Cyberpunk 2077

Separate thing due to how utterly wank Sony's system is. The patch will just update the PS4 version to the latest PS4 version. You'll need to look through the menus and install the PS5 one specifically.

Ballache.

Cheers mate.

I respec' you, Spook.

I think that's because the skill trees have been tweaked fairly considerably.

Frankly I can't even recall the skill tree being all that interesting and I'm unsure if any of my choices really impacted how I played. I hope the choices feel a bit more meaningful now (but suspect they won't)

It'll happen to us all in a few years man.

Depends if you're at a family restaurant or not I suppose.

Just get the mantis blades and the super jump and spend your whole game slicing the fuck out of everything.

Turns out I misremembered. You can set a keybind to activate your scanner without needing to hold anything down, but only on the keyboard. I don't actually think you can change controller mapping at all, unless you edit a file.

That's a good description of the pre-patch AI but it's not a good description of the current AI. I played 2077 a bit a few weeks ago, and the enemies are really noticeably less dumb, and less keen to just get killed without even managing to get a shot off (something they were excellent at before). Some of them even lurk in cover and everything, rather than just trundling towards me. I haven't seen any of the "end of their pathing then mill about" behaviour you describe, but I'm playing on PC so maybe that makes a difference?

As for "feels very Xbox 360 era", I'm not quite sure what that means, because I'm not aware of any shooters or RPG shooters which have significantly better AI now than then. I mean, Halo was 2001 and Xbox 1 era, and FEAR (with admittedly "fake" AI but it worked) was 2005, so also Xbox 1 era. Are there modern shooters with drastically better AI than that? Because the Far Cry series and Halo Infinite sure do not have significantly better AI than then.

I was actually shocked at the improvement on PC because I wasn't expecting much of a change, but I seem to have got a distinct visual upgrade, and not just the ray-tracing on car windows and stuff - the whole thing looks better and definitely runs better.

Wish there was a few more performance options. Would definitely take a 1080p 60fps mode with ray traced shadows. They make much more of a difference to the look than the reflections do. Still really struggling with the 30fps. Got about 90 minutes left on the trial and still don't know if I can stomach it. It looks pretty awful in performance mode though so that's out.

It hasn’t fixed any of my fundamental issues with the game (hugely cut content and watered down from the promised vision, plus it generally treats the source material like shit, so not sure why they even bothered with the IP). These aren’t inherently fixable though, so it is what it is.

WTF is this with PC style menu navigation on consoles?

Well, as an example, the cutscene that plays when you finish your initial path intro where it skips forward in time? That was supposed to be fully playable. Also that lifepaths we’re supposed to have a more significant role to play in the game and have more significant divergence - we’ve effectively ended up with what the Corpo path was, with the other two paths reduced down to dialog choices. Which I get, it’s a lot of content regardless, but that a core pillar of the game is basically reduced down to “you get to make a sassy comment occasionally” seems a waste.

Also after the stunning “get the spiderbot” mission that really showcased free form mission planning, nothing else really lived up to it and they mostly boil down to “go to mission marker and kill people”

What source material?