CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 + Phantom Liberty Expansion Thread

[Gargaune]

And DF video is up. Yep huge change. They completely removed all fake lights. It is huge difference compared to even Psycho RT mode from before and it fixed most of weird issues with lighting (like too bright people at times)

Hey, guys, our new DLSS 3 will provide 1.5-2x the FPS performance! You'll be able to go way past what your hardware could normally afford and turn up details and stuff like FULL raytracing! What? No, it's only available on our 4000 series graphics cards... No, we only have the 4800 and 4900 out... Yes, they do cost 2000 bucks. What's your point?

 

[just]

looking nice never really was a problem with this game

 

[Trithne]

So, errm.... gameplay?

Isn't there a fucking DLC coming out soon?

 

[racofer]

So, errm.... gameplay?

 

[Sykar]

I wonder if this can be turned into a proper P&P adaptation. Somehow I doubt.

 

[NecroLord]

So, errm.... gameplay?

Don't know what happened, but Marcin looks like shit now.

Couldn't find a newer photo of him. This'll do.

 

[Konjad]

So this is what CD projekt fans polacks have gone into, graphics wank?

in other words, It's a the Polishtard equivalent of Bethesda.

Witcher = Morrowind
Witcher 2 = Oblivion
Witcher 3 = Skyrim
Cyberpunk = Starfield

 

[Ivan]

FINALLY, ray tracing = better quest design! MAGIC, it JUST WORKS

 

[RepHope]

So, errm.... gameplay?

Isn't there a fucking DLC coming out soon?

They already said we’d start getting details on Phantom Liberty in June.

 

[racofer]

So, errm.... gameplay?

Isn't there a fucking DLC coming out soon?

They already said we’d start getting details on Phantom Liberty in June.

 

[Gargaune]

racofer, nice but it's too early, the announcement of the delay of the PL announcement should come in May some time.

 

[PanteraNera]

I imagine Nvidia tossed some incentive here. I mean, it's nice. Comes at the cost of selling your kidney to buy a 4090, but still.

And it will probably still barely hit 30 fps.

 

[EvilWolf]

I imagine Nvidia tossed some incentive here. I mean, it's nice. Comes at the cost of selling your kidney to buy a 4090, but still.

And it will probably still barely hit 30 fps.

MAYBE you'll get 30 fps with the, currently unreleased, DLSS 4.0; at which point you will have to play the game on a big screen from your couch so the image doesn't look washed out and pixelated. "The Future Is Now!"

 

[Skorpion]

Do they intentionally put out their updates on eye-bleedingly bright yellow so that no one can actually read them?
If so thats actually smarter than I gave them credit for!

 

[Perkel]

Path Tracing update is out

You'll find the list of changes for patch 1.62 below:

• Path Tracing: Technology Preview

Added a Ray Tracing: Overdrive preset which includes the Path Tracing technology. You can enable the Ray Tracing: Overdrive preset in Settings > Graphics > Quick Preset, or just Path Tracing separately in Settings > Graphics in the Ray Tracing section. To make sure Ray Tracing: Overdrive Mode works correctly on your PC, update your NVIDIA Game Ready Driver to version 531.41 at minimum.

Additionally, we included an option to render path-traced screenshots in Photo Mode for other Ray-Tracing-capable graphics cards with at least 8GB VRAM. If your graphics card has more than 8GB VRAM and this option is still greyed out, it means you need to lower your in-game resolution. Note that the higher the resolution and the less powerful the GPU is, the longer it will take to take a screenshot (between a few seconds to several minutes). You can enable Path Tracing for Photo Mode in Settings > Graphics in the Ray Tracing section.

• DLAA

Added NVIDIA DLAA, an AI-based anti-aliasing mode designed to improve image quality. DLAA requires a NVIDIA RTX graphics card. It can be enabled in Settings > Graphics in the NVIDIA DLSS section.

• Intel XeSS

Added support for Intel Xe Super Sampling 1.1, an upscaling technology using machine learning to provide improved performance with high image quality. It can be enabled in Settings > Graphics in the Resolution Scaling section.

• Benchmark improvements

Improved the Benchmark to display more information in the results screen, including PC specs, GPU driver version and selected settings.

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Apparently 30fps @ 1080p for RTX3090 idk if this is with or without DLSS.

 

[Perkel]

someone made comparison.

From my own testing the biggest difference is actually on character faces. Without path tracing all characters had this "game look" and a bit too bright especially in shadows. Path Tracing completely fixes that.

 

[Perkel]

screenshots zip from my testing.

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[what am i doing]

How much of the Phantom Liberty budget do you figure got pissed away on Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba instead of game content?

 

[racofer]

How much of the Phantom Liberty budget do you figure got pissed away on Keanu Reeves and Idris Elba instead of game content?

Game content?

 

[tritosine2k]

FINALLY, ray tracing = better quest design! MAGIC, it JUST WORKS

 

[tritosine2k]

screenshots zip from my testing.

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This speaks volumes of how CDPR's production pipeline is cobbled together and how disjointed locations are because some were outsourced to the team that did the unity heretic demo https://unity.com/the-heretic and those guys are working on their own game now.
Let me guess no weather and weathering implementation in sight.

 

[Perkel]

This speaks volumes of how CDPR's production pipeline is cobbled together and how disjointed locations are because some were outsourced to the team that did the unity heretic demo https://unity.com/the-heretic and those guys are working on their own game now.
Let me guess no weather and weathering implementation in sight.

I know you are insane but this doesn't make any sense.

1. Those worse looking screens are just effect of using normal game lighting without baking.
2. Game has prebaked GI that seems to be "dynamic" as it changes with time but creates issues down the line.
3. Night City is anything but disjointed.

The only alternative here to fix lighting to certain times (static lighting) and bake GI completely instead of weird baked/dymanic mix.

Or use path tracing like in this patch.

 

[tritosine2k]

This speaks volumes of how CDPR's production pipeline is cobbled together and how disjointed locations are because some were outsourced to the team that did the unity heretic demo https://unity.com/the-heretic and those guys are working on their own game now.
Let me guess no weather and weathering implementation in sight.

I know you are insane but this doesn't make any sense.

1. Those worse looking screens are just effect of using normal game lighting without baking.
2. Game has prebaked GI that seems to be "dynamic" as it changes with time but creates issues down the line.
3. Night City is anything but disjointed.

The only alternative here to fix lighting to certain times (static lighting) and bake GI completely instead of weird baked/dymanic mix.

Or use path tracing like in this patch.

Realtime tracing on clients scaling with distance is the insane thought here. The game is disjointed because it has high standard scenes you can count on one hand like the cinema and weather only in key scenes.

 

[Perkel]

Realtime tracing on clients scaling with distance is the insane thought here.

explain this line.

Are you talking about path tracing and scaling actually with whole distance instead of immediate surroundings ? Because it does that (last two shots show that path tracing works for whole scene and doesn't fall back to old methods with objects in distance). Which is super impressive.

 

[tritosine2k]

Realtime tracing on clients scaling with distance is the insane thought here.

explain this line.

Are you talking about path tracing and scaling actually with whole distance instead of immediate surroundings ? Because it does that (last two shots show that path tracing works for whole scene and doesn't fall back to old methods with objects in distance). Which is super impressive.

None of your comparisons show that, and it's impossible anyway. Unreal5.x will have noticable cascades too and both prerender and remote rendering will be better at this for a looooong while, so you won't get around a consistent production pipeline because "it just works".