Q:How's the soundtrack ?
A:It’s very nice. Synth heavy as usually. There also appears to be radio stations that broadcast a seemingly diverse amount of music. I heard heavy metal, punk, and maybe some sort of foreign traditional music? There also appears to be radio hosts and ads as well.
Q:What was the craziest thing you saw gameplay wise?
A:V’s hands unhinged and blades popped out just like in the original teaser. She spots two guards and leaps on to the wall and wall runs before slamming her blade into the wall to look at the guards. Shes right above them. She then hacks one of the guards guns and jams it. She leaps on to the first guard, stabbing him in the neck before training her eyes on the next guard. His gun jams and V takes him out. The announcer said “we encourage many different play-styles. You can be a pacifist, or cyberninja.” The near mention of cyberninja just made my day.
Q:What about tech?
Hair simulation - Hairworks - was it any better than TW3? Cloth,? Other types of materials? Deformation? Destruction? Etc. Other tech aspects worth mentioning?
A:So there was tons of destruction. Walls got torn up, cover chipped away. Pillars crumbled after immense fire. There wasn’t any cloth discus but the detail in the world was great. Very lovely sub surface scattering effects, tons on population density (almost hitman levels). Didn’t really see too much tech on hair and I have a sneaking suspicion it’s because it’s not optimized yet. I’m just amazed at no load times and the view distance. It’s insane, no wonder they wanted to show this game off during the day.
Q:Could you compare the combat to another game? And if so, what game has combat most similiar to the shooting in cyberpunk
A:The combat feels almost like dishonored with some very, very light titanfall mechanics. The dev is constantly sliding around into cover and running on walls. The gunplay feels like a mixture of games, and I really like that. The main pistol almost feels like some borderlands gun (or maybe just because I saw all the numbers pouring out when he used it) but there were a variety of weapon like the tech modified double barrel shotgun that packed such a huge punch it gave me doom vibes. I would say the gunplay is very smooth and satisfying. I’ve always been scared the game might play like Deus Ex, kinda janky and emphasis towards stealth. But this games seemed very fast paced. ALSO! You can shoot through walls and one guy on the other side of the wall had this massive machine gun and started firing through the wall at you. Pieces of debris where flying, and then v jumps out the window to flank him, only for your partner Jackie (big guy with man-bun in the trailers) to straight up run through the wall and tackles the dude!
