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Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by jonathanyc on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:18PM (#25735906)
I’ve been playing it through Stadia (wanted to try out Stadia and Cyberpunk at the same time) and I agree people are hating on the game seemingly way out of proportion. It’s definitely buggy, I had to restart at one point because the game refused to allow me to reload in the middle of a fight, but claiming it’s fraud or “unplayable” is hyperbole.

I think people just got way too excited about from having nothing to do during this pandemic and then ended up really disappointed. I empathize with that but I don’t know, it’s a $60 game. That’s like four movies. I’ve enjoyed it more than the last four movies I’ve watched for sure.

Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by uep on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:23PM (#25736031)
I think one could randomly choose a Betheseda or Ubisoft release, and have a similar level of bugs.

I also played it through Stadia, because Google was having really good deals on Stadia. The first month was free (through a Google Music promotion), and buying Cyberpunk for $50 got you a Chromecast Ultra. I have actually been pleasantly surprised by how good the Stadia experience is.

Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by kissickas on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:26PM (#25736089)
You're playing on literally the most playable platform there is (the game is even less buggy on Stadia than on latest-gen consoles).
Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by outworlder on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:49PM (#25736593)
That's very curious given that on Stadia it's a Linux port.
Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by valzam on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:30PM (#25738481)
I don't think it's all that surprising:

- The PC version is by far the most playable

- CDPR games haved worked well on Linux through proton in the past

- Stadia targets are very narrow set of hardware and I would assume Google added a couple of patches to make sure it plays well.

You probably still get the logic bugs that you see in all platforms but from everything I have seen it seems like once the games passes a "performance threshold" the graphics hold up pretty well.

Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by maccard on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:26PM (#25736092)
Have you seen the game played on a base PS4? [0] is a timestamp to skip the beginning of a digital foundry video. It's really not in a good place.

[0] https://youtu.be/C5pHpQqhmR4?t=160

Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by krzyk on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:48PM (#25736578)
So why there are so many PS4 players that play and enjoy it?

Look in the comments here.

Re:CD Projekt Red is under investigation by dindresto on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:23PM (#25736012)
Also I spent more time on it than on four movies already, and I'm far from finished.