I am still very much in a holding pattern until the drop of the New World patch on the 18th, but I’ve also gotten rather invested in Cyberpunk 2077 again. I did not realize the amount of content that I had never seen on my original playthrough and subsequent jaunts back into the game. I am not sure what has changed but it seems to be much easier to find side missions as they are now showing up on my minimap. Maybe this was always a thing that existed and I just was too engaged in the story to notice it, but as I start to wind down the main story elements… the game seems to be presenting more and more side content to consume me.
Right now I am in this mode of farming down the blue exclamation points on the map, which represent gigs from fixers. As I complete a set, another set will show up… and I am guessing this is ultimately how you can reach those lofty numbers being tracked on each of the fixers. I never understood how you could run 22 missions for Wakako for example, because I never seemed to get that many. I must have simply missed doing enough side quests to “uncloak” the next set of missions. Last night for example I stumbled onto one where I helped my Aldecado buds on a deal gone south and through sheer intimidation kept it from ending up in bloodshed. I think at launch there were a lot of glitchy behaviors that I just took for granted as the game rolled out in an unpolished state, and maybe assumed those mission counters were bugged as well.
The single greatest change for me personally however remains the wardrobe. I cannot fully explain how much this improves my play experience to be running around the world as a cool-looking “V” rather than one that looks like a burning-crusade-era fury warrior. I shifted up my style last night as I had acquired a few new items and I am very on board with this. I love the jacket with the bumpy spikey bits. Last night I picked up Johnny’s pants which are sorta copper colored and go nicely with the blue accents on the jacket and the boots. One cool feature is there is a menu open when you go to a clothing vendor that will show you appearances that you have not collected yet.
I’ve dabbled with a few mods and I think I am at the point where I either need to stop using them or try and figure out how to make them work properly. Nexus Mods and Vortex are not quite ready for primetime when it comes to Cyberpunk 2077, and it does not do a good job of making sure you have prerequisites installed. It all started because I wanted to try using the flying cars mod showcased in the above video… and the failed state that the mod was installed in caused another quest involving stealing a car to completely bug out last night. After pulling my hair out and reloading past saves I finally disabled a slew of mods and realized those were the problem. Normally I am extremely pro-mods in games, but maybe wait until the vortex client does a reasonable job of sorting things out for you before dabbling in Cyberpunk modding.
All said I figure I will probably be playing Cyberpunk 2077 right up until the point that I do my reroll in New World. This game has rapidly joined a list of “favorite games” for screwing around in when nothing else quite sounds right. For years I have booted up Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, or more recently Witcher 3 when I had a doldrum in gaming. Cyberpunk has the same sort of feel for me, of letting me roam aimlessly until something catches my eye… and they focus in on questing until I get distracted again. I really WANT Red Dead Redemption II to be that sort of game as well, and in theory, it should be… but the Rockstar brand of open-world questing just chafes me. It is too on rails and too focused on specific objectives, and doesn’t let me roam off the path easy enough. I need a game that lets me follow my whims, which reminds me the next time I go into the doldrums… I am probably going to revisit Dying Light 2.
Hopefully, you are all having a most excellent week out there. What games do you find yourself returning to over and over when you don’t have another game in mind? Drop me a line below in the comments.
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