cyberpunk 2077

Raised as a usability problem by 26 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 15 threads.

People raised many different problems with cyberpunk 2077, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 25 complaints

Text is very hard to read and visuals are hard to understand at 720p upscaled2025-09-24
Game crashes and has bugs, making it a nightmare to play2023-05-23
Stuck quests and bugs waste the player's limited time and patience2022-09-23
Controls feel loose: driving is floaty and gunplay feels weak on PS52022-09-19
Very slow load times, and first-person gameplay has massive input lag2021-12-11
Some keys and actions cannot be rebound in the game's controls2021-04-23
Items are hard or impossible to pick up, and joystick curves make vehicle control annoying2021-03-29
Middle mouse button for 'use' often fails on many mice, blocking progress through tutorial2021-03-10
User finds the game's menus and interface navigation terrible2020-12-22
Game showed save icon but didn't actually save progress for hours2020-12-21
Players struggle to discover the wait zones that skip time2020-12-21
UI prompt like skip-to-next stays on screen during nearly all gameplay2020-12-20
Elevator waits act as disguised loading screens that the player must sit through2020-12-20
Vehicle steering feels sluggish, with about 250ms delay between input and response2020-12-19
Quests stall with characters not moving, forcing reloads after wasted minutes2020-12-19
Sometimes can't choose dialogue options while driving, forcing a stop in the road2020-12-19
Unclear how guards react, so players can't tell whether they're solving a puzzle or hitting a bug2020-12-19
Controls stop responding with huge input lag, and a hint overlay gets stuck covering a third of the screen2020-12-18
Game asks to close a bd with no hint and the usual button does nothing2020-12-18
Non-lethal combat options are obfuscated and never signposted to players2020-12-18
Dialogue choices use Q/E to navigate, awkward compared to W/S or number keys2020-12-18
Items can't be looted and conversations freeze when the UI fails to load2020-12-18
UI has so much clutter that could have been condensed, brute-force approach2020-12-18
Can't walk slowly; tapping keys dashes instead, and crouch fails during dialogue2020-12-15
Selling many items at once is a painful, tedious interface process2020-12-15