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

[Fedora Master]

lol, you can go to under 1s for knife to return(without perks)
there is mod that removed gravity, so knives fly in straight line(which makes hitting harder, as normally knives are weird homing misiles)

 

[Fedora Master]

I had a great idea for a character: Tommy Veeseau. Sadly you can't recreate his fucked up face in the editor.

 

[Moink]

Apparently when the DLC is out you can skip to it from the main menu, guess I wasted my weekend.

 

[Gargaune]

BDs are horrible busywork and filler, skill checks within them opening alternative routes might have helped, but as it is they're another brainless cinematic/immersive set piece that you can't skip, in a game that has too many of those in the main quest.

CDPR shine at drama and art direction, but still don't get the artistry of gameplay, a significant issue when you consider that any given work should be supported by its medium's unique characteristics foremost. BDs in Cyberpunk are an excellent example of this - it's a cool idea, you've got these "recorded memory" sequences you can investigate, find out stuff that maybe even the author wasn't consciously aware of, and act on it. But in practice, it's just a tedious pixel-scanning minigame that tells you when and how many clues you gotta click on. It doesn't have an effective fail state, though you just might miss something if you rush and don't click all the pixels and face different outcomes in quests like River's kidnapping case, but it's all very rote and mechanical.

I mentioned The Heist being a huge disappointment earlier and it's another instance of the same thing - the writing department came up with this idea where you're gonna infiltrate a big corpo hotel, compromise security with the spiderbot, steal the Relic and witness Saburo's murder etc. Cool! This is great stuff, you give to IO Interactive or Looking Glass or Ion Storm and you've got a banger of a mission guaranteed. But they didn't... they gave it to CDPR's gameplay department. And they came up with, well, the usual - a bunch of walk-and-talk, a pixel-scanning BD sequence disguised as the spiderbot segment, and some corridor shooting at the end. Now, okay, maybe CBP doesn't have the gameplay system to support the Budapest Hotel, 2077 Edition (though I still think they could've gotten creative), but it does have the mechanics to at least ape part of Thief. Casing the Joint / Masks, anyone? And Deus Ex, as usual, offers the most damning parallel - breaking into VersaLife.

You know that you can hang around Konpeki's bar after you check in? You get past the receptionist and you can either head straight to your room with Jackie or let him go ahead while you go knock back a couple. Naturally, having been educated by decades of better gaming, I chose to take the opportunity to explore and snoop around, but I still have no idea what that was supposed to do... Was there something to find there that I didn't? Something that changed my approach to the mission? I just went around, clicked on a couple of pointless NPCs, then gave up and went to join Jackie. It's a consistent problem, the studio spends so much effort on this spectacular trim but neglects to tie it in to agency and gameplay. It's all style and no substance.

 

[Infinitron]

Launch trailer:

 

[likash]

Apparently when the DLC is out you can skip to it from the main menu, guess I wasted my weekend.

It was known for some time.

 

[Perkel]

wait it launches today ? for some reason i thought it would launch 2 days from now on. welp there goes my work shedule.

 

[Mortmal]

Bsically as soon as you preset the protagonist, it's not really a "true" RPG in my mind, whatever its other merits.

I'll probably regret asking this, but how defined does the preset protagonist have to be before you experience it as disqualifying the game as an RPG? To take a very old example, Ultima IV requires you to play as the Avatar. It also requires you to play in a manner consistent with the Virtues if you want to progress in the game. So preset protagonist, restricted play style choice - but many consider it one of the all-time classic old-school RPGs.

To the 2022 Codexer, you seem to possess sound logic and sanity that may not quite fit in with the tone of this place. You may eventually come to regret staying, so consider leaving while you still can.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Says it releases in 9 hours on Steam, so depending on where you are, yeah it's out today

 

[Terenty]

So how is the reanimated corpse doing? Still stinks like shit? Thought so

 

[Justicar]

So how is the reanimated corpse doing? Still stinks like shit? Thought so

Smells better than you that's certain nigger.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Launch trailer:

awesome

 

[AwesomeButton]

Naturally, having been educated by decades of better gaming, I chose to take the opportunity to explore and snoop around, but I still have no idea what that was supposed to do... Was there something to find there that I didn't? Something that changed my approach to the mission?

Massive downscaling obviously. There are so many conversations you can overhear, bar patrons, hotel guests, hotel staff, it can't have been all for nothing. Especially the way the richness of flavor abruptly ends.

 

[Gargaune]

"Rust in piss, shitbot!"

 

[Justicar]

playing a JRPG from 1993 emulated on my handheld which has 3 broken buttons is more fun than playing this shit

Still salty about your shitfield getting destroyed subhuman? Time to end yourself.

 

[likash]

playing a JRPG from 1993 emulated on my handheld which has 3 broken buttons is more fun than playing this shit

Still salty about your shitfield getting destroyed subhuman? Time to end yourself.

looking for Starfield

 

[Rhobar121]

playing a JRPG from 1993 emulated on my handheld which has 3 broken buttons is more fun than playing this shit

Still salty about your shitfield getting destroyed subhuman? Time to end yourself.

looking for Starfield

When they announce an expansion to Elden Ring, you won't see Starfield anymore.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

To the 2022 Codexer, you seem to possess sound logic and sanity that may not quite fit in with the tone of this place. You may eventually come to regret staying, so consider leaving while you still can.

Eh. I live in an area infested with woke-style leftists, so I'm used to idiots flinging metaphorical (and sometimes actual) feces as a debate tactic. At least here it occasionally comes from a different direction.

 

[Child of Malkav]

"Rust in piss, shitbot!"

GmanShills strikes again!!!!

 

[Lord_Potato]

the setting is so dumb and unrealistic. every second ad is about sex or this type of shit. cyberpunk is about "high tech low life" not about this comedic satire shit written by horny polish programmers. And no, it's not like the TTG

Wow, sex must really bother you. You mention it in almost every comment itt

 

[Hellion]

I'm playing 2.0 on the same, almost decade-old PC i played the original CP2077 on (i7-4790k, geforce 1060 6 gb, 16 GB RAM), and I have to say I'm impressed with the game's performance. They raised the minimum/recommended requirements before 2.0 launched, and theoretically I shouldn't even reach minimum (the CPU especially), but I have everything set on medium-high and receive constant 30-40 FPS with no sluggish performance whatsoever. The game seems to run even better than BG3 did at launch.

 

[Justicar]

I'm playing 2.0 on the same, almost decade-old PC i played the original CP2077 on (i7-4790k, geforce 1060 6 gb, 16 GB RAM), and I have to say I'm impressed with the game's performance. They raised the minimum/recommended requirements before 2.0 launched, and theoretically I shouldn't even reach minimum (the CPU especially), but I have everything set on medium-high and receive constant 30-40 FPS with no sluggish performance whatsoever. The game seems to run even better than BG3 did at launch.

Im playing on a processor (i5-7600K) that is below the minimum specs now and i get even more fps than on previous patches gonna use my lvl 50 character for the dlc.

 

[Vyvian]

I'm playing 2.0 on the same, almost decade-old PC i played the original CP2077 on (i7-4790k, geforce 1060 6 gb, 16 GB RAM), and I have to say I'm impressed with the game's performance. They raised the minimum/recommended requirements before 2.0 launched, and theoretically I shouldn't even reach minimum (the CPU especially), but I have everything set on medium-high and receive constant 30-40 FPS with no sluggish performance whatsoever. The game seems to run even better than BG3 did at launch.

Yeah the hubbub over the increased requirements was vastly overblown. It run exactly the same for me as it did pre-2.0 on the same potato tier PC I've always had.

 

[Gerrard]

Typical codextards.

>major game update comes out
>reintroduces a bug that was fixed 2 years ago again "without touching anything" related to it
>repeat every major update
Guess which game is that?

Spoiler

Every live service one.

Reminder that devs can go suck a dick.

Card was loud as fuck too with fans weirdly firing up out of nowhere to 80-90% for few seconds before slowing down again.

Nice PWM curves lol, what brand is this card? Reminds me of my old Radeon 4850, where the fans would only go to around 45% at 105C but the moment it passed that point they would go to 100%.

 

[racofer]

Here is the new ending. There's, obviously, spoilers.



CDPR managed to make it even more depressing than the original endings

Spoiler