I felt that this was the intended use of the system - accumulate a few perk points as you play through missions, then by the time you encounter a roadblock you have enough to max the basic perk tree and a couple of the ancillary ones. At least that's how I used it and I was satisfied with getting full functionality of tech/smart weapons/shotguns as soon as I decided I wanted them.
I don't think that's too likely, or it would be a pretty "novel" approach to RPG progression at least. 3E D&D will let you "bank" some skill points for subsequent level-ups, but there's a rationale there in the doubled cost for off-class skills. Deus Ex lets you spend XP when you feel like it, but that game has no levels and skill tier costs are independent of one another. If CDPR had meant for the player to unlock "chunks" of functionality at a time, it'd have made more sense to just consolidate the system into fewer levels with more impactful perks (which they should've done, but didn't).
Honestly this complaint feels overblown and dishonest
I never said it's utter garbage. It's just... not great either. Honestly, the setting, graphics and curiosity pushed me through the game better than 66 identical gigs (still I liked sneaking and killing).
That's a lie! It took them 1.5 years to fix rebinding keys! Then it took them another 1.5 years to break it again!
Whut. It was never fixed, you could never rebind the 'interact' key properly
Nothing wrong with that.
It was, they fixed in some 1.x patch, I forget which. "Interact" was rebindable and it applied to all relevant functions. Since 2.0 rolled around, the "interact" rebind is still there but misses half the shit it should cover, like choosing dialogue, exiting your car or activating your bed etc. So you're back to editing an .xml manually which, in turn, breaks delta patching. Because, you know, small indie studio, plz no bully.
This I really disagree with, there might be a subjective element, but I feel the difference is quite spectacular. Reflections are just the icing on the cake, what seals the deal for me is just the way the light blends across the scene, it's so much more natural. I put up with DLSS, performance mods and the occasionally dipping FPS in PL just to keep that juicy Path Tracing on.
Oh. I had no idea.
Not everywhere though. I think some actions are not bindable in the options and are still bound to F. Enter/exit vehichle? I don't remember.
They are claiming they have fixed it all now?
Yeah, that's what I said - in 1.0 there was no F rebind, in 1.5 (I think) they introduced one which covered the full spectrum of interactions, in 2.0 there's still a configurable kebyind but it only covers some interactions whereas others are back to F for "fuck you if you don't like it" again. It's not hardcoded per se, you can fully rebind it by manually editing inputUserMappings.xml in the game directory (not UserSettings.json in AppData), but that may prevent you delta patching the install going forward.
Did they? I briefly skimmed the 2.11 changelog and didn't catch anything to that effect. I'm running 2.1 and had to manually edit my config, and I'm not updating this mess again just for the radio fix.
"Builds" were still a flavor thing. Style over substance. Choose in what way you would be awesome. Imitate nolifer youtuber X's "style of playing the game". Because rushing an enemy base by jumping from a bike and knifing enemies in slow-mo requires much more skill than headshotting them CoD-style without slow-mo. And makes... zero difference.
Of course CP2077 wasn't an RPG.
