More than a year has passed since the release of Cyberpunk 2077, a game that has carried the full expectations of players and even the game world, but with extremely bad performance, bugs everywhere, and various pie that have not been cashed out, everyone has fallen into a deep disappointment.
However, there are still some people who have expectations for the follow-up performance of Cyberpunk 2077. After all, CDPR's previous work, "The Witcher 3", also had a disastrous performance performance and number of bugs when it was first released, but after a period of repair, "The Witcher 3" eventually became a masterpiece, and because of the high quality, high capacity and low price of the subsequent DLC, CDPR earned a "Polish stupid donkey" nickname.
Therefore, they hope that "2077" can play a beautiful turnaround battle like "The Witcher 3". However, "2077" and "The Witcher 3" have been badly criticized for different reasons.
"The Witcher 3" although the initial optimization is not good, but the content is enough, as long as the optimization, fix the BUG, is a good game; "2077" Although the plot and performance are excellent, but the optimization collapse at the same time, the gameplay is also very poor, if as an ordinary game, it is still enough, but it is CDPR blowing its own "2077", completely up to everyone's expectations.
Under the influence of a variety of reasons, CDPR did not give up "2077", and during this time it still maintained continuous updates to the game, but the updated content was always unsatisfactory.
Either try to make some optimizations to the performance, but the card's computer is still stuck in the mold; or buried in the bug fix, but also often made a repair of 1 old BUG, jumped out of the 10 new BUG big hilarious events. Just to make "2077" a normal playable game has already made them anxious, let alone taking time out to further enrich the gameplay.
▲ Classic BUG: Empty chair
However, after a year of tinkering, you have to make some new work, right?
On February 15, CDPR suddenly announced that it would be broadcast live on the "Next Generation/1.5 Version Update" and would also be broadcast on Station B. You know, the last time there was a big publicity about the live broadcast of "2077", it was the "Firewire Night City" program that introduced the game before the game was released.
This sudden announcement makes everyone wonder if there is a big thing about to happen, perhaps, CDPR has been in a mess for more than a year, just for the last time to play a pig and eat a tiger?
However, the situation is not optimistic - before everyone can get excited, CDPR itself leaked its energy and secretly changed the "next-generation update" to a version update.
Immediately after, the identity of a wave of its own grass station team was exposed - although it was broadcast synchronously at station B, it did not provide a video source for the broadcast brother, and the broadcast brother could only open Twitch to broadcast a wave of matryoshka.
Unfortunately, the network does not give the little brother face, in the process of playing the live broadcast, the screen is frequently stuck, and it has entered the black screen state many times, so that many people recall the vicious BUG "Black Dream" in the game - when entering a main line task called "Black Dream", the game screen has a high probability of becoming completely black because of the BUG, but because of the task name of "Black Dream", coupled with the violent treatment of the character in the previous task, many people think that the all-black screen is the setting of this task. I was impressed by the immersion in the game.
▲Black Dream BUG
▲Live Black Dream
Fortunately, the little brother is a capable person who can catch any terrier, and he can barely stabilize the scene in the broadcast of various situations, and chat with everyone to divert people's attention. After rejecting the audience's countless requests for women's clothing and song orders, the little brother finally completed the broadcast task and retired from the scene with honor.
After "tasting" this hour of live broadcasting, the players who came to watch on purpose also gave a very unified sharp comment:
The "2077" update version 1.5 itself may not be more interesting than the broadcast of this update live broadcast on station B.
First of all, the performance optimization and picture quality of the game have been strengthened to a certain extent, so that the overall experience of the game has been improved, which is worthy of recognition.
However, the new plot, new missions, and new gameplay that everyone cares about have not appeared.
Only a few new guns and a bunch of skins have been added, the AI logic of NPCs has been strengthened a little, the feel of the vehicle has been optimized, and the house can be bought... And so on for small features that don't hurt or itch.
▲The announcement looks full
The good news is that after more than a year of ticket hopping, the next-generation console version of the game has finally been adapted — you know, 2020 '2077' suddenly jumped the ticket before the release date, using the excuse of" to ensure that the game can log in to this generation, the next generation console and the PC at the same time." ”
There is also a favorite thing to hear. In version 1.5, the game's NPC love options have been tweaked, and players can receive sexy photos of Parnan in the game, sleep with their partners, get up together, and get rave reviews.
But what's new is limited to that.
Not only that, after the 1.5 version update, CDPR also has a traditional artistic ability: the PC version may crash due to the conflict between the sound card and the game when starting the game; the physical version of the PS4 is directly unable to start the game after the update.
Fortunately, the game's graphics quality has indeed been improved, which has saved some face for it a little.
Due to the launch of the latest version, the attention of "2077" has also increased, and at this time, some clichéd topics will be pulled out again for discussion. For example, the game's subway system.
In the map of "2077", there are some unfinished subway stations and subway lines, and many people have entered them to explore, which should also be proof of the existence of the cut subway system.
▲ A player jumped on the subway car and found that he could actually ride
After the 1.5 update, some players tweeted that they found information in the game that "the subway system will be rebuilt", but this news was quickly refuted by CDPR's global community director, who once again confirmed that "CDPR has no plans to make a subway system for 2077". ”
However, at the end of last year, a mod maker made a complete subway system for 2077. Ride the subway, speed on the elevated subway tracks, shuttle between the cities, overlooking the streetscape, it is exciting. Moreover, the capacity of this mod is very small, and it is likely that it is called the material that exists in the game, but in the end there is no actual material.
There are still players who still love this game.
We all know that CDPR will end up in the prestige it has today, and the problem is basically with itself. If it is not the self-aggrandizement of publicity, the unrealistic vision, the repetition of promises, the deception before the release, and the inability of people to regard Cyberpunk 2077 as a "future version of GTA", in fact, Cyberpunk 2077 is still a good game.
▲ It can be seen that the number of people on the same screen has been greatly reduced
If the publicity does not attract attention, no one will pay attention to their game. But having earned this attention and ruining your own reputation, is it worth it?
For the 1.5 update, although some of the changes to the version did improve the game experience, these changes should appear in the first day patch a year ago, not until now. At present, "2077" is still in the stage of paying off the debts to players, and a large number of new content still seems to be not on the schedule, and the players who come to watch at night are difficult to say whether they will appear in the live broadcast room where no new news is announced next time.
unless...... Unless next time there's a full-fledged update?
The player's love is still adding bricks and tiles to the Night City. Next, it's up to CDPR.
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