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On 1/28/2021 at 9:54 PM, endgameaddiction said:

How hard is it to transition from MO1 to MO2? Can I just move over all the folders and get it to work? i.e. mods, profile, overwrite.  I haven't used MO2 since it was released. The reason is because I'm going to be running Nemesis Ulimited Behavior Engine and it's a x64 .exe so I can't run it on MO1.

Keep the old MO that you are using... Back that up.

Then you should be ok if you take the mods, profile, and downloads folder and put it into a MO2 manager. However, you can also just use the portable or local MO instead of the program one (.exe) and just have MO1 for those that you currently have MO1 covering and just install the MO2 portable (local extracted into the game ) for those that you need it for the x64 bit games.

I haven't converted over from one to the other myself. or seen any thing written about it but I have copied those said folders and created a new MO instance when needed. That is how I backed up my MO installs. So far no problems

On 1/26/2021 at 10:17 AM, Kendo 2 said:

Thanks.  I've been bedridden for 3 weeks because of the spider bites.  Normally it wouldn't be a big deal but I had rheumatic fever when I was a kid and it fucked up my heart.  Stack being poisoned on top of that and antibiotics that didn't work and well, you can guess the result.  I've been moving around more (tired of the bed and sofa) and I'm starting to feel a lot better.

Take care of yourself. Hope you start to feel much better soon.

1 hour ago, bjornk said:

Some people refer to Blade Runner as a "cyberpunk" film, which was neither cyber, nor punk. The film was based on a 1968 novel which was written in an era in which the "punk" subculture did not even exist and it deals with androids and artificial intelligence and the plot revolves around what it means to be human. The movie itself doesn't deal with anything "cyber" or "punk" either in any specific or generic way, and its aesthetic style, i.e. the cityscape with neon lights, was simply a thing of the 80's, which anybody can observe in films and series that was made in that decade. People literally cherry pick this film despite not at all part of the cp sub-genre, most likely because it inspired the aesthetic style of some of the "cyberpunk" films. CP 2077 was no exception, it has blatantly copied BR aesthetic since its announcements and it's really no surprise that even William Gibson called it as the "GTA with generic 80's retro-future", which is pretty much what it is.

OK, can you give some proper examples of cyberpunk movies? I am following what many have said.. (like Blade Runner being a Cyberpunk type movie) but have an open mind to consider your statement and alternate examples. I am a casual follower of this type of science fiction.

22 minutes ago, driftscape said:

I honestly don't get any 80s vibe from this game at all.

I haven't thought of it having or needing an 80's vibe... I don't understand why it should have it. I am not much of a consumer of Punk or cyber so that might be the reason

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/isles-of-adalar-co-op-rpg#/

Hey, nothing wrong with wishing a game would be great. Watching it and hoping... I hope it is good as well. Especiall yif it has a modding component on par with Skyrim

On 1/10/2021 at 2:05 PM, driftscape said:

I had envisioned this game to look more like this. Similar to the teaser.

Instead it looks more like a populated everyday people in New York going about their business. I suppose that works, but from all the footage that I've seen, the world just doesn't seem to feel threatening and dangerous.

Something like that or like Bladerunner... that would have been awesome. It would have also made it easier for NPC control (resources control) as there would be a smaller area to actually view but... the space could still be HUGE.. for you to travel. It would have been awesome.

On 1/10/2021 at 9:13 AM, Nessa said:

I'm not sure that's it. It doesn't take a lot of effort (as we all know via mods or those of us that make them) to make even a slightly attractive NPC.  It appears much of the western development scene has become stuck with this idea that humans have to look hideous. Note how the eastern devs don't have this problem at all. And you can go back in time to previous western games where the NPCs somehow look so much better than today. (Excepting all Bethsoft titles of course. They NEVER looked good! )

I have asked around about this but I work in casual games so we're not really "in the know" I guess? Everybody notices it but doesn't seem to have an answer. The only rumor I've got is that ... some of the proclivities in the west at the moment, are making it more advantageous to be ugly. Meaning women appear more masculine. Not sure I buy that. But can't deny the reality of it. Just check almost any western game and there it is. Seems even CDPR fell to it as well.

I get that the west is I guess collectively depressed, but that's no reason to have only ugly representations of humans!

I get that.. but don't believe that is true. Also, CDPR isn't really an "Western" dev company. I mean only a short time ago they made very good models. Both males and females. (however, lets be honest, some of them were hidious.. but at least it was intentional as far as I can tell. lol)

18 hours ago, Nessa said:

What gets me is the attractiveness quotient. (I just made that up but it should certainly be a thing.) The only one remotely decent is Judy and she's half as attractive as in the promotional stuff. (For no reason!) Otherwise girls get nothing but ugly. It's even worse for guy characters since they can't romance Judy.

Now compare that to........ actually I'll just do it!

 

Witcher 3 -- circa 2015

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The last two of which were minor NPCs.

CP '77 - Circa 2020

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It's like they released a half-assed version of Judy and then thought... "Eh, screw it."

What is going on here? Is CDPR going for the Bethsoft NPC design ethos??

Yea,they did a horrible job. There were some that were ok (random NPCs ) but you couldn't even interact with them. There is a chick that is outside of a club (which is re-created differently each play though by the way) as well as one playing a video game. Each one is pretty decent. Better than a majority of the NPCs you can romance mentioned above. Judy is the only one that is still half way decent.. I contribute that to the voice actor more than the game model.

17 hours ago, driftscape said:

The females in CP2077 look like junkies. Even Judy half the time. i liked the female in the 2012 teaser. She was purrrrdy The game looked intriguing back then. I can' help but see the game now just looking more like a GTA with a somewhat cyberpunk theme to it.

She is much better in the game promo but to be honest.. I expected that. I haven't seen an honest game promo in a long time. They always, regardless of the company, make it look better than what we get. However, the mark fell far from what would be expected.  There are times interacting with her and some of her movements and such combined with the voice acting that makes you think... ?  Wow..  and imagine what it might have been if they (CDPR) decided to actually work on her and finish her up.  When i started playing the game I contributed the change to the fact I don't have a ray tracing graphics card.. until I seen many others that are running that (or at least have that card) are getting not much better results.

15 hours ago, Nessa said:

OK, this one:

The other thing I'm noticing perusing the various characters.....  guys. Are. Ugly. At least in CP '77. Maybe CDPR just fell to the "every human must be ugly" phenomena that hit western devs around......  when? Was it 2017? We can't count Bethsoft because they've always made hideous people. But OTHER studios were doing OK. Until...  now.

since all the companies are doing this degraded body / looks.. I bet it has to do with the time and effort. The give the minimum necessary to get the job done so that the game can be sent out to make money asap. Not that they are actually trying to make them ugly.. just a part of the modern gaming biz. It is almost like.. OK.. we made awesome models, sexy models so we know we can do that now.. we are board and don't care anymore.

Funny thing.. the model pictured above. Looks n the face much like one of the first quest where you save her from a bathtub. (Without hair) The large eyes nose etc. 

Another thing... every-time I see that reference. It makes me sad that we don't have a max tac option to play in the game. Either with or against .. nothing. Just magically popping cops... Which once you start getting major skills you can kill and kill and kill and kill and really nothing much happens. Not like GTA.. Hell if it was even like GTA with the cars/pedestrians and police.. (any GTA version) it would be much more entertaining. I haven't' played it in over a week. Keep thinking of it .. but find other interesting things to do.. Like pay my bills... watch the birds feed from the bird feeder out in my front yard... important stuff like th at.   This was suppose to be the game I got where I played 500 plus hours and challenged my Witcher III, NV and Fallout 3/4 game play...  If they do as some claim.. (wishful thinking) and go back and fix all this shit... then perhaps this might happen.. but I seriously doubt it.

3 hours ago, Nessa said:

So... did a little cheating as I was curious. Looked up the romance options on the CP '77 wiki.

 

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Did I say years before I got the game? I may never get this game at all! Is this really the same company that did Witcher 3!?

It is the same type of romance options .. at least done the same way.. (video clip not active etc and about the same lengh of time) The issue is they don't have as many as Witcher or for the JoyToys (prostitutes) which they hinted around would be some thing in the game) is so few (one male and one female) that is it.  There are many more options in Witcher. Just shows  everyone that they just rushed this out the door.

7 hours ago, Nessa said:

I was referring to a "probably not leak" that was put up on... I think it was reddit. Anyway, here's a link with the rumor. (Apologies for the sites, gaming sites are just terrible.)

And later it was supposedly debunked.

I'm just curious why they'd want to debunk the idea that it was making a comeback. Isn't that a positive thing? Or maybe they thought they've lied enough, stop now?

If they were smart.. they'd not make many comments about future updates and such. Leave it to what comes out then make press if felt necessary. they can't afford to fail more than they have already.  Stating something even if it is positive is only good if they follow through. Something that they haven't been able to do so far. Debunking the leak etc is a good thing IMO. If they are able to do it and pull it off, then they can take credit .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEl4tdDbdEs

7 hours ago, Nessa said:

OK so... anybody here actually played NMS? Spaceflight is stupid. Asteroids appear out of nowhere. LOD is a mess. And eventually all the planets AND creatures start looking the same even if there are effectively an infinite amount. (Last time I played was a few updates after the organic ships. I haven't had a desire to return for awhile now.)

I did like base building (when you switch to the fly mode). I found I preferred FO4's moronic (but attractive thanks to mods) settlers to weirdo ugly aliens... that are also moronic.

 

Back to CP '77. Apparently.... that rumor about them making a NMS comeback has been refuted by a CDPR person. Which really had me wondering: "So... they're saying they ARE NOT making an NMS style comeback!?"  What was the point of refuting that? Even if it was all false it was generally a positive rumor. For gamers anyway.

That was the point of my comment about the "New" No Man Sky  

Also both my RL friends and my internet friends are coming to the same conclusion you have with No man Sky. It is the bugs and such, even to those that are enjoying themselves.. getting too much. They are having a harder and harder time to come back and play. Many have just stopped.

On the second comment. NMS? I don't know that. Are you meaning No Man Sky?  Yea even with comments from some stating it was happening.. I won't believe it until it does. That is the problem about companies that lie. You can't believe anything that is happening until  it has happened. CD Project Red is a major liar, to IMO beyond Bethesda even. Done major wrongs to everybody, even Bethesda knows who they can and cannot fuck with and how much they can push it.  Can't trust CDPR in the slightest one way or another. Hell all that could just be marketing  trying to figure out if the shit ton of cash is worth putting into this game or not. Watching the responses to see if this fixes it and now that it doesn't seem to be giving them what they want.. the big boys decide to deny that is in the works. 

23 hours ago, vancleef said:

I knew there'd be side-effects but damn!

At least now he wont' be harassed by the police as much...

21 hours ago, Alkpaz said:

In eight years Cyberpunk will be the new No Man Sky...

4 hours ago, driftscape said:

 

Love Keanu Reeves. Nice person which so far as I am aware of nobody can deny.. however, for Silverhand.. I believe someone like Jared Leto would be more akin to that cooperate terrorist.  He is so nice and well known when he was being a dick.. it didn't seem true.. Seemed forced.

20 hours ago, driftscape said:

This makes me wonder, though. If they censored the game because of MS, this makes me thing the toolkit will be limited as well to try and keep the game as censored as possible. This should be a concern for their PC version as well. Even for Bethesda since they are now owned by MS. TES6 may have a toned down version of the Creation Kit, apart from it being due to their Creation Club and more to do with the guidelines of MS. Nudity in console mods for Skyrim SSE is already forbidden.

They really didn't do much .. what they had was already censored.. The creation screen is full on nude. Even the dangly bits.. still. They might have put some pasties on some outfits but in reality .. it seems like they should have had pasties in that situation in any case. I have compared notes and if you have the non censored version there is very little changes so far to actual game play. The stupid censoring which was there from the start in the PC was being in undies when you stood by the mirror or took a shower. Seriously.. if you strip down.. you strip down. not to your underwear. However that was still there.  You can still see the boner outline on the trans advertisement as well.

A few months ago.. I'd say they wasn't Bethesda but what they did.. I can't say that now. They might even be worse. Before they did mature games.. now.. with their money grabs and such.. who is to say they don't start doing mainstream gaming and thus censor the shit out of their works.  AS for the tool kit.. I am willing to bet it will be shit all crap laden bullshit. Seriously. I can't  see t hem even releasing it.. (gonig back on what they advertised  .. yep.. nothing new there so why stop? ) As for Bugthesda... well if they use t he same engine I can see the modding community breaking whatever they try to do to prevent the mods that are on LL.. After all Skyrim Old version didn't have an ability to do animations until someone broke that shit and you ended up having to run a program to make them work..

3 hours ago, Nessa said:

Will there be any modding at all for TES6? Now that Bethsoft screwed up (again) and got itself bought, what reason does MS have to bother with it? They can just release a title, cash in and move on like other titles. They might think having to deal with so-called adult content might be more trouble than it is worth.

Regarding CDPR, I'm wondering if the remastered Witcher 3 is going to be a thing now. Will the money all go to fixing CP '77? I have heard a lot about how No Man's Sky somehow managed to make good. (Actually it didn't in my opinion. ) Maybe they could eventually turn it around by adding in everything they promised. Or even a portion of what they promised might do it. It will be interesting to see what they do. Whatever the case, it's going to require more than just stomping bugs to turn this around.

I believe there will be modding for Bugthesda games at least the next one. That was a formula that made mad bank over the years well more than what would h ave happened without that tool.  as for adult content.. I do see it being forbidden on their sites.. but don't see them giving a flying fig what happens on other sites. However that can change but keep in mind that Bugthesda could have put the stops on this many times in the p ast. instead of passively aggressively blocking the ability of adding animations to Skyrm. Ultimately IMO they chose the money over the mods. (adult ones at least.. ) They do want to make bank on the mods though... perhaps more integration into their system for mods. Slowly pushing the line until they can get what they want and people accept it.

2 hours ago, Nessa said:

After watching some of these I've noticed something odd.

 

Why do they have to pronounce "Cyberpunk 2077" or "CD Project Red" fully every time? After the first time it's redundant. It's like they can't shorten it to CDPR or CP '77. And often times it is said in several sentences in a row which sounds absolutely ridiculous. Is this another pronoun issue? Are they (haha) scared of pronouns now??

 

They're going to need a hell of lot of patches and DLCs plus a 3rd person mod to interest me when I take a peek at this again... in several years.

Yes, they want to make sure you know who made this... make sure there are no doubts.  Also, didn't think of it but perhaps there is some other meaning for CDPR... Maybe they are afraid of abbreviations like USSR ?  Funny like Federal Express constantly back then trying to say that when nobody said that. Finally they decided to just go with Fed x. lol

They'll need a hell a lot of patches just to fix all the problems with their current system / setup much less have time to create any DLCs.  Perhaps they need to do like Bugthesda does.. .just release strong modding tools and let the modders fix all their crap.. Then they can sit back and profit. lol

12 hours ago, driftscape said:

lol I remember playing Driver 2 on PS1. That was a fun game for it's time. Pre GTA sorta.

 

 

Actually that isn't a bad game from w hat I can see of it. (took some time to look it up)  When was that released? 2000 or something.

6 hours ago, bjornk said:

As I say, you can't fix garbage.

Ive had that Jackie glitch witht he chip/gun

They could scrap those features.. if they did right with the rest of the game. (and console games as well)  All they needed to do was to tell the public the new reality and that they would try to rush those out as free DLCs if / when they were possible.  They realized it would take a serous amount of time and after postphoning the game 3 times decided to rework it to what can be done currently.  Post some evidence of similar things they did with Witcher 3 and such and people would have still eat it up. Hell. if they just released a functional  game as it is currently they would have eaten it up. This serious lying from a beloved game publisher hurt way more than any lies given by Bethesda as we already know their story.  If Bethesda was the publisher of th is game.. doubt many would have even batted an eye much less had a s much outrage as they had for CD Project Red due to their stellar rep.. The same rep that allowed them to so easily lie for if other companies tried that shit.. they would have been called out .. seriously for their statements before any release even happened. I mean.. if you were a reviewer and was told you can't have the console version but it runs "surprisingly well" .. would you believe it coming from Bethesda? EA? etc. I doubt it.

CD Project Red shat their entire rep on this release. I hope it was worth it for them in the long run going forward...

6 hours ago, driftscape said:

 

I recently had a large truck stuck half way in my car.. also the missing weapons.. for some reason... It was an easy fix for the weapon. .just change them and then it came back. The Truck however, you have to save before you try to enter or you can die.. I am told sometimes the car / truck will explode if you enter it in that state.. Same for if it is stuck partially in the ground.  Didn't have an explosion but did get stuck and couldn't do anything and had to reload.

One thing they did seem to do well. lol.. .is the auto saves.. There are tons of them. A god send with the bugs you can encounter in this game. So far .. cross fingers.. I haven't been too far from a previous auto save where I had to do a substantial portion of the episode again.  however, the bitch of it is.. they auto save in times where you can't save.. WHY?  Why can't you save if you are autosaving?  I want to get right up to a point and select my save.. not go the 3~5 minutes before at some point to restart..

I'd like to make one more comment not about the above. I mentioned I know several people in Discord and in RL that have this game. One of the main points of a game like this is the re-playabliity.. something that the company touted... Well RL reactions and play is the important metric. These are people that put in more than 50 hours.. some as much as 100 or so hours. Played it at least once through.. 2 of them have uninstalled the game. I an 2 others haven't really played it for the past few days. It seems to not be the game that hooks players like the company tried to claim. I will likely play it a bit later but not as much as I have the first week it was out.

2 hours ago, Nessa said:

He does indeed. Especially about the smaller teams!

I liked the Time and Scope section. Personally I believe they did to some changes to the scope.. Not in the way he described it but by removing many of the features that have been advertised early on. Features that would have really hung up the release if not done, and cause even more bugs and problems. It seems as if the game was gutted of most of all the features advertised. There are tons of side missions which makes me think that the game was much more than the one we gotten besides those known missing features.  Eventually the "Time" came up and they just released. The lack of GTA type actions or even interactions with random NPCs which isn't even to a level of a 10 year old game (as pointed out several times by several reviewers and posters on this thread) That feature would have made the game much better and sorely missing from the game as you play it.  Simple navigation issues (which I don't believe was talked about much) where you had to exit the panel and re-enter when you scrapped some consumables. Early on I was able to stop battles and craft ammo and whatever I wanted... which now doesn't happen. Many things show an Beta level game if that. Like he stated they likely ported over the game to the consoles expecting them to work as good as the PC. Without doing work releasing the game in an Alpha level.

8 hours ago, Nessa said:

It was already enough to have to deal with 1st person nonsense. Now...... I may let this one percolate -years- before considering it.

It may take years to get to a point where it is actually worth buying/playing. lol

You'd be ready just in time!

On 12/25/2020 at 8:27 AM, Doublezero said:

Man, this is the game I want to play.

 

The customization of cars video... there is a section in the game where that place is at. As a Street kid you go there for your prologe. Such a shame that customization of the cars are gone. Also stupid that you can't even change makeup much less hair styles.