Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says

• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If CDPR hadn’t forced the team to crunch to get the game running at all on PlayStation, it probably would have been much more polished on release. A lot of the bugs you see in YouTube glitch compilations were due to this over-optimization (like NPCs vanishing or changing models when you looked away for a second).

  I wonder how much better the game and its reception would have been if they’d dropped the last-gen console support during development. Those were the truly awful versions; the PC version was about even with Bethesda’s launch day jank.

  I also wish they’d properly managed expectations. The PC release was buggy and missing promised features, yes, but a lot of the hate came from it being a game with an open-world city with guns and driving but not mimicking GTA’s systems.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean the promised features thing is no small matter, especially because people remembered vividly what happened with No Man’s High

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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Could you remind me what features people were upset about? I stayed away from most of the drama since CDPR has a long history of releasing a free major upgrade a year or two after release that fixes everything people complained about.

      I remember the dev diaries being pretty open about dropping features during development, like the RC drone turning from a staple of your kit into something shown off once in a mission and immediately forgotten.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        As the other two mentioned, brain dances and NPC behavior both were unbelievably exaggerated. It wasn’t just being a little too ambitious, they never dialed it back and it didn’t resemble at all what they promised.

        Famously they didn’t have any of the parkour/traversal mechanics they promised. The skills tree was so bad they had to completely rebuild it.

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      • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well for one, they had the whole thing about how every NPC would have a full dynamic daily routine to make the city feel alive, and the actual result was, for example, them just walking to and from the metro for 24 hours straight lol

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      • Ushmel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        braindances being shoehorned into a weird detective bit was a big one. they were supposed to be their own things

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      • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They lied about almost everything

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      • vivendi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        There is a HUGE compilation on the subreddit for cyberpunk2077, but basically we got promised a vast, in depth RPG and instead got something mechanically on part with GTA Vice City and Call of Duty

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  • Ushmel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i was a day 0 PC owners and it was 100% normal launch day fuckery.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No it absolutely was not lmao dude are you joking? I’m glad it worked for you but the PC version was buggy as fuck too

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      • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I also had it on launch day, on PC, and it worked great for me as well. If anything, performance got worse after they patched the game.

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    • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I had it on PC and while there were plenty of bugs, I still beat it before patch 1.06 or whatever came out. Still had quite a lot of fun!

      Now, the console releases on the other hand… yikes man. Yikes…

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That and Nvidia blindsiding them with ‘cool engine you’ve been working on for a decade there… you have one year to jam realtime raytracing into it.’

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