I finished my first playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077. I absolutely love the setting for the game and hopefully they’ll make a sequel. Cyberpunk is going to join the very small selection of games I immediately replay. I just need to figure out how to do mods on Bazzite first.
After finishing C2077 I immediately replay TW3 actually.
They improved in some aspects, made some trade offs with the quest system(TW3 has a mesh of quest way more interconnected than C2077), some things are worse in C2077(voice over in TW3 was better in general, maybe was COVID). But in the end of the day I like C2077 more, I probably will never play TW3 again.
For mods, try Limo or you can use ProtonUp-Qt to install Steamtinkerlaunch, with steamtinkerlaunch is pretty easy to use Vortex. Cyberpunk has a modding wiki with a tutorial to setup mods in linux, is just the setup process and not how to install mods.
What’s a tw3?
The Witcher 3
Yep it’s pretty amazing, one of my all time favorites. Did you also get the expansion?
There are so many amazing mods that it’s easy to sink probably the equivalent of an entire playthroughs worth of hours into setting up a modlist. I have like 250 mods going or something like that.
Highly recommend it.
Are there any mods that rebalance difficulty to make it more challenging?
Yes, plenty. This mod is what you want, but make sure to go into the comments and check the pinned posts. A user there has made an incredible compilation of essentially all the mods out there that makes the game harder and gritter. Just pick the ones that sound appealing from that list.
I replayed it from the point of no return to see all the different possibilities and the most depressing was the one where you give all your mods and end up as an NPC.
Holy shit that ending hits hard.
spoiler
You’re abandoned by everyone you cared about, the few that remain are so changed they’re hardly recognizable, and you’re alone in a city that eats people alive.
I think I had a few million eddies and literally every apartment in town, V could survive by never going outside. But with nothing left to live for what’s the point?
What else is in the collection?
@Cptn_Slow I’ve only immediately replayed two other games. Mass Effect and Dishonored.
Good news - they are indeed making a sequel
I gave it a second try because friends assured me they fixed all the game breaking bugs. I quit again after 10 minutes when I got stuck because the car I was sitting in through the story got hit by people driving in an invisible car, making me fly into the air and spinning and ending up stuck inside a building. I stepped out of the car because I had to and fell through the map. Amazing bug fixing. Come on, this should be illegal. It’s scamming people out of their money by selling them a broken product.
I hated it, barely pulled through. Great looking game with a wonderfully designed open world and it falls apart if you engage it with any planning. It should have been a linear game, it would waste less time, the only missions worth playing are in the main quest, all of the rest is flimsiest filler, a few dudes standing around waiting for something to happen that you can hack from a distance without them realizing what’s happening. It’s more padding than pudding and it’s way too easy once you level up a few times. Even the story is very uneven in quality across the game, there’s missions that deserve to be a novel, but many are just ridiculously cheap saturday morning cartoon-level trope deployments.
I think there is some memorable side content, and I don’t think there are too many main story sequences that are that bad. However, I agree with you that a fundamental problem no patch could fix is that the story CDPR wanted to tell marries really poorly with an open-world RPG. It’s often immersion breaking and it frequently messes up the pacing.
It almost feels like they felt pressured into including an open world from outside expectations when what they really wanted to make was a linear, cinematic action game.
No judgement for liking what you like, but having played it when it first came out I have to admit my first thought was “they couldn’t be arsed to finish the first one and you already want a second?”
In fairness I haven’t gone back through it after my initial playthrough, so maybe it’s better than last I saw it. At the time there were something like 20 skills in the tree that just straight up didn’t do what they were supposed to, half the stuff in the trailers was just made up, and cops could materialize from your ass.
I played it twice when it came out, and several times since then, once or twice with every major update. Don’t judge me I love cyberpunk settings.
It’s a completely different game now. A much better experience. It’s still quite possible to make the game ridiculously easy for yourself. Hackers will have an easier time than a street samurai, and if you put the time in to do all of the side quests you’ll quickly level to the point of unstoppable brute force merc anyway. But, the core experience is good, the expansion adds a lot, and is worth playing through even if you don’t do the rest of the game.
I say this as someone who, in spite of how good I wanted the game to be, could recognize that the released product, and even the game several updates in, was deeply flawed. I didn’t have the issue with bugs many people were having, but still it felt unfinished and unrefined. As of 2.1 I can confidently say it’s a good game, even if you’re not a freak for a criminal underserved cyberpunk setting.
State at launch might be not the best measurement of quality if they essentially revamped the whole game and added an entirely new area/storyline variations/skill system/tons of fixes and additions such as public transit to it.
If you like the setting and got turned off by the abysmal state at launch, I strongly recommend you give it another try.
I also played it on 2.1 and the game was absolutely amazing. The story was engaging, and the world was absolutely stunning.
I love how many player choices they foresaw and handled through custom animations and dialogue. That makes it so much more immersive.
They overhauled the skill system in 2.0, and the major bugs like police spawning were fixed a while back. There might be some stuff from early marketing that still never made it in. I know the rail transit system was one of the common talking points, and it’s in there now, but I wouldn’t call it an essential part of the game or anything.
That said, I first played it after 1.3 and I can’t say I ever felt like it was outright incomplete. It’s probably still the most technically impressive game I’ve played and it’s a fun sandbox. Solid writing and voice acting, too.
People like you still exist?
People who want to play a finished game, when paying full price? Yes, they do
