It feels like an early open beta to me. I'd advise holding off buying for now. It should be fine after they have a few more months to finish development release patches, but there are a lot of pretty glaring issues right now. Here's a short list mostly lifted from my steam review:
-Inbuilt mouse acceleration that you can't turn off or reduce. You're pretty much forced to use their aim assist system because it's damn near impossible to aim effectively. There's no excuse for this, I honestly can't remember a single decent AAA game in the past 15 years that had mandatory mouse acceleration.
-Keys that you can't rebind. The major one here is "f" as the action key for almost everything. There's zero excuse for this either.
-Character creation is a tiny wading pool of options. They overhyped this too much for what was actually delivered.
-Combat has no weight to it, the guns and melee weapons feel and sound like toys.
-Melee parry timing does not sync with the animations. You basically have to parry after you've been hit by the animation but before you take damage, it's incredibly counter-intuitive for anyone used to any game where prediction and reaction parrying is a major gameplay element.
-The graphical settings do next to nothing and it seems like there were lies on both ends. The upper end barely looks better than Fallout 4 did on launch and runs just as badly, the lower end looks like steamed ass and barely runs okay. Cars phase into existence a few seconds after I see them as their long-distance LOD low-res model, my character is naked in a lot of cutscenes because clothes take time to load in, even on the highest settings there are textures that look like they're from a game that released ten years ago, generic NPCs fade in and out of existence while they're close enough to spit on, &c. There's also sound weirdness, one of the big ones is that when I drive by NPCs and prompt them to start talking to each other I can still hear their conversations as if I was standing there next to them when I'm twenty meters away and moving further while inside a sealed car.
I sorta suspect they realized that the game wasn't optimized well enough to run on computers that met their minimum specs so they deliberately released with reduced visual quality to help people run it, and there are still people reporting serious performance issues with better than minimum specs.
e: Saw a review that put it pretty accurately in one line: "There's a game in the bug."
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Topic: Cyberpunk 2077 by CDProjekt. New Firmware Edition (Read 63153 times)