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Cyberpunk 2077 third person mode

Cyberpunk 2077 is predominantly a first-person game, with players seeing the world of Night City from the eyes of its protagonist, V. But many players are wondering whether it is possible to play the game in third-person mode instead. This guide will answer your questions about whether third-person exists in Cyberpunk 2077, and how much of the game you can play from this perspective.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Natalie Clayton)

When you spend half your day glued to Twitter, you get used to the occasional double- or triple-take. But I don’t think anything’s ever made me stop and shout as much as stumbling upon Familiars – a browser-based monster-catching MMO that developer Loam has somehow managed to cram into a video embed, letting you embark on an honest-to-god online RPG without ever leaving Twitter.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)

A mechanical horse and people in an illustration from 'A dictionary of arts, manufactures and mines : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice'.

As we barrel towards the end of the endless yet at an alarming pace, we’ve now opened almost half the doors on the RPS advent calendar. Do check to see our favourite games of the year as we go. A lot of good games this year. I normally manage to cram a lot of my personal wee favourites in my rigging the vote, but this year had too many great games for my trickery. It’s good, I suppose, that there are so many good’uns going round.

What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!

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Loop Hero - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

Loop Hero

is a nifty-looking Rogue-like game where you’ll strategically place enemies for your hero from your own hand of cards. Now, before anyone gets on me about calling it a Rogue-like, it’s got randomized adventures, gear, heroes that die, and an “infinite loop” that you’ll need to break out of. The deck-building bit is what somehow makes me personally more interested in it than more literal riffs on Rogue. It will arrive sometime in 2021 for your randomized dungeoning desires.

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Cyberpunk 2077 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

V's at a bar having a drink and raising a toast to good times.

CD Projekt’s Red’s newest open world RPG has so far opened a world of bugs at launch, but CDPR have now released a hotfix for PC and PlayStation players to begin addressing some of the biggest issues. Among today’s changes are reduced epilepsy triggers during braindances, copyrighted music issues, and a lot of quest progression bugs squashed.

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Phasmophobia - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

The prison map that ghost hunting game Phasmophobia‘s been cooking up is out today in a new game update. That there’s a picture I personally took while exploring it for the first time, a commitment I hope you can appreciate as I do not hunt ghosts solo. Here’s a few other observations about the new prison map from yours truly before you go try it for yourself.

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Cyberpunk 2077 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

It sure seems like absolutely everything and everyone appear in Cyberpunk 2077—Keanu Reeves, Grimes, Hideo Kojima, a pose favored by Sailor Moon—but here’s a cameo that’s going the other way at last. Cyberpunk 2077’s very own futuristic cyber car is taking its tires for a spin over on the tracks of Forza Horizon 4 and you can nab it free in game right now.

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SEASON: A letter to the future - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

The folks of Scavengers Studio behind snowy last survivor standing game Darwin Project have announced something quite different as their next project. Season is a bicycle adventure through a world not quite like ours facing some great collapse, as revealed during a lovely-looking trailer during last night’s The Game Awards show.

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A photo of a female V and Jackie standing next to each other in a lift in Cyberpunk 2077

At long last, Cyberpunk 2077 is finally out. Whether your PC is up to actually playing it, though, is another matter entirely. Like The Witcher 3 before it, CD Projekt Red’s latest open world action RPG is a real beast in the old PC performance department, and you may find your rig is struggling to maintain a steady frame rate as you hack your way round the bright lights of Night City.

To help you get the best performance in Cyberpunk 2077, I’ve put together this settings guide so you can see exactly what graphics options you can tweak to help give your PC a bit of a boost. After all, given the state of current hardware prices at the moment, now is not the best time to be buying a new graphics card to improve your PC’s performance the old-fashioned way. Instead, here’s how you can squeeze another 20fps or so out of your existing rig while we wait for everything to calm down a bit.

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Lauren Morton)

During last night’s The Game Awards show with games announcements man Geoff Keighley, a different Geoff actually arrived to deliver one of the reveals. Geoff Ramsey, one of the voices from ye olde Halo-based Red Vs Blue web series, popped out in character as Grif of the red team to announce a new capture the flag map for Fortnite inside a very familiar canyon.

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