Can it be fixed? From what I’ve seen, most of the issues are due to the shit AI and missing quality of life features...

Just about every facet of the game feels phoned in. It feels like nothing grows along with you. You're just mindlessly progressing to see the admittedly good main plot play out. You never unlock anything. Your apartment doesn't grow alongside your character. The perks feel pretty boring and grow linearly. You really need to turn your soul off to enjoy this game.

Thats honestly one of the failings of Witcher 3. White Orchard was a great area, really reminiscent of the compact zones in Witcher 1 & 2. The open world just bloats it out to shit.

This game is fundamentally flawed though. It’s not just bugs.

No AI. No customization. Teleporting cops. No cop chases. Shit side quests. Shit driving. Etc.

It would take half a year of crunch just to fix the bugs, then they’d have to completely rework AI, then start adding better side content just for this game to be worth the price tag.

I’m sure CDPR will slowly do all these things, because it’ll be the death of their brand if they leave the game like this, but I seriously doubt the game will be worth it until the inevitable complete edition a few years done the line.

Pretty much this. The world is beautiful, but static. You can't interact with it, and it can't interact with you. I loved some of the quests though, but having the different life paths just affect the 20 min into and some optional dialogue felt like a let down.

It's fucked.

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>Seriously on the fence about buying it.
Don't. It should already tell you how they dropped the ball when they officially released the game on older-gen hardware and it is so unoptimized, that any hope of fixing that will go into modifying the game mechanics at the very core. Things like completely changing AI behavior to how things render in real-time.

They're not going to fix it either. They already have your money. Its hilarious to read all the cope happening online right now- people trying to justify their shit game through Rose-Tinted Glasses. CDPR fucked up. They're not going to fix it. People on consoles pretending like

No, the game is a joke. The problems span across the entire game. If there were no bugs, a functional AI and basic open world features like changing appearance, the game would still be shit. I tried to give it a fair shot, but it's just not doable. The world is empty. It is only filled with life through side quests and the rather short and uninspired story. The storywriting by the way is ridiculously bad, Keanu Reeve's character plays a major role and is extremely unlikeable and cringe. They made an attempt to make the world feel alive by spamming it with "random events", which are just the same criminals in a gunfight that there always are. NPCs are never worthwhile interacting with.

Most importantly, the world is ugly. Pic related. The pictures on the right are not cherrypicked, that is the actual artstyle of the game. Everyone looks like a clown and this is CDPR's art director's idea of what a cyberpunk future would look like. The only aesthetic part of the world is ironically present in the big bad enemy, the Arasaka corporation.

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Hopefully not, the bugs and glitches are the only entertaining things about the game.

Short answer? Yes, give it anywhere from 1-3 months, maybe more if this is on the same timeline as Witcher 3.

Long answer? Most of the game's problems originate from the bugs but not all of them do. Things like the AI, driving, etc. could be fixed with updates, but it's not something to bank on happening too soon unlike bug fixes. I'd say give it a little bit more time in the oven before going for it, maybe another few weeks or even wait till January, if major problems haven't been fixed by then then either wait the extra few months, pick it up when it's inevitably on sale, or just pirate it.

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I bought it on Steam but refunded it because I realized I could just buy the game of the year edition or definitive edition or whatever in a year or so with all the eventual DLC for a discounted price

Buying it when it's on sale, after maybe a solid 6 months of patching and shit. Probably on the series X too, since this game sounds unoptimized as fuck and my CPU already bottlenecks my PC

do what I'm doing and check back in like 3 months and then back again in summer.

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Game should've been delayed til summer '21 but there would have been a shitstorm among the community, seriously pissed of shareholders etc so they just pushed out a late alpha/early beta and hope to patch it frequently over the next half year or so. They bit off more than they could chew and development time ended up being WAY longer than they initially anticipated.

I can't complain about the game because I know its simply incomplete in its current form. The issue is that they were under pressure to get it out for the holiday season this year so we have access far too early.

Witcher 3 also sucked til they patched it smooth, but maybe not quite to this degree.

Looking forwards to blade runner/gritty atmosphere mods that change the color profiles/filters for the game, maybe change up some audio and textures

yes. probably take them one year to fix the bugs, and add new stuff like barbers which the last two witcher games had. I just hope they add flying vehicles, plastic surgeon, more joytoys, being able to use BDs and purchasable properties, among other things.

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I’m still completely unable to comprehend how they left out so much basic shit people have come to expect from open world games. GTA San Andreas had fucking haircuts in 2004. Most of my info has come from videos. Seems to be a B-list version of something rockstar would make.

oh no no no

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Most complains are about optimization and console performance. So, yes, it can be fixed.
The story is fine and the world could use some tweaks here and there, maybe a patch 5 months from now could do the trick.
Once everything is ironed out I can see them making good DLC’s 8 months from now. I’m gonna stick with it

most of the issues come from the fact that cyberpunk is gay and lame 80s nostalgia dogshit

As someone who thought TW3 was just ok and felt it was bogged down by the amount of useless shit on the map Cyberpunk suffers from the same kind of stuff.

Going from quest to quest youll see a bunch of gigs and endless crime to stop. The gigs are usually worth it if its near your level and sometimes crimes are fun. I actually enjoy the core gameplay, the shooting is pretty decent even in the moment to moment stuff and even some simple gigs allow you to use stealth, hacking, or dialogue to solve the issues.

The games best strength is its main quests and side quests though, its got a good story, the writing is solid and in missions the atmosphere is great. Very engrossing. Its not Deus Ex/Prey tier of immersive sim, but you actually have a nice amount of freedom for individual missions that lets you approach scenarios in reasonably creative ways. And you can often go through an area slightly differently depending on your hacking and strength skill, or simply finding a new route.

Where it struggles for me are as I said, the constant coverage of the map in random tasks, you never feel like youre exploring the world, simply just using it to go from one point to another, which is a shame, because it is a beautiful game. One of the best looking games Ive ever seen.

The lack of enemy AI kills some of the immersion, while it's not supposed to be GTA, even giving you the option and ability to attack people, and incite the police (even as a way of leveling) begs the comparison. Police dont chase you, NPCs dont care if you block their car or steal it. You cant challenge or interact with NPCs in any way really at all (unlike rdr2 where you can interact with EVERY npc).

No way to customize your character like a new haircut or tattoos. And the fact that you cant transmog to keep clothes make you end up looking like an idiot most of the time trying to equip the best gear.

Not sure if they can fix all of that.

Imagine for a second that all glitches are fixed and AI works properly. Is it great game now?