The anticipated new game Cyberpunk 2077 has launched and it is not very good at all. There are severe performance issues and it is not very polished at all. That is what happens when developers release a trash game at the set date and then depend upon patches after the fact to fix various issues. That is very lazy. I am worried about the future of PC gaming if this is the new normal. The developers have offered refunds to every gamer that bought a copy of this game on the release date. The lazy developers did not even test it on Xbox and PS4. and it runs very badly on those consoles due to lazy programming and the aforementioned lack of testing. This is not a good look for the future. A gamer in 2020 would expect better quality, but this is not the case, the developers could not be bothered to code a better engine and just go with what they have. Just get the game out and get sales, patches can come later. I hope Stalker 2 is a better product than this. There are massive patches coming, but this does not excuse such lazy development. I am worried if this is the future of game development.
The video above is a funny compilation of bugs in this poorly coded game. This goes to show how bad this is. Because good programming has gone the way of the dodo and now we have horrid games like Cyberpunk 2077 that belong in the bargain bin. If the developers could be bothered to test the game when developing for a console, then it would be better. You would assume a dev kit for Xbox would include building the code and then testing it on the target platform. But that would require actual effort. But modern programming is not as careful as it was in the old days. Now we need to get back to the days of programming when you actually cared and wanted to create a better product. Instead of just adding more and more DLC content, gamers want actual playable games with a good framerate and multicore code that can actually make use of a CPU with 12 cores and a GPU with countless raytracing cores and other goodies, the developers should be able to make a game that runs very well. I guess testing and development of a game is just about money these days and not super stable code that can be relied upon to work always.
If the launcher is not even stable, you can not rely on the game itself to work.
And the source code was leaked online.
https://securitronlinux.com/bejiitaswrath/cyberpunk-2077-source-code-has-been-leaked/.
Some very interesting stuff in this code.
I’ve not only been gaming for 30 years but I’m also a programmer including having worked on games. The impression I get from this game is that the developers can’t program. I don’t know how it’s possible to be able to get as far as they have in creating a game and yet for it to be so unstable.
I tried it somewhat after its launch when a few patches had already been released. It was very difficult to get it to work and extremely unstable. I’ve tried it again now and if anything it’s worse.
Even their launcher crashes. That’s not something that should have compatibility issues and it should be virtually impossible to crash.
I don’t think lack of testing cuts it. I would have a hard time making software this unstable even if I tried.
This makes me somewhat upset. Im not calling you out though, I think it is everyone else out there that isnt taking notice.