*** Cyberpunk 2077 ***
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Man of Honour
Pretty much exactly that yep, the fact that many reviewers have been rushing to get their reviews out for those view stats is a bit of a shame and even one reviewer commented in hindsight after completing the story within 30 hours and looked at the game stats seeing he'd barely even touched half the side story capabilities and warned readers on avoiding doing what he did.
I guess it's a tricky one, if you embargo reviews until launch day then people get suspicious, plus they also have to use pre release code anyway if they want to get their review out at launch, and few will delay them to play again after launch.
Soldato
Stopped paying attention to mainstream review sites years ago, they all have their own agendas. My person preference is metacritic and steam for user reviews.
I'd rather base my choices on 5000 amateur user reviews than 10 experts, but then there are certain franchises that I will buy anyway as I have faith in their developers CDPR is one of them.
I'd rather base my choices on 5000 amateur user reviews than 10 experts, but then there are certain franchises that I will buy anyway as I have faith in their developers CDPR is one of them.
Caporegime
And I am one of the (probably) few that don't mind if that is the case. Bioshock Infinite had clunky as hell combat, but is still one of the most enjoyable games I have ever played due to setting and story, hopefully it will be similar for me with Cyberpunk.
Soldato
There's a day one patch apparently that is the size of the whole game.
Soldato
Yes I just read this......what the hell are they patching that is 50+ gigs?
Soldato
You're not mate, people were expecting Call of Duty level gun play, most, if not all reviews (technically previews) stated the gunplay is good, not CSGO, but good. And for me, this is a RPG, an adaptation of a tabletop RPG... Gunplay is 3rd in my priority of things.
I need RPG elements, story, gameplay (this is where shooty shoots comes in).
People are just being idiots when taking early previews as gospel of how the game is. It's not to everyones taste and I like that, it shouldn't cater to everyone, if it did, it would be a total fail and boring.
Soldato
gunna unsub as i bet some will spoiler it
Soldato
People are pretty sharp on here, it has to go in spoiler tag or you can flag them, not sure on the rules, but people spoiling things are not seen in a good light in any sense.
It'll be to do with how the game engine 'packages' its' files. If they update something, it'll mean that file becomes a new file, so seeing as they're patching lots of things pre-release, most of the files will need to be replaced.
Sad for those on lousy net connections, but developers don't really care about those peasants. (I'm a peasant)
Why is race and gender even a concern in computer GAMES? It just boggles the brain how try hard this new breed of so called "journalists" are...
Associate
Absolutely this. I see all this waffling, wobbling and mild trolling as good-natured nervous excitement. This game means a lot to a lot of people! Not long to go now...
Associate
It'll be interesting to see if the current asset files unencrypt and decompress into individual assets on release day, or stay as big "BLOB" like objects. If they stay compressed, then every major patch will probably be large.
Question around DLSS- I bought a 2080 Super back in the Old World days in readiness for the original release date (yeah, I know). And weirdly, haven't done a lot of AAA 3D gaming since then. I'm on a 1440 ultrawide for gaming, want RTX, and am tolerant of low frame rates, so don't care if it doesn't run at 60fps, but will still need DLSS. How does DLSS work? Will I need to do something outside of Cyberpunk to enable it, or will it simply be managed within the game itself? TIA.
DLSS (an acronym for Deep Learning Super Sampling) is a Nvidia RTX feature that uses artificial intelligence to push a game’s frame performance higher when your GPU is struggling with intensive workloads.
When using DLSS, your GPU is effectively generating an image at a lower resolution, with DLSS adding additional pixels to upscale the picture to your desired high-resolution picture quality. As any seasoned PC gamer knows, tasking a GPU with a lower resolution results in a significant frame rate boost, so you’re getting the best of both worlds – high frame rates and high resolution – with DLSS.
- Most people I know use Balanced Mode DLSS in Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, with a huge boost in frame rates. I use DLSS Balanced, and with added Sharpen mode 70% via Geforce Experience, it's like a new game!
Thats one of the things which has surprised me out of whats been said in reviews, for some reason I had a figure of 175 hours for the main campaign in my head, so was surprised to see reviews in agreement that the main campaign was completed in between 30 and 40 hours. Much shorter than I had envisaged.
We have know about the patch for a few days now but I am a bit worried for those who have just enough space for the game on their HD. When the patch drops, it is going to be downloaded and allocated more space. For some, this might mean they have to bail and hope the game is fully packaged as a new download. ARK is by far the worst for this in my experience and when I had a smaller SSD it was easier to just download the game from scratch. So I hope those with smaller SSD's do not get shafted by the "required space 70GB"