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Is it playable at this point? My last attempt was ~6 months ago, after many patches had been released and it was supposedly more ready than it had been before.

Is it playable at this point? My last attempt was ~6 months ago, after many patches had been released and it was supposedly more ready than it had been before. I eventually gave up after I’d keep getting random crashes that would force me to start the current quest over. Maybe my issue was something less common, but I still have yet to experience the game that I’ve been more excited about than almost any other for quite a few years.

jeron 4y ago
Definitely playable. I play mine on a bootcamped MacBook 16” and it runs really well @ 1080p
juliusgeo 4y ago
I had a similar experience playing it a few months ago—I bought it on steam so it had all the patches, but I got stuck on this one mission where it would refuse to spawn the entrance to the next part of the quest. I spent a few hours googling trying to figure out what was going on, and then I gave up. It’s such a beautiful game, and has a lot of potential, but it is definitely not as stable as any other major AAA game I’ve played in the last 10 years. I would also get random crashes if I enabled raytracing (despite having an RTX card).
- Rooki 4y ago
  Is this in the Imperial Mall quest in Pacifica? Have to hack into a van or something, then talk to some Netwatch guy? A quest trigger bugged there for me as well last week, there was a door that should be open that wasn't, had to reload an earlier autosave and replay for it to trigger properly. Other than that one large bug, the game has been great, little bit of jank but no worse than say, Skyrim without the community bug patch. I only purchased it in the last steam sale so missed all the rough stuff.
  - juliusgeo 4y ago
    I think it might have been that? It was in one of the first missions. I agree though on your other points--my experience playing the game up until that point was quite good, hence why I spent hours trying to get past the issue.
- WheatMillington 4y ago
  The game is still an empty husk.
  - juliusgeo 4y ago
    It is empty in a lot of ways, but filled with detail that many other games don't have in others. I particularly dislike how ridiculous the driving physics are, but the character customization and vast variety of different upgrades and mods is pretty cool.
  - nikanj 4y ago
    But now it's an empty husk with prettier visuals!
r3trohack3r 4y ago
Just finished a full play through nearly bug free. Had one hard crash where I lost 2 minutes of playtime and the quest where you get to choose to kill the killer in the police escort under the bridge (that leads to the cult quest according to the internet) was hard glitched with no way to complete the quest. Playing on an XBox Series S.
eek2121 4y ago
On high end hardware it was always playable for me. It just wasn't fun. Police would spawn right next to you if you messed up, for example.
- EMM_386 4y ago
  > Police would spawn right next to you if you messed up, for example. I think that has been patched as of 1.2. The patch notes include: > The game's infamously speedy police department have been told to take a chill pill, with an increase to their spawn radius for when a player commits a crime. Hopefully this means a whole squad will no longer appear behind your back. And 1.21 had: > It makes a long list of fixes, including for an issue where, after the player commits a crime on the roof of a building, NCPD officers would spawn behind the player's back.
rexf 4y ago
It's been playable on next (aka current) gen hardware for a while now. So PS5, Xbox series X, or a powerful PC can handle the game fine. I played after patch 1.5, which contained a lot of bug fixes, and the game was ok. Still minor glitches here and there, but nothing game breaking.
eoic 4y ago
Did you play on console? I started the game at launch day and didn't experience any game breaking issues, don't remember any crashes either.
- haswell 4y ago
  I’m playing on a higher end gaming PC. Early on, the crashes were constant. Couldn’t get past the intro. Eventually they became more occasional, but not until a few patches after the first “major” patch they released. I’ll have to give this another try.
  - staticman2 4y ago
    I played Cyberpunk on a high end gaming PC about a month after launch and it played just fine. There's apparently something about your particular configuration the game doesn't like.
logicprog 4y ago
I played about 45 hours of 2077 in September-October last year (so awhile ago, but after the majority of the big patches), before I got a concussion that I'm still struggling with, and it was rock solid and bug free for me and a really enjoyable experience — and I was playing on Linux! But everyone's mileage seems to vary.
NeuroCoder 4y ago
Saw elsewhere you were on PC. I'm on a series x and it plays really well. I don't know how much time I've spent on it but it was way too much because I was getting back into a C++ project and played it whenever I had long compilations. I only had a couple of crashes and it was about 6 months ago too, so it might just depend on what systems they are fixing bugs for at a given time. That being said, once you finish everything it really does feel empty. There's no repeatable content once the game is finished, unlike most other open world games. This is pretty unfortunate because I would sometimes just happen upon fun little notes and hiding spots. I'm sure there are tons of little details that will never be noticed because there's no drive to go out of your way and find them once all the other stuff is done.
nwallin 4y ago
I played a full-ish playthrough (no more quest triggers on the map at completion) at version 1.60 and didn't ever crash once. I got a freeze that I need to tab to a different window and `kill -9` it, which required restarting from the previous autosave. No crashes though. I'm currently 40ish hours into a second playthrough (no more tertiary/secondary quest markers on the map, although I need to wait for a few more secondary quests to activate before completing the main quest line) of 1.61 and haven't had any freezes or crashes. For the record, I highly recommend the game. It has great world building, gameplay, immersiveness, it feels alive in a way that I haven't felt about any game in a while. I'm playing on Linux with an AMD GPU in Wayland. YMMV on Windows and/or nvidia and/or X.org.
pixelfarmer 4y ago
I played it from day one on hardware which was barely matching the minimum specs. Never had any game breaking bugs and it usually only crashed during long sessions, if at all. Software stacks nowadays are such massive pieces of garbage that it is kind of surprising things are not falling apart repeatedly. Which also means having the "right" parts and pieces together you actually may see this happening, unfortunately.
lofaszvanitt 4y ago
The guy, who never played the game.
red-iron-pine 4y ago
Got it on sale a few weeks ago, beat it about one week ago. Linux PC, decent hardware. Maybe 3-5 bugs, mostly small stuff. Only saw 1 dude randomly t-pose, and another (a civilian hiding from a shootout) slowly fade/sink into the earth. Maybe one hard crash, which isn't bad compared to the issues I'd see with FNV or Skyrim. In other words, played fine. Cool setting, and the first half of the game is amazing -- blew me away -- but the gameplay is fairly repetitive otherwise; i.e. go here, kill people, collect loot, go here kill people, collect loot, go here don't kill people (stealth mission!), but then get in a shoot-out after you steal the thing and collect loot, etc. Skyrim and FNV felt like you had more choices as to how you played, while GTA V had a lot more to do, like the silly Yoga minigames, or stock manipulation, or submarines and aircraft, etc. I played a bit of Shadowrun and CP2020 on the tabletop and I remember the old CP2020 Rulebook talking about "style over substance" and that's kinda how the game plays. I'd grumble if I had paid full-price but am pretty satisfied at half, and I'd consider the DLC as long as it wasn't buggy as hell and got alright reviews.

jeron 4y ago

Definitely playable. I play mine on a bootcamped MacBook 16” and it runs really well @ 1080p

juliusgeo 4y ago

I had a similar experience playing it a few months ago—I bought it on steam so it had all the patches, but I got stuck on this one mission where it would refuse to spawn the entrance to the next part of the quest. I spent a few hours googling trying to figure out what was going on, and then I gave up. It’s such a beautiful game, and has a lot of potential, but it is definitely not as stable as any other major AAA game I’ve played in the last 10 years. I would also get random crashes if I enabled raytracing (despite having an RTX card).

Rooki 4y ago
Is this in the Imperial Mall quest in Pacifica? Have to hack into a van or something, then talk to some Netwatch guy? A quest trigger bugged there for me as well last week, there was a door that should be open that wasn't, had to reload an earlier autosave and replay for it to trigger properly. Other than that one large bug, the game has been great, little bit of jank but no worse than say, Skyrim without the community bug patch. I only purchased it in the last steam sale so missed all the rough stuff.
- juliusgeo 4y ago
  I think it might have been that? It was in one of the first missions. I agree though on your other points--my experience playing the game up until that point was quite good, hence why I spent hours trying to get past the issue.
WheatMillington 4y ago
The game is still an empty husk.
- juliusgeo 4y ago
  It is empty in a lot of ways, but filled with detail that many other games don't have in others. I particularly dislike how ridiculous the driving physics are, but the character customization and vast variety of different upgrades and mods is pretty cool.
- nikanj 4y ago
  But now it's an empty husk with prettier visuals!

r3trohack3r 4y ago

Just finished a full play through nearly bug free. Had one hard crash where I lost 2 minutes of playtime and the quest where you get to choose to kill the killer in the police escort under the bridge (that leads to the cult quest according to the internet) was hard glitched with no way to complete the quest. Playing on an XBox Series S.

eek2121 4y ago

On high end hardware it was always playable for me. It just wasn't fun. Police would spawn right next to you if you messed up, for example.

EMM_386 4y ago
> Police would spawn right next to you if you messed up, for example. I think that has been patched as of 1.2. The patch notes include: > The game's infamously speedy police department have been told to take a chill pill, with an increase to their spawn radius for when a player commits a crime. Hopefully this means a whole squad will no longer appear behind your back. And 1.21 had: > It makes a long list of fixes, including for an issue where, after the player commits a crime on the roof of a building, NCPD officers would spawn behind the player's back.

rexf 4y ago

It's been playable on next (aka current) gen hardware for a while now. So PS5, Xbox series X, or a powerful PC can handle the game fine. I played after patch 1.5, which contained a lot of bug fixes, and the game was ok. Still minor glitches here and there, but nothing game breaking.

eoic 4y ago

Did you play on console? I started the game at launch day and didn't experience any game breaking issues, don't remember any crashes either.

haswell 4y ago
I’m playing on a higher end gaming PC. Early on, the crashes were constant. Couldn’t get past the intro. Eventually they became more occasional, but not until a few patches after the first “major” patch they released. I’ll have to give this another try.
- staticman2 4y ago
  I played Cyberpunk on a high end gaming PC about a month after launch and it played just fine. There's apparently something about your particular configuration the game doesn't like.

logicprog 4y ago

I played about 45 hours of 2077 in September-October last year (so awhile ago, but after the majority of the big patches), before I got a concussion that I'm still struggling with, and it was rock solid and bug free for me and a really enjoyable experience — and I was playing on Linux! But everyone's mileage seems to vary.

NeuroCoder 4y ago

Saw elsewhere you were on PC. I'm on a series x and it plays really well. I don't know how much time I've spent on it but it was way too much because I was getting back into a C++ project and played it whenever I had long compilations. I only had a couple of crashes and it was about 6 months ago too, so it might just depend on what systems they are fixing bugs for at a given time. That being said, once you finish everything it really does feel empty. There's no repeatable content once the game is finished, unlike most other open world games. This is pretty unfortunate because I would sometimes just happen upon fun little notes and hiding spots. I'm sure there are tons of little details that will never be noticed because there's no drive to go out of your way and find them once all the other stuff is done.

nwallin 4y ago

I played a full-ish playthrough (no more quest triggers on the map at completion) at version 1.60 and didn't ever crash once. I got a freeze that I need to tab to a different window and `kill -9` it, which required restarting from the previous autosave. No crashes though. I'm currently 40ish hours into a second playthrough (no more tertiary/secondary quest markers on the map, although I need to wait for a few more secondary quests to activate before completing the main quest line) of 1.61 and haven't had any freezes or crashes. For the record, I highly recommend the game. It has great world building, gameplay, immersiveness, it feels alive in a way that I haven't felt about any game in a while. I'm playing on Linux with an AMD GPU in Wayland. YMMV on Windows and/or nvidia and/or X.org.

pixelfarmer 4y ago

I played it from day one on hardware which was barely matching the minimum specs. Never had any game breaking bugs and it usually only crashed during long sessions, if at all. Software stacks nowadays are such massive pieces of garbage that it is kind of surprising things are not falling apart repeatedly. Which also means having the "right" parts and pieces together you actually may see this happening, unfortunately.

lofaszvanitt 4y ago

The guy, who never played the game.

red-iron-pine 4y ago

Got it on sale a few weeks ago, beat it about one week ago. Linux PC, decent hardware. Maybe 3-5 bugs, mostly small stuff. Only saw 1 dude randomly t-pose, and another (a civilian hiding from a shootout) slowly fade/sink into the earth. Maybe one hard crash, which isn't bad compared to the issues I'd see with FNV or Skyrim. In other words, played fine. Cool setting, and the first half of the game is amazing -- blew me away -- but the gameplay is fairly repetitive otherwise; i.e. go here, kill people, collect loot, go here kill people, collect loot, go here don't kill people (stealth mission!), but then get in a shoot-out after you steal the thing and collect loot, etc. Skyrim and FNV felt like you had more choices as to how you played, while GTA V had a lot more to do, like the silly Yoga minigames, or stock manipulation, or submarines and aircraft, etc. I played a bit of Shadowrun and CP2020 on the tabletop and I remember the old CP2020 Rulebook talking about "style over substance" and that's kinda how the game plays. I'd grumble if I had paid full-price but am pretty satisfied at half, and I'd consider the DLC as long as it wasn't buggy as hell and got alright reviews.