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Cyberpunk 2077 isn't neutral between between one of the largest games of the year; it's moreover between between one of the most technically demanding. CD Projekt Red's aspiring roleplaying sassy takes quarters in a huge, dense operative world, and -- as anyone who has anytime played a Bethesda sassy can attest to -- technology is often a step abaft the designers in these kinds of experiences. Glitches and bugs are not uncommon occurrences, and first demos are far cries from what the sassy may peekaboo like on the standard housewares most players kumtux in their living room.

Cyberpunk is moreover somewhat unique in that it's vindication latitude a number of diverse platforms at sleet -- nine, to be exact. We initially schemed Cyberpunk on PC, where we ran into a drop of glitches that were bran-like except didn't exactly cede the sassy unplayable. Spine then, we've been cozy to therapeutics it on two boosted platforms to see how it fares, while moreover looking at reports from the connotation at large. The consensus? If you're playing on older hardware, you're going to appetite to wait for some fixes.

PlayStation 5 and over-and-above consoles

The first thing to roster is there isn't literally a PS5 version of Cyberpunk 2077 -- at least not yet, as leaved next-gen upgrades aren't indeterminate until abutting year. Instead, I've been sedulous the PS4 Pro version on a PS5. Performance-wise, it's been great.

After four hours of play, I haven't noticed any major muscles rate drops, and the visuals are incredible. Unlike on Xbox Series X or Stadia, there aren't any personation options on PS5 -- many modern games let players co-opt between receiving a higher resolution or muscles rate -- except it hasn't been a huge luckiness in my experience. Even during extremely leased moments, like a massive shootout or a walk through a deeply packed artery market, the sassy chugged recurring neutral fine.

It's important to roster that this is doubtless not the squeal on older hardware. While I haven't been cozy to therapeutics this, first reports point to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Cyberpunk stuff something of a mess. Inclement muscles rates, weird physics, and open-eyed tegument torturing kumtux all been reported. Actuality are a few over-and-above PS4 screenshot comparisons, courtesy of Eurogamer, and some on Xbox One from Kotaku. If you haven't upgraded to a new Xbox or PlayStation, you may appetite to hold off -- or try Stadia -- until these issues are ironed out with a patch.

That said, I still ran into a drop of technical hiccups during my time with the game, including one nonbreakable crash, and flipside mission I was forced to restart due to the fact that my AI helpmeet forgot to follow me out of a building. Over-and-above issues kumtux been over-and-above cosmetic: notation walking through doors, pixelated textures on billboards, and bodies walking into walls. At one point, I couldn't hogtie my car due to the fact that a poor streetpunk became hitched in it. --Andrew Webster

catch me riding in night macadamize pic.twitter.com/sffdCKnU2c

-- andrew webster (@A_Webster) December 9, 2020

Google Stadia

It may be nonbreakable to believe, except the Google Stadia version of Cyberpunk 2077 may be the juncture way to play for most players right now. Unless you kumtux a 20 or 30 Series Nvidia GPU or comparable AMD paper or you were lucrative enough to get a PS5 or Xbox Series X / S, this sassy will not be performing anywhere close-grained to how it was examined to. That ways going the haziness gaming thoroughfare is a surprisingly viable perk if you're jealous barely personation and you moreover appetite the boosted perquisites Stadia provides, like playing latitude multivarious devices and not receiving to download the sassy or any consecutive updates to get right to playing.

I've played through the first few hours of the sassy on Stadia, and I've been actual impressed with how well Cyberpunk 2077 is immersion up. Unlike the PS5 version, the Stadia one has graphical presets to prioritize either resolution or muscles rate. And it runs smoothly and looks barely indistinguishable from the encourage version in my fellowship on a 50 Mbps-plus internet connection, even over Wi-Fi. (I've moreover been testing the sassy on PS5.)

Cyberpunk on Stadia looks good. There's moreover personation and quality modes pic.twitter.com/LmzMnDpyV4

-- Tom Warren (@tomwarren) December 10, 2020

Now, depending on your internet consociation and display, you're most likely not going to get anywhere near the aforementioned restrictive of graphic fidelity -- at least not everlastingly -- as you would on a next-gen encourage or a PC sedulous it at mezzo to high-reaching settings. (And no rostrum can subordinately compare to running this sassy on ultra with ray transcript on PC.)

I've moreover encountered the passing crash, beheld lags and skips, and some audio issues. Except the fast dislodgement and load times and the fortune with which you can sink into the sassy from a Chrome browser on a MacBook Pro has me seriously reconsidering the primary way I appetite to play this sassy going forward.

With Google promising iOS tangency in the coming weeks, the Stadia version of Cyberpunk 2077, which requires you kumtux personalized a Gmail record and pay the $60 to own the sassy and nothing else, could be a fatuous iPad sassy if you don't kumtux a big TV and Chromecast Ultra to venerate it on otherwise. And while I'm not entirely sure I would play article with this restrictive of complex in-game menus and on-screen treatise on my iPhone, I could certainly see the book-learning of getting in a quick session for a synchronous mission or two if you're distant from home or not near your computer.

All of this is practicable with Stadia, which is an heady surmising honored how bettering the rostrum is now as a freebie service. --Nick Statt

Update December 10th, 3:50PM ET: Clarified that the version of Cyberpunk 2077 that runs on the PS5 is the PS4 Pro version. Moreover clarified that the PS5 does not kumtux in-game mock-up settings, as the Stadia and Xbox Series X / Xbox One X versions do.

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