In theory, if you get it early and play it offline, when you get trophies it will record the date and time which they could track. In theory. There have been quite a few copies leaked & people posting videos/spoilers, though - physical copies apparently arrived in stores as early as last week, and there's no day 1 patch. I've managed to avoid spoilerses.

On the plus side, the fact that there are physical copies in the wild means it's definitely finished and isn't going to get pushed back again at the last minute :joker:

I will of course be purchasing on Steam at midnight on release, and downloading overnight.

My copy is in the warehouse :D

Any of you gals have it yet?

No but I have just started preloading :flutter:

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The PS5 version disc?
is better

Mine has been dispatched today!

The PS4 version will run better on PS5, but there is no native PS5 version until next year.

ALSO they won't run better than on PC :hmph: :laugh: ... however the PS5 version will have Ray Tracing which the PC version obviously has, but I can't use it because the RTX 30-series (graphics cards) is suffering the same issue as consoles - i.e. you can't ****ing buy one anywhere so I don't have a card that can do RT yet :bawling:.

The game's obviously going to be great - and I get that it's just symptomatic of how the industry operates nowadays - but cueing up the video reviews only to be told in them that the journalists could only show CD Projekt's own footage was a let off. And then at the same time I wish they'd actually kept more of their cards to their chest, belaboured development cycle and all. Has any game ever had as many dev videos, behind the scenes, extended playthroughs and trailers? It actually feels overexposed and it's not even out yet. I can't help but feel Night City would have had more wow factor if we were more blind to it going in.

The reviews seem mostly stellar as expected with common complaints levelled at most open world games in that it's incredibly buggy.

I'll probably get it at some point this month but I may wait to see if the patches help it out much, I'm pretty sure they've already said that the upgrade to PS5 will be free so if it plays well on PS4, I'll bite the bullet and go for it.

Is this going to sell out asap or can I walk into a store on Saturday and pick up one up without ordering?

Supply isn't usually a problem with games (discs are easy to manufacture) so you'll probably be able to get it wherever. It's likely to be the "featured" game at supermarkets for a bit (the one they have a little stand for near the entrance).

Though I'm a fan of digital download anyway so if worst comes to worst you can always just get it on PlayStation store/Xbox Live/Steam etc. Unlimited supply :hee:

I'm so glad I've kept low on info for this game :D

My husband is really fussy and prefers the physical disc lol

I've just ordered from argos there they say they will deliver tomorrow, we will see

Anyone who has epilepsy should beware, there are scenes in the game which act as seizure triggers.

He is Most Wise

I'm starting now, did the old New Zealand trick on the Xbox :amazed:

This seems like another one of those games (like LoU II) that some people seem to hate with a vengance (not sure why)

Still not sure if I’m getting this game or not going to watch people play it on twitch to make a decision

Also I’m confused by the title, isn’t it out Friday? :laugh:

No loov it’s out tonight at midnight :devil:

Spunky

Spunk on my tits

This is a broke ass forum that doesnt let you change titles after a year has passed :shrug::laugh:

Isn't everything these days :joker:. I've learned to take it with a pinch of salt; two of my favourite games from the last year and what I consider to be two of the best games of the entire gen (TLOU2 and Death Stranding) were extremely divisive.

I'm also one of the freaks who really enjoyed "Days Gone" and it got an absolute boatload of hate :umm2:.

Oh, I'll have to try out Days Gone, its on the PS+ Collection

The main issue is it being a slow burn - the most fun things in the game are the massive hoards, the better weapons gameplay, like napalm, and riding the bike... The big hoards don't come until the second half of the game, you don't get the really fun weapons (heavy machine gun... And NAPALM!) until then either, and also the bike riding is at its best when the bike is fully upgraded which you can't do until you reach the second large area.

Some of those huge hoard battles are an absolute riot, though. There's a hoard in an abandonned mine that I stumbled across completely by accident and I've never "run so fast" in a game ever. I properly crapped myself, haha.

I also enjoy the storyline. It's not exactly TLOU but it's fun enough once it gets going... Again it's a slow burn and doesn't pick up until the second half.

Fair warning though; the forced stealth sections are trash. Just... Trash. Really awful. Using "optional" stealth to clear out small locations is fine and quite fun so it's not even the actual stealth mechanics - the forced sections are just really badly scripted and not fun. Thankfully, there are very few.

Personally I'm not surprised there as the Cyberpunk genre does like to have a lot of flashing images.

Okay, this is pretty gnarly looking.

I just find this fun to get caught up in, by the way. Couldn't give a monkeys about ropey graphics. In some cases they add to the fun.

But yeah, wow. Those trailers are a world away from this.

The Xbone and PS4 versions are going to suffer, I could have told you that pre-release. It's a first-person game running at 30fps, for a start. And it's clearly optimised for next gen... so the textures are going to be a mess. In all honestly I think they probably A) Would have like to have pushed it back even further (to next spring) and B) Didn't foresee the supply problems and thought more people would have next-gen consoles by this month. I honestly think it'll be borderline unplayable on the base model last gen consoles. PS4 pro and Xbone X might fare better. But yeah, you want a PS5, Series X or PC for this tbh. It's just not a last-gen title. It reminds me of when they released some hilariously ugly, choppy, downscaled PS3 titles on the PS2.

PC MASTER RACE :laugh:. I'll let you know how it runs on a half-decent gaming PC later. It dropped a 10gb download on me this morning on top of the preload :oh:. Would usually have downloaded overnight but we had a bloody powercut here at about 11pm last night and I forgot to turn the PC back on.

I'm hoping for 75fps+ (my monitor can do 165) so wish me luck :umm2:

It started development before the PS4 launched and was heavily marketed for it. Regardless of its obviously belaboured development cycle, this is a current/old gen game.

My current setup is a Ryzen 5 and RX560X. Not the meatiest gaming laptop in the world, but should still run it better than the base consoles after a few more patches, hopefully :hee:

It was until last April when they decided to pretend it wasn't finished so that they could future-proof it. It was pretty thinly-veiled IMO, they decided to make it (in spirit) an early-gen PS5 title rather than a late-gen PS4... and they've optimised with that in mind.

I've seen some PC gameplay from a preview review and it looks like it runs well on PC - but I think the reviewer was rockin' a 3090 sooo we'll see how my 1080ti holds up :umm2:. In theory 60+fps on high should be very possible... it generally matches a 2080 once you take Ray Tracing out of the equation. I just want nVidia to pull their finger out and get some 3080's back in stores :bawling:.

I think those baseline console versions are running "PC minimum" (aka "potato") settings... not even "recommended". That's pretty bad to be honest. I'm not convinced it's a good move for the company at all even if the game "as it's meant to be played" is great... especially when most people who thought they would have a next-gen console by now will be begrudgingly playing it on The Little PS4 That Could.

Well, it definitely has all of the most important customisation options covered...

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Absolutely SCREECHING, I'm so immature. I can't even post a screenshot it's... graphic... :joker:

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Talk about jiggle physics. Hahahaha

So for a quick first impressions update; framerate is fine (but I had to lock it at 60, which stings as I've gotten used to first person @144)... had to mix up the settings between medium and high but runs fine with shadow distance and quality all on high and textures on max (most important settings, IMO).

Cons;

- Framerate tanks when you look in a mirror. I think that's a patch issue. Also probably not an issue if you have RT as it'll handle reflections differently.

- It has some sort of weird ****ing mouse smoothing that you can't turn off. WHY. WHEN will developers learn that PC players don't want mouse smoothing??? Sigh. Someone will mod out/find a setting hidden in the code for that within the next few days, no doubt. But it sucks. Feels like moving the mouse through syrup, to the point where I'm almost tempted to use a controller like some dirty console n00b :hmph:

Oh nvm that last part, locking to 60 seems to have mostly solved syrup-mouse AND allowed me to bump most settings back to high and stay at 60 :think:. I shall inform Steam :joker:

Oh... :hehe: definite Bethesda vibes already :joker:. (my very first bug)



Not to mention that he's in the middle of the road and I skidded to a stop missing him by inches.

Promised performance update:

It runs fine out of combat but in combat was dropping to 35 - 40 fps even on low settings (which look horrible - this is def what the OG consoles are using). Weirdly though, putting to a mix of medium and high only drops the average by 2 or 3 frames which makes very little sense.

Dropped down to 1080p and getting a steady 60 - 70fps with everything on ultra, even during intense scenes... so, that's what we're going with for now. ... it'll do ... it's weird going back to antialiasing to get rid of jaggies in 2020, and the menus look a bit off, but the game looks (far, far) better on ultra @1080p than it does on medium @1440, and plays nice 'n' smooth sobut overall verdict is that you need an RTX for this to be comfortably playable above 1080. Probably at least a 3080 for 4k.

Which makes me think it'll look OK on the 4Pro and OneX ***i******* they have a performance option to run at 1080p. Knowing what the console market is like, though, it might be locked at 4k in which case I have to say I can only see it running like trash. This needs some serious beef to run at 4k.

I really want my 3080 :bawling:. BUT we shall forge on with 1080p :joker:. If I take off my glasses I can't even tell, heh.

OH, also, by default for some bizarre reason it has post processing that makes it look slightly muddy, which I have removed with ReShade and the colours look so much better with it off. So... again... sux 2 be console I guess, you're stuck with that.