Cyberpunk 2077 - Are you a preem enough choom to rescue the President?

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Cyberpunk 2077 - Are you a preem enough choom to rescue the President?

«‹›1984 »

Which lifepath will you take?
	NOMAD (I like freedom)
	STREET KID (I like the city)
	CORPO (I like money)
	I don't like labels

Firstborn: Oct 14, 2012; i'm the heckin best
yeah
yeah
yeah
frig all the rest

I like to think about how cool the battle music is while reading the "help i keep accidently loving men" reddit post.
I'd like to petition to put an NPC who says this in the DLC please

Maybe just a pantless NPC who is like "gently caress not again" when he's thrown out of the club after freshly loving some guy

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:53

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? Apr 26, 2024 19:37

VanillaGorilla: Oct 2, 2003

Caros posted:

I'd take a guess that Militech shows up anyways.

That quest line is very much a big action set piece that they don't want the player to miss out on, so no matter your solution you are shooting someone in that factory.

On a tangentially related note, I really did not expect this game to have the level of writing it does at points.

In particular (early act 2 spoilers) The conversation at clouds with your doll is incredible if you let it play out.

The calm, measured tone of the doll, the vulnerability in fem V's voice and the general intimacy of the moment was unexpected.

It is very rare to have a game get me that invested in a scene, but the conversation about V's death, and how seriously it hosed her up is an amazing moment of character direction. Confronting a character who burns bright and dies young with the reality of what that actually meant in practice, how it shook her resolve and fundamental world view was loving incredible.

And then after all that you have to use the safe word and you are shocked out of this intimate moment by bright lights and a doll who is freaked the hell out. The whiplash of it was palpable.

And that isn't even the only story beat that shook me. You confront the father/son BD snuff film editors and the game really nailed the revulsion for me. You get what you are looking for, but the way they are written makes it hard not to want to hurt them, even though you might be conflicted.

Then the dad starts screaming after you shoot his son. Actually felt bad until I went on the laptop and found even more evidence of how hosed the pair was.

Just very solid writing at certain points is what I'm saying.

I just wanted to say that the whole quest line with Evelyn and Judy has been fantastic so far, and for all of the poo poo this game has been catching, the way it�s been handling sex work and intimacy in the setting - in which sex is forwarded as commodified and ultimately shallow - has been really interesting.

Like I know people have been dunking on how �horny� the game is and the dildos everywhere but so far all of the sex workers I�ve interacted with have been fairly complex characters. The scene you�re describing with the �doll� definitely doesn�t go the way you�d expect it to, and it�s really notable that the only time the characters in the scene make physical contact, it�s a touch of reassurance.

It all goes along with the writers, at least at this early point, making the choice to essentially have V be a fundamentally decent person making their way in an often lovely environment. I�m struggling to think of a time that the game has offered the choice to be cruel or lovely to someone who didn�t arguably deserve it. Is there really a way to do an �evil V�?

VanillaGorilla fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Dec 12, 2020

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:54

Tenzarin: Jul 24, 2007; .; Taco Defender

Wait, what in the world is happening?

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:54

Taear: Nov 26, 2004; Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!

The PC UI is so loving poo poo. Mousewheeling through conversations, escape twice to leave the map, middle click (???) to take off items, just loads of annoying bits that I don't get.

Also my funniest (weirdest) bug so far was a gig where I had to kill someone and carry them for a bit then put them in the boot of a car. Maybe....two hours later I'm walking along and their body is just lying in the street with a huge queue of cars behind it. It was loving bizarre!

That Japanese surgeon guy is straight up a joke from the TV show scrubs too, really weird to have a reference to that. Not as weird as that guy changing his voice, but weird anyway.

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:56

BaronVanAwesome: Sep 11, 2001; I will never learn the secrets of "Increased fake female boar sp..."

Never say never, buddy.
Now you know.
Now we all know.

pmchem posted:

spoiler question, I just got past title card

ok johnny is in my head and there are timers once I left my apt., and everyone is telling me that I’m gonna die soon due to the chip. can I safely ignore this and wander around the city doing side activities?

or is there an actual hidden master timer and my char is just gonna die after X ingame days?

If they were the timers by your health bar, you probably ate food or drink like the optional quest objectives suggested which give you a buff for a few minutes

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:56

Randarkman: Jul 18, 2011

Eat My Fuc posted:

I�m sorry but this game is no Deus Ex, it�s better than the lovely Deus Ex sequels but no one will be talking about this game in 20 years. It�s a solid, but unimaginative FPS. The only way this game is on the status of revolutionary as Deus Ex was/is is if it was released in 96, and outside of graphics it could have been. AI is Goldeneye level, gameplay is shoot or be shot, and the writing is sophomoric and sometimes actively harmful (the racist statistic joke about the cars).

I'm not sure if that's what you're picking up, but I think most people comparing it to Deus Ex are doing it because the shooting, hacking and sneaking gameplay (and the bad enemy AI) brings to mind how those elements worked in Deus Ex Human Revolution. At least that's how I'm thinking of that comparison when I describe it as a mix of Deus Ex and GTA, which I really think this game is.

Beyond the general cyberpunk aesthetic and human augmentation stuff, there really isn't much that's similar between the two apart from the aforementioned gameplay of DEHR and this.

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:59

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
---------------------------->

MazelTovCocktail posted:

Wow the relic is able to run this on medium at 1600X900 (the monitor I have) with the 1.04 patch.

The relic is an:
i5-2500k @3.30 GhZ (misremembered the cpu)
24gb ram (got lucky when I bought more the old stuff still worked)
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

I'm honestly pretty goddamn shocked.

No clue what FPS is, but I have a tolerance for 30 and sub from years of hobo gaming.

EDIT: poo poo it can even do high, but that's 20 fps I think. Still pretty shocked. Hopefully GeForce Now puts the 1.04 patch up soon.

The 1050 Ti is such a goddamn trooper

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:59

am0kgonzo: Jun 18, 2010

VanillaGorilla posted:

I just wanted to say that the whole quest line with Evelyn and Judy has been fantastic so far, and for all of the poo poo this game has been catching, the way it�s been handling sex work and intimacy in the setting - in which sex is forwarded as commodified and ultimately shallow - has been really interesting.

Like I know people have been dunking on how �horny� the game is and the dildos everywhere but so far all of the sex workers I�ve interacted with have been fairly complex characters. The scene you�re describing with the �doll� definitely doesn�t go the way you�d expect it to, and it�s really notable that the only time the characters in the scene make physical contact, it�s a touch of reassurance.

It all goes along with the writers, at least at this early point, making the choice to essentially have V be a fundamentally decent person making their way in an often lovely environment. I�m struggling to think of a time that the game has offered the choice to be cruel or lovely to someone who didn�t arguably deserve it. Is there really a way to do an �evil V�?

you can threaten the doll with violence to get the information, so yeah

# ? Dec 12, 2020 23:59

Frankston: Jul 27, 2010

Anyone who has completed the main story, how many acts are in the game? I'm on act 3.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:00

Admiral Bosch: Apr 19, 2007; Who is Admiral Aken Bosch, and what is that old scoundrel up to?

VanillaGorilla posted:

I just wanted to say that the whole quest line with Evelyn and Judy has been fantastic so far, and for all of the poo poo this game has been catching, the way it�s been handling sex work and intimacy in the setting - in which sex is forwarded as commodified and ultimately shallow - has been really interesting.

Like I know people have been dunking on how �horny� the game is and the dildos everywhere but so far all of the sex workers I�ve interacted with have been fairly complex characters. The scene you�re describing with the �doll� definitely doesn�t go the way you�d expect it to, and it�s really notable that the only time the characters in the scene make physical contact, it�s a touch of reassurance.

It all goes along with the writers, at least at this early point, making the choice to essentially have V be a fundamentally decent person making their way in an often lovely environment. I�m struggling to think of a time that the game has offered the choice to be cruel or lovely to someone who didn�t arguably deserve it. Is there really a way to do an �evil V�?

spoiler for a rescue quest: a quest where you rescue a doctor from a gang den, the doctor is trying to save a gang member's life on a biobed. she asks for your assistance, and you can either help or refuse to help in the dialogue. or you can put a bullet in the gang member's head.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:01

psychoJ: Feb 24, 2011; Smart and cool, handsome, wealthy and so sexy

hope that at some point while i'm playing there's a patch for consoles that fixes the menu immediately disappearing after I press the dang button lol

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:02

Rolo: Nov 16, 2005; Hmm, what have we here?

queeb posted:

unedited exe wiith ultra everything dlss q/raytracing.

edited exe

10 fps gain and much better cpu utilization. so it definitely works if you're on AMD.

One of the posts says to change the hex to EB and another says 74. Which did you do?

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:03

Cavauro: Jan 9, 2008

in the last thread i mourned the loss of wallrunning and the lack of parkour being a game mechanic but it's actually still kind of a neat little thing to do sometimes. just climbing up onto something and seeing where you can go from there. plenty of little awnings or ledges on things that don't really serve a purpose but can sometimes be used to leap across buildings. it's kind of fun for my rear end!!!!

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:03

Combat Pretzel: Jun 23, 2004; No, seriously... what kurds?!

Missionary Positron posted:

Speaking of perfomance issues, does this game have a memory leak or something? Sometimes my performance keeps dropping by something like a half and when I restart, the same save game now runs smooth as hell

If anything, it has a pretty rigid limit it tries the damnest to keep. Over here it uses 4300MB max. and doesn't really inch beyond it. If it does, it's a few MBs and eventually backs off.

I have 32GB of RAM. While running the game, with two utility VMs in memory, a host of other background applications, there's still 17GB of free RAM right now. Certainly RAM ain't the reason why it has to keep culling NPCs and cars and such.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:07

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Fojar38 posted:

The 1050 Ti is such a goddamn trooper

I know and the crazy thing was I got it for BF1 it was already treated as a budget thing, that was "meh" at best.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:08

Taear: Nov 26, 2004; Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!

Randarkman posted:

I'm not sure if that's what you're picking up, but I think most people comparing it to Deus Ex are doing it because the shooting, hacking and sneaking gameplay (and the bad enemy AI) brings to mind how those elements worked in Deus Ex Human Revolution. At least that's how I'm thinking of that comparison when I describe it as a mix of Deus Ex and GTA, which I really think this game is.

Yea. It doesn't feel like an rpg to me - I don't really play games like GTA or assassins creed and i'm finding myself feeling mega restricted. You never get to talk to anyone, it's always just a fight.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:08

marshmallow creep: Dec 10, 2008; I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

So a couple of randos on the street attacked me. Defending myself brings the cops down on me, but if I lure them to a cop and they shoot me, the cops do nothing.

ACAB indeed, but especially to me.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:09

FallenGod: May 23, 2002; Unite, Afro Warriors!

Rolo posted:

One of the posts says to change the hex to EB and another says 74. Which did you do?

Apparently one disables the cpuid check (EB) and the other inverts it, negatively impacts Intel CPUs (74). Either results in the game working better for AMD CPUs, but the first is the proper way to do it according to this post.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:10

am0kgonzo: Jun 18, 2010

Eat My Fuc posted:

I�m sorry but this game is no Deus Ex, it�s better than the lovely Deus Ex sequels but no one will be talking about this game in 20 years. It�s a solid, but unimaginative FPS. The only way this game is on the status of revolutionary as Deus Ex was/is is if it was released in 96, and outside of graphics it could have been. AI is Goldeneye level, gameplay is shoot or be shot, and the writing is sophomoric and sometimes actively harmful (the racist statistic joke about the cars).

It�s a 6/10 game that was hyped to be a masterpiece before it�s release so people have attached their identities to it being good. It�s an ok game, fun for some people but it�s not a genre defining classic like Deus Ex and to compare the two is insanity to me.

game is flawed, mostly the open world part of it but no

night city itself is fantastic, main quests are well written and acted imho, you have a ton of side missions that basically play out like mini deus ex levels and some of those side gig missions can even influence/give you choices in the main quests

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:10

VanillaGorilla: Oct 2, 2003

Taear posted:

Yea. It doesn't feel like an rpg to me - I don't really play games like GTA or assassins creed and i'm finding myself feeling mega restricted. You never get to talk to anyone, it's always just a fight.

There are multiple quests where there are long breaks in the action (The Heist, Heroes, The Hunt) where you�re doing nothing but talking to people. And I�ve talked my way out of at least a few fights so far and I�m still relatively early in Act 2. I�ve had my Int and Cool skills come up in dialogue checks, and I�m sure there are others.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:12

Taear: Nov 26, 2004; Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!

VanillaGorilla posted:

There are multiple quests where there are long breaks in the action (The Heist, Heroes, The Hunt) where you�re doing nothing but talking to people. And I�ve talked my way out of at least a few fights so far and I�m still relatively early in Act 2. I�ve had my Int and Cool skills come up in dialogue checks, and I�m sure there are others.

Yea the extremely limited main quests, sure.
EVERY gig is just a fight. Every single one.

I can't think of one sidequest that isn't just a massive fight. Yea sometimes you speak to the people at the end of the quest but you have to slaughter a bunch of mooks to get there.

The cool/int/etc checks just give you a bit more dialogue almost always

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:12

veni veni veni: Jun 5, 2005

Is anyone else getting a bug where the arm/hand animations are totally busted during cinematic parts where they are supposed to have special animations? My arms just stick straight out and wrists look busted. It�s pretty bad lol

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:13

Radical 90s Wizard: Aug 5, 2008; ~SS-18 burning bright,
Bathe me in your cleansing light~

Has anyone that did the hexedit fix got the instructions for it still? Looks like the op's been deleted on reddit :confused:

In funny bug news, I found a dude outside Afterlife stuck in a t-pose but he could turn his head back and forth and when I tried talking to him he started wailing "it burns likee fiiiiiiiire" :stare:

I like to think he just got his chrome infected or something.

It really bums me out coming across a massive shootout between ncpd and gangers, only to realise that they never actually hurt or kill each other, and after bout 2 minutes they all just blink out of existence.

Un-fuckingbelievable state to release a game in, in an age when releasing buggy unfinished games is standard. It's disappointing as hell because it's a really good game and I'm mostly having a loving blast.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:13

Combat Pretzel: Jun 23, 2004; No, seriously... what kurds?!

Combat Pretzel posted:

If anything, it has a pretty rigid limit it tries the damnest to keep. Over here it uses 4300MB max. and doesn't really inch beyond it. If it does, it's a few MBs and eventually backs off.

I went digging and found this config file called memory_pool_budgets.csv:

code:

;;;
; ^[1-9][0-9]*(B|KB|MB|GB) - Pool budget
; -1 - Pool does not exist on the current platform
; 0 - Budget will be computed dynamically at runtime

                                ;       PC        ;        Durango     ;        Orbis
PoolRoot                        ;                 ;                    ;
PoolCPU                         ;       1536MB    ;        1536MB      ;        1536MB
PoolGPU                         ;       3GB       ;        3GB         ;        3GB
PoolFlexible                    ;       -1        ;        -1          ;        0
PoolDefault                     ;       1KB       ;        1KB         ;        1KB
PoolLegacyOperator              ;       1MB       ;        1MB         ;        1MB
PoolFrame                       ;       32MB      ;        32MB        ;        32MB
PoolDoubleBufferedFrame         ;       32MB      ;        32MB        ;        32MB
PoolEngine                      ;       432MB     ;        432MB       ;        432MB
PoolRefCount                    ;       16MB      ;        16MB        ;        16MB
PoolDebug                       ;       512MB     ;        512MB       ;        512MB
PoolBacked                      ;       512MB     ;        512MB       ;        512MB

Adding all pools except the GPU one results in 3GB. Add one gigabyte for code and whatever, there's the 4GB mentioned earlier. I wonder what happens when I bump things.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:13

pmchem: Jan 22, 2010

BaronVanAwesome posted:

If they were the timers by your health bar, you probably ate food or drink like the optional quest objectives suggested which give you a buff for a few minutes

you�re probably right! thanks

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:13

yo mamma a Horus: Apr 7, 2008; Nap Ghost

I am having a great time and I loved the quests up to releasing me into night city.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:14

exquisite tea: Apr 21, 2007; Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."

queeb posted:

unedited exe wiith ultra everything dlss q/raytracing.

edited exe

10 fps gain and much better cpu utilization. so it definitely works if you're on AMD.

I did this on my Ryzen 2700x and while it didn't really improve the overall framerate, it did seem to improve the lows somewhat in outdoor scenes and increase CPU usage across all cores. It also made my CPU run significantly hotter, like into the mid-70s, so be warned if you don't have a good cooling solution I guess.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:14

am0kgonzo: Jun 18, 2010

Taear posted:

Yea the extremely limited main quests, sure.
EVERY gig is just a fight. Every single one.

I've already done 2 gigs which were solved by dialogue

one with a reporter, the other with some former militech cyberpsycho dude who wants to blow up the mayor

am0kgonzo fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Dec 13, 2020

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:14

Happy Noodle Boy: Jul 3, 2002

I�m red/green colorblind and let me tell you have I have some thoughts about the map.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:16

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

So the stadia version has only a graphics and performance setting...ewww.

Perhaps I will be returning this.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:16

Starks: Sep 24, 2006

There's a track that sounds a lot like the witcher music that plays during the end of the prologue, does anyone happen to know the name?

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:17

ihatepants: Nov 5, 2011; Let the burning of pants commence. These things drive me nuts.

Found this mod that lets you rebind a bunch of the stuff in-game that you needed to edit files for. It also disables double tap to dodge and gives that a separate button, which I really wanted because I keep trying to move slowly while sneaking and the game makes me dodge and get out of stealth.
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/102

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:18

Marshal Prolapse: Jun 23, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

You know screw stadia I'm sticking with GeForce Now. Sorry everybody! Got a little...dumb there for a minute.

But if anyone wants to try it or just wants a chromecast ultra...it's still a good deal.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:20

Starks: Sep 24, 2006

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

I�m red/green colorblind and let me tell you have I have some thoughts about the map.

So am I, do you mean the minimap or the world map?

The world map is ok for me, at least nothing color-specific beyond the cluster gently caress that it already is.

FYI there's a color blind mode but I didn't like it so I turned it off.

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:20

Taear: Nov 26, 2004; Ask me about the shitty opinions I have about Paradox games!

am0kgonzo posted:

I've already done 2 gigs which were solved by dialogue

one with a reporter, the other with some former militech cyberpsycho dude who wants to blow up the mayor

I have done...10 of them and that miltech one is the only one I could talk to. What's especially funny is it actually told me that one would be a fight!

# ? Dec 13, 2020 00:21

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

marshmallow creep posted:

So a couple of randos on the street attacked me. Defending myself brings the cops down on me, but if I lure them to a cop and they shoot me, the cops do nothing.

ACAB indeed, but especially to me.

I just got a wanted level when I drove past some cops. Didn't even look at them let alone do a crime. :iiam: