It appears that some gamers might suffer major seizures while playing Cyberpunk 2077, with Game Informer Associate Editor Liana Ruppert reporting that she suffered a major seizure while playing this game.
Cyberpunk 2077 might be filled with some seizure-triggering moments, hence the warning issued by Liana Ruppert. CD PROJEKT RED was quick to respond on Twitter as well, and the team plans to add a proper seizure warning in this game.
The developers are also working on a permanent solution, and will implement it as soon as possible. For the time being, CDPR will add a warning in the game. The game’s EULA already has a seizure warning though, but no one actually reads it. This obviously won’t affect every gamer out there, but only those who are prone to epileptic triggers.
Liana Ruppert played through Cyberpunk 2077 and suffered “one major seizure”. But more importantly, the big problem with seizures while playing Cyberpunk 2077 are the Braindances, which let players use Braindances to access another person’s memories.
Braindance is an immersive simulation of the events another person witnesses, feels, and remembers in their life that’s recorded in the brain. Braindances enjoy wide use in the Cyberpunk world. They are most often used for entertainment (the new version of video games/TV/movies/breakbeats, or types of entertainment that combine them together).
“Pretty much everything about this is a trigger and this is something that caused me to have a grand mal seizure when playing to help with our review. This is also a trigger on many levels, starting with the device itself”, Ruppert wrote.
It appears the game is designed to cause seizures in some gamers, so CDPR should have issued a massive seizure warning in the beginning.
Ruppert writes that, “After playing Cyberpunk 2077 for the past week and a half, there is an epileptic warning I’d like to offer to those Samurai heading into Night City. Enjoy your time, but here is a heads up to do so safely if you’re vulnerable to epileptic triggers.
A common trigger for epileptics in media are rapid blinking lights, specifically of the red and white variety.
During my time with Cyberpunk 2077, I suffered one major seizure and felt several moments where I was close to another one.”
Ruppert continues, “When “suiting up” for a BD, especially with Judy, V will be given a headset that is meant to onset the instance. The headset fits over both eyes and features a rapid onslaught of white and red blinking LEDs, much like the actual device neurologists use in real life to trigger a seizure when they need to trigger one for diagnosis purposes. If not modeled off of the IRL design, it’s a very spot-on coincidence, and because of that this is one aspect that I would personally advise you to avoid altogether.
When you notice the headset come into play, look away completely or close your eyes. This is a pattern of lights designed to trigger an epileptic episode and it very much did that in my own personal playthrough”.
To get more info on Cyberpunk 2077’s braindance, kindly refer to this article posted by GameRant.
Cyberpunk 2077 will support both Ray Tracing and DLSS 2.0. CD Projekt RED will be using Ray Tracing in order to improve Diffuse Illumination, Reflections, Ambient Occlusion and Shadows.
Last month, NVIDIA stated that Cyberpunk 2077 will not have any proprietary NVIDIA Ray Tracing tech, and should work on all DXR-compatible GPUs. However, Marcin Momot confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 will not support Ray Tracing on AMD’s latest GPUs at least at launch.
CD Projekt RED has also revealed the official Ray Tracing and non-RT PC requirements for Cyberpunk 2077. Additionally, Cyberpunk 2077 is a DX12-only game, and will only work on Windows 7 and Windows 10.
Stay tuned for more!
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looks average runs like crap. of course the brain seizes!!!
“…everything about this is a trigger”
Peak games ‘journalist’ 2020.
Is she a good or a bad controversial writer/journo ?
the game has so many bugs in it, its surreal, main character walking through a closed elevator door, a flying phone in a doorway, just floating there. Npcs carrying a case with the flathead robot in it not carrying the case just sliding around with it. Shooting competition, oops we spawned a child in front of you, you cant shoot now, wtf does a child do in a shooting range? Quick insert this chip in your head, the chip is now a gun, you insert a gun in your head. Oh look a equip animation with a reload, but the magazine doesnt leave the gun. Dont mind if we pause the game for a second for a tutorial, now the sound reload sound still plays but when the game is unpaused you can see a broken reload animation without sound without inserting or ejecting any magazine. Oh look bad guys here take this invisible gun and shoot them….POP the invisible gun finally decided to appear on the player’s hand after a few seconds.
This feels worse than new vegas on launch, id call it a early access game but even they are more functional.
and in the midst of all of this……..they focus on bright lights? LOL. The whole game can cause seizures with how broken it is.
Oh look you shoot that enemy in maelstorm gang mission and he slowly ascends to the air like he is using a jetpack, he is now stuck in the celling and still shooting at you.
i hope the idiots shills that insulted me when i said not to expect any miracles from the day 1 patch are now struggling with those bugs and are ruining their experience.
BUT YOU DONT SEE THE GAME ISNT OUT YET, ITS NOT FINISHED YOU ARE WHINING ABOUT THE BETA VERSION.
Such morons
I’ve only played a couple of hours with everything maxed including RT at 1440p. My jaw dropped, it’s f**king amazing. And so I have no problem with a few bugs here and there.
“a few”
Hope they add possible trigger warnings as well
Yeah I’m sure that totally happened. It’s another Eichenwald-tier story. The gaming press seems to have a bone to pick with CDPR, don’t get me wrong, they’re far from perfect but nothing justifies the amount of fake stories that these journos have published about them.
They pick on whatever they decide beforehand isn’t 100% pushing the woke nonsense and plan out fake stories about it. Stop going to these trash sites. We are lucky we have places like DSO where things might be toxic sometimes but they are free.
No need to be epileptic.
I already got many seizures when I saw the amount of fugly trans freaks in the game.
No need to be epileptic.
I already got many seizures when I saw the amount of fugly trans freaks in the game.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/54c910b5c7abfbfbc8a34ff56171e93962bc61b55e3593a9e038813e77b3d59c.png .
steam crapped the bed for people because they were downloading cyberpunk, meanwhile pirates uploaded the gog version preload and when the game was out in one country, they uploaded the exe for everyone, so no more waiting for the official release wait and checking the release map.
sometimes piracy is about service i guess like gabe newell said.
Sick & Tired from all this sh*t everywhere.
Check out this rather good ReShade profile that remedies Cyberpunk 2077’s washed out appearance –
Cyberpunk Autonomous ReShade – True HDR
nexusmods(dot)com/cyberpunk2077/mods/11
how’s the performance? I mean the game not the reshade.
Not played it yet.
Bad ..very bad…steam forums is full of it even a thread with over 1200 comments how bad it runs even on RTX 3080 / 3090 in 1080p..
People are asking for refunds becuase of it
3770k@4.5GHz / 3080 TUF OC / 32GB DDR3 / SATA SSDs. So far it’s running great with everthing ultra including RT and DLSS quality at 1440p. So performance is better than expected. Graphically it’s jaw dropping.
how did you get your hands on a 3080?
A slight contrast adjust?
A slight adjust is the best thing that a reshade can offer. anything else is exaggerated thus killing the atmosphere and the feel.
I’m not saying a good reshade can’t be atmospheric but since most people who make these are teenagers with poopoo taste and a poopoo definition of what realism is, it’s a safe bet to say that the majority of these reshade files are just garbage.
“This ReShade attempts to mimic the “True HDR” method, which first appeared in Unreal Engine 4 games and later in the ENB Series. It’s a software based method, not “Real HDR” meant for HDR monitors. There’s a difference, so try not to confuse them with each other.
I used a complex array of effects that work together seamlessly, and it will add very precise depth, color, and visual effects to your game.
To make a long story short, this is not some generic ReShade put together very quickly that uses only a few effects.”
My panel has a DCR (Dynamic Contrast Ratio) option which appears to do the same thing. It’s okay for a short while but if you are playing in a dark room, which I do, it does tire the eyes more quickly.
I also use Corsair’s LS100 light strips at the back of the panel, a poor mans Phillips Ambilight which, is adds a little to the scene by lighting the wall behind with the colours found on screen.
and this is why its as much of a mess as mass effect andromeda.
That being said why is the car trans? Does that mean it identifies as a attack helicopter.
american krogan livestreamed watch dogs legions with mark collete and laura towler and uploaded the video on b**chute, worth watching to finally hear someone on the other side of the spectrum critiquing all those things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgeHxuS6cL4
i for one i am fcking triggered…by how unfinished this game is.
Those weird glitches ! ooofff…
dude the horrors i have seen.
some dude was playing he shot a dude and he started levitating to the sky, he got stuck to the ceiling as he was shooting the player. In another one there is a shooting competition and the game spawned kids in front the targets so you cant shoot them. At some other video in a chase scene the player was shooting an invisible gun at another the player inserts a gun in his head instead of a sd card, what is this mess?
lol. I knew this was coming though, even after so many delays and the hype being created. Seems like a rushed, unfinished Game from your description. Some of the technical bugs/glitches are actually weird, assuming they are widespread.
They might patch these via an update though.
But graphics/bugs/glitches/performance aside, is the STORY any good or captivating ? I heard combat/gunplay is also not up to par. Don’t post spoilers though.
To be honest, I don’t have high hopes from any of the AAA game devs these days. The landscape of the whole gaming industry has totally changed though.
I will pick this Title when it goes on sale some time in future, assuming it is worth playing. Right now, I have a HUGE backlog of OLD FPS games to finish first, and I’m jumping on them slowly now.
EDIT:
Btw, I forgot to cover an article on that “Scattered Evil” HEXEN Mod link which you gave before. Might look into this mod for sure once I get time. Kinda busy these days.
The concept seems interesting, “”cross-breeds a 3D first person shooter with a fantasy role playing game in the world of Hexen.”‘...
” is the STORY any good or captivating ? I heard combat/gunplay is also not up to par. Don’t post spoilers though.”
the story feels like they cut parts of it that could be used to make you more attached to the characters. Instead of that after the prologue a montage plays that shows alot of what you saw in the trailers like that part the character shoots and then throws the assault rifle at the enemy. Then you are half a year later in the game. You dont meet all those characters, it happens in the montage. Then the story goes on about doing some job that connects you with another job and eventually you steal something that ends up being the chip that has johnny silverhand in it and a bit after that i stopped caring. Hours of content that are scripted with tons and tons of dialogue like we are watching a movie, not like new vegas that has ton of choices, with qtes and scripted to death. Then you got the fact the game has a ton of loot in it and guns are like level based and randomized but most of the quests so far barely had any combat it was dialogue, after dialogue….and the combat is trash, enemies take so many bullets to die. I remember watching a video a level 30 something character with a missile launcher in the arm fires 3 missiles to kill someone and then an enemy shoots the player 300 health out of 340 health disappear with a single hit. The combat is a mess. Anyway after that i just stopped caring, story didnt seem interesting that far, there wasnt an established villain or a goal the world didnt draw me in and the combat is trash like borderlands but enemies are bulletsponges and you die fast.
Metal Messiah turned you down too?
LOL