Recent reviews by Bedrin

As a fellow developer, I sympathize a lot with Cyberpunk 2077 initial release disaster. Sometimes you are just forced to meet absurd deadlines, crunching hours like crazy and knowing it won't be possible to release something nice. I recently purchased the game during a sale as a small gamble that they had fixed the game given how long ago it was release and after playing 60+ hours, I really enjoyed it and would recommend to others. Looking back at the initial release issues, I thought that CD Projekt Red would never be so amateur to make the same mistake again (without any pressure this time since the hype is completely gone) but they did it! *clap* They somehow found a way to release patch 2.0 with tons of bugs, performance issues and crashing frequently. I was really excited for a second campaign run in patch 2.0 and thought they deserved the DLC money as a "redemption token" but I now I am sure that Cyberpunk 2077 was meant to be "the awesome game we were never able to fully enjoy".

I have mixed feelings about this game. The early game is pretty fun and the legacy idea is interesting but as time passes the game gets pretty boring and grindy. At one point you will be just farming recruits to make a super strong army and defeat your enemies. The game still has some bugs (which is fine since it is still in early access) like quests that get stuck at some point or reinforcements that never arrive even though you asked them to come. I'd get rid of the repair system ASAP as it is annoying and adds nothing to the game IMO.

The game has it's merits about the burglary system, which is good and kind of complex, but the rest of the game has some core flaws. The game is about doing silly favors to people to tie a bigger plot which is boring and very slow to develop to something conclusive. Also there are TONS of bugs of objects dissapearing, when you restart a mission even your clothes sometimes are missing and cops love that. Speaking of cops, their behavior is very unreliable, sometimes you spit in the grass and they chase you to the death and sometimes you do something big and they don't care. Almost no one has a car parked in this city apparently at day or night. The vehicle density in the city is very weird, sometimes is very hard to steal a car to get going. While driving you do not have a HUD/Minimap which is awful to orient yourself to where you are going.

I tried, I really tried to enjoy this game but the RNG is so heavy that it makes absolutely digusting. After playing the campaign, which is nice and funny because of the casters I started a endless mode with a Orc team. Even with armor value 9 (which is high as hell) my players kept being murdered by one dice opponents. When you reroll a play you have like 20% chance of getting the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥ roll but AI makes miracles of it while you keep getting the same poor rolls. Tried some elven games to see if passing would be funnier but guess what? When passing the ball you have DOUBLE RNJESUS \o/ so if the game won't wreck your passer roll it will on the receiver's. There are perks that will make these mechanics less RNG heavy but guess again? To get that perk you need to ROLL THE DICE LOL.

The idea of the game isn't all bad but the execution is ridiculous. The game has been in alpha for 6 years and it still has pathetic optimization even for high-end PCs. If you apply tons of mods the game gets a little bit better but if you need that much mods for a game to be good, you better pay the modders instead of the devs.

The game story is awesome and the game is longer than I thought but in its current patch it uses tons of RAM/CPU/GPU which causes the game to stutter, specially in opponent's turn (which I guess has to be the AI chosing the best card to play) , also had some few random crashes even with a high-end hardware. The cards art, dialogs, card effects and scenarios are simply beautiful but the gold/wood/recruits/chests looting mechanics are boring and repetitive. Gold and wood are very important in the beginning but after a while you get tons of reserves to spend anyway you want (finished the game with approx. 35k gold/12k wood/700 recruits). The choises you make really matter and so you should carefully decide who you want to be allies with, because it will impact directly in which cards you can use in your deck. I really whish they put a "prepare for battle" button before starting/restarting a battle because if you want to switch a single card you will have to reload your last checkpoint to do so.

TLDR:
Pros
+ Game story is awesome
+ Decisions matter a lot
+ Beautiful scenarios
+ Lots of cards and strategies
+ Puzzles are awesome

Cons
- Game starts getting repetitive after a while
- Uses TONS of hardware (in current patch)
- Have low replay effect
- Changing your deck after losing a battle requires a "load last checkpoint"
- Boring golden chest mechanics

I refunded this game for two main reasons: The game is poorly optimized for any PC and will consume way more than the requirements say and the game is not so fun IMO. I played some other games in the same style and they were all cheaper and more fun that Arc.

Dont need to say much about this game cause it speaks for itself. Purely awesome gameplay, infinite possibilities when playing with friends.

The game had everything to be eternal, but the way it was made turned out to be a total failure. Campaign is nice but repetitive, Dark Zone is infested with hackers and the way the Gear Score tiers were done you usually are a god in your tier or a one shot target, Incursion is not that fun either and the itemization are based on one or two itens that are OP at the moment.

Best game in the world, nuff said! Buy it for CL4P-TP