2 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 31.3 hrs on record (12.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 29 Sep, 2023 @ 6:52pm
Updated: 1 Oct, 2023 @ 9:31pm

I bought the game after the "2.0" release came out, promising fixes to all of the bugs and a $35 price tag.
It's so horribly buggy that I cannot comfortably recommend this.

For hours I've been running around with the game visually glitching and my controller rumbling after the Johnny scene. Forum searches suggested this is a really common bug. Luckily someone created a mod just to fix this problem. It sounds like if you answer a phone right after the Johnny mission ends it can trigger this.

The missions bug out as well. Sometimes I'll be stuck in a mission because an enemy is lost somewhere on the other side of a building.

All the sex themes are neat at first but it gets old pretty fast. It's like a comedian that needs to swear to be funny. Come on, just be funny.

During the Riders of the Storm mission I was crouched and zoomed when I talked to Panam then my character was stuck in that mode, only able to move and turn slowly, until I restarted the game.

There are lots of cutscene dialogs where characters are talking over each other or walking away when they shouldn't.

On the way to the mall mission to do the Voodoo Boys mission, on foot, using the GPS directions, I kept getting warnings that I was about to go out of bounds.

During the fight with Matilda she kept T-Posing.

The game crashes and sends a bug report most of the time when I quit. This is after having Steam validate the game files.

All the AI graphic upscaling looks really bad. Everything smudges like the old MPEG video glitches where a keyframe is missing. Turning all this down requires turning down raytracing as well to hit a decent framerate. Once you've gotten to that point the game is much uglier than other games. A 2K AI upscaled game does not look better than a 1080 non-upscaled game. At this point I'd just take the rez hit. This is with a 5600X and an RTX4070.

Also, what's with the stupid launcher? Absolutely unnecessary. Also, turns out if you tap A a bunch of times in the launcher, it launches a bunch of game instances in parallel. Lazy developers.
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