Important news regarding Cyberpunk 2077 release date

[Erect_Cactus]

I have seen this mentioned a few times now, which begs the question: why not wait until a week before launch? I mean, maybe you could have gotten a better deal in April (than now). If the upgrade is solely for CP2077, that would be logical thing to do. To clarify, I am not saying this to excuse CDPR, rather I am just curious why players have already upgraded their computer while the game is still months away.

Speaking for myself it’s a combination of few factors:

1. 5 year old PC with GTX970, 1600Mhz RAM and i7-4790 (non-overclockable 4core CPU).
2. Other games releasing in 2020.
3. CP2077 April release date.
4. Unstable economic situation in the country where local currency can devaluate any second leading to PC hardware prices skyrocketing.
5. AMD Zen 3 and nVidia 3000 GPU launches still up in the air and not set in stone.

Sorry, at the moment it's too early for us to talk about such technical details.

I don’t want to sound like a smart-ass or anything, but before this recently-announced delay the game was hyped-up as launching in less than 100 days.

Given that you called the game “complete and playable” in the OP, how can you not know what API(s) REDengine 4 is running on? It might still be too early for system requirements, but you can at least tell us what API(s) to expect, right?

Yeah lol they say too early like the game was in pre-alpha stages

Indeed, guys! Sounds fishy to me. I sure hope they are not switching the renderer altogether just like they did with Witcher 3 from DX9 to DX11 which could only lead to another delay. I too think the APIs the game supports should be known at this point (if September 17th 2020 is a final release date that is).

It's almost like they had an internal deadline 3 months before release to assess if a delay was necessary to release the game in a state they were satisfied with, knew they hadn't hit their optimization milestones, and therefore had to pull the trigger on announcing a delay. It's very unlikely to be a coincidence that the announcement is exactly three months before release.

That’s conjecture. I’d rather they didn’t even reveal the release date then. But this way they wouldn’t generate so much hype along with preorders.

It would be strange if there were no bugs, after all there is likely more than a million lines of code. That is why I wrote " serious bugs that pops up within the first week or even hours after release".

I’m also on PC only, it’s just I remember the accounts of console players on release. But on PC there were bugged and non-finishable quests to fix which with new patch you had to start all over again and delete all your prior progress.

 

[Rawls]

That’s conjecture. I’d rather they didn’t even reveal the release date then. But this way they wouldn’t generate so much hype along with preorders.

Look at their other delays for TW2, TW3 (twice), Blood and Wine, and Thronebreaker. There is a pattern of delays around this window before planned release date.

 

[fr33kSh0w2012]

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[Nikola_Nesic]

Stop talking about bethesda Games studio's games they are HORRIBLE.

Bethesda = Lazy devs only looking to make a quick buck
CDPR = Excellent devs taking care of their product.

You do realise that TW2 and TW3 had problems and bugs on release, so 8-9 month won't polish out all the bugs/problems from the game.

 

[fr33kSh0w2012]

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[BilalHuseyn]

Last thing I'll say about this delay is that, however we fill about it, we just have to wait if we want the game. I'll distract myself with personal projects to make it theough my second semester, and then through summer lol

 

[fr33kSh0w2012]

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[Nikola_Nesic]

Minor or bigger bugs/problems it is all the same, problem is problem, you can't say it is ok that some small bugs/problems are still in game, but how that is fine just because game is made by CDPR, but then to start and call other companys bad for same small bugs/problems.
Small bug/problem can also ruin your game same way a big one can, in TW3 there was bug during elf blacksmith quest that lock you permanently in combat.

 

[fr33kSh0w2012]

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[VanillaDude]

I really hope that with this delay they add an option to remove transexual ads and gay stuff, I really want to play this game but ever since this game started advertising it's been mostly about you can have sex with everyone, etc.

I'm straight myself so it's only natural I don't enjoy this content and as for relationships they probably are optional which is okay, but I feel like they wanna force this trans girl ad down your throat and that's a big turn down for me.

 

[Nikola_Nesic]

Probably at some point, but there was also problem with TW3 after one game update, where game start to stutter like crazy if you try to play game on dual core cpu, you need 3rd party program to fix that, i think even in GOTY edition that problem is still there, i say dual core cpu but i see people with I5 and other quad core also reported that problem.

So bugs/problems are always in game, no game ever came out with 0 bugs and problem.
If they fix all bugs and problems in this 8-9 months great, but i highly doubt, it sound more like game have other bigger problems when they need so much time.

 

[kofeiiniturpa]

A delay. Some crunch. So what? I don’t really care if the game gets pushed all the way to 2021. It comes when it comes. The world isn’t going to end before that.

All I’m interested in at this point is what kind of gameplay experience (in more specific terms than what’s been said so far) I’m going to get once the game is out. Nothing else. Because that’s really all that matters in a game, the hands on experience itself.

 

[Vincentdante]

While it's a bummer I would rather this than an inferior game. Silver lining for myself is this gives me more time to save up for a nicer pc. (Incidentally I already placed the order for the case, fans and heatsink before this news hit me But fortunately that is stuff that can sit in packaging. I did get the GPU as well but I have been using that in my current rig.)

 

[Rawls]

Minor or bigger bugs/problems it is all the same, problem is problem, you can't say it is ok that some small bugs/problems are still in game, but how that is fine just because game is made by CDPR, but then to start and call other companys bad for same small bugs/problems.

Ummmmm. I'd much rather have a minor bug than a major one. In an open world game, it is absolutely understandable to have some odd events here or there. I dont think I've ever played one where I never saw anything buggy happen.

 

[Nikola_Nesic]

Of course there will be bugs and problems, it is normal thing in games.

I just say that bugs are problem in any game, it does not matter if game is made by CDPR, EA, Blizzard, Bioware........... and that is stupid to say ok this game have some bugs but that is ok it is made by company A, but for next game with also some bugs to say how can they relase this junk, but what to expect it was made by company B, it sound really childis.

 

[Skirlasvoud]

To me, the amount of bugs also needs to line up with the size of the game.

A dozen bugs in a 20 minute game, several of them game breaking and in the direct path of the linear story? Inexcusable!

A dozen bugs in a sprawling 100 hour open world game, several of them game breaking but tucked into a side-quest? Round of applause! A miracle you managed to launch with so few.

 

[Mybrokenenglish]

To me, the amount of bugs also needs to line up with the size of the game.

A dozen bugs in a 20 minute game, several of them game breaking and in the direct path of the linear story? Inexcusable!

A dozen bugs in a sprawling 100 hour open world game, several of them game breaking but tucked into a side-quest? Round of applause! A miracle you managed to launch with so few.

Glitches are fine. Even drops in FPS. Game breaking bugs are not acceptable even for side quests. IMHO. I had to restart W3 just for 4 quests and had to wait 4 months. That's not fine.

Also, they promised "as polished as rdr2 on consoles". Which is the most polished game I've ever played with death stranding (talking about the post launch patches era)

 

[metalmaniac21]

Guys guys gus you don't get it. They postponed CP2077 this late so we could upgrade to RTX 3xxx GPUs and experience the game in it's full raytraced glory on Ultra!
(obvious /s)

Good plan but I won't use Novideo hardware in any near future since AMD will soon release they own raytracing capable GPUs, REDs...

 

[Sild]

Also, they promised "as polished as rdr2 on consoles".

And it only took Rockstar 6 (active) years and a team twice the size of Cp2077. All the while developing solely for PS4 and Xbox one. I'll be amazed if they actually pull it off.

 

[Maelcom404]

Spoiler

They delayed it so they can add my foot fetish idea