I was a bit hesitant about getting this due to all the negative reports on release, but for £12 during these sales and with nothing else tempting me to play, I decided to give it a go.
Coming in without any high expectations, I have been having a great time with it. It's clearly not some kind of new generation, envelope-pushing work of gaming art, which I gather is what it set itself up to be. It has all the same limitations most open-world RPGs have, but the setting is fun to role-play in, it's good a decent atmosphere and it looks great. It kind of puts me in mind of an open-world Deus Ex crossed with Watchdogs, which is fine with me.
I am getting a bit jaded on the gigs after racing through about 15 of them, too. Probably time to push on with the story a bit more. Fifteen hours and I only just saw Keanu...
Only noticed a few bugs. Sometimes NPCs' weaopn textures don't load, and it's been a bit jarring having a conversation with a guy trying to be threatening whilst looking like he's holding an imaginary shotgun. Also, when I take over cameras to scout bases, my character slides along the ground in what seems to be a random direction. It's also jarring trying to silently mark enemies from cover and then seeing my character slide slowly through the middle of them all and then get killed while I watch on CCTV.
I am going all-in on Int and hacks on hard difficulty. If my character is spotted I tend to die in quite short order, and that makes for some good tension and stealthing. Still haven't got any heavily damaging hacks, though, so I am relying on short-circuiting people's eyes and choking them out while they recover. I imagine there is a more effective way to play this build. Any good tips for bulding a hacker?