Cyberpunk 2077: the state of play for PS5 and Xbox Series consoles
The recent release of Cyberpunk 2077's 1.23 update saw genuine improvements on PlayStation 4 consoles - enough for Sony…
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Digital Foundry: Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.23 PS5 vs Xbox Series X/S Updated! How Does Next-Gen Stack Up Right Now?
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I'll keep waiting. The city is basically empty on PS5. I've had a copy sitting on my shelf for months but it's just not ready yet.
The difference in NPCs at 3:23 in the video is very surprising. Pretty major difference. I won't be playing the game until the nextgen patch if at all, so I assume there will be feature parity at that point.
my launch copy is covered in a fine layer of dust. I will absolutely play it the moment the ps5 upgrade is out but i just cant do it yet
I've also been waiting for the Series X patch. It doesn't look like it's coming before the end of the year. Probably in time for the game's first anniversary.
I'll keep waiting.
The PS5, while the game runs quite noticeably better than the Series X, this version is severely lacking density, NPC's etc making the world a lot less lively, and that's a huge bummer.
And in reverse, the Series X has all the density you could ask for, a lively, breathing world, and even then when there are scenes that lack it, it struggles quite noticeably when compared to the PS5, and that's a bummer.
Pick your poison.
The PS5, while the game runs quite noticeably better than the Series X, this version is severely lacking density, NPC's etc making the world a lot less lively, and that's a huge bummer.
And in reverse, the Series X has all the density you could ask for, a lively, breathing world, and even then when there are scenes that lack it, it struggles quite noticeably when compared to the PS5, and that's a bummer.
Pick your poison.
I tried playing this game on my Series X, and I quit after 3-4 hours.
Even ignoring all the buginess and performance issues, it's just not a very good game. it's super cringey edge lord shit.
Even ignoring all the buginess and performance issues, it's just not a very good game. it's super cringey edge lord shit.
Or a good game yet?
Are cops still a nonfunction in this open world rpg? Can you still just look up and despawn everything? Does water still have no properties and things fall to the bottom with a loud clunk?
This getting continued coverage on DF is weird to me as performance doesn't really matter when your game is bug riddled down to it's very core with non existent design choices.
The lack of npcs on PS5 is embarassing, I'm pretty sure it wasn't always like that, I completed the game during the last patch or the one before. It could be a victim of continued optimisation PS4, but it's hopefully a bug that can be fixed.
The load times on PS5 definitely got worse after a patch, they were very good at launch and for a while after.
The load times on PS5 definitely got worse after a patch, they were very good at launch and for a while after.
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Mature cyberpunk media content usually is nothing but edge and sex.
There's plenty of media with cyberpunk aesthetic that have much better stories, interesting characters, and non-cringey content.
I'm fine with cyberpunk stuff going for "cool" and having sex and nudity, but Cyberpunk 2077 comes off like a 14 year olds vision of a cyberpunk style game. It's just bad from a writing/character point of view.
So basically PS5 BC runs much better but messed up in resolution and NPC count, while the Series X BC version has a high resolution and higher NPC count but with poor performance across the board; so not much change since launch.
Honestly, I know people are holding out hope for the actual current-gen ports but I could only see them being just the Series X BC version but with more stable performance and a higher base resolution in the 60fps mode.
Honestly, I know people are holding out hope for the actual current-gen ports but I could only see them being just the Series X BC version but with more stable performance and a higher base resolution in the 60fps mode.
I will buy this game when it gets the next gen patch and at a deep deep discount... if I even remember it. The game drove off the popularity cliff ages ago and it has basically disappeared out of my consciousness.
Goddamn they really blew it with this game.
Goddamn they really blew it with this game.
This looks and plays exactly the same it did a couple months after launch. They haven't attempted to increase performance or fidelity in a long time and instead seem to have gone the bug stomping route first(which they should). I'm still gonna sit on the sidelines till they get nextgen versions out.
If the PS5 version can continue to maintain this level of performance but sees a decent improvement in crowd density, I'll be quite happy.
I honestly don't think it's going to address much.
You could even get a game that performs extremely well and with all its bugs and technical issues addressed, but this is never going to change the fact that the game has terrible mechanics and subsystems, the roleplay options are shallow at best, the reactivity/interaction is hardly even there and the entire narrative feels like it was butchered and stuffed inside a release window with kicks, punches and pushes.
For a video game, it pretty much hit the target audience. I'm not saying it is good, but it is more or less what is to be expected. Cyberpunk as a genre has always, to me at least, felt like a "this is trying too hard to be cool because its really not" kind of affair
Well, they keep patching it in and there will be DLC, so it should be a more pleasurable experience. Not what it was supposed to be, but still a good game overall.
Watching this video really highlights how everything is so...bland. Like...no one talked about how uninteresting and dull it all was on day 1 because of how buggy it was. But even outside of all that, the game doesn't seem to be a good experience.
The npc density even on PC with a top notch gpu doesnt match the first "playable" demo they showed back in the day....
Seeing the console version of this game look like this is crazy. PS5 version is like a desert in comparison. I finished this on PC and it was an amazing game. There were bugs, but not enough to take away from the experience. I hope they can resolve this because it a great game with a good story underneath it's present console experience.
It needed at least a year's delay. Stockholders and frankly gamers, wouldn't have allowed that. But we're seeing from Halo Infinite that sometimes a really long delay pays off.
The city in the PS5/PS4 version is such a ghost town now...
It wasn't. When I played the game around launch there were a lot of NPCs around. Completely removing the NPCs was their way of optimizing the performance of the PS5/PS4 version a few patches back...
It wasn't. When I played the game around launch there were a lot of NPCs around. Completely removing the NPCs was their way of optimizing the performance of the PS5/PS4 version a few patches back...
Really hope they do a overhaul on this game...sounds like it's a good game but was overshadowed by all the bad press of the console versions...rightfully so.
This game gets regular coverage in most big media I follow and I always ask myself if they didn't learn anything from all the shit CDPR pulled before release. But I guess it's just something people still care about and what generates clicks. I think many fans have still the illusion that this game might some day become the game they wanted. Which is very unlikely considering how deep the problems go.
This. Even if all its other issues were fixed, the game is still gross.
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