Comment by Fizz@lemmy.nz on Cyberpunk 2077 team morale took "significant hit" following release, developer says

It’s weird how much press cyberpunk gets. Like we get week by week updates on how the dev team feels.

Almost as if they spent 163 million dollars on marketing. That’s why there’s so much astroturfing and constant press releases. They’re paying big money to turn the reputation around.

Yep and it worked, I bought the game on release which something out of character for me, but shelved it after a few days. Yeah PC couldn’t handle it and it was buggy af but, recently gave it another shot and it’s definitely improved, much more immersive and fun

Did the opposite for me. I was so tired of seeing stuff about it back on Reddit that I filtered it out. I think it made me less likely to buy the game due to exhaustion. People just wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it and nothing else could get through.

I also ignored the game for a long time until the anime came out on Netflix, then i bought the same game on steam during a sale. Honestly super worth it for $30, (talking original 2077 and not the dlc) so much story side quests and content. Hours of fun and shit that’s hilarious haha

Yup, I still haven’t played it, but I’ll probably get around to it eventually. But the hype and fallout really did deter me from playing it at all. I dislike hype, and the fallout made the issues seem worse than they were.

I fear we’re in the minority.

Yeah, I’ve heard it’s a lot better these days and I’ll probably get around to it in the next couple of years (I’m sure you know how backlogs are).

Kinda same for me. I bought it on release and while I could play some, I had to wait a good 6 months to actually play the game to completion due to all the crashes. However, I started a new game recently with the 2.0 patch and picked up the Phantom Liberty DLC and I’m having a lot of fun with it. And I think the DLC is really well done. Say what you will about CDPR, but those folks know how to make good DLC.

I bought it after the bad news and right before they came with updates as the price was good.

I run it on a 3070 and left out the dlc when i heard: “the game will be more demanding” which was my sign to uninstall and move on.

I enjoyed it for roughly 200h and got a second wind from edge runners where i modded Lucy into my game, all in all i really enjoyed myself.

The game isn’t actually all that more demanding, they just did actual bench testing. I have a 3050ti mobile with 4gb VRAM and I get about 45ish FPS with settings on medium, and dips into like 28. I think my range is 25-72 or something. Some parts of the DLC, like in Dogtown, I do get less FPS, however there are some parts so far that I’m getting the best frames I’ve gotten. Like 60 during a major boss fight, it was crazy. Of course then after it dipped down again but still. It’s absolutely worth it to play, can you totally run it on a 3070

The Cyberpunk 2077 hype got me excited because I love the Deus Ex games. I was ready to mainline that technological dystopian future.

After hearing about the terrible reception, I decided it was just time to play Human Revolution again.

Starfield is currently in a far worse state than cyberpunk was at release. There was a hate train for CP77.

I completely disagree with that, starfield isn’t nearly as buggy as cyberpunk was

On pc, it is. But you gotta choose where to put your faith, and Bethesda had blind faith from its players for ages.

not in my experience it isn’t I have like 50 hours in starfield and I’ve had very little bugs at all

Starfield wasn’t overhyped unlike Cyberpunk, so it got way less flack and was received much better. It also doesn’t crash every couple of minutes for most, so that is a plus.

Cyberpunk didn’t crash for most. It worked well at release for most actually. See the steam rating for proof.

Meanwhile some friends can’t play starfield because it does crash all the time. And I’m not even talking about its shortcomings as a game.

What I suspect is that the game work on console, and that’s the only thing that matters to your online reputation. That was the only true sin of CP77, and the only success of starfield, and that’s all the difference.

It was not the only true sin of cyberpunk. I played on release on a 3090 and it was bland, felt rushed, full of bugs, and the city felt hollow with things spawning in and out breaking immersion. It just wasn’t a fun game unless you stuck to the rails, and even then it felt half-assed. The intro where I’m rushed into the city and then they just skip over all the character introductions with a cutscene really left a sour taste in my mouth.

They hyped it up to be this living breathing city with ultimate freedom and they simply didn’t deliver.

Starfield, however, everyone knew they were using the same old engine, with the same old game design, it was just going to be Skyrim in space. And it was.

Steam ratings prove jack shit
Are you joking? On release that game was a pile of glitches
Consoles are literally just PCs nowadays.

Ha, I see you didn’t play on previous gen consoles. It was borderline unplayable on Xbox One at release. Terrible frame rate, massive portions of the city disappearing and/or low res, crashes everywhere…

Granted Starfield isn’t even playable on Xbox One, but between low FPS and normal Bethesda style bugs, I don’t think it’s in a worse state than Cyberpunk was on PC/Series.

It’s funny how the double standards work. “normal Bethesda style bugs”…

I don’t think it’s really a double standard. I was using that as an example of a negative that impacts gameplay in Starfield but doesn’t make it completely unplayable like Cyberpunk was. I didn’t say “Starfield is perfect, but Cyberpunk sucks”.

Personally I think some issues with AI pathing and dodgy procedural generation (Bethesda style bugs) is not quite as bad as the whole world failing to load causing you to fall through the map and die, for example.

This sounds like you played from a HDD instead of a SSD. That part of the system requirements is quickly becoming “not a suggestion”. I realize most console players don’t touch their hardware at all, but what you’re describing is exactly the set of problems with running it from an HDD aside from the audio usually being scratchy/choppy in addition to all that on PC as well.

I have an external SSD, but that’s besides the point. The whole point of a console is that it’s a standardised piece of hardware and you can expect games to run on it out of the box.

Why are people disputing the fact that the game barely ran on Xbox One on release? That was what most of the bad PR was about at the time…

And nearly 10 years of hype

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