Possible to play it offline once its downloaded?

[peppergomez]

Hey all. Might get rid of internet at home and check email and such via wifi a few times a week. Very much looking forward to this game though, and am wondering if after I've downloaded it, it'll be possible to play via Steam offline mode and then connect to internet once every few weeks to upload game progress and download any updates.

Thanks.

[SictionArc]

should be possible as all of cdpr's games have no drm so no reason to stay online after downloading it when it launches on november 18th (where i live its the 18th) or 19th

[zacharyb]

You do realize how big Cyberpunk 2077 is likely going to be and how that means the patches themselves will likely be pretty big too, right?

So if you plan on doing it through free wifi or something it'll likely take you a very long time to download the game or updates.

[Shizofrend98HR†]

Ofc. Its a singleplayer game. Its cdpr. Why wouldnt u. Tbh thered be an outrage if u werent able to. I thought Id do the dame to not get notifications and msg and such but then I realised Ill much rather get it on gog to support cdpr fully and no steam drm. But yeah. 99.99% sure its playable without internet connection like majority of singleplayer games.

[peppergomez]

thanks all

[Sam Wise]

How would game progress be saved?

Isn't it usally done at the game server (online) for this big games?

And considering that multiplayer will be added in (near?) future the game will need to be online.

[Draconifors]

Originally posted by UncleSam:

How would game progress be saved?

Save files. My Documents or whatever location it may be.
There is zero reason for a single-player, DRM free game to require an internet connection for playing. Zero.

[Sam Wise]

I wont be suprosed if they launch the game as online supported game since Multiplayer will be added as first update I guess? So therefore it would be wise to have the game online from start.

[Draconifors]

Originally posted by UncleSam:

I wont be suprosed if they launch the game as online supported game since Multiplayer will be added as first update I guess? So therefore it would be wise to have the game online from start.

Multiplayer is not even coming this year, or even 2021 most likely. They've said that so it's a fact.

But this is not a MP thread. This is.

[Shizofrend98HR†]

Originally posted by UncleSam:

I wont be suprosed if they launch the game as online supported game since Multiplayer will be added as first update I guess? So therefore it would be wise to have the game online from start.

They confirmed multiple times its coming after all expansions are out sam. Even with online mode it would be stupid and rly hurtful to both them and consumer if it didnt allow offline play. Itd make no sense and im sure they wouldnt do that. Itll be a good year and a half, two or more before mp implementation for sure. Especially considering cdpr might consider making much larger dlc for cp2077 then witcher 3 which they also said can happen.

[Sam Wise]

Multiplayer will come 2022 I think they have said.

It's not that far away from launch. And a game this complex will probably need som fixes and updates along the way.

I'm perfectly fine if the game will be online from start and that would be a wise thing to do aswell.

[PsychoDino]

Originally posted by peppergomez:

Hey all. Might get rid of internet at home and check email and such via wifi a few times a week. Very much looking forward to this game though, and am wondering if after I've downloaded it, it'll be possible to play via Steam offline mode and then connect to internet once every few weeks to upload game progress and download any updates.

Thanks.

yeah should be fine

[BOT Cecil]

Yes, you should be fine. You might need to run steam in offline mode but no internet connection will be required.

[zacharyb]

Originally posted by UncleSam:

Multiplayer will come 2022 I think they have said.

It's not that far away from launch. And a game this complex will probably need som fixes and updates along the way.

I'm perfectly fine if the game will be online from start and that would be a wise thing to do aswell.

Why would they require a person to be online to play the singleplayer? That makes no sense and would make a lot of people mad. There isn't any reason for the game to be forced as an online only game, even if it launched with Multiplayer.

[Fang]

Originally posted by zacharyb:

Originally posted by UncleSam:

Multiplayer will come 2022 I think they have said.

It's not that far away from launch. And a game this complex will probably need som fixes and updates along the way.

I'm perfectly fine if the game will be online from start and that would be a wise thing to do aswell.

Why would they require a person to be online to play the singleplayer? That makes no sense and would make a lot of people mad. There isn't any reason for the game to be forced as an online only game, even if it launched with Multiplayer.

You're probably only referring to this game in particular, but always-online DRM has been a thing in so many SP games now. EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard you name it.

[soyjak gaming]

save me 2 mb/s internet lol