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Rikkori
Member
Feels 1080p-ish to me, no?
Night.Ninja
Banned
How are you able to take screen shots?Day time pic (XSX)
Hugare
Member
Oh shit, sorry, didnt know that I had to click on them. The ones on his post before clicking looked horrible.
To me they look really good. Little soft, yes, but looks great.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Probably something like that, not sure, but not really that great on 4k, certain worse than BC games with 4k dynamic res. I was playing Metro: Exodus and I should not have done that.
Playing on XSX in NZ region, normally share and upload.
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M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
I am having 59.3GB at v. 1.0.0.6
Bartski
Gold Member
NICE.Day time pic (XSX)
Did it come in Czech by default as a console region thing or is it a preference with additional language download? I really want to play in English the first time I hope that comes with every local version
HotPocket69
Banned
Day time pic (XSX)
Looks good. Hope I can remove most of that shit on the HUD.
JeTmAn81
Member
This seems...just fine?
GaviotaGrande
Banned
There's an in-game compendium that details everything from city districts to corporations and cars... It's very well put together. Plus there are tutorial etc.
Jigsaah
Member
Cyberpunk 2077 is a narrative-driven first-person open-world action-RPG, for PC, current and past gen consoles, and Stadia. It depicts an oppressive world, an alternate version of the future when body augmentations are the norm and big corporations rival governments in their reach and power over citizens. The game’s primary location is Night City, a costal politically independent metropolis in Northern California, West Coast of the New United States of America.
Developer: CD Projekt Red[
Publisher: CD Projekt
Director: Adam Badowski
Engine: REDengine 4
Platform(s):
Release: December 10th, 2020
- Microsoft Windows
- PlayStation 4
- PlayStation 5
- Stadia
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X/S
Genre: Action role-playing, first-person shooter
Mode: Single-player, multiplayer
The game is developed by CD Projekt Red in close partnership with Mike Pondsmith, author of the original pen-and-paper roleplaying system on which the title is based. In conjunction with digital distribution platform GOG.com, the Warsaw-based developer belongs to CD Projekt SA, a now publicly listed company Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński originally start back in May 1994. The studio establishes itself through the adaptation of The Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski’s popular fantasy novels and short stories, in a game series that hit the 50 million sales mark this year. The latest entry in the franchise, The Witcher 3, launches in May 2015 and ends up winning more than 800 awards and accolades, including Game of the Year from IGN, GameSpot and Game Informer. Its Metacritic Metascore currently sits at 93/100 and the user score has reached the notable 9.4/10.
Following his interest in the subgenre pioneered by Ridley Scott in Blade Runner, Mike Pondsmith joins forces with a host of authors to develop a comprehensive tabletop RPG in the same vein, complete with rich lore and detailed ruleset. He originally launches Cyberpunk in 1988 through his own company, R. Talsorian Games, dubbing the IP “The Roleplaying Game of the Dark Future”. He goes on to publish several revisions and expansions, including Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk V3.0. The fourth and latest, Cyberpunk RED, is set in 2045 and serves as a prequel to the events featured in Cyberpunk 2077. Both the jumpstart kit and the full edition of RED are out now.
Visit CD Projekt Red [↑] Visit R. Talsorian Games [↑]
Watch 2012 Cyberpunk 2077 Original Announcement [↑] Watch 2013 Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser trailer [↑] Watch Mike Pondsmith about Cyberpunk World feature [↑]
As the name implies, the game is set in the year 2077 and located in Night City, one in a handful of fictional megacities, more precisely, an international free and independent city-state, an enclave in the Free State of Northern California, or NORCAL, itself an autonomous zone within the New United States since 2016. It's able to declare federal laws null and even issue legislation of its own.
Night City can be found in the southern part of NORCAL, occupying the head of Del Coranado Bay, the equivalent of real-life Morro Bay, between San Francisco and Santa Barbara, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west. Further to the south lies the border with neighbouring Free State of Southern California. Winner of the dubious accolade “the worst place to live in America”, the metropolis is nevertheless home to almost 7 million inhabitants. Richard Night, then a young visionary and construction businessman, founds it in 1994. Referencing its location, the original name was Coronado city, but the city was renamed to pay homage to the founder.
From the very inception, Night City’s fate is closely tied to the megacorporations battling it out for supremacy. Its silhouette certainly bears witness to their influence, with its towering skyscrapers, alongside trademark self-sufficient residential megabuildings. But within the estimated 24 square kilometres of the map and its six multi-layered districts, the city and its surroundings offer a wide variety of styles, subcultures and tech-infused landscapes.
Watch Postcards from Night City feature [↑] Visit Night City Love official site [↑] Look up real-life Morro bay on Google Maps [↑]
Naturally, the full plot of the game is still under wraps. But multiple sources and official promo materials suggest the premise is that Arasaka has managed to store Johnny Silverhand’s conscience, his Engram, inside an old prototype piece of biotech called Immortality Chip, or The Relic. The player chooses one of three lifepaths, each placing them at a different starting location on the map and unfolding in completely different ways. But even though each is said to have significant ramifications further down the line, all three converge in a single narrative branch during the prologue.
As such, V and Jackie then prove themselves to fixer Dexter Deshawn, first by meeting with Meredith Stout, Senior Operations Manager for Militech and then recovering the corporations stolen spiderbot from a Maelstrom gang group led by Royce, as showcased in the 2018 48-minute gameplay demo. Later, in a meeting that involves netrrunner T-Bug as well, Dexter entrusts the duo with the task to steal the Immortality Chip from Arasaka. They succeed but because the sealed container malfunctions, V is forced to plug the biochip in, before being double-crossed by Dexter. The fixer leaves V out to die in a dumpster. When V regains conscience, Johnny Silverhand inhabits it and V is stuck with the autonomous, sometimes antagonistic outspoken character, who’s on a revenge mission against Arasaka.
Somewhere along the plot, V goes to Pacifica and encounters Maman Brigitte, leader of the local group of netrunners and Placede, her second-in-command. Sasquatch, leader of a violent rival gang , complicates life for V. Little else is known about the story and plot, aside from extensive if credible speculation.
Watch Official E3 2018 Trailer [↑] Watch Official E3 2019 Cinematic Trailer [↑] Watch 2019 Deep Dive gameplay demo [↑] Watch The Gig trailer [↑] Watch 2077 in Style feature [↑] Watch The Dinner Cinematic Trailer [↑]Watch Johnny Silverhand trailer [↑] Watch official Gameplay Trailer [↑]
The geopolitics of Mike Pondsmith’s fictional world diverge significantly from our own and the split begins in 1989, when the four federal intelligence agencies, NSA, CIA, FBI and DEA, assemble in a secret collective known as The Gang of Four. Their goal is to effectively run the United States, formally still a constitutional republic with an elected president. On the other side of the now extinguishing Cold War, the Soviet Union does not collapse like it did in real-life in 1991. Instead it lives on, as in the previous year General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev appoints a successor to carry out a more in-depth program of reforms. Up until 1994, the new leader transitions the nation into a federation of sovereign country-like republics glued together by a free trade zone formally known as the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, thus managing to retain the old USSR acronym.
But the fundamental differences with our own timeline do not stop there. The European Economic Community, EEC, which in reality was formed back in 1957, begins its fictional existence in 1992. The project unites the mostly democratic countries of the whole of Western Europe in one block under one common currency, the Eurodollar, which quickly begins to spread its influence beyond the borders of the old Continent and helps the EEC to assert itself as the global rising economic power. Accordingly, one peculiarity of this alternate version of history is that the Eurodollar is adopted by Japan, which at the time boasts the world’s most powerful corporation, Tokyo-based Arasaka, a firm specializing in security, banking and manufacturing. Alongside, EEC’s prosperity allows it to send aid to the new struggling USSR states, a gesture met with opposition by the US government and one that eventually leads to the breakup of Euro-American military alliance NATO. Another important consequence is that the USSR too adopts the Eurodollar over the US currency, further cementing EEC’s global influence.
In Cyberpunk, megacorporations cannot be described as mere goods and services providers. They usually are transnational entities which wield government-like power, have government-like agendas and often attempt to advance them though whatever means necessary, including bribery, extorsion and assassination, a repertoire that applies both to their recurrent internal power struggles as well as to their dealings with governments and competitors. This generally translates into a steady diet of armed conflicts known as Corporate Wars, waged on land, sea, air, space and cyberspace.
Powerful as they are, corporations are not the only players out there. Much of Night City’s day-to-day life is equally impacted by rival street gangs who in specific cases have strong ties to big business. The existence of gangs is in part historically connected to The Collapse, as the state crumbles or becomes ineffective, forcing citizens to take matters into their own hands. They start coming together along ethnic, territorial, philosophical, or simply pragmatic lines to defend their lives and their property against rampant violence. Naturally, some gangs are entrenched in pure criminal activity while others uphold a sense of community that transcends mere vigilantism. This diversity is reflected in sheer number of gangs referenced in Cyberpunk lore, which goes beyond fifty different groups.
The designation “boostergangs” denotes the most common type of gang: those whose members use cyberware. There is a relationship between boostergangs and violence, since as the number of implants goes up so does the risk of cyberpsychosis. Some go overboard and do lose their humanity.
Underneath all the action elements, Cyberpunk 2077 features a robust RPG heart that governs all aspects of gameplay.
Character customization
The first step in tailoring the player's character is to decide its appearance. Players will be able to see their character in a select few cutscenes, special mirrors and in photo mode. Character customization offers several presets and a randomize option to stick with or start from and then fine-tune. Among others, players can determine: Skin tone and skin type; Hairstyle and hair colour; Eyes and eye colour; Ears; Beard, beard style, and beard colour; Cyberware; Facial scars; Facial tattoos; Piercings and piercing colour; Teeth; Eye makeup and eye makeup colour. Featured are also sliders for the Penis size, Breast size, Vagina type; and Buttocks. Player’s choice between voices sets what gender their character is, and, apparently, the choice of genitalia translates into what NPCs can be romanced.
Life paths
After character creation, the player is given a choice of three distinct lifepaths, or backstories, which determine how the intro unfolds, right from the starting position on the map. The first, Street Kid, has V beginning in the Heywood district and getting hired to carjack a luxury model for Kirk, a fixer. Night City Police Department agents abruptly put an end to the plan. The second lifepath, Nomad, puts V wandering through an unremarkable small town in the Badlands, where he first gets into trouble with the local sheriff and then with corporate agents, as he tries to cross the border into Night City. The last lifepath, Corporate, drops V at the heart of Arasaka tower, in the role of an intelligence officer working for Jenkins, a top executive trying to stage a coup. V is left to face the consequences of the ill-fated attempt.
Each lifepath determines how V hooks up with and eventually befriends fellow mercenary Jackie Welles, a former Valentino gang member who decides to become a free-lancer to appease his mother. As a Street Kid, protagonist V runs into Welles during the carjacking attempt. Nomad V meets Jackie during a job in the Badlands and, finally, V as a corporate agent is already friends with Welles.
Stats, Attributes, Skills and Perks
The player character has classic RPG stats like armour, health, and stamina, among others. Whereas your clothing, which also bears stats, determines Armour, the rest result from the interaction of RPG layers: Attributes - core elements which affect basic stats - open into Skills - more specialized elements affecting gameplay - which themselves open into Perks, highly specialized passive buffs or active abilities. In short, 5 attributes open to 12 skills which branch off into more than 240 perks. All of these are organized in a hierarchy: the points you invest into each Attribute determine how many you can spend in the respective skills and perks.
Watch 2018 Official 48-minute gameplay demo [↑] Watch 2019 Deep Dive gameplay demo [↑] Watch Lifepaths feature [↑] Watch Cyberpunk in Style feature [↑] Watch Rides of the Dark Future feature [↑]
ON THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN:
As we embark on this journey and discover more and more about the game together, corrections, erratas and clarifications by fellow GAF users are not only welcome - they are essential. Information posted here will be added to the OT as time goes by.
ON CD PROJEKT RED AND CONCERNS OVER DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
See a summary of the state of LGBTQ+ rights in Poland [↑] Read an interview with Adam Kiciński and Adam Badowski from CD Projekt on Diversity and Inclusion [↑] How you can support LGBTQ+ rights in Europe [↑]
This OT was created for the appreciation and discussion of the piece of electronic entertainment known as "Cyberpunk 2077". All those who love, are hyped for and who simply want to shoot the breeze about this game are encouraged to join. LGBTQ+, BIPOC, those with special needs (we will add information on adaptive controller compatibility ASAP) and others, you are welcome and valued. We will try to keep this OT focused on the game. For spoiler-related discussions, please refer to the Spoiler thread. For those who want to discuss the media reception of the game, we point you towards the Review thread. We leave you with the words of the head of the CD PROJEKT RED studio.
It's time to jack in.
This might be literally the best OT I've ever seen. I had to get you another month of Gold for this. Nice Job
Komatsu
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
It cames defult, it sets what you have in set in OS settings, it's changeable through the menu settings.
Yes you can turn that off, but controls on this game is non-startdard for me, so I appreactiaete for time being to have them. Already killed someone on the streets going by memory. Pressed X instead of A.
MiguelItUp
Member
If people assumed the day 1 patch would fix every single issue that's a fault of their own. Would it be great? Oh, of course! But that just doesn't sound realistic...
I'm just glad they're actively patching. Here's to hoping the other issues will be taken care of sooner than later. Personally I'm not concerned. May have a giggle here and there, but that's about it. Ready to play the hell out of this.
I'm just glad they're actively patching. Here's to hoping the other issues will be taken care of sooner than later. Personally I'm not concerned. May have a giggle here and there, but that's about it. Ready to play the hell out of this.
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Heartkiller
Member
Finally some PS4 Pro gameplay out there...
Looks a lot better than the base PS4 and Xbox One gameplay, thankfully.
Looks a lot better than the base PS4 and Xbox One gameplay, thankfully.
so pc maxed gameplays are out, would be nice to know which pc video settings makes it just look way better from consoles version, like its some setting for lighting , AO that just changes how game looks, because there is difference for sure, besides RT, there must be more settings like even on medium pc settings without RT
Night.Ninja
Banned
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
No, I just switched. Maybe restart the console again? I am not sure I did not do anything out of the normal procedure.
RyanSaotome
Neo Member
Do we know if the game has a level cap?
Dusktildawn48
Member
You're gonna slaughter the game with that beast!
Serious question, I desperately need this confirmed, are we able to disable chromatic abbration on pc (I hate it so much I don't even know how to spell it)?
HotPocket69
Banned
This OT is so toasty. Reminds me of old GAF OT days.
Null Persp
Member
Insane Metal
Member
So there's an industry personality appearance in the game.
Hideo Kojima is there somewhere, just saw the picture. Lol
Denton
Member
Day time pic (XSX)
That..looks pretty fantastic to me? I suppose on 4K TV it might be too blurry, but on my 1080p plasma that looks awesome.
LordAmused
Member
Also downloading a 9.7GB update on GOG.
dottme
Member
It looks good. I need time to play it now. The game is ready on my PS4 Pro. It should unlock tonight.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Stream and download The First 11 Minutes - Nomad (Xbox Series X/4K) from Cyberpunk 2077 in very high quality
Stream and download The First 11 Minutes - Nomad (Xbox Series X/4K) from Cyberpunk 2077 in very high quality
www.gamersyde.com
GymWolf
Member
Nah, it's more of a budget/time/manpower thing.
A lot of open world game are as dense as rdr2 but they have 1/1000 of the details.
Gta6 is gonna have the same amount of details while being even more dense than cyberpunk, rockstar are just kings with this stuff.
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LordAmused
Member
GOG is at 7PM EST. It is on par with the global PC release.
MiguelItUp
Member
GOG/Steam at 6PM CST
Consoles at midnight local region time.
Edit: For fixes, typed too fast originally, lmao.
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gunslikewhoa
Member
Simultaneous. 7 PM EST.
Sentenza
Member
There are probably a dozen. And that's old news.
Starfield
Member
well youre playing the inferior console versionSo I started up playing....and well it does not really look good. Like let's say passable 2017 game, when X1X came out. I would say that Witcher 3 looks considerable better. I think the closest thing which is to this is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and that looked better. Also why I am mentioning Deus Ex, fine people of that Polish company who is responsible for those Czech voices in MD (and that's not localisation everyone got them) is also responsible for translation to Czech for this game and it's nothing short of terrible. Formal language with some sort of edgy/folk version of the words, mixing relentlessly formal/non-formal speech and yeah, I quickly switched to full English.
Here are screens, pretty terrible, if you ask me.
JeTmAn81
Member
Isn't "inferior console version" redundant? If there's a console version, it's inferior. But most console players are fine with that.
SullaFelix
Neo Member
This day is dragggggging on. I thought i'd be okay but work is slow. Trying to stay away from Twitch as I want to go in relatively blind.
megatronium
Member
For those that preordered for PC using Amazon, they will not be providing the redemption code today based on what I see in the Q&A portion of the product page. The redemption code is in the physical case and won’t be delivered until tomorrow. Guess I won’t be preordering PC through Amazon ever again.
Komatsu
Member
The epilepsy warning will be incorporated today, now that additional info has come out. As for CDPR’s official stance on diversity & inclusion, it’s on the OT.
Let’s talk about the game.
saintjules
Gold Member
saintjules
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