It's Bethesda, so I'm fully expecting it to be fully playable only a few months in when the modding community's had a chance to work its magic...
There'll be bugs. I'll catch in a year or two, as G says, when the modding community has fixed it and released some good mods. Firstly when I get a new GPU it'll be cyberpunk after they release a fully complete all dlc version. I hear that's fixed now.
I played Cyberpunk on release (with more or less what I currently have, granted it was high end back then), there wasn't any game breaking issue, just felt lacks polish. I also played GTA 4 and 5 on release, I didn't experience any issues, felt very polished. I even played Skyrim near release, again, no game breaking issue, felt very polished with SkyUI mod to ditch console inventory interface. But as Redfall taught us, no matter the studio, don't set expectation too high. So I'm going to wait a bit before jumping in. See what reviews say. I voted Tier 1, probably lacks polish and need mods to fix minor annoyances.
Bethesda releasing a massive and ambitions new IP, using the same engine they used for Skyrim with whatever upgrades they decided to duct tape to it. It will be a total disaster until the modders get a hold of it. It will be glorious!
As long as there will be silly spawn physics and lobbing great big aliens into the air for them to splat back to earth, I'm in!
It will be buggy. I know this from buying all of their games since 08 and playing them at launch. Most annoyingly the broken ED in FONV which you had to start the game again because of (28 hours wasted). That said that was Obsidian. FO4 was buggy AF though, but at least that time there were no save breaking bugs.
I'm not sure my 11600k/3060ti is going to handle the game well enough for me to enjoy it looking at the benchmarks I've seen.
'it doesn't get properly going until 130 hours in' --todd howard reads like - 'the main story sucks and only gets fun once you get past that and into the modded bits' personally, can't play it [2060 falls short of the minimum] therefore I don;t care...
Recomended minimum is a 1070 Ti which is, at the very least, matched by the 2060 but often edged out by it.
The two cards listed as minimum are 8GB cards [1070ti and 5700XT], the 2060 is only a 6GB card even if on paper it's about even with the two cards... If by some miracle it did run, I expect the lack of VRAM to make the playing experience rough af...
Even if it wasn't a firm no over that... like **** am i paying £60 for a bethesda RPG... only to have to wait for modders to fix bethesda's ****... and then stump up the same again for the inevitable DLC. at best i'll wait for the inevitable 'actually contains everything' edition... when it's on steam sale.
The game is fudged on Nvidia atm. The 7600 is 30% faster than a 4060 at the moment. I would imagine it is because Nvidia did not have prior access to the game, and thus they need to make a new driver for it. The 2060 gets around 30 FPS at 1080p low at the moment. However, Nvidia cards in general are so much slower than AMD ones it is not even funny. VRAM use is totally a non issue. It uses around 4-5gb at 1080p given it is a very old engine.
If I didn't have it on gamepass i'd probably be waiting for the Legendary Edition Special Edition Anniversary Edition. Odd, I really thought I'd seen the 90 tier AMDs getting hammered by 4000 series Nvidias.
Not really looked at much of the performance analysis stuff yet, bar the limited article on Digital Trends talking about averages. But so long as I can hit 60FPS at 1440p (which looks positive) then it works for me. edit: That testing was done before AMDs driver dropped.
