! (triple if you also count the original installer files)
- the controls can't be fully remapped... yes, in 2020 :/ And the default controls are not quite great
Also compared to, say, TW3, the game feel quite soulless.
I wanted to love the **** out of this game, make it my life, even join the modding community and become a sort of power user for this game.
Gamestop's initial review of this game (a glowing 7 out of 10) was correct. This game really is superficial set dressing around a short, linear storyline. It is mediocre as an action game. But as an open world game, it absolutely fails. Everything's cut and paste, procedurally generated set dressing. NPCs have boring one-liners (far less interesting than the one-liners from NPCs in The Witcher 3). Essentially, procedurally generated traffic, cops, NPCs, gang shootouts, and cars pop in within a hundred foot radius, and very uninteresting AI. At max LOD settings, things still pop in in a jarring way.
Once you turn the LOD settings down (or watch PS4/Xbox One gameplay) you'll realise just how superficial the non-main-storyline content in this game actually is. You're not encouraged to explore the game, think outside of the box, play around with things, express yourself within the open world. There's minor bugs that can be fixed, sure, but there's issues so fundamental to the gameplay design, that it seems intractible to fix this game now that it's been released.
Shouldn't have pre-ordered this game. Shouldn't have bought into the hype. Shouldn't have ordered in GOG to show my support for this team or get the soundtrack and artbook and exclusive in-game nonsense. All I can do now is hope that they'll pull a No Man's Sky and fix their game. But it seems like some of the issues are so fundamental to the game, it's going to be years of being held hostage to the possibility that I might get my money's worth eventually.
"What did we learn Palmer....? I guess we learned not to do it again."
