Recent reviews by Thunderclick

Great gameplay but PC port is terrible, getting crashes almost every hunt and am unable to progress.

just play it

This is one of the DLCs of all time

love it

Pros:
- Diverse and engaging play styles.
- Thrilling main story, both base game and DLC.
- Great soundtrack.
- Top tier visuals.
- Tons of side content
- Encountered very few or minor bugs as of 2.0 update.

Flaws:
- Even on the hardest setting, combat becomes extremely easy by the time you reach the final talent row of a perk tree. This can be done very early into the game. Cyber modifications only further power creep this.
- The base game is fairly shallow in its RPG elements in a narrative sense, only a few key moments actually have an impact on the outcome of a event. Most of the decisions you get to make as a player come right at the end of the story. The DLC does improve in this regard, mostly for side content.
- Most quests primarily reward currency which becomes pretty much meaningless around mid game when the player can easily amass a fortune by selling any and all loot they constantly receive from combat.
- Still no vehicle customisation.

Overall the game is a solid experience from start to finish, if you enjoy the cyberpunk setting you will enjoy this game. I highly recommend playing the DLC as well as the story is excellent and the side content (gigs) feels much more involved, it also ties together nicely with the main story to make it feel more whole.

Played through the game on very hard difficulty, here are my thoughts

The good:
- Interesting side quests and factions.
- Fun RPG mechanics.
- The major cities and hand crafted areas are immersive and filled with content.

The bad:
- Game constantly crashes, mostly in city areas. Quick-saving after every encounter is basically mandatory.
- Terrible UI, worst in game maps I've ever seen, fast travelling between planets takes an annoying amount of clicks.
- Space combat is almost entirely a numbers game and the player has minimal impact on outcomes, only in 1 on 1 encounters does it truly feel like you can out manoeuvre an enemy. Once you upgrade your ship it becomes too easy.
- The AI for all NPCs, both on land and in space suck. On ground its identical to FO4 / Skyrim, in space all the AI just tunnel visions you even with multiple targets.
- Stealth is very poorly implemented. If you want to build a character around it, either install a good mod or don't bother.
- Fast travelling between worlds leads to endless amounts of loading screens
- Many of the explorable planets are lifeless, baron wastelands with basically nothing to do. The space between land marks is often empty and takes a long time to run between.
- In addition to the previous point, procedurally generated areas become boring fast. Once you've seen one tile set, you've seen them all and it becomes glaringly obvious.
- Main story is uninteresting and repetitive, the companions equally so.
- Character models are in very uncanny valley territory, mostly because of character eyes. Eyes look plastic and aren't aligned properly.
- Bethesda have barely innovated on their game design, other than the setting the only feature that stands out is spaceship customisation.
- Perks have an annoying and steep grinding curve that leads to not playing the way I want to be playing just for the sake of progressing to the next rank.

Despite the negatives, I think the game is enjoyable but I wouldn't recommend it at the moment.

TLDR; wait for sale, wait for mods, wait for patches.

behind every class there is a new campaign,
behind every piece of gear there is an overpowered build,
behind every feat there is +1 to strength or dex,
behind every locked chest there is 40 gold and a topaz,
behind every combat encounter there is a new bug,
behind every mouse cursor there is a misclicked object that aggros all nearby NPCs,
behind every failed skill check there is a quick load,
behind every 95% chance to hit there is a critical fail,
behind every summon there is an army of NPCs telling you to "shoo",

and finally, behind every hour of gameplay there is time spent that I thoroughly enjoyed.

is good

This is one of the games of all time!!

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