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

[Curratum]

That's actually not bad, you picked the one feathery long hair style the game has I presume?

Yeah, what surprised me is that a lot of head gear takes into account what hairstyle you chose and adjust it. Good deal of those headpiecies does change hair for different one..

Traffic and peds amount heavily depends on part of city and hour. And game looks fucking nuts:

btw youtube fucking sucks. I recorded it and it doesn't even look half good as in game due to compresion and how blacks get fucked up. Pretty much the only way to get it right is to play game at 4k and upload it so that 1080p will rook right.

God, the flares, reflections and flashes off glass and metal are SO FUCKING ANNOYING...

 

[AwesomeButton]

From the same review:

The artists did fantastic work and achieved great things when it comes to lighting. While playing the game, I often thought "wow, how does this look with RT off?" and vice versa. In several cases, I found the non-RT lighting better even though I realized it wasn't as physically accurate as the raytraced version.

Based on what screenshot comparisons I've seen, I can agree.

 

[Perkel]

And it looks fucking great in the video, if ingame it looks even better, that is one hell of a great looking game.

Uploading to mega native video to share. Youtube looks like garbage. I wish i had strong enough PC to run it at 4k because clearly 1080p doesn't give game justice. Honestly i am completely flagbastered when it comes to graphics. I expected it to look good but not this crazy good. Moreover all surrounding areas of city are also fucking amazing and feel like someone scoured every nook and cranny to absolutely make sure game looks great from every angle. Oil rigs, scrapyards, badlands look tier above anything else on market.

edit:

here it is
native video without shitty youtube compression

 

[d1r]

That's actually not bad, you picked the one feathery long hair style the game has I presume?

Yeah, what surprised me is that a lot of head gear takes into account what hairstyle you chose and adjust it. Good deal of those headpiecies does change hair for different one..

Traffic and peds amount heavily depends on part of city and hour. And game looks fucking nuts:

btw youtube fucking sucks. I recorded it and it doesn't even look half good as in game due to compresion and how blacks get fucked up. Pretty much the only way to get it right is to play game at 4k and upload it so that 1080p will rook right.

That eye contact
2:17
Cute

 

[Ezeekiel]

I've also disabled RT completely now and set all the rasterized stuff to max/ultra/psycho.

Runs at like twice the fps with no drops now and honestly doesn't look worse generally. Reflections are fake, I guess, but RT gives you wacky overly accurate reflections at times and strange lighting issues.

Think I'll keep the settings like this. RT ain't really worth it.


Created a new char as well, this time I'm sticking with reflex-based weapons entirely (assault, sniper, katana/mantis blades). So far it's been mostly easy. I'm not as tanky as a high body char, but oh well.
With the augment which slows down time on discovery (and the one which slows it on low health) I'm just running up to gangs with my sword and beheading the entire lot before the slowmo runs out, lol.
Also have a hammer just in case I need non-lethal on a high HP enemy like the cyberpsychos.

This time I'm sticking with found legendaries which I just upgrade, for the most part. Same for the clothes. The more mod slots the better. Just perpetually short on legendary crafting mats.

It's much more fun than my previous shotgun/lmg playthrough, but also very, very easy on max difficulty in comparison.

 

[Junmarko]

It's taken me 10 hours to realise the midgets with headbands, walking around everywhere, are kids. lol.

 

[Perkel]

Made gif from best part of video, switch to HD

 

[Mintbarbecue]

That's actually not bad, you picked the one feathery long hair style the game has I presume?

Yeah, what surprised me is that a lot of head gear takes into account what hairstyle you chose and adjust it. Good deal of those headpiecies does change hair for different one..

Traffic and peds amount heavily depends on part of city and hour. And game looks fucking nuts:

btw youtube fucking sucks. I recorded it and it doesn't even look half good as in game due to compresion and how blacks get fucked up. Pretty much the only way to get it right is to play game at 4k and upload it so that 1080p will rook right.

God, the flares, reflections and flashes off glass and metal are SO FUCKING ANNOYING...

That's one of the things I didn't like even in the beginning of the nvidia proprietary crap.
Remember seeing a picture from some game that used those mirror effects every surface available, it looked so unnatural.
I wondered when was tha last time I saw my reflection on the street or in muddy puddles.

 

[Perkel]

switch to HD, fucking sites with gifs have better compression rate than fucking youtube:

 

[orcinator]

depends on your hardware

good computer/streaming = having fun

bad computer/consoles = crying about bugs

Played Fallout 4 already = bored after the bugs get old

 

[Naraya]

Maybe a stupid question but here goes: how can I make sure RTX works? I'm playing on GF Now Founders which is supposed to have RTX (it's on in the Graphic settings) but I just... don't see it? Maybe I don't know what to look for, is there an easy way to verify?

Thanks.

 

[Perkel]

Also i know i am broken record but i can't stress enough how you constantly are scrapped for cash and everything is fucking expensive. 35 hours in and i didn't even change my car because i don't want to spend 20-30k on car as it is very expensive.
Good implants go for 30-80k, good mods similar.

And i estimate that in about 30 hours i earned more or less 100k

They went back to TW1 hobo days lol

 

[Perkel]

Maybe a stupid question but here goes: how can I make sure RTX works? I'm playing on GF Now Founders which is supposed to have RTX (it's on in the Graphic settings) but I just... don't see it? Is there an easy way to verify?

Thanks.

Walk to some windows on street and see reflections if you can't see anything you are not playing with RT if you can you play with RT. But yes, game looks amazing with RT and RT doesn't really add that much.

 

[Justicar]

Also i know i am broken record but i can't stress enough how you constantly are scrapped for cash and everything is fucking expensive. 35 hours in and i didn't even change my car because i don't want to spend 20-30k on car as it is very expensive.
Good implants go for 30-80k, good mods similar.

And i estimate that in about 30 hours i earned more or less 100k

They went back to TW1 hobo days lol

That is incline cash should be spare, I had to do like 3 gigs and some other stuff to repay that 21k debt I had with Victor, cyberware is also expensive from what I seen, anyway I played like 15h of the game and still didnt even do the meeting with Evelyn.

 

[GloomFrost]

1 question. Crowbcat new video when????

 

[kreight]

With all the crazy system requirements and visual glamour this game still doesnt have proper cloth physics. Coats are glued to legs and bend like trousers. This shit has come a long way. Some obiwankenobi from Star wars the old republic had this kind of shit.

 

[Ezeekiel]

Oh no the mantis blades have this super long canned kill animation if you run+chargeattack (leap) into someone, and even on the heavy attack. Fuck me. You can still be shot throughout the entire animation.
Sword also has one long kill anim that sometimes plays, but it's not this bad.

What were they thinking...

 

[Kruno]

Oh no the mantis blades have this super long canned kill animation if you run+chargeattack (leap) into someone, and even on the heavy attack. Fuck me. You can still be shot throughout the entire animation.
Sword also has one long kill anim that sometimes plays, but it's not this bad.

What were they thinking...

Game needs another 6 years in the making!

 

[Ezeekiel]

Well, half a year or maybe a full year might have helped a great deal tbf.

 

[Justicar]

Oh no the mantis blades have this super long canned kill animation if you run+chargeattack (leap) into someone, and even on the heavy attack. Fuck me. You can still be shot throughout the entire animation.
Sword also has one long kill anim that sometimes plays, but it's not this bad.

What were they thinking...

This are small fries whoever came up with this should be fired and banned from ever developing any software like wtf did they think nobody would notice? Did they test this shit? Who thought this was a good idea? The first thing I did was shoot some randoms and this is what happened they should hire me as their qa tester. Cant they spawn them a much further away and make ai pathfind to player location? I will not even talk about lack of ai police vehicles they have themselves to blame for this backlash they marketed to gta tards and should have known that gta tards will expect at least a police system that was done in gta fucking 1 or looking at europoor developers mafia 1 even fucking mafia 1 had cops in vehicles and non scripted police chases this is rudimentary stuff as much as im enjoying the game this is peak retard game design but I wouldnt expect anything else from cdpr they have great art and writing teams but their game designers are either retarted or they are saboteurs. They literally dont know what emergent gameplay means all they understand is scripted sequences but this shit doesn't suit open world at all, open world is pointless and the game would be better as a hub based expierience that would save money on developing and testing this large map but open worlds sell so they are going to make open world....

RANT OVER

 

[Butter]

I don't want to see any of you goons voting for this early access title in GotY poll.

 

[Justicar]

I don't want to see any of you goons voting for this early access title in GotY poll.

Will vote for early access Wasteland 3 instead

 

[Reapa]

Same here. It seems like most of the bugs come from old gen console versions. I am yet to find single actual gameplay bug and the only bugs i had are just visual glitches mostly in animation in cutscenes. Moreover most of those were at start of the game weirdly, the more i play the less i see them.

And same here. 26 hrs of plaiying and the only glitches I can think of are one T-pose in Lizzy's Bar, and one of the Delamain cars which would disappear and respawn a couple of blocks away if pressed in a very tight space, where its pathfinding can't get it out of - this is actually preventing the quest from getting stuck.

I fail to see how this game is "SJW".

Also true. The screeching paranoid primadonnas here are not worth responding to. The easiest test - if the game was indeed SJW some character like Takamura would have been female and/or black. I haven't seen the typical signs of SJW tropes for now, and unlike the agitprop sections of both camps, I'm not brain damaged enough to be unable to read critically.

I had been driving around in the game for quite a while today, because I did all the "Epistrophy" missions, those with the wayward Delamain cabs, one after the other. It was really nice to see that all of the 7 missions played out a bit differently. It was also a fun way to see much of the whole town, including several areas where I hadn't been so far at all.

At least I now got a bit of driving practice. It has been a while since I've played a game with that style of driving. Driving around with Jackie's former motorcycle makes it also easier. I prefer driving during the night, as vision is usually better (the sun glare in this game is sometimes really overdone) and traffic isn't that dense. The motorcycle makes driving between cars and on the sidewalks more viable, as there often isn't much space on the roads.

I see all these videos about weird piles of vehicles or spinning or flying cars, but I haven't really encountered anything like that. The AI is certainly not the most flexible, but it's serviceable. I'd assume that this behavior should depend on your CPU, and as my i5 2500k is below minimum specs, I expected more issues, but there aren't any for me. I wonder what happens in those cases where you have that many bugs as in those videos you find everywhere.

I did the same missions yesterday, and was also pleased with the uncertainty that each mission carried. I thought it would be a silly fetch quest, but it was better than that, a bit of a tour of the city.

The real issue is the overall handling of the setting. I've skimmed through the CP wiki and even a cursory glance shows you just how much they either didn't implement or plain got wrong or didn't think through. THAT is the real reason the game doesn't feel right. Especially in direct comparison to the Witcher series.

I agree, but as Mefi said, the setting itself isn't anything that genius, especially from the point of view of the present day. I was unimpressed with what I read from the RPG books, but I was hoping CDPR will have managed to outdo the source material in the same way in which they outdid Sapkowski. So far I can't say that they have or haven't. I did the "Happy together" quest and it felt more like a parody of a Witcher 3 quest.

I'm going to offer mitigation for that because Cyberpunk 2020 is a superficial take on cyberpunk and staying true to that is what gets you the nonsense conversations with Dex and Jackie about glory followed by an investigation into sex slavery and snuff movies as a tick box exercise straight after. Fully agree with your take and on how poor it is. It's 'how cool would it be to have Keanu Reeves in your head? Very cool or so cool you'd explode?'. So you've got a very superficial setting by design and choice, not Gibson asking where the boundaries of reality are, and who is policing them, nor even Dick playing about with the idea of 'can you tell a disabled person from a robot well enough not to shoot both?'.

I agree with you. It's something similar I've felt in RDR2 to a lesser extent - the tone of the game while in the open world activities and side missions ranges far from the tone of the game while in main story missions. Again I'll repeat that this game would have been better off hub-based. More consistent tone and easier worldbuilding would have been another two positives, in addition to all the technical ones.

anyone notice the retarded popin tessellation yet?

I am convinced that with 1.04 they increased pop-in as a stopgap measure to make the game more bearable for old hardware. I can't say if this was needed on PC specifically, but they are the ones with the telemetry data, so I guess they can tell better than me.

why not an option even as an ini file?

 

[Junmarko]

 

[Yosharian]

So I did the Portal 'easter egg'.

...

That was terrible. Whoever wrote that needs to be taken outside and shot.