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At its core it’s a decent game. The issue is with so many bugs (many of which preventing a player from finishing a story quest) it’s hard to focus on the game w

At its core it’s a decent game. The issue is with so many bugs (many of which preventing a player from finishing a story quest) it’s hard to focus on the game when your copy keeps crashing, glitching, frustrating you.

eznzt 6y ago
>The issue is with so many bugs (many of which preventing a player from finishing a story quest) You should see games from The Elder Scrolls franchise. Even in the latest version of Skyrim there still are game-breaking bugs they have not fixed.
- gabereiser 6y ago
  I’m familiar. I think ES franchise is prone to this, so was GTA and RDR2. The issue is gamers expect an entire world of simulation and effect. Ambitious large open world games suffer from this as dev teams don’t have enough QA to test everything and dev’s have to test it themselves. This ends up with a “works good under these circumstances” which circumstances are different when players play it at launch. It’s a hard problem. Extremely large open world, thousands of scripts and triggers and things to test. I sympathize. Gamers are the hardest genre of users to please.
  - eznzt 6y ago
    I understand you. I have not played Cyberpunk but games from the TES family are extremely complex. It would be impossible for them not to have scripting bugs.
bendoerr 6y ago
Do you have an example of a bug that prevents quest completion? I've been lucky enough to not run into a single one during my 100+ hours so far and I've been trying to do every quest. I worry that these things keep getting said without people actually experiencing them. I have several friends playing on PS4 without the reported crashes. Not saying you haven't, I just don't have any direct knowledge of the issues that have been reported and when it is, it's very hand-wavy.
- gabereiser 6y ago
  Here’s one right off the top of Google search: https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/game-breaking-bug-that-can-prevent-you-from-progressing-in-the-story.11046299/ https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/game-break...
  - bendoerr 6y ago
    Ah, that Disasterpiece one sounds unfortunate. As both a QA tester and quest scripter I can imagine how that cases was potentially missed though.
  - bendoerr 6y ago
    Is that one you've experienced gabereiser?
    - gabereiser 6y ago
      Once but a refresh from an older save (and doing things in proper order) worked the second time.
- mjevans 6y ago
  I viewed such a bug on a Twitch stream. Avoiding spoiler details... The streamer was completing the Delemain (sp) questline and had to roll back to a save just before the decision at the end due to a softlock that happened in the scripted sequence after.
- cl0ne 6y ago
  On PS4 I ran into a bug near the end of "The Pickup" mission where Jackie gets stuck inside the All Foods building. The next objective is to talk to him, but once you exit the building you can't re-enter or call him. I had to go back to a previous save a few times. Sometimes the game just crashes and I have to restart the console. There have been some other bugs that I just found funny, like once I was driving and all of a sudden the car was stuck hundreds of feet in the air and I fell and died when I got out. I've been enjoying the game though and the bugs haven't really bothered me too much, but I see how they could.
ArchOversight 6y ago
I've ran into a couple of quest bugs, however most of them are about finishing things in certain order of operations, generally it will unlock the next task anyway, and then you can switch the target from the Journal.
hnick 6y ago
Yeah I'm worried it'll just frustrate me. I got it for Christmas but I'm hoping for a patch before I install. Apparently there's one due in a week or two and another next month.

eznzt 6y ago

>The issue is with so many bugs (many of which preventing a player from finishing a story quest) You should see games from The Elder Scrolls franchise. Even in the latest version of Skyrim there still are game-breaking bugs they have not fixed.

gabereiser 6y ago
I’m familiar. I think ES franchise is prone to this, so was GTA and RDR2. The issue is gamers expect an entire world of simulation and effect. Ambitious large open world games suffer from this as dev teams don’t have enough QA to test everything and dev’s have to test it themselves. This ends up with a “works good under these circumstances” which circumstances are different when players play it at launch. It’s a hard problem. Extremely large open world, thousands of scripts and triggers and things to test. I sympathize. Gamers are the hardest genre of users to please.
- eznzt 6y ago
  I understand you. I have not played Cyberpunk but games from the TES family are extremely complex. It would be impossible for them not to have scripting bugs.

bendoerr 6y ago

Do you have an example of a bug that prevents quest completion? I've been lucky enough to not run into a single one during my 100+ hours so far and I've been trying to do every quest. I worry that these things keep getting said without people actually experiencing them. I have several friends playing on PS4 without the reported crashes. Not saying you haven't, I just don't have any direct knowledge of the issues that have been reported and when it is, it's very hand-wavy.

gabereiser 6y ago
Here’s one right off the top of Google search: https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/game-breaking-bug-that-can-prevent-you-from-progressing-in-the-story.11046299/ https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/game-break...
- bendoerr 6y ago
  Ah, that Disasterpiece one sounds unfortunate. As both a QA tester and quest scripter I can imagine how that cases was potentially missed though.
- bendoerr 6y ago
  Is that one you've experienced gabereiser?
  - gabereiser 6y ago
    Once but a refresh from an older save (and doing things in proper order) worked the second time.
mjevans 6y ago
I viewed such a bug on a Twitch stream. Avoiding spoiler details... The streamer was completing the Delemain (sp) questline and had to roll back to a save just before the decision at the end due to a softlock that happened in the scripted sequence after.
cl0ne 6y ago
On PS4 I ran into a bug near the end of "The Pickup" mission where Jackie gets stuck inside the All Foods building. The next objective is to talk to him, but once you exit the building you can't re-enter or call him. I had to go back to a previous save a few times. Sometimes the game just crashes and I have to restart the console. There have been some other bugs that I just found funny, like once I was driving and all of a sudden the car was stuck hundreds of feet in the air and I fell and died when I got out. I've been enjoying the game though and the bugs haven't really bothered me too much, but I see how they could.

ArchOversight 6y ago

I've ran into a couple of quest bugs, however most of them are about finishing things in certain order of operations, generally it will unlock the next task anyway, and then you can switch the target from the Journal.

hnick 6y ago

Yeah I'm worried it'll just frustrate me. I got it for Christmas but I'm hoping for a patch before I install. Apparently there's one due in a week or two and another next month.