Recently got into this game and absolutely adore it. But people who preordered it, how bad was it at launch, really?
Recently got into this game and absolutely adore it. But people who preordered it, how bad was it at launch, really?
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Xbox One, buggy as heck, lots of crashes. Enjoyed it just fine though, the cut content was more disapointing.
PC? Not perfect, but I loved every moment of it. Sure, there were bugs and other weird things and far from the state the game is in now, but the world was there, the story was there and I just loved driving around Night City and discovering all the little bits of story all over the place.
Last gen consoles version was an atrocity and should have never been released in the first place. Whoever pushed that forward at CDPR did more damage than anything else.
There were crashes, especially bad the first week or so, but i was able to play without much issues after the patch on Xbox one. My friend on PC was good too. Some others on older gen had more issues I heard, but it certainly did not deserve the amount of vitriol leveled against it.
I’ve enjoyed it from day one. But I’m on a PC and a lot of the bugs just didn’t seem to manifest for me. Guess I got lucky. All the patches and updates have made it a better game.
I got it day 1 and initially played it on Stadia (in fact I only got Stadia because Cyberpunk was alleged to run well on it). It was essentially the PC version. I experienced zero bugs of any consequence at all, no crashes, nothing that ever required a reload or anything.
Loved it from day one. There were some bugs on PC but no showstoppers that I noticed. I’m guessing console was much worse.
Why reminisce on the past, when today is ripe for the spoils?
It crashed. Things didn’t work.
Today, consider it a present.
I have finished it at launch. It was a very different game back then. I am currently on my third run.
Sound kept bugging out, delaying itself or outright not playing. Especially bad when driving. Still a potential issue, as a couple months back the sound stopped while doing a race, then duplicated and layered itself so I was hearing like 8 instances of the same sound but until each one reached the end.
Crowds would take forever to load. I’d find myself being run over by cars that hadn’t rendered in. And on cars, it’d take at least a minute for one to fully render. So I basically never got to see npc cars exist in full resolution.
Quests were bugged, and I’m pretty sure one was bad enough to have been outright removed as I haven’t found it again. Quest let you grab its end item out of sequence, which completely broke it.
Areas like the city center was basically impossible to play in. Larger fights were unfun as bullets wouldn’t hit where I was shooting. Plus all the lights would give me a headache after playing for a couple hours. At the time, I wished I had never bought game.
It’s worth noting that some of my issues will still exist today, especially if you’re on a pc that isn’t super high end. The game is a total resource hog
I have always said i had a lucky game file. I have never experienced any game breaking bugs. TBH the game worked better then than now because my PC has gotten older and i haven takem care of it.
Played it on Xbox, had a handful of random glitches, but the kind I laugh at, nothing game breaking.
On ps5 i didn’t get too far 😂 the input lag was crazy I couldn’t even drive straight and turn properly. That was about it cuz i heard they were doing a refund and ppl were having a lot of bugs and issues so i thought yea ill just refund so i did that instead. then when the next gen update rolled out i bought the game again on sale for $27 and i feel so bad for paying only that much because I absolutely love it. Such an amazing experience and loved every update that they kept rolling out and now it’s a completed masterpiece for me at least
it was in very rough shape on launch day. I remember my character T posing / floating above the first car you get in his underwear every 5-10 or so times i got into the vehicle. I remember the game crashing alot. I remember lots of things simply not working properly. Game breaking bugs during main questlines. Random explosions, and cars flying into the air after light collisions. And much much more.
I played it on PlayStation 5, and it was fine. I didn’t have any issues. Quality of life is far better now.
500 hours since 2020 release date but the pain what i get.
Depended on platform. Console absolutely unplayable from what I heard. PC was not good but I was able to play it beginning to end with no crashes and only a few glitches that just made me laught. Performance wasn’t really all that optimized either in the start.
It was removed fron the PS store and CDPR were sued by the investors for misleading them about the old gen performance.
XB1X, absolutely zero issues.
It seems, anecdotally, that the lion’s share of issues were the ‘previous’ gen consoles. PS4/XB1. You wouldn’t think that though based off the hate bandwagoning that occurred around that time.
Started on XBox One, but it was still a very enjoyable game. The criticism was deserved, but grossly overstated.
It was… An experience.
Though I still loved it
The tons of bugs were equally annoying and hillarious.
Like walking in the Afterlife and a few NPCs are just T-posing at you. Then you flex on your enemies, T-posing on a bike
My fav was a specific spot on one highway, where the path cars follow would make them bump in the fencing. At some point a big one would pass by, crash and make a giant traffic hazard.
buy a PS4 and try playing it.
I always wonder this
it wasn’t that bad at launch though I didn’t play exactly at launch only after the autosave update and I didn’t run into any major glitches except for one where I couldn’t pickup an item needed to progress and I had to restart from the checkpoint but after that there weren’t anymore glitches that i ran into
Bought day one on ps4 and can say the city felt abandoned. Couple cars and people on the sidewalks here and there no real game breaking bugs but still had them. Than bought on Xbox series x before 2.0 and was way better and actually felt alive. Than bought on pc for 2.0 and was even better. But the day one ps4/old gen was so empty feeling.
Pre-ordered on PC and have loved it and put hundreds of hours into exploring and trying all the paths
I think the general consensus is that PC players got the best experience. Consoles had the most problems, and specifically this game was not great for a lot of people on the last gen consoles.
Played it day one on PC, still playing 4 years later and had no issues aside from some rare jank (1/1000 T-posing characters) that was quickly resolved with the first couple of patches. I should also add that the pc I have was bought specifically to play Cyberpunk at max quality settings, so it’s also possible my hardware just outperformed the bugs
I can’t really say, as I spent most my time being sent back to the Xbox home screen after the game repeatedly closed itself
Got it on day 1 and worked really well for me. Only people with bad hardware got problems
On PC it had more than it’s fair share of bugs, but was completely playable and at least for me fun. Console players though got screwed over on launch though.
Launch was pretty bad, couldn’t stay in game for longer than 10 mins… some people stopped playing cuz of it. But since Covid was going on I had no choice but to suck it up, I really enjoyed it.
It wasn’t that bad. I had on xbox one and I really didn’t suffer anything bad other than the settings menus didn’t work properly. There was one particular thing that didn’t actually work but I can’t remember. But it was fixed very quickly I remember.
I didn’t really know how bad we had it until 2.0 came out I didn’t have as bad of a time when i played on release but it was definitely much more of a buggy mess than right now.
Combat was still fun back then the most frustrating part to me was the cyberware system and the perks which were severely improved after 2.0
It was mostly REALLY bad on console. As others have said the PC version had bugs but they were minimal and didn’t actually even present that often. Even on launch it was getting into the top 3 for me for favourite games ever.
I bought the game on release. Played about 1hr of the nomad start. It was so terribly optimized and the nomad start just didn’t feel very cyberpunk. It didn’t feel like what I was expecting. I ended up refunding it.
I didn’t get into the game until Phantom Liberty released, I bought it on sale a couple months ago. It is now one of my favorite games of all time.
I still feel like the nomad start is weird and doesn’t really fit the game though. I think if I had originally started with a different backstory on my first attempt at the game, I would have enjoyed it and got further into it.
Was on pc, the first 20 hours were good, i just stayed in watson. After the heist tho things started to fall apart and i shelved the game for over 2 years till it was fixed. Glad i did.
So it played on the Xbox one x, but not well (choppy and broken), but when I put it on my Xbox series X it was an absolute gem! ♥️
It was terrible at launch. No PS5 version, just compatibility mode. Crashed multiple times per hour, especially while driving. PC performance was inconsistent. And the driving was horrid. Fewer NPCs walking around the city. The kids looked and sounded very creepy. All kinds of glitches and bugs like Jackie pulling a gun out of his skull rather than the Relic, the title card sequence bugged out, broken side quests, missing side quests… the list goes on. Also the perks and attributes system was completely different. It’s infinitely better now in so many ways.