Recent reviews by Howler4695

good gmae

Ai likes to get a little quirky :(

Nice to see devs not give into micro-transactions. Community is very cool if you're big into economics/business stuff. Game is still in early beta to there are still a lot of room to grow.

It good, very good

The most competent Paradox release to date

A reminder of what Total War as a franchise should be striving for.

Honestly one of the best games I've ever played. I've been unable to find a stealth game that matches the quality of its environment and mechanics to this day. (Unfortunetly that includes Dishonored 2.)

This game, in its current state, is deeply flawed with serious bugs that degrade immersion, performance issues (The game on PC does not leverage threads so AMD bois are getting screwed until it is patched[FIXED] ,) a less than stellar RPG system with a boring upgrade system focusing mostly of DPS, and "AI that is more A than I." -Internet Historian.

The chief problem, for me at least, that these problems present is that they take you out of what is otherwise one of the most immersive games out there. So far in the story, there are so many moments which had me invested in the characters around me and my impact on them, or transfixed by the scenery and ambiance surrounding me. In these areas cyberpunk excels. Only problem is the immersion built up by the game is easily and routinely ripped away from you by the issues laid out before. As someone who is used to fighting through the rough exterior of ambitous open world games to get to that ripe immersive interior; The "rough exterior" on this game is way to great. It is all to common to find yourself in a very pivotal dialogue with a character you are invested in, only for some dead body to start ragdolling all over your face, or the dialogue of some other NPC to start talking over you both. And if you expect to get lost in the beautiful world built for you, you have to ignore npc cars driving around like well there are no words to describe how bad the driving ai is. That is if they're driving in the first place. In many points of the game large stretches of road will not have a car insight, but will try and render TERRIBLE looking car lights in the distance that immeadiately disappear upon driving through them. And this is avoiding how bad the cop, enemy, friendly, and civilian ai is. Upon alerting the police they will immeadiatly start spawning behind, sometimes within your vision. Enemies can often become "stuck," just staring at you, and don't understand how to get behind cover, or for that matter aim (except for the random cases in which you find yourself up against a spin botter who'll no scope you from across the map, meaning that on harder difficulties you have to down an almost infinite supply of meds to keep your health at 100% in case that one dude gets that small part of your head poking out from cover.) The AI in this game is not only bare-bones to a great fault, but is unable to come close to clearing that low-bar set by the bare-bones design.

Despite these problems keeping Cyberpunk from achieving it's full, truly great potential. I would be lying if I said I did not enjoy this game, or would not recommend it to a friend with a capable PC. Because when this game hits, unimpeded by the previously mentioned problems, it hits hard.

Steam: Nice 100 mbps internet, look how fast you can download all your new games.

Microsoft: 700 kbps for 90 gb download, lol

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