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CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by mhh__ »

dotdi wrote: post #9

I see CDPR being bashed a lot and I wanted to chip in: I bought the game on release day on GOG and am playing it on a Macbook Pro via Geforce Now. It's running very well for me. I've had 0 crashes. Very few glitches, and if, then they were cosmetic i.e. didn't cause any gameplay problems†. The visuals are absolutely amazing. Combat is very nice. The skill tree is interesting. Night city is beautifully immersive and t…

If you don't game much you made be blind to the fact that the gameplay is a poor, and the AI is about 15 years behind the cutting edge (GTA SA was more advanced)

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by chrisjarvis »

nickthegreek wrote: post #70
dotdi wrote: post #9

I see CDPR being bashed a lot and I wanted to chip in: I bought the game on release day on GOG and am playing it on a Macbook Pro via Geforce Now. It's running very well for me. I've had 0 crashes. Very few glitches, and if, then they were cosmetic i.e. didn't cause any gameplay problems†. The visuals are absolutely amazing. Combat is very nice. The skill tree is interesting. Night city is beautifully immersive and t…

I got it on Stadia and it’s blowing my mind. I can play it on my Tv or projector thru chromecast ultras, or on my pc seamlessly and it looks great. I got to try it on the iPad Pro next. I love it. This is the breakout game for cloud computing.

Thanks I was wondering about what hardware stadia is running the game on and if they would have the same console issues. Im planning to buy stadia for this game.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by leetcrew »

errantspark wrote: post #40
CamelCaseName wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't sound much different than getting paid in equity at a startup.

I thought that was PascalCase and this is camelCase? Have I been wrong all these years?

wikipedia, the world's highest authority on matters of nitpicking, says camel case can be either; capitalization of the first letter is unspecified.

in practice, I've certainly heard people use camel case to refer to either convention. I hear pascal case a lot when people specifically mean a capitalized first character. wikipedia lists dromedary case as the complement of pascal case, but I've never actually seen this term used IRL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by mhh__ »

miemo23 wrote: post #35
f6v wrote: post #3

If you watch game footage, it's obvious it's half-baked. However, so many people violated the number one rule: no preorders. This is literally the only thing gamers can do to incentivise developers to not release buggy games. But here we are again.

I've had zero problems with it on PC. Fantastic game with maybe 2-3 bugs

RDR2 is fantastic, 77 isn't that good yet.

I don't mean the performance, it's clearly just had so much stuff ripped out

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by mhh__ »

f6v wrote: post #15
jontaydev wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a theory that development was restarted several times, most notably in 2018 to incorporate Keanu into the main story. It seems like they couldn't stick to a singular vision and shifted goals too many times.

Which I never understood: how is an actor supposed to suddenly carry the whole game? I mean, he's got those cool movies(where he plays the same guy over and over again), but he's no Jesus to be worshiped like that.

He's also, bluntly, not a very good actor

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by tolbish »

mikenew wrote: post #50

> we’ve actually shown console footage, but never on the last-gen consoles. The reason is that we were updating the game on last-gen consoles until the very last minute, and we thought we’d make it in time. [...] That was not intended; we were just fixing the game until the very last moment. This is absurd. They didn't hide console footage because they were sure they'd miraculously turn around the entire game at the…

It's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

There is also the lesser known axiom: it's better to pretend a problem doesn't exist than to admit wrongdoing and ask for forgiveness.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by throwaway98765t »

TheGuyWhoCodes wrote: post #42

Having played cyberpunk on PC it's mostly a fancy light show and not a lot of substance. You can't even customize anything past the creation screen, no car paint jobs no hair cuts and no body modification, no transmog system.. They tried to hide the console issues while reaffirming time and time again that current-gen console will be a first class citizen, that's an EA tactic not something that CDPR I thought I knew…

I’m playing on first gen threadripper and a 580rx card with no major issues, the game is gorgeous and I am having a blast. I agree that the AI is horrible and the UI is a pain, especially when you want to do things like sell a lot of items

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by lozaning »

niea_11 wrote: post #29
Merman_Mike wrote: post #8

> Hi, this is Michał Nowakowski – the second question; would having more developers help deliver the game on old-gens? In terms of delivering the game at a certain point, it’s really not about the number of people; it’s not like throwing in – in the last month – 200 or so people would actually help. So, the answer is no; this is not related to the fact that we could have thrown 300 or 500 more people into the fray an…

There is a maxim from the essay "The Mythical Man-Month" saying that adding people to a late software project makes it later. It takes time for new people to become productive, communication becomes difficult and some tasks can't be "parallelized". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

Two copies of MMM is a great gag-ish gift to your manager on Christmas that i highly recommend.

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by simlevesque »

Merman_Mike wrote: post #8

> Hi, this is Michał Nowakowski – the second question; would having more developers help deliver the game on old-gens? In terms of delivering the game at a certain point, it’s really not about the number of people; it’s not like throwing in – in the last month – 200 or so people would actually help. So, the answer is no; this is not related to the fact that we could have thrown 300 or 500 more people into the fray an…

The old adage is that 9 women cannot make a baby in a month,

Re: CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)

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Post by fctorial »

mhh__ wrote: post #81
dotdi wrote: post #9

I see CDPR being bashed a lot and I wanted to chip in: I bought the game on release day on GOG and am playing it on a Macbook Pro via Geforce Now. It's running very well for me. I've had 0 crashes. Very few glitches, and if, then they were cosmetic i.e. didn't cause any gameplay problems†. The visuals are absolutely amazing. Combat is very nice. The skill tree is interesting. Night city is beautifully immersive and t…

If you don't game much you made be blind to the fact that the gameplay is a poor, and the AI is about 15 years behind the cutting edge (GTA SA was more advanced)

"Cutting edge" isn't a very good role model these days tbh. Also I don't remember SA having an AI. It looked like "if (enemy visible) { shoot; } else { run towards enemy; }". Everything else was scripted.
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