Name: CodeKnight
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At time of writing (release week), Cyberpunk is a buggy mess that is absolutely not ready for the public. Even after being delayed 3 times it's unstable, buggy, inconsistent and poorly optimised. It's also missing a ton of things that were promised in 'gameplay' trailers. This is a running list of notes for the review, which I'll update sometime in 2021 when they've fixed the game.

Pros

Hacking is a main game mechanic and a viable style for combat
It's gorgeous on ultra. It just doesn't run well
There are multiple ways to complete quests
Gun sounds are brilliant
Fantastic soundtrack
Fully voice acted, convincingly
Main missions are exhilarating and immersive. Like seriously brilliant and memorable sequences. Quests are the absolute highlight of the game
The city is really detailed, full of things to explore
You can skip through conversations, even when they're happening with live NPCs around you rather than cutscenes. Everyone speeds up and moves to the next bit of the conversation
The Braindances are really cool. A live recording where events unfold, but you can pause, forward / rewind, look around, search for clues in visual, thermal and sound layers
On the quest when you have to go get the corrupted taxi cabs back for Delamain, one of them is GLaDOS

Cons

I've tried to play it three times now, and I just can't be bothered. The game feels so lifeless and it's really hard to stay interested.
Your background affects the first quest, plus dialogue options. Nothing major after that
'Quickhacking' means that during a gunfight, you have to start scanning an enemy, stand out in the open, be able to see them, then scroll through a menu to select the hack. This makes it really clunky to use in combat and would be better if you could bind quickhacks to hotkeys.
By default, 'crouch' is the same button as 'skip dialogue'
Your first set of upgrades as part of the main quest (eye optics) don't add anything you couldn't do already, which is confusing as a player when it's meant to feel like a 'major upgrade'
Cars handle really poorly. Even the super cars feel like hovercraft on ice skates
At some point during development, 'car customization' got dropped. There are no garages to repair, just re-summon and it's magically fixed or steal a new one
Poorly optimised. There's about 10 FPS difference betwen Low and Ultra RTX
Can't use health items while driving
If I shoot someone and steal their car, no one cares. No one chases me and the wanted level drops after a few seconds
If you're hacking enemies through the camera network, they literally just stand there not even moving while they burn to death
There needs to be an option to reset attributes, not just perks
The UI is confusing. I guess they were going for 'unobtrusive', but it just makes it hard to find things (like RAM capacity)
Why can't you hack cars?
Cars become 2D images at about 100 metres, and start just popping in or disappearing. This is normal for optimisation, but shouldn't happen within close visual range. Just use your scanner to test it.
You can't change your appearance at all after the start of the game
Still buggy 2 years after launch and multiple patches. This time I'm not getting components / resources from access points regularly
Has a separate launcher
Tough luck if you just want to do the main quest. Lots of main missions get stuck on "do random stuff until an NPC phones you back"
The world still feels lifeless and dead. NPCs don't react to you. They walk through you. They stand around jiggling doing nothing. I justassed a guiy picking up a can, putting it in his pocket, then the can disappears and he just does it again with a new can in the same place.

Bugs

The tooltip for Intelligence that says it increases RAM capacity by 4% is incorrect
In the Stats screen, it's showing 0 for DPS and all other stats, even though I have 3 weapons equipped
In the training area with the 'mix of enemies', the last enemy spawned outside of the area and wouldn't move, and I couldn't shoot him
Some weapons have 0.0 DPS on them even though they have damage. Sometimes they're missing stats
Some guns are missing icons in the UI
The mirror in my apartment only shows my hair, no body
Sometimes NPCs just disappear
NPCs don't have shadows on ultra settings
You can't pick up items that are near people, or partly obscured
Once I had my first implant installed in the main quest, I got a quest to "talk to viktor" and couldn't, so couldn't progress any further
Jump off a building. If you survive with low health, your health starts regenerating slowly. Next time you press space bar to jump, you die instantly
When you have a wanted level, cops literally just appear out of thin air next to your car instead of actually chasing you
Some NPCs are T-posing
In The Afterlife the first time, the dialogue options with Claire stayed on the screen after I left
Sometimes an enemy will teleport away and back again, or flicker in and out of existence
In the mission circling a building in a helicopter, it just kept circling forever even though all the NPCs were dead
Got past that by reloading an autosave, then ran into another progression stopping bug 2 minutes later when an NPC I needed to kill walked through a wall
Changing clothes keeps the same mod equipped

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