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“#I like Cyberpunk 2077, but it really should not be this broken<\/strong>”
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\n After so many years of waiting,\u00a0Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> has finally graced us with its presence. While its story and world are real delights, it\u2019s hard to look past this game<\/a>s many technical problems \u2014 or to not wonder how many of them there were\u00a0before<\/em> if this is the finished version they chose to give to us.<\/p>\n
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We are truly humbled that so many of you trusted us and decided to support #Cyberpunk2077<\/a> before the release! Even 8 million thank yous isn’t enough! The journey has just begun and we are hard at work on the upcoming fixes and updates to the game. See you in Night City! pic.twitter.com\/ycIe2kN0Zq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) December 10, 2020<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note that this isn\u2019t a review: I haven\u2019t played enough of the game to pass judgement on its story, or art direction, or gameplay. I also won\u2019t spoil anything you haven\u2019t already seen in the trailers or Night City Wire shows. But I can still give you my first impression, and that is\u2026 that this game is a buggy, broken, glitchy mess<\/em>. I got more bugs in my first three hours of gameplay than I can recall getting in\u00a0Skyrim\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0Fallout 4<\/em>. Ordinarily, I\u2019d be willing to excuse some of this, but the unique history of\u00a0Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> leaves me rather unsympathetic.<\/p>\n

Just to give you a quick rundown, in my first few hours of play the game outright crashed twice \u2014 granted one was as I was trying to quit, but that just makes it ironically funny. Characters will frequently hover around in order to hit their marks, or freeze in dominant T-poses. Animations routinely fail: during my first encounter with a major character who\u2019s meant to be intimidating, his lip flaps stopped and he emoted at me like the world\u2019s burliest ventriloquist. Other animation fails include a smoking character\u2019s cigarette freezing in midair while her hand gesticulated around it, or another\u2019s chopsticks freezing while he\u2019s shoveling food into his mouth with nothing.<\/p>\n

At least five or six characters walked through walls and closed doors, or got stuck in the scenery: At one point, I heard a character give me the angry \u201cyou just ran into me\u201d dialog while walking on an empty staircase, and discovered she was somehow\u00a0inside\u00a0<\/em>the staircase, and that dialog was triggered by me\u00a0stepping on her head<\/em> as it glitched through the floor. This isn\u2019t even counting all the random NPCs who would randomly pop into existence close by me because the game forgot to spawn them in with the rest of the scenery. The framerate would also repeatedly drop below 10FPS for seemingly no reason at all.<\/p>\n

Yes. CD Projekt Red did promise the game would look great on consoles on interviews and news articles.<\/a> from cyberpunkgame<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And those are just the\u00a0big, obvious\u00a0<\/em>ones. Another annoyance was that the game would repeatedly place trigger points or hitboxes nowhere near the objects to which they were supposed to be attached. While attempting to stealth kill an enemy, I practically crawled into his back pocket looking for the \u201cGrab\u201d prompt, but then turned 180 degrees and found the trigger point for it behind me. I tried to pick up a bottle of booze from my coffee table, and the game kept insisting I look several inches to its left before it would allow me to pick it up. Those got to me more than anything because they were\u00a0everywhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0want to remind\u00a0everyone that\u00a0CDPR has been saying this\u00a0game was \u201ccomplete and\u00a0playable\u201d since January, when the\u00a0game was originally\u00a0delayed. That means, assuming that was the truth, they\u2019ve had almost a year \u2014 a year of allegedly constant crunch time, no less \u2014 to fix the myriad\u00a0problems with this\u00a0game, and the fact that this is the best they could give us concerns me.<\/p>\n

And I think CDPR knew that what they were giving us had problems. Let\u2019s get a little \u201cinside baseball\u201d here and talk\u00a0review codes. Several prominent outlets (including TNW) were not given\u00a0codes ahead of\u00a0release, and those that were were given\u00a0PC codes \u2014 nobody got console\u00a0codes. According to GI.biz<\/a>,\u00a0review\u00a0sites were\u00a0required to\u00a0sign NDAs promising not to use any of their own video\u00a0footage for\u00a0reviews, but only the\u00a0B-roll\u00a0footage provided by\u00a0CDPR. And now we know what that move was likely intended to hide.<\/p>\n

Heard you had a bug problem?<\/a> from gaming<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong: I like the game just fine now that I\u2019m actually playing it. The story and characters are winning me over, especially Keanu as the futuristic version of the elf ghost from\u00a0Shadow of Mordor.<\/em>\u00a0I mean, I didn\u2019t have high expectations \u2014 I found the marketing campaign, which insisted the games was brilliant no really you guys it just is, a little too\u00a0No Man\u2019s Sky<\/em> \u2014\u00a0so there\u2019s nowhere to go but up. But let\u2019s be clear: CDPR has been trading on the promise that this game was going to rock our world for years, and I\u2019m left unamused by what I got.<\/p>\n

Cyberpunk 2077<\/em> feels like an essay that was turned in at 11:59pm on the due date. It\u2019s still pretty good \u2014 even great at times \u2014 and given how much crunch happ<\/a>ened behind the scenes I wish I could wholeheartedly recommend the game just because I feel bad for the developers. But this needed more time. This needed more work.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n