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Cyberpunk 2077 reviews called it buggy, but how will it be at launch?Mmmmmdunno
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As I say, we’ve not been blessed with early access to the game ourselves, but really: every review I’ve read calls out an unexpected and unpleasant quantity of bugs. They range from small silly ones like T-posing and physics freakouts to some missions being unfinishable and straight-up crashes.GameSpot call it"phenomenallybuggy".PC Gamer sayit is “absolutely sick with bugs.“IGN sayit has “loadsof distracting bugs”.Eurogamernote that when it comes to bugs, “unfortunately there are a lot of them”. Even the most glowing review I saw warned of bugginess. Sounds like another delay might’ve been good, tbh, if they’re coming down to the wire even aftercrunching.
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That’s a question many fans - especially those who’ve already paid for it - want answered. While CDPR haven’t made a formal public response to bug concerns, the game’s German PR fella has been tweeting about issues. Fabian Mario Döhla’s vague messages are as good as we have for now, I guess?
Hesaidyesterday that “a bunch of issues reviewers encountered (and reported) have been fixed already”, and “some more” will be addressed in the launch update.
In response to a question about issues and performance, particularly when using RTX, hereplied: “It’s mainly streaming issues - when the settings are too high for your setup the game is unable to stream the content and stuff starts to go missing (animations, audio, lipsync, objects). Adjust settings and it works waaaay smoother.” So he’s saying a lot of bugginess was the reviewers' fault. Not sure I’d trust the PR on that.
Yes, of courseyouwould say there’s nothing to be concerned about.
I wish CDPR would say something concrete and comprehensive. A scattering of tweets from a regional PR person aren’t super reliable. And I wish they’d say something aboutthe seizure risks. I reached out to CDPR this morning about it all and haven’t heard back.
I still intend to buy Cyberpunk but, after reading reviews, I have made alternate plans for Thursday. Instead of leaping in at launch and potentially getting frustrated, I’d rather wait for a patch or two (if necessary) and only start when it’s in good shape.
