Welcome back! Hope you enjoyed your time in the real world.
Like you said, no worries. The second you feel tied to this site is the time to set it aside for a while. Over the last week to ten days, it's gone from -40 up to +50 by Friday. 90 degrees in less than 10 days, and in the right direction! Lets me get out and feel the sun, and puts a good perspective on things. I've missed a few days, too, spending time out with the friends I can't shoot. Good to hear from you!
I just finished downloading the 44gig 1.2 patch, and I'm going in!
I'm going to restart a new game just for kicks, and I'll try to leave some impressions here about how the new patch works. If anyone else still has some interest, I'd love to read your thoughts, too.
@LordSteev
Any thoughts so far on the patch, big improvement? I have the game, but it's still in the shrink wrap. I'm tempted to wait until I can find a PS5 to play it.
Last night I played through the corpo introduction and the first mission with Jackie. What was instantly apparent was the smoothness. I didn't get any of the previous jittery framerate I'd had before. (This is on a base PS4, no modifications) I also didn't crash at all. This is absolutely good enough gameplay to be on the PS Store, unless Sony is holding a grudge. One thing that is still a problem, although a small one, is you can still sometimes detect items which you should be able to pick up, but can't. (Various food/drink and small cash bundles) The game throws so many of these at you that not being able to pick up a few really has no consequence. I just like to pick up everything. Also, still some pop-in with minor npc's, but this has never bothered me since they have no real dialogue and are about as necessary to overall gameplay as a bush or a mailbox. The graphics also show some marked improvement, such as being able to realize the corpo starting building has a zebra patterned floor, adds are easier to read from farther away, etc. Noticeable improvements all around graphically. The biggest thing, without question, is the smoothness. I'm guessing a much more consistent framerate is behind it. That, and no crashing, but to be fair, I haven't driven my own car yet. I'll get to that tonight or tomorrow.
@LordSteev
Thanks, sounds like a big step in the right direction! Really positive to hear of so many improvements. Maybe Sony will reintroduce this to psn in the next few days, would be interesting to be a fly on the wall to see the decision making process regarding this.
I restarted as Street kid last night (playing on ps5). No crashes so far. Noticed some welcome icons in the inventory to quickly show whether a weapon or armour is 'better' than what you have currently equipped.
I'm still having an issue (as mentioned above) with some items being impossible to pick up.
Unless I'm imagining it, there seems a lot more going on on-screen in terms of items and enemies being tagged/highlighted. This was actually to my detriment when trying to be stealthy as too much got in my way, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.
The patch notes were crazy, and thankfully the majority of bugs fixed I never experienced on the first playthrough anyway.
Well, since the patch, I'm captured all over again. Played 12 hours straight today, and quit when I got my first crash since the new patch. I kinda blame myself for the crash though, as I was doing stupid things on a metal staircase when it happened, not playing conventional at all. Finally did some driving around, both on motorcycles and in cars. Took dude with the burning junk to a ripperdoc at top speed, and noticed better handling with the p.o.s. car you start out with then the game used to have. Also cruised on a stolen bike from some Tiger Claws and hit top speed without crashing. The game has a tighter hold on me than ever thanks to the patch improvements. Unbelievable how little stutter there is now, and it doesn't seem to matter where I am. For a base ps4, it's really an accomplishment to get such a dense, packed, and detailed world running as good as it is, imo.
@Mega-Gazz Haven't heard anything about the store, other than someone from CDPR saying they were getting closer. Last I heard about a native ps5 version was they still expect to have one by the end of the year. If anyone else has more info, please share.
I’m about 8 hours into this game and it is pretty frustrating. There’s some great ideas here, but the gameplay is just hard to enjoy and the story bits really drag. I just made it through the sequence where they introduce the Johnny Silverhand character and my goodness… I think it was like an hour long cut scene sequence that just went on and on and on…. It was enough to make Hideo Kojima’s cut scenes seem like brief snippets by comparison. And Keanu Reeves, oh my lands… his voice acting work is awful. He sounds like he’s reading the lines for the first time and doesn’t really care. Ugh.
The game is better now that I’ve gotten into some open world exploration and just running around Night City. But still, the game is just so needlessly complex, with a boring drawn out narrative, forgettable characters, baffling menus, and janky combat. They put in so many gameplay mechanics that it cheapens the effect of using any of them because there’s just too many and the systems feel bloated. At least the vehicles are fun to drive.
I’m going to stick with it for now. I’ll try to give it at least 10-15 hours to win me over.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution I'm a bit further along than you, probably about 15 - 20 hours now, but just wait until you get to the section I did last night where I got to play as Johnny Silverhand for a good long time. I wanted to go to bed but basically was locked into this sequence and it wouldn't allow me to save it until I'd finished the entire section. It was one hell of a rollercoaster ride though and I guess helped me to understand where all the characters fit in a bit more.
I'm actually enjoying the open world sections but I think being as I've played a few really good open world games recently it's really obvious to see where this misses the mark a bit. The side missions so far have been fairly mediocre, the inventory management becomes a bit of a pain where I quickly hit the overweight mark, plus trying to sort through which weapons are any good is a bit annoying. The city is fairly vibrant in places though and I like the Bladerunner like concept of the place.
The gunplay is also quite satisfying although I've forgotten a lot of things from the combat training I did so I do end up just bursting in all guns blazing and just hope that I've got enough ammo. I have found a pretty cool katana though that I've been using a bit for some close combat and to save some ammo.
I'm enjoying it enough to want to finish it at this point though and hope that it will get better still.
@render I love that section - how overpowered Johnny's gun was and the way he reloads it, felt like a badass.
I've just had a 'romantic encounter' with meredith stout which I didn't have in my first playthrough based on my choices - that was quite an eye opener.
@MatthewJP Yeah I know what you mean, I think they did a good job of making you feel that way in that bit. Meredith Stout though... interesting 😆. I think the boat has sailed for me on that option with what happened at the end of an earlier mission but it does feel like Mass Effect in the sense that you are always flirting with someone.
@render@MatthewJP Yeah I’m on Meredith Stout’s $%!+ list and she’s telling me to watch my back on text messages so I think the ship has sailed on creating any romantic relationship 😂
But as far as the overall game, I’m not sure I’m going to stick with it. I’m going to play for another session today and see how it goes. I agree the side mission content seems really mediocre and so I’m mostly mainlining it now, but even then, I just don’t really have a lot of interest in this world and it’s characters. I can barely understand all the slang they use in conversation, much less all the background narrative threads. Maybe that’s a ‘’me” problem rather than the game, I don’t know. I had a similar lack of investment in the Witcher 3 storyline, so perhaps I’m just not on CD Project’s wavelength.
And I agree the combat mechanics don’t flow very well, despite all the tactics you can use. I know you can stealth, use tech hacks, melee, etc but I end up just going in guns blazing too. The gunplay is… okay, I guess. But again, FPS is not my forte.
On the positive side, I like the driving, the vehicles are fun and I especially like speeding around on the motorcycle. I also like how the map is pretty clear about where to go next to advance your mission, so it’s hard to get too lost.
But in a nutshell, the game feels neither fun nor narratively compelling, so I’m not sure I want to spend much more time with it. If it doesn’t grab me today, I might just trade it in since it is now worth more credit than what I paid for it last month, so I’ll actually make a couple dollars off the game. 🤷🏻♂️
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Jimmer-jammer Sorry, I think you and I simul-posted, but you can see my comments above. I will try to got through a couple more story missions and see if it grabs me. I can’t help but feel that the game would be significantly better if it had fewer skill trees and cleaner combat mechanics, streamlined the content, and was third person. 😅 Of course by then it would basically be Horizon or Ghost of Tsushima.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution it's interesting that the driving is something that's stood out for you as a positive, when I think it's pretty unanimous across the board that it sucks pretty bad in this game 🤣
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