CD PROJEKT RED Surprises Cyberpunk 2077 Players with Update 2.2 Announcement: “The Team Still Has Some Gas in the Tank”

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That's nice to see. I wonder where the profitability comes in for that or is it just building good will? Or is this newer better graphical features to help sell newer better more expensive video cards?
 
Hmm.

I'm almost wishing I started the game later, after Phantom Liberty was released.

It's tough to get back into it after the Phantom Liberty DLC released.

They should have done a better job of integrating the DLC into the game so it fit with the story even if you finished the game already.
 
I haven't played the game for 2 years when phantom liberty came out, so it was time for a brand new game anyway. It ended up being more than one.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I haven't played the game for 2 years when phantom liberty came out, so it was time for a brand new game anyway. It ended up being more than one.
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I guess it has been a while huh.

I played it in late 2021. Feels like I just finished it though. I'm not sure I have been away from it long enough to re-play it yet. Heck, I usually never re-play story based games at all.

When I know how the story ends, I wind up not caring for it.

The only times I ahve really re-played games are when it has been so long that I can't remember what happens anymore, but that is rare for me.
 
Zarathustra said:
I guess it has been a while huh.

I played it in late 2021. Feels like I just finished it though. I'm not sure I have been away from it long enough to re-play it yet. Heck, I usually never re-play story based games at all.

When I know how the story ends, I wind up not caring for it.

The only times I ahve really re-played games are when it has been so long that I can't remember what happens anymore, but that is rare for me.
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Since there are at least four completely distinct endings and side quests with multiple possible outcomes that's no excuse.

Plus this is a game where the journey is not just a means to an end but enjoyable in its own right.
 
MadMummy76 said:
Since there are at least four completely distinct endings and side quests with multiple possible outcomes that's no excuse.

Plus this is a game where the journey is not just a means to an end but enjoyable in its own right.
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I played through all endings.

I saved before the final story mission, and did all four of them.

Then I went back to the last Johnny mission, answered the questions necessary to get the option to do the secret ending, and did that one too.

That one was hard.

Oddly enough when I re-loaded the game after phantom Liberty was released, I found that all of my save games from the secret ending (there were lots of them, due to how difficult it was) were missing. It was really quite strange. All of my save games from before and after the secret ending were still there, but the secret ending save games were all gone.

It makes me wonder if they did away with the secret ending in later revisions of the game, and removed save games from those areas as to not create weird crashes or incompatibilities if people tried to open them.
 
I thought you weren't meant to be able to save during the secret ending, that's why its hard.

Phantom Liberty depending on its own outcome adds one more completely new ending to the main story as well.
 
MadMummy76 said:
I thought you weren't meant to be able to save during the secret ending, that's why its hard.
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Maybe that is something they changed later? I started my playthrough with v 1.31, and it updated to v1.5x (can't remember exact version) about 2/3rds of the way through my playthrough, so when I did the secret ending it was in v 1.5x.

In that version I was definitely able to save, but it was still insanely difficult. I did my playthrough at the most difficult setting though.

But if that is something they decided upon later, I guess it makes sense that my secret ending saves disappeared.

MadMummy76 said:
Phantom Liberty depending on its own outcome adds one more completely new ending to the main story as well.
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That's cool. Did not know that.

I might do a new playthrough of the game, but I think it will have to wait a while. It's been almost 3 years (which I can't even imagine I am saying, as it feels like I just played it. Other than the occasional Sid Meier's Civilization game, I've seriously only played two other games since completing it, Dying Light 2 and the System Shock remaster) I think it is still too fresh in my mind to do that.

Maybe I'll give it another try after I'm done with STALKER2.

And STALKER2 is going to be a little while, as I am going to do a major upgrade first, but that is slow moving, as I have a mega-overkill WC loop and rackmount project planned. (I'll probably do a project thread for it if anyone is curious)
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
If this a follow up to that one you were working on a year or two ago? I remember that thread.
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Maybe I am losing my mind, or maybe I am getting too old.

I have had high level plans kicking around my head for some time, but I don't remember mentioning this one before. (That doesn't mean I haven't) 😅
 
I think it's this one:

Z's 4090 Thread

Hey, I figured I'd start my own thread rather than pull the 4070TI review even further off topic. If anyone cares about my progress with this GPU, I'll post it here. First, I'll quote the history from the other thread: Makes the $1900 I just spent on my 4090 seem cheap. This sucks. I don't...
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If I remember right it involved running water lines through multiple house levels/walls and there was a flood involved at one point.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I think it's this one:

Z's 4090 Thread

Hey, I figured I'd start my own thread rather than pull the 4070TI review even further off topic. If anyone cares about my progress with this GPU, I'll post it here. First, I'll quote the history from the other thread: Makes the $1900 I just spent on my 4090 seem cheap. This sucks. I don't...
forums.thefpsreview.com


If I remember right it involved running water lines through multiple house levels/walls and there was a flood involved at one point.
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Right. That one. That one was abandoned and will not be coming back. It was a bad idea, and I should never have pursued it :p

So, I wanted to lead heat out of my office and make the PC quieter by running really long tubes and stashing all of the radiators, fans and pumps in another room.

This wound up being too complex, and leaks were too high risk.

Instead I decided to pursue a project where the entire computer is stashed in the other room, and instead long electrical cables are run into the office for USB and video.

This approach has worked pretty well, but it was only the first building block.

Essentially, I moved my huge case next to my rack.

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The office is on the other side of the house, about 40ft away, but the wire run is not a straight line, so I wind up needing about 65ft of HDMI/DVI/USB cable.

I had been concerned this would result in unreliable or laggy video output and USB input, but that has not been the case at all. It has worked very well.

To add a spoiler for the upcoming project, the next stage is going to accomplish the following things:

1.) The workstation will stay on the Threadripper and be moved into a rack-mount case inside the rack. This will become a dedicated workstation with a different GPU. (I'm casually considering an AMD Radeon Pro x5700 right now, as they are relatively affordable, and can do everything I need to do on the workstation

2.) A second system dedicated to games will be built in a second rack-mountable case. The 4090 will either be moved to this case, OR will be sold, and replaced buy a 5090 when they hit the market (if they aren't either unobtainable, or so expensive as to be unrealistic). I haven't decided this last part yet, as it would be nice to sell it sooner and get more value for it, but it is also a risk, if I can't afford to (or am unwilling to spend what it takes) when the 5000 series comes out, or if it is unobtainable.

3.) Two of Watercool.de's new enormous MORA IV 600 radiators will be mounted to the side of the rack.

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These are insanely large. Each of those nine fan slots are intended for 200mm Noctua fans. And I'll have two of them.

Watercool sells wall mount kits, which I will be using to mount them to the side of the rack.

Water near my valuable data on my server does make me a tiny bit nervous, but there is a solid panel on the side of the rack which out to protect it. I also intend the watercooled workstation and game system to be the bottom most things in the rack, so if something fails and there is a leak, it won't leak on on anyhting else.


4.) The loop will be intended to be overkill. It will have two reservoirs (but both reservoirs will mix, to combine the effect of both of the huge radiators.

Flow order will be like this:

Radiator/Fan side:
Reservoir 1 -> single D5 pump -> Radiator 1 -> Reservoir 2
Reservoir 2 -> single D5 pump -> Radiator 2 -> Reservoir 1

Block side:
Reservoir 1 -> single D5 pump -> Workstation Threadripper CPU block -> Reservoir 1
Reservoir 2 -> dual D5 pump -> Game system GPU block -> Game station CPU block -> Reservoir 2.

(The workstation systems GPU will retain its air cooler, no need to mess with another water block here. it likely won't see very high load anyway)

So essentially it winds up being like 4 different loops that are all joined at the radiators. This is accomplished by using two of the now discontinued EK-RES X4. These reservoirs are not only large, but they also have many inlets and outlets, making this configuration possible.

The though process is that the huge MORA radiators will have sufficient cooling capability to keep both systems sufficiently cool, even when they are both in operation. The fact that the two reservoirs mix - however - will mean that when only one system is powered on, it will get an ungodly amount of cooling performance. Enough to allow the GPU and possibly CPU to boost/overclock higher.

I imagine my return water temp after passing through TWO MORA IV 600 radiators will be at or near ambient even at full load. Time will tell on that one.

The next problem I will likely have is that my server closet is going to get hot, and ambients will go up. I am currently solving this with a box fan at the door, but long term I may DIY install the smallest, cheapest mini-split AC I can find to keep the server room nice and cool.

This will be an insane amount of cooling power, yet should be completely inaudible from my office on the other side of the house, 40 ft and two closed doors away.

I know that this is a bit "crazy overkill", but "crazy overkill" is fun, and this is likely to be the end stage cooling solution. Through future upgrades I will likely just have to replace blocks and nothing else ever again (unless stuff breaks)

That said, this is what I said when I built the current water loop into the Corsair 1000D case as well. But I can't imagine ever needing to go bigger than what I have outlined above.

This is going to be a large project, and I expect it to take time, and happen in stages.

First stage will likely be to build the external parts of the loop and move the workstation into the rack, then to stop and reassess availability and price of things like 9800x3d CPU's and 5090 GPU's for the game build.

At this point I am still waiting for the MORA's to ship from Germany. It has been a couple of weeks since I ordered. So who knows when I will actually start tinkering. They didn't say anyhting about being back-ordered when I placed my order. I had to contact their customer service to find this out, which has been my only disappointment thus far from an othwerwise awesome company like Watercool.

It's an ambitious project and I expect it to take time before it is completed.

Thae very last part (which may or may not happen) will be the AC for the server room. Time will tell.
 
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