How many are still playing pre 2.0?

[Pakratjr]

I made a backup of my pre 2.0 game before updating to Phantom Liberty.

I played through the new area with my old character and it was fun.

I then started a new playthrough with a new character. Played for quite awhile and got through the start of the new area and whatnot, but by that point I was already not having quite the same amount of fun as I usually do.

Too many little things up to that point that just annoyed me or bugged me, little things I was missing like having a actual reason to go vendor hopping.

I liked vendor hopping. 2.0 took away the need for it.

I also was quite annoyed with the new weapons crafting/upgrading system and having pre installed mods that can't be removed. I was excited when I was able to find my favorite sniper rifle only to find out not only that it had a pre installed pax mod that I couldn't remove, but was also not able to be upgraded. I scrapped it and consoled myself a "proper" version.

TLDR: I never even finished my first play through on 2.0 and ended up just going back to my pre 2.0 game and only play that now.

[Scorched Girth]

I started playing Cyberpunk 2077 just last year when it was up to version 2.12. To see someone still play the game in its Pre-2.0 state is extraordinary.

[Garbagepanda]

That is wild. I think its probably just you and an extreme minority brother. Honestly comparing the two versions is an idea that has never occurred to me when one is such a distinct and clear upgrade from the other.

The fact that you are WILLINGLY playing an multiple year old version of Cyberpunk is peak human ♥♥♥♥.

[Manus ad ferrum]

Originally posted by Pakratjr:

I made a backup of my pre 2.0 game before updating to Phantom Liberty.

I played through the new area with my old character and it was fun.

I then started a new playthrough with a new character. Played for quite awhile and got through the start of the new area and whatnot, but by that point I was already not having quite the same amount of fun as I usually do.

Too many little things up to that point that just annoyed me or bugged me, little things I was missing like having a actual reason to go vendor hopping.

I liked vendor hopping. 2.0 took away the need for it.

I also was quite annoyed with the new weapons crafting/upgrading system and having pre installed mods that can't be removed. I was excited when I was able to find my favorite sniper rifle only to find out not only that it had a pre installed pax mod that I couldn't remove, but was also not able to be upgraded. I scrapped it and consoled myself a "proper" version.

TLDR: I never even finished my first play through on 2.0 and ended up just going back to my pre 2.0 game and only play that now.

WTF are you being fr?

[NuclearSnail]

I hate the post 2.0 and only play pre 2.0. They catered to the loudest whiners and took away everything that made the game fun. 2.0 is not an upgrade it's a nerfing and a dumbing down of the game and I will not support it. I miss the days when games were on cartage and CDs and were not updateable. Because when you bought a game you loved, nobody could change it or take it away from you. Now, if one person whines loud enough they take it away from the rest of us and change it against our will, ruining the very thing we loved. It's horrid of them to do that.

[Okihara Jones]

Originally posted by Garbagepanda:

I think its probably just you and an extreme minority brother

+1
agreed

[Kuma]

If its about little things, wouldn't it be better to look for mods that keep those mechanics the way they were?

[Pakratjr]

Originally posted by Kuma:

If its about little things, wouldn't it be better to look for mods that keep those mechanics the way they were?

I was able to find a couple mods that sort of helped but most of what i would find mostly went the opposite of what I wanted.

[jack_of_tears]

I admit the game is not as fun, in some regards, with the update. Some stuff was improved and some stuff was made worse so, not counting the new area and adventure, the update has been mostly a wash for me. I liked a lot of the way the game felt to play prior to its more FPS focussed change after 2.0.

[eoozy]

Nah, 2.0 is way better for me, and becomes even better if you download mods.

[ThotsBContagious]

Originally posted by Scorched Girth:

I started playing Cyberpunk 2077 just last year when it was up to version 2.12. To see someone still play the game in its Pre-2.0 state is extraordinary.

Not really.. some think 2.0 sucks. I've done a playthrough of both and can see why.

[mistahbungle]

What Garbagepanda said...

Game in its current state looks & plays unbelievable, even on the 5yo kit I was using up until a few weeks ago. And this is before you even consider mods that change gameplay or the look of it in major ways

[Renhunt]

Originally posted by NuclearSnail:

I hate the post 2.0 and only play pre 2.0. They catered to the loudest whiners and took away everything that made the game fun. 2.0 is not an upgrade it's a nerfing and a dumbing down of the game and I will not support it. I miss the days when games were on cartage and CDs and were not updateable. Because when you bought a game you loved, nobody could change it or take it away from you. Now, if one person whines loud enough they take it away from the rest of us and change it against our will, ruining the very thing we loved. It's horrid of them to do that.

I would have agreed with you 100% when I first came back to play with the 2.0 upgrade back in 2023. I too had both game versions for comparison then, more by accident than intent, but that detail is irrelevant to this discussion.

I was very upset with all the serious nerfing and the changes I had to figure out. Really messed with my previous strategy. I was especially upset that I couldn't duplicate certain items. As it turns out, I discovered that some of the things I built into characters on my 1.5 build could translate over to 2.0 if I were to bring that character into the 2.0 game at, say, level 15 or so. I could bring in some of the things you can no longer buy, like tier 5 components and such. A very serious strategy problem if you do a heavy tier 5++ cyberware build in 2.0 and you want to upgrade different iconic weapons to tier 5++, another issue in this transformation that requires strategy.

What I now appreciate about the transformation they did with 2.0 is I had to completely rethink some of my favorite ways of building a character, and as a result it was like having a whole new game to play. Same gorgeously detailed setting but a brand new and very challenging game style. Intelligence build especially. I should footnote that by pointing out that I personally get amusement with games of this nature by creating different kinds of builds and learning the different play styles that go with them. So I have like a little warehouse of previously experimented with characters saved that I label so I know what I was trying to do with them.

So if someone played the game when it first came out for a couple of years, then put it away, and were to come back like I did to this completely new 2.0 revision, it's both disappointing at first if one had become accustomed to a lot of little basics one learns in the first place to build a character with, like the value of different levels of clothing and what they offer, no matter how horrible the aesthetic style may be on a given V, male or female, and it's like coming to a new game and learning what it was designed with and what that design offers as a way of strategizing your way through. And of course, let us not neglect the opportunities that the DLC adds to integrate strategies into the original basic story structure.

[Zero McDol]

I ended up switching for good to 2.0+, late last year.

Overall, I like both versions, but since I'm limited to mods that will no longer be supported by staying at 1.63, then I choose to just stay at 2.0+. I do still keep a backup of the engine tweaks mod for 1.63, but have no plans on ever going back.

[Operatix]

Finished it shortly after release, don't know what version it was at, but started a new file for Liberty this month and having again a blast with my new friend Katana which I didn't touch last playthrough. I do miss upgrading iconigs, but I'm happy that clothes are now mainly cosmetic since I always looked like garbage with the good stats. The police is also a lot more fun to play with compared launch. Still buggy, but also still fun just a lil different.

[Illtempered]

I'm installing the legacy version as we speak. I had a fully modded setup that was running perfectly with tons of mods but they broke it of course with the most recent patch. So I decided to go retro for a while.